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Questionnaire
Evan Kindley · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 152
Format: Print book
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out at doctors' offices and at job interviews, to express ourselves and to advance knowledge, to find love and to kill time. But where... |
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You Are Not Special: ... And Other Encouragements
David McCullough Jr. · Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 316
Format: Print book
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David mccullough, Jr.'s now iconic high school commencement address was a tonic for children, parents, and educators alike. With wit and a perspective earned from raising four children and teaching high school students for nearly thirty years, McCullough expands on his speech, shares... |
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The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret
Catherine Hewitt · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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A fantastically readable biography of a nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan who harbored an incredible secretComtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was painted by Édouard Manet and inspired Émile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumored affairs with Napoleon III and the future... |
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Illuminating the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva
Chokyi Dragpa · Wisdom Publications
Format: Paperback
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A unique presentation of the Buddhist path by Chökyi Dragpa, the foremost Gelug disciple of the famed nineteenth-century Tibetan master Patrul Rinpoche. Illuminating the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattvas quotations and direct instructions from realized sages of the past reinforce... |
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Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals
Mark Edmundson · Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In a culture that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, the desires of the individual self stand supreme, Mark Edmundson says. We spare little thought for the great ideals that once gave life meaning and worth. Self and Soul is an impassioned effort to defend the values... |
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No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America
Elizabeth D. Samet · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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As the post-9/11 wars wind down, a literature professor at West Point explores what it means for soldiers, and our country, to be caught between war and peaceElizabeth D. Samet, a professor of English at West Point and the author of the critically acclaimed Soldier's Heart, came to question... |
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Four Things Women Want from a Man
A R Bernard · Howard Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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After decades of preaching, teaching, and counseling, influential Christian leader A.R. Bernard reveals the four qualities women want in a man - qualities that make for a satisfying and happy relationship.As a longtime pastor of a big-city church, A.R. Bernard has witnessed couples in every... |
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What is the History of Emotions?
Barbara H Rosenwein · Polity
Pages: 163
Format: Hardcover
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What Is the History of Emotions? offers an accessible path through the thicket of approaches, debates, and past and current trends in the history of emotions. Although historians have always talked about how people felt in the past, it is only in the last two decades that they have found... |
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The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity
ESTHER PEREL · HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Format: Audiobook
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[*Read by the author - Esther Perel] Iconic couples' therapist and bestselling author of Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel returns with a provocative look at relationships through the lens of infidelity. Affairs, she argues, have a lot to teach us about the human heart -- what we expect,... |
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Jet Lag
Christopher J Lee · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What exactly is jet lag? And, more importantly, how do we live with jet lag? Jet lag is a momentary condition resulting from the human body and its inner clock being pitched against... |
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No Map to This Country: One Family's Journey through Autism
Jennifer Noonan · Da Capo
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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"Part of the torture of autism is that the future is so impossibly unsure. Your child might become a fully functioning member of society and appear no different than anyone else, even if he does have to look at mouths instead of eyes and can't stand to give his own kids a bath.... |
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Early Literacy Development in Deaf Children
Connie Mayer · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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There is a robust body of knowledge suggesting that early language and literacy experiences significantly impact on future academic achievement. In contrast, relatively little has been written with respect to the early literacy development and experiences of deaf children.In Early Literacy... |
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