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Land Your Dream Career: Eleven Steps to Take in College

Tori Randolph Terhune · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Contrary to what students, and society, are conditioned to think, obtaining a college degree does not automatically result in a job, let alone a dream career. In the last year, alone, half of college graduates are either jobless or underemployed in positions that dont fully use their skills...
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Hands Off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America

Dana Loesch · Center Street
Format: Hardcover

Respected conservative talk show host, blogger and TV commentator Dana Loesch gives her views on the history and intent of the Second Amendment and discusses what she believes gun confiscation would mean to Americans basic rights as citizens. How many people in America today are truly well-versed...
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The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

Heather Mac Donald · Encounter Books
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson...
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Start Your Own Child-Care Service: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success

The Staff of Entrepreneur Media · Entrepreneur Press
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback

START YOUR OWN CHILD-CARE SERVICE AND GET PAID TO CARE FOR KIDSAs the number of working parents grows the number of children who need quality childcare grows along with it. That need is creating a tremendous entrepreneurial opportunity for people who love children and want to build a business...
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Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change

Edmund S. Phelps · Princeton University Press; 1 edition
Format: Book

In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s,...
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True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Libraries

Valerie Nye (Author, Editor), · Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Book

Intellectual freedom is a core value of librarianship, but fighting to keep controversial materials on the shelves can sometimes feel like a lonely battle. And not all censorship controversies involve the public objecting to a book in the collection libraries are venues for displays and meetings,...
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The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

John Perkins · Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into 32 languages. New Revelations: Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this expanded edition...
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A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic — and How We Can End It

M.D. Deborah Cohen · Basic Books
Pages: 272
Format: Book

Obesity is the public health crisis of the twenty-first century. Over 150 million Americans are overweight or obese, and across the globe an estimated 1.5 billion are affected. In A Big Fat Crisis, Dr. Deborah A. Cohen has created a major new work that will transform the conversation surrounding...
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ISIS: The State of Terror

Jessica Stern · Ecco; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The Islamic State, known as ISIS, exploded into the public eye in 2014 with startling speed and shocking brutality. It has captured the imagination of the global jihadist movement, attracting recruits in unprecedented numbers and wreaking bloody destruction with a sadistic glee that has alienated...
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America: Imagine a World without Her

Dinesh D'Souza · Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company, New York, NY
Pages: 289
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times BestsellerIs America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?Dinesh...
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