They are the jewels of the Caribbean, gorgeous prisms through which we see reflected the opulent world of the French Creole aristocracy. The French-speaking islands of Martinique, Guadaloupe, Marie-Galante, and Saint Martin come alive as never before in the pages of French Island Elegance, a lavishly illustrated look at one of the most intriguing and beautiful parts of the world. More than 160 color photographs taken especially for this book give readers a privileged glimpse inside a world rarely seen by most visitorsthe palatial, elegantly furnished homes of the islands affluent sugar, cotton, and tobacco barons, both historical and contemporary. An authoritative text sheds light on the areas rich social, architectural, and interior design historya vital past that still influences French Island taste and cultural life to this day.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Washington

French Island Elegance - Signed!

Mary Hogarth

Business Strategies for Magazine Publishing explores tactics for creating financially sustainable publications in the 21st century. Mary Hogarth, media specialist, Senior Fellow (HEA) and Lecturer in Journalism at Bournemouth University, analyses the historical development of the magazine industry, as well as current and future challenges for publishers, to illustrate different approaches to revenue generation and the maintenance of magazine brands.
The book examines the wide-ranging impact of digital technology on how magazine content is consumed, revealing the dramatic consequences for advertising, distribution and marketing strategies. Traditional business models are evaluated alongside new online approaches and readers will be introduced to the Magazine Publishing Strategic Quadrant, a model created by the author as an alternative to the Business Canvas Model. In addition, in-depth interviews with high-profile industry figureheads and magazine editors, such as Jessica Strawser of Writer's Digest and former Good Housekeeping Editorial Director Lindsay Nicholson, offer readers an insight into how to produce and monetise online content. These interviews appear alongside exercises and action plans that give readers the opportunity to put what they have learned into practice.
With real-word advice and practical activities and resources throughout the book, journalism students and young professionals will find this an essential guide to successfully building a career in the modern magazine industry.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

How to Survive in the Digital Age

Business Strategies for Magazine Publishing explores ways to create financially sustainable publications by drawing on lessons from the history of successful magazine brands and analysis of possible futures for the industry.

Business Strategies for Magazine Publishers

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Maryellen Baker

Laurie David

Kirstin Uhrenholdt

Harvey Karp

Jonathan Safran Foer

THE FAMILY DINNER is a practical, inspirational, fun— and, of course, green-guide to the most important hour in any parent's day. It's chock-full of:
• Over 75 kid-approved fantastic RECIPES
• Tips on teaching GREEN values
• CONVERSATION starters
• GAMES to play at the table
• How to rescue the family dinner after DIVORCE
• Ways to express GRATITUDE, and much more.
THE FAMILY DINNER also includes words of wisdom from:
mie Oliver • Mario Batali • Alice Waters • Mark Bittman • Cat Cora • Rev. Ed Bacon • Pat and Gina Neely ad O'Brien • Tal Ronnen • Michael Pollan • Nora Ephron • Dr. Maya Angelou • Billy Collins, and many others.

Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids, One Meal at a Time

The producer of An Inconvenient Truth, Laurie David's new mission is to help America's overwhelmed families sit down to a Family Dinner, and she provides all the reasons, recipes and fun tools to do so. Laurie David speaks from her own experience confronting the challenges of raising two teenage girls. Today's parents have lots to deal with and technology is making their job harder than ever. Research has proven that everything we worry about as parents--from drugs to alcohol, promiscuity, to obesity, academic achievement and just good old nutrition--can all be improved by the simple act of eating and talking together around the table. Laurie has written a practical, inspirational, fun (and, of course, green) guide to the most important hour in any parent's day. Chock-full chapters include: Over seventy-five kid approved fantastic recipes; tips on teaching green values; conversation starters; games to play to help even the shyest family member become engaged; ways to express gratitude; the family dinner after divorce (hint: keep eating together) and much more. Filled with moving memories and advice from the country's experts and teachers, this book will get everyone away from electronic screens and back to the dinner table.

The Family Dinner

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The Amateur Radio Relay League ARRL 100th Edition

Vol. 1-3, 5,6

In excellent condition. 

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

The Amateur Radio Relay League ARRL 100th Edition

Your Complete Guide to Radio Experimentation and Innovation!

