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Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2010], ℗2009
Language
English
Description
A collection of some of the oldest African tales, selected by Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, which presents such themes as cunning animals, magic spells, and people who change forms.
Author
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
Did you know that there are turtles who can track the Earth's magnetic fields? That some fish use electricity to talk to each other? Or that giant squids evolved their enormous eyeballs to look out for whales? The world is so much BIGGER and more "immense" than we humans experience it. We can only see so many colors, we can only feel so many sensations, and there are some senses we can't access at all. Exploring the amazing ways animals perceive the...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
In 1920, Henry Fairfield Osborn, director of New York's American Museum of Natural History, traveled to Hawaii on an anthropological research trip. While there, he took a surfing lesson. His teacher was Duke Kahanamoku, a famous surf-rider and budding movie star. For Osborn, a fervent eugenicist, Kahanamoku was a maddening paradox: physically "perfect," yet belonging to an "imperfect" race. Osborn dispatched young scientist Louis Sullivan to Honolulu...
Author
Language
English
Description
How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious cults in American history.
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster: from...
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster: from...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From social media star and change-maker Molly Burke, a vulnerable, honest, and darkly humorous memoir on navigating the challenges of being a blind woman in a sighted world. When Molly Burke was four years old, she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare degenerative eye disease that leads to eventual blindness, forcing her to see the world through new eyes--literally. Growing up disabled didn't stop her from playing sports, becoming a rock-climbing...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
This gentle and profound collection of 365 meditations reminds us that letting go is a daily practice that sets everything free. This cherished work by Melody Beattie was written for those on a journey of recovery and healing, a companion to her classic, Codependent No More. "It was the daily journey that I wanted to write about," Beattie notes in the preface to this new edition. "Of the many healing behaviors I've learned to practice, letting go--in...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The much-anticipated new book by artist and New York Times bestselling author Sally Mann about the challenges and transcendent pleasures of the creative process. Art Work, by photographer and writer Sally Mann, offers a spellbinding mix of wild and illuminating stories, practical (and some impractical) advice, and life lessons for artists and writers--or anyone interested in the creative path. Written in the same frank, fearless, and occasionally...
Author
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
Description
The concept of evil is universal, ancient, and ever present today. The biblical book of Genesis clearly defines it when Cain kills his brother Abel out of jealousy. As long as human beings have walked, evil has been close by. This book will recount the deeds of the worst people in history: Genghis Khan. Caligula. Henry VIII. The collective evil of the slave traders. Stalin. Hitler. Mao. The Ayatollah Khomeini. Putin. The Mexican drug cartels. Their...
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Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Philosophical examination of the wide range of decisions all of us encounter in pursuing our lives. Professor Grim places the accent on individual choice covering questions about evolution and ethics, about whether punishment is justified by retribution or by deterrence and about the differing lessons drawn from life's worst horrors by both religious and anti-religious traditions.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the most original history of the Constitution in decades--and an essential companion to her landmark history of the United States, These Truths. Published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding--the anniversary, too, of the first...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
Learn to communicate confidently and listen empathetically with the help of Dr. Faith G. Harper. In this no-nonsense guide, you'll find conversational templates, guidance for setting boundaries, and tips for talking effectively at home, at work, at school, in everyday encounters, and with bureaucratic entities to form a handy toolkit for successful communication.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In her first-ever audio recording, Mary Oliver offers readers the all-too-rare experience of a live reading. She has selected forty of her favorite poems from work spanning four decades. The companion booklet includes an original essay.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe. What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner...




