Gloria B. Beckerman

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

An analysis of dramatic performance drawing on examples from the entire range of the theatre. The author examines the nature of the theatrical event by considering all its constituent elements in relation to the audience and concludes that there are two interacting modes of drama.

Theatrical Presentation

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Simon Winchester

Soun Vannithone

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

The Map That Changed the World

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Seymour M. Hersh

An investigative chronicle examines the dark side of the Kennedy family legacy from its earliest beginnings to the 1990s

The Dark Side of Camelot

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Gore Vidal

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Washington, Adams, Jefferson

An irreverent treatment of this hallowed history takes readers into the drawing rooms and bedrooms of these three giant figures in American history, examining their everyday concerns as well as critical decisions.

Inventing a Nation

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

King James version, giant print, references, concordance, & words of Christ in red

Holy Bible

Wess Roberts

Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun

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Tom Brokaw

Letters and Reflections

Collects letters sent to the author in response to "The Greatest Generation," his tribute to the generation of Americans who fought in World War II and came home to build a new America during the post war era

The Greatest Generation Speaks

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Gallup

Unique access code to the strengths finder 2.0 assessment and website has been used

An updated version of the StrengthsFinder program developed by Gallup experts to help readers discover their distinct talents and strengths and how they can be translated into personal and career successes.

Strengths Finder 2.0

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Tracy Kidder

Explores what life is really like in contemporary small-town America, focusing on the people of Northampton, Massachusetts, to assess how individuals in a community transform a place into a home

Home Town

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Walker Percy

Winner of the 1961 National Book Award

The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.

The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.

The Moviegoer

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Edmund Morris

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A shining portrait of a presciently modern political genius maneuvering in a gilded age of wealth, optimism, excess and American global ascension.”—San Francisco Chronicle WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • “[Theodore Rex] is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adams’s volumes on Jefferson and Madison.”—Times Literary Supplement Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism. Youngest of all our chief executives, he rallied a stricken nation with his superhuman energy, charm, and political skills. He proceeded to combat the problems of race and labor relations and trust control while making the Panama Canal possible and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. But his most historic achievement remains his creation of a national conservation policy, and his monument millions of acres of protected parks and forest. Theodore Rex ends with TR leaving office, still only fifty years old, his future reputation secure as one of our greatest presidents.

Theodore Rex

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Connie Leas

Front free endpaper is torn as shown in photo

Crafting Notes of Gratitude

The Art of Thank You

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James Thurber

A book of humor and satire covers topics from baseball to Macbeth.

My World-And Welcome to It

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Elizabeth Mills Brown

A Guide to Architecture and Urban Design: 15 Illustrated Tours

Fifteen tours of the city for pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists and information on cultural history accompany captioned photographs of more than five hundred buildings.

New Haven

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Leo Tolstoi

Louise and Aylmer Maude

John Bayley

After an adulterous affair, a Russian married lady is so consumed with guilt she commits suicide.

Anna Karenina

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Jim Camp

The Negotiating Tools That the Pros Don't Want You to Know

Start with No offers a contrarian, counterintuitive system for negotiating any kind of deal in any kind of situation--the purchase of a new house, a multimillion-dollar business deal, or where to take the kids for dinner.

Think a win-win solution is the best way to make the deal? Think again.

For years now, win-win has been the paradigm for business negotiation. But today, win-win is just the seductive mantra used by the toughest negotiators to get the other side to compromise unnecessarily, early, and often. Win-win negotiations play to your emotions and take advantage of your instinct and desire to make the deal.

Start with No introduces a system of decision-based negotiation that teaches you how to understand and control these emotions. It teaches you how to ignore the siren call of the final result, which you can't really control, and how to focus instead on the activities and behavior that you can and must control in order to successfully negotiate with the pros.

The best negotiators:
* aren't interested in "yes"--they prefer "no"
* never, ever rush to close, but always let the other side feel comfortable and secure
* are never needy; they take advantage of the other party's neediness
* create a "blank slate" to ensure they ask questions and listen to the answers, to make sure they have no assumptions and expectations
* always have a mission and purpose that guides their decisions
* don't send so much as an e-mail without an agenda for what they want to accomplish
* know the four "budgets" for themselves and for the other side: time, energy, money, and emotion
* never waste time with people who don't really make the decision

Start with No is full of dozens of business as well as personal stories illustrating each point of the system. It will change your life as a negotiator. If you put to good use the principles and practices revealed here, you will become an immeasurably better negotiator.

