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The Texas Food Bible: From Legendary Dishes to New Classics
Dean Fearing - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone loves Texas food and now, Dean Fearing, arguably the best chef in Texas, shares the top traditional and modern dishes from the Lone Star State.THE TEXAS FOOD BIBLEFrom Legendary Dishes to New ClassicsTHE TEXAS FOOD BIBLE will be a timeless, authentic resource for the home cook-a... |
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Ralph Young - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dissent The History of an American Ideaexamines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan... |
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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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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record
Errol Fuller - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A photograph of an extinct animal evokes a greater feeling of loss than any painting ever could. Often black and white or tinted sepia, these remarkable images have been taken mainly in zoos or wildlife parks, and in some cases depict the last known individual of the species. Lost Animals... |
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Rooted in Design: Sprout Home's Guide to Creative Indoor Planting
Tara Heibel - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover
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A stylish and full-color guide to creatively integrating indoor plants with home decor from the owners of the popular Sprout Home garden design boutiques.Indoor plants play a large role in the design and feel of a space. Focusing on indoor gardening--from small containers and vertical installations... |
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The Journey Home: My Life in Pinstripes
Jorge Posada - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The legendary New York Yankee catcher tells the incredible story of his personal journey, offering an unexpected, behind-the-plate view of his career, his past, and the father-son bond that fueled his love of the game.For seventeen seasons, the name Jorge Posada was synonymous with New York... |
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2015 Guide to Literary Agents: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published
Chuck Sambuchino - Writer's Digest Books; Twenty fourth Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The best resource available for finding a literary agent!No matter what you're writing--fiction or nonfiction, books for adults or children--you need a literary agent if you want to get the best traditional publishing book deal possible. The 2015 Guide to Literary Agents is your essential... |
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Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography
Philip Gefter - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Hardcover
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Biography on a grand cultural level, here is the long-awaited story of Sam Wagstaff and his indelible influence on the world of late-twentieth-century art. Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography.... |
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When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, this inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question... |
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Aging Together: Dementia, Friendship, and Flourishing Communities
Susan H McFadden - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback
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Never in human history have there been so many people entering old age -- roughly one-third of whom will experience some form of neurodegeneration as they age. This seismic demographic shift will force us all to rethink how we live and deal with our aging population.Susan H. McFadden and John... |
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Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Will Harlan - Grove Press
Format: Print book
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Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built by hand in an island wilderness. A combination of Henry David Thoreau and Jane Goodall, Carol is a self-taught scientist who has become... |
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FAR/AIM 2015: Federal Aviation Regulations/Aeronautical Information Manual
Federal Aviation Administration - Aviation Supplies and Academics, Inc.; 2015 Edition edition
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ASA has built a reputation for providing the aviation community with the most accurate and reliable FAR/AIM products available. The 2014 FAR/AIM book continues this tradition, containing complete and up-to-date information from Titles 14 and 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 and 49 CFR)... |
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The Hatmaker's Heart: A Novel
Carla Stewart - FaithWords
Format: Print book
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For Nell Marchwold, bliss is seeing the transformation when someone gets a glimpse in the mirror while wearing one of her creations and feels beautiful. Nell has always strived to create hats that bring out a womans best qualities. She knows shes fortunate to have landed a job as an apprentice... |
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The Predator Paradox: Ending the War with Wolves, Bears, Cougars, and Coyotes
John Shivik - Beacon Press (MA)
Format: Hardcover
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An expert in wildlife management tells the stories of those who are finding new ways for humans and mammalian predators to coexist. Stories of backyard bears and cat-eating coyotes are becoming increasingly common, even for people living in non-rural areas. And that might not be a bad thing... |
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Alcohol: A History
Roderick Phillips - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering the tensions between alcoholic... |
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This is Warhol
Catherine Ingram - Laurence King
Format: Hardcover
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Andy Warhol, the iconic Pop artist, presented himself as the vacuous, dumb kid, famously saying, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings . and there I am. There's nothing behind it." This book penetrates the surface and explores... |
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Grammar: 1,001 Practice Questions For Dummies
Geraldine Woods - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Practice makes perfect - and helps deepen your understanding of English grammar Establishing good grammar habits will set you up for success. From English class to writing your college essay, from corporatecommunications,to updating your social media sites, good grammar is essential and now you have... |
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Crochet
