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The Snowden Reader
David P. Fidler - Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover
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When Edward Snowden began leaking NSA documents in June 2013, his actions sparked impassioned debates about electronic surveillance, national security, and privacy in the digital age. The Snowden Reader looks at Snowden's disclosures and their aftermath. Critical analyses by experts... |
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Native America and the Question of Genocide
Alex Alvarez - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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Did Native Americans suffer genocide? This controversial question lies at the heart of Native America and the Question of Genocide. After reviewing the various meanings of the word "genocide," author Alex Alvarez examines a range of well-known examples, such as the Sand Creek... |
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Getting Away with Murder: Benazir Bhutto's Assassination and the Politics of Pakistan
Heraldo MunÌ?oz - W W Norton & Co Inc
Format: Hardcover
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By the lead commissioner of the UN investigation, an authoritative account of Benazir Bhutto's assassination. On December 27, 2007, a suicide bomber killed Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan. Brilliant and charismatic, the head of a political family as important to Pakistani... |
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On Tocqueville: Democracy and America
Alan Ryan - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Hardcover
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Tocqueville’s gifts as an observer and commentator on American life and democracy are brought to vivid life in this splendid volume. In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville, who first journeyed to the United... |
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Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
Rachel Hope Cleves - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America. But as Rachel Hope Cleves demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marriage is hardly new. Born in 1777,... |
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Autobiography of Malcolm X
Ray Shepard - Cliffs Notes
Format: Paperback
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This is the story of a man who lived several distinct chapters of a great American life. From petty criminal to defiant race rights fighter to leader of the Black Muslim movement, his life story is provocative and engrossing.
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What Philosophy Can Do
Gary Gutting - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A leading American philosopher brings the tools of his trade to contentious contemporary debates.How can we have meaningful debates with political opponents? How can we distinguish reliable science from over-hyped media reports? How can we talk sensibly about God?In What Philosophy Can Do, Gary... |
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The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages
Robert Fossier - Princeton University Press; hardcover edition
Format: Print book
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In The Axe and the Oath, one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people. Writing for general readers, Robert Fossier vividly describes how these vulnerable people confronted life,... |
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Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War
Paul Jankowski - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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At seven o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next ten hours, twelve hundred German guns showered shells on a salient in French lines. The massive weight of explosives collapsed dugouts, obliterated trenches, severed communication... |
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In Brown's Wake: Legacies of America's Educational Landmark
Martha Minow - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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What is the legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education? While it is well known for establishing racial equality as a central commitment of American schools, the case also inspired social movements for equality in education across all lines of difference, including language, gender, disability,... |
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The French Revolution 1787-1804
P. M. Jones - Routledge; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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The French Revolution can be seen as an enormous explosion of civic energy with huge ramifications for the rest of the world. In this balanced and accessible account, P.M Jones: Considers the build-up of pressure between 1787 and 1789 as the power of the ancien régime began... |
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100 Essential Silent Film Comedies
James Roots - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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From the moment films were first produced, comedy has been a key feature of cinema. From just before the turn of the twentieth century until the early 1930s, audiences celebrated the brilliant humor of cinematic clowns who left their marks forever. We still remember - and laugh at - the hilarious... |
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Getting to Know Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Early Child Development
Kyra Karmiloff - Carroll & Brown Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Useful and unique insights into the psychology, behavior, and development of babies—perfect for any new parent Babies arrive in the world already equipped with many skills, reflexes, and instincts that help them adapt to and influence their environment as well as the people who fill... |
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Good Naked: Reflections on How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier
Joni B. Cole - UPNE
Format: Paperback
