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by John Mandala (Author), Steve Gillem (Prepared by)After Prison: A Way To Succeed provides men and women who are incarcerated or have been released from prison, with detailed insight, resources, and a relatable action plan to increase their chances for successful reentry and transition back into society.While spending a lengthy sentence in Sing Sing prison in New York State, author John Mandala earned both a Bachelor's and Master's degree. After being released for over 5 years he decided to ...

Masonic Research Lodges, Bodies, and Societies - Paperback

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by Ken Jp Stuczynski (Author) Number of Pages: 284 Dimensions: 0.6 x 7 x 4.25 IN Publication Date: December 27, 2024

Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute - Paperback

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by George Jr. Stevens (Author)ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME - The first book to bring together interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Institute's renowned seminars, Conversations with the Great Moviemakers, offers an unmatched history of American cinema in the words of its greatest practitioners. Here are the incomparable directors Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, King Vidor, David Lean, Fritz Lang ("I learned only from bad films"), William Wyl...

The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion: Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen - Paperback

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by Gert Woerner (Editor), Stephan Schuhmacher (Editor)With more than four thousand entries and over one hundred illustrations, this encyclopedia offers a complete survey of the four major religious traditions of Asia. It is designed not only for students and scholars but also to help general readers find their way through the thicket of unfamiliar words and concepts that are often encountered today in various fields such as the health professions, psychotherapy, the sciences, and the media. A...

Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster Slang - Paperback

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by Max Decharne (Author)Righteous jive for all you weedheads, moochers, b-girls, gassers, bandrats, triggermen, grifters, snowbirds, and long-gone daddies.Much of the slang popularly associated with the hippie generation of the 1960s actually dates back to before World War II, hijacked in the main from jazz and blues street expressions, mostly relating to drugs, sex, and drinking. Why talk when you can beat your chops, why eat when you can line your flue, and why snore when you can call some ...

The World According to Peter Drucker - Paperback

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by Jack Beatty (Author)Peter Drucker is arguably the most influential architect of today's corporate society. Yet no concise overview of his life and work has ever appeared--until now. Creating a Drucker primer as much as a biography, Jack Beatty has distilled the essence of Drucker's beliefs and strategies into one engaging volume. Spanning Drucker's childhood in Vienna during the first world war, through his first American teaching jobs when raging factions debated the best form of governme...

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by Lee Glickstein (Author)As followers of Lee Glickstein's popular seminars attest, effective public speaking isn't the result of being over-prepared or having a slick delivery. It's actually a creative, interactive process relying on the speaker's natural presence and willingness to be "in the moment." Now Glickstein shares his dramatically successful "transformational speaking" approach, showing that the key to successful public speaking lies in spiritual principles that emphasize self-real...

The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (Revised Edition) - Paperback

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by Christopher Cerf (Author), Victor Navasky (Joint Author)The new and updated version of a classic reference work brings the history of distortions, errors, half-truths, and outright lies into the information age.Who said the following?-- "The one thing I won't let happen to me is I won't let a ball go through my legs".(1)-- "640K ought to be enough for anybody".(2)-- "Bill Clinton will lose to any Republican nominee who doesn't drool on stage".(3)When first published in 1984, The Experts Sp...

The Dictionary of Global Culture: What Every American Needs to Know as We Enter the Next Century--From Diderot to Bo Diddley - Paperback

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by Kwame Anthony Appiah (Editor), Michael Colin Vazquez (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)Reference/World History "Consistently informative, lively, and accurate . . . a pathbreaking achievement." --The New York Times Book Review s the world's axes of population, power, and commerce shift from North to South and from West to East, the old Eurocentric model of culture is giving way to a new global paradigm. This dictionary, which has been compiled by two of our most esteemed scholars, i...

American History in 100 Nutshe - Paperback

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by Thaddeus F. Tuleja (Author)From the discovery of America to the war in the Persian Gulf, Tad Tuleja chronologically offers 100 sayings and events, using each as a lens through which to view America at that time. History is fascinating, but with all those pesky people, places, and dates floating in memory limbo, it's tough to remember enough to have it all make sense. Tad Tuleja has solved that problem by taking American history's most famous thoughts and phrases and succinctly explaining t...

Keep Your Cat Healthy. Natural - Paperback

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by Pat Lazarus (Author)Healing diets for optimal well-beingHolistic treatments for serious conditionsAcupuncture, homeopathy, and vitamin supplementsCutting-edge natural therapies Hundreds of veterinarians keep cats healthy and save critically ill pets through alternative medicine--now you can, too Many pet owners are turning to holistic medicine for the long-term health benefits it offers their loyal companions. Keep Your Cat Healthy the Natural Way draws upon the combined experience of the...

Before You Call the Doctor: Safe, Effective Self-Care for Over 300 Common Medical Problems - Paperback

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by Bobbie Hasselbring (Author), Michael Castleman (Author), Anne Simons (Author)An A-to-Z reference to the essentials of good home health care for more than 300 ailments, symptoms, and health-related concerns Before You Call the Doctor is easy to follow, and it's organized to get you the information you need--quickly. Does someone in your family have a headache? - Find headache listed alphabetically in Chapter 7, "The Head and Nervous System." There, you'll learn about the three most common ...

