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A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
DescriptionFor the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of "dead white men."

As a outcome, extra ...

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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
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In Strategy Modify, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the country’s leading political reporters, use their unrivaled access to pull back the curtain on the Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Palin campaigns.

Based on hundreds of interviews together with the people who lived the story, Strategy Modify is a reportorial tour de force this ...

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Categories Textbooks Trade-In   21st Century   General   Elections   Practical Politics   Executive Branch   Hardcover   Printed Books   All product   Books  
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
DescriptionHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists recognize her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken not including her knowledge—became one of the much important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead ...
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Categories Ethics   General AAS   Textbooks Trade-In   African-American & Black   Medical   Women   General   Virginia   Cancer   Medical Ethics   Research   History of Science   Hardcover   Printed Books   All product   Books  
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
Description The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard

Anyone who despairs of the unique’s power to modify lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s ...

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Categories Memoirs   Educators   Women   General   Money Management for Women   Afghanistan   Central Asia   Pakistan   Philanthropy & Charity   Paperback   Printed Books   All product   Books  
Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
DescriptionSince he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its much popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for years in his political activities while being groomed to assume his legacy, politics, status . . . and power. ...
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Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Political   Religious   Memoirs   Islamic   Terrorism   Church & State   General   Hardcover   Printed Books  
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Large Print Press)
DescriptionA national bestseller this has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by prize winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly neat question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table every of the food chains this sustain us— whether industrial or organic, substitute or processed—he develops a ...
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Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
DescriptionWhen former pirate Billy Bones leaves an old sea chest and an ancient treasure map at the Admiral Benbow Inn, young Jim Hawkins embarks on a treasure-hunting adventure this takes him to the South Seas. Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for ...
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The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down
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The underside of modern American politics---raw ambition, manipulation, and deception---are revealed in detail by Andrew Young's riveting account of a presidential hopeful's meteoric rise and scandalous fall.
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Categories Biographies & Memoirs   Military   United States   Political   General   21st Century   Elections   Federal Government   Books on CD   Unabridged  
Dracula (Norton Critical Editions)
DescriptionThe aristocratic vampire this haunts the Transylvanian countryside has captivated readers' imaginations since it was first published in 1897. Hindle asserts this Dracula depicts an embattled man's struggle to recover his "deepest sense of himself as a man", making it the "ultimate terror myth". Dracula is one of the few horror books to be ...
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Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Adaptations   Wales   Stoker, Bram   Skal, David J.   General   British   19th Century   Classics   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Vintage Departures)
DescriptionA New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Denver Post Bestseller
 
In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He ...
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