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Lauren Conrad Style

By: Lauren Conrad

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Lauren Conrad Style

By: Lauren Conrad

Lauren was the star of the MTV show The Hills. Her first novel, L.A. Candy, was a #1 New York Times bestseller.

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0061989142

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Lauren Conrad Celebrate

By: Lauren Conrad

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From lifestyle and fashion icon Lauren Conrad—#1 New York Times bestselling author of Lauren Conrad Style and Lauren Conrad Beauty—comes her dazzling and essential guide to entertaining, filled with an inspiring array of lifestyle tips and personal stories and lavishly illustrated with dozens of color photographs throughout. Now that Lauren Conrad has gotten everyone all dressed up and looking their most beautiful, she gives them somewhere to go in this must-have guide to entertaining. Showcasing the same approachable attitude and insight that have made her books smash bestsellers, Lauren Conrad Celebrate shows how easy it is to throw a fantastic party. Filled with lush and inspiring original four-color photos and budget friendly tips, Lauren Conrad Celebrate offers advice about the basics to make planning any type of event a breeze, including suggestions for the perfect invitations, food, drinks, decorations, and gifts. Lauren shows how to put it all together for a diverse range of events that span the calendar, from a charming Baby shower to a festive holiday party. And she packs the book with creative full-color photos and stories from her own life, including her housewarming party, and her recent bridal shower and wedding. Just as her trusted advice has inspired women to look and feel their best, now Lauren Conrad brings out the fabulous party-giver in all of us in this elegant, must-have guide.

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HarperCollins

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0062438336

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9780062438331

Lauren Conrad Beauty

By: Lauren Conrad,Elise Loehnen

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Lauren Conrad Beauty

By: Lauren Conrad,Elise Loehnen

From lifestyle and fashion icon Lauren Conrad—#1 New York Times bestselling author of Lauren Conrad Celebrate and Lauren Conrad Style—comes a must-read guide how to feel and look your best. Filled with everything from tips on finding the right skin care regime to how to perfect Lauren’s signature winged liner, Lauren Conrad Beauty is the book for all of Lauren’s many fans and for any girl or woman looking for pointers from one of Hollywood’s most relatable yet glamorous stars. And with dozens of photographs of Lauren and other models, it has never been easier to re-create her look at home. Whether she's in front of the camera or behind the scenes, style icon Lauren Conrad has spent years learning from the pros and perfecting her look, and now she's sharing all her beauty secrets. In her first guide dedicated exclusively to beauty, Lauren covers everything you need to know to maximize your own beauty potential. From tips for creating a strong foundation and maintaining healthy skin and hair through diet, exercise, and all-around wellness to everyday makeup techniques and tricks of the trade for special-occasion looks, Lauren Conrad Beauty provides the advice you've been waiting for. Lauren's personal anecdotes and illustrated step-by-step lessons for makeup, hair, and nails will have you looking great day or night.

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0062128345

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9780062128348

Infamous

By: Lauren Conrad

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Infamous

By: Lauren Conrad

Lauren Conrad, star of the hit MTV reality series The Hills, brings her insider knowledge to Infamous, the exciting finale to her New York Times bestselling Fame Game series. Kate and Carmen are about to become big stars, but they're going to have to survive some backstage drama first. And Madison is learning hard lessons about fame as she deals with backstabbing "friends" and family, out-of-control paparazzi, and a scandal reported in every tabloid. For anyone who has ever wondered what it is like to make it in Hollywood, Infamous is full of dishy details about young Hollywood and the realities of becoming famous—by the bestselling author of the L.A. Candy series, Lauren Conrad Style, and Lauren Conrad Beauty.

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0062079859

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9780062079855

Starstruck

By: Lauren Conrad

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Starstruck

By: Lauren Conrad

Lauren Conrad, star of the hit MTV reality series The Hills, brings her insider knowledge to Starstruck, the second book in the Fame Game series. In Starstruck, Madison isn’t getting much screen time on The Fame Game, the reality TV show following three girls trying to become stars in L.A. She’s too busy doing community service after stealing a necklace. Kate, on the other hand, is getting huge amounts of publicity now that one of her songs has become an overnight sensation—and it’s going to her head. And aspiring actress Carmen, the daughter of Hollywood royalty, is finally making a name for herself. The juicy story from bestselling author Lauren Conrad explores friendship, family, romance, ambition, and fame.