DK Publishing - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Crochet The Complete Step-by-Step Guide features a mix of classic and modern crochet projects, including things to wear, items for the home, decorative pieces, and cute gifts. Packed with 101 inspirational projects for crocheters of all levels of skill, Crochet The Complete Step-by-Step... |
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The Swift Diet: 4 Weeks to Mend the Belly, Lose the Weight, and Get Rid of the Bloat
Kathie Madonna Swift - Hudson Street Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The microbiome is about to be the hottest thing in health. New research, for example, shows that lean people have different gut bacteria than heavier people.The Swift Diet will be the first to show women how they can tap into that research to lose weight permanently by eating to change... |
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1937 Chicago Steel Strike, The:: Blood on the Prairie
John F. Hogan - The History Press
Format: Book
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A violent period of American labor history reached its bloody apex in 1937 when rattled Chicago police shot, clubbed and gassed a group of men, women and children attempting to picket Republic Steel's South Chicago plant. Ten died and over one hundred were wounded in what became known... |
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Crochet Red: Crocheting for Women's Heart Health
Laura Zander - Sixth&Spring Books
Format: Paperback
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Stitchers and knitters have had their chance-now crocheters also get the opportunity to contribute to the fight against womens heart disease! This third book in Laura Zanders successful Stitch Red series offers more than just stunning projects its an appeal to women to take charge of their... |
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Amish Confidential
Lebanon" Levi Stoltzfus - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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""Lebanon" Levi Stoltzfus, star of the #1 top-rated Discovery Channel reality show Amish Mafia, delivers a sizzling tell-all about Amish life today. From the forbidden joyrides to the senseless shunnings to the colorful family feuds, he shares his frank insider's view... |
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Making My Pitch: A Woman's Baseball Odyssey
Ila Jane Borders - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover
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Making My Pitch tells the story of Ila Jane Borders, who despite formidable obstacles became a Little League prodigy, MVP of her otherwise all-male middle school and high school teams, the first woman awarded a baseball scholarship, and the first to pitch and win a complete men's... |
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A Dog's History of the World
Laura Hobgood-Oster - Baylor University Press,
Format: Print book
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Canines and humans have depended upon one another for tens of thousands of years. Humans took the initial steps of domesticating canines, but somewhere through the millennia, dogs began dramatically to affect the future of their masters. In A Dog's History of the World, Laura Hobgood-Oster... |
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Visiting Hours: A Memoir of Friendship and Murder
Amy Butcher - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful and unforgettable memoir, award-winning writer Amy Butcher examines the shattering consequences of failing a friend when she felt he needed one most. Four weeks before their college graduation, twenty-one-year-old Kevin Schaeffer walked Amy Butcher to her home in their... |
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World's Best Cities: Celebrating 220 Great Destinations
National Geographic - National Geographic Soc
Format: Hardcover
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Delving into the heart and soul of more than 225 cities around the globe, World's Best Cities is a glossy, glorious tribute to cosmopolitan life. In photos and words, this irresistible volume showcases long-established great cities like Paris, Rome, New York, London, and Tokyo, as well... |
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Quilting
DK Publishing - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Quilting covers everything needed to successfully do quilting, patchwork, and appliqué. From choosing the right tools to using common cuts of quilting fabric, like fat quarters and jelly rolls, to how to assemble a quilt using one of the more than 100 quilt block patterns provided,... |
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Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution
Fred Vogelstein - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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Behind the bitter rivalry between Apple and Google—and how it’s reshaping the way we think about technologyThe rise of smartphones and tablets has altered the industry of making computers. At the center of this change are Apple and Google, two companies whose philosophies,... |
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Face the Music: A Life Exposed
Paul Stanley - Fourth Estate
Format: Hardcover
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In Face the Music, Paul Stanley - the co-founder and famous "Starchild" frontman of KISS - reveals for the first time the incredible highs and equally incredible lows in his life both inside and outside the band. Face the Music is the shocking, funny, smart, inspirational story... |
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New German Cooking: Recipes for Classics Revisited
Jeremy Nolen - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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Bright flavors. Fresh and healthful. These are not words we typically associate with German cuisine. But this beautifully packaged cookbook is not quite traditional. Featuring 100 recipes for familiar food re-envisioned to reflect the way we eat now, German Cooking Now celebrates fresh... |
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Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans
Simon Head - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs) - the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide... |
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The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation
Fred Pearce - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative exploration of the "new ecology" and why most of what we think we know about alien species is wrong For a long time, veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce thought in stark terms about invasive species: they were the evil interlopers spoiling pristine "natural"... |
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F&W Media Interweave Press, 25 Knitted Accessories to Wear and Share
Interweave - Interweave Press
Format: Paperback