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In Good Naked, acclaimed author Joni B. Cole shows readers how to make the writing process not only more productive, but less maddening, more inviting, and even joyful, at least a good part of the time. She explains how sharing early drafts is "good naked" - you're exposing... |
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Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat
Barry Estabrook - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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An eye-opening investigation of the commercial pork industry and an inspiring alternative to the way pigs are raised and consumed in America.Barry Estabrook, author of the New York Times bestseller Tomatoland and a writer of "great skill and compassion" (Eric Schlosser) , now explores... |
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Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923
R. F. Foster - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful history of Ireland’s Easter Rising told through the lives of ordinary people who forged a revolutionary generation.On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin’s streets to proclaim an independent republic. Ireland’s long struggle for self-government... |
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Pola Negri: Hollywood's First Femme Fatale
Mariusz Kotowski - The University Press of Kentucky; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pola Negri (1897--1987) rose from an impoverished childhood in Warsaw, Poland, to become one of early Hollywood's greatest stars. After tuberculosis ended her career as a ballerina in 1912, she turned to acting and worked under legendary directors Max Reinhardt and Ernst Lubitsch in Germany.... |
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QuickBooks 2016: The Missing Manual: The Official Intuit Guide to QuickBooks 2016
Bonnie Biafore - O'Reilly
Format: Print book
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How can you make your bookkeeping workflow smoother and faster? Simple. With QuickBooks 2016: The Missing Manual (which covers the Windows version of QuickBooks) , you're in control: you get step-by-step instructions on how and when to use specific features, along with basic bookkeeping... |
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Barrons SAT 1600: Revised for the NEW SAT
Linda Carnevale M.A. - Barrons Educational Series
Format: 5th Edition
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Students who are focusing on getting an exceptionally high or even perfect score on the SAT will want to get their hands on this guide. Barrons SAT 1600 is based on the new Spring 2016 SAT test. It takes students beyond standard test prep exercises, reviewing the rigorous coursework that... |
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Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work
Susan L. Mizruchi - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking work that reveals how Marlon Brando shaped his legacy in art and life. When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the movie star, the hunk, the scandals. In Brando's Smile, Susan L. Mizruchi reveals the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four... |
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The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today
Colin Dueck - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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By mid-2015, the Obama presidency will be entering its final stages, and the race among the successors in both parties will be well underway. And while experts have already formed a provisional understanding of the Obama administration's foreign policy goals, the shape of the "Obama... |
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The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
Florence Williams - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An intrepid investigation into nature's restorative benefits by a prize-winning author.For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while tromping over the heath; and Nikola Tesla... |
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The new librarianship field guide
R David Lankes - The MIT Press
Format: Print book
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This book offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chance to make a positive difference in their communities -- librarians who recognize that it is no longer enough to stand behind a desk waiting to serve. R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship,... |
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As I Lay Dying
James Lamar Roberts - Cliff's Notes
Format: Paperback
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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.CliffsNotes on As I Lay Dying takes you into the lives of not one, but several narrators in this novel about the value of life. The central problem... |
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Beyond the First Draft: The Art of Fiction
John Casey - W W Norton
Format: Hardcover
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For students and writers alike, a brilliant guide to the craft of writing by the National Book Award-winning author of Spartina. National Book Award winner John Casey is a masterful novelist who is also an inspiring and beloved teacher. In Beyond the First Draft he offers essential and original... |
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Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
Robert Darnton - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This absorbing history by a brilliant scholar and writer deepens our understanding of how censorship works. With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways. In eighteenth-century... |
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African American War Heroes
James B. Martin - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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African American war heroes remain largely unsung, their courage and valor relegated to the less traveled corners of history. This work seeks out those heroes - soldiers, sailors, flyers, and marines - who earned their nation's highest medals in defense of freedom and equality. Some... |
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Film Noir 101: The 101 Best Film Noir Posters From The 1940s-1950s
