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Reaching the animal mind : clicker training and what it teaches us about all animals
Karen Pryor.
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The author outlines the clicker training method that she developed as a behavioral biologist, explaining how non-punitive methods have been successfully implemented in the training processes of countless animals and can help counter negative behaviors inpets.
2009; 258 p.; isbn:0743297768 More Information |
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The big rewind : a memoir with pop culture
Nathan Rabin.
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From the head writer of "The Onion's" entertainment column comes a painfully funny memoir as seen through the sturdy prism of pop culture. Through music, books, films, and television, Rabin shares his too-strange-for-fiction life story.
2009; 342 p.; isbn:1416556206 More Information |
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Why your world is about to get a whole lot smaller : oil and the end of globalization
Jeff Rubin.
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Looks at the effect that rising oil prices and the diminishing availability of petroleum will have on the global economy.
2009; 286 p.; isbn:1400068509 More Information |
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Life Inc. : how the world became a corporation and how to take it back
Douglas Rushkoff.
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Analyzes the ways in which corporate interests dominate life, citing the impact of branding and marketing on everything from health care to relationships, and makes recommendations for achieving authenticity and disengaging from commercial expectations.
2009; 274 p.; isbn:1400066891 More Information |
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The last best hope : restoring conservatism and America's promise
Joe Scarborough.
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Asserts that conservatism lost its way due to reckless spending and that liberals are now making things worse, and suggests that the GOP must change dramatically or it will fall into decline as a force in American politics.
2009; 271 p.; isbn:0307463699 More Information |
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Face it & fix it : the three step plan to stop denial and take back your life
by Ken Seeley.
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The host of A&E #1 hit show "Intervention" provides all the tools necessary to recognize and move beyond the denial that can hold a person back from stability and happiness.
2009; 260 p.; isbn:0061696986 More Information |
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Shadi Ghadirian : Iranian photographer
edited by Rose Issa
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"Shadi Ghadirian is one of Iran's leading contemporary photographers. Born in Tehran in 1974, she has exhibited widely in Europe and the US, and her work has been collected by museums worldwide. She came to the limelight in the late 90s with her Untitled Qajar series, in which she examines the paradoxical position of women in Iran. Women in traditional ...
2008; 62 p.; isbn:9780863566387 More Information |
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A tiger's heart : the story of a modern Chinese woman
Aisling Juanjuan Shen.
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"A Tiger's Heart" chronicles Shen's rise from poverty in the rice fields of rural China to a successful career in business in the early days of the country's economic boom, illustrating the massive economic and social changes that have taken place in China over the past several decades.
2009; 309 p.; isbn:1569475865 More Information |
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Womenomics : write your own rules for success : how to stop juggling and struggling and finally start living and working the way you really want
Claire Shipman and Katty Kay
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Television journalists Shipman and Kay describe the business revolution that redefines success and finally lets women work the way they really want.
2009; 226 p.; isbn:9780061697180 More Information |
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Face to face : my quest to perform the world's first full face transplant
Maria Siemionow.
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In this chronicle of a pioneering life in medicine, surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow recounts her goal to perform the world's first full face transplant. When Dr. Siemionow announced in December 2005 that she had been granted approval to perform this revolutionary surgery, she was bombarded with media attention and moving requests from people wanting to ...
2009; 212 p.; isbn:1607140519 More Information |
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Building a home with my husband : a journey through the renovation of love
by Rachel Simon.
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The bestselling and highly acclaimed author of "Riding the Bus with My Sister" returns with an illuminating and tenderhearted memoir about the unexpected ways a home renovation can change a life.
2008; 259 p.; isbn:0525951202 More Information |
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Tales of wonder : adventures chasing the divine : an autobiography
Huston Smith with Jeffery Paine.
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Documents the world religion scholar's life and experiences with people who shaped the twentieth century, including Mother Teresa, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Ram Dass, in an account that also traces the adventures he had in pursuit of his influential research.
2009; 209 p.; isbn:0061154261 More Information |
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