 | The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Release Date: March 13, 2012| ISBN-10: 0307377903 | ISBN-13: 978-0307377906| Edition: 1 Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition—the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident tr...
 |  | QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life
Release Date: September 9, 2004Who Moved My Cheese? showed readers how to adapt to change. Fish! helped raise flagging morale. Execution guided readers to overcome the inability to get things done.QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, already a phenomenon in its self-published edition, addresses the most important issue in business and society today: personal accountability.The lack of personal accountability has resulted in an epidemic of blame, complaining, and procrastination. No organization-or individual-can achieve goals, compete in the marketplace, fulfill a vision, or develop pe...
|  | The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Release Date: February 3, 2009 His talent was unbounded -- a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic -- a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable -- as vibrant and alive today as it has ever been.Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete. For the first time in paperback, this collection of deeply personal poetry is a mirror into the legendary artist's enigmatic world and its many contradictions. Written in his own hand from the time h...
|  | The Gifted One: The Journey Begins
Publication Date: June 3, 2011What do you need to learn to live your life to the fullest?Maybe nothing?Maybe everything?Only you know and maybe you're not sure?What do you need to know to help you with feelings of lack of fulfillment, anxiety, depression, loneliness or abandonment?The Gifted One draws his knowledge and experience from a source that predates time, as we know it, and he wants to teach you. .as he taught Citybear.The Gifted One: The Journey Begins does not pretend to have all the answers for living a happy, productive and successful life; however, from the time you begin your j...
|  | Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories (Reading Group Guides)
Release Date: April 5, 2011| Series: Reading Group Guides ARYN KYLE, whose award-winning novel The God of Animals was hailed as "reason for readers to rejoice" (USA Today), turns her gift for storytelling to the lives of girls and women in this spectacular collection. These eleven stories showcase Kyle’s keen eye for character, her humor, and her uncanny grasp of the loneliness, selfishness, and longing that underlie female experience. In "Nine," a young girl given to exaggeration escapes a humiliating ninth birthday celebration with the help of her father’s new girlfriend. The d...
|  | Hanging Judge
Publication Date: April 15, 2002Elmer Kelton, voted "The Greatest Western Writer of All Time" by the Western Writers of America, is a legend in the field of Western literature. Famous for his realistic characters and accurate depictions of the history of his home state of Texas, Elmer Kelton continues to write exceptional novels of American history.In Hanging Judge, Justin Moffitt is eager to help keep the peace as a deputy marshal in small-town Texas. That is, until Justin is assigned to the wrong marshal-a "hanging judge" who is as famous for his ruthlessness as he is for his commitment to...
|  | El Cantar de los Cantares. Una aproximacion de Jose Emilio Pacheco (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: November 1, 2009Ningun poema tan celebre como el Cantar de los Cantares. No existe otro texto tan misterioso ni tan fecundo en las lenguas europeas. En castellano ha inspirado las obras maestras de San Juan de la Cruz, Fray Luis de Leon, Francisco de Quevedo y los traductores biblicos Casiodoro de Reina y Cipriano de Valera. Si como libro sagrado El Cantar de los Cantares es una alegoria de la union de Dios con Israel, de la divinidad con el alma humana y de Cristo con la Iglesia, en terminos no religiosos sino terrenales El Cantar de los Cantares es el mayor poema erotico ...
|  | Das Gedicht in der Sekundarstufe I: Texte, Interpretationen, Motivationen, Metrik, Biogr (German Edition)
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|  | Haiku Harvest: Japanese Haiku Series IV
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|  | Water: Alphabet City Magazine 14
Publication Date: August 21, 2009| Series: Alphabet City (Book 14) Water is the chemical matrix required for life, the molecular chain that connects all organisms on the planet. But in the twenty-first century, water may replace oil as the most prized of resources. Just as gas-guzzling SUVs use more than their share of fuel, water-guzzling regions threaten the water supply for the rest of the world. In Water, writers, scientists, architects, and artists consider the many aspects of water, at levels from the microscopic to the global, touching on subjects that range from new water infrastruct...
