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Swimming with the Dead

Peter Guttridge · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

With the local lido under threat of closure by ruthless businesswoman Alison Sutherland, the Save the Salthaven Lido campaigners are fighting a desperate battle to keep it open. When the lead campaigner is discovered dead, partially drowned and stabbed repeatedly, suspicion falls upon Alison....
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Marijuana Reform

H. W. Wilson · Hw Wilson Co
Format: Print book

Marijuana Reform is a collection of articles that examine the recent push for marijuana policy reform in America, which has reached a turning point in 2013 as many states are trending towards legalization and taxation of the psychoactive drug, both medicinally and recreationally. The volume...
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Max Tegmark · Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology - and there's nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark,...
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MCAT Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills Review 2020-2021: Online Book

Kaplan Test Prep · Kaplan Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Kaplan's MCAT Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills Review 2020-2021 is updated to reflect the latest, most accurate, and most testable materials on the MCAT. A new layout makes our book even more streamlined and intuitive for easier review.You'll get efficient strategies, detailed...
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The Best 385 Colleges, 2020 Edition: In-Depth Profiles & Ranking Lists to Help Find the Right College For You

The Princeton Review · Princeton Review
Pages: 880
Format: Paperback

A revised and updated edition of the hottest college guidebook, a perennial favorite of the national media!NO ONE KNOWS COLLEGES LIKE THE PRINCETON REVIEW! The Princeton Review's college rankings started in 1992 with surveys from 30,000 students. Over 25 years and more than a million...
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Raising Kids Who Read: What Parents and Teachers Can Do

Daniel T. Willingham · Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Book

How parents and educators can teach kids to love reading in the digital age Everyone agrees that reading is important, but kids today tend to lose interest in reading before adolescence. In Raising Kids Who Read, bestselling author and psychology professor Daniel T. Willingham explains...
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Austentatious: The Evolving World of Jane Austen Fans

Holly Luetkenhaus · University Of Iowa Press
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback

The amount of fan-generated content about Jane Austen and her novels has long surpassed the author's original canon. Adaptations like Clueless, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen's Fight Club, and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries have given Austen fans priceless...
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Criminal Justice: A Very Short Introduction

Julian V Roberts · Oxford University Press, 2015.
Pages: 137
Format: Print book

The criminal justice system is wide ranging; from the crimes themselves and policing to the sentencing of offenders and prisons. In this Very Short Introduction Julian V. Roberts draws upon the latest research and current practices from a number of different countries around the world....
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River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey

Helen Prejean · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In this revelatory, intimate memoir from the author of Dead Man Walking, the nation's foremost leader in efforts to abolish the death penalty shares the story of her growth as a spiritual leader, speaks out about the challenges of the Catholic Church, and shows that joy and religion...
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Public Domain, The: How to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More

Stephen Fishman J.D. · NOLO
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

Need content? Find public domain works free for the taking! Even though you've always been told otherwise, writers and artists can often copy other people's work and get away with it. Enter the world of the public domain, where everything is free for the taking, and the only secret...
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Life isn't everything.: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends.

Ash Carter
Format: Hardcover

An up close and personal portrait of a legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts -- from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels.

The work of Mike Nichols...

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A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial

James Reston, Jr. · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Army Veteran Revisits the Culture War that Raged around the Selection of Maya Lin's Design for the Vietnam Memorial

A Rift in the Earth tells the remarkable story of the ferocious "art war" that raged between 1979...
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The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

Daniel Markovits · Penguin Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy

It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic...
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GED Test For Dummies

Achim K. Krull · For Dummies
Pages: 504
Format: Print book

Score high on the GED Test

In today's job environment, it's usually the better-educated person who gets the position, promotion, or raise. Scoring high on the GED Test can give you an edge over the competition - whether it's to get a brand-new job or advance in the one you already have....

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If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

Christopher Ingraham · Harper
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham's decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400 - the community he made famous as "the worst place to live in America" in a story he wrote for the Washington...

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