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  Mom's Family Calendar 2009

 
Mom's Family Calendar 2009 under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $12.99
Sale: $7.91
 
Brand: 2009 Calendars
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Calendar
Author: Sandra Boynton
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Edition: Wal
Publication Date: 2008-06-15
Reading Level: 36
 
Description: A superstar, just like Mom herself. What is it about this bestselling calendar? Is it those irresistible cows, hippos, chicks, penguins, and piggies skipping and prancing through the pages? Or is it the innovative and ultra-practical wall-calendar-meets-planner format? Yes...and yes! It's the whole package: a calendar that looks great and is indispensable for families on the go. Mom’s starts in September and runs 16 full months. Spreads feature an oversized, vertical grid with five columns across (one for each family member) and the days of the month running down the left side. With just a glance, Mom and Dad can see who is doing what, and when. Includes a new drop-down storage pocket, plus 500 stickers and a write-on, wipe-off magnetic phone list for the fridge.

 

  Kaplan GMAT Premier Program, 2009 (Book & CD-ROM)

 
Kaplan GMAT Premier Program, 2009 (Book & CD-ROM) under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $42.00
Sale: $23.49
 
Manufacturer: Kaplan Publishing
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Kaplan
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Dewey Decimal Number: 650
Publication Date: 2008-06-03
Reading Level: 672
 
Description: Features:
  • NEW! Essential math basics review section with practice drills
  • 6 full-length practice tests (1 in the book, 1 online, 4 on the CD-ROM)
  • Diagnostic test to target areas for score improvement
  • Proven score-raising strategies
  • Hundreds of additional practice questions
  • Detailed answer explanations
  • Personalized online progress report that adapts to a student's goals and schedule

 

  An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems

 
An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $26.00
Sale: $9.95
 
Manufacturer: Threshold Editions
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Glenn Beck::Kevin Balfe
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.92
Publication Date: 2007-11-20
Reading Level: 304
 
Description: The world is a mess. It seems that every time you turn around, there's another problem:

Iran is developing nuclear capabilities. Public schools actually seem to be making our kids dumber. Charlie Sheen has a hit sitcom. Obesity is a national epidemic.

The divorce rates is rising faster than gas prices. Did you hear me--Charlie Sheen has a hit sitcom!



This just barely scratches the surface. Sadly, there's no shortage of problems what we need now are solutions. If only there was a man who could simplify things, cut through the rhetoric and fix everything? Then, if he was just able to put all of that insight into a book that people could buy...in a store and online say, for like $24.99? Man, that would be great...

Wait a minute!

"Inconvenient Book: The Real Story Behind The Biggest Problems In The World!" is that very book the one source for the Real Story behind the problems that seemed too big and complicated to solve (until now) plus their common sense solutions. Think of it as a Hints From Heloise that's less "getting red wine out of your carpet" and more "keeping illegal aliens out of your country"...

 

  The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

 
The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $27.95
Sale: $12.99
 
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: James Bamford
Publisher: Doubleday
Edition: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 327.1273
Publication Date: 2008-10-14
Reading Level: 416
 
Description:

James Bamford exposed the existence of the top-secret National Security Agency in the bestselling The Puzzle Palace and continued to probe into its workings in his follow-up bestseller, Body of Secrets. Now Bamford discloses inside, often shocking information about the transformation of the NSA in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 2001.

In THE SHADOW FACTORY, Bamford shows how the NSA’s failure to detect the presence of two of the 9/11 hijackers inside the United States led the NSA to abandon its long-held policy of spying only on enemies outside the country. Instead, after 9/11 it turned its almost limitless ability to listen in on friend and foe alike over to the Bush Administration to use as a weapon in the war on terror. With unrivaled access to sources and documents, Bamford details how the agency has conducted domestic surveillance without court approval, and he frames it in the context of the NSA’s ongoing hunt for information about today’s elusive enemies.