Start with No

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Mark Twain on the Damned Human Race

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Bono

Economic Possibilities for Our Time

"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The Economist The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists Hailed by Time as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis. Now a classic of its genre, The End of Poverty distills more than thirty years of experience to offer a uniquely informed vision of the steps that can transform impoverished countries into prosperous ones. Marrying vivid storytelling with rigorous analysis, Sachs lays out a clear conceptual map of the world economy. Explaining his own work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, he offers an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the world's poorest countries. Ten years after its initial publication, The End of Poverty remains an indispensible and influential work. In this 10th anniversary edition, Sachs presents an extensive new foreword assessing the progress of the past decade, the work that remains to be done, and how each of us can help. He also looks ahead across the next fifteen years to 2030, the United Nations' target date for ending extreme poverty, offering new insights and recommendations.

The End of Poverty

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Wholesale Net Price Notebook Catalog: No. 366, Fall 1984

Grainger’s

Greg Ip

Mohamed A. El-Erian

How the Economy Works in the Real World

One positive side-effect of the recent financial market meltdown that toppled giant, century-old institutions and cost millions their jobs is that it created a strong desire among many Americans to better understand how the U.S. economy functions. In The Little Book of Economics, Greg, Ip, one of the country's most recognized and respected economics journalists, walks readers through how the economy really works.

Written for the inquisitive layman who doesn't want to plow through academic jargon and Greek letters or pore over charts and tables, The Little Book of Economics offers indispensible insight into how the American economy works - or, doesn't. With engaging and accessible prose, the book

 * Provides a comprehensive understanding of each aspect of our economy from inflation and unemployment to international trade and finance
 * Serves as an insider's guide to the people and institutions that control America's economy such as the Federal Reserve and the federal budget
 * Explains the roots of America's current economic crisis and the risks the country faces in its aftermath, such as stratospheric government debt, while offering advice on overcoming these threats
 * Walks readers through the basic concepts and terminology they need to understand economic news
 * Punctures myths and political spin from both the left and the right with candid and often surprising insight

A must read for anyone who wants a better grasp of the economy without taking a course in economics , The Little Book of Economics is a unique and engaging look at how the economy works in all its wonderful and treacherous ways.

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Cleveland Amory

Polar Bear Strikes Back

The Cat and the Curmudgeon

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Daniel G. Amen

The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness

A pioneering neuropsychiatrist reveals the link between certain brain structures and particular psychological problems and offers specific recommendations for cognitive exercises, nutritional supplements, and medication to heal each problem. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

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Joseph E. Stiglitz

An agenda for growth and shared prosperity

Inequality is a choice.

The United States bills itself as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone can achieve success and a better life through hard work and determination. But the facts tell a different story--the U.S. today lags behind most other developed nations in measures of inequality and economic mobility. For decades, wages have stagnated for the majority of workers while economic gains have disproportionately gone to the top one percent. Education, housing, and health care--essential ingredients for individual success--are growing ever more expensive. Deeply rooted structural discrimination continues to hold down women and people of color, and more than one-fifth of all American children now live in poverty. These trends are on track to become even worse in the future.

Some economists claim that today's bleak conditions are inevitable consequences of market outcomes, globalization, and technological progress. If we want greater equality, they argue, we have to sacrifice growth. This is simply not true. American inequality is the result of misguided structural rules that actually constrict economic growth. We have stripped away worker protections and family support systems, created a tax system that rewards short-term gains over long-term investment, offered a de facto public safety net to too-big-to-fail financial institutions, and chosen monetary and fiscal policies that promote wealth over full employment.

Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy an Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity

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Jennifer Capewell

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Theatrical Presentation

Simon Winchester; Soun Vannithone

The Map That Changed the World

Seymour M. Hersh

The Dark Side of Camelot

Gore Vidal

Inventing a Nation

Thomas Nelson

Holy Bible

Wess Roberts

Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun

Tom Brokaw

The Greatest Generation Speaks

Gallup

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Strengths Finder 2.0

Tracy Kidder

Home Town

Walker Percy

The Moviegoer

Edmund Morris

Theodore Rex

Connie Leas

The Art of Thank You

James Thurber

My World-And Welcome to It

Elizabeth Mills Brown

New Haven

Leo Tolstoi; Louise and Aylmer Maude; John Bayley

Anna Karenina

Jim Camp

Start with No

Janet Smith

Mark Twain on the Damned Human Race

Jeffrey D. Sachs; Bono

The End of Poverty

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Greg Ip; Mohamed A. El-Erian

The Little Book of Economics

Cleveland Amory

The Cat and the Curmudgeon

Daniel G. Amen

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy an Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity

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