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User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

by Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant

Published: 2019-11-19

Hardcover: 416 pages

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In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women’s rights to the Great Depression to World War...

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NVK: A Novel

by Temple Drake

Published: 2019-11-26

Paperback: 352 pages

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HER SECRET MUST BE KEPT FOR ALL ETERNITY.Set in the otherworldly megalopolis that is today’s Shanghai, Temple Drake’s suspenseful first novel blends the gothic, the erotic, and the supernatural as it charts an intense and dangerous affair.   One night in 2012, executive Zhang Guo Xing...

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Strong Mothers, Strong Sons: Lessons Mothers Need to Raise Extraordinary Men

by Meg Meeker

Published: 2015-04-07

Paperback: 368 pages

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A timely and empowering book featuring “solid, practical advice for women on how to properly nurture their sons” (Kirkus Reviews).   From the moment a mother holds her newborn son, his eyes tell her that she is his world. But often, as he grows up, the boy who needs her simultaneously...

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Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine (Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa)

by Daniel Monterescu

Published: 2015-08-24

Paperback: 384 pages

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Binational cities play a pivotal role in situations of long-term conflict, and few places have been more marked by the tension between intimate proximity and visceral hostility than Jaffa, one of the "mixed towns" of Israel/Palestine. In this nuanced ethnographic and historical study, Dani...

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Making Payments: An American Indian, the Vietnam War, Laos, and the Hmong

by John Oventile

Published: 2017-09-11

Paperback: 355 pages

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During the Vietnam War, in one of the thousands of unrecorded small unit engagements, the “fog of war” temporarily obscured reality and a uniquely prepared man was thrust back into the history of his ancestors. But this wasn’t science fiction; this was a journey of harsh reality, pain, hunger,...

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Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America

by Sichan Siv

Published: 2009-06-23

Paperback: 338 pages

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While the United States battled Vietnamese Communists in the 1960s and 1970s, in neighboring Cambodia dictator Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge declared war on their own people, enslaving and slaughtering anybody who disagreed with them. Sichan Siv knew he would soon be a target—ending u...

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The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case

by James Neff

Published: 2001-10

Hardcover: 432 pages

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The real-life murder that became known as “The Fugitive” case began before dawn on July 4, 1954, in a Cleveland suburb, when Marilyn Sheppard was viciously beaten to death in her bed. After an inadequate investigation, her husband, Dr. Sam Sheppard, was charged with the crime, and a ch...

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Fate of the Fallen (Shroud of Prophecy)

by Kel Kade

Published: 2019-11-05

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Fate of the Fallen is the start of a brand new adventure from New York Times bestselling author Kel KadeNot all stories have happy endings.Everyone loves Mathias. Naturally, when he discovers itâ??s his destiny to save the world, he dives in head first, pulling his best friend Aaslo along...

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Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

by Katherine Eban

Published: 2019-05-14

Hardcover: 512 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From an award-winning journalist, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and life-threatening dangers on a global scale—The Jungle for pharmaceuticalsMany have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the ...

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Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

Published: 2019-07-02

Hardcover: 256 pages

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An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the planet we inhabit—could not survive without them.Insects comprise roughly half of the animal kingdom. They live everywhere—deep inside caves, 18,000 feet high in the Himalayas, inside comp...