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Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

Drawing on his background in cultural geography, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro excavates the wealth of stories that are embedded in New York City's place-names and uses them to illuminate the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place. He traces the ways in which the native...
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Richard Posner

William Domnarski - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book

Judge Richard Posner is one of the great legal minds of our age, on par with such generation-defining judges as Holmes, Hand, and Friendly. A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the principal exponent of the enormously influential law and economics movement, he writes...
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The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos

Christian Davenport - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes...
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The Grants Register 2011: The Complete Guide to Postgraduate Funding Worldwide

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd - Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover

The most comprehensive guide available to postgraduate grants and professional funding worldwide. For twenty-nine years the leading source for up to date information on the availability of, and eligibility for, postgraduate and professional awards. Each entry is verified by its awarding...
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The Job Closer: Time-Saving Techniques for Acing Resumes, Interviews, Negotiations, and More

Steve Dalton - Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback

Steve Dalton's 2-Hour Job Search method has proven to be successful among job-seekers of all stripes, covering the different ways to use technology to efficiently filter through job listings, make key connections, and secure informational meetings with potential advocates. In The Job Closer,...
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Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions

Jeffrey Selingo - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Getting into a top-ranked college has never seemed more impossible, with acceptance rates at some elite universities dipping into the single digits. In Who Gets In and Why, journalist and higher education expert Jeffrey Selingo dispels entrenched notions of how to compete and win at the admissions...
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Graduate Programs in the Biological/Biomedical Sciences & Health-Related Medical Professions 2015

Peterson's - Peterson's; 49 edition
Format: Hardcover

Peterson's Graduate Programs in the Biological/Biomedical Sciences & Health-Related Medical Professions 2015 contains profiles of 6,750 graduate programs at over 1,200 institutions in the biological/biomedical sciences and health-related/medical professions. Informative data profiles...
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What Do Animals Think and Feel?: An Investigation into Emotion and Behavior

Karsten Brensing - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating study of animal behavior that reveals them to be as sentient and self-aware as we humans are.In What Do Animals Think and Feel? biologist Karsten Brensing has something astonishing to tell us about the animal kingdom: namely that animals, by any reasonable assessment, have...
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And Finally

Henry Marsh - ?St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover


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Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir

Ashley C. Ford - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who understands her. She thinks she understands him too. He's sensitive like her, an artist,...
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