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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
TED GENOWAYS - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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Is there still a place for the farm in today's America?The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a small ranch, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in York County,... |
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Garden City: Supergreen Buildings, Urban Skyscapes and the New Planted Space
Anna Yudina - Thames & Hudson Format: Hardcover
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A spectacular global survey of some of the world's most inventive buildings -- increasingly relevant in the face of climate change -- which bring architecture and horticulture into a sustainable wholeHow can our urban jungles be transformed into skyscraper forests that help our cities... |
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The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
Adam Piore - Ecco Format: Print book
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For millennia, humans have tried - and often failed - to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier is the human body: the greatest engineers of our generation have turned their sights inward, and their work is beginning to revolutionize... |
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Patent Law Essentials: A Concise Guide, 5th Edition
Alan L Durham - Praeger Format: Hardcover
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This essential desk reference for patent attorneys, engineers, entrepreneurs, innovators, development professionals, and students has been updated with the latest court cases and legislation.* Makes patent law accessible to both novice and expert practitioners* Discusses a number of recent... |
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Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
Rachel Botsman - PublicAffairs Format: Hardcover
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If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust?From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust--far from it. In this revolutionary book, world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipping... |
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Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Dan-el Padilla Peralta - Penguin Press Format: Print book
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An undocumented immigrant's journey from a New York City homeless shelter to the top of his Princeton classDan-el Padilla Peralta has lived the American dream. As a boy, he came here legally with his family. Together they left Santo Domingo behind, but life in New York City was harder than... |
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Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World
Marc Raboy - Oxford University Press Format: Print book
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A little over a century ago the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were initially known, ships... |
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Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets
Charles P Wohlforth - Pantheon Format: Hardcover
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From a leading planetary scientist and an award-winning science writer, a propulsive account of the developments and initiatives that have transformed the dream of space colonization into something that may well be achievable. We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly... |
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Poor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts
Vicki Lens - Oxford University Press Format: Print book
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Poor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts provides a vivid portrait and appraisal of how the lives of poor people are disrupted or helped by the judicial system, from the lowest to the highest courts. Drawing from court room observations, court decisions, and other material, this book... |
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How to Fix the Future
ANDREW KEEN - Atlantic Monthly Press Format: Hardcover
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Former Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write about the dangers that the Internet poses to our culture and society. His 2007 book The Cult of the Amateur was critical in helping advance the conversation around the Internet, which has now morphed from a tool... |
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer A Doudna - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use.... |
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Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
David Bordwell - University Of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different characters' viewpoints, and sometimes... |
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You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
Wendy Lesser - Farrar Format: Print book
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The first biography of the iconic American architect that delves fully into his life and workBorn to a Jewish family in Estonia in 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia; by the time of his death in 1974, he was widely recognized... |
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Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil
William Middleton - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST ART BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY ARTNEWS**. The first and definitive biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil, who became one of the greatest cultural forces of the twentieth century through groundbreaking exhibits of art, artistic scholarship,... |
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The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America's Supreme Law
JOSEPH TARTAKOVSKY - Encounter Books Format: Hardcover
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In a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the eyes of ten extraordinary individuals -- some renowned, like Alexander Hamilton and Woodrow Wilson, and some forgotten, like James Wilson and Ida B. Wells-Barnett.... |
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Music Preservation and Archiving Today
Norie Guthrie - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Paperback
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Here are the stories of how music archives are preserving independent music and saving a part of our cultural heritage. Music Preservation and Archiving Today moves beyond the how-to and assembles the work currently being done to preserve music and "scenes" via essays, case studies,... |
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Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
Joel R Paul - Riverhead Books Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States.No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more... |
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The Heart of the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights became the Bill of Rights
Gerard N Magliocca - Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover
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This is the untold story of the most celebrated part of the Constitution. Until the twentieth century, few Americans called the first ten constitutional amendments drafted by James Madison in 1789 and ratified by the states in 1791 the Bill of Rights. Even more surprising, when people finally... |
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Artist Management for the Music Business
Paul Allen - Routledge Format: Paperback
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Anyone managing an artist's career needs to be well versed and have a savvy understanding of the moving parts of the music business. You'll learn how and why those moving parts "move," as well as how to manage and navigate a music-based career. Artist Management for the Music... |
