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Second Suns
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $27.00
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $27.00
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
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Second Suns
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.99
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.99
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
Second Suns
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Read by Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $20.00
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Read by Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $20.00
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
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Forrest Bess
Key to the Riddle
Written by Chuck Smith
Foreword by Robert Thurman
Format: Hardcover, 168 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $40.00
Painter, fisherman, pseudo-hermaphrodite—Forrest Bess lived his life in obscurity at an isolated bait camp off the east coast of Texas. From 1949 through 1967, Bess showed at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York City, alongside superstar artists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Rediscovered after his death in 1977... Read more >
Key to the Riddle
Written by Chuck Smith
Foreword by Robert Thurman
Format: Hardcover, 168 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $40.00
Painter, fisherman, pseudo-hermaphrodite—Forrest Bess lived his life in obscurity at an isolated bait camp off the east coast of Texas. From 1949 through 1967, Bess showed at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York City, alongside superstar artists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Rediscovered after his death in 1977... Read more >
Gender and Sexuality For Beginners
Written by Jaimee Garbacik
Illustrated by Jeffrey Lewis
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $16.99
We should not need to prove our experiences, defend our realities, or negotiate basic human rights. But we do.
What does sexual orientation mean if the very categories of gender are in question? How do we measure equality when our society's definitions of "male" and "female" leave out much of the population?... Read more >
Written by Jaimee Garbacik
Illustrated by Jeffrey Lewis
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $16.99
We should not need to prove our experiences, defend our realities, or negotiate basic human rights. But we do.
What does sexual orientation mean if the very categories of gender are in question? How do we measure equality when our society's definitions of "male" and "female" leave out much of the population?... Read more >
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Gender and Sexuality For Beginners
Written by Jaimee Garbacik
Illustrated by Jeffrey Lewis
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $16.99
We should not need to prove our experiences, defend our realities, or negotiate basic human rights. But we do.
What does sexual orientation mean if the very categories of gender are in question? How do we measure equality when our society's definitions of "male" and "female" leave out much of the population?... Read more >
Written by Jaimee Garbacik
Illustrated by Jeffrey Lewis
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $16.99
We should not need to prove our experiences, defend our realities, or negotiate basic human rights. But we do.
What does sexual orientation mean if the very categories of gender are in question? How do we measure equality when our society's definitions of "male" and "female" leave out much of the population?... Read more >
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eBook.
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Corrupted Culture
Rediscovering America's Enduring Principles, Values, and Common Sense
Written by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
Format: Trade Paperback, 275 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $19.00
Poor education, bad parenting, a sense of entitlement, the "wasteland" of television, and more. These are the symptoms of a culture in decline. While it's easy to recite a litany of our problems, identifying their root causes requires more than the facile commentary offered by media pundits. This in-depth historical analysis... Read more >
Rediscovering America's Enduring Principles, Values, and Common Sense
Written by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
Format: Trade Paperback, 275 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $19.00
Poor education, bad parenting, a sense of entitlement, the "wasteland" of television, and more. These are the symptoms of a culture in decline. While it's easy to recite a litany of our problems, identifying their root causes requires more than the facile commentary offered by media pundits. This in-depth historical analysis... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Corrupted Culture
Rediscovering America's Enduring Principles, Values, and Common Sense
Written by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $11.99
Poor education, bad parenting, a sense of entitlement, the "wasteland" of television, and more. These are the symptoms of a culture in decline. While it's easy to recite a litany of our problems, identifying their root causes requires more than the facile commentary offered by media pundits. This in-depth historical analysis... Read more >
Rediscovering America's Enduring Principles, Values, and Common Sense
Written by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $11.99
Poor education, bad parenting, a sense of entitlement, the "wasteland" of television, and more. These are the symptoms of a culture in decline. While it's easy to recite a litany of our problems, identifying their root causes requires more than the facile commentary offered by media pundits. This in-depth historical analysis... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Full Body Burden
Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Written by Kristen Iversen
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Written by Kristen Iversen
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
Full Body Burden is Kristen Iversen's story of growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets—both family secrets and government secrets. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the...