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0062079816

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9780062079817

Sugar and Spice

By: Lauren Conrad

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Sugar and Spice

By: Lauren Conrad

Sugar and Spice...not everyone's nice. In the deliciously entertaining conclusion to the L.A. Candy series, New York Times bestselling author and star of the hit TV show The Hills Lauren Conrad pulls back the curtain on young Hollywood and shows that sometimes the real drama is behind the scenes. Fresh from being betrayed by one of her closest friends, new reality-TV celebrity Jane Roberts has learned a few lessons. Most important: know who to trust. And in Hollywood, that list is short. Although the press is intent on creating a tabloid war between her and ex-friend, current-costar Madison Parker, Jane just wants to take control of her life. She’s started by swearing off guys and the drama that comes with them. But when her high school sweetheart Caleb and her unrequited L.A. crush Braden show up, both acting sweeter than ever, Jane has a hard timeremembering her no-boys rule.... Her best friend, Scarlett, has only one guy on her mind: her new boyfriend, Liam. The girl who once thought love was a four-letter word is now head over heels. The problem is, being on a hit reality show means hanging out with other guys on-camera, and Liam isn’t too happy with pretending to play a bit part in her love life. Just when everything feels out of control, Jane makes a shocking discovery—one that changes everyone’s definition of “reality” forever.

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0062012754

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9780062012753

Infamous

By: Lauren Conrad

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Infamous

By: Lauren Conrad

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0062209655

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9780062209658

Sweet Little Lies: An L.A. Candy Novel

By: Lauren Conrad

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Sweet Little Lies: An L.A. Candy Novel

By: Lauren Conrad

Jane Roberts was the average girl next door until she and her best friend, Scarlett Harp, landed their own hit reality show, L.A. Candy. But life on camera is getting complicated. . . . When racy photos of Jane are leaked to the press, she becomes the center of a tabloid scandal. She turns to costar Madison Parker for help, but does Madison really have Jane's back? Scarlett's got a scandal of her own. She's fallen for a guy who's strictly off-limits—which means Scarlett has a big secret to keep. But nothing stays secret for long in Hollywood. In television star Lauren Conrad's dishy, entertaining novel about young Hollywood, the lies are only as sweet as the people telling them.

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0061767611

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9780061767616

L.A. Candy

By: Lauren Conrad

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L.A. Candy

By: Lauren Conrad

L.A. Candy is a deliciously entertaining novel about what it's like to come of age in Hollywood while starring in a reality TV show, written by a young woman who has experienced it all firsthand: Lauren Conrad. Fashion designer and TV personality Lauren Conrad brings her insider knowledge of the highs and lows of life in the spotlight to this juicy New York Times bestselling series. Los Angeles is all about the sweet life: hot clubs, cute guys, designer...everything. Nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts can't wait to start living it up. She may be in L.A. for an internship, but Jane plans to play as hard as she works, and has enlisted her BFF Scarlett to join in the fun. When Jane and Scarlett are approached by a producer who wants them to be on his new series, a "reality version of Sex and the City," they can hardly believe their luck. Their own show? Yes, please! Soon Jane is TV's hottest star. Fame brings more than she ever imagined possible for a girl from Santa Barbara—free designer clothes, the choicest tables at the most exclusive clubs, invites to Hollywood premieres—and she's lapping up the VIP treatment with her eclectic entourage of new pals. But those same friends who are always up for a wild night are also out for a piece of Jane's spotlight. In a city filled with people chasing after their dreams, it's not long before Jane wakes up to the reality that everyone wants something from her, and nothing is what it seems to be.

