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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $9.45
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Halberstam
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Edition: 20 Anv
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.922
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Publication Date: 1993-10-26
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Reading Level: 720
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Description: "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times
"[The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation's search for its idealistic soul. THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST is almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller." -- The Boston Globe
"Deeply moving . . . We cannot help but feel the compelling power of this narrative . . . . Dramatic and tragic, a chain of events overwhelming in their force, a distant war embodying illusions and myths, terror and violence, confusions and courage, blindness, pride, and arrogance." -- Los Angeles Times
"Most impressive, superb -- perceptive, literary, multidimensional." -- The New York Times Book Review
"A story which every American should read." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $15.99
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Manufacturer: Ozark Press, LLC
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William Powell
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Publisher: Ozark Press, LLC
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Dewey Decimal Number: 623.4
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Publication Date: 2002-06
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Reading Level: 160
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $19.98
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Manufacturer: American Psychological Association (APA)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Spiral-bound
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Author: American Psychiatric Association
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Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 808.06615
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Publication Date: 2005-03
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Reading Level: 212
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Description: The Concise Rules of APA Style offers essential writing and formatting standards for students, teachers, researchers, and clinicians in the social and behavioral sciences. This easy-to-use pocket guide, compiled from the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, provides complete guidance on the rules of style that are critical for clear communication. Readers will learn how to avoid the grammatical errors most commonly reported by journal editors; how to choose the appropriate format for statistics, figures, and tables; how to credit sources and avoid charges of plagiarism; and how to construct a reference list through a wide variety of examples and sources. How does the Concise Rules differ from the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association? The Publication Manual remains the best source for broad background information about scientific publishing. It provides guidance on designing research, identifying the parts of a scholarly article, understanding the process of journal publication, and submitting articles for publication. The Concise Rules, by comparison, targets only those rules writers need for choosing the best words and format for their articles. It offers a comprehensive list of essential writing standards in a convenient, easily retrievable format. In addition to guidance on grammar points that have challenged writers in the social sciences, the Concise Rules provides suggestions for reducing bias in language; reviews the mechanics of style for punctuation, spelling, capitalization, abbreviation, italicization, headings, and quotations; examines the preferred use of numbers as well as standards for metrication and statistics; provides guidance for the construction and formatting of tables, figures, and appendixes; and offers clear examples and models for referencing ideas and constructing error-free reference lists. Available in a light-weight, spiral-bound format, the Concise Rules will travel easily from home to school to office.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $16.13
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: E. D. Hirsch::Joseph F. Kett::James Trefil
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.03
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Publication Date: 2002-10-03
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Reading Level: 672
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Description: In this fast-paced information age, how can Americans know what's really important and what's just a passing fashion? Now more than ever, we need a source that concisely sums up the knowledge that matters to Americans -- the people, places, ideas, and events that shape our cultural conversation. With more than six thousand entries,The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy is that invaluable source.
Wireless technology. Gene therapy. NAFTA. In addition to the thousands of terms described in the original Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, here are more than five hundred new entries to bring Americans' bank of essential knowledge up to date. The original entries have been fully revised to reflect recent changes in world history and politics, American literature, and, especially, science and technology. Cultural icons that have stood the test of time (Odysseus, Leaves of Grass, Cleopatra, the Taj Mahal, D-Day) appear alongside entries on such varied concerns as cryptography, the digital divide, the European Union, Kwanzaa, pheromones, SPAM, Type A and Type B personalities, Web browsers, and much, much more.
As our world becomes more global and interconnected, it grows smaller through the terms and touchstones that unite us. As E. D. Hirsch writes in the preface, "Community is built up of shared knowledge and values -- the same shared knowledge that is taken for granted when we read a book or newspaper, and that is also taken for granted as part of the fabric that connects us to one another." A delicious concoction of information for anyone who wants to be in the know, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy brilliantly confirms once again that it is "an excellent piece of work . . . stimulating and enlightening" (New York Times) -- the most definitive and comprehensive family sourcebook of its kind.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $6.00
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Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Largo
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Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.903
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Publication Date: 2006-10-01
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Reading Level: 496
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Description: To die, kick the bucket, to meet your Maker, dead as a doornail, get whacked, smoked, bite the dust, sleep with the fishes, go six feet under—whatever death is called, it's going to happen. In 1789 Ben Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Death remains a certainty. But how do we die? It's the enormous variety of how that enlivens final exits. According to death certificates, in 1700 there were less than 100 causes of death. Today there are 3,000. With each advance of technology, people find new ways to become deceased, often causing trends that peak in the first year. People are now killed by everything, from cell phones, washing machines, lawn mowers and toothpicks, to the boundless catalog of man—made medicines. In Final Exits the causes of death—bizarre or common—are alphabetically arranged and include actual accounts of people, both famous and ordinary, who unfortunately died that way. (Ants, bad words, Bingo, bean bag chairs, flying cows, frozen toilets, hiccups, lipstick, moray eels, road kill, starfish, and toupees are only some of the more unusual causes.)
