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The Survivors Club

The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life

By: Ben Sherwood

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The Survivors Club

The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life

By: Ben Sherwood

Discover how to become the kind of person who survives and thrives with this "must-read" New York Times bestseller that's filled with fascinating true stories and helpful advice (New York Times). Each second of the day, someone in America faces a crisis, whether it's Covid-19, a car accident, violent crime, or financial trouble. Given the inevitability of adversity, we all wonder: Who beats the odds and who surrenders? How can I become the kind of person who bounces back? The fascinating, hopeful answers to these questions are found in The Survivors Club. In the tradition of The Tipping Point and Freakonomics, this book reveals the hidden side of survival through: astonishing true stories gripping scientific research the 5 Survivor Profiles top 12 Survivor Tools There is no escaping life's inevitable struggles. But The Survivors Club can give you an edge when adversity strikes.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446543918

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9780446543910

The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

A Novel

By: Ben Sherwood

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The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

A Novel

By: Ben Sherwood

The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud tells the haunting story of a young man who narrowly survives a terrible car wreck that kills his little brother. Years later, the brothers’ bond remains so strong that it transcends the normal boundaries separating life and death. Charlie St. Cloud lives in a snug New England fishing village. By day he tends the lawns and monuments of the ancient cemetery where his younger brother, Sam, is buried. Graced with an extraordinary gift after surviving the accident, he can still see, talk, and even play catch with Sam’s spirit. But townsfolk whisper that Charlie has never recovered from his loss. Into his carefully ordered life comes Tess Carroll, a captivating, adventuresome woman training for a solo sailing trip around the globe. Fate steers her boat into a treacherous storm that blows her back to harbor, to a charged encounter with Charlie, and to a surprise more overwhelming than the violent sea itself. Charlie and Tess discover a beautiful and uncommon connection that leads to a race against time and a desperate choice between death and life, between the past and the future, between holding on and letting go. Luminous, soulful, and filled with unforgettable characters, The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud is one of those rare, wise books that reveal the mysteries of the unseen world around us, gently transforming the worst pain of loss into hope, healing, and even laughter. Suspenseful and deeply moving, its startling climax reminds us that sometimes tragedies can bring about miracles if we simply open our hearts.

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Bantam

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0553383256

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Charlie St. Cloud

A Novel

By: Ben Sherwood

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Charlie St. Cloud

A Novel

By: Ben Sherwood

Now a major motion picture • Originally published as The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud In a snug New England fishing village, Charlie St. Cloud tends the lawns and monuments of an ancient cemetery where his younger brother, Sam, is buried. After surviving the car accident that claimed his brother's life, Charlie is graced with an extraordinary gift: He can see, talk to, and even play catch with Sam's spirit. Into this magical world comes Tess Carroll, a captivating woman training for a solo sailing trip around the globe. Fate steers her boat into a treacherous storm that propels her into Charlie's life. Their beautiful and uncommon connection leads to a race against time and a choice between death and life, between the past and the future, between holding on and letting go — and the discovery that miracles can happen if we simply open our hearts.

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Bantam

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055338693X

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9780553386936

A Child of the Century

By: Ben Hecht

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A Child of the Century

By: Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht's critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after. "His manners are not always nice, but then nice manners do not always make interesting autobiographies, and this autobiography has the merit of being intensely interesting."--Saul Bellow, New York Times Named to Time's list of All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books, which deems it "the un-put-downable testament of the era's great multimedia entertainer.

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Yale University Press

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0300251793

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The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

By: Ben Sherwood

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The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

By: Ben Sherwood

Charlie works as the caretaker of the cemetery where his younger brother Sam is buried, and it is here that he meets Grace when she comes to lay her father to rest. This meeting offers Charlie a chance at love, but also forces him to confront the fact that he has allowed the past to haunt him.

