LLC Findaway World
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"In 2012, a New York auction catalogue made an unusual offering: 'a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton.' In fact, Lot 49135 consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar, a close cousin to T. rex, the most famous animal that ever lived. The fossils now on display in Manhattan had been unearthed in Mongolia, some 6,000 miles away. At 8 feet high and 24 feet long, the specimen was spectacular, and the final gavel signaled a winning bid of well over $1 million....
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In May of 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country's most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left concealing the original manuscript of Pasternak's much anticipated first novel, entrusted to him with these words from the author: This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world. Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union, where the authorities regarded it as...
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[2016]
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English
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Productivity relies on making certain choices. The way we frame our daily decisions; the big ambitions we embrace and the easy goals we ignore; the way we interact with data: These are the things that separate the merely busy from the genuinely productive. At the core of Smarter Faster Better are eight key concepts that explain why some people and companies get so much done. Drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral...
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Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl says the most vivid and transforming experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state, or any other of her stories at 60 Minutes. It was becoming a grandmother. She was hit with a jolt of joy so intense and unexpected, she wanted to 'investigate' it, as though it was a news flash! And so, using her 60 Minutes skills, she explores how grandmothering changes a woman's...
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Findaway World, LLC
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[2021]
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English
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From a New York Times bestselling author, a fresh and detail-rich argument that the best way to lead is to be fair Can you succeed without being a terrible person? We often think not: recognizing that, as the old saying has it, nice guys finish last. But does that mean you have to go to the other extreme and be a bully or Machiavellian to get anything done? In The Art of Fairness, bestselling author David Bodanis uses thrilling case studies to show...
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2013
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English
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Tune in is the first volume in a of All These Years - a highly anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy by the world's leading Beatles historian. Mark Lewisohn uses his unprecedented archival access and hundreds of new interviews to construct the full story of the lives and work of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Ten years in the making, Tune in follows the Beatles from before their childhoods up to the final...
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Findaway World, LLC
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[2021]
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English
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"There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly selfexamination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leaping to his death. There's a dirty joke shared...
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Findaway World, LLC
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[2014]
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English
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With this 365-day devotional, Joyce will help you begin a daily habit of giving thanks to God that will change your life. Each devotion includes uplifting Scripture and a prayer of thanks to spark a lasting attitude of gratitude in your heart.
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Findaway World, LLC
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[2017]
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English
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"Technology-at least in theory-is improving our productivity, efficiency, and communication. The one thing it's not doing is making us happier. We are experiencing historically high levels of depression and dissatisfaction. But it doesn't have to be that way. Technology can drive-not diminish-human happiness. Our brains receive 11 million bits of information every second but can only process 40 bits at any given time. Thanks to the latest technology,...
94) The fighters
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Findaway World, LLC
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[2018]
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English
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The fighter is a tour de force,, a portrait of modern warfare that parts from slogans to do for American troops what stephen ambros did for the g.i.s of world war II and michael herr for the grunts in vietnam. Told with empathy and understanding of an author who is him an infantry veteran, the fighters presents the long arc two wars.
95) Kindred
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Findaway World, LLC
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[2020]
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English
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In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliche of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don't know, our ancestor who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive climate change. This book sheds new light on where they lived, what they ate, and the increasingly complex Neanderthal culture that researchers have discovered....
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Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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For more than twenty-five years John Thavis held one of the most fascinating journalistic jobs in the world: reporting on the inner workings of the Vatican. His daily exposure to the power, politics, and personalities in the seat of Roman Catholicism gave him a unique perspective on an institution that is far less monolithic and unified than it appears. Thavis reveals Vatican City as a place where Curia cardinals fight private wars, scandals threaten...
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Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester's father but her mother--a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South--who made the...
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Playaway Digital Audio
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[2009]
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English
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Presents Spanish language instruction for English-speaking health care workers. Includes over 400 essential words or short and simple phrases to immediately communicate with Spanish-speaking patients.
Conversational Spanish allows you to quickly and easily learn the Spanish vocabulary necessary to communicate more effectively with the growing number of Spanish speakers. Includes over 400 words and phrases.
100) Inglés garantizado
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Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
[released 2008]
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Español
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"El inglés del modo más fácil - garantizado. Nuestro sistema de audio para principlantes le ayuda a aprender el idioma de una forma sencilla y efectiva, ofreciéndole todo lo que necesita para hablar inglés con confianza."--Container.