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Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars
Chris Woods - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Less than a month after the September 11th attacks, a tiny, CIA-controlled Predator drone flew over Kandahar, searching out the home of the Taliban supreme commander Mullah Mohammed Omar. A lack of understanding of the drone's capabilities combined with a messy chain of command allowed... |
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Beyond the First Draft: The Art of Fiction
John Casey - W W Norton
Format: Hardcover
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For students and writers alike, a brilliant guide to the craft of writing by the National Book Award-winning author of Spartina. National Book Award winner John Casey is a masterful novelist who is also an inspiring and beloved teacher. In Beyond the First Draft he offers essential and original... |
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Cracking the GMAT with 2 Computer-Adaptive Practice Tests, 2016 Edition
Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Paperback
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THE PRINCETON REVIEW GETS RESULTS. Get all the prep you need to ace the GMAT--including 2 full-length Computer Adaptive practice tests for realistic exam preparation, up-to-date content reviews for every test section, and extra practice online.Techniques That Actually Work. * Powerful... |
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2015 Photographer's Market
Mary Burzlaff Bostic - North Light Books; Thirty-eighth Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The Successful Photographer's Secret!Thousands of successful photographers have trusted Photographer's Market as a resource for growing their businesses. This edition contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date market contacts for working photographers today: magazines, book... |
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Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
Nicola Tallis - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A significant retelling of the often-misunderstood tale of Lady Jane Grey's journey through her trial and execution -- recalling the dangerous plots and web of deadly intrigue in which she became involuntarily tangled, and which ultimately led to a catastrophic conclusion. "Good people,... |
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Give Me Liberty: Speakers and Speeches that Have Shaped America
Christopher L. Webber - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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Sure to become a classic of American oratorical history, ?Give Me Liberty reveals the enduring power of America's quest for a freer and more just society, and the context of the speeches and speakers -- from Daniel Webster and Patrick Henry to Martin Luther King and Ronald Reagan -- that... |
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Terrorists at the Table: Why Negotiating is the Only Way to Peace
Jonathan Powell - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Should governments talk to terrorists? Do they have any choice? Without doing so, argues author Jonathan Powell in Terrorists at the Table, we will never end armed conflict. As violent insurgencies continue to erupt across the globe, we need people who will brave the depths of the Sri Lankan... |
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Four-Year Colleges 2015
Peterson's - Peterson's; 45 edition
Format: Print book
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This valuable resource includes information on every accredited four-year undergraduate institution in the U.S. and Canada (and many international schools)-more than 2,600 institutions in all. It also includes detailed two-page descriptions written by admissions personnel for over 300 colleges... |
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How to Write Anything: A Complete Guide
Laura Brown - W W Norton
Format: Hardcover
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A practical guide to everything you'll ever need to write -- at work, at school, and in your personal life. With more than two hundred how-to entries and easy-to-use models organized into three comprehensive sections on work, school, and personal life, How to Write Anything covers a wide... |
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Reynard the Fox: A New Translation
James Simpson - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of the greatest characters of medieval literature, the trickster Reynard the Fox, comes to life in this rollicking new translation.What do a weak lion king, a grief-stricken rooster, a dim-witted bear, and one really angry wolf have in common? The answer is theyve all been had by one sly fox named... |
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Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2016
Peterson's - Peterson Nelnet Co
Format: Paperback
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Scholarships, Grants & Prizes provides up-to-date information on millions of privately funded awards available to college students. It contains detailed profiles of awards based on academic fields and career goals, ethnic heritage, talent, employment experience, military service, and other... |
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Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States
Felipe Fernández-Armesto - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An eminent scholar finds a new American history in the Hispanic past of our diverse nation. The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks the significance... |
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Digging for Richard III: The Search for the Lost King (Revised and Expanded)
Mike Pitts - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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"As gripping as any detective fiction. Proof that one doesnt need to be fascinated with Richard III to be enthralled by the story of his bodys discovery." - Publishers WeeklyIn August 2012 a search began, and on February 4, 2013, a team from Leicester University delivered its verdict... |
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TASC Strategies, Practice & Review 2017-2018 with 2 Practice Tests: Online Book
Kaplan - Kaplan Pub
Format: Print book