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God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
From the IX Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected to the episcopate and the world’s leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a commonsense, reasoned, religious argument.
Robinson...
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Gods Like Us
On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame
Written by Ty Burr
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $16.95
On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame
Written by Ty Burr
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $16.95
With 8 Pages of Black-and-White Photographs
In this captivating history of stardom, Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr traces our obsession with fame from the dawn of cinema through the age of the Internet. Why do we obsess over the individuals we come to call stars? How has both the image of...
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On Saudi Arabia
Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines--and Future
Written by Karen Elliott House
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $16.95
Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines--and Future
Written by Karen Elliott House
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $16.95
With over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal Karen Elliott House has an unprecedented knowledge of life inside this shrouded kingdom. Through anecdotes, observation, analysis, and extensive interviews, she navigates the maze in which Saudi citizens find themselves trapped...
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A Wasp Among Eagles
A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II
Written by Ann Carl
Format: eBook, 152 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $14.95
Before World War II most Americans did not believe that the average woman could fly professionally, but during the war more than a thousand women pilots proved them wrong. These were the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), who served as military flyers on the home front. In March 1944 one of... Read more >
A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II
Written by Ann Carl
Format: eBook, 152 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $14.95
Before World War II most Americans did not believe that the average woman could fly professionally, but during the war more than a thousand women pilots proved them wrong. These were the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), who served as military flyers on the home front. In March 1944 one of... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Egypt - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Jailan Zayan
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Egypt reveals a country in the throes of change. The largely secular revolution that started in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January 2011 became the flagship of the Arab Spring revolts. The uprising resulted in a political effervescence, with new parties, movements, and groups... Read more >
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Jailan Zayan
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Egypt reveals a country in the throes of change. The largely secular revolution that started in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January 2011 became the flagship of the Arab Spring revolts. The uprising resulted in a political effervescence, with new parties, movements, and groups... Read more >
Egypt - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Jailan Zayan
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Egypt reveals a country in the throes of change. The largely secular revolution that started in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January 2011 became the flagship of the Arab Spring revolts. The uprising resulted in a political effervescence, with new parties, movements, and groups... Read more >
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Jailan Zayan
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Egypt reveals a country in the throes of change. The largely secular revolution that started in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January 2011 became the flagship of the Arab Spring revolts. The uprising resulted in a political effervescence, with new parties, movements, and groups... Read more >
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France - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Barry Tomalin
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
France has experienced considerable upheaval in recent years. The Eurozone crisis, a new socialist president, rioting by an alienated underclass, a ban on the burqa (full veil) in public places, and an attempt to democratize the elite system of education all point to significant changes in French society. At the same... Read more >
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Barry Tomalin
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
France has experienced considerable upheaval in recent years. The Eurozone crisis, a new socialist president, rioting by an alienated underclass, a ban on the burqa (full veil) in public places, and an attempt to democratize the elite system of education all point to significant changes in French society. At the same... Read more >
France - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Barry Tomalin
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
France has experienced considerable upheaval in recent years. The Eurozone crisis, a new socialist president, rioting by an alienated underclass, a ban on the burqa (full veil) in public places, and an attempt to democratize the elite system of education all point to significant changes in French society. At the same... Read more >
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Barry Tomalin
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
France has experienced considerable upheaval in recent years. The Eurozone crisis, a new socialist president, rioting by an alienated underclass, a ban on the burqa (full veil) in public places, and an attempt to democratize the elite system of education all point to significant changes in French society. At the same... Read more >
Heretic's Heart
A Journey through Spirit and Revolution
Written by Margot Adler
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $24.00
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A Journey through Spirit and Revolution
Written by Margot Adler
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $24.00
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trade paperback.