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0061919152

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9780061919152

The Fame Game

By: Lauren Conrad

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The Fame Game

By: Lauren Conrad

In Hollywood, fame can be found on every corner and behind any door. You just have to know where to look for it. Nineteen-year-old Madison Parker made a name for herself as best frenemy of nice-girl-next-door Jane Roberts on the hot reality show L.A. Candy. Now Madison's ready for her turn in the spotlight and she'll stop at nothing to get it. Sure, she's the star of a new show, but with backstabbing friends and suspicious family members trying to bring her down, Madison has her work cut out for her. Plus, there's a new nice girl in "reality" town—aspiring actress Carmen Price, the daughter of Hollywood royalty—and she's a lot more experienced at playing the fame game... When the camera's start rolling, whose star will shine brighter? Filled with characters both familiar and new, Lauren Conrad's series about the highs and lows of being famous delivers Hollywood gossip and drama at every turn.

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0062079867

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9780062079862

L.A. Candy Complete Collection

L.A. Candy, Sweet Little Lies, Sugar and Spice

By: Lauren Conrad

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L.A. Candy Complete Collection

L.A. Candy, Sweet Little Lies, Sugar and Spice

By: Lauren Conrad

The L.A. Candy trilogy is a fast-paced, fun, and realistic depiction of coming of age in Hollywood while starring in a reality TV show—written by a star who's experienced it all firsthand: Lauren Conrad, of MTV's #1 show The Hills. This #1 New York Times bestselling series provides a scandalous peek into the life of new reality celebrity Jane Roberts while dishing Hollywood gossip and drama at every turn. Includes: L.A. Candy Sweet Little Lies: An L.A. Candy Novel Sugar and Spice: An L.A. Candy Novel

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0062376276

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9780062376275

Sugar and Spice (LA Candy, Book 2)

By: Lauren Conrad

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Sugar and Spice (LA Candy, Book 2)

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In TV star Lauren Conrad's delicious, entertaining novel about young Hollywood, the lies are only as sweet as the people telling them.

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0007412363

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9780007412365

L.A. Candy - L.A. Candy

By: Lauren Conrad

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L.A. Candy - L.A. Candy

By: Lauren Conrad

Estrela do programa The Hills, um dos mais populares da MTV, e ex-participante do reality show Laguna Beach, Lauren Conrad mergulha na ficção baseada em seu sucesso na mídia. Em L.A. CANDY, que ocupou por semanas o primeiro lugar na lista de mais vendidos do New York Times, a autora flerta com a sua própria realidade ao narrar a história da personagem Jane. O romance é o primeiro da trilogia homônima, que já vendeu mais de 1,5 milhão de exemplares em todo o mundo. Recém-saída da escola, Jane Roberts mal pode esperar para aproveitar tudo o que Hollywood tem a oferecer. Ela pode ter ido a Los Angeles para um estágio, mas também pretende se divertir — e sua melhor amiga, Scarlett, não pode ficar de fora. Quando um produtor de TV aborda as duas para gravar um reality show sobre quatro jovens que tentam ganhar a vida na cidade – uma "versão real de Sex and the City" – elas desconfiam da própria sorte. Afinal, um programa de TV só para elas? Com certeza!

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Editora Record

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8501097691

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9788501097699

Sweet Little Lies

An L.A. Candy Novel

By: Lauren Conrad

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Sweet Little Lies

An L.A. Candy Novel

By: Lauren Conrad

Now a reality show celebrity, nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts learns that not all of her new friends are trustworthy.

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0061985724

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9780061985720

Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London

Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician

By: Lauren Kassell

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Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London

Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician

By: Lauren Kassell

Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. He stood apart from the medical elite because he was not formally educated and because he represented, and boldly asserted, medical ideas that were antithetical to those held by most learned physicians. He survived the plague, was consulted thousands of times a year for medical and other questions, distilled strong waters made from beer, herbs, and sometimes chemical ingredients, pursued the philosopher's stonein experiments and ancient texts, and when he was fortunate spoke with angels. He wrote compulsively, documenting his life and protesting his expertise in thousands of pages of notes and treatises. This highly readable book provides the first full account of Forman's papers, makes sense of hisnotorious reputation, and vividly recovers the world of medicine and magic in Elizabethan London.