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Comprehensive content review, strategies, and practice for all sections of the TASC (Test Assessing Secondary Completion) from top test experts The TASC is a high school equivalency test that is an alternative to the GED test. New York State, Indiana, and West Virginia replaced the GED with... |
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Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works
Elizabeth Green - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A 2014 New York Times Book Review Notable BookWe've all had great teachers who opened new worlds, maybe even changed our lives. What made them so great?Everyone agrees that a great teacher can have an enormous impact. Yet we still don't know what, precisely, makes a teacher great.... |
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2015 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market
Mary Burzlaff Bostic - North Light Books; Fortieth Edition edition
Format: Book
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Build a Successful Art Career2015 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market is the must-have reference guide for any artist who wants to establish or expand a career in fine art, illustration, or graphic design. Thousands of successful artists have relied on us to help develop their... |
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How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say--and What It Really Means
John Lanchester - W W Norton
Format: Hardcover
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An entertaining and indispensable guide to the language of finance and economics by the writer hailed for "explain[ing] complex stuff in a down-to-earth and witty style" (The Economist) .To those who don't speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable and its ideas... |
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The Polygamous Wives Writing Club: From the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Women
Paula Kelly Harline - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints renounced the practice of plural marriage in 1890. In the mid- to late nineteenth century, however--the heyday of Mormon polygamy--as many as three out of every ten Mormon women became polygamous wives. Paula Kelly Harline delves deep into... |
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Summer Melt: Supporting Low-Income Students Through the Transition to College
Benjamin L. Castleman - Harvard Education Press
Format: Print book
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Under increasing pressure to raise graduation rates and ensure that students leave high school college- and career-ready, many school and district leaders may believe that, when students graduate with college acceptances in hand, their work is done. But as Benjamin L. Castleman and Lindsay... |
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The Chutzpah Imperative: Empowering Today's Jews for a Life that Matters
Rabbi Edward Feinstein - Jewish Lights Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Reconnect with Judaism's most important contribution to humanity—and redeem our world."The gift of Judaism is an understanding of what it means to be a human being—what we can do, what we can hope for, how we can live with purpose, what is expected of us. It is a celebration... |
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To the Secretary: Leaked Embassy Cables and America's Foreign Policy Disconnect
Mary Thompson-Jones - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A former American diplomat reveals a disconnect between Washington policymakers and those who work in US embassies.When the world awoke on November 28, 2010, and read the first of the 251,287 State Department cables made public by WikiLeaks, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini warned,... |
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A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes
Zeeya Merali - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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An award-winning science writer takes us into the lab to answer some of life's biggest questions: How was the universe created? And could we create our own?What if you could become God, with the ability to build a whole new universe? As startling as it sounds, modern physics suggests that... |
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Russia and The Commonwealth of Independent States 2014
M. Wesley Shoemaker - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 45th Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Published and updated annually, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States deals with the twelve independent republics that became members of the Commonwealth of Independent States following the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1992. The text focuses strongly on recent economic... |
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2015 Standard Catalog of World Coins 2001-Date
George S. Cuhaj - Krause Publications; Ninth Edition edition
Format: Book
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Twenty-first Century Wonders Creativity abounds in the modern collectible coin market The Standard Catalog of World Coins -Date th Edition brings this inspiration and inventiveness from todays World Mints Central Banks and their distributors to light in the finest such resource on the market... |
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Wrestling the Angel: The Foundations of Mormon Thought: Cosmos, God, Humanity
Terryl L. Givens - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this first volume of his magisterial study of the foundations of Mormon thought and practice, Terryl L. Givens offers a sweeping account of Mormon belief from its founding to the present day. Situating the relatively new movement in the context of the Christian tradition, he reveals... |
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GRE 2016 Strategies, Practice, and Review with 4 Practice Tests: Book + Online
Kaplan
Format: Print book
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Kaplans GRE 2016 Strategies, Practice, and Review is a comprehensive prep system that includes book and online components, including 1-year access to an online center with video and realistic practice tests to help you prepare for Test Day. Get access to in-depth strategies, test information,... |
