Outnumbered: Chronicles of a Manhattan Conservative (Paperback)

Outnumbered: Chronicles of a Manhattan Conservative (Paperback)
By Jedediah Bila

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"I've had enough of the hypocrisy, political correctness, and cry-baby syndrome of some on the left as they call you whatever, whenever, however without blinking an eye. That includes any and all who feel persecuted by my right to an opinion." --From Jedediah Bila's OUTNUMBERED

Known for her "call-it-like-you-see-it" television, radio, and print commentary, Jedediah kicks it up a notch with OUTNUMBERED. Complete with unforgettable encounters, musings, and personal stories, OUTNUMBERED exposes the true face of the Left through comings and goings in liberal Manhattan. Get ready for an unconventional journey that reminds us of the truths one can discover through everyday life. Read more

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A Step Farther Out (Kindle Edition)

A Step Farther Out (Kindle Edition)
By Jerry Pournelle

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Essays on Technology, Civilization, and saving the world by Galaxy Science Fiction Science Editor Jerry Pournelle, PhD. Preface by Larry Niven, and Foreword by A. E. Van Vogt. From the Niven Preface: "Jerry Pournelle is our to make the whole world rich... He's been building the future since I was in grade school, and he's still at it." Essays include "Survival With Style" and "That Buck Rogers Stuff," as well as excerpts from The Strategy of Technology.
From the Preface to the 2011 Edition: “We live in an age of marvels. Despite that, we feel a sense of impending doom.... That's still true... We could still go to space. We could still mine the asteroids. We could still take part in developing mankind’s vast future. Indeed, it is easier to do now than it would have been when I wrote these essays. The unrelenting enmity of the Soviet Union has been replaced by other threats, some of them severe, but none comparable to 26,000 nuclear warheads. We have computers and the Internet. There is free exchange of ideas throughout most of the world, and the information revolution relentlessly expands that area. We still face the threat of famine, but it is not as acute as it was in the times when these essays were written. Communications, transportation, electronics, rocket technology – it’s all better now. We can still go to the planets.

We still live in an age of marvels, and it’s still true that the only limit to growth is nerve.
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From The Pea Patch (Paperback)

From The Pea Patch (Paperback)
By L. J. Martin

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A country boy's look at what's happening in and to America...and what to do about it. L. J. Martin is the author of over 20 novels and 3 non-fiction works. Before becoming a writer, as a R.E. broker he sold farms, ranches, and development properties all over the west. He and his wife, NYT best-selling novelist Kat Martin, live in Montana and winter in California. Read more

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Creative Geography Activities for the 21st Century (Kindle Edition)

Creative Geography Activities for the 21st Century (Kindle Edition)
By Richard Di Giacomo

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• Hands-on Activities
• Contemporary Problems & Issues
• Student-centered Investigative Activities
• Creative & Imaginary Activities
• Games & Simulations
• Geography in History
Have you ever wanted to…
• design your own country?
• find out what was on the land where your house or school is before it was built?
• redraw confusing borders?
• analyze the geography of fantasy worlds?
• map along with an explorer?
• redesign your city?
• win a geography trivia contest?
Now you and your students can have fun doing do these things and more with:
Creative Geography Activities for the 21st Century

30 lesson plans that allow students to go beyond worksheets, and map work to investigate and create on their own!

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Recreational Geography (Kindle Edition)

Recreational Geography (Kindle Edition)
By Volcano Seven

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This blog travels around the world, sharing the location and history of each and every geographical feature, island and country or political entity.

In a world which grows smaller every day, it's more important than ever that we know and understand the world around us.

Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you're not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day. Read more

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Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World (Hardcover)

Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World (Hardcover)
By Lisa Bloom

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According to Lisa Bloom, the women and girls of today represent a stark paradox. While American women excel in education at every level, they likewise obsessively focus on celebrity media. While women outperform their male counterparts in employment in urban areas for the first time in history, they simultaneously spend countless hours staring in the mirror contemplating plastic surgery. Lisa Bloom fears that women are in danger of spiraling into a nation of dumbed down, tabloid media obsessed, reality TV addicts. Too often, they outsource matters to "experts" and in doing so neglect to truly think for themselves.

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Lisa Bloom has the solution and it involves one simple word: Think.

