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by Eloise Hanner

Published: 2014-03-20

Paperback: 262 pages

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In their late forties, Eloise and Chuck Hanner decided they wanted to do something new and challenging for the second half of their lives. To the amazement of their friends and family, they walked away from their stock-brokerage careers and joined the Peace Corps--again. Twenty-five years before, they...

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International Corporate Governance: A Comparative Approach

by Thomas Clarke

Published: 2007-07-31

Paperback: 544 pages

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Comprehensive and up-to-date, this important textbook analyzes the escalating crisis in corporate governance and the growing interest in its reform across the globe. Written by a leading name in the field of corporate governance from a genuinely international perspective, this excellent ...

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Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World

by Rita Golden Gelman

Published: 2010-06-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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In 1987, Rita, newly divorced, set out to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad. She wrote a book about her ongoing journey and, in 2001, insisted on putting her personal e-mail address in the last chapter—against all advice. It turned out to be a fortuitous dec...

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America: Imagine a World without Her

by Dinesh D'Souza

Published: 2014-06-02

Hardcover: 304 pages

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#1 New York Times BestsellerIs America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?Di...

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Masters at Arms & Nobody's Angel (Rescue Me Saga)

by Kallypso Masters

Published: 2012-12-13

Paperback: 496 pages

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The saga introduction, MASTERS AT ARMS, begins the journey of three men, each on a quest for honor, acceptance, and to ease his unspoken pain. Their paths cross at one of the darkest points in their lives. As they try to come to terms with the aftermath--forging an unbreakable bond--will they ever truly...

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A Turquoise Life: One Woman's Triumphant Journey

by Diann M. Kissell, Diann M. Kissell, Kathy Bird

Published: 2014-06-26

Paperback: 336 pages

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Facing the imminent exposure of an eight-year incestuous relationship with his thirteen-year-old daughter Diann, Luis murders his pregnant wife and three of his ten children. Four years later he is executed in the Colorado gas chamber; the last execution of its kind in the United States. Her father's...

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God's Troublemakers: How Women of Faith Are Changing the World

by Katharine Rhodes Henderson

Published: 2008-03-15

Paperback: 256 pages

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This is a book about women who are changing the world as leaders in the public arena. Whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim—their work is religiously or spiritually motivated. They are religious or socio-ethical entrepreneurs, who have invented organizations or movements to repair the worl...

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Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti

by Amy Wilentz

Published: 2013-12-17

Paperback: 352 pages

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, this is a brilliant writer’s account of a long, painful, ecstatic—and unreciprocated—affair with a country that has long fascinated the world.A foreign correspondent on a simple story becomes, over time and in the pa...

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The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate

by Jayson Lusk

Published: 2013-04-16

Hardcover: 240 pages

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A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?         A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly...

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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town

by Beth Macy

Published: 2014-07-15

Hardcover: 464 pages

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The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was...