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Rick Steves Rome 2015

Rick Steves · Avalon Travel Publishing; 2015 Edition edition
Format: Print book

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in the Eternal City of Rome.With the self-guided tours in this book, you'll walk the same streets as the Caesars and discover the secrets of the Colosseum and the Roman Forum. Learn how to avoid the lines...
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When Buyers Say No: Essential Strategies for Keeping a Sale Moving Forward

Tom Hopkins · Business Plus, 2014.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

This is a complete and practical guide which highlights the authors' new strategic approaches to selling when the buyer initially declines or is resistant on a sales opportunity. Hopkins and Katt explain that most sales reps take a traditional linear approach to selling, but that the trick...
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If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: Relating to and Communicating with Others

Alan Alda · Random House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Award-winning actor Alan Alda tells the fascinating story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores how to develop empathy as the key factor."Invaluable." - Deborah...
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Crisps, Cobblers, Custards & Creams

Jean Anderson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 301
Format: Print book

More than 150 recipes for crisps, cobblers, custards, and creams by one of America's most respected food writers It seems as if everything old is now new again with classic, home-style desserts like doughnuts and whoopie pies ever growing in popularity. And yet, there have been so few books...
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Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland

Amanda Berry · Viking
Pages: 321
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times BestsellerA bestselling book that is inspiring the nation: "We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again . . . Now we want the world to know: we survived, we are free, we love life."Two women kidnapped by infamous Cleveland...
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The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, and the Importance of Handbags

Daphne Merkin · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A wide-ranging collection of essays by one of America's most perceptive critics of popular and literary cultureFrom one of America's most insightful and independent-minded critics comes a remarkable new collection of essays, her first in more than fifteen years. Daphne Merkin brings...
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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of

James Bradley · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao's ascent.In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind America's...
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Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation

Ray Suarez · Celebra Trade
Format: Paperback

THE COMPANION BOOK TO THE PBS DOCUMENTARY SERIES Latino Americans chronicles the rich and varied history of Latinos, who have helped shaped our nation and have become, with more than fifty million people, the largest minority in the United States. This companion to the landmark PBS miniseries...
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I Stand Corrected: How Teaching Western Manners in China Became Its Own Unforgettable Lesson

Eden Collinsworth · Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating fusion of memoir, manners, and cultural history from a successful businesswoman well versed in the unique challenges of working in contemporary China.During the course of a career that has, quite literarily, moved her around the world, no country has fascinated Eden Collinsworth...
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Whereas : poems

Stephen Dunn · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

Incisively capturing the oddities of our logic and the whimsies of our reason, the poems in Whereas show there is always another side to a story. With graceful rhythm and equal parts humor and seriousness, Stephen Dunn considers the superstition and sophistry embedded in everyday life:...
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Iris Grace: How Thula the Cat Saved a Little Girl and Her Family

Arabella Carter-Johnson · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Iris Grace is a beautiful little girl who, from a very young age, barely communicated, avoided social interaction with other people, and rarely smiled. From both before her diagnosis of autism and after, she seemed trapped in her own world, unable to connect with those around her.One day,...
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Medicare For Dummies

Patricia Barry · For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

The fast and easy way to get up to speed on Medicare Since the creation of Medicare in 1965, significant changes have affected the legislation. With 77 million baby boomers entering the program, questions about what Medicare is and how it affects seniors are certain to arise. Medicare For Dummies...
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The Penguin Book of Witches

Katherine Howe · Penguin Classics
Format: Book

Chilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America, compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and ConversionFrom a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from...
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The Smart Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want: How to be assertive with wit, style and grace

Mary Hartley · Random House Inc
Pages: 201
Format: Paperback

Do you feel like you're not heard but you don't want to have to scream?Personal development coach Mary Hartley explains the secrets of assertiveness - of how to communicate with other people in ways that are confident, effective - but also considerate. Mary reveals the simple steps...
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