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Cold War: An International History
Carole K. Fink - Westview Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Format: Paperback
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More than a bipolar conflict between two Superpowers, the decades-long Cold War had implications for the entire world. In this accessible, comprehensive retelling, Carole K. Fink provides new insights and perspectives on key events with an emphasis on people, power, and ideas, along with... |
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CLEP® College Algebra Book + Online
Stu Schwartz - Research & Education Association; Eighth Edition, Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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Earn College Credit with REA's Test Prep for CLEP® College AlgebraEverything you need to pass the exam and get the college credit you deserve.CLEP® is the most popular credit-by-examination program in the country, accepted by more than 2,900 colleges and universities. For over... |
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Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe 2014
Wayne C. Thompson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 14th Edition edition
Format: Print book
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This is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country and presents a complete and authoritative overview of each region’s geography, people, history,... |
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Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
Danielle Allen - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Zcalo Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians "Danielle Allen lays bare the Declaration's history and significance, returning it to its true and rightful owners -- you and me."... |
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The Demon's Brood: A History of the Plantagenet Dynasty
Desmond Seward - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and colorful history of the most dominant royal dynasty in English history, from Richard the Lionheart and Edward the Black Prince to Henry IV and Richard III The Plantagenets reigned over England longer than any other family―from Henry II to Richard III . Four kings were... |
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How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
Ruth Goodman - Liveright; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A delightful tour through the intimate details of life in Victorian England, told by a historian who has cheerfully endured them all. Ruth Goodman believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling... |
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Barron's New MCAT with CD-ROM, 2nd Edition
Jay B. Cutts M.A. - Barron's Educational Series; 2 edition
Format: Print book
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Completely revised and expanded for the 2015 MCAT, Barron's New MCAT test prep manual with enclosed CD-ROM provides test takers with an in-depth, easy-to-use science review and a set of often-neglected but critical strategies for test taking that cover timing, test anxiety, scientific... |
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Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
Raghu Karnad - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliantly conceived nonfiction epic, a war narrated through the lives and deaths of a single family.The photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother's house for as long as he could remember, beheld but never fully noticed. They had all fought in the Second World War,... |
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Balancing the Big Stuff: Finding Happiness in Work, Family, and Life
Miriam Liss - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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While the current conversation about work-family balance and having it all tends to focus on women, both men and women are harmed when conditions make it impossible to balance meaningful work with family life. Yet, both will benefit from re-evaluating what it means to have it all and fighting... |
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Aha!: The Moments of Insight that Shape Our World
William B. Irvine - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Great ideas often develop gradually after studying a problem at length--but not always. Sometimes, an insight hits like a bolt from the blue. For Archimedes, clarity struck while he was taking a bath. For Gustav Mahler, it came as the blades of his oars touched the water. And for Albert... |
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Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat
Barry Estabrook - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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An eye-opening investigation of the commercial pork industry and an inspiring alternative to the way pigs are raised and consumed in America.Barry Estabrook, author of the New York Times bestseller Tomatoland and a writer of "great skill and compassion" (Eric Schlosser) , now explores... |
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Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2015
Peterson's - Peterson's; 19 edition
Format: Print book
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Scholarships, Grants & Prizes provides up-to-date information on millions of privately funded awards available to college students. It contains detailed profiles of awards based on academic fields and career goals, ethnic heritage, talent, employment experience, military service, and other... |
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It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
danah boyd - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An essential read, written by a leading expert, for anyone who wants to understand young people's use of social media What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening... |
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Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America
Kevin Cook - Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Format: Hardcover