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Oxford University Press

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0199215278

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9780199215270

303 Paradise Lane

By: Lauren Stone

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303 Paradise Lane

By: Lauren Stone

Lauren Stone recreates the classic ghost story. In the tradition of "A Christmas Carol" Ms. Stone fashions a tale of ambitious greed and personal isolation that lead Gerri Knapp down a path to self destruction. Suicide is one solution, the easy way out. But a visit to a distant place in time changes her direction. Who is Leah? A remnant of a dream? A ghost of yesterday? Or an angel sent to save Gerri from the demons that threaten her to destroy her? To all that have dreamed and seen the light and to all that have wished that their dreams could come true, Paradise Lane is guide post. Fortunes may come and go, but the future can be as miraculous you dare to dream.

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0595137628

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A History of Modern Germany

1800 to the Present

By: Martin Kitchen,Lauren Faulkner Rossi

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A History of Modern Germany

1800 to the Present

By: Martin Kitchen,Lauren Faulkner Rossi

A HISTORY OF MODERN GERMANY A History of Modern Germany provides a comprehensive account of the social, political, and economic history of Germany from 1800 to the present. Written in an engaging and accessible narrative style, this popular textbook offers an expansive view of the nation’s complex and fragmented past, tracing the development of the German national consciousness through Napoleonic rule, the unification of Germany, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, post-war division, the collapse of Communism, reunification, and the first two decades of the 21st century. Throughout the text, the authors discuss the tensions prompted by structural changes within Germany, long-term shifts in demographics, social and economic reforms, and more. Now in its third edition, A History of Modern Germany offers richer coverage of German cultural history, the German Democratic Republic, modernization, class, religion, and gender. Updated chapters explore continuity in imperial projects from Bismarck to Hitler, memory and commemoration since 1945, the distinct but intertwined histories of the two Germanys between 1949 and 1989, and the experience of diversity after the Second World into the post-unification era. A History of Modern Germany: 1800 to the Present, Third Edition is an excellent textbook for undergraduate students taking courses in modern German history or modern European history as well as general readers with an interest in the subject.

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1119746418

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9781119746416

Law and Colonial Cultures

Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900

By: Lauren Benton

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Law and Colonial Cultures

Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900

By: Lauren Benton

Argues that institutions and culture serve as important elements of international legal order.

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Cambridge University Press

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052100926X

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Analyzing Christmas in Film

Santa to the Supernatural

By: Lauren Rosewarne

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Analyzing Christmas in Film

Santa to the Supernatural

By: Lauren Rosewarne

Film plays a vital role in the celebration of Christmas. For decades, it has taught audiences about what the celebration of the season looks like – from the decorations to the costumes and to the expected snowy weather – as well as mirrors our own festivities back to us. Films like It’s a Wonderful Life and Home Alone have come to play key roles in real-life domestic celebrations: watching such titles has become, for many families, every bit as important as tree-trimming and leaving cookies out for Santa. These films have exported the American take on the holiday far and wide and helped us conjure an image of the perfect holiday. Rather than settling the ‘what is a Christmas film?’ debate – indeed, Die Hard and Lethal Weapon are discussed within – Analyzing Christmas in Film: Santa to the Supernatural focuses on the how Christmas is presented on the deluge of occasions when it appears. While most Christmas films are secular, religion makes many cameos, appearing through Nativity references, storylines involving spiritual rebirth, the framing of Santa as a Christ-like figure and the all-importance of family, be it the Holy family or just those gathered around the dining table. Also explored are popular narratives involving battles with stress and melancholy, single parents and Christmas martyrs, visits from ghosts and angels, big cities and small towns, break-ups and make-ups and the ticking clock of mortality. Nearly 1000 films are analyzed in this volume to determine what the portrayal of Christmas reveals about culture, society and faith as well as sex roles, consumerism, aesthetics and aspiration.

