Chris Lele

Magoosh

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

English

Simple Lessons and Activities to Teach Yourself over 1,400 Must-Know Words

Improve your vocabulary with simple lessons and activities

Building your vocabulary requires more than flash cards. That's why leading test-prep expert, Chris Lele, developed a new method for introducing words into your vocabulary. With The Vocabulary Builder Workbook, you'll gain and retain a fundamental understanding of more than 1,400 essential words.

Ideal for those taking the SAT, ACT, or GRE―or for those who simply want to boost their writing and speaking skills― this workbook makes the task of expanding your vocabulary an opportunity for real learning and growth.

This vocabulary workbook includes:

 * Expertly designed lessons--Explore lessons organized by theme to help you identify roots, form associations, and recognize thousands of additional words outside of this workbook.
 * A progressive approach--Build up your vocabulary with lessons that steadily increase in difficulty for continued advancement.
 * Retention-focused activities--Discover exercises designed to help you remember every word long after the test is over.

Increase your vocabulary and become a better reader, writer, and test-taker with The Vocabulary Builder Workbook.

The Vocabulary Builder Workbook

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SparkNotes

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

No Fear Shakespeare vol 1-7

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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Space from earth to the edge of the universe 

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Backyard Astronomer’s guide

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A book of Bees

301 smart answers to tough business etiquette questions 

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Treehouese of the world

Robert Burnham

Alan Dyer

Robert A. Garfinkle

Martin George

Jeff Kanipe

David H. Levy

Your Guide to Starhopping and Exploring the Universe

A Guide to Backyard Astronomy

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James Rickards

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System

A sequel to the best-selling Currency Wars predicts a coming collapse of the monetary system while counseling investors on how to survive it, arguing that the dollar will be at the center of a crisis that will differentiate money from wealth.

The Death of Money

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Arthur Benjamin

Michael Shermer

Bill Nye

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks

Did you know it's easier to add and subtract from left to right, rather than the other way around? That it's possible to square a three-digit number in mere seconds? Regardless of their skill level, with this book, anyone can mentally calculate complex problems with amazing ease.

Secrets of Mental Math

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Jordan Ellenberg

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Power of Mathematical Thinking

“Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . ." —Evelyn Lamb, Scientific American The Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn’t confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do—the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It’s a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to the true meaning of information we take for granted: How early should you get to the airport? What does “public opinion” really represent? Why do tall parents have shorter children? Who really won Florida in 2000? And how likely are you, really, to develop cancer? How Not to Be Wrong presents the surprising revelations behind all of these questions and many more, using the mathematician’s method of analyzing life and exposing the hard-won insights of the academic community to the layman—minus the jargon. Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among other things, baseball, Reaganomics, daring lottery schemes, Voltaire, the replicability crisis in psychology, Italian Renaissance painting, artificial languages, the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the coming obesity apocalypse, Antonin Scalia’s views on crime and punishment, the psychology of slime molds, what Facebook can and can’t figure out about you, and the existence of God. Ellenberg pulls from history as well as from the latest theoretical developments to provide those not trained in math with the knowledge they need. Math, as Ellenberg says, is “an atomic-powered prosthesis that you attach to your common sense, vastly multiplying its reach and strength.” With the tools of mathematics in hand, you can understand the world in a deeper, more meaningful way. How Not to Be Wrong will show you how.

How Not to Be Wrong

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Victor Cheng

A Former Mckinsey Interviewer Reveals How to Get Multiple Job Offers in Consulting

Cheng, a former McKinsey management consultant, reveals his proven, insider'smethod for acing the case interview.

Case Interview Secrets

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Chinese book

Chinese book touched with fire

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Bernard-Henri Lévy

Charlotte Mandell

Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville

What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today? To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy spent a year traveling throughout the country in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America remains the most influential book ever written about our country. The result is American Vertigo, a fascinating, wholly fresh look at a country we sometimes only think we know. From Rikers Island to Chicago mega-churches, from Muslim communities in Detroit to an Amish enclave in Iowa, Lévy investigates issues at the heart of our democracy: the special nature of American patriotism, the coexistence of freedom and religion (including the religion of baseball), the prison system, the “return of ideology” and the health of our political institutions, and much more. He revisits and updates Tocqueville’s most important beliefs, such as the dangers posed by “the tyranny of the majority,” explores what Europe and America have to learn from each other, and interprets what he sees with a novelist’s eye and a philosopher’s depth. Through powerful interview-based portraits across the spectrum of the American people, from prison guards to clergymen, from Norman Mailer to Barack Obama, from Sharon Stone to Richard Holbrooke, Lévy fills his book with a tapestry of American voices–some wise, some shocking. Both the grandeur and the hellish dimensions of American life are unflinchingly explored. And big themes emerge throughout, from the crucial choices America faces today to the underlying reality that, unlike the “Old World,” America remains the fulfillment of the world’s desire to worship, earn, and live as one wishes–a place, despite all, where inclusion remains not just an ideal but an actual practice. At a time when Americans are anxious about how the world perceives them and, indeed, keen to make sense of themselves, a brilliant and sympathetic foreign observer has arrived to help us begin a new conversation about the meaning of America.

