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Bodies in the Back Garden: True Stories of Brutal Murders Close to Home
Nigel Cawthorne · John Blake
Format: Book
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There is one problem which every killer must face: how to get rid of the body Murderer Dennis Nilsen famously cooked the corpses of his victims and flushed them down the toilet, only to be caught when the sewers blocked up. But his first 12 victims were disposed of in the back... |
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An: To Eat: Recipes and Stories from a Vietnamese Family Kitchen
Helene An · Running Press
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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In Vietnamese, "AN" means "TO EAT," a happy coincidence, since the An family has built an award-winning restaurant empire - including the renowned celebrity favorite Crustacean Beverly Hills - that has been toasted by leading food press, including Bon Appétit, Gourmet,... |
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Sherry: A Modern Guide to the Wine World's Best-Kept Secret, with Cocktails and Recipes
Talia Baiocchi · Ten Speed Press
Format: Kindle Edition
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There is no other wine that is as versatile, as utterly unique in its range and production methods--and, unfortunately, as misunderstood - as sherry. For centuries, sherry was considered one of the world's great wines, spoken about in the same reverential terms as the finest Bordeaux and Burgundies.... |
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The Ultimate Scholarship Book 2018: Billions of Dollars in Scholarships, Grants and Prizes
GEN TANABE · SuperCollege
Pages: 816
Format: Paperback
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Information on 1.5 million scholarships, grants, and prizes is easily accessible in this revised directory with more than 300 new listings that feature awards indexed by career goal, major, academics, public service, talent, athletics, religion, ethnicity, and more. Each entry contains... |
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Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto
Leslie Buck · Timber Press
Pages: 280
Format: Print book
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What do you discover when you cut back? At thirty-five, Leslie Buck made an impulsive decision to put her personal life on hold to pursue her passion. Leaving behind a full life of friends, love, and professional security, she became the first American woman to learn pruning from one of the most... |
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Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community
Laura Erickson-Schroth · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Book
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There is no one way to be transgender. Transgender and gender non-conforming people have many different ways of understanding their gender identities. Only recently have sex and gender been thought of as separate concepts, and we have learned that sex traditionally thought of as physical... |
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Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics
Richard Shenkman · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pages: 302
Format: Print book
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Can a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as bestselling historian Rick Shenkman explains in Political Animals, our world is anything but rational. Drawing on science, politics,... |
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An Illustrated History of Thailand
John Hoskin · John Beaufoy Publishing
Pages: 239
Format: Print book
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This fully illustrated history is divided geographically according to the sequence of succeeding Thai kingdoms. Each section follows a historical chronology, covering accounts of major events during each reign, with an assessment of the character of individual kings and their particular... |
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The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
Carlos Santana · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition, First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legendIn 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years... |
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The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World
Douglas Valentine · Clarity Press
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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This book provides a cross-section of Douglas Valentine s investigations into CIA engagement in terrorism, drugs, and propaganda. Author of three books on CIA operations, Valentine s research into CIA activities began when CIA Director William Colby gave him free access to interview CIA officials... |
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Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags
Linda Rottenberg · Portfolio Penguin
Pages: 263
Format: Book
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"If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough. " These days taking chances isn t just for college dropouts in hoodies. Whether you work at a Fortune 500 company, a nonprofit, or a mom-and-pop, everybody needs to think and act like an entrepreneur. We all need... |
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
ANGELA SAINI · Beacon Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knewFor hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less... |
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A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster
Joshua Partlow · Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the United States--brilliantly portrayed here in its entirety for the first time by the former Washington Post Kabul bureau chief. The United... |
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Queer Game Studies
RUBERG BONNIE · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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Video games have developed into a rich, growing field at many top universities, but they have rarely been considered from a queer perspective. Immersion in new worlds, video games seem to offer the perfect opportunity to explore the alterity that queer culture longs for, but often sexism... |
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