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Java All-in-One For Dummies

Doug Lowe · For Dummies
Pages: 912
Format: Paperback

Your one-stop guide to programming with Java If you've always wanted to program with Java but didn't know where to start, this will be the java-stained reference you'll turn to again and again. Fully updated for the JDK 9, this deep reference on the world's most popular...
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A Guide Book of United States Coin 2018: The Official Red Book, Large Print Edition

R S Yeoman · Whitman Publishing
Pages: 463
Format: Spiral-bound

The Official Red Book - A Guide Book of United States Coin - is 71 years young and going strong. Collectors around the country love the book's grade-by-grade values, auction records, historical background, detailed specifications, high-resolution photographs, and accurate mintage data....
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Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Freak Out Less, Accomplish More, and Generally Win at Life

Sarah Knight · Little
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Sarah Knight is the internationally bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck, which has been translated into twelve languages and published in eighteen territories worldwide. She used to live in Brooklyn, but now lives in the Dominican Republic. She no longer gives...
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Afterland: Poems

Mai Der Vang · Graywolf
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

The 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Carolyn ForchéWhen I make the crossing, you must not be taken no matter whatthe current gives. When we reach the camp, there will be thousands like us.If I make it onto the plane, you must follow me to the roadsand...
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

Daniel J Levitin · Dutton
Pages: 292
Format: Print book

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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Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm

Sarah Menkedick · Pantheon
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Sarah Menkedick spent her twenties trekking alone across South America, teaching English to recalcitrant teenagers on Reunion Island, picking grapes in France and camping on the Mongolian grasslands; for her, meaning and purpose were to be found on the road, in flight from the ordinary....
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Forked: A New Standard for American Dining

Saru Jayaraman · Oxford University Press
Pages: 235
Format: Print book

A restaurant critic can tell you about the chef. A menu can tell you about the farm-sourced ingredients. Now who's going to tell you about the people preparing your meal? From James Beard Leadership Award winner Saru Jayaraman, Forked is an enlightening examination of what we don't talk...
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Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life

Christine Hyung-Oak Lee · Ecco
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at thirty-three, based on the author's viral Buzzfeed essayChristine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Year's Eve 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world - quite literally - upside down. By New Year's Day, she was unable to form...
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The Longest Kill: The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers

Craig Harrison sniper · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the enemy most want to take out. Craig Harrison has what it takes and in November 2009 in Afghanistan,...
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Fodor's Essential France

Fodor'S Travel Guides. · Fodor'S
Pages: 880
Format: Print book

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An Unseen Angel: A Mother's Story of Faith, Hope, and Healing After Sandy Hook

ALISSA PARKER · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

As the mother of one of the children who died at Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, Alissa Parker had her world shattered by a mass murderer's rampage. She was left to make sense of her daughter's life and death and to rebuild, seeking a deeply spiritual path to carry on with...
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Abandoned in Place: Preserving America's Space History

Roland Miller · University of New Mexico Press
Pages: 175
Format: eBook

Stenciled on many of the deactivated facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the evocative phrase "abandoned in place" indicates the structures that have been deserted. Some structures, too solid for any known method of demolition, stand empty and unused in the wake of the early...
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The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe

Stephon Alexander · Basic Books, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane had put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander returns...
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Walking to Jerusalem : discovering your divine life purpose

E Christopher Hill · David C Cook
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Small beginnings. Detours along the way. Questions about how and when God is going to fulfill His purposes. We know the end of David s story, but David only knew it step by step. Like us, he had to follow God s path even when it seemed too slow. He had to believe that realizing our life...
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Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People

VANESSA VAN EDWARDS · Portfolio
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Do you wish you could decode people? Do you want a formula for charisma? Do you want to know exactly what to say to your boss, your date or your networking partner? You need to know how people work. As a human behavior investigator, Vanessa Van Edwards studies the hidden forces that drive...
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