Mark Fertig - Fantagraphics; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This art book collects film noir posters and critical commentary, with a foreword by Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist). Collecting 101 noir movie posters of, arguably, the greatest noir films ever made (including classics The Maltese Falcon,... |
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In the Hour of Victory: The Royal Navy at War in the Age of Nelson
Sam Willis - W W Norton
Format: Hardcover
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The greatest victories from the British Navy's golden age, told through never-before-seen letters from the officers themselves. When Napoleon eventually died in exile, the Lords of the Admiralty ordered that the original dispatches from seven major fleet battles -- The Glorious First... |
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The Unbearable Heaviness of Governing: The Obama Administration in Historical Perspective
Morton Keller - Hoover Institution Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Taking a critical look at the realities that have shaped the first stage of Barack Obama's presidency, Morton Keller offers a history-focused examination of Obama's developing style of governing, with particular attention to his signature policies of the stimulus, financial, and health... |
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The Born Frees: Writing with the Girls of Gugulethu
Kimberly Burge - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A creative writing group unites and inspires girls of the first South African generation "born free."Born into post-apartheid South Africa, the young women of the townships around Cape Town still face daunting challenges. Their families and communities have been ravaged by poverty,... |
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Comprehensive Practice for the GED Test en Espanol
LLC LearningExpress - Learning Express (NY)
Format: Paperback
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Powerful practice is an indispensable part of any study plan - especially the GED Test, which is now tougher than ever. This Spanish-language version of LearningExpress's GED Test Power Practice offers access to two full-length exams with detailed answer explanations that mirror the redesigned... |
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1,001 GED Practice Questions For Dummies
Consumer Dummies. - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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1,001 practice opportunities for passing the GED test Ready to take the GED test? Get a head start on a high score with 1,001 GED Test Practice Questions For Dummies. Inside, you'll find 1,001 practice questions on all four sections of the GED test: Mathematical Reasoning, Science,... |
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Reimagined: 45 Years of Jewish Art
Mark Podwal - Glitterati Inc
Format: Print book
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Mark Podwal is today's premiere artist of the Jewish experience, with a prolific portfolio of work lauded by visionaries ranging from Elie Wiesel to Harold Bloom. His paintings and ink-on-paper drawings are not only beautiful but also offer profound and nuanced commentary on Jewish... |
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How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say--and What It Really Means
John Lanchester - W W Norton
Format: Hardcover
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An entertaining and indispensable guide to the language of finance and economics by the writer hailed for "explain[ing] complex stuff in a down-to-earth and witty style" (The Economist) .To those who don't speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable and its ideas... |
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The Campaign Manager: Running and Winning Local Elections
Catherine Shaw - Westview Press; Fifth Edition, Fifth Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Successful campaign manager and three-time mayor of Ashland, Oregon, Catherine Shaw presents a clear and concise, must-have handbook for navigating local campaigns. This handbook gives political novices and veterans alike a comprehensive and detailed plan for organizing, funding, publicizing,... |
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How to Write Anything: A Complete Guide
Laura Brown - W W Norton
Format: Hardcover
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A practical guide to everything you'll ever need to write -- at work, at school, and in your personal life. With more than two hundred how-to entries and easy-to-use models organized into three comprehensive sections on work, school, and personal life, How to Write Anything covers a wide... |
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Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies
Ann Hornaday - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Whether we are trying to impress a date after an art-house film screening or discussing Oscar nominations with friends, we all need ways to watch and talk about movies. But with so much variety between an Alfred Hitchcock thriller and a Nora Ephron romantic comedy, how can everyday viewers... |
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McGraw-Hill Education TEAS Review, Second Edition
CARA CANTARELLA - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Paperback
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Let McGraw-Hill Education help you excel on the TEAS!Achieving a high score on the TEAS can help you gain admission into the nursing school of your choice. This book provides you with the essential review of core subjects you need to excel on this important exam. Written by a test-prep... |
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Miró: The Experience of Seeing—Late Works, 1963–1981
Carmen Fern?ndez Aparicio - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This groundbreaking publication offers a reassessment of renowned modernist Joan Miró’s late-career works, created between 1963 and 1981. This body of work, almost entirely unknown in the United States, showcases Miró’s exceptional ingenuity as both a painter and sculptor.... |
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Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies