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F&W Media-Interweave Press: 25 Knitted Accessories To Wear & Share. This collection of cozy patterns has been lovingly curated from a roster of incredible authors and designers and brought together in a single book. No matter what level of knitter you are you will find plenty of standout... |
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Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul
Mark Ribowsky - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardcover
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A soul icon and the southern music he helped popularize come to life in this moving requiem.When he died in one of rock's string of tragic plane crashes, Otis Redding was only twenty-six, yet already the avatar of a new kind of soul music. The beating heart of Memphis-based Stax Records,... |
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Oprah Book Club September 2016
Unknown. - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Newest Oprah's Bookclub 2016 SelectionThe highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel... |
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Homemakers: A Domestic Handbook for the Digital Generation
Brit Morin - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Print book
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From "Silicon Valley's Martha Stewart" comes a new manifesto for the modern homemaker in the digital age.Over the past three generations, the rules of homemaking and our very notions of what a homemaker is and does have radically changed. We are still a nation of makers, but we are crafting... |
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Gray Work: Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy
Jamie Smith - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The first ever, first-person story of Americas private, paramilitary contractors at work around the world-from a man who performed these missions himself and has decades of stories to tell. This is a fascinating tale-and potentially the first-to describe the work of American contractors,... |
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Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time
Rory Vaden - Perigee Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Take the Stairs - a bold new way to get things done.New York Times bestselling author and sales-performance trainer Rory Vaden brings his high-energy approach and can-do spirit to the most nagging problem in our professional lives: stalled productivity.... |
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Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
Biz Stone - Grand Central Pub
Format: Hardcover
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Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career.THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD MEFrom GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone... |
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Seven Elements that Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery
John Browne - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of how seven elements - iron, carbon, gold, silver, uranium, titanium, and silicon - have changed modern life, for good and ill.With carbon we access heat, light and mobility at the flick of a switch, while silicon enables us to communicate across the globe in an instant.... |
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Happy-Gurumi: 20 Super Cute Amigurumi Toys to Crochet
Vanessa Chan - Martingale and Company
Format: Print book
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Treat yourself to a collection of fun-to-stitch softies with personality to spare. Crochet everything from a friendly dog and funny frog to a hot air balloon. Learn to make whimsical toys with puppet-style open mouths--including a grinning birthday cake--sure to tickle kids of all ages!20... |
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Paying with Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran
John M. Kinder - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The photograph served many functions, one of them... |
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Ribbonwork : 25 decorative projects that celebrate the beauty of ribbonwork
Christine Kingdom - Lorenz Books, 2013.
Format: Print book
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This book contains 25 beautiful projects illustrated with step-by-step photographs and clear instructions. From bows and roses, to more intricate ribbon embroidery and elaborate ribbon weaving techniques, this comprehensive book provides a complete course in working with ribbons. |
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Karen Abbott - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today) , tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating... |
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The Hand on the Mirror: A True Story of Life Beyond Death
Janis Heaphy Durham - Grand Central Publishing; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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An unbelievably believable story about the afterlife, with documenting photographs from the former publisher of a major metropolitan newspaper. In 2004, Janis Heaphy Durham's husband, Max Besler, died of cancer at age 56. The daughter of a Presbyterian minister, she practiced her faith... |
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The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
Marcelo Gleiser - Basic Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of whats out there. In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search... |
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Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown
David Wiedemer - Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Format: Hardcover
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From the authors who accurately predicted the bursting of the global bubble economy comes the definitive look at what lies ahead in 2013 and beyond Written by the market oracles who predicted, with uncanny accuracy, the global financial meltdown and the economic chain reaction it set in motion,... |
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I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language
Lydia Denworth - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Book
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An investigation into the science of hearing, child language acquisition, neuroplasticity, brain development, and Deaf culture. A mother notices her toddler is not learning to talk the way his brothers did ... Is something wrong? Her search for answers is a journey into the mysteries... |
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Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light
John Baxter - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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The preeminent expat writer on Paris and author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World takes you on an unforgettable nocturnal stroll through five iconic Parisian neighborhoods and his own memories.John Baxter enchanted readers with his literary tour of Paris in The Most Beautiful Walk... |
