Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) By Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. HoppAuthor Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir,...

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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities By Amy StewartA tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature’s most appalling creations....

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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time By Greg Mortenson, David Oliver RelinAnyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished...

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My Life in France

My Life in France By Julia Child, Alex Prud'HommeJulia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she was not always a master chef.Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her...

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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association From American Psychological Association (APA)This book is a must for researchers in the social sciences. However, I should have gotten the (cheaper) paperback version. I'm usually a bit of a snob when it comes to paperbacks, but since this is a reference book that I probably won't use much,...

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Outliers: The Story of Success

Outliers: The Story of Success By Malcolm GladwellIn this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful...

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Textbook of Medical Physiology

Textbook of Medical Physiology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access (Hardcover) byArthur C. GuytonReviewsI agree with the reviewer from Israel, this book is exceptional at explaining physiology. During my first year in medical school I used Berne and Levy as the text for medical physiology and I found it to be a very good text. But reviewing...

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Classic Fairy Stories

Classic Fairy Stories (Classic Literature With Classical Music. Junior Classics) From Naxos AudiobooksA selection of some of the most famous fairy stories which every child needs to foster their imagination. "Three Little Pigs"; "Dick Whittington"; "Beauty and the Beast"; "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"; and "Puss in Boots" are all included.ReviewsA...

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The Angel Experiment

The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1) [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK] (Audio CD) byJames Patterson (Author) James Patterson (Author) › Visit Amazon's James Patterson Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search...

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The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods

The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods (Translations from the Asian Classics) (Hardcover) by Sun Zi (Author)"After reading Victor Mair's elegant new rendering of the ancient text, I was left without any doubt that it is an important contribution to our understanding of both the meaning of the text itself and the evolution of Chinese military...

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The Digital Photography Book, Volume 3

The Digital Photography Book, Volume 3 (Paperback) by scott Kelby (Author)Scott Kelby, author of The Digital Photography Book, volume 1 (the world’s best-selling digital photography book of all time), is back with a follow-up to his volume 2 smash best seller, with an entirely new book that picks up right where he left off. It’s even more of that “Ah...

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