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At last, the true story of a crime that shocked the world. New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop -- a murder the New York Times called "a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change." The victim, Catherine "Kitty" Genovese,... |
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Africa 2014
J. Tyler Dickovick - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 49th Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The World Today Series: Africa provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends. Each country is examined through the following sections: Basic... |
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Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health
Nicholas Freudenberg - Oxford Univ. Press
Format: Print book
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Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence of corporations has grown, governments around the world have stepped back... |
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The Pushcart Prize XXXIX: Best of the Small Presses 2015 Edition
Bill Henderson - Pushcart Press; 1 edition
Format: Book
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"Like discovering yet one more galaxy." - World Literature TodayPublishers Weekly in its boxed and starred review of last year's edition of this annual anthology commented "With large publishing houses facing an uncertain future, the Pushcart Prize is more valuable than... |
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Two-Year Colleges 2015
Peterson's - Peterson's; 45 edition
Format: Book
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Petersons Two-Year Colleges 2015 includes information on more than 1,900 accredited two-year undergraduate institutions in the United States and Canada, as well as some international schools. It also includes detailed two-page descriptions written by admissions personnel. College-bound... |
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Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
Janice P. Nimura - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Surprising and richly satisfying" (Megan Marshall) ; "beautifully crafted . . . subtle, polished, and poised" (Stacy Schiff) .In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help... |
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Apples of New England: A User's Guide
Russell Powell - Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A guide to more than 200 varieties of apples!This fascinating and helpful guide will offer practical advice about rare heirlooms and newly discovered varieties, chapters on the rich tradition of apple growing in New England and on the “fathers” of American apples―Massachusetts... |
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Gaza: A History
Jean-Pierre Filiu - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Gaza has become synonymous with conflict and dispute. Though only slightly larger than Omaha, Nebraska at 140 square miles, the small territory of Gaza has been a hot spot for bitter disputes between sparring powers for millennia, from the Ancient Egyptians up until the British Empire and even... |
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The Age of Genomes: Tales from the Front Lines of Genetic Medicine
Steven Monroe Lipkin - Beacon Press
Format: Print book
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A leading geneticist explores what promises to be one of the most transformative advances in health and medicine in historyAlmost every week, another exciting headline appears about new advances in the field of genetics. Genetic testing is experiencing the kind of exponential growth once... |
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Mary: A Life in Verse
Patricia Monaghan - Dos Madres Press
Format: Print book
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Poetry. "This remarkable, absorbing, and quietly revolutionary book constitutes the greatest poetic work and ultimate legacy of the legendary Patricia Monaghan, whose towering work as a scholar, writer, and organizer, breathtaking in its scope and ambition, brought the Goddess into... |
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Master the GED Test
Peterson's - Peterson's; 28 edition
Format: Book
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Master the GED is a comprehensive guide that offers the essential test-prep and review material for the high school equivalency diploma test, including practice tests, subject review, and expert tips on how to score high on each GED test. Readers will find the GED information they need... |
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Judaism's Ten Best Ideas: A Brief Guide for Seekers
Dr. Arthur Green - Jewish Lights; 1 edition
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A welcoming introduction to the most important ideas in Judaism.In an age of fluid identity, many people are honestly asking the question "Why be Jewish?" What in this religious and ethnic legacy is worth preserving? Does Judaism have something unique to offer a contemporary seeker... |
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Cracking the TOEFL iBT with Audio CD, 2015 Edition
Princeton Review - Princeton Review; Pap/Com Su edition
Format: Paperback
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THE PRINCETON REVIEW GETS RESULTS. Get all the prep you need to ace the TOEFL with a full-length simulated TOEFL iBT test, an MP3 CD with accompanying audio sections, thorough reviews of core topics, and proven strategies for tackling tough questions.Techniques That Actually Work.... |
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GRE® 2015 Strategies, Practice, and Review with 4 Practice Tests: Book + Online
Kaplan - Kaplan Publishing; Pap/Psc edition
Format: Book
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Kaplan's GRE 2015 Strategies, Practice, and Review is a comprehensive prep system that includes book and online components. Get access to in-depth strategies, test information, and practice questions to help you score higher on the GRE. Kaplan's GRE 2015 Strategies, Practice, and Review... |
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"Is It Easy Being Green?": Writing the New College Application Essay
Justin Nevin - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book
