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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $9.95
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Manufacturer: New World Library
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: New World Library
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Dewey Decimal Number: 970.00497
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Publication Date: 1999-03-03
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: This collections of writings by revered Native Americans offers timeless, meaningful lessons and thought-provoking teachings on living and learning.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $9.45
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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: Stephen E. Ambrose
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Publisher: Anchor
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Edition: 1st Anchor Books Trade Pbk. Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.820922
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Publication Date: 1996-05-01
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Reading Level: 560
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Description: A dual portrait of the leader of the Oglala Sioux and the general of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry in 1876 cites the battle of June 25 and chronicles the sometimes striking similarities in the lives of both men. Reprint. LJ.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.64
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Carlos Castaneda
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.7
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Publication Date: 2008-05-09
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Forty years ago the University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. The Teachings of Don Juan initiated a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. Castaneda's now classic book remains controversial for the alternative way of seeing that it presents and the revolution in cognition it demands. Whether read as ethnographic fact or creative fiction, it is the story of a remarkable journey that has left an indelible impression on the life of more than a million readers around the world.
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Price: $3.50
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Sale: $0.65
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Harriet Jacobs
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.567092
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Publication Date: 2001-11-09
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: This autobiographical account by a former slave is one of the few extant narratives written by a woman. Written and published in 1861, it delivers a powerful, unflinching portrayal of the brutality of slave life. Jacobs speaks frankly of her master's abuse and her eventual escape, in an amazing and inspirational account of one woman's dauntless spirit and faith.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $16.47
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Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Gwen Ifill
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Publisher: Doubleday
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Dewey Decimal Number: 328.73092
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Publication Date: 2009-01-20
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: In The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential victory and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power.
Ifill argues that the Black political structure formed during the Civil Rights movement is giving way to a generation of men and women who are the direct beneficiaries of the struggles of the 1960s. She offers incisive, detailed profiles of such prominent leaders as Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and U.S. Congressman Artur Davis of Alabama (all interviewed for this book), and also covers numerous up-and-coming figures from across the nation. Drawing on exclusive interviews with power brokers such as President Obama, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vernon Jordan, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, his son Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., and many others, as well as her own razor-sharp observations and analysis of such issues as generational conflict, the race/ gender clash, and the "black enough" conundrum, Ifill shows why this is a pivotal moment in American history.
The Breakthrough is a remarkable look at contemporary politics and an essential foundation for understanding the future of American democracy in the age of Obama.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $9.64
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Manufacturer: HCI
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jack Canfield::Mark Victor Hansen::Heather McNamara::Karen Simmons
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Publisher: HCI
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 362.4083
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Publication Date: 2007-09-03
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Reading Level: 350
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Description: 'These powerful heart-rending stories are filled with honesty, humor, hope and offer inspiration to parents, teachers, and anyone else who cares for children with special needs. By embracing the magnificence, inner peace, and beauty each child possess, our own attitudes are shifted from despair to promise.' —Gerold G Jampolsky, M.D., Founder of International Center of Attitudinal Healing, Sausalito , California
Raising a child with special needs is a lifelong commitment that is as unique as each person who embarks on it. Written by a variety of authors who share in this distinctive relationship, Chicken Soup for the Soul Children with Special Needs offers a glimpse into the lives of others who are on a similar path.
These stories provide insight, comfort, and connection with others who have walked this powerful and transformational journey. The authors of these candid stories relate their own experiences of adjusting, reaching out, and flourishing and share their universal worries, their tears, and the laughter that come with this extraordinary relationship. Most important, through these stories, you will be guided with the wisdom of fellow parents, caregivers, and those with special needs to help you be the very best parent or caregiver you can be.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $12.20
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Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Cornel West
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Publisher: Beacon Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800973
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Publication Date: 2001-05-25
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Reading Level: 108
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Description: First published in 1993 on the one-year anniversary of the L.A. riots, Race Matters has since become an American classic. Beacon Press is proud to present this hardcover edition with a new introduction by Cornel West. The issues that it addresses are as controversial and urgent as before, and West's insights remain fresh, exciting, and timely. Now more than ever, Race Matters is a book for all Americans—one that will help us build a genuine multiracial democracy.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $9.91
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ted Gioia
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781.6509
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Publication Date: 1998-12-17
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Reading Level: 480
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Description: Jazz is the most colorful and varied art form in the world and it was born in one of the most colorful and varied cities, New Orleans. From the seed first planted by slave dances held in Congo Square and nurtured by early ensembles led by Buddy Belden and Joe "King" Oliver, jazz began its long winding odyssey across America and around the world, giving flower to a thousand different forms--swing, bebop, cool jazz, jazz-rock fusion--and a thousand great musicians. Now, in The History of Jazz, Ted Gioia tells the story of this music as it has never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history--Jelly Roll Morton ("the world's greatest hot tune writer"), Louis Armstrong (whose O-keh recordings of the mid-1920s still stand as the most significant body of work that jazz has produced), Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club, cool jazz greats such as Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, and Lester Young, Charlie Parker's surgical precision of attack, Miles Davis's 1955 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, Ornette Coleman's experiments with atonality, Pat Metheny's visionary extension of jazz-rock fusion, the contemporary sounds of Wynton Marsalis, and the post-modernists of the Knitting Factory. Gioia provides the reader with lively portraits of these and many other great musicians, intertwined with vibrant commentary on the music they created. Gioia also evokes the many worlds of jazz, taking the reader to the swamp lands of the Mississippi Delta, the bawdy houses of New Orleans, the rent parties of Harlem, the speakeasies of Chicago during the Jazz Age, the after hours spots of corrupt Kansas city, the Cotton Club, the Savoy, and the other locales where the history of jazz was made. And as he traces the spread of this protean form, Gioia provides much insight into the social context in which the music was born. He shows for instance how the development of technology helped promote the growth of jazz--how ragtime blossomed hand-in-hand with the spread of parlor and player pianos, and how jazz rode the growing popularity of the record industry in the 1920s. We also discover how bebop grew out of the racial unrest of the 1940s and '50s, when black players, no longer content with being "entertainers," wanted to be recognized as practitioners of a serious musical form. Jazz is a chameleon art, delighting us with the ease and rapidity with which it changes colors. Now, in Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz, we have at last a book that captures all these colors on one glorious palate. Knowledgeable, vibrant, and comprehensive, it is among the small group of books that can truly be called classics of jazz literature.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $6.94
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Manufacturer: NAL Trade
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Howard Griffin
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Publisher: NAL Trade
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896073
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Publication Date: 2003-05-06
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity-that in this new millennium still has something important to say to every American.
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Price: $13.99
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Sale: $5.30
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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: Luis Alberto Urrea
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Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.873072
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Publication Date: 2005-09-19
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: In this work of grave beauty and searing powerone of the most widely praised pieces of investigative reporting to appear in recent yearswe follow 26 men who in May 2001 attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadly region known as the Devils Highway, a desert so harsh and desolate that even the Border Patrol is afraid to travel through it, a place that for hundreds of years has stolen mens souls and swallowed their blood. Only 12 of the men made it out.
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