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Young Elizabeth: The Making of the Queen

Kate Williams - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A lively and poignant biography of the young princess who, at the impressionable age of eleven, found that she was now heiress to the throne, by the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria. We can hardly imagine a Britain without Elizabeth II on the throne. It seems...
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On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy

Alan Ryan - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book

An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Aristotle. In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science,...
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Cracking the GMAT : with DVD

Geoff Martz; Adam Robinson; Princeton Review - Random House
Format:  Book : Videodisc : Picture  Visual material : English : 2014 edView all editions and formats

Offers subject reviews, full-length practice exams with explanatory answers, sample questions and answers, and test-taking strategies to improve business school entrance examination scores.
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Roots of Wood and Stone

Amanda Wen
Format: Paperback

Abandoned at birth, her family roots a mystery, historical museum curator Sloane Kelley has dedicated her life to making sure others know theirs. When a donor drops off a dusty old satchel, she doesn't expect much from the common artifact . . .until she finds real treasure inside: a nineteenth-century...
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God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors

Menachem Z Rosensaft - Jewish Lights Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A Powerful, Life-Affirming New Perspective on the HolocaustAlmost ninety children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivorstheologians, scholars, spiritual leaders, authors, artists, political and community leaders and media personalitiesfrom sixteen countries on six continents reflect on how the memories...
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Electronics For Dummies

Cathleen Shamieh - Wiley
Format: Paperback

Build your electronics workbench - and begin creating fun electronics projects right away Packed with hundreds of colorful diagrams and photographs, this book provides step-by-step instructions for experiments that show you how electronic components work, advice on choosing and using essential...
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Getting Away with Murder: Benazir Bhutto's Assassination and the Politics of Pakistan

Heraldo MunÌ?oz - W W Norton & Co Inc
Format: Hardcover

By the lead commissioner of the UN investigation, an authoritative account of Benazir Bhutto's assassination. On December 27, 2007, a suicide bomber killed Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan. Brilliant and charismatic, the head of a political family as important to Pakistani...
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A Dad's Guide to Babycare

Colin Cooper - Carroll & Brown Ltd.; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

More men than ever want to be involved in taking care of their children. This specially created guide will help them participate safely and successfully in the care and development of their children, while allowing them to value the qualities that they naturally bring to babycare. A complete...
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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

Ian Haney López - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare queens" and "strapping young bucks" buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfare run amok, Reagan never needed to mention race, because he was blowing...
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