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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $14.91
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Manufacturer: Guinness
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Guinness World Records
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Publisher: Guinness
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Dewey Decimal Number: 031
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Publication Date: 2008-09-16
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Reading Level: 288
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Reading Level: All Ages
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Description: Guinness World Records 2009 continues to build on the intriguing, informative, inspiring and instructional records and superlatives that have made Guinness World Records one of the most famous brands and an annual best-seller around the world.
This year, we've created a revolutionary new design and filled it with more records than ever before. And the 2009 edition will have two gatefold spreads and over 20 pages of special records all with 3-D photos, which can be viewed with enclosed 3-D glasses!!
Combined with a new, research-tested, eye-catching cover, over 1,000 new records and 100% new photos, this year's edition once again sets out to be the best Guinness World Records book ever!!
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $15.46
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Manufacturer: Portfolio Hardcover
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Geoff Colvin
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Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
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Dewey Decimal Number: 153.9
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Publication Date: 2008-10-16
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Expanding on a landmark cover story in Fortune, a top journalist debunks the myths of exceptional performance.
One of the most popular Fortune articles in many years was a cover story called “What It Takes to Be Great.” Geoff Colvin offered new evidence that top performers in any field--from Tiger Woods and Winston Churchill to Warren Buffett and Jack Welch--are not determined by their inborn talents. Greatness doesn’t come from DNA but from practice and perseverance honed over decades.
And not just plain old hard work, like your grandmother might have advocated, but a very specific kind of work. The key is how you practice, how you analyze the results of your progress and learn from your mistakes, that enables you to achieve greatness.
Now Colvin has expanded his article with much more scientific background and real-world examples. He shows that the skills of business—negotiating deals, evaluating financial statements, and all the rest—obey the principles that lead to greatness, so that anyone can get better at them with the right kind of effort. Even the hardest decisions and interactions can be systematically improved.
This new mind-set, combined with Colvin’s practical advice, will change the way you think about your job and career—and will inspire you to achieve more in all you do.
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Price: $12.99
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Sale: $7.70
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Manufacturer: World Almanac
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: World Almanac Books
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Publisher: World Almanac
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Dewey Decimal Number: 031
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Publication Date: 2008-11-25
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Reading Level: 1008
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Description: New for 2009—The World Almanac and Book of Facts includes the complete 2008 U.S. election results, and World Series statistics. Every family needs this New York Times best-selling reference book. The World Almanac is the #1 best-selling American reference book of all time. It is the source for essential and authoritative facts for entertainment, reference and learning. The book contains thousands of facts and statistics that aren’t publicly available which are sourced and double-checked by the staff of World Almanac experts. The 2008 Edition spent 12 weeks on the NYT Bestseller list reaching #2; 10 weeks on the USA Today Bestseller List reaching #51; and 9 weeks on the Book Sense List reaching a high of #11. Features in The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2009: · The World at a Glance: The most fascinating facts of the past year in science, economics, sports, arts and media, and more · World Almanac 2008 News Quiz: For news junkies and snorers alike · Election 2008 Coverage and Results: Twenty-four pages dedicated to the complete coverage of key issues, pivotal primaries, memorable moments, and election results from the presidential campaign. · Beijing Olympics Recap: faces, Places and records from the Summer 2008 games. · World Series: For the first time in 5 years, the World Almanac will contain facts covering the World Series. · Celebrity Picks: notable names serve up their very own lists of Favorite People, Places, and Things · Year in Pictures: 16 page color photo section of the top stories of 2008, as well as 16 pages of world maps and flags and easy-to-use side abs. · Plus thousands of facts and statistics that aren’t publicly available; sourced and double-checked by our full-time editorial staff who are reference experts by category World Almanac Online: www.WorldAlmanac.com 2009 will feature the third year of Bonus Content Online, extended reading to the printed edition for the same combined price of $12.99. This year will feature the Election Results from 2008, plus lots more free information available year-round at worldalmanac.com: historical presidential information, health news and features, and early access to WA09 info. Once online, look for The World Almanac Blog, launched in 2006 and every weekday featuring · New original entries, including provocative postings such as Unbreakable Sports Records; fascinating scientific and historical trivia; and new links to online tools and archives for almanac fans · This Day in History, Notable Birthdays and unusual anniversaries such as when Nixon met Elvis Presley in the Oval Office (1970) · More useful links and tags to essential reads
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $36.00
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Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: CC The New York Times
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Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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Edition: Har/Dvdr
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Dewey Decimal Number: 9871579127497
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Publication Date: 2008-11-01
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Reading Level: 456
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Description: This stunning and cutting-edge package provides access to the world as reflected in its most influential and respected newspaper. From wars and political assassinations to social movements and space exploration, all the news that is fit to print—or download—can be found in this extraordinary book-and-DVD set.