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Kitchen Confidence: Essential Recipes and Tips That Will Help You Cook Anything
Kelsey Nixon - Clarkson Potter Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Host of Cooking Channel's Kelsey's Essentials and fan favorite on season four of The Next Food Network Star, Kelsey Nixon shares the essential recipes, techniques, and tools that new home cooks need in their back pocket.A young food star and new mom, Kelsey is an invaluable friend... |
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Trees of Eastern North America (Princeton Field Guides Book 93)
Gil Nelson - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The most comprehensive and user-friendly field guide to the trees of eastern North America. Covering 825 species, more than any comparable field guide, Trees of Eastern North America is the most comprehensive, best illustrated, and easiest-to-use book of its kind. Presenting all the native... |
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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Kevin M. Kruse - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of "Christian America" is an invention - and a relatively recent one at that.As Kruse argues, the belief... |
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1,000 Spanish Recipes
Penelope Casas - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The legacy work by one of the most influential experts on Spanish cuisine Penelope Casas was one of the premier experts on Spanish food: She taught Americans about jamón serrano, Manchego cheese, and chorizo, in addition to countless dishes, from patatas bravas to churros. She wrote... |
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1001 Words You Need To Know and Use: An A-Z of Effective Vocabulary
Martin Manser - Oxford University Press; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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An A-Z of Effective Vocabulary covers the meaning and usage of 1001 words that you really do need to know. Whether you need guidance for a letter, job application, essay, proposal, interview, or presentation, this book can help you choose the words you need to create the right effect. Each... |
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Beginner's Guide to Crochet: 20 Crochet Projects for Beginners
Sarah Shrimpton - David & Charles Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Want to learn to crochet, but have no idea where to start? Well this book will guide you through the basics and have you completing your first project in just one day!Each new stitch is explained in easy steps with accompanying photographs and diagrams and is followed up with a project... |
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Elvis and Ginger: Elvis Presley's Fiancée and Last Love Finally Tells Her Story
Ginger Alden - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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ELVIS PRESLEY'S FIANCE AND LAST LOVE FINALLY TELLS HER STORY "Elvis, you and I know the truth and unfortunately you're not here to set the record straight. With this book, I will try to..." Elvis Presley and Graceland were fixtures in the life of Ginger Alden, having been... |
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Art Journal Art Journey: Collage and Storytelling for Honoring Your Creative Process
Nichole Rae - North Light Books; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Words--Color--CourageBravely document your life's journey with Art Journal Art Journey: Collage and Storytelling for Honoring Your Creative Process. Artist Nichole Rae is your creative companion and guide as you explore your art journaling journey in three easy steps.Begin by putting... |
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The 8 Steps to Strategic Success : Unleashing the Power of Engagement
Gerben van den Berg; Paul Pietersma - Kogan Page Limited
Format: eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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All organizations recognise the importance of strategy creation and execution: strategy is the process of developing the corporate future. Unfortunately, it often doesn't generate the required results. This book presents a new 8-step process for creating a strategy that really delivers.... |
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I'll Be Back Right After This: My Memoir
Pat O'Brien - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Best seller!Pat O'Brien was a skinny South Dakota kid with long hair, a rock and roll band, divorced parents and an alcoholic father. In all the familiar ways, he was on the road to nowhere until a professor, who envisioned his future as the household name he would... |
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Diary of a Madman: The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap
Scarface - It Books
Format: Print book
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From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface, comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop changed the life of a kid from the south side of Houston, and how he rose to the top-and ushered in a new generation of rap dominance. Scarface is the celebrated rapper whose hits include... |
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Just Between Us
Mario Lopez - Celebra
Format: Hardcover
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With a star that rose from unforgettable child acting roles, such as A. C. Slater in Saved by the Bell, to the forefront of today's entertainment media, Mario Lopez is nothing short of a pop culture sensation.Now, as he turns forty, Mario looks back on his life with a newfound perspective... |
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The Chef Next Door: A Pro Chef's Recipes for Fun, Fearless Home Cooking
Amanda Freitag - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Improve your confidence and add joy to your home cooking with this beautiful, practical, full-color cookbook filled with information, techniques, and more than 100 recipes from the Food Network favorite and critically acclaimed chef of New York's Empire Diner restaurant.Amanda Freitag... |
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The World's Great Wonders: How They Were Made & Why They Are Amazing
Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet
Format: Paperback
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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*Go beyond the visual spectacle of the world's 50 greatest wonders, and discover what makes them such amazing places. With stunning images and expert illustrations, experience and appreciate the most famous sights on earth... |
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Prairie Style Weddings: Rustic and Romantic Farm, Woodland, and Garden Celebrations