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Lexington Books

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1498541828

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9781498541824

Weehawken

By: Lauren Sherman,Ellen Robb Gaulkin

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Weehawken

By: Lauren Sherman,Ellen Robb Gaulkin

Although less than one square mile in area, Weehawkens rich history extends more than 400 years to when Dutch explorers first dropped anchor in Weehawken Cove. The town commands a unique location overlooking the Hudson River, with sweeping views of New York City. Its story begins with Weehawkens early bucolic estates, the idyllic attractions of the magnificent Palisades, and its notorious hidden dueling grounds, where Alexander Hamilton met his end at the hands of Aaron Burr in 1804. By the mid-19th century, a shift toward urban industrial development changed the landscape, as evidenced by the iconic 1883 Weehawken water tower and the sprawling, long-gone 1890s Eldorado Amusement Park that brought throngs of visitors via the largest passenger elevator in the world at that time. The construction of the Lincoln Tunnel as well as the developments of the towns neighborhoods, commerce, and government all helped to shape Weehawkens past and future.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738562688

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Mikhail

A Royal Dragon Romance

By: Lauren Smith

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Mikhail

A Royal Dragon Romance

By: Lauren Smith

He’s a dangerous jewel thief... she’s the gem expert standing in his way... Mikhail Barinov knew he F’d up, five hundred years ago. His ‘one job’ as part of a Russian family of imperial dragon shifters? To protect the family hoard of jewels. But a dazzling virgin—who just happened to be the Elizabeth I, the Queen of England—tricked Mikhail and stole the jewels. But now he has a chance at redemption. The jewels have been found five centuries later. The only problem is they’ve been turned over to gemologist, Piper Linwood. She’s sexy, smart, ripe for seduction—but if centuries of exile taught him one thing, it’s never trust a beautiful woman. Piper Linwood can’t wait to get her hands on her latest project. But hot damn she never expected how badly she’d want to get her hands on the dark, brooding man she sees at the museum. Of course she didn’t know he was a jewel thief. Or a dragon shifter. But all that becomes abundantly clear when he takes the jewels and her, then flies (yes, flies) to his ancestral castle. While all the alpha-male stuff is what fairy tales are made of—and frankly sexy-as-hell—the fact Piper disappeared with Mikhail has her labeled as his partner in crime. Now she must choose. Will she betray him to save her career? Or will she stay and become the dragon’s greatest treasure? Twilight meets Games of Thrones in this hot new dragon shifter romance by USA Today Bestselling author Lauren Smith! Scroll up and one-click your copy today!

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Lauren Smith

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1947206206

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The Political Economy of Sustainable Development

Policy Instruments and Market Mechanisms

By: Timothy Cadman,Lauren Eastwood,Federico Lopez-Casero Michaelis,Tek Narayan Maraseni,,Jamie Pittock,Tapan Sarker

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The Political Economy of Sustainable Development

Policy Instruments and Market Mechanisms

By: Timothy Cadman,Lauren Eastwood,Federico Lopez-Casero Michaelis,Tek Narayan Maraseni,,Jamie Pittock,Tapan Sarker

Since the Rio ‘Earth’ Summit of 1992, sustainable development has become the major policy response to tackling global environmental degradation, from climate change to loss of biodiversity and deforestation. Market instruments such as emissions trading, payments for ecosystem services and timber certification have become the main mechanisms for financing the sustainable management of the earth’s natural resources. Yet how effective are they – and do they help the planet and developing countries, or merely uphold the economic status quo? This book investigates these important questions. Providing a comprehensive analysis and the latest research on sustainable development, the authors compare the divergent approaches to emissions trading. Included is a detailed investigation into illegal logging and the effectiveness of policy responses, with an evaluation of different forest certification schemes. Biodiversity offsets and environmental payments are also explored. Integral to the book are interviews and opinions of the key stakeholders in the political economy of sustainable development. This uniquely comprehensive analysis of the governance quality of different sustainable development mechanisms, unprecedented in its panorama of comparative case studies, is essential reading for all those in the policy, academic and non-governmental communities.

