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You: Being Beautiful - The Owner's Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty
Michael F. Roizen · Free Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Most people think that beauty revolves around such things as lipstick, sweet eyes, or skinny jeans -- all those things that we can see (and obsess over) in the mirror. But the fact is that beauty isn't some superficial pursuit, and it's not some random act that you can thank (or curse)... |
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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
CATHERINE KERRISON · Ballantine Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about Martha, Maria, and Harriet tells the fascinating story of their very different lives at Monticello and beyond, as daughters of one of our most brilliant and complicated Founding Fathers. |
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The Age of Airpower
Martin Van Creveld · PublicAffairs
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
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In this fascinating narrative history, internationally recognized military expert Martin van Creveld narrates the rise and fall of the most glamorous offensive and defensive instrument of war in military history - airpower. From the scenes of its greatest exploits during World War I and II, to present... |
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Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Julia Baird · Random House
Pages: 696
Format: Print book
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This page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen - a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience."Victoria... |
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Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
Jan Swafford · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 1077
Format: Book
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Jan Swafford's biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being... |
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The Title to the Poem
Anne Ferry · Stanford University Press
Pages: 326
Format: Paperback
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The Title to the Poem is a theoretical, critical, and historical exploration of the traditions for titling shorter poems by British and American poets from the beginnings of printing to the present.The first six chapters are distinguished according to the nature of the question a reader... |
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Rich Man, Poor Man: A Memoir
Nick Nolte · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"I had become an actor because real life was hard for me. Sometimes it was really rough. Acting was different from real life, yet it gave me the chance to search for complex stories that helped me understand and cope with what I encountered away from the stage lights."Legendary... |
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Moncla and the Prairie Communities: Blue Town, Johnson, Hickory Hill, Magnolla, Moncla, Par en Haut, Riddle
Randy DeCuir · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
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Moncla is an old steamboat community on the Red River in Avoyelles Parish. Located on the flood safe prairie, it is the largest community of several small settlements north of Marksville Louisiana in Ward Two. Communities include: Blue Town, Gum Ridge, Par en Haut, Riddle, Johnson, Moncla,... |
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Daniel J Levitin · Dutton
Pages: 292
Format: Print book
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From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process - especially in election season. It's raining... |
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The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
Gretchen Becker · Da Capo Lifelong Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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Diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases in the world; the American Diabetes Association reports that 1.7 million new diagnoses are made each year. After her own diagnosis, Gretchen Becker became a "patient-expert," educating herself on every aspect of type 2 diabetes... |
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