Bella English

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Kansas

The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy

Dismissed as a spent force in politics by the time he reached middle age, Ted Kennedy became the most powerful senator of the last half century and the nation's keeper of traditional liberalism. Perceptive and carefully reported, drawing heavily from candid interviews with the Kennedy family and inner circle, "Last Lion" captures magnificently his life and historic achievements, as well as the personal redemption that he found.

Last Lion

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Charlaine Harris

Deadlocked

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Robert F. Simone

The Man Who Dared to Defend the Mob

The Last Mouthpiece

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Alex Xu

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide (Volume 1)

System design interviews are the most difficult to tackle of all technical interview questions. This book is Volume 1 of the System Design Interview - An insider's guide series that provides a reliable strategy and knowledge base for approaching a broad range of system design questions. This book provides a step-by-step framework for how to tackle a system design question. It includes many real-world examples to illustrate the systematic approach, with detailed steps that you can follow.

What's inside?
- An insider's take on what interviewers really look for and why.
- A 4-step framework for solving any system design interview question.
- 16 real system design interview questions with detailed solutions.
- 188 diagrams to visually explain how different systems work.

Table Of Contents
Chapter 1: Scale From Zero To Millions Of Users
Chapter 2: Back-of-the-envelope Estimation
Chapter 3: A Framework For System Design Interviews
Chapter 4: Design A Rate Limiter
Chapter 5: Design Consistent Hashing
Chapter 6: Design A Key-value Store
Chapter 7: Design A Unique Id Generator In Distributed Systems
Chapter 8: Design A Url Shortener
Chapter 9: Design A Web Crawler
Chapter 10: Design A Notification System
Chapter 11: Design A News Feed System
Chapter 12: Design A Chat System
Chapter 13: Design A Search Autocomplete System
Chapter 14: Design Youtube
Chapter 15: Design Google Drive
Chapter 16: The Learning Continues

System Design Interview - an Insider's Guide

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Ken Robinson

The Power of Being Creative

Creativity is critical.

Out of Our Minds explores creativity: its value in business, its ubiquity in children, its perceived absence in many adults and the phenomenon through which it disappears -- and offers a groundbreaking approach for getting it back.  Author Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognised authority on creativity, and his TED talk on the subject is the most watched video in TED's history. In this book, Sir Ken argues that organisations everywhere are struggling to fix a problem that originates in schools and universities. Organisations everywhere are competing in a world that changes in the blink of an eye - they need people who are flexible enough to adapt, and creative enough to find novel solutions to problems old and new. Out of Our Minds describes how schools, businesses and communities can work together to bring creativity out of the closet and realise its inherent value at every stage of life. This new third edition has been updated to reflect changing technologies and demographics, with updated case studies and coverage of recent changes to education.

While education and training are the keys to the future, the key can also be turned the other way; locking people away from their own creativity. Only by actively fostering creativity can businesses unlock those doors and achieve their true potential. This book will help you to:

 * Understand the importance of actively promoting creativity and innovation.
 * Discover why creativity stagnates somewhere between childhood and adulthood.
 * Learn how to re-awaken dormant creativity to help your business achieve more.

 * Explore ways in which we can work together to keep creativity alive for everyone.

Modern business absolutely demands creativity of thought and action. We're all creative as children -- so where does it go? When do we lose it? Out of Our Minds has the answers, and clear solutions for getting it back.

Out of Our Minds

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Jonathan Kellerman

Faye Kellerman

Capital Crimes

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Suzanne Brockmann

Melanie Brockmann

"A gripping page-turner from first to last...The start of something that can only be described as 'greater-than.'" --KirkusStarred Review

Someone is kidnapping young girls and bleeding them for a secret hidden in their blood.

Their searching for a hormone that makes them stronger, faster, smarter. A hormone that the makers of a new drug called Destiny will murder to get theirhands on. These girls could be anyone. They could be anywhere.

They could be you.

When the little girl Skylar Reid babysits is kidnapped, and believed to be murdered, Skylar's world is turned upside down. And when Dana, a girl with extreme abilities, and her dangerously hot partner in crime, Milo, burst into town and claim that Skylar has the hormone in herblood, her life will never be the same.

Now, the only wayto stay alive is to join the fight against Destiny and become the ultimate weapon.

New York Times andUSA Todaybestselling author Suzanne Brockmann and her daughter Melanie Brockmann have written a pulse-pounding novel set in a near future both fantastic and frightening.

