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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

by Nicholas Carr

Published: 2010-06-07

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The best-selling author of The Big Switch returns with an explosive look at technology's effect on the mind. ?Is Google making us stupid?? When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is chang...

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Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless

by Steve Salerno

Published: 2005-06-21

Paperback: 288 pages

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Self-help: To millions of Americans it seems like a godsend. To many others it seems like a joke. But as investigative reporter Steve Salerno reveals in this groundbreaking book, it's neither?in fact it's much worse than a joke. Going deep inside the Self-Help and Actualization Movement (f...

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Shaman's Crossing: Book One of The Soldier Son Trilogy

by Robin Hobb

Published: 2006-09-01

Mass Market Paperback: 624 pages

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Shambling Towards Hiroshima

by James Morrow

Published: 2009-02-01

Paperback: 170 pages

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In the tradition of Godzilla as both a playful romp and a parable of the dawn of the nuclear era, this original satire blends the destruction of World War II with the halcyon pleasure of monster movies. In the summer of 1945 war is reigning in the Pacific Rim, while in the U.S., Syms Thorl...

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The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

by Jonathan Kozol

Published: 2006-08-01

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Over the last 15 years, the state of inner-city public schools has been in a steep and continuing decline. Since the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, segregation of black children has reverted to its highest level since 1968. In many inne...

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Shameless Hoodwives: A Bentley Manor Tale

by Meesha Mink, De'nesha Diamond

Published: 2008-08-05

Paperback: 352 pages

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Hearts break, lives shatter, and liars prevail at Bentley Manor, where everyone sins shamelessly. In the second novel from the authors of Desperate Hoodwives, four women will try to escape Bentley Manor -- a place no one has ever left unscathed...? Keisha married the high school basketball...

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Shanghai Diary: A Young Girl's Journey from Hitler's Hate to War-Torn China

by Ursula Bacon

Published: 2007-07-17

Hardcover: 267 pages

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By the late 1930s, Europe sat on the brink of a world war. As the holocaust approached, many Jewish families in Germany fled to one of the only open port available to them: Shanghai. Once called "the armpit of the world," Shanghai ultimately served as the last resort for tens of thousands of Jews desperate...

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Shanghai Girl

by Vivian Yang

Published: 2011-05-21

Paperback: 208 pages

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This new paperback edition of Vivian Yang's debut novel "Shanghai Girl" can be seen as both a prequel and a sequel to "Memoirs of a Eurasian" in that it fills and expanded its temporal gaps and brings the reader from Shanghai to New York. In the post-Cultural Revolution Shanghai of 1984, university...

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Shanghai Girl Gets All Dressed Up

by Beverley Jackson

Published: 2005-05-26

Paperback: 160 pages

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It was within the sensual, cinematic setting of 1930s Shanghai that traditional Chinese fashion changed forever. Call them cheongsam, qi pao, or Suzy Wong dresses—the high-collared, body-clinging, slit-to-the-thigh gowns evolved in a world of dramatic change, where Chinese citizens mingled with foreigners...

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shanghai girls

by Lisa See

Published: 2010-02-02

Paperback: 322 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A gifted writer . . . explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience.”—USA TodayIn 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and begg...