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What More Can I Say?: Why Communication Fails and What to Do About It

Dianna Daniels Booher · Prentice Hall Press
Format:  Print book : English : First editionView all editions and formats

An essential guidebook for honing business communication skills...  Communications expert Dianna Booher provides an essential nine-point checklist for success in the art of communication and persuasion—for building solid relationships, and for increasing credibility in the workplace....
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The Periodic Table: A Visual Guide to the Elements

Paul Parsons · Quercus
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

As one of the most recognizable images in science, the periodic table is ingrained in our culture. First drawn up in 1869 by Dmitri Mendeleev, its 118 elements make up not only everything on our planet but also everything in the entire universe.The Periodic Table looks at the fascinating...
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Unremarried Widow: A Memoir

Artis Henderson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In this powerful memoir, a young woman loses her husband twenty years after her own mother was widowed, and overcomes two generations of tragedy to discover that both hope and love endure. Artis Henderson was a free-spirited young woman with dreams of traveling the world and one day becoming...
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Living with Cancer: A Step-by-Step Guide for Coping Medically and Emotionally with a Serious Diagnosis

Vicki A Jackson · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The prospect of entering treatment is overwhelming for anyone facing a diagnosis of cancer. While patients have access to a vast amount of medical information online, this advice is often unreliable or confusing. In Living with Cancer, Drs. Vicki A. Jackson and David P. Ryan have crafted...
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Dk eyewitness london

Dorling Kindersley Inc. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 440
Format: Print book

"DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: London" will lead you straight to the best attractions this city has to offer. From taking in the magnificent sight of Big Ben and Parliament Square from the great heights of the London Eye to walking across Tower Bridge after visiting the historic...
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The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty

Robert P. Crease · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstream. The discovery of the quantum -- the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantities -- planted a rich set of metaphors in the popular...
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The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power

Jules Witcover · Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover

The American Vice Presidency is an all-inclusive examination of the vice presidency throughout American history. Acclaimed political journalist and author Jules Witcover chronicles each of the 47 vice presidents, including their personal biographies and their achievements--or lack thereof--during...
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Power without Constraint: The Post-9/11 Presidency and National Security

Chris Edelson · The University of Wisconsin Press
Pages: 242
Format: Print book

As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama criticized the George W. Bush administration for its unrestrained actions in matters of national security. In secret Justice Department memos, President Bush's officials had claimed for the executive branch total authority to use military force...
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Choosing a Good Life: Lessons from People Who Have Found Their Place in the World

Ali Berman · Hazelden
Format: Kindle Edition

"Ever wonder why some people seem to be at peace despite the ups and downs daily life can bring, while others are restless even in seemingly ideal circumstances? In Choosing a Good Life, Alyson Berman explores what it means to be at peace with ourselves, our choices, and the world...
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Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History

Donald E. Canfield · Princeton University Pres
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover

The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield--one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth...
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I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

Luvvie Ajayi · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 241
Format: Print book

New York Times Bestseller#1 Washington Post Bestseller"A truth-riot of a book!" -- Shonda RhimesComedian, activist, and hugely popular culture blogger at AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi, serves up necessary advice for the masses in this hilarious book of essaysWith over 500,000...
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The Best of Rose Elliot: The ultimate vegetarian collection

Rose Elliot · Mitchell Beazley
Format: Book

With over seven million vegetarians in the US and more and more of us choosing to reduce our meat consumption, The Best of Rose Elliot is a timely compilation of the very best that vegetarian cuisine has to offer. Notable for her dependable, uncomplicated and trustworthy dishes, Rose Elliot's...
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An Uncomplicated Life: A Father's Memoir of His Exceptional Daughter

Paul Daugherty · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

A father's exhilarating and funny love letter to his daughter with Down syndrome whose vibrant and infectious approach to life has something to teach all of us about how we can better live our own. Jillian Daugherty was born with Down syndrome. The day they brought her home from the hospital,...
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Korean Food Made Simple

Judy Joo · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 286
Format: Print book

125 simple Korean recipes from the host of the Cooking Channel television show of the same name In"Korean Food Made Simple, " Judy Joo, host of the Cooking Channel s show of the same name and Food Network regular, brings Korean food to the masses, proving that it s fun and easy...
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National Geographic Extreme Weather Survival Guide: Understand, Prepare, Survive, Recover

Thomas M. Kostigen · National Geographic
Format: Print book

Hurricanes, floods, wildfires, tornadoes--weather is becoming extreme, and this book tells you how to plan ahead and prepare, respond to emergencies, and survive the worst-case scenarios. From the risks of building on changing coastlines to the safety kit you should have packed up at home,...
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