Night Sky Series:
Night Sky (Book 1)
Wild Sky (Book 2)

Praise for Night Sky:
"Original and exciting, NIGHT SKY propels readers into a dangerous future. Loved it." --Melissa Marr, New York Timesbestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series

"Action-packed, mysterious, charming and witty. I'm ready for more!" -- Gena Showalter, New York Times and USA Todaybestselling author of Alice in Zombieland

Night Sky

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Stephen R. Covey

Sean Covey

Jim Collins

30th Anniversary Edition

*New York Times bestseller—over 40 million copies sold* *The #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century* One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for nearly three decades. It has transformed the lives of presidents and CEOs, educators and parents—millions of people of all ages and occupations. Now, this 30th anniversary edition of the timeless classic commemorates the wisdom of the 7 habits with modern additions from Sean Covey. The 7 habits have become famous and are integrated into everyday thinking by millions and millions of people. Why? Because they work! With Sean Covey’s added takeaways on how the habits can be used in our modern age, the wisdom of the 7 habits will be refreshed for a new generation of leaders. They include: Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw This beloved classic presents a principle-centered approach for solving both personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and practical anecdotes, Stephen R. Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity—principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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Rebecca Ann Howard

Voices from the Native American Women Playwrights Archive

The first anthology to showcase the rich and diverse dramatic work of Native American women

Footpaths and Bridges

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Bert Useem

Camille Graham Camp

George M. Camp

Strategies and Policies

The book explores the conditions that precipitate disturbances, the course of events during the disturbances, and the aftermath and recovery on the part of the corrections agencies.

Resolution of Prison Riots

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William J. Toti

A Practical Guide for Transitioning from Military to Industry Leadership

In From CO to CEO: A Practical Guide for Transitioning from Military to Industry Leadership, William J. Toti, former CO of the nuclear submarine USS Indianapolis and former CEO of Sparton Corporation, offers a seminal manual for service members transitioning to civilian careers and navigating their rise up the corporate ladder. You’ve served your country dutifully, and as a member of the US armed forces you’ve also developed a discipline, drive, and skillset admired the world over. Your success in the civilian job market after your military career ends is all but ensured, right? Well, if statistics and real-life reports from your predecessors are any indication, this transition is not always smooth sailing. More than 200,000 service members separate from the military each year. More than half of those surveyed about the process felt as if they had little to no help with the transition. That’s why William J. Toti, retired naval officer and CEO of Sparton Corporation, wrote From CO to CEO: A Practical Guide for Transitioning from Military to Industry Leadership. As someone who successfully progressed from captain of a nuclear submarine to a captain of industry, he knows what it takes to make the most of your military training and what more is needed to rise up the ranks in the C-suite. From CO to CEO aims to help you get the most out of your industry career, thinking through the kind of company and career track that is best for you. It provides a step-by-step guide to navigating the search, interview, and negotiation process and helps you acclimate to your new environment and to accelerate your climb to the top.

From CO to CEO

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Plastics, Films, Fabric

Surfaces for stitching 

Edward T. Linenthal

Oklahoma City in American Memory

A powerful account of the aftermath of the Oklahoma City Bombing shows how it has affected survivors, local residents, and the nation at large. 40 illustrations.

The Unfinished Bombing

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Allen Angel

Dennis Runde

Lawrence Gilligan

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Math

For courses in Beginning & Intermediate Algebra This package includes MyMathLab(R). Understanding Algebra Through many successful editions, the Angel team has developed a text that students can read, understand, and enjoy. They've done this by pairing clear explanations (in short sentences!) with detailed examples and thorough exercise sets. This Media Update to the 4th edition of Elementary & Intermediate Algebra provides the same great pedagogy from the Angel team, but with expanded and updated resources to give your students even more tools to understand algebra. This program provides a better teaching and learning experience for you and your students. Here's how: MyMathLab improves results with a new video lecture series and a new downloadable Student Workbook that can be packaged with the text and/or the MyMathLab code. Carefully crafted exercise sets give students the practice they need to build understanding. Clear, visual presentation gives students content in a readable, easy-to-understand format. Personalize learning with MyMathLab MyMathLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and engage with media resources to help them absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.

Elementary and Intermediate Algebra for College Students, Media Update

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David E. Shi

A Documentary History

For the Record features 264 primary-source selections--both textual and visual--drawn from a broad range of government documents, newspapers, speeches, letters, and novels. In the Seventh Edition, timely new selections on immigration allow students to better understand the issues of today. For The Record remains an incredible value as a stand-alone and is also the perfect companion reader for the America family of books by co-editor David E. Shi.

For the Record

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Don Hellison

Social Studies

Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity, now entering its third edition, attests to author Don Hellison's ability to shape and develop character and responsibility in children. Perhaps the success of Hellison's book can be attributed to his status not only as a highly respected scholar-activist but as a teacher who worked in the trenches with inner-city kids.

