Saturday, November 23, 2019

The Articulations of Sidney Kimball (9781438237251)



Sidney Kimball's antique shop serves a far greater purpose than selling out-dated knick-knacks. For one special visitor, it becomes a hallowed refuge allowing him to address a series of personal hurdles with new-found perspective and wisdom.


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  • Paperback | 110 pages
  • 133 x 203 x 7mm | 132g
  • North Charleston SC, United States
  • English
  • 1438237251
  • 9781438237251


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Biomedical Engineering and Science (9781601324177)



Biomedical Engineering and Science is a compendium of articles and papers that were presented at the 2015 international conference that serves researchers, scholars, professionals, students, and academicians concerned with these topics.


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  • Paperback | 88 pages
  • 211 x 274 x 8mm | 227g
  • Bogart, United States
  • English
  • 1601324170
  • 9781601324177


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Friday, November 22, 2019

Cracks in the Ivory Tower : The Moral Mess of Higher Education (9780190846282)



Academics extol high-minded ideals, such as serving the common good and promoting social justice. Universities aim to be centers of learning that find the best and brightest students, treat them fairly, and equip them with the knowledge they need to lead better lives.

But as Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness show in Cracks in the Ivory Tower, American universities fall far short of this ideal. At almost every level, they find that students, professors, and administrators are guided by self-interest rather than ethical concerns. College bureaucratic structures also often incentivize and reward bad behavior, while disincentivizing and even punishing good behavior. Most students, faculty, and administrators are out to serve themselves and pass their
costs onto others.

The problems are deep and pervasive: most academic marketing and advertising is semi-fraudulent. To justify their own pay raises and higher budgets, administrators hire expensive and unnecessary staff. Faculty exploit students for tuition dollars through gen-ed requirements. Students hardly learn anything and cheating is pervasive. At every level, academics disguise their pursuit of self-interest with high-faluting moral language.

Marshaling an array of data, Brennan and Magness expose many of the ethical failings of academia and in turn reshape our understanding of how such high power institutions run their business. Everyone knows academia is dysfunctional. Brennan and Magness show the problems are worse than anyone realized. Academics have only themselves to blame.


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  • Hardback | 240 pages
  • 161 x 242 x 28mm | 588g
  • New York, United States
  • English
  • 0190846283
  • 9780190846282
  • 724,695


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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

A Nongovernmental Organization's National Response to HIV : The Work of the All-Ukrainian Network of People Living with HIV (9789291735976)



The All-Ukrainian Network of People Living with HIV was founded in the late 1990s by people alarmed by the rapidly growing epidemic in their country, and the lack of resources and support for themselves and others affected by HIV. Since then the Network has grown to provide services throughout the country. Key strategy components are: increasing access to care and support; lobbying and advocating protecting the rights of people living with HIV; seeking to increase social acceptance of people living with HIV; and enhancing the organizational capacity of the Network. This short document outlines the development of the Network and highlights lessons learnt, a longer study providing more information about the Network is available on UNAIDS' website.


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  • Paperback | 48 pages
  • 203.2 x 289.56 x 5.08mm | 199.58g
  • Geneva, Switzerland
  • English
  • 9291735973
  • 9789291735976


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Friday, November 8, 2019

Beneath a Scarlet Sky : A Novel (9781503943377)



Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland.

Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience during one of history's darkest hours.

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager--obsessed with music, food, and girls--but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.

In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier--a move they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler's left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich's most mysterious and powerful commanders.

Now, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share.

Fans of All the Light We Cannot See, The Nightingale, and Unbroken will enjoy this riveting saga of history, suspense, and love.


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  • Paperback | 524 pages
  • 137.16 x 208.28 x 40.64mm | 521.63g
  • Lake Union Publishing
  • Seattle, United States
  • English
  • 1503943372
  • 9781503943377
  • 14,436


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Sunday, November 3, 2019

Lost Keys of Freemasonry (9780486473772)



A high-ranking Mason offers a fascinating glimpse into the Western world's most secretive society. Manly P. Hall, a scholar of occult and esoteric ideas, traces the path followed by initiates to the ancient craft. Hall also recounts the ethical training required of a Freemason, and he profiles the character traits a Mason must "build" within himself.
More than a mere social organization a few centuries old, Freemasonry can be regarded as a perpetuation of the philosophical mysteries and initiations of the ancients. This book reveals the unique and distinctive elements that have inspired generations of Masons. Thoughtful members of the craft, as well as outsiders, will appreciate its exploration of Masonic idealism and the eternal quest, from humble candidate to entered apprentice and master Mason.


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  • Paperback | 144 pages
  • 136 x 216 x 8mm | 163g
  • New York, United States
  • English
  • Revised
  • 4th edition
  • Illustrations, unspecified
  • 0486473775
  • 9780486473772
  • 77,884


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Thursday, October 31, 2019

Hamilton (Vocal Selections) (9780571539673)



Hamilton presents vocal selections from the critically acclaimed musical about Alexander Hamilton. The show debuted on Broadway in August 2015 to unprecedented advanced box office sales and has already become one of the most successful Broadway musicals ever. This collection features 17 songs in piano/vocal format from the music penned by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Already a winner of 11 Tony Awards, a Grammy and a Pulitzer Prize, Sir Cameron Macintosh's production opened in London's West End in December 2017.


Product details

  • Sheet music | 200 pages
  • 229 x 305 x 17mm | 658g
  • London, United Kingdom
  • English
  • Revised
  • 2nd Revised edition
  • 057153967X
  • 9780571539673
  • 76,812


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Crucible of War : The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (9781541418028)



In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War-long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution-takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain's empire and to sow the seeds of its eventual dissolution. Beginning with a skirmish in the Pennsylvania backcountry involving an inexperienced George Washington, the Iroquois chief Tanaghrisson, and the ill-fated French emissary Jumonville, Anderson reveals a chain of events that would lead to world conflagration. Weaving together the military, economic, and political motives of the participants with unforgettable portraits of Washington, William Pitt, Montcalm, and many others, Anderson brings a fresh perspective to one of America's most important wars, demonstrating how the forces unleashed there would irrevocably change the politics of empire in North America.


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  • CD-Audio
  • 137 x 163 x 42mm | 101g
  • Old Saybrook, CT, United States
  • English
  • Unabridged
  • Unabridged edition
  • 1541418026
  • 9781541418028


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The Survival of the Bark Canoe (9780374516932)



In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of one written by the first tourist in these woods, Henry David Thoreau, whose The Maine Woods recounts similar journeys in similar vessel. As McPhee describes the expedition he made with Vaillancourt, he also traces the evolution of the bark canoe, from its beginnings through the development of the huge canoes used by the fur traders of the Canadian North Woods, where the bark canoe played the key role in opening up the wilderness. He discusses as well the differing types of bark canoes, whose construction varied from tribe to tribe, according to custom and available materials. In a style as pure and as effortless as the waters of Maine and the glide of a canoe, John McPhee has written one of his most fascinating books, one in which his talents as a journalist are on brilliant display.


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  • Paperback | 114 pages
  • 146 x 210 x 10.67mm | 181g
  • New York, United Kingdom
  • English
  • 0374516936
  • 9780374516932
  • 85,502


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