More than 300 of the most significant New York Times front pages have been carefully selected and beautifully reproduced in the book. Read the headlines and stories covering such world-changing events as Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Ten foldouts present twenty key front pages at their magnificent full size. News summaries throughout highlight the most significant events of each era and put the front pages into a historical context. Seventeen insightful essays by prominent Times writers comment on pivotal moments, including "The End of Slavery" by William Safire, "Women’s Suffrage" by Gail Collins, and "The Age of Television" by Frank Rich.
The 3 DVDs include each of the 54,266 front pages printed by the Times over the past 157 years. Completely searchable and user-friendly, the disks are designed to provide access to the full stories that made front-page news each day since the paper’s founding in 1851. Click on a page—the day you were born, for example—and you're instantly transported to the Times' online archive.
The New York Times: The Complete Front Pages is the ultimate gift for history buffs, news junkies, students, and anyone who strives to be well-informed.
DVD-ROMs run on a PC (Windows 2000/XP or later) or Mac (OSX I0.4.8 or later) with Adobe 8.o or later. Free download available on the DVD-ROMs.
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Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, ... With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $16.29
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Roy Blount Jr.
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5407
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Publication Date: 2008-10-14
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Ali G: How many words does you know? Noam Chomsky: Normally, humans, by maturity, have tens of thousands of them. Ali G: What is some of 'em? —Da Ali G Show Did you know that both mammal and matter derive from baby talk? Have you noticed how wince makes you wince? Ever wonder why so many h-words have to do with breath? Roy Blount Jr. certainly has, and after forty years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, except greeting cards, he still can’t get over his ABCs. In Alphabet Juice, he celebrates the electricity, the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies, of letters and their combinations. Blount does not prescribe proper English. The franchise he claims is “over the counter.” Three and a half centuries ago, Thomas Blount produced Blount’s Glossographia, the first dictionary to explore derivations of English words. This Blount’s Glossographia takes that pursuit to other levels, from Proto-Indo-European roots to your epiglottis. It rejects the standard linguistic notion that the connection between words and their meanings is “arbitrary.” Even the word arbitrary is shown to be no more arbitrary, at its root, than go-to guy or crackerjack. From sources as venerable as the OED (in which Blount finds an inconsistency, at whisk) and as fresh as Urbandictionary.com (to which Blount has contributed the number-one definition of “alligator arm”), and especially from the author’s own wide-ranging experience, Alphabet Juice derives an organic take on language that is unlike, and more fun than, any other. |
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $21.01
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Judy Jones::William Wilson
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 031.02
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Publication Date: 2006-04-25
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Reading Level: 720
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Description: You'll find everything you forgot from school--as well as plenty you never even learned--in this all-purpose reference book, an instant classic when it first appeared in 1987. The updated version takes a whirlwind tour through 12 different disciplines, from American studies to philosophy to world history. Along the way, Judy Jones and William Wilson provide a plethora of useful information, from the plot of Othello to the difference between fission and fusion. It's not a shortcut to cultural literacy, the authors write in their introduction, but it's an excellent "way in" to the building blocks of Western civilization: the "books, music, art, philosophy, and discoveries that have, for one reason or another, managed to endure." Think of it as finishing school for your brain; study up and you'll gain a lifetime's worth of cocktail conversation--as well as a new list of books you simply must read.
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Price: $36.95
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Sale: $17.95
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Manufacturer: Graduate Management Admission Council
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Graduate Management Admission Council
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Publisher: Graduate Management Admission Council
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Edition: 11
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Dewey Decimal Number: 650
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Publication Date: 2005-09
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Reading Level: 832
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Price: $7.50
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Sale: $3.54
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Manufacturer: Merriam-Webster
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Merriam-Webster
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Publisher: Merriam-Webster
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Edition: 4
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Dewey Decimal Number: 793.734
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Publication Date: 2005-06
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Reading Level: 674
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Description: New edition! An inexpensive edition of the book that SCRABBLE® players call their bible. Ideal for recreational and school play. More than 100,000 playable two- to eight-letter words including 4,000 new entries. Includes variant spellings. Endorsed by the National SCRABBLE® Association.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.89
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Manufacturer: Crown
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Timothy Ferriss
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Publisher: Crown
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Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
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Publication Date: 2007-04-24
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this
controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:
“I race motorcycles in Europe.”
“I ski in the Andes.”
“I scuba dive in Panama.”
“I dance tango in Buenos Aires.”
He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the “deferred-life plan” and instead mastered the new currencies—time and mobility—to create luxury lifestyles in the here and now.
Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, this book is the compass for a new and revolutionary world. Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you:
• How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
• How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs
• How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist
• How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent "mini-retirements"
• What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income
• How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it’s beyond repair
• What automated cash-flow “muses” are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks
• How to cultivate selective ignorance—and create time—with a low-information diet
• What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are
• How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50–80% off
• How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office
You can have it all—really.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $7.24
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Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Max Brooks
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Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 818.602
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Publication Date: 2003-09-16
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.
Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack
1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don’t need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.
Don’t be carefree and foolish with your most precious asset—life. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.
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