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God of the Rodeo: The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana's Angola Prison

by Daniel Bergner

Published: 1999-10-05

Paperback: 304 pages

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Never before had Daniel Bergner seen a spectacle as bizarre as the one he had come to watch that Sunday in October. Murderers, rapists, and armed robbers were competing in the annual rodeo at Angola, the grim maximum-security penitentiary in Louisiana. The convicts, sentenced to life witho...

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Human Genetics and Genomics, Includes Wiley E-Text

by Bruce R. Korf, Mira B. Irons

Published: 2013-02-11

Paperback: 280 pages

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This fourth edition of the best-selling textbook, Human Genetics and Genomics, clearly explains the key principles needed by medical and health sciences students, from the basis of molecular genetics, to clinical applications used in the treatment of both rare and common conditions. A newl...

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The Punk and the Professor

by Billy Lawrence

Published: 2017-05-01

Paperback: 0 pages

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Set in the suburban shadows of New York City as the 1980s crash into the '90s, The Punk and the Professor brings us into the troubled world of a young introvert. Jack Tortis is an underdog branded as a punk in a place where sameness is celebrated. Destined to be a drop out laborer like his...

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Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching

by Jo Boaler

Published: 2015-11-02

Paperback: 320 pages

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Banish math anxiety and give students of all ages a clear roadmap to success Mathematical Mindsets provides practical strategies and activities to help teachers and parents show all children, even those who are convinced that they are bad at math, that they can enjoy and succeed in math. ...

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The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible

by Josh Sullivan, Angela Zutavern

Published: 2017-06-06

Hardcover: 304 pages

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The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future. We are at a once-in-a-decade breaking point simil...

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The Rosie Effect

by Graeme Simsion

Published: 2015-03-01

Library Binding: 500 pages

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Get ready to fall in love all over again! Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back. The Wife Project is complete, and Don and Rosie are happily married and living in New York. But they're about to face a new challenge because -- surprise! -- Rosie is pregnant.

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One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays

by Scaachi Koul

Published: 2017-05-02

Paperback: 256 pages

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One of NPR's Best Books of the Year A DEBUT COLLECTION OF FIERCE, FUNNY ESSAYS ABOUT GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN CULTURE, ADDRESSING SEXISM, STEREOTYPES, AND THE UNIVERSAL MISERIES OF LIFEIn One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul ...

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Seven Days in May: A Novel

by Kim Izzo

Published: 2017-05-02

Paperback: 320 pages

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For readers of Kate Williams, Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson, a captivating novel of love and resilience during the Great War, inspired by the author’s family history.As the First World War rages in continental Europe, two New York heiresses, Sydney and Brooke Sinclair, are due to ...

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My Sister's Bones: A Novel of Suspense

by Nuala Ellwood

Published: 2017-07-11

Paperback: 416 pages

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"Rivals The Girl on the Train as a compulsive read (and beats it for style). -- Observer (UK)In the vein of Fiona Barton's The Widow and Renée Knight's Disclaimer, a psychological thriller about a war reporter who returns to her childhood home after her mother's death but becomes convince...

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Unquenchable Fire (S.F. Masterworks)

by Rachel Pollack

Published: 2012-12-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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In an America where the miraculous is par for the course, where magic and myths are as real as shopping malls and television game shows, Jennifer Mazdan listens to the modern storytellers recite the tales of the Founders.But when strange things start to happen and Jennie becomes pregnant - from a dream...