The 100th edition of The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications is by far the most extensively revised and expanded edition in recent years — including new and revised topics, content, and projects. It is written by radio amateurs who share their experience, learning, and discovery from across the state-of-the-art and emerging technologies. Each chapter is authored and edited by experts in the subject.

The ARRL Handbook strikes the perfect balance between comprehensive RF engineering reference and practical treatment of basic electronic fundamentals, circuit design and equipment construction, antennas, transmission lines, safe electrical, RF practices, and more.

Each chapter is filled with the most up-to-date knowledge representative of the wide and ever-expanding range of interests among radio amateurs. There are practical, hands-on projects for all skill levels — from simple accessories and small power supplies to amplifiers and high-gain antennas.

Key Topics:
Radio electronics theory and principles
Circuit design and equipment
Signal transmission and propagation
Digital modulation and protocols
Antennas and transmission lines
Construction practices

New Projects and Content:
All-new chapter on radio propagation covering a wide range of bands and modes
New and updated sections on electronic circuit simulation
New cavity filter and high-power HF filter projects
New coverage on digital protocols and modes
New material on RFI from low-voltage lighting and other sources
Revised section covering new RF exposure limits
New content on portable station equipment, antennas, power, and assembly
New material on ferrite uses and types
New section on how to use portable SDR to locate sources of RFI



Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications - 100th Edition

Neal Stephenson

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic-a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years
What would happen if the world were ending? catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space:
But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors
remains..
Five thousand years later, their progeny— seven distinct races now three billion strong— embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown ... to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.
A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable.
As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.

A Novel

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . . Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.

Seveneves

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PMI Standards Committee

BUSINESS/MANAGEMENT
The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) is an inclusive term that describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. As with other professions such as law, medicine, and accounting, the body of knowledge rests with the practitioners and academics who apply and advance it. The full PMBOK includes knowledge of proven, traditional practices which are widely applied as well as knowledge of innovative and advanced practices which have seen more limited use.
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge identifies and describes that subset of the PMBOK which is generally accepted. Generally accepted means that the knowledge and practices described are applicable to most projects most of the time, and that there is widespread consensus about their value and usefulness. Generally accepted does not mean that the knowledge and practices described are or should be applied uniformly on all projects; the project management team is always responsible for determining what is appropriate for any given project.
This PMBOK Guide also provides a common lexicon within the profession for talking about project management. Project management is a relatively young profession, and while there is substantial commonality around what is done, there is relatively little commonality in the terms used.
This PMBOK Guide provides a basic reference for anyone interested in the profession of project management. This includes, but is not limited to:
Project managers and other project team members.
Managers of project managers.
Project customers and other project stakeholders.
Functional managers with employees assigned to project teams.
Educators teaching project management and related subjects.
Consultants and other specialists in project management and related fields.
Trainers developing project management educational programs.
This PMBOK Guide is also used by the Project Management Institute to provide a consistent structure for its professional development programs including:
Certification of Project Management Professionals (PMPs).
Accreditation of degree-granting educational programs in project mar
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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Presents the fundamental processes of project management that drive the design and implementation of business changes for any organization--local, regional or global, updated to reflect the most current industry knowledge and practices.

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge

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Daniel G. Amen

"With a cutting-edge, easy-to-apply plan, Dr. Daniel Amen proves you needn't succumb to depression, anger, and other negative emotions. This must-read book provides the key to heal your brain and transform your life."
-J.J. Virgin, celebrity nutrition and fitness expert and author of the New York Times bestselling The Virgin Diet and Sugar Impact Diet
"Dr. Amen's Change Your Brain, Change Your Life achieves perfection in combining leading-edge brain science technology with a proven, user-friendly, definitive, and actionable road map to safeguard and enhance brain health and functionality."
-David Perimutter, M.D., author of the New York Times
bestselling Grain Brain and Brain Maker
In this completely revised and updated edition of the breakthrough bestseller that's sold nearly a million copies worldwide, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obses-siveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures work in your brain. You're not stuck with the brain you're born with. Renowned neuropsychiatrist Daniel Amen, M.D., includes new, cutting-edge research gleaned from more than 100,000 SPECT brain scans over the last quarter century and the latest surprising, effective "brain prescriptions" that can help heal your brain and change your life.
DANIEL G. AMEN, M.D., is a clinical neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and brain-imaging expert who heads the world-renowned Amen Clinics. The Washington Post called Dr. Amen the most popular psychiatrist in America, and Sharecare named him the Web's #1 most influential expert and advocate on mental health. He is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a ten-time New York Times bestselling author, including Change Your Brain, Change Your Life; Magnificent Mind at Any Age; and Change Your Brain, Change Your Body. He is also an internationally recognized keynote speaker and the host of ten nationwide public television specials about the brain.
Also available as an ebook and on audio from Penguin Random House

