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Stuff You Forgot from School

This small but mighty collection will trigger your memory with fun facts you learned in school-from adverbs to the Pythagorean Theorem. Witty, engaging, entertaining-a book you'll pick up again and again.

Author Caroline Taggart discovered two things while researching this book and talking with other people: One, everybody had been to school. And two, they had all forgotten entirely different things. Contained in this handy little book are the facts that you learned in school, but may not remember completely or accurately. Covering a variety of subjects, this book features all the most important theories, equations, phrases, and rules we were all taught years ago.

Rediscover:
* History: The first president to occupy the White House was John Adams in 1800
* Religion: The seven deadly sins and the names of the twelve apostles
* Literature: In which Shakespearean play "The quality of mercy" speech appears
* Science: The periodic table of elements devised by a Russian chemist in 1889 includes the symbol for lead (Pb), silver (Ag), tin (Sn), and gold (Au)
* Nature: How photosynthesis works

The information-presented in easy-to-retain, bite-sized chunks-is accurate and up-to- date. It will touch a chord with anyone old enough to have forgotten half of what they learned at school. Here is a perfect gift for every perennial student.

I Used to Know That

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Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality

A tour de force of groundbreaking reportage by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jo Becker, Forcing the Springfollows the historic legal challenge mounted against California's ban on same-sex marriage, a remarkable lawsuit that forced the issue of marriage equality before the highest court in the land. For nearly five years Becker embedded with the lawsuit's plaintiffs, was given free rein within the legal and political war rooms where strategy was plotted, and attended every day of the trial and every appellate argument. Based on singular access to the internal workings of this momentous trial - and enlivened by original interviews with the participants on both sides of the case, many speaking for the first time -Forcing the Springoffers a gripping behind-the-scenes narrative with the lightning pace of the greatest legal thrillers.

Forcing the Springbegins with California's controversial ballot initiative Proposition 8, which banned gay men and lesbians from marrying the person they loved. But this electoral defeat galvanized an improbable alliance of opponents to the ban, with political operatives and Hollywood royality enlisting attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies - the opposing counsels on the Supreme Court's infamous Bush V. Gore ruling - to join together in a unique bipartisan challenge to the political status quo.

Despite stiff initial opposition from the gay rights establishment, the case against Proposition 8 would ultimately force the issue of marriage equality all the way to the Supreme Court, transforming same-sex marriage from partisan issue into a modern crisis of civil rights. Shuttling between the twin American power centers of Hollywood and Washington - and based on access to all the key players in the Justice Department and the White House - Becker offers insider coverage on the true storyof how President Obama 'evolved' to embrace marriage equality, the Obama administration's surprising role in the Supreme Court battle, and the unexpected role the controversial issue played in the 2012 elections.

What starts out as a tale of an epic legal battle grows into the story of the evolution of a country, a testament to the power of litigation, bipartisanship, social media, and old-fashioned storytelling to move public opinion. Becker shows how the country reexamined its opinions on same-sex marriage, an issue that raced along with a snowballing velocity which astounded veteran political operatives, as public opinion on same-sex marriage flipped and elected officials repositioned themselves to adjust to a dramatically changed environment. Forcing the Springis the ringside account of this unprecedented change, the fastest shift in public opinion ever seen in modern American politics.

A must-read account of a national civil rights struggle,Forcing the Springcarries readers from the first efforts to stop Proposition 8 and the campaign to undermine the Defense of Marriage Act all the way to the final suspenseful moments in the Supreme Court. Clear-eyed and even-handed, Forcing the Springis political and legal journalism at its finest, offering an unvarnished perspective on the extraordinary transormation of America and an inside look into the fight to win the rights of marriage and full citizenship for all.

Advance Praise for Forcing the Spring

'Jo Becker's Forcing the Springis a superbe behind-the-scenes account of the legal battle to bring marriage equality to the nation. Drawing on extraordinary access to the internal deliberations of the plaintiffs' team, Becker shows how law, politics, and personality combined to create a landmark in the history of the Supereme Court - and of the United States.' Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nineand The Oath

'Jo Becker's Forcing the Springprovides the definitive insider

Forcing the Spring

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Some signs of wear on book jacket, good condition. #hardcover #fiction #youngadult #botm #fantasy #fantasyfiction #ya #bookofthemonth 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

"Sharp and seductive...a fantasy with teeth." --Julie C. Dao, author of Forest of a Thousand Lanterns A girl of two worlds, accepted by none... A half Reaper, half Shinigami soul collector seeks her destiny in this haunting and compulsively readable dark fantasy set in 1890s Japan. Death is her destiny. Half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami, Ren Scarborough has been collecting souls in the London streets for centuries. Expected to obey the harsh hierarchy of the Reapers who despise her, Ren conceals her emotions and avoids her tormentors as best she can. When her failure to control her Shinigami abilities drives Ren out of London, she flees to Japan to seek the acceptance she's never gotten from her fellow Reapers. Accompanied by her younger brother, the only being on earth to care for her, Ren enters the Japanese underworld to serve the Goddess of Death...only to learn that here, too, she must prove herself worthy. Determined to earn respect, Ren accepts an impossible task--find and eliminate three dangerous Yokai demons--and learns how far she'll go to claim her place at Death's side.

