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"Based on interviews with hundreds of displaced Syrians conducted over four years across the Middle East and Europe, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled is a breathtaking mosaic of first-hand testimonials from the frontlines. Some of the testimonies are several pages long, eloquent narratives that could stand alone as short stories; others are only a few sentences, poetic and aphoristic. Together, they cohere into an unforgettable chronicle that is...
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"We Should Get Together is the handbook for anyone who's ready for better friendships, now. Have you recently moved to a new city and are struggling to make friends? Do you find yourself constantly making plans with friends that fall through? Are you more likely to see your friends' social media posts than their faces? You aren't alone. Millions of adults struggle with an uncomfortable and persistent ache: platonic longing, which is the unfulfilled...
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FILMS, CINEMA. Who doesn't enjoy three of life's most enjoyable social activities-eating, drinking, and movie-watching? Movie Night Menus is a food-cocktail-and-film pairing guide inspired by the classics we love perfect for date night or to entertain in style. The book highlights thirty crowd-pleasing films from the 1930s through the '80s paired with signature drinks and dishes that appear in, or are inspired by, each film's setting and stars-all...
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Wilson outlines the basic principles of evolution with stories that entertain as much as they inform, and shows how, properly understood, these principles can illuminate the length and breadth of creation, from the origin of life to the nature of religion. Now everyone can move beyond the sterile debates about creationism and intelligent design to share Darwin's panoramic view of animal and human life, seamlessly connected to each other. Evolution,...
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Bilingual text introduces young readers to some of the kitchen utensils chefs use to prepare their food.
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This is the behind-the-scenes story of Noel's biggest ever world tour with his band The High Flying Birds and the making of his critically-acclaimed album Who Built the Moon? Noel has had a momentous year, with his third number one solo album, a Mercury Prize nomination and a 72-date tour across the globe, and this book documents every step of the journey. Through the lens of former official Man City photographer Sharon Latham, who was granted unprecedented...
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"The multiculturalism char was intended to reduce social frictions is today reinforcing them. Jonathan Sacks calls for a new approach to national identity: we cannot stay with the current policies that are producing a society of conflicting ghettoes and non-intersecting lives, turning religious bodies into pressure groups." "Offering a new paradigm to replace previous models of assimilation on the one hand, multiculturalism on the other, he argues...
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One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of price-gouging, middlemen, and a series of elusive money games in need...
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Secrets are revealed that change everything they thought they knew, and the family is again thrust into the public eye. A dangerous scandal threatens to unravel them once and for all. While Tyree and Mia are more in love than they have ever have been, Mia's past omissions could come back to ruin their happy reunion. With more danger and betrayal looming, will they be able to dig their way out of the latest fiasco, or will the newest threat prove to...