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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future [Secure Mobipocket]
by Daniel Pink
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 The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers--creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment--and reveals how to master them. A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and ... more info>>
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Amusing Ourselves to Death [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Neil Postman
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Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman's groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media?from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs?it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion ... more info>>
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Ay, Cuba!: A Socio-Erotic Journey [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Andrei Codrescu
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During a Historic visit to Cuba--on the eve of Pope John Paul ll's own trip--National Public Radio's Andrei Codrescu and photographer David Graham turned an unsparing but compassionate gaze upon Cuba. Registering the architecture, the bizarre two-tier economy of peso and dollar, the revivals of both Catholicism and the Afro-Cuban religion of Santeria, and the sexual and social mores of a post-cold war communist society, Codrescu's words and Graham's photographs offer a vision of Cuba's brutally ... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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Becoming Your Own Critique Partner [MultiFormat]
by Jane Toombs, Janet Lane Walters
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 An indispensable guide to self-editing, written by two veteran writers who share more than 63 years of experience in the art of polishing a manuscript. For the beginner, it is both a reference book and a tutorial, painlessly teaching the craft of writing along with the art of writing. For the more experienced, it offers a checklist for ensuring the final draft is as well-honed as possible. (Published: 2006) EPPIE Award Winner
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Best and the Brightest [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by David Halberstam
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David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain. Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country's recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has nev... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Big Green Purse [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Diane MacEachern
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Protecting our environment is one of the biggest issues facing our planet today. But how do we solve a problem that can seem overwhelming--even hopeless? As Diane MacEachern argues in Big Green Purse, the best way to fight the industries that pollute the planet, thereby changing the marketplace forever, is to mobilize the most powerful consumer force in the world-women. MacEachern's message is simple but revolutionary. If women harness the "power of their purse" and intentionally shift their spe... more info>>
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Body Language [MultiFormat]
by Julius Fast
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Body Language helps you to understand the unconscious body movements and postures that provide intimate keys to what a person is really thinking and the secrets of their true inner selves. You will learn how to read the angle of shoulders, the tilt of a head, or the tap of a foot, in order to discern whether an individual is angry, frightened or cheerful. You will be able to use Body Language to discover the most--and least--important person in any group by the way others position themselves. Th... more info>> (Published: 1970) New York Times Best Seller List
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Bones Would Rain from the Sky: Deepening Our Relationships with Dogs [PRE-ORDER ONLY: Available: Nov 29, 2009] [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Suzanne Clothier
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  Akin to Monty Roberts's The Man Who Listens to Horses and going light-years beyond The Hidden Life of Dogs, this extraordinary book takes a radical new direction in understanding our life with canines and offers us astonishing new lessons about our pets. From changing the misbehaviors and habits that upset us, to seeing the world from their unique and natural perspective, to finding a deep connection with another being, BONES WOULD RAIN FROM THE SKY will help you receive an incomparable gift: a ... more info>>
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Bridging the Gap: Raising A Child With Nonverbal Learning Disabilities [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Rondalyn Varney Whitney
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Millions of children suffer from Nonverbal Learning Disorder, a neurological deficit that prevents them from understanding nonverbal cues like tone of voice and facial expression. Though they are exceptionally bright and extremely articulate, these children often have difficulty in social situations--and can become depressed, withdrawn, or anxious. In Bridging the Gap, Rondalyn Varney Whitney-a pediatric occupational therapist and the parent of a child with NLD--offers practical suggestions that... more info>>
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Burn This Book [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Toni Morrison
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Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves.
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Cadillac Desert [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Marc Reisner
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"Beautifully written and meticulously researched."?St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water covers more than a century of public and private desert reclamation in the American West.
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Cat Vs. Cat [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Pam Johnson-Bennett
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The only book on cat behavior that addresses the multi-cat home?from the acclaimed author of Think Like a CatIn this companion to her successful introduction to cat behavior Think Like a Cat, Pam Johnson-Bennett, the award-winning author and feline behaviorist, shows how adding another cat to your home does not have to be the start of a kitty apocalypse. Although cats are often misunderstood as natural loners, Johnson-Bennett shows how to plan, set up, and maintain a home environment that will h... more info>>
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ChessWise Super Course Problem Book [Adobe Acrobat (PDF)]
by ChessWise
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[Available in Adobe PDF only!] This eBook features 120 carefully selected chess problems designed to improve a players tactical skills (for new players through advanced beginners). The eBook features a unique "one problem per page" layout that makes it easy for players to focus on finding the solution (the answer is on the next page). Used in conjunction with Adobe eBook Reader, users can actually save their answers within the eBook (it is recommended you try the problems several times). This eB... more info>> (Published: 1999)
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Come Back, Como [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Steven Winn
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 Based on a beloved ten-part series in the San Francisco Chronicle, Come Back, Como is Steven Winn's tender and hilarious memoir of his uncommonly rich experience with a dog who wanted nothing whatsoever to do with him. With humor and pathos, Winn describes the exasperating but ultimately rewarding effects the pet had on his family, the ordeals he and his dog endured together, and the greatest lesson Como taught him: that loving a dog can somehow make us more human.