Fifi O'Neill - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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Rustic barns and gardens are popular settings for the intimate, personalized weddings that are todays top trend. Stylist Fifi ONeill knows how to transform such venues into gorgeous prairie style celebrations that seamlessly blend ruggedness and elegance. This beautifully illustrated look-book... |
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The Italians
John Hooper - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover? John Hooper's entertaining and perceptive... |
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A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World
Daniel Goleman - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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For more than half a century, in such books as The Art of Happiness and The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace, the Dalai Lama has guided us along the path to compassion and taught us how to improve our inner lives. In A Force for Good, with the help of his longtime friend Daniel... |
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Caitlin Doughty - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession.Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty -- a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre -- took a job at a crematory,... |
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100 Questions & Answers About Lung Cancer
Joan H. Schiller - Jones & Bartlett Learning
Format: Paperback
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EMPOWER YOURSELF! No one with lung cancer needs to be alone in their fight against this disease. 100 Questions & Answers About Lung Cancer, Third Edition, guides patients and their families through diagnosis, treatment and survivorship. Providing both the doctor's and patient's... |
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2015 North American Coins & Prices: A Guide to U.S., Canadian and Mexican Coins
David Harper - Krause Publications; Twenty fourth Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Your all-in-one guide! Featuring more than 50,000 individual coin listings and updated coin prices for the United States, Canada and Mexico, North American Coins & Prices is the perfect all-in-one guide for coin collectors, enthusiasts and dealers. Organized by country, denomination... |
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Laurence Bergreen - Harper Perennial
Format: Print book
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Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen entwines a variety of candid, firsthand... |
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Ain't It Time We Said Goodbye: The Rolling Stones on the Road to Exile
Robert Greenfield - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Although they did not know it then, when the Rolling Stones embarked on their farewell tour of Great Britain in March 1971 after having announced they were about to go into tax exile in the south of France, it was the end of an era. For the Stones, nothing would ever be the same again.For... |
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My Boy, Ben: A Story of Love, Loss and Grace
David Wheaton - Tristan Pub
Format: Hardcover
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My Boy, Ben is the true story of David Wheatons close companionship with an unforgettable yellow Lab named Ben. The journey begins with David pursuing his dream on the professional tennis tour yet facing the reality that his desire to get a dog will not be possible while being on the road... |
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Stuffocation: Why We've Had Enough of Stuff and Need Experience More Than Ever
James Wallman - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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Stuffocation is a movement manifesto for "experiential" living, a call to arms to stop accumulating stuff and start accumulating experiences, and a road map for a new way forward with the potential to transform our lives.Reject materialism. Embrace experientialism. Live more with... |
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Advertising Transformed: The New Rules for the Digital Age
Fons Van Dyck - Kogan Page Limited
Format: Paperback
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Framing advertising as an essential part of marketing strategy, this book offers strategic answers to questions marketers and managers have about the effectiveness of advertising in the digital age. The author synthesizes the latest thinking about advertising into a digestible list of rules... |
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Born with Teeth: A Memoir
Kate Mulgrew - Little, Brown and Company,
Format: Large Print Hardcover
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Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies, young Kate saw the consequences... |
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Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard
John Branch - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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"Shows us, in tender detail, a life consumed by our unholy appetites." -- Steve Almond, New York Times Book Review The tragic death of hockey star Derek Boogaard at twenty-eight was front-page news across the country in 2011 and helped shatter the silence about violence and concussions... |
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Me, Myself, and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being
Brian R Little PhD - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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How does your personality shape your life ? and what, if anything, can you do about it? Are you hardwired for happiness, or born to brood? Do you think youre in charge of your future, or do you surf the waves of unknowable fate? Would you be happier, or just less socially adept, if you were... |
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100 Ideas that Changed the Web
Jim Boulton - Laurence King Publishing
Format: Book
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This innovative title looks at the history of the Web from its early roots in the research projects of the US government to the interactive online world we know and use today.Fully illustrated with images of early computing equipment and the inside story of the online world's movers... |
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Potter Craft Books-Once Upon A Knit
Genevieve Miller - Random House Inc
Format: Paperback
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RANDOM HOUSE-Potter Craft Books Once Upon A Knit Iconic fairy- tale characters from storybooks movies and television inspire this collection of magical knitting patterns perfect for modern knights villains and princesses This book contains twenty-eight grimm and glamorous fairy-tale projects... |
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LGBTQ Athletes Claim the Field: Striving for Equality
Kirstin Cronn-Mills - Twenty-First Century Books
Format: Print book
