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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
Jane Sherron De Hart - Knopf
Format: Book
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In this comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg's passion for justice.
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Nursing School Entrance Exams: HESI A2 / NLN PAX-RN / PSB-RN / RNEE / TEAS
Sandra S. Swick R.N. B.C. - Barrons Educational Series
Format: Paperback
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Barron's Nursing School Entrance Exams provides detailed review and practice materials that you need to achieve success on the various Nursing School Entrance Exams (including the HESI A2, NLN PAX-RN, PSB-RN, RNEE, and the TEAS) . This edition features:A multi-part exam that covers... |
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Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
Rachel Botsman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust?From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust--far from it. In this revolutionary book, world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipping... |
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What You Don't Know about Leadership, But Probably Should: Applications to Daily Life
JEFFREY KOTTLER - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Leadership is not just for CEOs--we all find ourselves in leadership positions at one time or another, whether in meetings and classes or at social events and family gatherings. And yet, even though leadership is the single most studied aspect of all human behavior, there remains a scarcity... |
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Nicholas A. Christakis - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover
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"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Bruni, New York Times) , Blueprint shows how and why evolution has placed us on a humane... |
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The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist
Julien Gorbach - Purdue University Press
Format: Paperback
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2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist for Biography.Ben Hecht had seen his share of death-row psychopaths, crooked ward bosses, and Capone gun thugs by the time he had come of age as a crime reporter in gangland Chicago. His grim experience with what he called "the soul of man"... |
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Graduate & Professional Programs: An Overview 2019
Peterson's - Peterson's
Format: Hardcover
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Peterson's Graduate & Professional Programs: An Overview 2019 contains more than 2,250 university and college profiles with detailed information on the degrees available, enrollment figures, tuition, financial support, housing, faculty, research affiliations, library facilities,... |
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The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
Timothy C. Winegard - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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**The instant New York Times bestseller.***An international bestseller.*"Hugely impressive, a major work." - NPRA pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia,... |
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TASC Prep: 2 Practice Tests Proven Strategies Online
Kaplan Test Prep - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Kaplan's TASC Prep, 5th edition, provides expert strategies, online practice, and video tutorials to help you pass all five subject areas on the test. Our book and online resources are designed for self-study so you can prep at your own pace, on your own schedule. Kaplan is so certain... |
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Superpower: One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy
Russell Gold - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The author of The Boom, "the best all-around book yet on fracking" (San Francisco Chronicle) , turns his attention to renewable energy pioneer Michael Skelly, whose innovations, struggle, and persistence represent the groundbreaking changes underway in American... |
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Apollo's Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings
Roger D. Launius - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon.President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group... |
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Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis
Daniel W Webster - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback
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The staggering toll of gun violence -- which claims 31,000 U.S. lives each year -- is an urgent public health issue that demands an effective evidence-based policy response.The Johns Hopkins University convened more than 20 of the world's leading experts on gun violence and policy to summarize... |
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Finding and Using U.S. Government Information
Bethany Latham - R & L
Format: Paperback
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The United States Federal Government produces a massive trove of valuable information - but these resources are often difficult to locate and utilize, requiring the addition of another layer of cognizance and expertise to the librarian's traditional skill set. Finding and UsingU.S.... |
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When Should Law Forgive?
Martha Minow - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The potential power of forgiveness in an age of resentment.Crimes and violations of the law require punishment, and our legal system is set up to punish, but what if the system was recalibrated to also weigh grounds for forgiveness? What if something like bankruptcy -- a fresh start for debtors... |
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Probability Demystified 2/E
Allan G Bluman - McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Stack the odds in your favor for mastering probability Don't leave your knowledge of probability to chance. Instead, turn to Probability Demystified, Second Edition, for learning fundamental concepts and theories step-by-step. This practical guide eases you into the subject of probability... |
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Mosby's 2019 Nursing Drug Reference, 32e
LINDA SKIDMORE-ROTH - Mosby
Format: Paperback
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Put the most trusted name in nursing in your hands. Mosby's 2019 Nursing Drug Reference is a full-color portable nursing drug handbook that makes it easy to find the most vital information on the drugs that nurses administer most frequently. More than 5,000 drugs are profiled in the text... |
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What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know
E.D. Hirsch Jr. - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
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Help your child exceed the Common Core standards with the revised and updated What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know Designed for use by parents and teachers, this groundbreaking first volume in the Core Knowledge Series provides kindergartners with the fundamentals they need to prepare... |
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
David Reich - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking book about how technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing controversies.Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze... |
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Puppies For Dummies
Sarah Hodgson - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Everything you need to bring home a new puppy Across America and beyond, tails are wagging with anticipation. Why? Because puppies and the people who love them are eager for the update of Puppies for Dummies. Originally released and welcomed as a positive, loving alternative... |
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Three Women
Lisa Taddeo - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Extraordinary ... A nonfiction literary masterpiece ... I can't remember the last time a book affected me as profoundly as Three Women." - Elizabeth Gilbert "The hottest book of the summer ... Groundbreaking ... Breathtaking ... Staggeringly... |
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Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we - and the planet we inhabit - could not survive without them.Insects comprise roughly half of the animal kingdom. They live everywhere - deep inside caves, 18,000 feet high in the Himalayas, inside computers,... |
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Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy
Benjamin Balint - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the international struggle to preserve Kafka's literary legacy.Kafka's Last Trial begins with Kafka's last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring... |
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The Earth Gazers: On Seeing Ourselves
CHRISTOPHER POTTER - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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It will soon be the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned mission to the moon, when men first saw for themselves the Earth as a sphere falling through space -- they saw a world without borders and these images continue to give hope and inspire.Only twenty-four people have seen the whole... |
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The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