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178347484X

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Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

By: Lauren Gillingham

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Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

By: Lauren Gillingham

Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009296566

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Ashton Hall

A Novel

By: Lauren Belfer

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Ashton Hall

A Novel

By: Lauren Belfer

An American woman and her son unearth the buried secrets and past lives of an English manor house in this masterful and riveting novel from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Belfer. “Infused with the brooding, gothic atmosphere of Jane Eyre or Rebecca . . . a novel that must be savored, one page at a time.”—Melanie Benjamin, author of The Children’s Blizzard ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times “How many lives can you imagine yourself living?” So Hannah Larson wonders. When a close relative falls ill, Hannah and her young son, Nicky, decide to join him for the summer at Ashton Hall, a historic manor house outside Cambridge, England. Hannah gave up her academic career to raise her beloved child, who is neurodivergent and experiences the world differently from others, and she’s grateful to escape her life in New York City, where her marriage has been upended by a devastating betrayal. Soon after their arrival, ever-curious Nicky discovers the skeletal remains of a woman in a forgotten, walled-off wing of the manor, and Hannah is pulled into an all-consuming quest for answers. Working from clues in centuries-old ledgers and the personal papers of the long-departed family, Hannah begins to re-create the Ashton Hall of the Elizabethan era in all its color and conflict. As the secrets of her own life begin to unravel, and the rewards and complications of being Nicky’s mother come into focus, Hannah realizes that Ashton Hall’s women before her had lives not so different from her own. She confronts what women throughout history have had to do to control their own destinies and protect their children. Rich with passion, strength, and ferocity across the ages, Ashton Hall is a novel that reveals how the most profound hauntings are within ourselves.

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Ballantine Books

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0593359518

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Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater

Stage Spectacle and Audience Response

By: Lauren Robertson

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Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater

Stage Spectacle and Audience Response

By: Lauren Robertson

Lauren Robertson shows how the commercial theater transformed early modernity's crisis of uncertainty into spectacular onstage display.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009225154

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9781009225151

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By: Shannon Messenger,Suzanne Young,Jodi Picoult,Samantha van Leer,Lauren Barnholdt,Jessi Kirby,Jenny Han,Cassandra Clare,Kresley Cole

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Get a taste of the books you can read for FREE on Pulseit.com, including: Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices series, Kresley Cole’s Poison Princess, Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer’s Between the Lines, Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty, and more!

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Simon and Schuster

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148140427X

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Suburban Empire

Cold War Militarization in the US Pacific

By: Lauren Hirshberg

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Suburban Empire

Cold War Militarization in the US Pacific

By: Lauren Hirshberg

Suburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world. Hirshberg shows that the displacement of indigenous Marshallese within Kwajalein Atoll mirrors the segregation and spatial politics of the mainland US as local and global iterations of US empire took hold. Tracing how Marshall Islanders navigated US military control over their lands, Suburban Empire reveals that Cold War–era suburbanization was perfectly congruent with US colonization, military testing, and nuclear fallout. The structures of suburban segregation cloaked the destructive history of control and militarism under a veil of small-town innocence.

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0520963857

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Canada before Confederation: Maps at the Exhibition

By: Chet Van Duzer,Lauren Beck

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Canada before Confederation: Maps at the Exhibition

By: Chet Van Duzer,Lauren Beck

Each of the maps featured in this book was showcased in the exhibition “Canada before Confederation: Early Exploration and Mapping,” which took place in several locations, both in Canada and abroad, in Fall of 2017. The authors provide a scholarly study highlighting the importance and unique features of each of these jewels of cartographic history, with particular attention paid to how they demonstrate the development of Canadian identity at the same time that they reveal Indigenous knowledge of the lands now known as Canada.

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1622733460

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Just a Whisper Away

By: Lauren Nichols

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Just a Whisper Away

By: Lauren Nichols

A last-minute murder confession threw lawyer Abbie Winslow's world into a tailspin since she'd believed her client innocent. Having discovered his guilt, she tried to keep him in prison. But when her plan didn't work, her crazed client went free...and vowed to punish her for her betrayal. While in hiding, Abbie rekindled her passion for Jace Rogan, her first love and a man who deserved a woman without secrets. Though years had passed, their attraction still sizzled. And yet, just as Abbie felt safe in their budding relationship, her greatest fear came true — a murderer had tracked her down. She'd finally found true love...but would she stay alive to enjoy it?