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In 2015, the world watched as soccer star Abby Wambach kissed her wife after the US women's World Cup victory. Milwaukee Brewers' minor league first baseman David Denson came out as gay. And Caitlyn (born Bruce) Jenner, an Olympic decathlete, came out as transgender. It hasn't... |
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Garden Projects: 25 Easy-to-Build Wood Structures & Ornaments
Roger Marshall - W W Norton
Format: Paperback
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Garden Projects gives you a range of plans for useful and ornamental additions to your garden. Each project is fully explained, with detailed step-by-step descriptions and illustrations to guide you through. Garden Projects suit your needs and abilities, from practical and simple raised... |
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Weeknight Wonders: Delicious, Healthy Dinners in 30 Minutes or Less
Ellie Krieger - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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Beloved Food Network and Cooking Channel star Ellie Krieger knows the secret to healthy eating: it has to be delicious. You won't eat right if you feel deprived. WEEKNIGHT WONDERS offers 150 recipes for your favorite foods, as delicious as ever, yet magically reworked without all the fat and cholesterol.... |
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Plenty Ladylike: A Memoir
Claire McCaskill - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The female senator from Missouri shares her inspiring story of embracing her ambition, surviving sexist slings, making a family, losing a husband, outsmarting her enemies - and finding joy along the way.Claire McCaskill grew up in a political family, but not at a time that welcomed women... |
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Breathing Room: Open Your Heart by Decluttering Your Home
Lauren Rosenfeld - Atria Books/Beyond Words
Format: Paperback
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Bless your clutter. Yes, you heard right: Bless it. Bless everything in your life that is superfluous, broken, burdensome, and overwhelming—because it is all here to teach you an important lesson, perhaps the most important lesson there is: what really matters. Everyone’s lives... |
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How to Cook Like a Southerner: Classic Recipes from the South's Best Down-Home Cooks
Johnnie Gabriel - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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Johnnie Gabriel knows a thing or two about cooking for Southerners The author of two cookbooks Cooking in the South and Second Helpings does it every day at Gabrielxs her restaurant and bakery in Marietta Georgia In How to Cook Like a Southerner Gabriel isnxt just sharing her recipes shexs... |
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"They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide
Ronald Grigor Suny - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by ninety percent--more... |
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Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters
Jason A. Ramos - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature's blazes.Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier... |
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Animal Architecture
Ingo Arndt - Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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Every day, all over the world, animals and insects set about the purposeful tasks of designing their homes, catching their prey, and attracting their mates. In the process they create gorgeous nests, shelters, and habitats. Capturing 120 of these wonders in all their beauty and complexity,... |
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The Flower Farmer's Year: How to Grow Cut Flowers for Pleasure and Profit
Georgie Newbery - Uit Cambridge Ltd
Format: Hardcover
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The Flower Farmer's Year is a light, entertaining look at how to plant, maintain, and keep evolving a productive cut-flower garden. Whether you want to devote a corner of your garden to a stand of sweet peas and some cosmos, take up flower production for gate sales, or make a livelihood... |
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Rhythm of the Wild: A Life Inspired by Alaska's Denali National Park
Kim Heacox - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of the Wild, an Alaska memoir focused on Denali National Park. Music runs through every page of this book, as do stories, rivers and wolves. At its heart, Rhythm of the Wild... |
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Bigger Than the Game: Restitching a Major League Life
Dirk Hayhurst - Citadel
Format: Paperback
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Old demons together with new enemies and a season ending-- possibly career ending-- injury look to knock Hayhurst out of baseball forever. Isolated from his family, broken, and branded a traitor by his teammates for writing inside the locker room, Hayhurst finds himself at a crossroads:... |
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Camille Styles Entertaining: Inspired Gatherings and Effortless Style
Camille Styles - William Morrow Cookbooks
Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeous, full-color guide filled with more than 150 color photos, 75 stress-free recipes, and creative entertaining ideas from a celebrated Austin-based blogger, event stylist, and lifestyle expert, offering inspired ideas and step-by-step instructions to help readers plan unforgettable... |
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Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace
Nikil Saval - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the worlds workour workgets done. From Bartleby the Scrivener to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating,... |
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The Smartphone: Anatomy of an Industry
Elizabeth Woyke - The New Press
Format: Print book
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We think we know everything about our smartphones. We use them constantly. We depend on them for every conceivable purpose. We are familiar with every inch of their compact frames. But there is more to the smartphone than meets the eye. How have smartphones shaped the way we socialize and interact... |
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Wrestling for My Life: The Legend, the Reality, and the Faith of a WWE Superstar
David Thomas - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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In Wrestling for My Life, WWE superstar Shawn Michaels shares from his heart about the highs and lows of his life inside the WWE. Included are some never-before-shared stories and an intimate look into his career as well as stories of hunting, family, and faith. With millions of fans, Michaels... |
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A Teacup Collection: Paintings of Porcelain Treasures