In this provocative, entertaining, educational, and thoroughly researched book, Lisa outlines the ways that we as a society, and particularly women, have fallen off the intellectual path, and, very specifically, points to how damaging this has been to us on many levels. Lisa shows us the fallout--but she also provides the solutions for "Reclaiming the Brain God Gave You" and seizing back control of your mind and your life. Think is delivered in a no-nonsense manner that will make you laugh, make you question yourself, make you squirm, but, most important, make you start thinking again. Read more

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The Plaid Avenger's World (Paperback)

The Plaid Avenger's World (Paperback)
By BOYER JOHN

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Obama and the Secret Revealed (Kindle Edition)

Obama and the Secret Revealed (Kindle Edition)
By Mimi K. Phillips

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This book is about human potential—revealing the Nine Secret Tools Obama consciously used to achieve what many thought as impossible by winning the 2008 Presidential election. The Nine Secret Tools that helped Obama to turn his life around to victory is now at your reach. In this book you will learn about Obama’s secret to success and if you wondered how Obama overcame career obstacles to become Commander-in-Chief or financial troubles to become Millionaire-in-Chief, then you will want to read this book. This book is destined to be a classic, loaded with inspiring quotes from Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Disraeli, Napoleon Bonaparte, Martin Luther King Jr., Viktor Frankl, Nelson Mandela, Napoleon Hills, Norman Vincent Peale and others.

Like Obama, the wisdom of the Nine Secret Tools can be used by anyone to make any dream come true. Apply the Nine Secret Tools to reach your highest potential in all areas of your life.


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Shadows on the Gulf: A Journey through Our Last Great Wetland (Hardcover)

Shadows on the Gulf: A Journey through Our Last Great Wetland (Hardcover)
By Rowan Jacobsen

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"A sensitive and elegant amble through both a tragedy and an ecosystem. Required reading for anyone trying to understand the Gulf in its entirety." --Paul Greenberg, author of Four FishIn the spring of 2010, as we watched oil gushing unstoppably into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, many Americans turned their focus to the region for the first time, wondering how this could happen and demanding corporate and government accountability. Yet Rowan Jacobsen brings a surprising perspective to the tragedy: as bad as the spill was, it is only the latest chapter in a century-long story of destruction.
            At the height of BP's dispersant madness, the amount sprayed each day merely equaled the amount of dispersant that washes down the Mississippi from the Heartland's dishwashers and washing machines. Coastal drilling has damaged the region's ecology far more than offshore drilling. And the acres of marshland ruined by oil slicks can't compare to the amount that disappears in every hurricane, due to the work of the Army Corps of Engineers. Southern Louisiana is subsiding. Even if we succeed in restoring every mile of beach and wetland from the oil spill, the entire Mississippi Delta could be lost this century, and New Orleans will sink beneath the waves, an American Atlantis.
            Surveying the Gulf Coast by sailboat, skiff, car, and kayak, Jacobsen journeys from the bayous of Terrebonne Parish, where he goes on oil patrol with a Native American man whose tribe is being displaced as their island disintegrates; to the last shucking house in New Orleans's French Quarter, whose oyster supply has vanished; to the pristine barrier islands of Mississippi, where a Kafkaesque cleanup effort is underway. He discovers a little-appreciated ecological wonder of breathtaking natural beauty and rich culture struggling to hold on to the things that have always sustained it.
            Shadows on the Gulf details the catastrophe creeping across the region and reveals why the damage to the Gulf will affect us all. Not only are the Gulf's wetlands the best oyster reefs and fish nurseries in the world, they also provide critical habitat to most of America's migratory songbirds and waterfowl. If the Gulf is allowed to fail, the effects will ripple across America. And fail it will, unless BP's blunder can somehow galvanize a national effort to save it. Read more

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The Miss Mae Site (Kindle Edition)

The Miss Mae Site (Kindle Edition)
By Miss Mae

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The Wars of Gods and Men (The Ossian Chronicles) (Kindle Edition)

The Wars of Gods and Men (The Ossian Chronicles) (Kindle Edition)
By W. Brondt Kamffer

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Eboric and his wife Idonea, a pagan witch, successfully assassinate the King of East Osland, usurping his throne in the process. Together, they reignite a centuries-old civil war with West Osland, ruled by the peace-loving Ayern, who was responsible for ending the war in the recent past.

Meanwhile, the ambitious Kjar Kolrig has united the fractured tribes of Vistgard, and now seeks to invade Osland in a bid to expand his fledgling empire. He is supported by a school of sorcerers, though they soon begin to undermine his war effort.

All of them become ensnared in an ancient conflict between the pagan gods and the Ossian God Eom, which threatens to ruin both Eboric and Kolrig, as well as their kingdoms, if neither man can surrender his pride. Read more

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