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The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance

William McDonough · North Point Press

From the authors of Cradle to Cradle, we learn whats next The UpcycleThe Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, one of the most consequential ecological manifestoes of our time. Now, drawing on the green living lessons gained from 10 years of putting the Cradle to Cradle...
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Jesus Unmasked: The Truth Will Shock You

Todd Friel · New Leaf Publishing Group
Pages: 238
Format: Paperback

Proof: The Bible is Supernatural If someone claimed that the Declaration of Independence is a brilliant document, all we need to do is study the Declaration itself to draw our own conclusion. Similarly, all we need to do is read the pages of the Bible to determine if it is indeed supernatural....
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Rocco's Healthy & Delicious: More than 200

ROCCO DISPIRITO · Harper Wave
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The James Beard Award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author, chef, and healthy living expert gives his fans what they have been clamoring for - a beautiful cookbook featuring more than 250 flavorful, mostly plant-based recipes for eating well every day.Over the last decade, Americans...
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Texas Ranger Tales: Hard-Riding Stories from the Lone Star State

Mike Cox · Lone Star Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

They were men who could not be stampeded, said the late Colonel Homer Garrison Jr. of the men who wore the badge of the Texas Rangers. Colonist Stephen F. Austin, during the earliest days of Anglo settlement in Texas, wrote that he would employ 10 men to act as 'rangers' for the common...
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Cheyenne Autumn, Second Edition

Mari Sandoz · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 282
Format: Print book

In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the U.S. government, to return to their homeland in Yellowstone country. Mari Sandoz tells the saga of their heartbreaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight. Alan Boye provides an introduction...
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Liberalism: The Life of an Idea

Edmund Fawcett · Princeton University Press
Pages: 468
Format: Print book

Liberalism dominates today's politics just as it decisively shaped the past two hundred years of American and European history. Yet there is striking disagreement about what liberalism really means and how it arose. In this engrossing history of liberalism--the first in English for many...
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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

Peter Cozzens · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

Bringing together a pageant of fascinating characters including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of other military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud, The Earth is Weeping - lauded by BOOKLIST as "a beautifully...
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The Candymakers

Wendy Mass · Little, Brown, 2010.
Pages: 453
Format: Print book

In the town of Spring Haven, four children have been selected to compete in the national candymaking contest of a lifetime. Who will make a candy more delicious than the Oozing Crunchorama or the Neon Yellow Lightning Chew?Logan, the candymaker's son, who can detect the color of chocolate...
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Bob Bullock: God Bless Texas

Dave McNeely · University of Texas Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Renowned for his fierce devotion to the people of Texasxas well as his equally fierce rages and unpredictable temperxBob Bullock was the most powerful political figure in Texas at the end of the twentieth century First elected to the Texas House of Representatives in Bullock held several...
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SketchUp For Dummies

Aidan Chopra · John Wiley
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

Design almost anything in 3D with SketchUp Whether you've dabbled in drawing in 3D or are interested in learning the basics of design, SketchUp For Dummies makes it fast and easy to learn the ropes of a powerful, user-friendly tool to bring your design ideas to life. From creating a basic...
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Woodies

Hans Halberstadt · Metro Books
Pages: 120
Format: Hardcover

GREAT READ... EXCELLENT COLOR!
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Needles and Haystacks: Smart Thinking in the Age of New Data

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz · Dey Street Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

An Economist Best Book of the YearA PBS NewsHour Book of the YearAn Entrepeneur Top Business Book An Amazon Best Book of the Year in Business and LeadershipNew York Times BestsellerForeword by Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of our Nature Blending the informed analysis of The Signal...
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The Thistle and the Rose: Romance, Railroads, and Big Oil in Revolutionary Mexico

Catherine Nixon Cooke · Corona Publishing Company
Pages: 207
Format: Hardcover

How the McNab family searched for their ancestral past and discovered a love story set in Revolutionary Mexico. The Thistle and the Rose is a family saga that transports readers across continents and cultures, offering a unique glimpse of early twentieth century Mexico - including the construction...
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