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Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond

Paco Underhill

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Hardcover: 320 pages
Language: English
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Revolutionary retail guru Paco Underhill is back with a completely revised edition of his classic, witty bestselling book on our ever-evolving consumer culture -- full of fresh observations and important lessons from the cutting edge of retail, which is taking place in the world's emerging markets... More

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Glimpses of Heaven: True Stories of Hope and Peace at the End of Life's Journey

Trudy Harris

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Publisher: Revell
Hardcover: 192 pages
Language: English
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Trudy Harris began her career with Hospice in 1981, eventually becoming the president of the Hospice Foundation for Caring... More

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The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography (9th Edition)

James M. Rubenstein

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Publisher: Prentice Hall
Hardcover: 576 pages
Language: English
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Trusted for its timeliness and readability, this book introduces geography by emphasizing the relevance of geographic concepts to human problems... More

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The History of White People

Nell Irvin Painter

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Hardcover: 496 pages
Language: English
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A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of notions of white race—not merely a skin color but also a signal of power, prestige, and beauty to be withheld and granted selectively Ever since the Enlightenment, race theory and its inevitable partner, racism, have followed a crooked road, constructed by dominant peoples to justify their domination of others... More

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Insectopedia

Hugh Raffles

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Publisher: Pantheon
Hardcover: 480 pages
Language: English
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A stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world... More

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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

Sandy Tolan

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Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Hardcover: 384 pages
Language: English
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In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier... More

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The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans

Theodore Roosevelt

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Publisher: Public Domain Books
Hardcover: pages
Language: English
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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers... More

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Brilliant Orange The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer

David Winner

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Publisher: Overlook TP
Hardcover: 288 pages
Language: English
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Brilliant Orange is a book about Dutch soccer that's not really about Dutch soccer... More

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Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge

William A. Haviland, Harald E. L. Prins, Dana Walrath, Bunny McBride

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Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Hardcover: 456 pages
Language: English
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Explore the most fascinating, creative, dangerous, and complex species alive today: you and your neighbors in the global village... More

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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Steven Pinker

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Publisher: Penguin
Hardcover: 528 pages
Language: English
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In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings... More

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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Robert D. Putnam

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Hardcover: 544 pages
Language: English
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Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer... More

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Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream

H.G. Bissinger

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Publisher: Da Capo Press
Hardcover: 416 pages
Language: English
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With frankness and compassion, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist H... More

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Albion's Seed : Four British Folkways in America

David Hackett Fischer

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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Hardcover: 972 pages
Language: English
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This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time... More

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