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Why My Third Husband Will Be A Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman

by Lisa Scottoline

Published: 2009-11-24

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A hilarious collection of stories from the life of the New York Times bestselling author of Look Again At last, together in one collection, are Lisa Scottoline's wildly popular Philadelphia Inquirer columns. In her column, Lisa lets her hair down, roots and all, to show the humorous side o...

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Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad

by Mike Greenberg

Published: 2007-05-15

Paperback: 240 pages

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Meet Mike Greenberg, the popular host of ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning, the highest-rated drive-time sports talk show on the dial. To his three-million-plus listeners, Greeny is the guy who's equally as comfortable dissecting zone defenses as he is discussing cashmere sweaters....

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Why Nations Fail

by Daron Acemoglu

Published: 2012-03-08

Hardcover: 464 pages

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This is a provocative new theory of political economy explaining why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? "Why Nations Fail" sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued n...

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Why New Orleans Matters

by Tom Piazza

Published: 2005-11-22

Hardcover: 192 pages

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Every place has its history. But what is it about New Orleans that makes it more than just the sum of the events that have happened there? What is it about the spirit of the people who live there that could produce a music, a cuisine, an architecture, a total environment, the mere mention ...

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Why Read Moby-Dick?

by Nathaniel Philbrick

Published: 2011-10-20

Hardcover: 144 pages

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The New York Times bestselling author of seagoing epics now celebrates an American classic. Moby-Dick is perhaps the greatest of the Great American Novels, yet its length and esoteric subject matter create an aura of difficulty that too often keeps readers at bay. Fortunately, one unabash...

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Why She Buys: The New Strategy for Reaching the World's Most Powerful Consumers

by Bridget Brennan

Published: 2009-07-07

Hardcover: 336 pages

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If the consumer economy had a sex, it would be female.If the business world had a sex, it would be male. And therein lies the pickle.Women are the engine of the global economy, driving 80 percent of consumer spending in the United States alone. They hold the purse strings, and when they?v...

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Why We Broke Up

by Daniel Handler

Published: 2011-12-27

Hardcover: 368 pages

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I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened.Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box ...

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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

by Gary Taubes

Published: 2011-12-27

Paperback: 288 pages

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Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, Gary Taubes revisits the urgent question of what's making us fat?and how we can change. He reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century?none more damaging or misguided th...

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Why We Hate the Oil Companies: Straight Talk from an Energy Insider

by John Hofmeister

Published: 2011-08-30

Paperback: 272 pages

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As president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister was known for being a straight shooter, willing to challenge his peers throughout the industry. Now, he's a man on a mission, the founder of Citizens for Affordable Energy, crisscrossing the country in a grassroots campaign to change the way we lo...

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Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Bestselling Books

by Lisa Adams, John Heath

Published: 2007-10-01

Paperback: 340 pages

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What do weight loss, evil emperors and tales of redemption have in common?We readers have many dirty little secrets-and our bestselling books are spilling them all. We cant resist conspiratorial crooks or the number 7. We have bought millions of books about cheese. And over a million of us...