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More and more universities and colleges are looking beyond grade point averages and standardized test scores to choose their incoming freshman. What criteria do these institutions of higher education use as their litmus test--the college application essay. But will your average high school... |
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Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century
Kevin Fong M.D. - The Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Anesthesiologist, intensive care expert, and NASA adviser Kevin Fong explores how physical extremes push human limits and spawn incredible medical breakthroughsLittle more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human had ever trod. Within... |
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Scholarships Fellowships & Loans: A Guide to Education-Related Financial Aid Programs for Students and Professionals
Gale - Gale Research Inc; 32 edition
Format: Print book
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Scholarships, Fellowships, And Loans profiles more than 7,300 scholarships, fellowships, loans, internships, work study, and other education-related financial aid available to high school students, undergraduates, graduates, post-graduates, and professionals. |
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Western Europe 2014
Wayne C. Thompson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 33rd Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The World Today Series: Western Europe is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Western Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country expertly covering the region’s geography, people, history, political system, constitution,... |
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American Arsenal: A Century of Waging War
Patrick Coffey - Oxford University Press,
Format: Print book
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When America declared war on Germany in 1917, the United States had only 200,000 men under arms, a twentieth of the German army's strength, and its planes were no match for the German air force. Less than a century later, the United States today has by far the world's largest military... |
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The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government
Philip K Howard - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The secret to good government is a question no one in Washington is asking: "What's the right thing to do?" What's wrong in Washington is deeper than you think. Yes, there's gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger and more... |
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The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of Modern China
Julia Lovell - The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In October 1839, a cabinet meeting in Windsor voted to fight Britain’s first Opium War with China. The conflict turned out to be rich in tragicomedy: in bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over the past 170 years, this strange tale... |
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College Handbook 2015: All New 52nd Edition
The College Board - College Board; 52 edition
Format: Print book
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This is the only guide available that contains objective information on every accredited college in the United States—2,200 four-year colleges and universities, and 1,700 two-year community colleges and technical schools. With its clearly laid-out entries and more than 40 indexes,... |
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Cracking the LSAT with 3 Practice Tests, 2015 Edition
Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Paperback
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THE PRINCETON REVIEW GETS RESULTS. Get all the prep you need to ace the LSAT with 3 full-length practice tests, thorough LSAT section reviews, and extra practice online.Techniques That Actually Work. • Powerful strategies for tackling each section of the exam• Key tactics... |
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Scholarship Handbook 2016
The College Board - College Board
Format: Paperback
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Shares authoritative coverage of the extensive body of scholarship, internship and loan programs from a variety of groups and agencies, in a reference indexed by eligibility qualifications that includes a planning calendar and organizational worksheets. Original. |
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East and Southeast Asia 2014
Steven Leibo - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 47th Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Updated annually, East & Southeast Asia provides just enough historical background on the evolution of Modern East & Southeast Asia to help students gain a thorough understanding – in one semester – of contemporary developments in this vital region. Broad introductory... |
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Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently
Kenneth L. Fisher - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Train your brain to be a real contrarian and outsmart the crowd Beat the Crowd is the real contrarian s guide to investing, with comprehensive explanations of how a true contrarian investor thinks and acts and why it works more often than not. Bestselling author Ken Fisher breaks down the myths... |
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The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army
Colin G. Calloway - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their objective, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked by about one thousand Indians. The U.S. force was decimated,... |
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Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
Chad Broughton - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 33,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for decades. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour,... |
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Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism
Mark Stoll - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Inherit the Holy Mountain, historian Mark Stoll introduces us to the religious roots of the American environmental movement. Religion, he shows, provided environmentalists both with deeply-embedded moral and cultural ways of viewing the world and with content, direction, and tone for the causes... |
