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The Book of Five Rings

by Miyamoto Musashi

Published: 2005-01-11

Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages

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The Book of Five Rings is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture. Written not only for martial artists but for anyone who wants to apply the timeless principles of this text to their life, the book analyzes the process...

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Training the Samurai Mind: A Bushido Sourcebook

by Thomas Cleary

Published: 2009-10-06

Paperback: 288 pages

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Through the ages, the samurai have been associated with honor, fearlessness, calm, decisive action, strategic thinking, and martial prowess. Their ethos is known as bushido, the Way of the Warrior-Knight. Here, premier translator Thomas Cleary presents a rich collection of writings on bush...

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Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs

by Elisabeth Malartre, Gregory Benford

Published: 2007-09-18

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Concepts once purely fiction -- robots, cyborg parts, artificial intelligences -- are becoming part of everyday reality. Soon robots will be everywhere, performing surgery, exploring hazardous places, making rescues, fighting fires, handling heavy goods. After a decade or two, they will b...

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How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

Published: 1998-10-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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You can go after the job you want—and get it! You can take the job you have—and improve it! You can take any situation—and make it work for you! Dale Carnegie’s rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their business and persona...

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The Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Published: 2013-05-08

Paperback: 152 pages

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THE ORIGINAL MASTERPIECE Inferno (Italian for Hell ) is the first part of Dante Alighieri s 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering l...

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Bleeding Edge

by Thomas Pynchon

Published: 2013-09-17

Hardcover: 477 pages

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The Washington Post ?Brilliantly written? a joy to read? Bleeding Edge is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best.” (Michael Dirda) It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boo...

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The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic St

by Toby Lester

Published: 2009

Hardcover: 448 pages

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The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

by Edward Ball

Published: 2013-01-22

Hardcover: 464 pages

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From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.   One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-...

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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

by Eric Schlosser

Published: 2012-03-13

Paperback: 384 pages

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New York Times Bestseller,   With a New Afterword“Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts . . . Fast Food Nation points the way but, to resurrect an old fast food slogan, the choice is yours.”—Los Angeles TimesIn 2001, Fast Food Nation was...

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Confessions of a Military Wife

by Mollie Gross

Published: 2009-11-30

Hardcover: 288 pages

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"I remember when I hit rock bottom. There I was with no make-up on, hadn't showered, eating raw cookie dough out of the tube, hitting on the toothless bagger at the commissary, and ordering jewelry off the TV. And that was just my first day!"Confessions of a Military Wife is an honest, wit...