Robin Mamlet

Christine VanDeVelde

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Kansas

From Application to Acceptance, Step by Step

College Admission is the ultimate user's manual and go-to guide for any student or family approaching the college application process. 
 
Featuring the wise counsel of more than 50 deans of admission, no other guide has such thorough, expert, compassionate, and professional advice.
 
Let's be honest: applying to college can be stressful for students and parents. But here's the good news: you can get in. Robin Mamlet has been dean of admission at three of America's most selective colleges, and journalist and parent Christine VanDeVelde has been through the process first hand. With this book, you will feel like you have both a dean of admission and a parent who has been there at your side.
 
Inside this book, you'll find clear, comprehensive, and expert answers to all your questions along the way to an acceptance letter: 

   * The role of extracurricular activities
   * What it means to find a college that's the "right fit"
   * What's more important: high grades or tough courses
   * What role does testing play
   * The best candidates for early admission
   * When help from parents is too much help
   * Advice for athletes, artists, international students, and those with learning differences
   * How wait lists work
   * Applying for financial aid

This will be your definitive resource during the sophomore, junior, and senior years of high school.



College Admission

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Jacques Steinberg

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College

In the fall of 1999, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg was given an unprecedented opportunity to observe the admissions process at prestigious Wesleyan University. Over the course of nearly a year, Steinberg accompanied admissions officer Ralph Figueroa on a tour to assess and recruit the most promising students in the country. The Gatekeepers follows a diverse group of prospective students as they compete for places in the nation's most elite colleges. The first book to reveal the college admission process in such behind-the-scenes detail, The Gatekeepers will be required reading for every parent of a high school-age child and for every student facing the arduous and anxious task of applying to college. "[The Gatekeepers] provides the deep insight that is missing from the myriad how-to books on admissions that try to identify the formula for getting into the best colleges...I really didn't want the book to end." —The New York Times

The Gatekeepers

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A soulful, transformational, and artistic inventory of your connective life

The Relationship Book

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Brian Castner

Good condition except for the smudge toward the bottom of the cover.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Story of War and the Life That Follows

A memoir by a bomb-disposal veteran of the Iraq War traces his three tours of duty in the Middle East and his team's daily life-threatening efforts to stop roadside bombers, sharing additional coverage of the challenges he faced while reacclimating to civilian life. 75,000 first printing.

The Long Walk

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Paul Johnson

When Dwight D. Eisenhower won the 1952 election with the largest number of votes in history, he become the president of the United States at the height of its postwar glory, when it was the most powerful county in the world. In this superb, succinct new biography, celebrated historian Paul Johnson illuminates the traits and talents that propelled Eisenhower's career as a five-star general and his two terms as president at the climax of the 'American century.'

Johnson traces the evolution of Eisenhower's understated poise, humor and sense of command, looking to Ike's modest childhood in Kansas before exploring his years at West Point and his ascent through the military ranks. Johnson responds to the once-popular charges that Eisenhower was vague or removed as a leader, arguing that no one who examines Ike's military record can underestimate his intelligence, energy or control. Deftly portraying Eisenhower's appointment as supreme commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II, Johnson reveals Eisenhower's skill with military strategy during the deadliest conflict in history.

Ultimately, Johnson shows, Eisenhower was a masterful leader, both as a general and as president. With keen insight, Johnson explores the qualities that made Ike so successful- his indefatigable work ethic, his ability to get along with other, his PR savvy, his self-effacing presentation and, most of all, the boundless intelligence lying beneath his 'Everyman' appearance. Johnson argues that these leadership qualities carried Eisenhower again and again through the hallmark events of the twentieth century- World War II, the cold war, the civil rights movement and McCarthyism.

Many elements of Eisenhower's presidency speak to American politics today, including his ability to balance the budget, his skill in managing an oppositional Congress and his warning about the military-industrial complex. In Eisenhower, Johnson has created an engaging portrait of an American president and a man once considered the 'most well liked and popular American on earth.'