American Vertigo

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Timothy Butler

A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path

You will experience psychological impasse many times in your life. During these times, you have the sensation that you’re stuck or paralyzed. You’re convinced that something must change, whether in your work or personal life. Though this feeling is normal, you need to move beyond it. Failure to get unstuck can put your career and personal life as well as the healthy functioning of your team or organization at risk. InGetting Unstuck, business psychologist and researcher Timothy Butler offers strategies for moving beyond a career or personal life impasse by recognizing the state of impasse, awakening your imagination, recognizing patterns of meaning in your life, and taking action for change. Drawing on a wealth of stories about individuals who have successfully transitioned out of impasses,Getting Unstuckprovides a practical, authoritative road map for moving past your immediate impasse and defining a meaningful path forward. Dr. Timothy Butler is a Senior Fellow and the Director of Career Development Programs at Harvard Business School. He teaches career coaching and consults to organizations worldwide on career development issues."

Getting Unstuck

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Bedford/St. Martin's

A Bedford Select Reader

Natural Acts: Readings on Nature and the Environment is a brief, inexpensive collection of essays about the natural world and our place in it. The essays are proven models for effective writing that invite students to reflect on how we perceive and respond to nature, to understand how nature works, to examine our complex interactions with animals, and to evaluate arguments on environmentalism. Natural Acts can be assigned as a ready-made single-theme reader, or can be easily supplemented or customized through Bedford Select. Less than half the size and half the price of typical anthologies, Bedford Select Readers are built out of the offerings in Bedford Select, the Bedford/St. Martin's custom database, and are designed to provide cost-effective and customizable alternatives to conventional composition and literature anthologies. Book jacket.

Natural Acts

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Robert Solomon

The Little Book of Mathematical Principles, Theories, and Things

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Explorations with Maple

Nature tries to minimize the surface area of a soap film through the action of surface tension. The process can be understood mathematically by using differential geometry, complex analysis, and the calculus of variations. This book employs ingredients from each of these subjects to tell the mathematical story of soap films. The text is fully self-contained, bringing together a mixture of types of mathematics along with a bit of the physics that underlies the subject. The development is primarily from first principles, requiring no advanced background material from either mathematics or physics. Through the Maple applications, the reader is given tools for creating the shapes that are being studied. Thus, you can "see" a fluid rising up an inclined plane, create minimal surfaces from complex variables data, and investigate the "true" shape of a balloon. Oprea also includes descriptions of experiments and photographs that let you see real soap films on wire frames. The theory of minimal surfaces is a beautiful subject, which naturally introduces the reader to fascinating, yet accessible, topics in mathematics. Oprea's presentation is rich with examples, explanations, and applications. It would make an excellent text for a senior seminar or for independent study by upper-division mathematics or science majors.

The Mathematics of Soap Films

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Jessica S. Marquis

Kevin Hedgpeth

Your Step-By-Step Guide to Starting and Running a Successful - and Magical! - Unicorn Farm

Welcome to the whimsical and very lucrative world of unicorn farming! This is an industry like no other with potential limited only by your imagination. As a future unicorn farmer, you will experience the wide and unique array of opportunities, challenges, and joys of caring for these majestic creatures.

From the Introduction
In this book, author Jessica S. Marquis provides everything you need to know to make a good living as a unicorn farmer. From choosing the right breed (Purebred; Twinkletoe; Karmic; Gigglerump; Horse with Horn) to picking the unicorn farm dream team (an alchemist; stable hands; groomers; The On-Call Virgin (OCV); lawyers), you are guaranteed to have a magical journey. The only reference of its kind, this book proves you can live in fantasyland--and still make money.

Raising Unicorns

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Ray Bradbury

A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit, in a chilling novel of a frightening near-future world. Reissue.

Fahrenheit 451

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Donald Kroodsma

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Year of Listening to Birds

Birdsong by the Seasons is a celebration of birdsong from January through December. The stories begin with a pileated woodpecker on New Year's Day; they unfold through the year, covering limpkins and scrub-jays in February in Florida, prairie birds in May, Scarlet Tanagers in July, and ending with a chorus of singing birds in Massachusetts just before Christmas. Readers get inside the mind of a scientist and see how answers only lead to more questions. Kroodsma provides a unique experience:with his gentle guidance, the pairing of sonagrams with the audio CDs make birdsong accessible and fascinating.


Birdsong by the Seasons

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Vladimir I. Arnold

Valery V. Kozlov

Anatoly I. Neishtadt

Evgeny Khukhro

E. Khukhro

The main purpose of the book is to acquaint mathematicians, physicists and engineers with classical mechanics as a whole, in both its traditional and its contemporary aspects. As such, it describes the fundamental principles, problems, and methods of classical mechanics, with the emphasis firmly laid on the working apparatus, rather than the physical foundations or applications. Chapters cover the n-body problem, symmetry groups of mechanical systems and the corresponding conservation laws, the problem of the integrability of the equations of motion, the theory of oscillations and perturbation theory.

Mathematical Aspects of Classical and Celestial Mechanics

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Nicole.L

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