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $12.69
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Manufacturer: Checkmark Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Carl Waldman
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Publisher: Checkmark Books
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 970.00497
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Publication Date: 2000-03
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Reading Level: 385
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Description: Combining clear, informative text with a wealth of maps and illustrations, this unique resource offers the most comprehensive coverage available in a single volume on the history, culture, languages, and lifeways of Native American groups across North America.
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Price: $12.00
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Sale: $6.81
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Howard S. Becker
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 808.0663
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Publication Date: 2007-12-15
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures—most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to communicate with them—often lead to pretentious prose, academic posturing, and, not infrequently, writer’s block.
Sociologist Howard S. Becker has written the classic book on how to conquer these pressures and simply write. First published nearly twenty years ago, Writing for Social Scientists has become a lifesaver for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. Becker’s message is clear: in order to learn how to write, take a deep breath and then begin writing. Revise. Repeat.
It is not always an easy process, as Becker wryly relates. Decades of teaching, researching, and writing have given him plenty of material, and Becker neatly exposes the foibles of academia and its “publish or perish” atmosphere. Wordiness, the passive voice, inserting a “the way in which” when a simple “how” will do—all these mechanisms are a part of the social structure of academic writing. By shrugging off such impediments—or at the very least, putting them aside for a few hours—we can reform our work habits and start writing lucidly without worrying about grades, peer approval, or the “literature.”
In this new edition, Becker takes account of major changes in the computer tools available to writers today, and also substantially expands his analysis of how academic institutions create problems for them. As competition in academia grows increasingly heated, Writing for Social Scientists will provide solace to a new generation of frazzled, would-be writers.
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $13.59
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Carol Rose
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 398.203
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Publication Date: 2001-11
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: We have always conjured up creatures never seen in nature, from flying horses and two-headed birds to fire-breathing dragons and enormous killer skunks, as well as fantastic distortions of our own image, from giants to nubile maidens. In these pages you will meet extraordinary beings from Hindu and Navajo religions, Scandinavian tales, Russian folklore, Lithuanian stories, Irish oral history, American tall tales, and Aztec myth. Just some of the monstrous entourage:
• Baku, a benevolent Japanese monster with the body of a horse, the head of a lion, and the legs of a tiger, who helps people by devouring their nightmares.
• Kurma, the giant tortoise of Hindu myth, whose upper shell forms the heavens and lower part the earth.
• Missipissy, the feared fish serpent of North America's Great Lakes region.
This illustrated encyclopedia not only identifies and describes individual beasts in their cultural context but also groups them together across cultures and discusses common mythological strands and conceits. 60 b/w illustrations.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.27
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Manufacturer: Long Haul Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Jacoby Brown
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Publisher: Long Haul Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 361.8
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Publication Date: 2007-01-15
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Reading Level: 424
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Description: A practical and personal guide to creating groups that can solve community and workplace problems. Using lessons learned, exercises and stories from the experience of the author and others, this book brings alive the process of community organizing and community building. It is for anyone who wants to start or strengthen a commuity group, a congregation, a neighborhood association, a civic group, or any other group that deals with the many problems and concerns we all face in our everyday lives.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $1.35
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Manufacturer: Free Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lee Eisenberg
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Publisher: Free Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 300
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Publication Date: 2006-12-26
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Do you know what your "number" is? It's the amount you need for your nest egg. Have you saved enough? Can you save enough? The Number offers an intriguing and entertaining tour -- of wealth gurus, life coaches, and financial advisers, and our hopes and fears for the future -- to explore the secrets of the Number. The result is a provocative field guide to your psyche and finances, and an urgently useful book for anyone over thirty. The Number will help you think about the kind of life you want, and the kind of help you need to achieve it.
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