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Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Sarah Scoles - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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For anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered, "Are we alone?" A brilliant examination of the science behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and its pioneer, Jill Tarter, the inspiration for the main character in Carl Sagan's Contact. Jill Tarter... |
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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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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The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
Christian Davenport - PublicAffairs Format: Hardcover
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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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LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
P W Singer - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the internet. Terrorists... |
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Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew
Michael D Leinbach - Arcade Publishing Format: Hardcover
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The "gripping and dramatic" inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia shuttle disaster that united thousands of Americans (BOOKLIST ) .Voted the Best Space Book of the Year by the Space HipstersOn February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry... |
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The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World
Damon Krukowski - New Press Format: Print book
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What John Berger did to ways of seeing, well-known indie musician Damon Krukowski does to ways of listening in this lively guide to the transition from analog to digital cultureHaving made his name in the late 1980s as a founding member of the indie band Galaxie 500, Damon Krukowski has watched... |
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A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System
Mark Thompson - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening and provocative tour of our solar system, from one of Britain's celebrated astronomists. Have you ever dreamed of being an astronaut, traveling through the universe on your very own space mission? What would it be like to tour the solar system, visiting the sun and the planets,... |
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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies Thatll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Kelly Weinersmith - Penguin Books Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestseller!A Wall Street Journal Best Science Book of the Year!A Popular Science Best Science Book of the Year! From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation into... |
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Small Gas Engine Repair, Fourth Edition
PAUL DEMPSEY - MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION Format: Print book
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The bestselling step-by-step guide to gas engine maintenance and repair - updated for today's do-it-yourselferThe Fourth Edition of Small Gas Engine Repair shows readers how to troubleshoot and repair virtually any type of small gas engine used in garden equipment, chain saws, pumps,... |
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Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
Tim Fernholz - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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The inside story of the new race to conquer space, as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos spend billions of their own money to explore the final frontier For the largerthanlife personalities now staking their fortunes on the development of rocket ships, the new race to explore space could be a dead... |
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Pogue's Basics: Essential Tips and Shortcuts
David Pogue - St Martin's Press Format: Print book
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New York Times BestsellerDid you know that can you scroll a Web page just by tapping the space bar How do you recover photos you've deleted by accident What can you do if your cell phone's battery is dead by dinnertime each day When it comes to technology, there's no driver's ed class... |
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Networking All-in-One For Dummies
LOWE. - For Dummies Format: Paperback
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Becoming a master of networking has never been easier Whether you're in charge of a small network or a large network, Networking All-in-One is full of the information you'll need to set up a network and keep it functioning. Fully updated to capture the latest Windows 10 releases... |
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Why Write?: A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why it Matters
Mark Edmundson - Bloomsbury USA Format: Print book
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Why write? Why write when it sometimes feels that so few people really read--read as if their lives might be changed by what they're reading? Why write, when the world wants to be informed, not enlightened; to be entertained, not inspired? Writing is backbreaking, mindbreaking, lonely... |
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64 Geeks: The Brains That Shaped our World
Chas Newkey-Burden - Ilex Press Format: Hardcover
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See the greatest minds in history like never before; rendered in the greatest way imaginable: 8-bit pixel art! This book celebrates the 64 Best. Brains. Ever; the geeks who each played an essential part in taking humanity from mud huts to the world we live in today.Discover more than you knew... |
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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson - Riverhead Books Format: Print book
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach,... |
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Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
JEFFREY KLUGER - Henry Holt and Co. Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumphIn August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three... |
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Safely to Earth: The Men and Women Who Brought the Astronauts Home
Jack Clemons - University Press of Florida Format: Hardcover
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National Federation of Press Women National Communications Contest, First Place for Autobiography/MemoirDelaware Press Association Communications Contest, First Place for Autobiography/MemoirIn this one-of-a-kind memoir, Jack Clemons - a former lead engineer in support of NASA - takes readers... |
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
Greg Milner - W.W. Norton & Company Format: Print book
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Pinpoint tells the story of GPS, a scientific marvel that enables almost all modern technology -- but is changing us in profound ways.Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Even as it guides us across town, GPS helps... |
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Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, 6th Edition
Stan Gibilisco - Mcgraw-Hill Education Format: Print book
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Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals and applications -- all without taking a formal course This fully updated guide offers practical, easy-to-follow instruction on electricity and electronics. Written by a pair of experienced instructors, Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics,... |
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Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America
Michael Z Newman - MIT Press Format: Print book
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Beginning with the release of the Magnavox Odyssey and Pong in 1972, video games, whether played in arcades and taverns or in family rec rooms, became part of popular culture, like television. In fact, video games were sometimes seen as an improvement on television because they spurred... |
