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  The Backpacker's Field Manual: A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Backcountry Skills

  by Rick Curtis

  The Backpacker's Field Manual has been the bible of the Princeton University Outdoor Action Program for more than a decade, field-tested by one of the most respected outdoor programs in the country. It is the most comprehensive backpacking guide available--broad in scope while still focused on the essential skills and information that backpackers need to travel safely and comfortably in the wilderness. Backpackers... (more)
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  The King's English

  A Guide to Modern Usage

  by Kingsley Amis

  Throughout his notable career as a novelist, poet, and literary critic, Kingsley Amis was often concerned--the less understanding might say obsessed--with the use and abuse of the English language. Do we know what the words we employ really mean? Do we have the right to use them if we don't? Should an "exciting" new program be allowed to "hit" your television screen? When is it acceptable to split an... (more)
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  The Good Women of China

  Hidden Voices

  by Xinran

  When Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to “open up” China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show, she barely anticipated the enthusiasm it would quickly generate. Operating within the constraints imposed by government... (more)
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  Fortune Is a River: Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelliªs Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History

  by Roger D. Masters

  In the tradition of the New York Times bestselling Longitude comes a popular history that reveals the little known story of what happened when two of the world's most brilliant minds met. Italy, the year 1502. Leonardo da Vinci, engineer and possible spy in the court of Cesare Borgia, crosses paths with Niccol Machiavelli, at that time Florentine ambassador. The two men formed a friendship, and joined... (more)
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  The Book That Changed My Life

  Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists

  Every reader can name at least one book that changed his or her life—and many more beloved titles will surely come to mind as well. In The Book That Changed My Life , fifteen of America’s most influential authors discuss their own special literary choices. These unique interviews with National Book Award winners and finalists offer new insights into the many ways in which the experience of reading shapes the act... (more)
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  Vagabonding

  An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

  by Rolf Potts

  Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life—from six weeks to four months to two years—to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. Potts gives the necessary information on: • financing your travel time • determining your destination • ... (more)
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  Rajiv Gandhi and Rama's Kingdom

  by Ved Mehta

  An acclaimed novelist, biographer, and essayist illuminates life in modern India in this engrossing account of that country`s tumultuous last twelve years, In vivid detail, Ved Mehta describes such key people and events as the murder of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the circumstances surrounding Rajiv`s election as his mother`s successor, the impact of the accident at the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal, and the... (more)
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  Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide

  by Nick Rennison

  Any avid reader will understand the joy of finding an 'unputdownable' book, and will have asked themselves the question, what next? With 100,000 new books published each year - in addition to the enormous wealth of literature already in print - this can be difficult. "The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide" features more than 350 major authors, from Margaret Atwood to Emile Zola, through Bruce Chatwin, to Aldous... (more)
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  The Compact and Digital Camera Handbook: Successful Photography with the New Generation of Cameras (Handbooks)

  by Daniel Lezano

  This handbook explains the various processes involved in the area of compact and digital cameras. A digital camera does not take film and the way of taking and developing images is completely different. The text deals with traditional methods of 35mm photography from a digital point of view. The compact camera uses either 35mm or the Advanced Photo System (APS). How to use this film and other developments are... (more)
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  Sounds of the River

  by Da Chen

  Teenager Da Chen gathers soil from the riverbank near his village before he leaves to attend university in Beijing. Those grains bear witness to his past and contain the now silent sounds of the river. Later, spilled onto the dry earth of the North, they will merge two parts of Da's life, as does the second volume of his lyrical trilogy of memoirs. Beginning with his first train ride to Beijing from his farm, we... (more)
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  The Legacy of Tiananmen: China in Disarray

  by James A. R. Miles

  In The Legacy of Tiananmen, James A. R. Miles asks whether senior leader Deng Xiaoping's gamble that prosperity would bring stability to China has worked or whether, instead, the country's economic transformation is fueling instability. The author, who was the BBC's Beijing correspondent from 1988 to 1994, argues that China today remains at least as unpredictable and volatile as it was at the outset of the... (more)
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  England All Over

  by J. Gallivan

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  Wuhu Diary

  by Emily Prager

  A memoir by American jounalist Emily Prager about the search for her adopted daughter's roots in today's China. In 1994, Prager adopted seven month old Lulu in China. Five years later she returned to spend three months in Wuhu city, where Lulu had been found on the street. Within a week of her arrival NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and anti-American feeling ran high. Prager, Lulu and the townspeople... (more)