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The New York Times Bestselling Freakonomics Was A Worldwide Sensation. Now, Steven D. Levitt And Stephen J. Dubner Return With Superfreakonomics, And Fans A...

Michael Tonry. Paperback Issued, 1996. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 211-228) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & ...

The ... Author Of Hourglass Now Gives Us A New Memoir About Identity, Paternity, And Family Secrets--a Real-time Exploration Of The ... Discovery She Made L...

Korean artist Daria Song’s sequel to The Time Garden takes readers on a visual journey into a magical nighttime world seen through the eyes of a fairy.Th...

With Pulitzer Prize Winners Nicholas D. Kristof And Sheryl Wudunn As Our Guides, We Undertake An Odyssey Through Africa And Asia To Meet The Extraordinary W...

After taking a few weeks off work, Casey is presented with a new foster child: 14-year-old Elise, whose Mum left her at just five years old. At first, she's...

For Ta-nehisi Coates, History Has Always Been Personal. At Every Stage Of His Life, He's Sought In His Explorations Of History Answers To The Mysteries That...

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The Heartwarming And Unforgettable Story Of A Family In The Making And The Wondrously Neurotic Dog Who Taught Them What Really Matters In Life John And Jenn...

National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book Winner Of The American Association For The Advancement Of Science/subaru Science Books & Film Prize Fo...

The efficient use of statistics can transform excellent research into dynamic, persuasive scholarship. To demystify the process of calculating data, Simpl...

stormie Omartian’s Bestselling The Power Of A Praying® Series (more Than 8.2 Million Copies Sold), Now With Fresh New Covers, Is Reaching An Ever Growing ...

Two separate lives, one heartbreaking secret When Phyllis Whitsell was just eight months old, her mother died of tuberculosis. At least, that what’s Phyl...

Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those...

dr. Sam Parnia Faces Death Every Day. Through His Work As A Critical-care Doctor In A Hospital Emergency Room, He Became Very Interested In Some Of His Pati...

The bestselling author of Seinfeldia offers a fascinating retrospective of the iconic and award-winning television series, Sex and the City, in a “bubbly...

In her surprising, entertaining and persuasive new book, award-winning author and psychologist Susan Pinker shows how face-to-face contact is crucial for l...

Children:The Challenge gives the key to parents who seek to build trust and love in their families, and raise happier, healthier, and better behaved childr...

Why are certain people so incredibly great at what they do? Most of us think we know the answer-but we're almost always wrong. That's important, because if...

Sam Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people...

Covid-19 Is Speeding Up History, But How? What Is The Shape Of The World To Come?Categories: Medical Books Medicine Internal Medicine Pathology DiseasesComm...

By Wilma Parnell, With Robert Taber.Categories: Medical Books PsychologyAdolescent Psychology

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An unflinching examination of how our drinking culture hurts women and a gorgeous memoir of how one woman healed herself.â€...

Offering inspirational advice in a down-to-earth style, this unique compilation of letters provides wisdom, guidance, and heartfelt insight to help the re...

Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, ...

Increasingly, Western culture embraces confusion as a virtue and decries certainty as a sin. Those who are confused about sexuality and identity are viewed...

An important and respected voice for liberal American Christianity for the past twenty years, Bishop John Shelby Spong integrates his often controversial st...

Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness...

from The Screenwriter Who Brought Us When Harry Met Sally Comes A Hilarious, Candid Look At Issues That Concern Women. With Her Disarming, Intimate, Compl...

THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS is a glorious celebration of the Great American Game, and of the city that loves it so. It is a love affair that began in 1874, whe...

Originally Published As The Me And White Supremacy Workbook In 2019--copyright Page.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesCultural &...

A celebration of Harry Styles - we Adore You! Harry Styles is a global superstar and fashion icon who has broken records, won awards and was the first solo ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of the bestselling memoir North of Normal comes the harrowing story of a past that won’t let go, and one woman’s a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and...

Before Bridget Jones, Carrie Bradshaw, and the Shopaholic, it was a world of Fabulous Nobodies Now, back in print after fifteen years, it’s your chance t...

The fourth edition of Canadian Cities in Transition: New Directions in the Twenty-First Century has been completely revised and updated to reflect the most ...

Consumer advocate, investigative reporter, and bestselling author John Stossel is back with a new book based on his top-rated 20/20 segment, which debunks ...

Overture: An Introduction To The American Age -- The Dawn Of The American Age -- Earthquake: The U.s.-jihadist War -- Population, Computers, And Culture War...

Confidence Is Your Fuel. It Turns Your Thoughts Into Action; Your Dreams Into Reality. The Best Way To Understand Confidence And Learn How To Harness Its Se...

You are six years old. Every day after school your father takes you to a sprawling castle filled with exotic animals, bowls of candy, and half-naked women ...

a Classic Work That Has Charmed Generations Of Readers, This Collection Assembles Carson Mccullers’s Best Stories, Including Her Beloved Novella “the Ball...

Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions...

For Decades, Experts Have Puzzled Over Why The Us Spends More On Health Care But Suffers Poorer Outcomes Than Other Industrialized Nations. Bradley And Tayl...

the Author Seeks To Outline The Common Elements Of Social Movements By Tracing Their Origins And Development In Historical Narrative. Placing The Invention ...

Jared Kushner Was One Of The Most Consequential Presidential Advisers In Modern History. For The First Time, He Recounts What Happened Behind Closed Doors D...

Here are the most remarkable stories imaginable of maroons, castaways, and other survivors from the 1500s to the present - their moral dilemmas, their per...

A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leadin...

Symbolic of turbulent times of the 1960s, the explosion of a bomb in his own bucolic backyard sweeps away the innocence of Swede Levov, along with everyth...