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1426863136

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De Kooning

A Retrospective

By: Willem De Kooning,John Elderfield,Lauren Mahony,Jennifer Field,Delphine Huisinga,Susan Lake

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De Kooning

A Retrospective

By: Willem De Kooning,John Elderfield,Lauren Mahony,Jennifer Field,Delphine Huisinga,Susan Lake

This publication offers an unparalleled opportunity to appreciate the development of the artist's work as it unfolded over nearly seven decades, beginning with his early academic works, made in Holland before he moved to the United States in 1926, and concluding with his final, sparely abstract paintings of the late 1980s.

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The Museum of Modern Art

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0870707973

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Inside Private Prisons

An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration

By: Lauren-Brooke Eisen

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Inside Private Prisons

An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration

By: Lauren-Brooke Eisen

When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. Today more than a hundred thousand of the 1.5 million incarcerated Americans are held in private prisons in twenty-nine states and federal corrections. Private prisons are criticized for making money off mass incarceration—to the tune of $5 billion in annual revenue. Based on Lauren-Brooke Eisen’s work as a prosecutor, journalist, and attorney at policy think tanks, Inside Private Prisons blends investigative reportage and quantitative and historical research to analyze privatized corrections in America. From divestment campaigns to boardrooms to private immigration-detention centers across the Southwest, Eisen examines private prisons through the eyes of inmates, their families, correctional staff, policymakers, activists, Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees, undocumented immigrants, and the executives of America’s largest private prison corporations. Private prisons have become ground zero in the anti-mass-incarceration movement. Universities have divested from these companies, political candidates hesitate to accept their campaign donations, and the Department of Justice tried to phase out its contracts with them. On the other side, impoverished rural towns often try to lure the for-profit prison industry to build facilities and create new jobs. Neither an endorsement or a demonization, Inside Private Prisons details the complicated and perverse incentives rooted in the industry, from mandatory bed occupancy to vested interests in mass incarceration. If private prisons are here to stay, how can we fix them? This book is a blueprint for policymakers to reform practices and for concerned citizens to understand our changing carceral landscape.

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Columbia University Press

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0231542313

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Sweet Little Lies

By: Lauren Conrad

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Sweet Little Lies

By: Lauren Conrad

After hitting the #1 spot on the New York Times list with her first novel, L.A. Candy, TV star Lauren Conrad continues the deliciously entertaining series about an ordinary girl leading an extraordinary life. Full of dishy details about young Hollywood that only an insider can reveal, this entertaining novel shows that lies are only as sweet as the people telling them. Jane Roberts was the average girl next door until she and her best friend, Scarlett Harp, landed their own reality show, L.A. Candy. Now the girls have an all-access pass to Hollywood's hottest everything. But there's more to life on camera than just parties and shopping.... When racy photos of Jane are leaked to the press, she finds herself at the center of a tabloid scandal. She turns to her co-star Madison Parker for help, unaware that Madison is scheming behind the scenes. She might be Jane's shoulder to cry on, but does Madison really have Jane's back? Scarlett's working on a scandal of her own. She's fallen for someone who's strictly off-limits—which means Scarlett has a big secret to keep...from the L.A. Candy cameras, the paparazzi staking out her apartment, even from her best friend. Of course, nothing stays secret for long for the stars of the newest hit TV series, and all this drama couldn't be better for ratings. But can Jane survive another season in the spotlight?

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0061968552

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L.A. Candy

By: Lauren Conrad

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L.A. Candy

By: Lauren Conrad

In L.A. CANDY, nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts moves to L.A. and unexpectedly becomes the star of a reality T.V. show. With fame comes wealth, hot clothes and even hotter love interests -- and Jane′s lapping it all up with her eclectic entourage of pals who are always up for a wild night out and the chance to get a piece of her spotlight. But soon Jane realizes everyone wants something from her, and nothing is what it seems to be. L.A. CANDY is a fast-paced, honest and entertaining fictional account of what it′s like to come of age in Hollywood while starring in a reality TV show, written by a girl who has experienced it all firsthand: Lauren Conrad. Ages 14 years+

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0061767581

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Congregational Revival for America's Heartland

By: Lauren R. Ley

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Congregational Revival for America's Heartland

By: Lauren R. Ley

This manual provides lenses- geography, religion, politics, culture, economics, history, ethnicity- to better understand the complexity and depth of congregations as social institutions and as the body of Christ within a multi-layered context of life.

