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The Meritocracy Myth challenges the widely held American belief in meritocracy-that people get out of the system what they put into it based on individual merit. The book examines talent, attitude, work ethic, and character as elements of merit and evaluates the effect of...

Paperback edition of prize-winning collected poems; "Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets." --New York TimesAuthor: Norman DubiePublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 10/01/2004Pages: 409Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.74h x 5.76w x 1.28dISBN: 9781556592126About the AuthorNorman Dubie, author of twenty books of poetry, is a...

Author: Glen W. SamplePublisher: Sample GraphicsPublished: 07/04/2010Pages: 238Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50dISBN: 9780970718006This title is not returnable

In the winter of 1882, a boy from the mountains has to prove himself a man. * When Albie Bramwell's father died, he was left with two thousand hectares of mountain to farm, and little help to run it. Abandoned by all but two...

Welcome back to Assassins Anonymous, the only twelve-step group where joining can be deadly. When Astrid, known in her assassin days as Azrael, stopped showing up to Assassins Anonymous, the group assumed her past had caught up with her. Only her sponsor Mark, formerly...

In The Meditation Yearbook, author Joey Hulin finds the perfect solution to the age-old problem of how to make meditation an easy and sustainable part of your daily life with 52 weeks of meditations that make exploring this ancient practice fun, varied and inspiring....

Innovative new approaches for improving GDP measurement to better gauge economic productivity. Official measures of gross domestic product (GDP) indicate that productivity growth has declined in the United States over the last two decades. This has led to calls for policy changes from pro-business...

Finance serves the rich and powerful. We need to democratize it. Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master's Tools, award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer can be found in the flows of credit and investment...

Welcome to volume 2 of this MASSIVE collection ofKakuro puzzles IMPORTANT: In this volume, half of the puzzles have grown in size, so there is EVEN MORE for you to solve than in volume 1 Contents: 1000 Kakuro puzzles aka "number cross" 500 are...

The fifth release from Clover Press' new line of THE MARVEL ART OF stunning new coffee table books! Clover Press is proud to present our latest art book project--The Marvel Art of Michael Turner! This stunning book features 200-pages of Michael Turner covers and...

Friends, collaborators, and childhood rivals, Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce were not yet twenty-five when they started Time, the first newsmagazine, at the outset of the Roaring Twenties. By age thirty, they were both millionaires, having laid the foundation for a media empire....

Could immediate evolutionary improvements, instantaneous geographic and anatomical changes, and miraculous spontaneous healing-including recovery from death-be providing us with clues to essential technology, just when we need it most? At this time when a phenomenon of collective alternate memories known as the Mandela Effect...

Author: Golden Pat RuelPublisher: Silly Goat MediaPublished: 12/01/2024Pages: 456Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781961181274

Unveil the secrets behind college basketball's true royalty--seven powerhouse programs that have dominated the NCAA Tournament for decadesThere is a great deal more than Madness lurking within the Division 1 NCAA Basketball Tournament. There are equally strong traditions, symmetries, and even normalities that also...

The Magic Mountain contains many contrasts and parallels with the earlier novel. Gustav von Aschenbach, an established author, is matched to a young, callow engineer at the start of a regular career. The erotic allure of the beautiful Polish boy Tadzio corresponds to the...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Juliet comes a mesmerizing novel about a young scholar who risks her reputation--and her life--on a thrilling journey to prove that the legendary warrior women known as the Amazons actually existed. Look for special features...

A collection of magazine stories that Ruark wrote in the 1950s and 1960s, but were never published in book form.Author: Robert RuarkPublisher: Safari PressPublished: 04/29/1997Pages: 286Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.36h x 6.33w x 1.10dISBN: 9781571570222

Are you tired of relying on over-the-counter medications and prescriptions that only mask your symptoms? Do you wish you had a natural solution to heal your body and mind? Have you struggled to find effective remedies for your children's ailments or your own women's...

As a supplement to his 'Illustrious Men', St. Jerome composed this work about the minor apostles of Christ who went to the east as part of their ministry. This work includes both the Latin and Greek version of Jerome's work.Author: St JeromePublisher: Dalcassian Publishing...

There is nothing 'little' about the history of Cornwall! However, this small volume condenses that fascinating, rich history into a collection of stories and facts that will make you marvel at the events the county has witnessed.Discover Henry VIII's plan to protect the county...