Kids in any situation will benefit from the thoroughly updated material in this edition, which presents practical, proven, easy-to-implement ideas for teaching personal and social responsibility (TPSR) in school, after school, and in alternative settings. It also supplies direction in teaching affective and social moral goals, an in-depth look into teaching character development and values, and a method for helping students develop personal and social responsibility.

Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity offers much new material:

* Strategies for alternative schools, afterschool programs, and the emerging youth development movement

* Vignettes sprinkled throughout the chapters, written by TPSR instructors in various settings

* Several chapters that have been completely overhauled

* An expanded assessment chapter to help readers evaluate the impact of TPSR on their kids and apply the strategies

* One new chapter on combining responsibility-based youth development with teacher preparation in physical education

In addition, the book features "Kid Quotes" to help readers understand how kids respond to the TPSR approach, as well as forms and charts to help readers put the ideas and strategies to use.

The result is a field-tested book that is the accepted curricular model in the field--and a resource that will enable teachers to help their students grow into solid citizens both personally and socially.

Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity

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Michael Massen

Easy to Remember, Accurate Anatomy for Artists

An intuitive approach for figure artists to get proportions right. Traditional methods of measuring body proportions rely on the abstract memorization of convoluted fractions or multiples of the human head. But artists shouldn't have to be mathematicians. Figure Drawing in Proportion introduces a better, more intuitive, less intimidating way to get proportions right. It starts with the revelation that--despite the wonderful variety of bodies in this world--the human figure has standard size relationships artists can build upon for accurate renderings. If you know, for example, that the collarbone is the same width as the head, it's much easier to draw the head in proper relationship to the shoulders. Knowing that the palm should be the same width as the knee helps establish the correct relationships in a seated portrait. This book highlights dozens of such key internal and comparative measurements. Once you start looking, you will discover even more. Ideal for any level of artist, this practical approach to proportions makes figure drawing more approachable and more rewarding. Inside you'll find: • 9 full step-by-step demonstrations, using various poses and figures to show proportioning techniques in practice. • Internal and comparative measurements and how to apply them to figure drawings. • Simple strategies for recalling key proportions as you work.

Figure Drawing in Proportion

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Tim O'Brien

The Things They Carried

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Ann B. Ross

"In the latest installment of Ann B. Ross's...series, Miss Julia takes a trip to the beach, only to confront a hurrica ne roiling off the coast--and all the trouble it washes ashore"--

Miss Julia Weathers the Storm

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Tyler S. Holzer

Todd C. Orelli

Accuplacer Math

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Editors of Creative Homeowner

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Great Design Ideas from Top Deck Designers

Created for both the do-it-yourselfer and those who wish to work with a professional to achieve the desired results, this reference provides basic design instruction for building a deck and takes an in-depth look at the work of four of the country's most successful deck builders.

Deck Designs, 3rd Edition

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Sarah Susanka

Kira Obolensky

A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live

This best-seller was met with an extraordinary response when it was published in 1998. In it, visionary architect Sarah Susanka embraced the notion of smaller, simpler shelters that better meet the needs of the way we live today. The book created a groundswell of interest among homeowners, architects, and builders. More than 200 photographs bring the spirit of the "Not So Big" house alive.

The Not So Big House

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Martha J. Smith

A crime prevention manual for public transport.

Secure and Tranquil Travel

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Ron Chernow

The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017 “Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency. Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had ended dismally, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War he ended up resigning from the army in disgrace amid recurring accusations of drunkenness. But in war, Grant began to realize his remarkable potential, soaring through the ranks of the Union army, prevailing at the battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign, and ultimately defeating the legendary Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Along the way, Grant endeared himself to President Lincoln and became his most trusted general and the strategic genius of the war effort. Grant’s military fame translated into a two-term presidency, but one plagued by corruption scandals involving his closest staff members. More important, he sought freedom and justice for black Americans, working to crush the Ku Klux Klan and earning the admiration of Frederick Douglass, who called him “the vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race.” After his presidency, he was again brought low by a dashing young swindler on Wall Street, only to resuscitate his image by working with Mark Twain to publish his memoirs, which are recognized as a masterpiece of the genre. With lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Chernow finds the threads that bind these disparate stories together, shedding new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as “nothing heroic... and yet the greatest hero.” Chernow’s probing portrait of Grant's lifelong struggle with alcoholism transforms our understanding of the man at the deepest level. This is America's greatest biographer, bringing movingly to life one of our finest but most underappreciated presidents. The definitive biography, Grant is a grand synthesis of painstaking research and literary brilliance that makes sense of all sides of Grant's life, explaining how this simple Midwesterner could at once be so ordinary and so extraordinary. Named one of the best books of the year by Goodreads • Amazon • The New York Times • Newsday • BookPage • Barnes and Noble • Wall Street Journal

Grant

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Debbie Clarkson

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