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Lulu.com

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1300330740

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Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund of Detroit

100 Years

By: Lauren McGregor,John Minnis,Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund

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Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund of Detroit

100 Years

By: Lauren McGregor,John Minnis,Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund

It started with a cartoonForgotten, by Tom Mayin which a poor child, too young and innocent to understand why she had not received a Christmas present from Santa, weeps over an empty stocking. It ran on Christmas Day in 1908 in the Detroit Journal, where it caught the attention of key Detroit businessmen. Deeply moved, they entered into a solemn pact to do all within their power to prevent any Detroit child from being forgotten. In 1914, under the leadership of James J. Brady, himself a former newsboy, the Old Newsboys Goodfellow Fund of Detroit was formed. This year, the fund celebrates 100 years of making sure there is no kiddie without a Christmas. One such fortunate kiddie was retired Detroit News columnist Pete Waldmeir, a longtime Goodfellow who generously agreed to write the introduction to this book, Old Newsboys Goodfellow Fund of Detroit: 100 Years.

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1439647046

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Inflamed

Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country's Deadliest Firestorm

By: Anne E. Belden,Paul Gullixson

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Inflamed

Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country's Deadliest Firestorm

By: Anne E. Belden,Paul Gullixson

The dramatic story of hundreds of senior citizens left in the path of a ferocious firestorm and what the quest for accountability reveals about the increasing risks to our most vulnerable population. “…a powerful work of investigative journalism about a particularly vulnerable segment of the population…. Alongside an engrossing account of the emergency as it unfolded in Sonoma County, Belden and Gullixson provide a definitive account of management’s woefully inadequate response at the two sister facilities. Their findings are a lesson to other care facilities —here’s what not to do.” —San Francisco Chronicle Just after midnight on October 9, 2017, as one of the nation’s deadliest and most destructive firestorms swept over California’s Wine Country, hundreds of elderly residents from two posh senior living facilities were caught in its path. The frailest were blind, in wheelchairs, or diagnosed with dementia, and their community quickly transformed from a palatial complex that pledged to care for them to one that threatened to entomb them. The rescue of the final 105 seniors left behind on an inflamed hillside depended not on employees, but strangers whose lives intersected in a riveting tale of terror and heroism. Headlines blamed caregivers for abandonment and neglect, but the truth proved far more complex—leading to a battle for accountability that stretched from the courtroom to the state legislature, and ultimately, to the ballot box. Inflamed: Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country’s Deadliest Firestorm is the gripping and emotional narrative detailing what happened to these seniors, employees, and rescuers before, during, and after the Tubbs Fire decimated portions of Santa Rosa, including Oakmont Senior Living Villa Capri and part of Varenna at Fountaingrove. Anne Belden and Paul Gullixson are professional journalists and Sonoma County residents who spent three years recording each phase of the disaster in agonizing detail—from the botched evacuation and its excruciating aftermath to the investigations, lawsuits, and breakdowns that followed. They tell this harrowing story with a veracity and compassion only achieved by experienced reporters with local roots. Their narrative revisits the horrors of 2017 but also asks the reader to look to the future and consider how their community’s most vulnerable will fare as ten thousand Baby Boomers retire each day, the for-profit assisted living industry rapidly expands, and the climate becomes more volatile. If this travesty can happen at high-end senior living complexes, it can happen anywhere.

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Simon and Schuster

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1642939374

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A Search for Sovereignty

Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900

By: Lauren Benton

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A Search for Sovereignty

Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900

By: Lauren Benton

A Search for Sovereignty approaches world history by examining the relation of law and geography in European empires between 1400 and 1900. Lauren Benton argues that Europeans imagined imperial space as networks of corridors and enclaves, and that they constructed sovereignty in ways that merged ideas about geography and law. Conflicts over treason, piracy, convict transportation, martial law, and crime created irregular spaces of law, while also attaching legal meanings to familiar geographic categories such as rivers, oceans, islands, and mountains. The resulting legal and spatial anomalies influenced debates about imperial constitutions and international law both in the colonies and at home. This study changes our understanding of empire and its legacies and opens new perspectives on the global history of law.

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