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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $7.50
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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: Sister Souljah
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.808996073
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Publication Date: 1996-01-30
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Rapper, activist, and hip-hop rebel, Sister Souljah possesses the most passionate and articulate voice to emerge from the projects. Now she uses that voice to deliver what is at once a fiercely candid autobiography and a survival manual for any African American woman determined to keep her heart open and her integrity intact in 1990s America.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $6.00
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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: Richard Nisbett
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Publisher: Free Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 153.4
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Publication Date: 2004-03-30
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: When psychologist Richard E. Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese observers instead commented on the background environment -- and the different "seeings" are a clue to profound cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. As Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought, people think about -- and even see -- the world differently because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China. The Geography of Thought documents Professor Nisbett's groundbreaking research in cultural psychology, addressing questions such as: - Why did the ancient Chinese excel at algebra and arithmetic, but not geometry, the brilliant achievement of such Greeks as Euclid?
- Why do East Asians find it so difficult to disentangle an object from its surroundings?
- Why do Western infants learn nouns more rapidly than verbs, when it is the other way around in East Asia?
At a moment in history when the need for cross-cultural understanding and collaboration have never been more important, The Geography of Thought offers both a map to that gulf and a blueprint for a bridge that might be able to span it.
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Price: $9.99
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Sale: $9.76
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Manufacturer: Wilder Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Carter G. Woodson
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Publisher: Wilder Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2008-01-21
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Reading Level: 108
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Description: The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written. Carter G. Woodson shows us the weakness of Euro-centric based curriculums that fail to include African American history and culture. This system mis-educates the African American student, failing to prepare them for success and to give them an adequate sense of who they are within the system that they must live. Woodson provides many strong solutions to the problems he identifies. A must-read for anyone working in the education field.
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Price: $15.99
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Sale: $8.73
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Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bliss Broyard
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Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Edition: Reprint
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Dewey Decimal Number: 809
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Publication Date: 2008-09-09
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Reading Level: 544
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Description: Ever since renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard's own parents, New Orleans Creoles, had moved to Brooklyn and began to "pass" in order to get work, he had learned to conceal his racial identity. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York literary elite, he maintained the façade. Now his daughter Bliss tries to make sense of his choices and the impact of this revelation on her own life. She searches out the family she never knew in New York and New Orleans, and considers the profound consequences of racial identity. With unsparing candor and nuanced insight, Broyard chronicles her evolution from sheltered WASP to a woman of mixed race ancestry.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $5.14
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Manufacturer: Sentient Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bryan Jepson
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Publisher: Sentient Publications
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 618.9285882
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Publication Date: 2007-07-25
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Reading Level: 358
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Description: This book shows that autism can be treated by reducing the neurological inflammation that is part of the disease process, rather than simply masking the symptoms with drugs like Ritalin and Prozac. The authors have have seen autistic behaviors improve dramatically or disappear completely with appropriate medical treatment. The book reviews the medical literature regarding the biological nature of the disease, including the potential connection between vaccines and autism. The foreword is by Katie Wright, whose parents--Bob and Suzanne Wright--founded Autism Speaks.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $8.70
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Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Kurson
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Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Edition: Reprint
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Dewey Decimal Number: 920
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Publication Date: 2008-08-19
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May’s vision. It would allow him to drive, to read, to see his children’s faces. But the procedure was filled with gambles, some of them deadly, others beyond May’s wildest dreams. Beautifully written and thrillingly told, Crashing Through is a journey of suspense, daring, romance, and insight into the mysteries of vision and the brain. Robert Kurson gives us a fascinating account of one man’s choice to explore what it means to see–and to truly live.
Praise for the National Bestseller Crashing Through:
“An incredible human story [told] in gripping fashion . . . a great read.”
–Chicago Sun-Times
“Inspiring.”
–USA Today
“[An] astonishing story . . . memorably told . . . May is remarkable. . . . Don’t be surprised if your own vision mists over now and then.”
–Chicago Tribune
“[A] moving account [of] an extraordinary character.”
–People
“Terrific . . . [a] genuinely fascinating account of the nature of human vision.”
–The Washington Post
“Kurson is a man with natural curiosity and one who can feel the excitement life has to offer. One of his great gifts is he makes you feel it, too.”
–The Kansas City Star
“Propulsive . . . a gripping adventure story.”
–Entertainment Weekly
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $10.27
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Manufacturer: Bold Strokes Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kim Baldwin::Xenia Alexiou
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Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
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Publication Date: 2008-07-15
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Reading Level: 269
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Description: Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means. But her latest assignment to investigate journalist Hayley Ward will test more than her skills, ingenuity and courage, because this time she faces the ultimate dilemma: a choice between loyalty and love.
First in the romantic suspense series: Elite Operatives.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $5.49
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Manufacturer: Anchor
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alex Kotlowitz
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Publisher: Anchor
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.230977311
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Publication Date: 1992-01-05
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: There Are No Children Here, the true story of brothers Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers, ages 11 and 9 at the start, brings home the horror of trying to make it in a violence-ridden public housing project. The boys live in a gang-plagued war zone on Chicago's West Side, literally learning how to dodge bullets the way kids in the suburbs learn to chase baseballs. "If I grow up, I'd like to be a bus driver," says Lafeyette at one point. That's if, not when--spoken with the complete innocence of a child. The book's title comes from a comment made by the brothers' mother as she and author Alex Kotlowitz contemplate the challenges of living in such a hostile environment: "There are no children here," she says. "They've seen too much to be children." This book humanizes the problem of inner-city pathology, makes readers care about Lafeyette and Pharoah more than they may expect to, and offers a sliver of hope buried deep within a world of chaos.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $9.20
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Manufacturer: Alyson Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Alyson Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7663
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Publication Date: 2002-12-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Intense and vibrantly real lesbian erotica in the spirit of Skin Deep, these quick and dirty true stories revel in hot lesbian sex. As they peek into the diary of a very busy (and very bad) girl, readers will be panting hungrily as women from around the world reveal their most intimate lesbian encounters. Nicole Foster edited the best-selling books, Skin Deep, Awakening the Virgin, Body Check, and Electric. She undresses in front of her window in Los Angeles.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $10.03
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Manufacturer: Delta
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Víctor E. Villaseñor
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Publisher: Delta
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 979.400468720730922
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Publication Date: 1992-10-01
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Reading Level: 576
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