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The Making of a Special Forces Warrior
Written by Dick Couch
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 6, 2007
Price: $11.99
IN combating terror, America can no longer depend on its conventional military superiority and the use of sophisticated technology. We are fighting guerrilla wars, against insurgents hidden in remote regions, often deep among the local population. In battles such as these, squadrons of billion-dollar bombers and naval fleets mean much less... Read more >
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A Story of Passion and Daring
Written by Richard Preston
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $16.00
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of... Read more >
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An Education in the Woods
Written by Christine Byl
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $24.95
A lively and lyrical account of one woman’s unlikely apprenticeship on a national-park trail crew and what she discovers about nature, gender, and the value of hard work
Christine Byl first encountered the national parks the way most of us do: on vacation. But after she graduated from college, broke and ready...
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Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Written by Shereen El Feki
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $14.99
If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms.
As political change sweeps the streets and squares, the parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at an upheaval a little closer to home—in the sexual lives of men and women...
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My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend
Written by Rachel Bertsche
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 20, 2011
Price: $15.00
When Rachel Bertsche first moves to Chicago, she’s thrilled to finally share a zip code, let alone an apartment, with her boyfriend. But shortly after getting married, Bertsche realizes that her new life is missing one thing: friends. Sure, she has plenty of BFFs—in New York and San Francisco and Boston... Read more >
The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
Written by Gary Krist
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $11.99
The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in the life of Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse.
When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of... Read more >
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Written by Jane Jacobs
Introduction by Jason Epstein
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $23.00
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs’s masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book’s original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on Jacobs herself and unique insights into the creation...
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America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship
Written by John Gottman, Ph.D., Julie Schwartz Gottman and Joan DeClaire
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 16, 2006
Price: $11.99
In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washingto— made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict—with more than 90 percent accuracy—whether a marriage would succeed or fail. The only thing they did not yet know was how to turn a failing... Read more >
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Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Written by Robert Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: August 29, 1995
Price: $18.00
Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics--as well as their... Read more >
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Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future
Written by Karen Elliott House
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $14.99
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who has spent the last thirty years writing about Saudi Arabia—as diplomatic correspondent, foreign editor, and then publisher of The Wall Street Journal—an important and timely book that explores all facets of life in this shrouded Kingdom: its tribal past, its complicated present, its precarious future.
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