Kathleen Morris - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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In paintings as pretty as the porcelain they depict, this gift book celebrates one of the finest teacup collections in the world the 300-piece archive of the Clark Art Institute, which dates back to the eighteenth century and represents coveted designs of the day from Europe and China.... |
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The Absolute Best Dump Cake Cookbook: More Than 60 Tasty Dump Cakes
Rockridge Press - Rockridge Press
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL & USA TODAY BESTSELLER Recipes so easy, it's dangerous. With The Absolute Best Dump Cake Cookbook, you can bake an outrageously tasty dump cake with almost no effort. Just dump your ingredients in the pan and bake! Whether you're... |
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Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History
Donald E. Canfield - Princeton University Pres
Format: Hardcover
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The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield--one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth... |
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Rock, Meet Window: A Father-Son Story
Jason Good - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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A funny and poignant memoir that delves into the magic, fails, and meaning of fatherhood. Humorist and family-man Jason Good is an only child with an atypical story to tell. His isnt the usual rant about how hard it is to be a modern father or a tale about a damaging relationship with his father.... |
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The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2016
Bob Sehlinger - Unofficial Guides
Format: Paperback
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Compiled and written by a team of experienced researchers whose work has been cited by such diverse sources as USA Today and Operations Research Forum, The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World digs deeper and offers more than any other guide. The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World explains... |
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Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom?
Akeel Bilgrami - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional experience. Their discussion of threats to freedom... |
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Fresh from the Farm: A Year of Recipes and Stories
Susie Middleton - Taunton Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Written by the “Queen of Fresh” Susie Middleton, Fresh from the Farm goes beyond traditional “fresh” cookbooks by sharing the engaging story of one woman’s quest for a simpler life. Susie gave up her high-powered corporate job, bought a farm on a rural... |
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On My Own Two Feet: From Losing My Legs to Learning the Dance of Life
Amy Purdy - William Morrow; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Amy Purdy, who inspired a nation on Dancing with the Stars and has been called a hero by Oprah Winfrey, reveals the intimate details of her triumphant comeback from the brink of death to making history as a Paralympic snowboarder.In this poignant and uplifting memoir, Dancing With the Stars... |
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Zooburbia: Meditations on the Wild Animals Among Us
Tai Moses - Parallax Press
Format: Paperback
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Every animal has a story.In ZOOBURBIA, urban naturalist Tai Moses launches a lively exploration into "the extraordinary, unruly, half-wild realm where human and animal lives overlap." The author's woodsy backyard at the base of the Oakland hills becomes a laboratory for encounters... |
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1000 Record Covers
Michael Ochs - Taschen
Format: Hardcover
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Jacket madness: A splendid collection of album art from the 1960s to the 90s Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period,... |
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Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life
Peter Ackroyd - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover
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A brief yet definitive new biography of one of film's greatest legends: perfect for readers who want to know more about the iconic star but who don't want to commit to a lengthy work.He was the very first icon of the silver screen and is one of the most recognizable of Hollywood faces,... |
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Katrina: After the Flood
Gary Rivlin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana - on August 29, 2005 - journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm's immediate damage, the city of New Orleans's efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm's lasting effects not just on the city's geography... |
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Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
Kelly Corrigan - Ballantine
Format: Book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the author of The Middle Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond - sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine - between mothers and daughters. When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized... |
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Driving Hungry: A Memoir
Layne Mosler - Pantheon Books
Format: Hardcover
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A delicious memoir that takes us from Buenos Aires to New York to Berlin as the author, driven by wanderlust and an unrelenting appetite, finds purpose, passion, and unexpected flavor. After putting her dream of opening her own restaurant on hold, Layne Mosler moves to Buenos Aires to write... |
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Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead
Rosabeth Moss Kanter - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"America has been waiting for a call to think big and act big as we envision our transportation future. Kanter's important book is it." -- Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts, 2007 -- 2015Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays... |
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The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter
Greg Toppo - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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What if schools, from the wealthiest suburban nursery school to the grittiest urban high school, thrummed with the sounds of deep immersion? More and more people believe that can happen - with the aid of video games. Greg Toppo's The Game Believes in You presents the story of a small... |
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Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think
Paul Dolan - Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover
