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Vikings: Life and Legend

Gareth Williams · Cornell University Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

In the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vikings created a cultural network that spanned four continents: from the Caspian Sea to the North Atlantic and from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean. The Viking Age was a period of major change as a result of the Vikings’ impact on neighboring...
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Saunders 2018-2019 Strategies for Test Success: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX Exam, 5e

LINDA ANNE SILVESTRI · Saunders
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

Get more than just practice questions; get comprehensive test and nursing school preparation that's proven to help you succeed! Written by the most trusted expert in NCLEX exam prep, Saunders 2018-2019 Strategies for Test Success: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX Exam, 5th Edition...
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Basic Skills for the GED Test: Easy-to-Follow Lessons to Start Preparing for the GED Test, TASC Test, or HiSET Exam

Princeton Review · Princeton Review
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

Get the Help You Need to Successfully Prepare for the GED Test.The GED Test and other high school equivalency tests like the HiSET or TASC can be intimidating for students who have been out of school for a while. Many test-takers find they aren't quite ready to dive into full test preparation,...
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Eisenhower's Armies: The American-British Alliance during World War II

Niall Barr · Pegasus Books
Pages: 548
Format: Print book

An authoritative and dramatic behind-the-scenes history of 'the Atlantic Alliance' during World War II.

The Anglo-American relationship from 1941-1945 proved to be the most effective military alliance in history. Yet there were also constant tensions and disagreements that threatened...
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Estate & Trust Administration For Dummies

Margaret A. Munro · For Dummies
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

Estate and Trust Administration For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119543879) was previously published as Estate and Trust Administration For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781118412251) . While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should...
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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

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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How the Body Knows Its Mind: The Surprising Power of the Physical Environment to Influence How You Think and Feel

Sian Beilock · Atria Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning scientist offers a groundbreaking new understanding of the mind-body connection and its profound impact on everything from advertising to romance.The human body is not just a passive device carrying out messages sent by the brain, but rather an integral part of how we think...
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The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin

Søren Kierkegaard · Liveright Publishing Corporation,
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

This first new translation of Kierkegaard's masterwork in a generation brings an essential work of modern philosophy to vivid life. Although Soren Kierkegaard's death in the fall of 1855 foreshadowed a lasting split between conservative Christians and young contemporaries who saw him as a revolutionary...
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Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way between West and East

Nicolas Berggruen · Polity; 1 edition
Format: Book

For decades, liberal democracy has been extolled as the best system of governance to have emerged out of the long experience of history. Today, such a confident assertion is far from self-evident. Democracy, in crisis across the West, must prove itself.In the West today, the authors argue,...
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Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools

Tom Little · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Noted educator Tom Little and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Ellison reveal the home-grown solution to turning American students into life-long learners.The longtime head of Park Day School, Tom Little embarked on a tour of 43 progressive schools across the country. In this...
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Cut It Out: The C-Section Epidemic in America

Theresa Morris · NYU Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

“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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Ideas and Movements That Shaped America

Michael S. Green Ph.D. · Abc-Clio
Pages: 1172
Format: Hardcover

America was founded on bold ideas and beliefs. This book examines the ideas and movements that shaped our nation, presenting thorough, accessible entries with sources that improve readers' understanding of the American experience.* Contains more than 200 entries from expert contributors...
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Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation

ROBERT TSAI · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A path-breaking account of how Americans have used innovative legal measures to overcome injustice -- and an indispensable guide to pursuing equality in our time.

Equality is easy to grasp in theory but often hard to achieve in reality. In this accessible and wide-ranging work,...

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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

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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German All-in-One For Dummies, with CD (For Dummies (Language & Literature))

Consumer Dummies · For Dummies; 1 edition
Pages: 720
Format: Audiobook

Learn to speak German? Easy.German All-in-One For Dummies conveniently combines titles from the German Dummies library into one handy guide that covers all of the bases of the German language. For those looking to master fluency in this popular language, this book and CD combo are an efficient...
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