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Pan Macmillan

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0330488902

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The Man Who Ate the 747

A Novel

By: Ben Sherwood

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The Man Who Ate the 747

A Novel

By: Ben Sherwood

This is the story of the greatest love, ever.... J. J. Smith, Keeper of the Records for The Book of Records, is an ordinary man searching for the extraordinary. J.J. has clocked the world’s longest continuous kiss. He has verified the lengthiest single unbroken apple peel. He has tasted the world’s largest menu item. But J.J. has never witnessed great love. That is, until he comes to a tiny town in the American heartland. Here J.J. discovers a world record attempt like no other. Piece by piece, a farmer is eating a Boeing 747 to prove his love for a woman. But when J.J. unexpectedly falls in love with the same woman, a woman as outwardly cynical as he is, J.J. learns why records are made to be broken...and why the greatest wonders in life can never be measured.

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0307428567

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The Man Who Ate the 747

A Novel

By: Ben Sherwood

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The Man Who Ate the 747

A Novel

By: Ben Sherwood

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The Skateboard

The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly: An Illustrated History

By: Ben Marcus

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The Skateboard

The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly: An Illustrated History

By: Ben Marcus

The story of the simple skateboard is part thriller, part underground, underdog success tale. It’s chock-full of innovations, far-out graphic artistry, and ever-more-incredible hot-dogging feats. And the story’s told in this book with contributions from the stars themselves—Tony Hawk, Stacey Peralta, Jeff Ho, the Dogtown Z-Boys, and more. Beautifully illustrated with historical posters, ads, and memorabilia along with new action photography, studio skateboard shots, and unique portraits of the stars, this is a fitting tribute to an American classic.

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MVP Books

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1610602099

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold's The Adventures of Robin Hood

A Film Score Guide

By: Ben Winters

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold's The Adventures of Robin Hood

A Film Score Guide

By: Ben Winters

Among the many fine examples of film scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), the score for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) stands out the most. Winner of the Academy Award(TM) for best dramatic score in 1938, it is seen by many as the archetypal accompaniment to a Warner Brothers swashbuckler, and it established Korngold as one of the leading exponents of film score composition at a formative point in its history. In Erich Wolfgang Korngold's The Adventures of Robin Hood: A Film Score Guide, author Ben Winters uses manuscript and archival research to challenge preconceived notions about the score's composer and its authorship. In the first two chapters, Winters examines Korngold's career on its own and in relation to the film, including his background in composing concert music and opera, his film scoring techniques, and his engagement with the Hollywood studio system. Chapter three focuses on the Robin Hood film while placing Korngold's music in a larger framework. It examines the film's treatment of the Robin Hood legend, its historical and critical contexts, and its place within the swashbuckler genre and the studio's anti-fascist agenda. While looking closely at the composer's work on this score, chapter four shows sources Korngold used, the music's production process, and the changes the score had undergone. The book concludes with a thematic analysis and reading of the score, identifying the various musical 'voices' that the listener weaves together as he or she experiences the film. This detailed consideration of Korngold's masterpiece will be continually turned to by film and music scholars alike.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0810858886

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9780810858886

Alibi on Ice

By: Ben F. Small

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Alibi on Ice

By: Ben F. Small

Alibi on Ice is a pulse thumping, page-turner rich in diabolical maneuvering, murder, and ayhem set in Seattle and on the icy slopes of Mount Rainier.

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Ben F Small

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1930754728

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9781930754720

The Collected Christian Essentials: Catechism

A Guide to the Ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, and the Lord's Prayer

By: Peter J. Leithart,Ben Myers,Wesley Hill

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The Collected Christian Essentials: Catechism

A Guide to the Ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, and the Lord's Prayer

By: Peter J. Leithart,Ben Myers,Wesley Hill

A life discipled by the catechism. The Collected Christian Essentials: Catechism is perfect for daily devotions, personal study, and prayer with others. Let the catechism of the Ten Commandments, Apostles' Creed, and the Lord's Prayer guide your devotional life. Experience a simple liturgy of morning and evening prayer. Pray fresh prayers inspired by the catechism. Read Scripture with the church year. Understand the riches of the catechism with Peter J. Leithart, Ben Myers, and Wesley Hill. The catechism— the Ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, and the Lord's Prayer—has sustained and nurtured every generation of believers, directing their faith, hope, and love. It helps Christians read, pray, and live God's word. By giving Christians God's word to give back to him, it plants seeds of his word and cultivates them to full growth. The Collected Christian Essentials: Catechism brings the church's ancient catechism to a new generation. The twenty-four catechism prayers were written by the Right Reverend Joey Royal, Suffragan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Arctic.