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Lack of Focus, Anger, and Memory Problems

In this completely revised and updated edition of the breakthrough bestseller, neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen includes effective "brain prescriptions" that can help heal your brain and change your life. To quell anxiety and panic: Use simple breathing techniques to immediately calm inner turmoil To fight depression: Learn how to kill ANTs (automatic negative thoughts) To curb anger: Follow the Amen anti-anger diet and learn the nutrients that calm rage To conquer impulsiveness and learn to focus: Develop total focus with the One-Page Miracle To stop obsessive worrying: Follow the "get unstuck" writing exercise and learn other problem-solving exercises You'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck with the brain you're born with.

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Revised and Expanded)

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John C. Maxwell

"THIS BOOK IS WRITTEN FOR YOU
IF
YOU WANT TO CHANGE YOUR WORLD."
For the first time ever, two of today's most respected global leaders of change share their firsthand experiences helping to transform communities, businesses, and millions of lives around the world.
John C. Maxwell and Rob Hoskins didn't know they were going to change their world when they started helping peo-ple. They simply wanted to make a difference in their world.
What started as a personal desire to add value to others grew into movements greater than themselves.
Now after decades of making a difference, they are ready to show you how to be the change needed in your world.
If you desire better schools, better neighborhoods, more positive workplaces, more connected families, or communities where people get along and work together for everyone's good, you can learn to help build them by becoming the change you want to see.
Whether you are leading a large organization, running a small business, going to school, volunteering your time, or raising a family, Maxwell and Hoskins will show you how to change your world for the better.
Throughout these pages, Maxwell and Hoskins share a lifetime of real-world experiences dedicated to helping people and leading organizations whose purpose is to add value to people. You'll not only be encouraged to make a difference based on the needs you see around you, you'll be equipped to take action and start making an impact today.
If you change your world, and you help others change their world, together we will begin to change the world.
You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be famous.
You don't have to move to another country. You don't need more education. You don't need an organization.
And you certainly don't need someone else's permission.
You can be the change you want to see in the world.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

How Anyone, Anywhere Can Make a Difference





Whatever the desires of your heart, Change Your World will guide you through the entire process to take action and start making an impact today right where you are.

You can bring about positive, lasting change in the world and you don't have to be rich and famous or lead a big organization to do it.

Global leadership icons and bestselling authors John C. Maxwell and Rob Hoskins provide the inspiring and practical roadmap to get started being the change you want to see - in your community and beyond.

Learn from the firsthand experiences shared by the authors from their work helping to transform communities, businesses, and millions of lives around the world.

In Change Your World, Maxwell and Hoskins will show you how to:

 * Identify your cause
 * Live out the values that make a difference
 * Become a catalyst for change
 * Join the right team or recruit one of your own
 * Work together with others to make a difference
 * Measure your impact and keep improving

For many of us, the world we live in feels broken yet change is easier than we think. You'll not only be encouraged to make a difference based on the needs you see around you, but you'll be equipped to implement change immediately.

Change Your World

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We are deeper into the days of His Kingdom than even we ourselves realize. The sons of God have journeyed through the work of the cross and the baptism of fire on their way to the manifestation of authority. They have learned not to stop at merely identifying with Christ's ex-perience; they have learned the necessity of being identical participators with Him in His experiences. Because of this, they are able, with faith, to accept their progressive manifestation as sons with His authority.
The curse on creation was imposed with the fall of man.
Now with the coming of the manifestation of the sons of God, the curse will be lifted from creation. The eternal purpose of God is being worked out through His sons that are coming forth. Theirs is the destiny to see principalities and powers brought down, creation released from futility, and Satan bruised under their feet.
This book is a challenge to the reader who dares believe.
It is a challenge to him to believe for God's authority, to begin to bless and lift the curse as we claim divine health, the end of pestilence and blight. In these pages will be found a great scriptural challenge to take the initiative as the remnant comes into sonship.