Martin Cohen - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Turbocharge your reasoning with Critical Thinking Just what are the ingredients of a great argument? What is the secret to communicating your ideas clearly and persuasively? And how do you see through sloppy thinking and flim-flam? If you ve ever asked any of these questions, then this... |
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The Self-Portrait : a Cultural History
James Hall - Thames et Hudson
Format: Book
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Focusing on a perennially popular subject, the book tells the vivid history of works that offer insights into artists personal, psychological, and creative worlds. Topics include the importance of the medieval mirror craze in early self-portraiture; the confessional self-portraits of Titian... |
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Joy Write: Cultivating High-Impact, Low-Stakes Writing
Ralph J Fletcher - Heinemann
Format: Paperback
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Nothing helps writers grow like practice. But not just any kind of practice will do. You've got to bring the joy! In Joy Write, beloved writer and teacher Ralph Fletcher shows you how. "A writer needs wide latitude so she can bring all her intelligence to the task," Ralph... |
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Give Me Liberty: Speakers and Speeches that Have Shaped America
Christopher L. Webber - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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Sure to become a classic of American oratorical history, ?Give Me Liberty reveals the enduring power of America's quest for a freer and more just society, and the context of the speeches and speakers -- from Daniel Webster and Patrick Henry to Martin Luther King and Ronald Reagan -- that... |
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Twilight of Abundance: Why Life in the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short
David Archibald - Regnery Publishing, Inc.
Format: Print book
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Baby boomers enjoyed the most benign period in human history: fifty years of relative peace, cheap energy, plentiful grain supply, and a warming climate due to the highest solar activity for 8,000 years. The party is over - prepare for the twilight of abundance.David Archibald reveals... |
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The GED Crash Course, 2E
ALPHA. - Alpha
Format: Paperback
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The next best thing to a personal GED tutor!Open new doors. That's exactly what earning your high school equivalency credential enables you to do. But the GED isn't a cake walk, and you can't expect to pass it without solid preparation.Fortunately, that's exactly what this... |
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The Presidency of George W. Bush: A First Historical Assessment
Julian E. Zelizer - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Presidency of George W. Bush brings together some of today's top American historians to offer the first in-depth look at one of the most controversial U.S. presidencies. Emotions surrounding the Bush presidency continue to run high--conservatives steadfastly defend its achievements,... |
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Crime and Punishment in America
Laura L Finley - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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Covering some of the most hotly contested topics in crime and criminal justice, including proposed sentencing and prison reforms, controversial developments like Stand Your Ground laws, and Supreme Court decisions, this work supplies essential background, current data, and a range of viewpoints... |
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Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
Danielle Allen - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Zcalo Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians "Danielle Allen lays bare the Declaration's history and significance, returning it to its true and rightful owners -- you and me."... |
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The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends
Miranda Aldhouse-Green - Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully produced guide to the world of Celtic mythology, bringing together archaeology, history, and fantastical stories to paint a vivid picture of Celtic heritage From gods, heroes, and monsters to Druids, sorcerers, and talking animals, TheCeltic Myths explores every aspect of Irish... |
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The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community
Marc J. Dunkelman - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping new look at the unheralded transformation that is eroding the foundations of American exceptionalism. Americans today find themselves mired in an era of uncertainty and frustration. The nation's safety net is pulling apart under its own weight; political compromise is viewed... |
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How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
Ruth Goodman - Liveright; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A delightful tour through the intimate details of life in Victorian England, told by a historian who has cheerfully endured them all. Ruth Goodman believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling... |
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The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century
David Reynolds - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2014 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History. "If you only read one book about the First World War in this anniversary year, read The Long Shadow. David Reynolds writes superbly and his analysis is compelling and original." -Anne Chisolm, Chair of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman... |
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Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling
David F. Labaree - Harvard University Press
Format: Book
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What do we really want from schools? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we want access and opportunity for all children—but all possible advantages for our own. So argues historian David Labaree in this provocative look at the way “this archetype of dysfunction... |
