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Whereas : poems
Stephen Dunn - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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Incisively capturing the oddities of our logic and the whimsies of our reason, the poems in Whereas show there is always another side to a story. With graceful rhythm and equal parts humor and seriousness, Stephen Dunn considers the superstition and sophistry embedded in everyday life:... |
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION | FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION | FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The... |
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TASC Strategies, Practice & Review 2017-2018 with 2 Practice Tests: Online Book
Kaplan - Kaplan Pub
Format: Print book
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Comprehensive content review, strategies, and practice for all sections of the TASC (Test Assessing Secondary Completion) from top test experts The TASC is a high school equivalency test that is an alternative to the GED test. New York State, Indiana, and West Virginia replaced the GED with... |
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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
Mark Honigsbaum - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A medical historian narrates the last century of scientific struggle against an enduring enemy: deadly contagious disease.Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical... |
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The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007
Jeremy M Black - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the political context of the Bond books and films. Jeremy Black offers a historian's interpretation from the perspective of the late 2010s, assessing James Bond in terms of the greatly changing world order of the Bond... |
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Racism in American Popular Media: From Aunt Jemima to the Frito Bandito
Brian D. Behnken - Praeger
Format: Hardcover
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This book examines how the mediaincluding advertising, motion pictures, cartoons, and popular fictionhas used racist images and stereotypes as marketing tools that malign and debase African Americans, Latinos, American Indians, and Asian Americans in the United States., |
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College Handbook 2018
COLLEGE BOARD. - College Board
Format: Paperback
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This is the only guide available that contains objective information on every accredited college in the United States--2,200 four-year colleges and universities, and 1,700 two-year community colleges and technical schools. With its clearly laid-out entries and more than 40 indexes, the College... |
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