Authority Over Futility - 1976 Christian Book

GIRAUD
and the African Scene
By G. WARD PRICE
An eyewitness story of the part played by a new and powerful personality in that great enterprise of forcing open the gateway to Nazi-occupied Europe through North Africa. It relates as well the long secret preparations for this historic operation made in Algiers by the State Department of the United States.
General Henri Giraud, whose career is the main subject of the book, has become a prominent figure in the Allied war effort. The author first met him ten years ago on a French colonial battlefield.
There, under his tent where he was fighting the savage tribes of the High Atlas Mountains, the man himself gave Mr. Price the details of the dramatic episodes of his early life-some of the most thrilling true tales of adventure ever re-corded.

In excellent condition for age - most wear is to dust cover. 

1944 1st Edition Giraud and the African Scene 

Fareed Zakaria

Affairs
An essential update of the best-selling global phenomenon
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2008
A SEATTLE TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2008
In this new edition of his international blockbuster, Fareed Zakaria continues to explore the shifting role of the United States in the rapidly changing landscape of world affairs.
The tilting balance of power, which Zakaria coined in the original edition of The Post-American World as the "rise of the rest," has proceeded more swiftly than anyone could have anticipated, aided by the financial crisis and the surprising determination and continued growth of emerging markets such as Brazil, China, and India. Zakaria tracks this quickly moving phenomenon and reports on the latest economic, technological, and even military developments that will shape our global future.
"Zakaria... may have more intellectual range and insights than any other public thinker in the West." -DAVID M. SHRIBMAN, BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
"A provocative and often shrewd take that opens a big picture window on the closing of the first American century and the advent of a new world." —MICHIKO KAKUTANI, NEW YORK TIMES
"This is a relentlessly intelligent book that eschews simple-minded projections from crisis to collapse... to remind this faltering giant of its unique and enduring strengths."
-JOSEPH JOFFE, NEW YORK TIMES
BOOK REVIEW

Fareed Zakaria's international bestseller The Post-American World pointed to the "rise of the rest"--the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, and others--as the great story of our time, the story that will undoubtedly shape the future of global power. Since its publication, the trends he identified have proceeded faster than anyone could have anticipated. The 2008 financial crisis turned the world upside down, stalling the United States and other advanced economies. Meanwhile emerging markets have surged ahead, coupling their economic growth with pride, nationalism, and a determination to shape their own future.In this new edition, Zakaria makes sense of this rapidly changing landscape. With his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination, he draws on lessons from the two great power shifts of the past 500 years--the rise of the Western world and the rise of the United States--to tell us what we can expect from the third shift, the "rise of the rest." The great challenge for Britain was economic decline. The challenge for America now is political decline, for as others have grown in importance, the central role of the United States, especially in the ascendant emerging markets, has already begun to shrink. As Zakaria eloquently argues, Washington needs to begin a serious transformation of its global strategy, moving from its traditional role of dominating hegemon to that of a more pragmatic, honest broker. It must seek to share power, create coalitions, build legitimacy, and define the global agenda--all formidable tasks.None of this will be easy for the greatest power the world has ever known--the only power that for so long has really mattered. America stands at a crossroads: In a new global era where the United States no longer dominates the worldwide economy, orchestrates geopolitics, or overwhelms cultures, can the nation continue to thrive?

Post-American World 2. 0

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John A. Adams

A fascinating reexamination of the Second World War in the Pacific through the analytic lens of one of history's great naval strategists
"John Adams is one of the most remarkable individuals I have met in the course of my long academic career. His knowledge of recent military doctrine, strategy and operations, logistics, and tactics is as deep as any of my academic colleagues."
MALCOLM MUIR, AUTHOR OF
Black Shoes and Blue Water: Surface Warfare in the United States Navy, 1945-1975
"A very interesting, well-researched, well-written work with fine and fresh analysis of the Pacific War." ERIC OSBORNE, AUTHOR OF The Battle of Heligoland Bight

An Analysis of World War II Naval Strategy

Would the doctrine of one of history's great naval strategists have stood the test of World War II in the Pacific?

If Mahan Ran the Great Pacific War

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Woody Chan

As a tradition, this is the annual flagship book about the luck profile of a new year. For
examined and reviewed. This book covers the luck profile of all the 12 animals (Chinese Zodiac) as well as the important topics on everybody's mind: economic outlook, investment opportunities, health trends, and Feng Shui techniques to boost up the overall luck of the entire family. Don't miss it out.
Master Woody will use plain language and logical 5 element concept to explain the whole different world of Feng Shui. You get instantly luck by just having a copy on hand.

