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Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events
Jessie Carney Smith · Visible Ink Press; Third Edition, Third edition edition
Format: Print book
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Achievements, pride, and accomplishments involving people, places, and events in black history are gathered in Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Events. This new edition collects and celebrates the thousands of world-moving people and hard-to-find facts and accomplishments... |
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Cut It Out: The C-Section Epidemic in America
Theresa Morris · NYU Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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“Engagingly written, rigorously researched, and compellingly argued, this book [is] a must-read not only for women’s health advocates and scholars of reproduction, but also for those engaged in health care policy.”—Susan Markens, author of Surrogate Motherhood... |
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A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham
Steve Kemper · W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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A life of adventure and military daring on violent frontiers across the American West, Africa, Mexico, and the Klondike.Frederick Russell Burnham's (1861-1947) amazing story resembles a newsreel fused with a Saturday matinee thriller. One of the few people who could turn his garrulous... |
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Barron's LSAT, 2nd Edition
JAY B CUTTS · BARRON'S
Pages: 768
Format: Paperback
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This must-have review book thoroughly prepares law school candidates for the all-important Law School Admission Test. An introductory chapter explains the LSAT's format, suggests a detailed three-month study plan for success, and presents a diagnostic test with explained answers. Chapters... |
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Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business
Fred S. Steingold Attorney · NOLO
Pages: 488
Format: Paperback
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Most small business owners, can't afford to hire a lawyer to draft the legal documents they need in the course of day-to-day business. Now there's an affordable solution. Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business provides over 60 legal forms and documents and all the step-by-step... |
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Buying the Vote: A History of Campaign Finance Reform
Robert E. Mutch · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Are corporations citizens? Is political inequality a necessary aspect of a democracy or something that must be stamped out? These are the questions that have been at the heart of the debate surrounding campaign finance reform for nearly half a century. But as Robert E. Mutch demonstrates... |
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Japan and the Shackles of the Past
R. Taggart Murphy · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world history. Yet it has not been an easy path; military catastrophe, political atrophy, and economic... |
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Cold War: An International History
Carole K. Fink · Westview Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pages: 321
Format: Paperback
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More than a bipolar conflict between two Superpowers, the decades-long Cold War had implications for the entire world. In this accessible, comprehensive retelling, Carole K. Fink provides new insights and perspectives on key events with an emphasis on people, power, and ideas, along with... |
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History of Asian Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots
Jonathan H. X. Lee · Greenwood
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive, compelling, and clearly written title that provides a rich examination of the history of Asians in the United States, covering well-established Asian American groups as well as emerging ones such as the Burmese, Bhutanese, and Tibetan American communities. Examines Asian... |
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How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say--and What It Really Means
John Lanchester · W W Norton
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover
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An entertaining and indispensable guide to the language of finance and economics by the writer hailed for "explain[ing] complex stuff in a down-to-earth and witty style" (The Economist) .To those who don't speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable and its ideas... |
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Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
Ira Katznelson · Liveright
Pages: 706
Format: Hardcover
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013 "Fear Itself deeply reconceptualizes the New Deal and raises countless provocative questions." -- David Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Freedom from Fear Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally... |
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Raising Children in the Military
Cheryl Lawhorne-Scott · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Military life places unique demands on military families with children including frequent moves, disruptions in schooling, family separation, health care issues, loss of friends, financial hardships, underemployment of military spouses, and the ever present threat of risk of injury or death... |
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Barron's Real Estate Licensing Exams, 9th Edition
Jack P. Friedman Ph.D. · Barron's Educational Series; 9 edition
Format: Paperback
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This study guide and test preparation manual has been updated to provide the latest information in real estate finance, federal law and regulation, and appraisal license requirements. Explains all aspects of real estate law and finance, including contracts, deeds, appraisals, brokerage,... |
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