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Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
Janice P. Nimura - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Surprising and richly satisfying" (Megan Marshall) ; "beautifully crafted . . . subtle, polished, and poised" (Stacy Schiff) .In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help... |
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China
Jeffrey N Wasserstrom - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the present day. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China promises to be essential reading... |
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Aha!: The Moments of Insight that Shape Our World
William B. Irvine - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Great ideas often develop gradually after studying a problem at length--but not always. Sometimes, an insight hits like a bolt from the blue. For Archimedes, clarity struck while he was taking a bath. For Gustav Mahler, it came as the blades of his oars touched the water. And for Albert... |
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City of Rivals: Restoring the Glorious Mess of American Democracy
Jason Grumet - Globe Pequot Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Forty years ago the Watergate scandal deeply wounded Americans’ faith in government. Since then, good-government reformers and big-government opponents have been on a shared mission to make everything transparent. The problem is that too much light is scaring Congressmen away from... |
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Chinese Character Writing For Dummies
Consumer Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Learn to write 100 characters in Chinese Billions of people worldwide speak Chinese - and now you can learn to write 100 characters in the world's most-spoken language! Whether you're taking a course, looking to get ahead at work, or just want to up the ante when you're communicating with... |
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Open Heart: The Radical Surgeons who Revolutionized Medicine
David Cooper - Kaplan Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Open Heart tells the story behind the amazing advances in cardiovascular medicine as performed by the maverick doctors who strived to perfect them. Having interviewed many of the greatest heart surgeons in person during the past 20 years, this book benefits from the emption and excitement... |
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Old Sparky: The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty
Anthony Galvin - Carrel Books
Format: Hardcover
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In early 2013, Robert Gleason became the latest victim of the electric chair, a peculiarly American execution method. Shouting Pog mo thin ("Kiss my ass" in Gaelic) he grinned electricity shot through his system. When the current was switched off his body slumped against the leather... |
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The Clint Eastwood Westerns
James L. Neibaur - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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While the western was a staple of cinema for many decades, the form began to fade as its greatest star, John Wayne, made fewer films of distinction toward the end of his career. In the mid-1960s, the genre was redefined by a handful of directors, including Don Siegel and Italian filmmaker... |
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Atlas of the World
Oxford University Press - Oxford University Press; Twenty-First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The only world atlas updated annually, guaranteeing that users will find the most current geographic information, Oxfords Atlas of the World is the most authoritative atlas on the market. Full of crisp, clear cartography of urban areas and virtually uninhabited landscapes around the globe,... |
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It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
danah boyd - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An essential read, written by a leading expert, for anyone who wants to understand young people's use of social media What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening... |
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Reynard the Fox: A New Translation
James Simpson - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of the greatest characters of medieval literature, the trickster Reynard the Fox, comes to life in this rollicking new translation.What do a weak lion king, a grief-stricken rooster, a dim-witted bear, and one really angry wolf have in common? The answer is theyve all been had by one sly fox named... |
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Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
Paul Scharre - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A Pentagon defense expert and former U.S. Army Ranger explores what it would mean to give machines authority over the ultimate decision of life or death.What happens when a Predator drone has as much autonomy as a Google car? Or when a weapon that can hunt its own targets is hacked? Although... |
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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
Steven Jay Schneider - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Hardcover
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With over 1.75 million copies sold worldwide, this book is a must-have for all movie lovers. This brand-new edition of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die covers more than a century of movie history. Selected and authored by a team of international film critics, every profile... |
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Art in Vienna 1898–1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and their contemporaries
Peter Vergo - Phaidon Press; 4 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the 19th century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Vienna Secession. Their work shocked a conservative public, but their successive exhibitions, their magazine Ver Sacrum, and their application to the applied arts and architecture soon... |
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