Steve Menasche
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Pub. Date
2022
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Unabridged
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English
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Who knew the CIA needed librarians? More Stories from Langley reveals the lesser-known operations of one of the most mysterious government agencies in the United States. Edward Mickolus is back with more stories to answer the question, "What does a career in the CIA look like?" Advice and anecdotes from both current and former CIA officers provide a look at the side of intelligence operations that is often left out of the movies. What was it like...
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"When it comes to predicting how technology changes our near future, there are two camps. One says we live at a time of a "new normal" where we've netted all the low-hanging fruit and ordering a ride or food on a smartphone is as good as it's going to get. The other camp sees lots of changes but mainly in destroying jobs and traditional businesses. They're both wrong, predicts Mark P. Mills, whose earlier book "The Bottomless Well" debunked the bleak...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A radical reassessment of the role of Mary the mother of Jesus and other women in the early Church. Despite the commonly held assumption that the Bible says little about the mother of Jesus, there are many indications that Mary preceded and inspired her son in fostering the emergence of a new faith community. In the Gospel of John, Mary instigates Jesus' first miracle, and in all four gospels she is present at the crucifixion, suggesting hers was...
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Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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This book chronicles the creation of Everglades National Park, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. This effort, which spanned 1928 to 1958, was of central importance to the later emergence of modern environmentalism. Prior to the park's creation, the Everglades was seen as a reviled and useless swamp, unfit for typical recreational or development projects. The region's unusual makeup also made it an unlikely candidate to become...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
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English
Description
The Addams Family is creepy and kooky, but wait till you see what their creator had in his apartment.
In Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life, meet the legendary cartoonist behind the altogether spooky Addams Family in this first biography, written with exclusive access to Charles Addams's private archives.
Take a front-row seat to the widespread rumors and storytelling genius behind one of America's oddest and most iconic creators. Even as The Addams...
6) Winter in America: A Cultural History of Neoliberalism, from the Sixties to the Reagan Revolution
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Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
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English
Description
Neoliberalism took shape in the 1930s and 1940s as a transnational political philosophy and system of economic, political, and cultural relations. Resting on the fundamental premise that the free market should be unfettered by government intrusion, neoliberal policies have primarily redirected the state's prerogatives away from the postwar Keynesian welfare system and toward the insulation of finance and corporate America from democratic pressure....
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Pub. Date
2022
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Unabridged
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English
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The War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This Southern Civil War was distinct from the American Civil War and fought between southerners for control of state governments. In the South, African American and white unionists formed a successful biracial coalition that elected state and local officials. White supremacist insurrectionaries...
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Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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Since the 1970s, health professionals, researchers, governments, advocacy groups, and commercial interests have invested in the pursuit of something called "sexual health." Under this expansive banner, a wide array of programs have been launched, organizations founded, initiatives funded, products sold-and yet, no book before this one asks: What does it mean to be sexually healthy?
Conjoining "sexual" with "health" changes both terms: it alters how...
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Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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A bold new account of the Age of Revolution, one of the most complex and vast transformations in human history
The Age of Atlantic Revolution was a defining moment in western history. Our understanding of rights, of what makes the individual an individual, of how to define a citizen versus a subject, of what states should or should not do, of how labor, politics, and trade would be organized, of the relationship between the church and the state,...
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2013.
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English
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After I sent my team to the Question Based Selling program, not only was the feedback from the training outstanding, but we experienced an immediate positive impact in results.-Jim Cusick, vice president of sales, SAP America, Inc. "Following the program, even our most experienced salespeople raved, saying QBS was the best sales training they have ever experienced!"-Alan D. Rohrer, director of sales, Hewlett Packard For nearly fifteen years, The Secrets...
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Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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Too often we think and teach in ways that reinforce a mind-body split. This can lead people to self-alienation, impeding holistic, healthy relationships between people, God, and each other. Body Connections takes a different approach, teaching us to see the connections between our embodied experience and faithful spiritual care. Author Michael Koppel focuses on the human body and its relationship to faith and spiritual care. He engages religious texts...
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Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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We live in a world of oppositional relationships and increasing in-group/out-group divisions. Christian sociologist Matthew Vos explains how the problem of the stranger lies at the root of many problems humanity faces, such as racism, sexism, and nationalism. He applies classic sociological theory on "the stranger" to matters of faith and social justice, showing that an identity in Christ frees us to love strangers as neighbors and friends. The book...
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Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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Crisis is inevitable-but it doesn't have to torpedo your finances! Financial Security For Dummies offers advice to help you prep your finances for the next economic downturn, personal setback, pandemic, plague of locusts-or anything else life throws your way. This book contains the historical perspective and up-to-date info you'll need to navigate a wide range of personal financial challenges. Not only will you create a plan to keep your family's...
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Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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Being kind to yourself might sound simple, but self-compassion can change your life dramatically. Self-Compassion For Dummies will help you discover self-critical thoughts and self-defeating behaviors that are holding you back from fulfilling your potential and explore how you can learn to work around these things to find your way to more joy and satisfaction. When you learn to love and appreciate yourself completely, you free yourself up to achieve...
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Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In statehouses, school boards, and communities across the US, battles are raging over the direction of education policy-from the standards that are shaping what students learn to how test results are being used to judge a teacher's performance. What's more, the COVID-19 pandemic is prompting educators to rethink the school's mission in society.
In The Education Debate, nationally recognized education authority David Kirp and Kevin Macpherson provide...
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Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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Factor Investing For Dummies helps you go beyond the investment basics, with proven techniques for making informed and sophisticated investment decisions. Momentum, value, interest rates, economic growth, credit risk, liquidity-all these things can help you identify killer stocks and improve your returns. This book explains it all, and helps you implement a strategic factor investing plan, so you can boost your portfolio's performance, reduce volatility,...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Budding entrepreneurs face a challenging road. The path isn't made any easier by all the clichaes they hear about how to make a startup succeed-from platitudes and conventional wisdom to downright contradictions. This witty and wise guide to the dilemmasof entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the journey. Instead of startup myths-legends spun from...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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An investigative journalist, drawing from hundreds of confidential oil industry documents spanning decades, reveals, for the first time, the far-right conspiracy that's stopped the world from preventing the climate crisis, and tells the high-stakes stories of people fighting back to get global emissions under control.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"A financial guide for the American millennial. A relatable, easy-to-read, sequential, and comprehensive approach to paying off debt, building an automated savings system, buying life's early stage big purchases, and teaching readers how to live the true millionaire lifestyle"--
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"An organization's future success depends on decision makers' abilities to anticipate changes and disruptions in the marketplace. But how do you get information about tomorrow today? How can your decisions today account for tomorrow's uncertainties? This book shows you how to exploit the period between the moment when you could know about emerging disruptions and the moment when most everybody else will know about it. It's the difference between being...
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