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The call to serve : the life of President George Herbert Walker Bush
by Jon Meacham
Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of his birth, this intimate portrait of the 41st U.S. President visually documents his life with over 450+ photographs, celebrating the legacy of a man whose strong values of integrity and respect for others led to a life of leadership viewed as a call to serve.
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Rewire : break the cycle, alter your thoughts and create lasting change
by Noelle Vignola
A neuroscientist and online sensation offers this groundbreaking guide in which she explains why you're subconsciously programmed to repeat certain habits and how you can rewire your brain to change unwanted behavior to reach your fullest potential and create the best version of yourself.
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Shock values : prices and inflation in American democracy
by Carola Conces Binder
Expansive and enlightening, the author tells the untold story of prices and price stabilization in the United States, recounting the interest-group politics, legal battles and economic ideas that have shaped the nation from the dawn of the republic to the present.
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Up in arms : how military aid stabilizes--and destabilizes--foreign autocrats
by Adam E. Casey
Based on extensive original research, a political scientist, in an era of renewed power competition, offers invaluable insights into the unforeseen consequences of overseas meddling by discussing authoritarian regimes during the Cold War, revealing how military aid can help pull down dictators as often as it props them up.
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Challenger : a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space
by Adam Higginbotham
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting-a riveting history that reads like a thriller"
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The walls have eyes : surviving migration in the age of artificial intelligence
by Petra Molnâar
Based on years of researching borderlands across the world, a lawyer and anthropologist presents this chilling exposé on how technology is being deployed by governments on the world's most vulnerable with little regulation, showing us how borders are an inhumane and now highly profitable market.
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Long haul : hunting the highway serial killers
by Frank Figliuzzi
Based on his own on-the-ground research and drawing on his 25-year career as an FBI special agent, the author takes us along America's highways and interstates where at least 850 homicides have been linked to long-haul truck drivers, which caused the FBI to open a special unit, the Highway Serial Killings initiative.
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The catalyst : RNA and the quest to unlock life's deepest secrets
by Thomas Cech
A Nobel Prize-winning scientist, exploring the most transformative breakthroughs in biology since the discovery of the double helix, brings together years of research to demonstrate that RNA is the true key to understanding life on Earth, from its very origins to our future in the twenty-first century.
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Sing like fish : how sound rules life under water
by Amorina Kingdon
Synthesizing historical discoveries with the latest scientific research, an award-winning science journalist takes us beneath the surface of the ocean to show the repercussions of human-made sound on the marine world's delicate acoustic ecosystems, issuing a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes.
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600s - Health, Cooking & Parenting
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Ageless aging : a woman's guide to increasing healthspan, brainspan, and lifespan
by Maddy Dychtwald
"Ageless Aging presents a pioneering new way for women to age-an ascent that includes feeling youthful and vital while gaining wisdom, resilience, and experience. It provides a holistic plan that helps women take advantage of the scientific, medical, psychological, and spiritual tools available to them as they grow older."
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Truck : the definitive visual history
by Dan Parton
"Trucks, lorries, and vans share their origins in the steam wagons of the late 1800s and the invention of the modern combustion engine in the 1870s. As steam power gave way to petrol and diesel engines, trucks evolved and diversified according to their desired purpose--becoming everything from panel vans and pick-up trucks to heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) or construction trucks like log carriers or concrete transporters. They have played a defining role in the wars of the last 100 years, saved lives as ambulances and fire engines, and even provided entertainment in the form of monster trucks"
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Open wide : a cookbook for friends
by Benny Blanco
The pop music super-producer, artist and actor who's obsessed with food and cooking for friends teaches you everything you need to know, from kitchen basics to throwing the greatest dinner party of all time, through a crazy collection of recipes that will make cooking your new addiction. .
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American Academy of Pediatrics new mother's guide to breastfeeding
by M.D. Meek, Joan Younger
"Why is breastfeeding the optimal choice? What happens when my family leave is over? What's the safest way to store pumped milk? The American Academy of Pediatrics answers these questions and many more in this invaluable resource for helping you and yourbaby get the healthiest possible start"
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The beginner's photography guide
by Chris Gatcum
Provides practical advice on the techniques of digital photography, with information on such topics as equipment, exposure, focusing, lenses, light, flash, and image enhancement
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The literature of Japanese American incarceration
by Frank Abe
"The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration, is a Penguin Classic anthology aimed at readers of key works such as They Called Us Enemy by George Takei and No No Boy by John Okada. It captures the collective voice of Japanese Americans during World War II, when 125,000 were imprisoned in American concentration camps due to their ancestry. This collection recovers and reframes their literature—spanning fiction, poetry, essays, and more—chronologically, offering a new vision enriched by previously overlooked works and translations. The selections reflect a struggle for personal integrity amidst dehumanization, echoing disturbing parallels with America's present."