2018 Year of Dog Luck Tendency Report

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Julian S. Corbett

PRINCIPLES OF MARITIME STRATEGY
Julian S. Corbett
This brilliant exposition established British naval historian Julian Corbett (1854-1922) as one of the great maritime strategists. In this work, Corbett placed naval warfare within the larger framework of human conflict, and proposed that the key to maritime dominance lies in the effective use of sea lines for communications and in denying that use to the enemy. His view of naval strategy as a means to an end, with a goal defined by national strategy, makes this work of enduring value.
Principles of Maritime Strategy emphasizes precise definitions of terminology and ideas as the antidote to loose and purposeless discussion and the direct path to the fundamental data on which all are agreed. As Corbett notes in the Introduction, "In this way we prepare the apparatus of practical discussion; we secure the means of arranging the factors in manageable shape, and of deducing from them with precision and rapidity a practical course of action. Without such an apparatus no two men can even think on the same line; much less can they ever hope to detach the real point of difference that divides them and isolate it for quiet solution."
Much quoted and referenced, this ever-relevant work is an indispensable resource for military professionals, historians, and students.
Dover (2004) unabridged republication of Some Principles of Maritime Strategy, published by Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1911. Index. viii+317pp. 5% x 8½. Paperbound.

The respected naval historian emphasizes precise definitions of terminology and ideas as the antidote to purposeless discussion and the direct path to the fundamental data on which all are agreed. He places naval warfare within the larger framework of human conflict, proposing that the key to maritime dominance lies in the effective use of sea lines.

Principles of Maritime Strategy

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Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez

Cultural Studies/Craft
The Cusco weaving tradition is the proud modern descendant of the expertise and creativity found in cloth of the Inca Empire, kept alive in our time by the energetic efforts of the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco.
This valuable book provides insightful introductory text and beautifully clear instructions and illustrations for how to reproduce the more basic techniques. Even those who never try to use the techniques will gain a greater appreciation of this rich tradition, while for textile practitioners the book is a gold mine, revealing the little tricks needed to use these techniques successfully.
—Anne Pollard Rowe, Research Associate of Indigenous American Textiles at The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., and author of numerous touchstone publications about Andean textiles
A beautifully informative new book with only one flaw: its title is much too modest! It not only offers, in patient words and detailed pictures, a primer on ancient Inca spinning and textile-making, it also spins a tale of ancient heritage and living craft. The book's generous sharing of textile knowledge deeply enriches your own textile practice on many levels. Like learning a new spoken language, learning a new craft vocabulary opens up a new culture, with its different rules and definitions. A glimpse into these structures helps enrich not just a textile practice, but our sense of what it is to be human.
-Keith Recker, founder and editor of Hand/Eye magazine
Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez and her young associates at the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco share their vast knowledge of making textiles in highland Peru and also provide a unique window into the meanings associated with their processes. The book is chock-full of photographic details and succinct captions that take the reader through the steps of making yarn and cloth the Andean way.
—Mary Frame, author and scholar of ancient and ethnographic Andean textiles
This publication, through written words and integrated with beautiful photos, openly makes accessible Quechua indigenous weaving techniques and ancient practices passed through centuries but never before documented in such a written and visual publication. It's a beautiful gift for future generations of Quechua youth and young people throughout the world who are challenged to retain the ways of their ancestors while living in and contributing to the modern world
-Dr. Andrea M. Heckman, author of Woven Stories: Andean Textiles and Rituals

In the Peruvian Highlands

Secrets of Spinning, Weaving, and Knitting

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Christopher Hayes

A POWERFUL AND ORIGINAL ARGUMENT THAT TRACES THE ROOTS OF OUR PRESENT CRISIS OF AUTHORITY TO AN UNLIKELY SOURCE: THE MERITOCRACY
Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another -from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball-imploded under the weight of corruption and incom-petence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institu-tions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.
How did we get here? With Twilight of the Elites, Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer.
Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into power, they learned to embrace the accelerating inequality that had placed them near the very top. Their ascension heightened social distance and spawned a new American elite —one more prone to failure and corruption than any that came before it.

