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  A Vanished World

  Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment

  by Chris Lowney

  In a world torn by religious antagonism, lessons can be learned from medieval Spanish villages where Muslims, Christians, and Jews rubbed shoulders on a daily basis--sharing irrigation canals, bathhouses, municipal ovens, and marketplaces. Medieval Spaniards introduced Europeans to paper manufacture, Hindu-Arabic numerals, philosophical classics, algebra, citrus fruits, cotton, and new medical techniques. Her... (more)
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  Teacher Man

  A Memoir

  by Frank McCourt

  Here at last in paperback is Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed and bestselling book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. Teacher Man is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and heartbreaking honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises of teaching in public high schools. Teacher Man shows... (more)
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  The Rise of the Creative Class

  And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life

  by Richard Florida

  The national bestseller that defines a new economic class and shows how it is key to the future of our cities. The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award Winner The Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Richard Florida traces the fundamental... (more)
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  Abraham

  A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths

  by Bruce S. Feiler

  Both immediate and timeless, Abraham tells the powerful story of one man's search for the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Traveling through war zones, braving violence at religious sites, and seeking out faith leaders, Bruce Feiler uncovers the defining yet divisive role that Abraham plays for half the world's believers. Provocative and uplifting, Abraham offers a thoughtful and... (more)
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  A Good Look at Bad Language

  by Ruth Wajnryb

  Have we always "sworn like sailors"? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese, for instance) supposedly do not contain any nasty words? Throughout the twentieth century there seems to have been a dramatic escalation in the use and acceptance of offensive language in English, both... (more)
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  Lonely Planet The Gap Year Book (Travel Reference)

  by Andrew Dean Nystrom

  Fancy a year out between school and further studies? Thinking of letting the rat-race wait? You need The Gap Year Book - a definitive, practical guide to planning and taking a year out. Packed with essential advice on pre-trip preparation and planning, the inside track on when and where to go, and numerous ideas on what to do, this book is a one-stop gap year shop. Want to try yacht crewing? Fancy a stab at... (more)
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  The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade

  by Victor Malarek

  On the black market, they're the third most profitable com- modity, after illegal weapons and drugs-the only difference being that these goods are human, though to their handlers they are wholly expendable. They are women and girls, some as young as 12, from all over the Eastern bloc, where sinister networks of organized crime have become entrenched in the aftermath of the collapse of Communist regimes. In... (more)
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  How to Cook Your Daughter: A Memoir

  by Jessica Hendra

  How does a little girl find her way in a world where nothing is sacred? In 2004, Tony Hendra's memoir Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The book detailed his life as a comedian who helped launch the careers of John Belushi and Chevy Chase, wrote for and edited The National Lampoon, and performed in such cult classics as This Is Spinal Tap, even... (more)
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  The Long March

  The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth

  by Shuyun Sun

  The Long March is Communist China’s founding myth, the heroic tale that every Chinese child learns in school. Seventy years after the historical march took place, Sun Shuyun set out to retrace the Marchers’ steps and unexpectedly discovered the true history behind the legend. The Long March is the stunning narrative of her extraordinary expedition. The facts are these: in 1934, in the midst of a brutal civil... (more)
• Rationale of the Dirty Joke - An Analysis of Sexual HumorG. Legman

  

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  Rationale of the Dirty Joke - An Analysis of Sexual Humor

  by G. Legman

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  Making Happy People

  by Paul Martin

  From the author of the highly successful "Counting Sheep" comes a new book on the study of happiness. "Making Happy People" is quite simply a study of happiness. It looks at the origins of happiness within the individual during the lifelong process of development from birth to death. It also explores the relationship between happiness and success, and the ways in which early experience, parents and eduction... (more)
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  Life of Michael

  by Jeremy Novick

• Idler Book of Crap Holidays

  

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  Idler Book of Crap Holidays