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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

Published: 2011-10-04

Hardcover: 832 pages

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Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year The author of The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of violence. Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live ...

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Better Each Day: 365 Expert Tips for a Healthier, Happier You

by Jessica Cassity

Published: 2011-08-24

Paperback: 380 pages

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New Year s resolutions have never been easier to keep than with Better Each Day. Its hundreds of tips add up to a big impact on well-being. Using the latest scientific findings from experts in the fields of nutrition, mental health, fitness, and psychology, respected journalist Jessica Cas...

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Better Off Without Him

by Dee Ernst

Published: 2012-05-23

Paperback: 266 pages

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Mona Berman is an expert at Happily Ever After – after all, she’s a best-selling Romance writer and happy endings are what she does best. So when her husband of twenty years leaves her for somebody 15 years younger, 20 pounds lighter, and French, she’s got a lot of adjusting to do, both personally...

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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology

by Eric Brende

Published: 2004-08-03

Hardcover: 256 pages

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What happens when a graduate of MIT, the bastion of technological advancement, and his bride move to a community so primitive in its technology that even Amish groups consider it antiquated? Eric Brende conceives a real-life experiment: to see if, in fact, all our cell phones, wide-screen ...

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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology (P.S.)

by Eric Brende

Published: 2005-08-02

Paperback: 234 pages

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What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "hooked to the grid," and spent eigh...

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Better Read Than Dead (Psychic Eye Mysteries, Book 2)

by Victoria Laurie

Published: 2005-06-07

Kindle Edition: 308 pages

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Once again Abby Cooper’s abilities are in high demand. But this time she won’t just be finding a deadly criminal—she’ll be helping one.   It’s fall in Detroit, and psychic intuitive Abby Cooper is falling to pieces. She was about to nestle into her cozy, almost-renovated new hou...

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Better Than I Know Myself

by Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant

Published: 2005-05-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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The beloved #1 Essence bestselling authors of Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made now deliver a novel in which you'll meet their most unforgettable characters yet. Carmen, Jewel, and Regina could not be more different. When they meet as freshmen at Columbia University, they're pretty confi...

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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

by Atul Gawande

Published: 2008-01-22

Paperback: 288 pages

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National BestsellerThe struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives may be on the line with any decision.Atul Gawande, the N...

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Betty Zane, with eBook (Ohio River)

by Zane Grey

Published: 2009-04-27

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Inspired by the life and adventures of author Zane Grey's great-great-grandmother, Betty Zane tells the story of the last battle of the American Revolution, in which the heroine was a young, spunky, and beautiful frontier girl named Betty Zane.

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

by Aron Ralston

Published: 2005-08-30

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One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told—Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home.It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands on a warm Saturday afte...