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Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier
Ali Almossawi · Viking
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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The wildly popular author of Bad Arguments returns with a funny, smart introduction to algorithms - those perennially misunderstood, increasingly important problem-solving rules that can save you time and lead to better choices, every day. Why is Facebook so good at predicting what you like?... |
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Journey to 50: How to Live with Gratitude, Grace and the Effects of Gravity
Laurie Russell · Elevate Faith
Pages: 265
Format: Print book
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In a culture enamored with youth and beauty, the 50th birthday is often seen as a death sentence ... in more ways than one. It's easy to see why ... What used to be perky is now otherwise. What's trending now trumps wisdom. A once-healthy body now declares mutiny on any healthy... |
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DEWALT Construction Estimating Complete Handbook: Excel Estimating Included
Adam Ding · DEWALT
Format: Print book
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This affordable, real-world guide to success in construction estimating is loaded with tips, checklists, worksheets, data tables, and step-by-step tutorials to help you navigate every step of the estimating process. The text focuses on "how-to" essentials, with on-the-spot answers,... |
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Ice Capades: A Memoir of Fast Living and Tough Hockey
SEAN AVERY · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Controversial hockey star Sean Avery's no-holds-barred memoir of high living and bad behavior in the NHL - coupled with the behind-the-scenes glitter of celebrity and media nightlife in New York and LA. As one of the NHL's most polarizing players, Sean Avery turned the rules of professional... |
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Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon
Marc Eliot · Dey Street Books
Pages: 576
Format: Print book
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This is the definitive biography of one of the most iconic, complex and enduring legends of Hollywood's golden age, whose major presence in American film, radio, television, stage and theater lasted beyond the second half of the 20th Century, and whose classic films are known throughout... |
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All Things New: Heaven, Earth, and the Restoration of Everything You Love
John Eldredge · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author John Eldredge offers readers a breathtaking look into God's promise for a new heaven and a new earth. This revolutionary book about our future is based on the simple idea that, according to the Bible, heaven is not our eternal home--the New Earth is. As Jesus... |
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Pure Heart: A Spirited Tale of Grace, Grit, and Whiskey
Troylyn Ball · Dey Street
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Troylyn Ball and her husband, Charlie, an engineer and real estate investor, had spent their entire lives in Texas. But after a near fatal trip to the emergency room with their mute, wheelchair-bound son Coulton, they admitted the dust and the heat were too dangerous. To save their boys,... |
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Topiary, Knots and Parterres
CAROLINE FOLEY · Pimpernel Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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After a brief survey of Roman topiary, this book moves on through the formal parterres of Renaissance Italy and the more elaborate broderies of the royal French gardens (copied in palace gardens throughout Europe) , the complicated conceits of the Tudors and the geometry of the Dutch school.... |
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Who Are You, Really?: The Surprising Puzzle of Personality
Brian Little · Simon & Schuster/ TED
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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This fun, smart read for anyone eager to better understand (and improve) themselves argues that personality is driven not by nature nor nurture - but instead by the projects we pursue, which ultimately shape the people we become.Traditionally, scientists have emphasized what they call... |
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How to Lose a Marathon: A Starter's Guide to Finishing in 26.2 Chapters
Joel Cohen · Abrams Image
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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In How to Lose a Marathon, Joel Cohen takes readers on a step-by-step journey from being a couch potato to being a couch potato who can finish a marathon. Through a hilarious combination of running tips, narrative, illustrations and infographics, Cohen breaks down the misery that is forcing... |
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Believe: Boxing, Olympics and My Life Outside of the Ring
Nicola Adams · Penguin UK
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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At London, 2012, Nicola Adams made history. The flyweight boxer - nicknamed the smiling assassin - became the first ever UK woman to win an Olympic Gold medal for boxing. In Rio 2016, with the nation cheering her on, she did it again. Nicola stumbled into boxing in her local sports center... |
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At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present
MARIA DIBATTISTA · PRINCETON University PRES
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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In a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active engagement with the most pressing issues of public life: from class and religious divisions,... |
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