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Lexham Press

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1683597559

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9781683597551

Merleau-Ponty and Theology

By: Christopher Ben Simpson

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Merleau-Ponty and Theology

By: Christopher Ben Simpson

The philosophical contributions of French phenomenologist, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, carry great untapped potential for theologians thinking through some of the central affirmations of the Christian faith. This exploration is structured against the background of the fundamental interrelation between three "bodies" in Merleau-Ponty's thought and in Christian theology: the material as such or "nature" (the corporeal), the human body as a living body (the corporal), and the social body (the corporate-including language and tradition). Merleau-Ponty's philosophy offers a finessed and non-reductionistic understanding of the relations between these orders of bodies. Appropriating Merleau-Ponty's thought helps one think through Christian doctrines of creation, theological anthropology, Christology, ecclesiology, and eschatology.

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A&C Black

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0567655474

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American Geographers, 1784-1812

A Bio-Bibliographical Guide

By: Ben A. Smith,James W. Vining

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American Geographers, 1784-1812

A Bio-Bibliographical Guide

By: Ben A. Smith,James W. Vining

The first major work to identify the original generation of American geographers—teachers, writers, surveyors, cartographers, engravers, and others—who made significant contributions to the field of geography during the early years of the republic. As such, it represents a powerful research tool for scholars interested in learning about this group and the products of their labors. A comprehensive and inclusive reference work, this book depicts the individuals who engaged in the establishment and description of the United States. It includes information on people who were involved in activities that led to a remarkable body of information, maps, and literature of a geographic nature about the country.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031305293X

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9780313052934

Modernism's Metronome

Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics

By: Ben Glaser

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Modernism's Metronome

Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics

By: Ben Glaser

In Modernism's Metronome, Ben Glaser revisits early twentieth-century poetics to uncover a wide range of metrical practice and theory, upending our inherited story about the "breakingof meter and rise of free verse.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421439514

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9781421439518

Five Plays of Ben Johnson

By: Ben Johnson

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Five Plays of Ben Johnson

By: Ben Johnson

Included in this volume are: "The Staple of News," "The Magnetic Lady," "A Tale of a Tub," "The Sad Shepherd," and "The Case Is Altered.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434467937

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9781434467935

Are We Nearly There Yet?

A Family's 8,000-Mile Car Journey Around Britain

By: Ben Hatch

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Are We Nearly There Yet?

A Family's 8,000-Mile Car Journey Around Britain

By: Ben Hatch

When Ben and Dinah saw the advert looking for a husband and wife team with young kids to write a guidebook about family travel around Britain, they jumped at the chance. They embark on a mad-cap five-month trip, embracing the freedom of the open road with a spirit of discovery and an industrial supply of baby wipes.

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Summersdale

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0857653091

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The Topeka School

A Novel

By: Ben Lerner

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The Topeka School

A Novel

By: Ben Lerner

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR A TIME, GQ, Vulture, and WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize Winner of the Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award ALSO NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Esquire, NPR, Vogue, Amazon, Kirkus, The Times (UK), Buzzfeed, Vanity Fair, The Telegraph (UK), Financial Times (UK), Lit Hub, The Times Literary Supplement (UK), The New York Post, Daily Mail (UK), The Atlantic, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian (UK), Electric Literature, SPY.com, and the New York Public Library From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the New Right Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of ’97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting “lost boys” to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids, ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting if it keeps his peers from thinking of him as weak. Adam is also one of the seniors who bring the loner Darren Eberheart—who is, unbeknownst to Adam, his father’s patient—into the social scene, to disastrous effect. Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is the story of a family, its struggles and its strengths: Jane’s reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father, Jonathan’s marital transgressions, the challenge of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a riveting prehistory of the present: the collapse of public speech, the trolls and tyrants of the New Right, and the ongoing crisis of identity among white men.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374721181

