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The Kinfolk Entrepreneur: Ideas for Meaningful Work

NATHAN WILLIAMS · Artisan
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In The Kinfolk Entrepreneur, author Nathan Williams introduces readers to 40 creative business owners around the globe, offering an inspiring, in-depth look behind the scenes of their lives and their companies. Pairing insightful interviews with striking images of these men and women and their...
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Master of His Fate

Barbara Taylor Bradford · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the first book in a stunning new historical saga.Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer is everything a self-made man should be: handsome, ambitious, charming,...
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Gray Hat Hacking The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Fifth Edition

Allen Harper · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 736
Format: Paperback

Up-to-date strategies for thwarting the latest, most insidious network attacksThis fully updated, industry-standard security resource shows how to fortify computer networks by learning and effectively applying ethical hacking techniques. Based on critical topics that the authors teach at major...
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Blend: The Secret to Co-Parenting and Creating a Balanced Family

MASHONDA TIFRERE · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A wise and inspiring guide to creating a happy and healthy blended family by Mashonda Tifrere with contributions from her co-parents--Swizz Beatz and his wife, Grammy-Award winning singer and songwriter Alicia Keys.In January 2010, founder of ArtLeadHer Mashonda Tifrere and music producer...
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Cataloging Library Resources: An Introduction

Marie Keen Shaw · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover

While there are many cataloging texts, very few are written specifically for library support staff. This is the one and only book purposefully aligned with the new American Library Association - Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) competency standards for Cataloging and Classification....
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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

Pam Houston · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us."On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons,...
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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

Lauren Slater · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A start-to-finish narrative history of our major psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" (Washington Post) . As our approach to mental illness has oscillated from biological to psychoanalytical and back again, so have our treatments. With...
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Earth is Hiring: The New way to live, lead, earn and give for millennials and anyone who gives a sh*t

Peta Kelly · Waterside Press
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover

Is 'hustle and grind' really the message of The New Way? Is financial freedom really what it's about? is 'living life on our terms' really the summit of this mission? Is The New Way about becoming more successful than our generations before us? This book is a conversation...
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Paradise in Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia

DIANA PRESTON · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony.The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and William Bligh and his men's survival on the open ocean for 48 days...
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tmux 2: Productive Mouse-Free Development

BRIAN P HOGAN · THE PRAGMATIC PROGRAMMERS
Pages: 104
Format: Print book

Your mouse is slowing you down. The time you spend context switching between your editor and your consoles eats away at your productivity. Take control of your environment with tmux, a terminal multiplexer that you can tailor to your workflow. With this updated second edition for tmux 2.2,...
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Facebook For Dummies

Andreas Scha?fer · For Dummies
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Take control of your Facebook profileWhen you join Facebook, you're joining a community with over two billion other people spread around the globe. It helps to have the insight on not only how to set up your profile and add content, but also how to make sure you control who sees and doesn't...
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The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders

STUART KELLS · Counterpoint
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"If you think you know what a library is, this marvellously idiosyncratic book will make you think again. After visiting hundreds of libraries around the world and in the realm of the imagination, bibliophile and rare-book collector Stuart Kells has compiled an enchanting compendium...
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Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America

Heidi Waleson · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt -- and what it means for the future of the artsIn October 2013, the arts world was rocked by the news that the New York City Opera -- "the people's opera"...
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The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables: More In-Depth Lean Techniques for Efficient Organic Production

Ben Hartman · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

At Clay Bottom Farm, author Ben Hartman and staff practice kaizen, or continuous improvement, cutting out more waste -- of time, labor, space, money, and more -- every year and aligning their organic production more tightly with customer demand. Applied alongside other lean principles originally...
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Taste

Giorgio Agamben · Seagull Books
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

Our taste buds are a powerful way for humans to know beauty and experience beautiful things. In Taste, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated as a means to know and experience pleasure or why it has always been...
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