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Pakistan - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Safia Haleem
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
Pakistan is a land with a unique history, formed by migrating peoples who have left their footprint in its diverse cultures, languages, literature, food, dress, and folklore. The country is besieged by bad news, but despite the political turmoil the everyday life of its people is more stable, rich, and rewarding... Read more >
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Safia Haleem
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
Pakistan is a land with a unique history, formed by migrating peoples who have left their footprint in its diverse cultures, languages, literature, food, dress, and folklore. The country is besieged by bad news, but despite the political turmoil the everyday life of its people is more stable, rich, and rewarding... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Pakistan - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Safia Haleem
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
Pakistan is a land with a unique history, formed by migrating peoples who have left their footprint in its diverse cultures, languages, literature, food, dress, and folklore. The country is besieged by bad news, but despite the political turmoil the everyday life of its people is more stable, rich, and rewarding... Read more >
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Safia Haleem
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
Pakistan is a land with a unique history, formed by migrating peoples who have left their footprint in its diverse cultures, languages, literature, food, dress, and folklore. The country is besieged by bad news, but despite the political turmoil the everyday life of its people is more stable, rich, and rewarding... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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USA - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Gina Teague
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
Who can afford not to understand the USA? Many facets of American life have been embraced around the world, yet the sense of “just like in the movies” familiarity that first-time visitors often feel can be misleading. Underneath the gleaming smile of American popular culture lies a rich and complex society... Read more >
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Gina Teague
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
Who can afford not to understand the USA? Many facets of American life have been embraced around the world, yet the sense of “just like in the movies” familiarity that first-time visitors often feel can be misleading. Underneath the gleaming smile of American popular culture lies a rich and complex society... Read more >
USA - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Gina Teague
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
Who can afford not to understand the USA? Many facets of American life have been embraced around the world, yet the sense of “just like in the movies” familiarity that first-time visitors often feel can be misleading. Underneath the gleaming smile of American popular culture lies a rich and complex society... Read more >
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Written by Gina Teague
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.95
Who can afford not to understand the USA? Many facets of American life have been embraced around the world, yet the sense of “just like in the movies” familiarity that first-time visitors often feel can be misleading. Underneath the gleaming smile of American popular culture lies a rich and complex society... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Hippie Dictionary
A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s
Written by John Bassett Mccleary
Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
Whether you lived through the sixties and seventies or just wish you had, this revised and expanded edition of the HIPPIE DICTIONARY entertains as much as it educates. Cultural and political listings such as "Age of Aquarius," "C?©sar Ch?°vez," and "Black Power Movement," plus popular phrases like "acid flashback," "get a... Read more >
A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s
Written by John Bassett Mccleary
Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
Whether you lived through the sixties and seventies or just wish you had, this revised and expanded edition of the HIPPIE DICTIONARY entertains as much as it educates. Cultural and political listings such as "Age of Aquarius," "C?©sar Ch?°vez," and "Black Power Movement," plus popular phrases like "acid flashback," "get a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Black Code
Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
Written by Ronald J. Deibert
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $29.99
Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
Written by Ronald J. Deibert
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $29.99
Cyberspace is all around us. We depend on it for everything we do. We have reengineered our business, governance, and social relations around a planetary network unlike any before it. But there are dangers looming, and malign forces are threatening to transform this extraordinary domain.
In Black Code, Ronald J. Deibert, a...
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The Revolution Was Televised
The Cops, Crooks, Slingers, and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever
Written by Alan Sepinwall
Read by Joe Ochman
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $20.00
A mob boss in therapy. An experimental, violent prison unit. The death of an American city, as seen through a complex police investigation. A lawless frontier town trying to talk its way into the United States. A corrupt cop who rules his precinct like a warlord. The survivors of a plane... Read more >
The Cops, Crooks, Slingers, and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever
Written by Alan Sepinwall
Read by Joe Ochman
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $20.00
A mob boss in therapy. An experimental, violent prison unit. The death of an American city, as seen through a complex police investigation. A lawless frontier town trying to talk its way into the United States. A corrupt cop who rules his precinct like a warlord. The survivors of a plane... Read more >