Christian Davenport - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes... |
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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
Steven Greenhouse - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the longtime New York Times labor correspondent, an in-depth look at working men and women in America, the challenges they face, and how they can be re-empoweredIn an era when corporate profits have soared while wages have flatlined, millions of Americans are searching for ways to improve... |
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Defying Reality: The Inside Story of the Virtual Reality Revolution
David M Ewalt - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating exploration of the history, development, and future of virtual reality, a technology with world-changing potential, written by award-winning journalist and author David Ewalt, stemming from his 2015 Forbes cover story about the Oculus Rift and its creator Palmer Luckey.You've... |
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How to Fight Anti-Semitism
Bari Weiss - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country - and explains what we can do to defeat it. "Stunning . . . Bari Weiss is heroic, fearless, brilliant and big-hearted. Most importantly,... |
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Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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The phenomenal bestseller about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs from the author of the acclaimed biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert EinsteinBased on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two yearsas well as interviews with more than family members friends adversaries... |
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Laika's Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog
Kurt Caswell - Trinity University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported that Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth, had survived in space for seven days, providing valuable data that would make future manned... |
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Howard Stern Comes Again
Howard Stern - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Rock stars and rap gods. Comedy legends and A-list actors. Supermodels and centerfolds. Moguls and mobsters. A president. Over his unrivaled four-decade career in radio, Howard Stern has interviewed thousands of personalities - discussing sex, relationships, money, fame, spirituality,... |
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Estate Planning Basics
Denis Clifford Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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This book provides concise, straightforward, and easy to read information about the major components of estate planning " without going into endless detail about arcane options that apply only to the wealthy. Topics include: choosing beneficiaries estate planning by parents with... |
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Brooklyn: The Once and Future City
Thomas Campanella - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades -- celebrated and scorned... |
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville... |
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Graduate Programs in the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences 2019
Peterson's - Peterson's
Format: Hardcover
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Peterson's Graduate Programs in the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences 2019 contains details on more than 10,800 graduate programs of study across all relevant disciplines-including the arts and architecture, communications and media, psychology and counseling, political science... |
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CDL - Commercial Driver's License Exam, 6th Ed.
MATT MOSHER - Research & Education Association
Format: Paperback
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REA's Commercial Driver's License (CDL) Test Prep Puts You in the Driver's Seat!Updated 6th EditionLooking to get your CDL and start a new and profitable career REA can get you headed in the right direction!... |
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Energy: A Human History
RICHARD RHODES - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond.People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power... |
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Space Atlas, Second Edition: Mapping the Universe and Beyond
James Trefil - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Space Atlas combines updated maps, lavish photographs, and elegant illustrations to chart the solar system, the universe, and beyond. For space enthusiasts, science lovers, and star gazers, here is the newly revised edition of National Geographic's enduring guide to space, with a new introduction... |
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The Idle Beekeeper: The Low-Effort, Natural Way to Raise Bees
Bill Anderson - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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From building a hive to harvesting honey, a top urban beekeeper shares how to care for bees the simple, mindful way. Global bee populations have been rapidly declining for years, and it's not just our honey supply that's at stake: the contribution of bees to the pollination of crops... |
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Invisible People: Stories of Lives at the Margins
Alex Tizon - Temple University Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Somewhere in the tangle of the subject's burden and the subject's desire is your story." - Alex Tizon Every human being has an epic story. The late Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alex Tizon told the epic stories of marginalized people - from lonely immigrants struggling... |
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Starting & Building a Nonprofit: A Practical Guide
Peri Pakroo - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Build a great nonprofit More people than ever are committing themselves to serving their communities and changing the world. Whether you're aiming to protect the environment, support the arts, or help people in need, understanding how to set up a solid nonprofit organization is a great... |
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Japan Travel Guide: Things I Wish I'D Known Before Going To Japan
Ken Fukuyama - Independently published
Format: Paperback
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Want to experience Japan at its fullest potential without spending tons of your precious time on a monstrous 800 pages travel guide? Then, "Things I Wish I'D Known Before Going to Japan" is all you need! In this book, Yuki Fukuyama and Ken Fukuyama will share with you: The ultimate... |
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Another Good Dog: One Family and Fifty Foster Dogs
Cara Sue Achterberg - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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When Cara felt her teenaged children slipping away and saw an empty nest on the horizon, she decided the best way to fill that void was with dogs - lots of them - and so her foster journey began. In 2015, her Pennsylvania farm became a haven for Operation Paws for Homes. There were the nine... |
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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
Ian Urbina - Vintage
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the worlds oceans: too big to police, and under... |
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Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
KATHRYN MILES - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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A journey around the United States in search of the truth about the threat of earthquakes leads to spine-tingling discoveries, unnerving experts, and ultimately the kind of preparations that will actually help guide us through disasters. It's a road trip full of surprises. Earthquakes.... |
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Spaceflight, 2nd Edition: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiousity
Giles Sparrow - DK
Format: Hardcover
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This compelling story of exploration charts and celebrates humankind in space, from Sputnik's launch in 1957 through the Apollo Moon landings and the International Space Station to future missions to Mars and beyond.Spaceflight chronicles how, in the half-century that followed Sputnik,... |
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The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees: Library Edition
Meredith May - Blackstone Pub
Format: Audiobook
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An extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather and one of nature's most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care... |
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Fiske Guide to Colleges 2020
Edward Fiske - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback(36th Revised ed.)
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"The best college guide you can buy." -- USA TodayEvery college and university has a story, and no one tells those stories like former New York Times education editor Edward B. Fiske. That's why, for more than 35 years, the Fiske Guide to Colleges has been the leading guide... |
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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Jodi Kantor - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer-prize winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movementOn October 5, 2017, the New... |
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