Ruth Maran

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Produced by the award-winning marganGraphics Group, Maran Illustrated Guide to Knitting and Crocheting is a valuable resource to a wide range of readers-from people new to the hobby to those who have dabbled in the occasional project to those more involved knitters and crocheters interested in mastering their craft. Instead of describing the myriad ways to perform each task, Maran Illustrated Guide to Knitting and Crocheting shows the reader the best way, while the full-color photographs and clear, step-by-step instructions walk the reader through each task from beginning to end. Thorough topic introductions and useful tips provide additional information and advice to help enhance the readers' knitting and crocheting experience. Maran Illustrated Guide to Knitting and Crocheting is packed with essential information for readers who are picking up needles for the first time, and will provide more experienced knitters and crocheters with the opportunity to add more advanced techniques to their repertoire.

Maran Illustrated Knitting and Crocheting

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Pam Allen

Tracy Barr

Shannon Okey

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Whether you're just picking up knitting needles for the first time or you've been knitting for years, Knitting For Dummies, 2nd Edition, will be your pattern for knitting success. Have you always wanted to knit, but are just not sure how or where to start? Have you been knitting for years and want to perfect your stitches? As a beginner you will learn...
 * the tools of the trade
 * the basics
 * how to read a pattern
 * the fundamentals
 * basic stitches
 * techniques no knitter should be without
 * what to do when you make a common mistake
 * tips for knitting in the round
 * how to knit some easy projects

More advanced? Try your needles at stripes, cables, twists, lace, Fair Isle, intarsia, and full garments. Knitting For Dummies, 2nd Edition, will not only enhance the skills you already have, it'll teach you new ones, from expert knitters who will guide you every step of the way. You'll be on your way to knitting a new wardrobe in no time!

Knitting for Dummies

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George Ritzer

The Globalization of Nothing is back in a revised and completely updated Second Edition. In this reconceptualized volume, author George Ritzer focuses his attention squarely on the processes of globalization and how they relate to McDonaldization. This revision is shorter, more concise, and spends much less space on the Nothing-Something continuum that he introduced in the "First Edition."

The Globalization of Nothing

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Katharine Ferguson

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Harrowsmith Gardner's Guide

Rock Gardens

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Joseph E. Stiglitz

Examines the effects of global economic policies on developing nations, discussing agencies and concepts including the International Monetary Fund, the East Asia crisis, trade laws, fair markets, and privatization.

Globalization and Its Discontents

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David Held

Anthony McGrew

Is globalization being eclipsed by a resurgent geopolitics? Does the war on terror denote the end of globalization or a new phase of militarized globalization? Empire or globalization - are these the right terms to describe the current global order? The second edition of this highly successful book tests the claims of those who dismiss the continuing significance of globalization through a comprehensive assessment of contemporary global trends. In the aftermath of 9/11, and the war in Iraq, there has been much talk of the end of globalization. Held and McGrew argue that these post-mortems for globalization are entirely premature. They show this by focusing upon the primary structures of world order namely: patterns of governance, organized violence, the economy, culture and environmental degradation. Patterns of inequality, exclusion and domination are also assessed. Building upon this analysis, the authors present the case for continuing to take globalization seriously as both a description and explanation of our current global condition. They also ask the vital question: can globalization be tamed? Held and McGrew explore whether a more just and stable world order is either desirable or feasible and present an alternative ethical and political agenda for the twenty-first century - a global covenant of cosmopolitan social democracy. The second edition of this powerful and original book has been comprehensively updated, with three new chapters added. The book will appeal to all those who remain intrigued, confused or simply baffled by the controversy about globalization and its consequences for the twenty-first century world order.

Globalization/Anti-Globalization

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Nick Mann

Three lifelong friends – Ben, Levi, and Tracy – take very different paths after high school, but all have brushes with danger and war. What happens in war? Only injury, if one is lucky. This powerful novel tells of Levi’s war with family tragedy and alcoholism, of Ben’s war with rage, and Tracy and Levi’s Vietnam War experiences. Ben is called to treat the wounds of war, both with his friend Levi, and in his professional role as an organizational consultant. This unusual combination of prequel/sequel to author Nick Mann’s 2013 debut novel, Forgetful, weaves compelling stories around the intersecting themes of urban renewal, the Vietnam War, addiction, and the professional and personal lives of contemporary black friendship networks. The gang from the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Michigan Park returns in his second novel to face challenges of love for one another and struggling with the complexities of their own existence.

Wounded

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Andrew Smith

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Finn Easton, sixteen and epileptic, struggles to feel like more than just a character in his father's cult-classic novels with the help of his best friend, Cade Hernandez, and first love, Julia, until Julia moves away.

100 Sideways Miles

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James Howard Kunstler

A Novel

In the wake of a series of global catastrophes that have destroyed industrial civilization, the inhabitants of Union Grove, a small New York town, do anything they can to get by, as they struggle to deal with a new way of life over the course of an eventful summer, in a novel set several decades in the future. By the author of The Long Emergency. Reprint.