THE SHADOW FACTORY is a riveting read for anyone concerned about civil liberties and America’s security in the post-9/11 world.


 

  48 Liberal Lies About American History: (That You Probably Learned in School)

 
48 Liberal Lies About American History: (That You Probably Learned in School) under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $25.95
Sale: $16.33
 
Manufacturer: Sentinel HC
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Larry Schweikart
Publisher: Sentinel HC
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
Publication Date: 2008-09-04
Reading Level: 320
 
Description: A historian debunks four-dozen PC myths about our nation’s past.

Over the last forty years, history textbooks have become more and more politically correct and distorted about our country’s past, argues professor Larry Schweikart. The result, he says, is that students graduate from high school and even college with twisted beliefs about economics, foreign policy, war, religion, race relations, and many other subjects.

As he did in his popular A Patriot’s History of the United States, Professor Schweikart corrects liberal bias by rediscovering facts that were once widely known. He challenges distorted books by name and debunks forty-eight common myths. A sample:

• The founders wanted to create a “wall of separation” between church and state
• Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation only because he needed black soldiers
• Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima to intimidate the Soviets with “atomic diplomacy”
• Mikhail Gorbachev, not Ronald Reagan, was responsible for ending the Cold War
America’s past, though not perfect, is far more admirable than you were probably taught.

 

  Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition

 
Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $15.00
Sale: $7.49
 
Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Edition: Revised and Updated
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7
Publication Date: 2007-12-26
Reading Level: 320
 
Description: When Harville Hendrix writes about relationships, he discusses them not just as an educator and a therapist, but as a man who has himself been through a failed marriage. Hendrix felt the sting of his divorce intensely because he believed it signaled not only his failure as a husband but also his failure as a couples counselor. Investigating why his marriage dissolved led him to start looking into the psychology of love. Marriage, he ultimately discovered, is the "practice of becoming passionate friends."

As a result of his research, Hendrix created a therapy he calls Imago Relationship Therapy. In it, he combines what he's learned in a number of disciplines, including the behavioral sciences, depth psychology, cognitive therapy, and Gestalt therapy, to name just a few. He expounds upon this approach in Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples. His purpose in writing the book, he says, is "to share with you what I have learned about the psychology of love relationships, and to help you transform your relationship into a lasting source of love and companionship."

Divided into three sections, the book covers "The Unconscious Marriage," which details a marriage in which the remaining desires and behavior of childhood interfere with the current relationship; "The Conscious Marriage," which shows a marriage that fulfils those childhood needs in a positive manner; and a 10-week "course in relationship therapy, " which gives detailed exercises for you and your partner to follow in order to learn how to "replace confrontation and criticism ... with a healing process of mutual growth and support." The text is occasionally dry and technical; however, the information provided is valuable, the case studies are interesting, and the exercises are revealing and helpful. By utilizing his program, Hendrix hopes you too will be able to solve your marital difficulties without the expense of a therapist. --Jenny Brown


 

  Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency

 
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $27.95
Sale: $13.99
 
Manufacturer: Penguin Press HC, The
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Barton Gellman
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931092
Publication Date: 2008-09-16
Reading Level: 384
 
Description: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman’s newsbreaking investigative journalism documents how Vice President Dick Cheney redefined the role of the American vice presidency, assuming unprecedented responsibilities and making it a post of historic power.

Dick Cheney changed history, defining his times and shaping a White House as no vice president has before— yet concealing most of his work from public view. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman parts the curtains of secrecy to show how Cheney operated, why, and what he wrought.