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9780374721183

Gaily, Gaily

By: Ben Hecht

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Gaily, Gaily

By: Ben Hecht

With the vigor and gusto invariably associated with his personality and his works, Ben Hecht recreates in this volume the lusty Chicago of the early twentieth century, as seen from its underside by a cub reporter on a great metropolitan daily. He introduces the reader to a vast cast of eccentric characters-bums, criminals, prostitutes, politicians, and poets, not to mention the police. He conducts you to the scenes of the crimes. He invites you to the courtroom and the murderer’s solitary cell and to the gallows. He lets you sit around with him in the city room of a great Chicago newspaper, where he collected considerable material for that newspaper classic, The Front Page, which he wrote in collaboration with Charles MacArthur. Some of these stories are bizarre. Most of them are bawdy. But they are all imbued with lusty vitality and with a kind of innocent wonder that life is really so much stranger than fiction. The author looks back on the whole era with the consistently-unchanged fresh eye of youth. He is less concerned with nostalgia than reporting the way it was.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789128366

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9781789128369

Theatre to Cinema

Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film

By: Ben Brewster,Lea Jacobs

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Theatre to Cinema

Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film

By: Ben Brewster,Lea Jacobs

On the relationship between early cinema and 19th century theatre.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198182678

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9780198182672

About Town

The New Yorker and the World it Made

By: Ben Yagoda

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About Town

The New Yorker and the World it Made

By: Ben Yagoda

Illuminated by interviews with more than fifty people, including the late Joseph Mitchell, William Steig, Roger Angell, Calvin Trillin, Pauline Kael, John Updike, and Ann Beattie, About Town penetrates the inner workings of the New Yorker as no other book has done."--BOOK JACKET.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684816059

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9780684816050

Susan Glaspell

Her Life and Times

By: Linda Ben-Zvi

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Susan Glaspell

Her Life and Times

By: Linda Ben-Zvi

The biography of Susan Glaspell traces the development of the first important American female playwright and illustrates the ways in which her fascinating, avant-garde life provided the model and materials for her groundbreaking dramas and fiction.

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Oxford University Press

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0195313232

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9780195313239

The Plantagenets

By: Ben Hubbard

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The Plantagenets

By: Ben Hubbard

Illustrated with more than 200 colour and black-and-white photographs, maps and artworks, The Plantagenets is an expertly-written account of a medieval dynasty who have long captured the popular imagination.

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Amber Books Ltd

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1782748113

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Brainwashed

How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth

By: Ben Shapiro

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Brainwashed

How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth

By: Ben Shapiro

Brainwashed is the explosive exposé of the leftist agenda at work in today's colleges, revealed by firebrand Ben Shapiro—syndicated columnist, podcaster, radio show host, and one of today's most exciting conservative voices—who’s been on the front lines of the battle for America's young minds. This book proves once and for all that so-called higher education continues to sink lower and lower into the depths of liberal madness as close-minded professors turn their students into socialists, atheists, race-baiters, and sex-crazed narcissists. In this book, author Ben Shapiro asks three critical questions: Why are universities so biased? Why do students take their professors at face value? What can we do to stop it? In addition to outlining practical solutions as part of a multi-pronged strategy to deal with this problem, Brainwashed encourages students to consider the motives of their professors; pay attention to how professors use facts and editorialize during lectures; and ask questions, encourage debate, and think before buying into a professor’s mindset. Praise for Brainwashed: "Ben Shapiro's writing is smart, informative, and incisive. He is wise beyond his years without losing the refreshing fearlessness of youth." Ann Coulter, bestselling author of High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Slander, and Treason "In Brainwashed, Shapiro tells the truth—that universities are forums of left-liberal indoctrination, where dissent is discouraged and penalized, with more restrictions on free speech rather any other part of American society. Parents who are paying for tuition might want to take note, and see what their hard-earned money is paying for." Michael Barone, U.S. News & World Report and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics "Welcome to P.C. 101. In this trenchant insider's expose, Ben Shapiro bears witness to the modern American campus freak show. You'll get up close and personal with the Marxist loons, moral relativists, multicultural zealots, and American-haters who are corrupting young minds. Brainwashed reveals the ignominious lows to which higher education has sunk. Get deprogrammed. Buy this book!" Michelle Malkin, nationally syndicated columnist and author of Invasion "Sharp thinking, tight writing, crazy-but-true stories: Ben Shapiro sees campus brainwashing and raises a national protest. This is a good book to give both freshmen who need warning and voters/alumni who need to take action." Dr. Marvin Olasky, University of Texas professor and editor-in-chief of World magazine "A worthy successor to God and Man at Yale and Harvard Hates America in exploring the belly of the academic beast." David Horowitz, founder of Students for Academic Freedom and author of Radical Son and Left Illusions "What Animal House did for the toga party, Brainwashed should do for American resistance to campus radicalism." Rusty Humphries, nationally syndicated radio talk show host

