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Save 30% off when you buy Strunk and White’s book The Elements of Style 50 Anv Edition. Free shipping in hardcover.

The Elements of Style: 50th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover)

by William Strunk (Author), E. B. White (Author)

Textbook Details
* Hardcover: 128 pages
* Publisher: Longman; 50 Anv edition (October 25, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0205632645
* ISBN-13: 978-0205632640
* Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
* Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
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Textbook Description
You know the authors’ names. You recognize the title. You’ve probably used this book yourself. And now The Elements of Style–the most widely read and employed English style manual–is available in a specially bound 50th Anniversary Edition that offers the title’s vast audience an opportunity to own a more durable and elegantly bound edition of this time-tested classic.

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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel (Paperback)

by Michio Kaku (Author)

Textbook Details
* Paperback: 352 pages
* Publisher: Anchor; Reprint edition (April 7, 2009)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0307278824
* ISBN-13: 978-0307278821
* Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
* Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
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Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships—the stuff of science fiction or potentially attainable future technologies? Inspired by the fantastic worlds of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Back to the Future, renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku takes an informed, serious, and often surprising look at what our current understanding of the universe’s physical laws may permit in the near and distant future.

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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (Hardcover)

by Annette Gordon-Reed (Author)

Textbook Details
* Paperback: 800 pages
* Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; 1 edition (September 17, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0393064778
* ISBN-13: 978-0393064773
* Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.8 inches
* Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
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Textbook Description
This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently.

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Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count (Hardcover)

by Richard E. Nisbett (Author)

Textbook Details
* Hardcover: 282 pages
* Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; 1 edition (February 2, 2009)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0393065057
* ISBN-13: 978-0393065053
* Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
* Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
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A bold refutation of the belief that genes determine intelligence. Who are smarter, Asians or Westerners? Are there genetic explanations for racial differences in test scores?

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Paperback)

by Erik Larson (Author)

Textbook Details
* Paperback: 447 pages
* Publisher: Vintage (February 10, 2004)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0375725601
* ISBN-13: 978-0375725609
* Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 1 inches
* Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
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Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson’s spellbinding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two men–the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World’s Fair, Read the rest of this entry »