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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $14.62
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Manufacturer: Penguin Press HC, The
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Sudhir Venkatesh
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Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
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Dewey Decimal Number: 364.10660977311
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Publication Date: 2008-01-10
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: First introduced in Freakonomics, here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology grad student who infiltrated one of Chicago's most notorious gangs
The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrĀe into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment.
When Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago's most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty. A first-year grad student hoping to impress his professors with his boldness, he never imagined that as a result of the assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under JT's protection, documenting what he saw there.
Over the next seven years, Venkatesh got to know the neighborhood dealers, crackheads, squatters, prostitutes, pimps, activists, cops, organizers, and officials. From his privileged position of unprecedented access, he observed JT and the rest of the gang as they operated their crack-selling business, conducted PR within their community, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang's complex organizational structure.
In Hollywood-speak, Gang Leader for a Day is The Wire meets Harvard University. It's a brazen, page turning, and fundamentally honest view into the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in what is tantamount to an urban war zone. It is also the story of a complicated friendship between Sudhir and JT-two young and ambitious men a universe apart.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $7.71
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Temple Grandin
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 616.858820092
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Publication Date: 2006-01-10
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Reading Level: 270
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Description: Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us.
In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world. What emerges in Thinking in Pictures is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who, in gracefully and lucidly bridging the gulf between her condition and our own, sheds light on the riddle of our common identity.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.43
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: C.G. Jung
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 150.1954092
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Publication Date: 1989-04-23
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: An autobiography put together from conversations, writings and lectures with Jung's cooperation, at the end of his life.
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Price: $11.95
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Sale: $5.00
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William Styron
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Publisher: Vintage
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85270092
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Publication Date: 1992-01-08
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.87
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Manufacturer: Hyperion
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Elyn R. Saks
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Publisher: Hyperion
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Dewey Decimal Number: 300
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Publication Date: 2008-08-12
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis -- and suffering the effects of her illness throughout her life.Saks was only eight, and living an otherwise idyllic childhood in sunny 1960s Miami, when her first symptoms appeared in the form of obsessions and night terrors. But it was not until she reached Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar that her first full-blown episode, complete with voices in her head and terrifying suicidal fantasies, forced her into a psychiatric hospital.Saks would later attend Yale Law School where one night, during her first term, she had a breakdown that left her singing on the roof of the law school library at midnight. She was taken to the emergency room, force-fed antipsychotic medication, and tied hand-and-foot to the cold metal of a hospital bed. She spent the next five months in a psychiatric ward.So began Saks's long war with her own internal demons and the equally powerful forces of stigma. Today she is a chaired professor of law who researches and writes about the rights of the mentally ill. She is married to a wonderful man.In The Center Cannot Hold, Elyn Saks discusses frankly and movingly the paranoia, the inability to tell imaginary fears from real ones, and the voices in her head insisting she do terrible things, as well as the many obstacles she overcame to become the woman she is today. It is destined to become a classic in the genre.
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Price: $23.99
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Sale: $12.93
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Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Heidi Squier Kraft
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 956.704437
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Publication Date: 2007-10-24
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: When Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft's twin son and daughter were fifteen months old, she was deployed to Iraq. A clinical psychologist in the US Navy, Kraft's job was to uncover the wounds of war that a surgeon would never see. She put away thoughts of her children back home, acclimated to the sound of incoming rockets, and learned how to listen to the most traumatic stories a war zone has to offer.
One of the toughest lessons of her deployment was perfectly articulated by the TV show M*A*S*H: "There are two rules of war. Rule number one is that young men die. Rule number two is that doctors can't change rule number one." Some Marines, Kraft realized, and even some of their doctors, would be damaged by war in ways she could not repair. And sometimes, people were repaired in ways she never expected. RULE NUMBER TWO is a powerful firsthand account of providing comfort admidst the chaos of war, and of what it takes to endure.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $14.37
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Lynne Twist
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 332.4019
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Publication Date: 2003-09
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: A wise and inspiring exploration of the connection between money and leading a fulfilling life. This compelling and fundamentally liberating book shows us that examining our attitudes toward money—earning it, spending it, and giving it away—can offer surprising insight into our lives, our values, and the essence of prosperity. Lynne Twist is a global activist and fund-raiser who has raised more than $150 million in individual contributions for charitable causes. Through personal stories and practical advice, she demonstrates how we can replace feelings of scarcity, guilt, and burden with experiences of sufficiency, freedom, and purpose. She shares from her own life, a journey illuminated by remarkable encounters with the richest and poorest people on earth, from the famous (Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama) to the anonymous but unforgettable heroes of everyday life.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $15.99
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Manufacturer: M.E. Sharpe
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Mark Skousen
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Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.150922
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Publication Date: 2007-01-30
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Reading Level: 243
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.49
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Manufacturer: Blackstone Audiobooks
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Number of Items: 4
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Binding: Audio CD
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Author: Viktor E. Frankl
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Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
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Edition: Unabridged
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318092
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Publication Date: 2008-03
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $15.02
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Manufacturer: Waveland Pr Inc
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Nigel Barley
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Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
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Dewey Decimal Number: 300
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Publication Date: 2000-09-01
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Reading Level: 190
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Description: When British anthropologist Nigel Barley set up home among the Dowayo people in northern Cameroon, he knew how fieldwork should be conducted. Unfortunately, nobody had told the Dowayo. His compulsive, witty account of first fieldwork offers a wonderfully inspiring introduction to the real life of a cultural anthropologist doing research in a Third World area. Both touching and hilarious, Barley's unconventional story—in which he survived boredom, hostility, disaster, and illness—addresses many critical issues in anthropology and in fieldwork.
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