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HarperChristian + ORM

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1418508349

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9781418508340

Walking with Shadows

Super Scripts

By: Ben Myers

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Walking with Shadows

Super Scripts

By: Ben Myers

Ben Myers play "Walking with Shadows" is one of several plays he wrote whilst at the renowned Watermill Theatre in Newbury, Berkshire. His work has appeared on the WJEC GCSE drama curriculum in the UK, and been widely studied in schools for several years. He has worked as a creative education consultant for National Drama and the Arts Council, delivering workshops to Drama and English teachers. He is also a published childrens author, pioneering creative practice in primary education for the involvement of children in the creation of a novel, discussing this on Radio 4. He moved from theatre to film in 2005 when he adapted "Walking with Shadows" into a feature length film starring Leslie Phillips, assuming the roles of Director and Executive Producer. He was a guest lecturer and Artist in Residence at the Midnite International Dramatic Arts Festival in Perth, Western Australia, and has regularly appeared in the media discussing his various creative and educational projects. He is an award winning independent filmmaker as writer/director of "Nuryan", which won the best horror/sci fi category at the London Independent Film festival (LIFF)

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Nelson Thornes

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074876514X

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9780748765140

Bringing Down the Mouse

By: Ben Mezrich

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Bringing Down the Mouse

By: Ben Mezrich

Charlie Lewis goes on a roller coaster ride of risk, math, and gaming in this middle grade novel that parallels the New York Times bestselling Bringing Down the House, which inspired the movie 21. Charlie Lewis is a nerd. All he’s ever been good at is math—and he’s really good at math. So good that he’s recruited by a group of kids determined to game the system at the biggest theme park in the world—and win the grand prize. Soon Charlie is caught up in the excitement and thrill of using his math skills for awesomeness…but what’s at stake may be more than he’s willing to risk. How far will Charlie go for a chance at the ultimate reward?

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Simon and Schuster

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1442496320

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9781442496323

No Worse Enemy

The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan

By: Ben Anderson

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No Worse Enemy

The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan

By: Ben Anderson

The war in Afghanistan is over ten years old. It has cost countless lives and hundreds of billions of pounds. Politicians talk of progress, but the violence is worse than ever. In this powerful and shocking exposé from the front lines in Helmand province, leading journalist and documentary-maker Ben Anderson (HBO, Panorama, and Dispatches) shows just how bad it has got. Detailing battles that last for days, only to be fought again weeks later, Anderson witnesses IED explosions and sniper fire, amid disturbing incompetence and corruption among the Afghan army and police. Also revealing the daily struggle to win over the long-suffering local population, who often express open support for the Taliban, No Worse Enemy is a heartbreaking insight into the chaos at the heart of the region. Raising urgent questions about our supposed achievements and the politicians' desire for a hasty exit, Anderson highlights the vast gulf that exists between what we are told and what is actually happening on the ground. A product of five years' unrivalled access to UK forces and US Marines, this is the most intimate and horrifying account of the Afghan war ever published.

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Oneworld Publications

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1851688528

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9781851688524

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