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Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World
Naomi S. Baron - Oxford University Press; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Discusses the rise of e-readers and how their popularity is affecting the way people read books, the way people write books, and what might be lost if reading goes entirely digital.-- Publsiher's description.Overview: People have been reading on computer screens for several decades... |
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Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage
Gordon Corera - Pegasus Books Format: Print book
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The previously untold -- and previously highly classified -- story of the conflux of espionage and technology, with a compelling narrative rich with astonishing revelations taking readers from World War II to the internet age. As the digital era become increasingly pervasive, the intertwining... |
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Free Speech Beyond Words: The Surprising Reach of the First Amendment
Mark V Tushnet - New York University Press Format: Print book
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The Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock's paintings, Arnold Schoenberg's music, and Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" are "unquestionably shielded" by the First Amendment. Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense: all receive... |
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The Early American Daguerreotype: Cross-Currents in Art and Technology
Sarah Kate Gillespie - The MIT Press Format: Print book
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The daguerreotype, invented in France, came to America in 1839. By 1851, this early photographic method had been improved by American daguerreotypists to such a degree that it was often referred to as "the American process." The daguerreotype -- now perhaps mostly associated with... |
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Lady Liberty
Luce Lebart - Firefly Books Format: Paperback
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A photographic essay recounting the creation and installation of the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty is known around the world as a symbol of freedom and democracy. Poet Emma Lazarus' words inscribed on its pedestal -- "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses... |
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Open Concept Houses
FRANCESC ZAMORA - Harper Design Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the successful 150 Best series comes the debut entry in the forward-thinking Open Concept Houses series, filled with nearly 500 pages of color photos - sure to become the ultimate resource for this fast-growing trend in home design and renovation.One of the hottest lifestyle... |
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Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda
Marion Nestle - Oxford University Press Format: Print book
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Sodas are astonishing products. Little more than flavored sugar-water, these drinks cost practically nothing to produce or buy, yet have turned their makers--principally Coca-Cola and PepsiCo--into a multibillion-dollar industry with global recognition, distribution, and political power.... |
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Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
Paul Collins - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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A delectable true-crime story of scandal and murder at America's most celebrated university.On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting... |
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Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law
Stephen Elias - NOLO Format: Paperback
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Legal Research: Take the law into your own hands Legal Research provides everything you need to answer your legal questions at home, work, or as part of your law-related coursework. The easy-to-follow instructions will help you find and understand statutes, regulations, cases, and more.... |
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HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
Nadine Strossen - Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover
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HATE dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony. We hear too many incorrect assertions that "hate speech" -- which... |
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Treasures from the Map Room: A Journey through the Bodleian Collections
Debbie Hall - Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Format: Hardcover
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The Bodleian Library is home to one of the world's largest and oldest collections of maps, with atlases, maps, and books on cartography dating back to the fourteenth century, including many that are among the most rare and historically significant. Treasures from the Map Room publishes... |
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101 Ways to Score Higher on Your Series 7 Exam: What You Need to Know Explained Simply
Claire Bradley - Atlantic Publishing Format: Print book
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This revised, new edition is filled with information about stocks, markets, government securities, municipal and corporate bonds, options, indexes, mutual funds, interest funds, interest rates, mortgages, margin accounts, insider trading, short selling, and dividends, which are addressed... |
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Last Resort: The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts
Eric A Posner - University of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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The bailouts during the recent financial crisis enraged the public. They felt unfair - and counterproductive: people who take risks must be allowed to fail. If we reward firms that make irresponsible investments, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, aren't we encouraging them to continue... |
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Music Supervision, 2nd Edition: The Complete Guide to Selecting Music for Movies, TV, Games, & New Media
Ramsay Adams - Omnibus Press Format: Paperback
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The newly revised, definitive book on music supervision, which guides you through real-world scenarios and legal landmines, explores sound design, and profiles key players. Music supervision, or matching music to all the different mediums from films to ring tones, is one of the fastest-growing... |
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Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy
Benjamin Balint - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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The story of the international struggle to preserve Kafka's literary legacy.Kafka's Last Trial begins with Kafka's last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring... |
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The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at Americas Universities
KC Johnson - Encounter Books Format: Hardcover
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In recent years, politicians led by President Obama and prominent senators and governors have teamed with extremists on campus to portray our nations institutions of higher learning as awash in a violent crime wave -- and to suggest (preposterously) that university leaders, professors,... |
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New York NYSTCE Students w/Disabilities
Ken Springer - Research & Education Association; Pap/Psc edition Format: Print book
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REA's NYSTCE Students with Disabilities (060) Test Prep with Online Practice TestsGets You Certified and in the Classroom!Nationwide, more than 4 million teachers will be needed over the next decade, and all must take appropriate tests to be licensed. REA gets you ready for your teaching... |
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