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Newport Mansions: Postcards of the Gilded Age
Federico Santi · Schiffer
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
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Newport, Rhode Island, nicknamed "the Queen of Resorts," has been celebrated in beautiful postcard portrayals for over a hundred years. Today, these vintage cards illuminate the glories of the Gilded Age, when huge mansions or "cottages" built by competing industrialists... |
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150 Best Meals in a Jar: Salads, Soups, Rice Bowls and More
Tanya Linton · Robert Rose
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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Canning jars are perfect for a healthy and delicious salad. The dressing goes on the bottom, with heavier or harder ingredients making up the next layer(s) , perhaps topped off with some fresh leafy greens. Everything stays crisp and separate until it is time to toss the salad in a bowl... |
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Zambia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
ANDREW LORYMAN · Kuperard
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
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More than an overview of the colorful sights and sounds, these easy-to-follow chapters paint a vivid picture of the psyche of a people who have been shaped by their geography and history, and who are notable for their warmth, outgoing nature, and zest for life. In this large, landlocked... |
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I Like Ike: The Presidential Election of 1952
John Robert Greene · University Press of Kansas
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover
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When the 1952 presidential election campaign began, many assumed it would be a race between Harry Truman, seeking his second full term, and Robert A. Taft, son of a former president and, to many of his fellow partisans, "Mr. Republican." No one imagined the party standard bearers... |
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How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
Brian McCullough · Liveright
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the internet, why it exploded, and how it changed everything.The internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology.... |
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Built-Ins Idea Book
Heather J Paper · Taunton Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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Built-ins make a house more functional, livable, personal, and comfortable. A smaller kitchen with well-placed built-ins can be more efficient and inviting than a great big kitchen. A bathroom may become instantly more useful and less cramped with the addition of just one or two well-placed... |
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LinkedIn Profile Optimization For Dummies
Serdula · John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 322
Format: Print book
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Optimize your LinkedIn profile - and get results Your LinkedIn profile is essentially a platform to shape how others see you, highlight your abilities, products, or services, and explain how your work impacts lives. Yet many people simply copy and paste their resume and expect job offers... |
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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
Laura Caldwell · Liveright
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions.Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity.... |
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Guinness World Records 2014 Gamer's Edition
Guinness World Records · Guinness World Records
Format: Paperback
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The Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition is the ultimate guide to videogames. The all-new 2014 book is bursting with news and views from the gaming world, alongside the latest and very best records relating to the world's most popular games. Amazing trivia sits alongside hard... |
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Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast
Christine M Delucia · Yale University Press
Pages: 469
Format: Hardcover
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Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip's War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England.... |
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Notes for the Everlost: A Field Guide to Grief
Kate Inglis · Shambhala
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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Part memoir, part handbook for the heartbroken, this powerful, unsparing account of losing a premature baby will speak to all who have been bereaved and are grieving, and offers inspiration on moving forward, gently integrating the loss into life.Inglis's story is a springboard that can help... |
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A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time
Rob Scheer · Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Promise of a Pencil and Kisses from Katie comes an inspirational memoir by the founder of Comfort Cases about his turbulent childhood in the foster care system and the countless obstacles and discrimination he endured in adopting his four children.Rob Scheer never... |
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Obama: An Intimate Portrait
Pete Souza · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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This is the definitive visual biography of Barack Obama's historic presidency, captured in unprecedented detail by his White House photographer--and presented in an oversize, 12"x10" exquisitely produced format, and featuring a foreword from the President himself. |
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