World Made by Hand

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Machaelle S. Wright

A Revolution in Science Providing Real Solutions for Today's Health and Environment

Co-Creative Science

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Jim Sumner

Tales from the Duke Blue Devils Hardwood

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Michael Lapsley

Stephen Karakashian

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

My Journey from Freedom Fighter to Healer

In 1990, Fr. Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest active in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, opened a letter bomb that nearly killed him. This memoir tells the story of this horrendous event, beginning with the journey that led him there.

Redeeming the Past

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Flannery O'Connor

Letters of Flannery O'Connor

The Habit of Being

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Madeleine L'Engle

Reflections on Faith and Art

In this classic book, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Through L'Engle's beautiful and insightful essay, readers will find themselves called to what the author views as the prime tasks of an artist: to listen, to remain aware, and to respond to creation through one's own art.

Walking on Water

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Nayan Chanda

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization

Chanda traces how traders, preachers, warriors, and adventurers have reshaped the world and reconnected us throughout history, and offers a provocative discussion of what globalization means for the future.

Bound Together

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Marilyn Bates

David Keirsey

Character and Temperament Types

Describes sixteen basic personality types, argues that people try to reshape their spouses, children, friends, and coworkers into models of themselves, and discusses different styles of leadership

Please Understand Me

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Stephen T. Chang

Internal Exercises

"Unique, safe, practical and immediately effective, Internal Exercises energise the entire body, promote effective functions of the internal organs, dissolve stress and tension, prevent health problems, heal, regenerate, and do much more without strenuous exercises or equipment. This textbook of many universities contains healing exercises for over 30 common ailments."--Publisher description.

The Complete System of Self-Healing

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Amartya Sen

By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. 

Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.

Development As Freedom

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Tosha Silver

Letting the Divine Take the Lead

A "playful, enlightening, and creative collection" (Spirituality and Practice) of spiritual lessons, anecdotes, and thoughts on the Divine's intervention in our lives, this brilliantly written and wonderfully entertaining book teaches us how to live purposefully and in line with the Force of Love.

"What if the Divine is constantly igniting roadside flares to get our attention? What if there actually is a Supreme Organizing Principle with an unbridled sense of humor? And what if we each have this ardent inner suitor who's writing us love letters every day that often go unopened?"

Whether we know it or not, we all experience the touch of the Divine in our lives every single day. After twenty-five years spent consulting and advising tens of thousands of people from all over the world, Tosha Silver realized that almost all of us have similar concerns: "How do I stop worrying? How can I feel safe? Why do I feel so alone?" and often, "Who am I really?" For the passionately spiritual and the bemusedly skeptical alike, she created Outrageous Openness. This delightful book, filled with wisdom and fresh perspectives, helps create a relaxed, trusting openness in the reader to discover answers to life's big questions as they spontaneously arise.

Outrageous Openness opens the door to a profound truth: By allowing the Divine to lead the way, we can finally put down the heavy load of hopes, fears, and opinions about how things should be. We learn how to be guided to take the right actions at the right time, and to enjoy the spectacular show that is our life.

Outrageous Openness

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John F. Carlson

Introduces the mechanics of painting by analyzing the guiding principles and techniques

Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

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Olivier Roy

George Holoch

"The denunciation of fundamentalism in France, embodied in the law against the veil and the deportation of imams, has shifted into a systematic attack on all Muslims and Islam. This hostility is rooted in the belief that Islam cannot be integrated into French - and, consequently, secular and liberal - society. However, as Olivier Roy makes clear in this book, Muslim intellectuals have made it possible for Muslims to live concretely in a secularized world while maintaining their identities as "true believers." They have formulated a language that recognizes two spaces: that of religion and that of secular society." "Roy's rare portrait of the realities of immigrant Muslim life offers a necessary alternative to the popular specter of an "Islamic threat." Supporting his arguments with his extensive research on Islamic history, sociology, and politics, Roy demonstrates the limits of our understanding of contemporary Islamic religious practice in the West and the role of Islam as a

Secularism Confronts Islam

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Max Lucado

Your Father Always Caught You. He Still Does

Bestselling author Max Lucado proclaims the grace of God to be "the greatest discovery of my life," and he wants to share that discovery by taking readers on a journey through the mountaintop truths found in Paul's letter to the Romans.

In the Grip of Grace

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Gordon W. Allport

The classic psychological study of the roots of discrimination.


First published in 1954, The Nature of Prejudice remains the standard work on discrimination. With profound insight into the complexities of the human experience, Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport organized a mass of research to produce a landmark study on the roots and nature of prejudice. Allport's comprehensive and penetrating work examines all aspects of this age-old problem: its roots in individual and social psychology, its varieties of expression, its impact on the individuals and communities. He explores all kinds of prejudice -- racial, religious, ethnic, economic and sexual -- and offers suggestions for reducing the devastating effects of discrimination.


In this unabridged edition, a new introduction by Kenneth B. Clark of Columbia University and a new preface by Thomas Pettigrew of Harvard University update the social-psychological research in prejudice and attest to the enduring values of Allport's original theories and insights.

The Nature of Prejudice (25th Anniversary Edition)

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Jonah Lehrer

A best-selling journey inside the human mind draws on the latest tools of neuroscience to explore the decision-making process as a blend of both feeling and reason and, utilizing cutting-edge research, explains how we can make better decisions. By the author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist. Reprint.

How We Decide

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