Keep Your Dog Healthy/Natural - Paperback

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by Pat Lazarus (Author)The best treat you can give your dog is a long and happy life.Keep Your Dog Healthy the Natural Way tells you how to do it. Millions of people who use holistic healing techniques on themselves are now discovering they can apply these same powerful practices to their canine companions for a longer, healthier life. Drawing on the clinical experiences of dozens of holistic veterinarians around the country, medical writer Pat Lazarus gives you all the information you need t...

Thirteen: A Journey into the Number - Paperback

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by Jonathan Cott (Author)Odysseus, the 13th of his group of companions, is the only one to have escaped the devouring appetite of the Cyclops Polyphemus. The ill-fated Apollo 13 mission was launched on April 11, 1970, at 1313 hours Central Time from Pad 39 (13 x 3), and had to be aborted on April 13 after the explosion of an oxygen tank serving the commanding ship. Three of the sleeping periods scheduled for the astronauts were supposed to start 13 minutes past the hour, as was one of the po...

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by Robert Drake (Author), J. Ed Drake (Author)There are countless works of interest to gay men in print right now--anthologies, novels, memoirs, and more. It is a reflection of progress that there is such an openly recognizable culture. Yet how to make sense of the choices offered? What do gay men need to read? What books have shaped the gay heart, mind, and soul? The Gay Canon gives its readers answers to these questions. Not only does it list the one hundred great gay books that have influe...

Books to Build On: A Grade-By-Grade Resource Guide for Parents and Teachers - Paperback

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by E. D. Hirsch (Author)The invaluable grade-by-grade guide (kindergarten--sixth) is designed to help parents and teachers select some of the best books for children. Books to Build On recommends: - for kindergartners, lively collections of poetry and stories, such as The Children's Aesop, and imaginative alphabet books such as Bill Martin, Jr.'s Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Lucy Micklewait's I Spy: An Alphabet in Art - for first graders, fine books on the fine arts, such as Ann Hayes's Meet t...

The Ultimate: The Great American Arguments Settled Once and for All - Paperback

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by William Poundstone (Author)A humorous trivia book that has the official and final word on what qualifies as the coolest, the best, the toughest, the most, and of course the ultimate. Readers will enjoy learning which rollercoaster is the best, and what was the most ingenious college prank. Those are only a sample of this trivia book that will entertain all readers.Author BiographyWilliam Poundstone studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Recurs...

What Every American Should Know about the Rest of the World: Your Guide to Today's Hot Spots, Hot Shots and Incendiary Issues - Paperback

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by Melissa Rossi (Author)Confused about the news? Slip out of the room when friends talk current events? Now you can keep up with ease and learn to talk like a diplomat.Among the things you'll soon be able to slip into everyday conversation: What is the difference between Kurdistan and Kazakhstan? Why did North Korea's leader kidnap his favorite actress? Why is Osama bin Laden so mad? Which countries still have slaves? Why is Kashmir "the most dangerous place in the world?" What country has ...

The Art of the Moving Picture - Paperback

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by Vachel Lindsay (Author), Stanley Kauffmann (Introduction by), Kent Jones (Afterword by)"In the field of film aesthetics, it is the first important American work, still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing."--Stanley Kauffmann Written in 1915, The Art of the Moving Picture by poet Vachel Lindsay is the first book to treat movies as art. Lindsay writes a brilliant analysis of the early silent films (including several now lost films). He is extraordinarily prescient about t...

Simple Checkmates: More Than 400 Exercises for Novices of All Ages! - Paperback

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by A. J. Gillam (Author)Here is the classic guide to winning chess for beginners. Recommended by chess coaches the world over, it presents a wide range of specific chess positions and asks the reader to find the next move or series of moves that lead to checkmate -- with two diagrams per page and the answers spelled out underneath. The beauty of Simple Checkmates is that it turns learning into a game. It's fun, it's fascinating, it's fundamental -- an invaluable tool for anyone who wants not ...

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by Larry Beinhart (Author)WHODUNIT? YOUDUNIT So you want to write a mystery. There's more to it than just a detective, a dead body, and Colonel Mustard in the drawing room with the candlestick. Fortunately, Larry Beinhart--Edgar Award-winning author of You Get What You Pay For, Foreign Exchange, and American Hero--has taken a break from writing smart, suspenseful thrillers to act as your guide through all the twists and turns of creating the twists and turns of a good mystery. Drawing on advi...

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by Marilyn Yalom (Author)In this provocative, pioneering, and wholly engrossing cultural history, noted scholar Marilyn Yalom explores 25,000 years of ideas, images, and perceptions about the female breast--in religion, psychology, politics, society, and the arts.Front JacketIn this provocative, pioneering, and wholly engrossing cultural history, noted scholar Marilyn Yalom explores twenty-five thousand years of ideas, images, and perceptions of the female breast--in religion, psychology, pol...