America after Meritocracy

A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy.
 
   Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another -  from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball - imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.
 
   How did we get here? With Twilight of the Elites, Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into power, they learned to embrace the accelerating inequality that had placed them near the very top. Their ascension heightened social distance and spawned a new American elite--one more prone to failure and corruption than any that came before it.
 
   Mixing deft political analysis, timely social commentary, and deep historical understanding, Twilight of the Elites describes how the society we have come to inhabit - utterly forgiving at the top and relentlessly punitive at the bottom - produces leaders who are out of touch with the people they have been trusted to govern. Hayes argues that the public's failure to trust the federal government, corporate America, and the media has led to a crisis of authority that threatens to engulf not just our politics but our day-to-day lives.
 
   Upending well-worn ideological and partisan categories, Hayes entirely reorients our perspective on our times. Twilight of the Elites is the defining work of social criticism for the post-bailout age.

Twilight of the Elites

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James Moffatt

The Bible
The James Moffatt
Translation With Concordance
ONCE CALLED "THE ORIGINAL MODERN-LANGUAGE BIBLE," The Moffatt Bible has brought new understanding and appreciation of the Scriptures to over a million readers through its vivid retranslation of earliest known texts into vigorous modern speech.
Completed in 1926, revised in 1935, and now presented in a new and vibrant for-mat, The Moffatt Bible joins the best of scholarship and literary style to create a modern classic. More than a translation, it is also an illuminating commentary. All the findings of archaeology, philology, and related sciences that shed light on previously puzzling texts have been incorpo-rated. Material that was pure poetry in the original text has been rendered as such and set in poetic style. Prose is set in easy-to-follow paragraphs that retain intact the flow of speech. In addition, a helpful concordance allows easy reference to specific biblical terms and their usage throughout the Bible.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The Moffatt Bible

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Kilmer S. McCully

• revolutionizing the way we understand and treat Americas number-
-THE INSTITUTE FOR FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE
"A telling glimpse into the politics of medical research ..luminates the tortuous way by which new ideas gain the attention of the medical estab-lishment. It is not too early for us i to apply the practical suggestions that Kilmer McCully makes to prote ourselves from arteriosclerosit and the other discases of lifestyle rott are so destructive in our society."
-FROM THE FOREWORD BY ANDREW T. WEIL, M.D.
"Kilmer McCully's work... has provided powerful evidence that widespread nutritional deficiencies are an important cause of heart disease.
Rarely do books combine an intriguing plot.. with information that can be of great personal value....A very special book."
-FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY WALTER C. WILLET, M.D.
• Can an inexpensive B vitamin protect against heart disease more effectively than expensive cholesterol-lowering drugs?
• Why do most heart attack victims have "normal" cholesterol levels?
L The Homocysteine Revolution, Kilmer S. McCully
award-winning physician and the pioneer behind one of the major medical and scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century, tells his story of medical discovery and explains why our vitamin B-depleted food supply may be the real culprit behind the epidemic of heart disease.

More than 30 years ago, a young Harvard pathologist offered the medical community a theory for the cause of one of today's biggest killers-- heart disease. It is called the Homocysteine Theory and is the medical breakthrough that inspired Andrew Weil to label Dr. McCully as a visionary medical pioneer well ahead of his time. This discovery has the potential to save millions, yet ironically destroyed Dr. McCully's medical career. Homocysteine, a byproduct of metabolism, has been discovered to be a better risk indicator of heart disease than high cholesterol. A simple B6 vitamin and folic acid play a major role in controlling homocysteine levels. This proven theory will change the way the medical establishment views and treats heart disease. Today, the medical community is beginning to accept Dr. McCully's findings transforming his story from medical heresy to legitimate medicine. Updated and revised, complete with a new introduction by Walter Wilett, this eye opening book combines Dr. McCully's personal story and scientific philosophy with a fascinating exposition of his discovery and a special program to make use of this information to improve overall health.

The Homocysteine Revolution

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Daria P. Bowman

Whether you are planning a meandering woodchip path through a shade garden or a series of stepping stones through a country flower garden, the charming photograpbs and informative, descriptive captions in For Your Garden: Paths and Walkways are sure to lend inspiration for adding creatively
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Paths and Walkways

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Kathy Ivens

The only book that teaches you how to make QuickBooks work for nonprofit organizations.
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