Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: December 29, 1998 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-72985-3 (0-679-72985-2)
"Consistently informative, lively, and accurate . . . a pathbreaking achievement."—The New York Times Book Review
As 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...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: October 11, 1994 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-345-38146-0 (0-345-38146-7)
An essential one-volume introduction to the key myths of the world's major traditions. Explores the themes and images shared by the Greeks, Indians, Africans, Chinese, and many others.
"Unusually accessible and useful." --William E. Paden, University of Vermont
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Format: Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Dell On Sale: September 1, 1985 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-440-31925-2 (0-440-31925-0)
Written in clear and precise language, this complete, up-to-date dictionary includes definitions of psychological terms and those from related disciplines including psychoanlysis, psychiatry and biology as well as parapsychology.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Ten Speed Press On Sale: April 6, 2010 Price: $15.99 ISBN: 978-1-58008-141-2 (1-58008-141-X)
In today’s highly competitive climate, students need to be prepared when they graduate and count on finding a great job. It pays to figure out interests early, so they can decide what additional schooling—and tuition debt—makes sense for his or her chosen field. In What Color Is Your Parachute? For Teens...
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Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: February 2, 2010 Price: $37.50 ISBN: 978-1-4000-4420-7 (1-4000-4420-0)
Winner of the 2011 Darlene Clark Hine Award Winner of the National Women's Political Caucus 2010 Exceptional Merit in Media Award
“The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Ten Speed Press On Sale: August 6, 2003 Price: $14.99 ISBN: 978-1-58008-524-3 (1-58008-524-5)
You'll learn a lot of things in college, but there's one thing the textbooks won't teach you: how to acquire marketable job skills before you graduate.
Award-winning college professor and student adviser Bill Coplin has been developing skill-based liberal arts curricula for more than 30 years, and has helped thousands of students...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill On Sale: May 1, 2006 Price: $24.99 ISBN: 978-0-8230-1413-2 (0-8230-1413-4)
The classic Designing with Type has been completely redesigned, with an updated format and full color throughout. New information and new images make this perennial best-seller an even more valuable tool for anyone interested in learning about typography. The fifth edition has been integrated with a convenient website, www.designingwithtype.com, where students...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: March 9, 2010 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-38843-8 (0-307-38843-3)
The Book of Firstsis an entertaining, enlightening, and highly browsable tour of the major innovations of the past twenty centuries and how they shaped our world.
Peter D’Epiro makes this handy overview of human history both fun and thought-provoking with his survey of the major “firsts”—inventions, discoveries, political and military upheavals...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: National Geographic On Sale: November 1, 2011 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-1-4262-0890-4 (1-4262-0890-1)
From the first civilizations to the 21st century, this wide-ranging, compulsively readable book encompasses all of world history--great ages and monumental events; the rise and fall of cultures; names, dates, and statistics, and stories galore. Designed as an authoritative reference that’s also irresistible to browse, it’s a brilliant blend of narrative...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: April 9, 2002 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72562-3 (0-375-72562-8)
A Vintage Spiritual Classic
Francis de Sales’s Introduction to the Devout Life has remained a uniquely accessible and relevant treasure of devotion for nearly four hundred years. As Bishop of Geneva in the first quarter of the seventeenth century, Francis de Sales saw to the spiritual needs of everyone from the poorest...
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Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: October 17, 2000 Price: $35.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-40374-3 (0-375-40374-4)
Richard Ellis--who is also recognized as America's foremost painter of marine subjects--gives us a masterful synthesis of years of investigation and tens of thousands of disparate sources. The result is the first comprehensive, fully illustrated, and highly readable reference on almost everything that is known about the sea.
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ten Speed Press On Sale: October 1, 2007 Price: $19.99 ISBN: 978-1-58008-870-1 (1-58008-870-8)
With more than sixty-five combined years of experience in the career development field, Howard Figler and Richard Nelson Bolles are the undisputed authorities when it comes to helping people find meaningful work. In this revised and updated second edition of their classic guide for career counselors, Figler and Bolles show aspiring...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
Publisher: Shambhala On Sale: May 11, 2010 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-808-0 (1-59030-808-5)
With over fifteen hundred entries and forty-six illustrations, this is the most complete compact reference work of its kind available in the English language. It is designed not only for students and meditators but also as a tool to help familiarize all readers with Buddhist terms and concepts that are encountered...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: September 14, 2004 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-3229-7 (1-4000-3229-6)
Thou Shalt Honor Thy Reader, Thou Shalt Not Waste Words, Thou Shalt Not Kill Thy Sentences—these are three of the “pen” commandments through which, with humor and an engaging sense of purpose, Steven Frank inspires his readers not just to write but to write well.
Thou Shalt Take Pleasure in Thy Pen...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Ten Speed Press On Sale: April 6, 2010 Price: $14.99 ISBN: 978-1-58008-754-4 (1-58008-754-X)
“College is hard, but the rules for college success are simple. The trick is, even though they are simple in theory, they are often very difficult in practice. But here’s my college professor’s guarantee: If you consistently and conscientiously follow these rules, you will ace your courses, impress your friends and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: September 25, 2001 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-609-80798-9 (0-609-80798-6)
“Whether you conclude that this book is the most alarming heresy of the millennium or the mother of all revelations, The Jesus Mysteries deserves to be read.” -- Fort Worth Star -Telegram
What if . . . * there were absolutely no evidence for the existence of a historical Jesus? * for thousands of years...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Amphoto Books On Sale: October 19, 2010 Price: $25.99 ISBN: 978-0-8174-0008-8 (0-8174-0008-7)
This update to the bestselling The A-Z of Creative Photography explains all aspects of creative digital photography, with more than 70 techniques presented in practical A-Z format. Filled with advice, insight, and hundreds of images from master photographer Lee Frost, The A-Z of Creative Photography, Revised Edition, gives the know-how to...
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Format: Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: October 1, 1983 Price: $6.99 ISBN: 978-0-553-26375-6 (0-553-26375-7)
Over 50,000 clues, over 160,000 solutions—more clues, more solutions than any other book in America. Plus unique long-word finder—makes the tough spots easy to solve!
Completely alphabetical, comprehensive, up to the minute, here's the new indispensable crossword puzzle dictionary, the one invaluable guide to solving the most difficult puzzles—including competitions. Arranged...
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Format: Paperback, 832 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: June 29, 1997 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-345-41441-0 (0-345-41441-1)
The Random House Word Menu is a revolutionary reference that organizes language by subject matter, the way we understand and use it. More than a dictionary, the WORD MENU is also
A Reverse Dictionary, which arranges words in logical, categorized structures--if you know the meaning or you know a related word, you...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: October 30, 2001 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-37496-4 (0-553-37496-6)
In this long-awaited sequel to her bestselling books Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind, Natalie Goldberg takes us to the next step in the writing process: turning our flashes of inspiration—the thunder and lightning of creation—into a polished piece of work.
You've filled your notebooks, done your writing practice, discovered your...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 9, 2007 Price: $18.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-27907-1 (0-307-27907-3)
From Platonism to New Historicism, humankind is constantly coming up with fresh schools of thought to help explain (or at least describe) the mysterious world around us. Here is the ultimate guide to over 450 of the most significant intellectual terms, movements, and religions that help shape the society we live...
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