Your Premature Baby: The Complete Guide to Premie Care During That Crucial First Year - Paperback

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by Robin Marantz Henig (Author), Anne B. Fletcher (Author)Foreword by Dr. Benjamin Spock As the parent of a premie, you're probably wondering, what do all those tubes, monitors, and lights in the intensive care unit mean? What are the special medical problems I might face during these crucial first months? How can I talk to my premie? How will he or she respond? Can I breastfeed? Where can I find premie-size diapers and clothes? In simple, honest terms, this book will answer all your questi...

How Long Does This Last: A Comprehensive Guide To Storing Food In Your Fridge - Paperback

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by Michelle C. Henley (Author)Did you know that the average North American family trashes 14% of the food they buy, often because it spoils? That amounts to 30 million tones of waste ending up in landfills. With the cost of food today, many families can't afford that kind of waste. You can help reduce this waste by simply informing yourself. Knowing how to optimally store food in your fridge is not only good for your wallet, good for the earth, but also good for your health. Taking care of th...

Catalogue of Rare Old Violins, Violas and Violoncellos - Also Bows of Rare Makes - Paperback

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by Anon (Author)This vintage book contains a catalogue of the rare and antique violins offered for sale by the Lyon & Healy company of Chicago in 1917. For each piece there is provided an authentic photograph, as well as an expert description and other notable information. This volume will appeal to violin collectors and antique dealers alike, and it would make for a fantastic addition to collections of vintage violin literature. Contents include: "Antonius Stradivarius, Cremona, 1717", "...

An Introduction to Scientific Research Methods in Geography and Environmental Studies - Paperback

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by Daniel R. Montello (Author), Paul Sutton (Author)This revised, updated, and extended Second Edition of An Introduction to Scientific Research Methods in Geography and Environmental Studies provides a broad and integrative introduction to the conduct and interpretation of scientific research in geography. It explains both, the conceptual and the technical aspects of research, as well as all phases of the research process. As in the previous edition, the authors use a framework - of a natura...

Weddings from the Heart: Contemporary and Traditional Ceremonies for an Unforgettable Wedding - Paperback

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by Daphne Rose Kingma (Author)Planning the Wedding YOU WantAt the heart of a wedding is a relationship-and that is what the ceremony should reflect in every way. Your wedding should be as unique and special as your love is. If you want to plan an unforgettable day, start with the heart.This is your day. When you're planning your marriage ceremony, it can feel like the to-dos and checklists are endless. There's always more you could be doing, more you could be planning and organizing. But at t...

Detoxified You! How to Cleanse Your Body from Within Using Proven Techniques - Paperback

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by Penny Martin (Author)Printed resources on detoxification would allow individuals a chance to remove bodily poisons in a safe manner. They can extensively detail helpful agents that will expedite the process. These books can also explore the risks associated with certain methods, which will stop people from sustaining injuries. Finally, these informative texts can illustrate the countless benefits of a clear physiological system. Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.11 x 9 x 6 IN Publication D...

The Companion Guide to Sicily - Paperback

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by Raleigh Trevelyan (Author)This vivid, knowledgeable and privileged guide to the riches of Sicily is vintage Companion Guide. The beautiful island of Sicily, poised between Europe and Africa, has seen many invaders, nearly all of whom have left their mark in art and architecture. It is also a land of myth and enigma, pagan below the Catholic surface, troubled by the shadow of the Mafia - in the words of the great Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia, a fantasy world. Raleigh Trevelyan knows t...

The Couples Would You Rather Edition - Sexy conversations to know your partner better! - Paperback

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by Beckie Reid (Author)The rules are simple. Take turns asking each other the questions and the other person HAS to reply which one they'd rather do Whether you've just got together, have been married for years, or are any where in between, these seriously naughty questions are sure to get you talking. You'll discover your partners sexual desires, kinks and dirty sense of humour ★★ Some of the questions include ★★ - Would you rather be with someone who uses too much tongue when they make ...

Lessons From Thought Leaders - Paperback

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by Brian Tracy (Author), Phil Collen (Author), Ren?e Marino (Author)Compiled and created by Jim Rohn's 18-year business partner, marketer, strategist, and founder of Jim Rohn International Kyle Wilson alongside book editor and writing coach Takara Sights.Previous Amazon #1 Bestsellers include: Transformational Journey Next Level Your Life Think Big! Persistence, Pivots, and Game Changers Bringing Value, Solving Problems, and Leaving a Legacy Success Habits of Super Achievers Don't Quit Desir...

How to Write a Book Proposal: The Insider's Step-By-Step Guide to Proposals That Get You Published - Paperback

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by Jody Rein (Author), Michael Larsen (Author)THE ESSENTIAL RESOURCE FOR SELLING YOUR BOOK If you want to publish a book, you must present it to agents and publishers with a knock-your-socks-off proposal. Whether you're seeking a traditional press to publish your self-published book or trying to win over an agent for your graphic novel, memoir, or nonfiction title, you need an irresistible proposal. The better your proposal, the better the editor, publisher, and deal you will get. Nailing y...