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Communism [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Richard Pipes
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From one of our greatest historians, a magnificent reckoning with the modern world's most fateful idea. With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime's scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice. At its heart, the book is a history of the Soviet Union, the most comprehensive reorganization of human society ever attempted by a nation-state. Drawing on much new information, Richard Pip... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Comprehensive Chess Course Volume II: From Beginner to Tournament Player in 12 Lessons [Limited MultiFormat: 3 Formats Available]
by Lev Alburt, Roman Pelts
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Welcome to Volume II, the second level, of our Comprehensive Chess Course. It is aimed at those students who have completed and mastered the lessons in Volume I. In addition to numerous corrections and alterations to this, the third edition, a new chapter has been added, "Moving On to Expert and Master." It addresses the concerns of many readers who want a guide for consolidating the progress made during the study of volumes I and II and concrete suggestions for advancing toward expert and maste... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Cooking Well: Honey for Health & Beauty: Over 75 Recipes, Remedies and Natural Treatments [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Marie-Annick Courtier
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 Discover the proven and powerful health, beauty and healing properties of natures miracle medicine: honey. For millions of years, bees have worked tirelessly to create natures miracle medicine: honey. In this important book, Cooking Well: Honey for Health & Beauty, the unique healing properties of honey are revealed, placing the power of this low-cost and effective natural treatment in your family's hands. Whether as a healing agent for minor wounds and burns, a soothing ingredient for sore thro... more info>>
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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. The author's objective is to offer an understanding of what leads to these moments, be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab, so that knowledge can be used to enrich people's lives. Drawing on 100 interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists to politicians and business leaders, poets and artists, as well as his 30 years of research on the subject, Csikszentmihalyi use... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Don't Blame It on Rio: The Real Deal Behind Why Men Go to Brazil for Sex [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Karen Hunter
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There is a not-so-new, not-so-secret destination where a growing number of American black men are traveling for the kind of sex and freedom they say they can't find with black women. Thousands of unsuspecting women are kissing their men good-bye while they go on "business" trips to Rio where they meet up with some of their friends and have sex every way they can imagine--no strings, no hassles, and no conscience. For fifteen years, Jewel Woods, a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan,... more info>>
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Eating Animals [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Brilliantly s... more info>>
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EMT: Rescue [MultiFormat]
by Pat Ivey
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These are the trying true stories of the mobile emergency medical technicians that often are the only thing standing between anyone of us and death. Author Pat Ivey uses her extensive first hand experiences and an unflinching eye for drama and detail to bring us the unheard tales of heroism and courage of the EMT units. She takes us into a hidden world of children in need, women seeking shelter from the storm of abuse and the realities of industrial accidents. A simple car crash turns into a Her... more info>> (Published: 1993)
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Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Ariel Levy
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Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig--the new brand of "empowered woman" who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and embraces "raunch culture" wherever she finds it. If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing them one better, making sex objects of other women--and of themselves. They think they're being brave, they think they're being funny, but in Female... more info>>
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Finding Beauty in a Broken World [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Terry Tempest Williams
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In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several years to include a reconfiguration of family and community in her search for a deeper understanding of what it means to be human in an era of physical and spiritual... more info>>
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Fragments [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Heraclitus
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Beautifully intense, poetic translations of one of the world's most deeply influential thinkers In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein-Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. His great book, On Nature, the world's first coherent philosophical treatise and touchstone for Plato, Aristotle, and Marcus Aurelius, has long been lost to history-but its surviving fragments have for thousands ... more info>>
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Ruth Reichl
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Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, knows a thing or two about food. She also knows that as the most important food critic in the country, you need to be anonymous when reviewing some of the most high-profile establishments in the biggest restaurant town in the world--a charge she took very seriously, taking on the guise of a series of eccentric personalities. In Garlic and Sapphires, Reichl reveals the comic absurdity, artifice, and excellence to be ... more info>>
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