The Keeper of Night

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Very light signs of use, like new. #paperback #nonfiction #selfhelp #youareabadass #1 #fiction #self-help #personalgrowth #jensincero

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

Offers a blunt and irreverent guide to achieving the money, relationships, career, and happiness that one desires through recognizing and doing away with self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors.

You Are a Badass

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Lightly used, slight bend in in the front cover and some markings on the outside edges. 
#paperback #tomclancy #secretservice #webgriffin 

The former Presidential Agent’s Office of Organizational Analysis has been disbanded. Charley Castillo and his colleagues have retired, and the sudden death of the President has brought an adversarial Commander-in-Chief into the Oval Office... But just because Castillo is out of the government doesn’t mean he’s out of business. He still has the skills and the manpower to do what others can’t or won’t do. And his first job is a real killer. A barrel filled with some nightmarishly lethal biohazard material has been shipped to an Army medical lab—material that Castillo and his men were supposed to have destroyed on a mission. Clearly, the message is that more of the deadly material remains. But who has it? And what do they want? With lives at stake—including his own—Castillo knows that he’s not going to like the answers one damn bit...

The Outlaws

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Morgan Rogers

With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that.———————————————————————like new, BOTM edition #fiction #romance #love #hardcover #lgbtqromance #africanamericanwomen #relationships #bookofthemonth #comingofage #lgbtq 

Honey Girl

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Mexican Gothic is a 2020 gothic horror novel by Mexican Canadian author Silvia Moreno-Garcia. It centers on a young woman investigating her cousin's claims that her husband is trying to murder her.———————————————————————Like New, BOTM edition #fiction #horrorfiction #horror #thriller #suspense #hardcover #gothic #botm #historicalfiction #mexicangothic

Mexican Gothic

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A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx.———————————————————————Like New, BOTM edition #fiction #suspensethrillers #thriller #suspense #hardcover #botm #wintercounts #mystery #indigenous #bookofthemonth 

A Novel

Winter Counts

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In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw.

On the day of her wedding-dance, Ada feels lucky. She loves her broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as an apprentice midwife.

But her luck will not last. It is every woman's duty to have a child, to replace those that were lost in the Great Flu. And after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are hanged as witches, Ada's survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows.

She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang. Its leader, a charismatic preacher-turned-robber known to all as The Kid, wants to create a safe haven for women outcast from society. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan. And Ada must decide whether she's willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all.———————————————————————Like New, BOTM edition #fiction #action #adventure #hardcover #historicalfiction #western #lgbqt #botm #historical #bookofthemonth 

Outlawed

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a memoir written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone. The book is a firsthand account of Beah's time as a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone. #nonfiction #biography #paperback #memoir #history #truestory #autobiography #bestseller 

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Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

A Long Way Gone

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Writers & Lovers follows Casey—a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist—in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King’s trademark humor, heart, and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.                                                                ——————————————————————— New, no signs of any wear/tear or markings. BotM hardcover. #fiction #hardcover #bookofthemonth #botm #literaryfiction #lilyking #lovetriangle #grief #life 

a novel

An extraordinary new novel of art, love, and ambition from Lily King, the New York Times bestselling author of Euphoria Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman. Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she's been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Casey's fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink. Writers & Lovers follows Casey--a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist--in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King's trademark humor, heart, and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.

Writers & Lovers

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Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development. 

Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to “The Three Little Pigs,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and “The Sleeping Beauty,” Bettelheim shows how the fantastical, sometimes cruel, but always deeply significant narrative strands of the classic fairy tales can aid in our greatest human task, that of finding meaning for one’s life.                                        ———————————————————————New, no signs of wear/tear or markings #educational #college #paperback #fairytales #fairy #tales #english 

English

The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

A famous child psychologist explains how fairy tales educate, support, and liberate the emotions of children.

The Uses of Enchantment

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What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children —the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life full of promise, but also heartache and myriad new challenges. Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, What Is the What is an astonishing novel that illuminates the lives of millions through one extraordinary man.                                             ——————————————————————— Used, signs of wear and tear. Light annotations throughout book, read for school. #fiction #paperback #biographical #nonfiction #sudan #lostboys #

What is the What

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student in their study of English, but in many respects English-speaking students of Arabic who have attained some degree of proficiency in the language will find it more useful than other larger dictionaries ………………………………………………………………….   Used with signs of wear and tear. Some markings inside as seen in photos. Binding is coming apart slightly as also seen in photo, but the book is intact. #educational #college #hardcover #language #arabic #english #dictionary #translate

World Languages

Elias’ Pocket Dictionary English-Arabic

Percy A. Scholes

Library markings, otherwise in great condition. #educational #college #hardcover #music #oxford #percyascholes #oxfordcompaniontomusic

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

The Oxford Companion to Music

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Cover is in rough shape, but pages are all there and in good condition. #educational #college #dsm #psychology #mentalhealth #dsmiv #americanpsychiatricassociation

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

Science

DSM-IV-TR.

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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UCLA Moot Court Honors Program Staff

Perfect like new condition. The essential handbook for anyone looking to compete in Moot Court #college #educational #legal #moot #mootcourt #mocktrial #law #lawschool #ucla

Government

Handbook of Appellate Advocacy

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Great condition. The markings shown in second picture are the only ones in the book (1st question of 1st practice test). #educational #college #law #lsat #legal #theprincetonreview

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