 | Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Release Date: March 20, 2012Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired...
 |  | How to Be a Woman
Release Date: July 17, 2012 Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do men secretly hate them? Caitlin Moran interweaves provocative observations on women's lives with laugh-out-loud funny scenes from her own, from the riot of adolescence to her development as a writer, wife, and mother. With rapier wit, Moran slices right to the truth...
|  | Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes
Release Date: March 2, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Healthy Green Drink Diet: Advice and Recipes to Energize, Alkalize, Lose Weight, and Feel Great
Publication Date: February 14, 2012Celebrities, models, and nutritionists to the stars are all about the "green" drink—here's how to enjoy them at home.One juice or smoothie a day—made from green vegetables such as kale, cucumber, celery, and spinach—works wonders for organ health, immune system strength, and weight loss. Now the founder of heathygreendrink.com offers a persuasive argument for adding a green drink to your day, as well as recipes for dozens of different variations. Why drink green?•Green leafy vegetables are extremely alkaline and great for lowering y...
|  | Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0495812412 | ISBN-13: 978-0495812418| Edition: 8 Up to date and comprehensive, this practical, bestselling text (now available with an online personalized study plan) provides students with the basis for discovering their own guidelines for helping within the broad limits of professional codes of ethics and divergent theoretical positions. Respected authors Gerald Corey, Marianne Corey, and Patrick Callanan raise what they consider to be central issues, present a range of diverse views on these issues, discuss their position, and present many o...
|  | Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health
Release Date: June 28, 2011What if one simple change could save you from heart disease, diabetes, and cancer? For decades, that question has fascinated a small circle of impassioned doctors and researchers—and now, their life-changing research is making headlines in the hit documentary Forks Over Knives. Their answer? Eat a whole-foods, plant-based diet—it could save your life. It may overturn most of the diet advice you’ve heard—but the experts behind Forks Over Knives aren't afraid to make waves. In his book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn ...
|  | A History of Western Music (Eighth Edition)
Publication Date: January 30, 2009| ISBN-10: 0393931250 | ISBN-13: 978-0393931259| Edition: Eighth Edition The Eighth Edition of A History of WesternMusic is a vivid,accessible, and richly contextual view of music in Western culture.Building on his monumental revision of the Seventh Edition, PeterBurkholder has refined an inspired narrative for a new generation ofstudents, placing people at the center of the story.The narrative of AHistory of Western Music naturally focuseson the musical works, styles, genres, and ideasthat have proven most influential, enduring, and significant—b...
|  | The Black Box (Harry Bosch)
Release Date: November 26, 2012| Series: Harry Bosch In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved.Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing through the wreckage after a plane crash, Bosch searches for the "black box," the one pie...
|  | 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology
Publication Date: September 17, 2010| ISBN-10: 0312609655 | ISBN-13: 978-0312609658| Edition: Third Edition 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology is the best-selling value-priced reader in the country because its virtues don't stop at the price. Its carefully chosen selections include enough classic essays to reassure instructors, and enough high-interest and high-quality contemporary readings to keep things lively and relevant for students. The editorial apparatus is more extensive than in competing value readers, but still is flexible and unobtrusive enough to support a variety of approaches...
|  | The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, Book 3)
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Age Level: 10 and up...
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