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Real Estate Licensing Exams with Online Digital Flashcards

Jack P. Friedman Ph.D. · Barrons Educational Series
Pages: 680
Format: Paperback

This edition features:Explanations of all aspects of real estate law and finance, including contracts, deeds, appraisals, brokerage, leasing, mortgages, federal regulation of Fair Housing, Truth-in-Lending, and environmental mattersNine practice tests: 7 for salesperson/broker, 1 for federal...
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How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Katy Milkman · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Set audacious goals. Foster good habits. Create social support. You've surely heard this advice before. If you've ever tried to change or encourage it -- to boost exercise or healthy eating, to prevent missed deadlines or kick-start savings -- then you know there are thousands of apps,...
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The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything

Mike Rothschild · Melville House
Format: Hardcover

On October 5th, 2017, President Trump made a cryptic remark in the State Dining Room at a gathering of military officials. He said it felt like "the calm before the storm" - then refused to elaborate as puzzled journalists asked him to explain. But on the infamous message boards...
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Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

Eric Lindner · Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover

September 1962: On a moonless night over the raging Atlantic Ocean, a thousand miles from land, the engines of Flying Tiger flight 923 to Germany burst into flames, one by one.Pilot John Murray didn't have long before the plane crashed headlong into the 20-foot waves at 120 mph. As the four...
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Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

George Packer · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

In the year 2020, Americans suffered one rude blow after another to their health, livelihoods, and collective self-esteem. A ruthless pandemic, an inept and malign government response, polarizing protests, and an election marred by conspiracy theories left many citizens in despair about...
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Children Under Fire: An American Crisis

John Woodrow Cox · Ecco
Format: Hardcover

One of The New York Times' 16 New Books to Watch for in MarchOne of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of the YearOne of Newsweek's Most Highly Anticipated Books of The YearOne of Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated Books the YearBased on the acclaimed series - a finalist...
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The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID

Lawrence Wright · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Beginning with the absolutely critical first moments of the outbreak in China, and ending with an epilogue on the vaccine rollout and the unprecedented events between the election of Joseph Biden and his inauguration, Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year surges forward with essential information--and...
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Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut

Nicholas Schmidle · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Working from exclusive inside reporting, New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle tells the remarkable story of the test pilots, engineers, and visionaries behind Virgin Galactic's campaign to build a space tourism company. Schmidle follows a handful of characters -- Mark Stucky, Virgin's...
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The Witch of Eye

Kathryn Nuernberger · Sarabande Books
Format: Paperback

This amazingly wise and nimble collection investigates the horrors inflicted on so-called "witches" of the past. The Witch of Eye unearths salves, potions, and spells meant to heal, yet interpreted by inquisitors as evidence of evil. The author describes torture and forced confessions...
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The Price of Health: The Modern Pharmaceutical Enterprise and the Betrayal of a History of Care

Michael Kinch · Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

It's an unfortunate and life-threatening fact: one in five Americans has skipped vital prescriptions simply because of the cost. These choices are being made even though we have reached a point in the conveyance of medical options where cancers can be cured and sight restored for those...
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