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And then? And then? What else?
by Daniel Handler
The author of the popular Lemony Snicket books discusses his love of strange literature and reflects on his life experiences in an entertaining memoir that also serves as inspiration for aspiring writers.
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The Backyard Bird Chronicles
by Amy Tan
Mapping the passage of time through daily entries, thoughtful questions and beautiful original sketches, the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club shares her search for solace which turned into an opportunity to connect with nature in a meaningful way and imagine the intricate lives of the birds she admired.
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Jerusalem through the ages : from its beginnings to the Crusades
by Jodi Magness
"The knobbiest town in the world"--so Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) described Jerusalem in The Innocents Abroad, a travelogue of his visit to the Holy Land in 1867 (Fig. 0.7). He was struck by the Old City's small size; the small white domes protrudinglike knobs from the flat roofs of the tightly-packed houses; the narrow, crooked, uneven stone-paved streets; the poverty and filth; and the throngs of beggars: "To see the numbers of maimed, malformed and diseased humanity that throng the holy places and obstruct the gates, one might suppose that the ancient days had come again, and that the angel of the Lord was expected to descend at any moment to stir the waters of Bethesda. Jerusalem is mournful, and dreary, and lifeless. I would not desire to live here." The nineteenth century witnessed the beginning of scientific exploration of the Holy Land, as European colonial powers sought to gain a foothold in Ottoman Palestine amid growing scientific interest in using archaeology to verify the Bible. Thousands of westerners--clerics, scholars, military men, pilgrims, adventure-seekers, and tourists--poured into the country. Twain vividly describes the overwhelming experience of sightseeing in Jerusalem: "We are surfeited with sights. Nothing has any fascination for us, now, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. We have been there every day, and have not grown tired of it; but we are weary of every thing else. The sights are too many. They swarm about you at every step; no single foot of ground in all Jerusalem or within its neighborhood seems to be without a stirring and important history of its own. It is a very relief to steal a walk of a hundred yards without a guide along to talk unceasingly about every stone you step upon and drag you back ages and agesto the day when it achieved celebrity. It seems hardly real when I find myself leaning for a moment on a ruined wall and looking listlessly down into the historic pool of Bethesda. I did not think such things could be so crowded together as to diminish their interest. But in serious truth, we have been drifting about, for several days, using our eyes and our ears more from a sense of duty than any higher and worthier reason. And too often we have been glad when it was time to go home and be distressed nomore about illustrious localities. Our pilgrims compress too much into one day. One can gorge sights to repletion as well as sweetmeats. Since we breakfasted, this morning, we have seen enough to have furnished us food for a year's reflection if we couldhave seen the various objects in comfort and looked upon them deliberately."
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When the sea came alive : an oral history of D-day
by Garrett M. Graff
The New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate turns his attention to D-Day, one of history's greatest and most unbelievable miliary and human triumphs, exploring the full impact of this world-changing event and offering a fitting tribute to the people of the Greatest Generation.
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The Situation Room : The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
by George Stephanopoulos
A former senior advisor to President Clinton, and for more than 20 years, the anchor of This Week and the co-anchor of Good Morning America, takes us into the White House Situation Room, the epicenter of crisis management where decisions are made that affect the lives of every person on this planet.
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American civil wars : a continental history, 1850-1873
by Alan Taylor
A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner provides a masterful historical account of the twenty-year period from 1850-1873 during which the United States, Mexico and Canada underwent significant transformations and evolved into the nations we know today.
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The rise and fall of the second American republic : Reconstruction, 1860-1920
by Manisha Sinha
From 1860, when the election Abraham Lincoln triggered the secession of the Deep South states and ending in 1920 when women were granted the right to vote, an acclaimed historian narrates the major episodes of the era and introduces the key individuals who helped remake American democracy, or whose actions spelled its doom.
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