Angler, Gellman’s embargoed and highly explosive book, is a work of careful, concrete, and original reporting backed by hundreds of interviews with close Cheney allies as well as rivals, many speaking candidly on the record for the first time. On the signature issues of war and peace, Angler takes readers behind the scenes as Cheney maneuvers for dominance on what he calls the iron issues from Iraq, Iran, and North Korea to executive supremacy, interrogation of Al Qaeda suspects, and domestic espionage. Gellman explores the behind-the- scenes story of Cheney’s tremendous influence on foreign policy, exposing how he misled the four ranking members of Congress with faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, how he derailed Bush from venturing into Israeli- Palestinian peace talks for nearly five years, and how his policy left North Korea and Iran free to make major advances in their nuclear programs.

Domestically, Gellman details Cheney’s role as “super Chief of Staff ”, enforcer of conservative orthodoxy; gatekeeper of Supreme Court nominees; referee of Cabinet turf; editor of tax and budget laws; and regulator in chief of the administration’s environment policy. We watch as Cheney, the ultimate Washington insider, leverages his influence within the Bush administration in order to implement his policy goals. Gellman’s discoveries will surprise even the most astute students of political science.

Above all, Angler is a study of the inner workings of the Bush administration and the vice president’s central role as the administration’s canniest power player. Gellman exposes the mechanics of Cheney’s largely successful post-September 11 campaign to win unchecked power for the commander in chief, and reflects upon, and perhaps changes, the legacy that Cheney—and the Bush administration as a whole—will leave as they exit office.

 

  Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression

 
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $16.95
Sale: $11.52
 
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Studs Terkel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.9160922
Publication Date: 2000-11
Reading Level: 480
 
Description: First published in 1970, this classic of oral history features the voices of men and women who lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s. It includes accounts by congressmen C. Wright Patman and Hamilton Fish, as well as failed presidential candidate Alf M. Landon, who recalls what it was like to be governor of Kansas in 1933:
Men with tears in their eyes begged for an appointment that would help save their homes and farms. I couldn't see them all in my office. But I never let one of them leave without my coming out and shakin' hands with 'em. I listened to all their stories, each one of 'em. But it was obvious I couldn't take care of all their terrible needs.
The book includes also the perspectives of ordinary men and women, such as Jim Sheridan, who took part in the 1932 march by World War I veterans to petition for their benefits in Washington, D.C., where they were repelled by army troops led by General Douglas MacArthur. Or Edward Santander, who was a child then: "My first memories come about '31. It was simply a gut issue then: eating or not eating, living or not living." Studs Terkel makes history come alive, drawing out experiences and emotions from his interviewees to the degree few have ever been able to match.

 

  Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

 
Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $15.95
Sale: $8.77
 
Manufacturer: Adams Media
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Sherry Argov
Publisher: Adams Media
Edition: 6
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.77
Publication Date: 2002-10-01
Reading Level: 272
 
Description: Sherry Argov's fresh and witty Why Men Love Bitches gives no-nonsense advice guaranteed to help the woman who feels she is "too nice" become unpredictable, exciting, and ever so cool! The bitch not only gets her man, she knows how to hold her own in the relationship, keeping him guessing, dazzle him at every turn - and gain his respect with far less effort.

 

  The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics)

 
The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) under Nonfiction in The Books Store
Price: $7.95
Sale: $4.45
 
Manufacturer: Bantam Classics
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Author: Adam Smith
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Dewey Decimal Number: 330.153
Publication Date: 2003-03-04
Reading Level: 1264
 
Description: The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith

It is symbolic that Adam Smith’s masterpiece of economic analysis, The Wealth of Nations, was first published in 1776, the same year as the Declaration of Independence.

In his book, Smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fully capable of setting and regulating prices for their own goods and services. He argued passionately in favor of free trade, yet stood up for the little guy. The Wealth of Nations provided the first--and still the most eloquent--integrated description of the workings of a market economy.

The result of Smith’s efforts is a witty, highly readable work of genius filled with prescient theories that form the basis of a thriving capitalist system. This unabridged edition offers the modern reader a fresh look at a timeless and seminal work that revolutionized the way governments and individuals view the creation and dispersion of wealth--and that continues to influence our economy right up to the present day.

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