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This is not just another happiness book. In Happiness by Design, happiness and behavior expert Paul Dolan combines the latest insights from economics and psychology to illustrate that in order to be happy we must behave happy Our happiness is experiences of both pleasure and purpose over... |
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The Agent: My 40-Year Career Making Deals and Changing the Game
Leigh Steinberg - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller!The real-life "Jerry Maguire," superagent Leigh Steinberg shares his personal stories on the rise, fall, and redemption of his game-changing career in the high-stakes world of professional sportsLeigh Steinberg is renowned as one of the greatest sports... |
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The Quarterback Whisperer: How to Build an Elite NFL Quarterback
Bruce Arians - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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What is an elite NFL QB and what separates that player from the others? One answer is the coach they share. In the recent history of the biggest game on earth, one man is the common thread that connects several of the very best in the sport: Peyton Manning; Ben Roethlisberger; Andrew Luck;... |
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The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes
Judith Flanders - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The 500-year story of how, and why, our homes have come to be what they are, from the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Murder and The Victorian CityThe idea that "home" is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true... |
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After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information Age
Ronald Goldfarb - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Was Edward Snowden a patriot or a traitor? Just how far do American privacy rights extend?And how far is too far when it comes to government secrecy in the name of security? These are just a few of the questions that have dominated American consciousness since Edward Snowden exposed the breath... |
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The Well-Tuned Brain: Neuroscience and the Life Well Lived
Peter C. Whybrow - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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In this optimistic and inspiring book, Peter Whybrow, the prize-winning author of American Mania, returns to offer a prescription for genuine human progress.The Well-Tuned Brain is a call to action. Swept along by the cascading advances of today's technology, most of us take for granted... |
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200 Tips, Techniques, and Recipes for Natural Beauty
Shannon Buck - Fair Winds Press
Format: Print book
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Many of today's beauty products contain harmful chemicals and other additives that most of us don't even know about - and if we did, we wouldn't use them--no more. With 200 Tips, Techniques, and Recipes for Natural Beauty you'll learn all that you need to know to make your... |
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The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle
Francisco Goldman - Grove Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Coming off the most successful book of a decorated career - Say Her Name - The Interior Circuit is Francisco Goldman's timely and provocative journey into the heart of Mexico City.The Interior Circuit is Goldman's story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife's... |
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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
Karen Armstrong - Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence. For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in American. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11perception: that faith in general... |
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Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America
Bill Schelly - Fantagraphics; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This biography reveals the true story of Mad creator Harvey Kurtzmanthe man who revolutionized humor in America it features new interviews with his colleagues Hugh Hefner, Robert Crumb, and others. Harvey Kurtzman created Mad, and Mad revolutionized humor in America. Kurtzman was the original... |
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Struck By Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
Jason Padgett - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of an ordinary man who was transformed when a traumatic injury left him with an extraordinary giftNo one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal... |
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1865: America Makes War and Peace in Lincoln’s Final Year
Harold Holzer - Southern Illinois University Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1865 Americans faced some of the most important issues in the nation’s history: the final battles of the Civil War, the struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, the peace process, reconstruction, the role of freed slaves, the tragedy of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the trials... |
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My Autistic Awakening: Unlocking the Potential for a Life Well Lived
Rachael Lee Harris - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Rachael Lee Harris spent her early childhood locked in an autistic fog until beginning her journey from a fragmented world to one in which things began to make sense. Rachael's determination to take her place in society led her down many paths, from beauty therapist to Catholic nun,... |
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Your Legacy: The Greatest Gift
James Dobson - FaithWords
Format: Hardcover
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We live in a culture that seeks to destroy the embryonic faith of our children and usher them into politically correct ideology, godless systems of belief, and gross immorality that would have shocked previous generations. This is what confronts todays Christian parents and many of them... |
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John Lennon: The Collected Artwork
Scott Gutterman - Insight Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Over the course of John Lennon’s career, his work as an artist expressed the societal themes that touched his life. Until now, little of this work has been seen in one place. For the first time, John Lennon: The Collected Artwork offers a captivating history of Lennon’s visionary... |
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The cause of all nations : an international history of the American Civil War
Don Harrison Doyle - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance-that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered... |
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