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The Old Farmer's Almanac 2019
Bill Cosby · Old Farmer's Almanac
Pages: 304
Format: Audiobook
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It's another new year celebrating everything under the Sun, including the Moon, with The Old Farmer's Almanac, America's oldest continuously published periodical! Always timely, topical, and distinctively "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor," the Almanac has been... |
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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
Steven Greenhouse · Knopf
Pages: 416
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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Howard Stern Comes Again
Howard Stern · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 560
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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Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy
Benjamin Balint · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
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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Storey's Guide to Raising Turkeys, 3rd Edition: Breeds * Care * Marketing
Don Schrider · Storey Publishing, LLC; 3rd edition
Format: Paperback
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Here is everything you need to know to raise turkeys successfully, from selecting the right breeds to housing, feeding, breeding, health care, marketing, and much more. This all-new edition of the best-selling classic covers a wide range of breeds, humane raising practices, pastured feeding... |
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Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing
Issa Kohler-Hausmann · Princeton University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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An in-depth look at the consequences of New York City's dramatically expanded policing of low-level offensesFelony conviction and mass incarceration attract considerable media attention these days, yet the most common criminal-justice encounters are for misdemeanors, not felonies, and the most... |
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Becoming an Academic: How to Get through Grad School and Beyond
Inger Mewburn · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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Welcome to the university, where the Academic Hunger Games, fueled by precarious employment conditions, is the new reality: a perpetual jostle for short-term contracts and the occasional plum job. But Inger Mewburn is here to tell you that life doesn't have to be so grim. A veteran... |
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ACCUPLACER For Dummies with Online Practice
Mark Zegarelli · For Dummies
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback
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Get on the right college path with the next-generation ACCUPLACER The next-generation ACCUPLACER is a compilation of computerized assessments that's designed to evaluate a student's skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and computer abilities. Next-generation ACCUPLACER determines... |
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Tower Dog: Life Inside the Deadliest Job in America
DOUGLAS SCOTT DELANEY · Soft Skull Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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What is the price of staying connected, of that phone in your hand or that watch on your wrist? Recent TV shows would have you believe that the most dangerous job in America is a crab fisherman, or maybe even an ice road trucker. But what U.S. Department of Labor unequivocally recognizes... |
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LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
P W Singer · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the internet. Terrorists... |
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Going Deep: John Philip Holland and the Invention of the Attack Submarine
Lawrence Goldstone · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The controversial history of the attack submarine -- and the story of its colorful creator, John Philip Holland -- that reveals how this imaginative invention changed the face of modern warfare. From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to The Hunt for Red October, readers the world over... |
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The Wild and the Wicked: On Nature and Human Nature
Benjamin Hale · The MIT Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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Most of us think that in order to be environmentalists, we have to love nature. Essentially, we should be tree huggers -- embracing majestic redwoods, mighty oaks, graceful birches, etc. We ought to eat granola, drive hybrids, cook tofu, and write our appointments in Sierra Club calendars.... |
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