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A vindication of love : reclaiming romance for the twenty-first century
Cristina Nehring.
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In an age when settling is encouraged and marriage is often described in business terms, Nehring's passionate defense of romantic love is timely and thoroughly refreshing.
2009; 328 p.; isbn:0060765038 More Information |
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Rocket men : the triumph and tragedy of the first Americans on the moon
Craig Nelson.
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The thrilling story of the Apollo Moon mission restores the mystery and majesty to an event that may have become too familiar for most people to realize what a stunning achievement it represented in planning, technology, and execution.
2009; 404 p.; isbn:0670021032 More Information |
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New treehouses of the world
by Pete Nelson.
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Since the publication of "Treehouses of the World," the community of treehouse builders has grown tremendously, and many more innovative treehouses have been built around the world. In "New Treehouses of the World," world-renowned treehouse designer and builder Pete Nelson takes readers on an exciting, international tour of more than 35 new treehouses ...
2009; 223 p.; isbn:0810996324 More Information |
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The peep diaries : how we're learning to love watching ourselves and our neighbors
Hal Niedzviecki.
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We have Entered the Age of Peep Culture a tell-all, show-all, know-all phenomenon that is dramatically altering notions of privacy, individuality, and even humanity. In the Age of Peep, core values and rights we once took for granted are rapidly being renegotiated, often without our even noticing. Book jacket.
2009; 296 p.; isbn:0872864995 More Information |
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Tears in the darkness : the story of the Bataan Death March and its aftermath
Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman.
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This major new work about World War II exposes the myths of military heroism as shallow and inadequate. "Tears in the Darkness" makes clear, with great literary and human power, that war causes suffering for people on all sides.
2009; 463 p.; isbn:0374272603 More Information |
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High : confessions of an international drug smuggler
Brian O'Dea.
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Weaving together extracts from O'Dea's prison diary with the vivid recounting of his outlaw years as a drug smuggler, "High" tells the remarkable story of a remarkable man.
2009; 360 p.; isbn:159051310X More Information |
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To keep the British Isles afloat : FDR's men in Churchill's London, 1941
Thomas Parrish.
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2009; 324 p.; isbn:0061357936 More Information |
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Yours, mine and hours : relationship skills for blended families
John Penton and Shona Welsh
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2007; 231 p.; isbn:1419661434 |
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Seeds of terror : how heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda
Gretchen Peters.
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Examines the drug trade in Afghanistan, discussing how farmers there continue to grow poppy illegally, and how the Taliban and al Qaeda control heroin labs and distribution networks, and use drug profits to finance terrorist activities.
2009; 300 p.; isbn:0312379277 More Information |
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On kindness
Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor.
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A provocative and elegant defense of the art of kindness in a selfish age, "On Kindness" argues that a life lived in instinctive, sympathetic identification with others is the one societies should allow themselves to live.
2009; 114 p.; isbn:0374226504 More Information |
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The devil's tickets : a night of bridge, a fatal hand, and a new American age
Gary M. Pomerantz.
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Through larger-than-life characters and a timeless partnership game they played, "The Devil's Tickets" evokes the last echoes of the Roaring Twenties and the darkness of the pending Depression.
2008; 300 p.; isbn:1400051622 More Information |
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A failure of capitalism : the crisis of '08 and the descent into depression
Richard A. Posner.
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Posner presents a concise and non-technical examination of the current financial and economic disasters, and of the, as yet, stumbling efforts to cope with it.
2009; 346 p.; isbn:0674035143 More Information |
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