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Vikings: Life and Legend
Gareth Williams - Cornell University Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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In the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vikings created a cultural network that spanned four continents: from the Caspian Sea to the North Atlantic and from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean. The Viking Age was a period of major change as a result of the Vikings’ impact on neighboring... |
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Graduate & Professional Programs: An Overview 2014
Peterson's - Peterson's; 48 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Peterson's Graduate & Professional Programs: An Overview 2014 contains over 2,200 university/college profiles noting degrees available, enrollment figures, tuition, financial support, housing, faculty, research affiliations, library facilities, and contact information. This graduate... |
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Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
Rachel Hope Cleves - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America. But as Rachel Hope Cleves demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marriage is hardly new. Born in 1777,... |
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1920: The Year that Made the Decade Roar
Eric Burns - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most dynamic eras in American history -- the 1920s -- began with this watershed year that would set the tone for the century to follow. "The Roaring Twenties" is the only decade in American history with a widely applied nickname, and our collective fascination with... |
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The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power
Thomas J. Christensen - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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This compelling assessment of U.S.-China relations is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of the globalized world.Many see China as a rival superpower to the United States and imagine the country's rise to be a threat to U.S. leadership in Asia and beyond. Thomas J. Christensen... |
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Barrons SAT 1600: Revised for the NEW SAT
Linda Carnevale M.A. - Barrons Educational Series
Format: 5th Edition
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Students who are focusing on getting an exceptionally high or even perfect score on the SAT will want to get their hands on this guide. Barrons SAT 1600 is based on the new Spring 2016 SAT test. It takes students beyond standard test prep exercises, reviewing the rigorous coursework that... |
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Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools
Tom Little - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Noted educator Tom Little and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Ellison reveal the home-grown solution to turning American students into life-long learners.The longtime head of Park Day School, Tom Little embarked on a tour of 43 progressive schools across the country. In this... |
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The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades
Paul M. Cobb - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1099, when the first Frankish invaders arrived before the walls of Jerusalem, they had carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that endured for centuries, bolstered by subsequent waves of new crusaders and pilgrims. The story of how this group of warriors, driven... |
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Rome's Revolution: Death of the Republic and Birth of the Empire
Richard Alston - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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On March 15th, 44 BC a group of senators stabbed Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome. By his death, they hoped to restore Romes Republic. Instead, they unleashed a revolution. By December of that year, Rome was plunged into a violent civil war. Three men--Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian--emerged... |
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2016 Standard Catalog of World Coins 2001-Date
George S. Cuhaj - Krause Publications; Tenth Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Twenty-First Century MarvelsIn concert with 100 international experts, World Mints and Central Banks, the Standard Catalog of World Coins 2001-Date, 10th Edition, provides an exhaustive and thorough catalog rich with new issue coinage and values from the Twenty-First Century.For the first... |
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Books under Fire: A Hit List of Banned and Challenged Children's Books
Pat R. Scales - Editions
Format: Paperback
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Many things have changed since ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) was founded in 1967, but not everything: the most beloved and popular children s books are still among the most frequent targets of censorship and outright bans. Limiting access to controversial titles such... |
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The Born Frees: Writing with the Girls of Gugulethu
Kimberly Burge - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A creative writing group unites and inspires girls of the first South African generation "born free."Born into post-apartheid South Africa, the young women of the townships around Cape Town still face daunting challenges. Their families and communities have been ravaged by poverty,... |
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Speak Up! Speak Out!
Kathryn Marie Bild - Smith & Kraus
Format: Print book
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Have you ever been afraid to speak in public? If so, you are not alone. Most people find speaking in public terrifying! But it doesnt have to scare you any longer. Whether you are a business person making a presentation, a motivational speaker delivering an address, a club member giving... |
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