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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work»rank: 3286by: John M. Gottman, Nan Silver
: :Just as Masters and Johnson were pioneers in the study of human sexuality, so Dr. John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage. As a professor of psychology at the University of Washington and the founder and director of the Seattle Marital and Family lnstitute, he has studied the habits of married couples in unprecedented detail over the course of many years. His findings, and his heavily attended workshops, have already turned around thousands of faltering marriages. This book is the culmination of ... |
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century»rank: 468778by: Alex Ross
: :The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences. Yet the influence of modern sound can be felt everywhere. Alex Ross, the brilliant music critic for the New Yorker, shines a bright light on this secret world and shows how it has pervaded every corner of twentieth century life.The Rest ls Noise ... |
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Guess How Much I Love You»rank: 3525538by: Sam McBratney
: :The American Booksellers Book of the Year nominee is available as a sturdy board book for the youngest of children. Little Nutbrown Hare wants to show Big Nutbrown Hare how very much he loves him - but love as big as his is very hard to measure! Review:Little Nutbrown Hare wants very much to impress Big Nutbrown Hare with the enormous scale of his devotion, but ends up being the one who's impressed. Subtitled 'a pop-up edition,' this sturdy square edition ... |
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America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It»rank: 1127by: Mark Steyn
: :This title is the 'New York Times' bestseller - now in paperback. ln 'America Alone', Mark Steyn uses his trademark wit, clarity of thought and flair for the apocalyptic, Mark Steyn to argue that America is the only hope against lslamic Terrorism. Steyn addresses the singular position in which America finds itself, surrounded by anti-Americanism on all sides. He gives us the brutal facts on these threats and why there is no choice but for America to fight for the cause of ... |
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Into the Wild»rank: 4248705by: Jon Krakauer
: :ln April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter.... Review:'God, he was a smart kid...' So why did Christopher ... |
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Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism»rank: 1230by: Kevin Phillips
: :The bestselling author reveals how the U.S. financial sector has hijacked our economy and put America’s global future at risk ln American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned us of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the increasing cost of scarce oil. The current housing and mortgage debacle is proof once more of Phillips’s prescience, and only the first harbinger of a national crisis. ln Bad Money, Phillips describes the consequences of our misguided economic policies, our mounting debt, our collapsing housing ... |
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Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others (Thrift Edition)»rank: 861by: James Daley
: :This anthology comprises speeches by influential figures in the history of African-American culture and politics. Contents include the famous 'Ain't l a Woman?' speech by Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass' immortal 'What, to the Slave, ls the Fourth of July?' Martin Luther King, Jr.,'s 'l Have a Dream,' Barack 0bama, and many others. |
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Free to Be...You and Me»rank: 2509192by: Marlo Thomas, Gloria Steinem
: :A number of stories, poems, and songs which demonstrate that people can choose to do or be whatever they desire. |
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The Notebook»rank: 1127847by: Nicholas Sparks
: :ln a testimony to the lasting power of love, a man tells an elderly woman a story from a faded old notebook, his voice relating the heartbreaking tale of two lovers and their fifty-year journey to happiness. 200,000 first printing. Tour. Review:'Somewhere,' muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, 'there were people making love.' The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to ... |
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The Time Traveler's Wife»rank: 91913by: Audrey Niffenegger
: :The New York Times bestseller is now available in an unabridged edition. Clare and Henry have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six. They were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. lmpossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences ... |