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  • Thank You for Arguing, Third Edition: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

    • ASIN: 0804189935
    • ISBN: 0804189935
    • Brand: THREE RIVERS
    • Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

    A master class in the art of persuasion, as taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill, newly revised and updated. The time-tested secrets taught in this book include Cicero's three-step strategy for moving an audience to action, and Honest Abe's Shameless Trick for lowering an audience's expectations. And it's also replete... [Read More]

  • 100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History (100 Series)

    • ASIN: 0912517182
    • ISBN: 0912517182
    • Brand: Bluewood Books
    • Manufacturer: Bluewood Books

    Teeming with interesting nuggets of fact and information, 100 African Americans Who Shaped American History includes such legendary men and women as Benjamin Banneker, Dred Scott, Mary Church Terrell, George Washington Carver and Bessie Smith. Also included are Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall and many, many more. Organized ch... [Read More]

  • Brave Companions

    • ASIN: B000QTD63I
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present ... [Read More]

  • Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition

    • ASIN: 0316438529
    • ISBN: 9780316438520
    • Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

    The 75th anniversary edition of this classic bestseller. This stunningly illustrated, hardcover edition will be beloved by fans of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology of all ages.Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a ... [Read More]

  • The Year in Space 2016 Desk Calendar, Spiral Bound 6" x 9", 136 pp, 53 Weekly Astronomy and Space Exploration Images, Moon Phases, Space History, Sky Events - Intro by Bill Nye, Planetary Society CEO

    • ASIN: 0989492354
    • ISBN: 0989492354
    • Brand: Starry Messenger Press
    • Manufacturer: Starry Messenger Press

    Spend the Year In Space with this award-winning spiral-bound desk calendar, published in cooperation with The Planetary Society, and featuring an introduction by Bill Nye! In 53 weekly photo-essays, The Year In Space takes you on a year-long guided tour of the Universe, from lunar mountains to the frozen plains of Pluto, from nearby starbirth regi... [Read More]

  • Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

    • ASIN: B00Z8VTMYG
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

    The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Order of Time and Reality Is Not What It Seems“One of the year’s most entrancing books about science.”—The Wall Street Journal“Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics.”—The New York Times Book Review  This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending in... [Read More]

  • Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

    • ASIN: B003XT60KO
    • Manufacturer: Currency

  • The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

    • ASIN: B07C52T45T
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    For over 50 years students, professors, clergy, and general readers have relied on The New Oxford Annotated Bible as an unparalleled authority in Study Bibles. This fifth edition of the Annotated, thumb-indexed and in a protective two-piece box, remains the best way to study and understand the Bible at home or in the classroom. This thoroughly rev... [Read More]

  • Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

    • ASIN: 0374532508
    • ISBN: 9780374532505
    • Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    "For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book―based on his legendary Harvard course―Sandel offers a rare education in thinking through the complicated issues and controversies we face in public life today. It has emerged as a most lucid and engaging guide for those who y... [Read More]

  • Pilot Dr. Grip Center of Gravity 0.7mm Mechanical Pencil, Charcoal Gray Barrel, 1-Count (36280)

    • UPC: 072838362803
    • ASIN: B001E6BTN6
    • Brand: Pilot

    Pilot Dr. Grip Center of Gravity 0.7mm Mechanical Pencil, Charcoal Gray Barrel(36280) The Dr. Grip family has a writing instrument perfect for everyone.View larger The Invention of Dr. Grip Writing Instruments Based on a common need for a more comfortable writing instrument, Pilot set out to give people the writing solution they were looking for... [Read More]

  • The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)

    • ASIN: 0451208633
    • ISBN: 0451208633
    • Brand: New American Library
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    The authoritative translations of The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso—together in one volume.Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slope... [Read More]

  • Walden and Civil Disobedience

    • ASIN: 0451532163
    • ISBN: 0451532163
    • Brand: Signet Classics
    • Manufacturer: Signet

    Henry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society in these two inspiring masterworks: Walden and Civil Disobedience. In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land both physicall... [Read More]

  • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

    • ASIN: B00Z3E2KEC
    • Manufacturer: Other Press

    Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live Sarah Bakewell.Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Mont... [Read More]

  • The Power of Myth

    • ASIN: 0385418868
    • ISBN: 0385418868
    • Brand: Anchor Books
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Compact Edition (6th Edition)

    • ASIN: 032194478X
    • ISBN: 032194478X
    • Manufacturer: Pearson

    ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provi... [Read More]

  • How To Write Any High School Essay: The Essential Guide

    • ASIN: 1539029816
    • ISBN: 1539029816
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    What do high school teachers expect from your writing? Here's the inside information on how your teachers think.If writing essays is challenging for you -- or if you want to turn a B essay into an A essay -- you'll want to read this book. How To Write Any High School Essay is the essential, easy-to-use, and comprehensive guide for any high school e... [Read More]

  • The Lottery and Other Stories (FSG Classics)

    • ASIN: B0056IAXW6
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

    • ASIN: 1538760533
    • ISBN: 9781538760536
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

    A USA TODAY BESTSELLERAn all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls "the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction."It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflow... [Read More]

  • The Crying of Lot 49

    • ASIN: B005CRQ2Y4
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Press

    The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.

  • The Inferno (Signet Classics)

    • ASIN: 0451531396
    • ISBN: 9780451531391
    • Brand: Dante Alighieri/ Ciardi, John (TRN)/ Macallister,
    • Manufacturer: Signet

    Belonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece is a visionary journey that takes readers through the torment of Hell.The first part of Dante’s Divine Comedy is many things: a moving human drama, a supreme expression of the Middle Ages, a glorification of the ways ... [Read More]

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