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Smart About the Presidents (Smart About History) (Paperback)

Smart About the Presidents (Smart About History) (Paperback)

From Booklist Gr. 4-7. From the Smart about History series, this book is similar to other recent titles that quickly delineate the presidents with cartoon-style illustrations and a few fast, fun facts. However, this also presents a paragraph or so of solid information along with the fluff....
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Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama’s Plan to Renew America’s Promise [Paperback]

Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama’s Plan to Renew America’s Promise [Paperback]

Review ‘Like Bill Clinton, he has the knack of weaving together the personal and the anecdotal with the political and the conceptual, so that each point seems both persuasive and commonsensical.’ Guardian –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ...
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) [Mass Market Paperback]

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) [Mass Market Paperback]

Amazon.com Review Barack Obama’s first book, Dreams from My Father, was a compelling and moving memoir focusing on personal issues of race, identity, and community. With his second book The Audacity of Hope, Obama engages themes raised in his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention,...
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The Art of Comedy: Getting Serious About Being Funny (Paperback)

The Art of Comedy: Getting Serious About Being Funny (Paperback)

Want to know a secret? Sssshhhh. Great comedy actors aren’t born…they’re made. Who makes them? Paul Ryan, that’s who. Now Ryan, the top comedy acting coach in Hollywood, shares his secrets in The Art of Comedy, a step-by-step guide for turning actors into comedy actors. Packed with exercises, The Art of Comedy...
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Politics A Treatise on Government (Paperback)

Politics A Treatise on Government (Paperback)

Classic work from the Ancient Greek philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great, who laid down the foundations of Western philosophy. –This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. (more…)
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Politics, Third Edition (Palgrave Foundations) (Paperback)

Politics, Third Edition (Palgrave Foundations) (Paperback)

Review ‘Politics is simply the best introductory guide available for the subject. Andrew Heywood defines the theory and practice of politics in a rigorous, lively and highly accessible way. This book is indispensable for any student of politics and a “must” for introductory reading lists...
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Richard Doyle’s Fairyland Coloring Book (Dover Pictorial Archives) (Paperback)

Richard Doyle’s Fairyland Coloring Book (Dover Pictorial Archives) (Paperback)

Victorian artist Richard Doyle (1824-1883) is famous for his charming illustrations of elves, fairies, and gnomes. For this coloring book, Marty Noble has skillfully adapted 29 of the English’s artist’s most delightful watercolors created for his book with Andrew Lang, The Princess Nobody–A Tale of Fairyland. Now colorists and fairyland devotees can...
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God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It (Paperback)

God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It (Paperback)

Amazon.com Review Secular liberals and religious conservatives will find things to both comfort and alarm them in Jim Wallis’s God’s Politics. That combination is actually reason enough to recommend the book in a time when the national political and theological discourse is dominated by blanket descriptions and...
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Barack Obama (People We Should Know) (Paperback)

Barack Obama (People We Should Know) (Paperback)

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Politics (Oxford Worlds Classics) (Paperback)

Politics (Oxford Worlds Classics) (Paperback)

Review “Stalley…has…subjected the actual translation to `some fairly drastic revision’…the result is much greater clarity when it comes to both the Greek text and to exegesis of that text. The end-product is a most distinguished contribution to a collection whose prices seem to defy an economic ...
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