' Johnson's gift for vivid storytelling is matched by an astounding command of large, complex subjects and an unflagging capacity for rendering them intelligible and compelling.' Los Angeles Times Book Review

'lucidly written, and enlivened by personal details and well-chosen quotations. Napoleon offers the bones of that remarkable career and some attempt to situate its wider significance within the sweep of modern history.'The Times Literary Supplement

'It is Johnson's gift that he can make his subjects human and fallible enough that we would . . . recognize them instantly, while also illuminating what made them heroes.' The Washington Post Book World

'It's a pleasure to sit around the gently crackling fire that is Mr. Johnson's mind.' The New York Times

'Frequently surprises, even startles us, with new views of past events and fresh looks at the characters of the chief world movers and shakers in politics, the military, economics, science, religion, and philosophy.' The Wall Street Journal

Eisenhower - A Life

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War

Officer, Nurse, Woman

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Rebecca Frankel

Thomas E. Ricks

Tales of Canine Heroism, History, and Love

*ANew York Times bestseller*

Under the cover of night, deep in the desert of Afghanistan, a US Army handler led a Special Forces patrol with his military working dog. Without warning an insurgent popped up, his weapon raised. At the handler's command, the dog charged their attacker. There was the flash of steel, the blur of fur, and the sound of a single shot; the handler watched his dog take a bullet. During the weeks it would take the dog to heal, the handler never left its side. The dog had saved his life. Loyal and courageous, dogs are truly man's best friend on the battlefield. While the soldiers may not always feel comfortable calling the bond they form love, the emotions involved are strong and complicated. InWar Dogs, Rebecca Frankel offers a riveting mix of on-the-ground reporting, her own hands-on experiences in the military working dog world, and a look at the science of dogs' special abilities-from their amazing noses and powerful jaws to their enormous sensitivity to the emotions of their human companions. The history of dogs in the US military is long and rich, from the spirit-lifting mascots of the Civil War to the dogs still leading patrols hunting for IEDs today. Frankel not only interviewed handlers who deployed with dogs in wars from Vietnam to Iraq, but top military commanders, K-9 program managers, combat-trained therapists who brought dogs into war zones as part of a preemptive measure to stave off PTSD, and veterinary technicians stationed in Bagram. She makes a passionate case for maintaining a robust war-dog force. In a post-9/11 world rife with terrorist threats, nothing is more effective than a bomb-sniffing dog and his handler. With a compelling cast of humans and animals,this moving book is a must read for all dog lovers-military and otherwise.

War Dogs

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Very tiny dents in the back cover as pictured. Otherwise good condition. 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

A critical history of the Israeli Defense Force

The Sword and The Olive

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Jean Edward Smith

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Christian Science Monitor * St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Magisterial."--The New York Times
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In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America's thirty-fourth president. Here is Eisenhower the young dreamer, charting a course from Abilene, Kansas, to West Point and beyond. Drawing on a wealth of untapped primary sources, Smith provides new insight into Ike's maddening apprenticeship under Douglas MacArthur. Then the whole panorama of World War II unfolds, with Eisenhower's superlative generalship forging the Allied path to victory. Smith also gives us an intriguing examination of Ike's finances, details his wartime affair with Kay Summersby, and reveals the inside story of the 1952 Republican convention that catapulted him to the White House.
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Smith's chronicle of Eisenhower's presidential years is as compelling as it is comprehensive. Derided by his detractors as a somnambulant caretaker, Eisenhower emerges in Smith's perceptive retelling as both a canny politician and a skillful, decisive leader. He managed not only to keep the peace, but also to enhance America's prestige in the Middle East and throughout the world.
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Unmatched in insight, Eisenhower in War and Peace at last gives us an Eisenhower for our time--and for the ages.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Praise for Eisenhower in War and Peace
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"[A] fine new biography . . . [Eisenhower's] White House years need a more thorough exploration than many previous biographers have given them. Smith, whose long, distinguished career includes superb one-volume biographies of Grant and Franklin Roosevelt, provides just that."--The Washington Post
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"Highly readable . . . [Smith] shows us that [Eisenhower's] ascent to the highest levels of the military establishment had much more to do with his easy mastery of politics than with any great strategic or tactical achievements."--The Wall Street Journal
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"Always engrossing . . . Smith portrays a genuinely admirable Eisenhower: smart, congenial, unpretentious, and no ideologue. Despite competing biographies from Ambrose, Perret, and D'Este, this is the best."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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"No one has written so heroic a biography [on Eisenhower] as this year's Eisenhower in War and Peace [by] Jean Edward Smith."--The National Interest
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"Dwight Eisenhower, who was more cunning than he allowed his adversaries to know, understood the advantage of being underestimated. Jean Edward Smith demonstrates precisely how successful this stratagem was. Smith, America's greatest living biographer, shows why, now more than ever, Americans should like Ike."--George F. Will

Eisenhower in War and Peace

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Lauren Goldman

Lauren Goldman

@lauren193803

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