|  | Together by Christmas: The Unmasking of Lady Loveless\Christmas Reunion\A Mistletoe Masquerade (Harlequin Romance)
Publication Date: October 13, 2009| Series: Harlequin Romance PBK ...
|  | Five Star Romance - This Evil Village
Publication Date: December 2, 2004| ISBN-10: 1594142432 | ISBN-13: 978-1594142437| Edition: 1 Book 6 in The Stewarts of StormhavenBeautiful young Sophie inherited the Stewart pride and passion - and a far more fearful legacy. Her grandfather had left her his life's dream, a fairy tale into which he had poured his fortune. Determined to rescue this place from the nightmare horror that possessed it, Sophie refused to heed warnings about the beast-man lusting after all who ventured into this dark domain. She tried to still her doubts about the handsome suitor who made so many glowing promis...
|  | Bel Canto: A Novel
Release Date: May 22, 2001 Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening—until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected ...
|  | God Bless The Dead
Publication Date: September 26, 2012 The truth will not set you free. The truth will get you killed." -Screamin' Jay Hawkins Gabriel Sheehan is in the truth business. He has invented a practical mind reading technology. But his wife, Helena, is no friend of the truth. Gabriel knew she was something of an enigma when he married her, but occasionally she seems more catatonic than enigmatic. And he definitely has the impression that she may have killed someone, though he's not quite sure of the details. While his company is a su...
|  | An Easy Thing (Missing Mystery, #49)
Publication Date: March 15, 2002Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's human and world-weary protagonist, independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. In this debut outing, our hero, who, incidentally, possesses an insatiable appetite for Coca Cola and cigarettes, tackles three cases simultaneously: a killing in a corrupt factory; the deadly threats against a former porn starlet's teenage daughter; and, strangely, the search for Emiliano Zapata, folk hero and leader of the Mexican Rev...
|  | Life As We Knew It
Release Date: September 12, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up When Miranda first hears the warnings that a meteor is headed on a collision path with the moon, they just sound like an excuse for extra homework assignments. But her disbelief turns to fear in a split second as the entire world witnesses a lunar impact that knocks the moon closer in orbit, catastrophically altering the earth’s climate. Everything else in Miranda’s life fades away as supermarkets run out of food, gas goes up to more than ten dollars a gallon, and school is closed indefinitely.But what...
|  | Forbidden Mind (Forbidden #1)
Publication Date: July 9, 2012Evolved Publishing presents...49% of Americans believe their government officials are honest. I don't know these officials, or their supporters, but I know their secrets, and 49% of Americans are wrong.My employers pay me well to be right, to know things others can't. But I don't know why they brought that boy in, strapped to a stretcher, barely conscious. He asked me for help when I could give none. I'm a wealthy spy, a talented artist, a martial arts black belt, and a prisoner.They tell me that on my eighteenth birthday, I will be released, free to go to t...
|  | Chicago White Sox 101 (101 My First Team-Board-Books)
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|  | GOJU QUEST: A Martial Artist's Journey
Publication Date: January 19, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Martial arts was one thing that Shawn, a 15-year-old boy from a small California town was good at and he knew it. But, it was his misguided anger from his parent’s separation that got him into trouble. When Shawn’s Sensei found out that he had been starting fights, he rallied to set Shawn straight giving him two choices, to either quit the arts that he loved so much or to take him and his friend on a quest into the wilderness.It takes a fight with persistent bullies to encourage Shawn to choose a quest ...
|  | Maze: Solve the World's Most Challenging Puzzle
Publication Date: November 15, 1985This is not really a book. This is a building in the shape of a book...a maze. Each numbered page depicts a room in the maze. Tempted? Test your wits against mine. I guarantee that my maze will challenge you to think in ways you've never thought before. But beware. One wrong turn and you may never escape! ...
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