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All persons should be defined by their character alone. America has completely disregarded the Bible and the God-given laws it holds. We no longer do what is right in God's eyes. Rather, we do what is right in our own. This leads us to judging others before we judge ourselves. We should be ashamed when men posing as presidential candidates act like school boys at a dung-tossing contest. We act like this because we think we are greater and more important...
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Inspired to serve his country after watching the World Trade Center collapse, Dexter is critically wounded by a roadside bomb blast at the hands of insurgents in Abu Ghraib, Iraq. His physical wounds push him to his limits as he recovers, but his mental and emotional wounds from the battlefield prove to be just as tough to overcome. A failed first marriage, medically retired from the army at 22, stripped of his identity as a soldier, and thrust back...
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My Name Is Joe And I Am A Pizza Man, An American Story is the quintessential immigrant story, an entrepreneur's tale of rags to riches, demonstrating that with courage, intelligence and instinct the Great American Dream can still come true!
My Name Is Joe follows Farruggio from his childhood in Sicily to the kitchen of his world-renowned Il Canale restaurant in Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown.
Pizza is the most popular food in the world and...
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The author of this book is no one special. However, the one thing that she has over millions of people is something that many wish for: youth. Learn about issues that teenagers today face in this book written by 14-year-old, American teenager, Lauren To. From issues ranging from stereotypes to racism, Lauren writes about her perspective on the challenges she and her peers face in their day-to-day lives. Am I Allowed to be a Kid is more than just a...
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Once upon a time, an American girl moved to a little town in Slovakia, and she fell in love with the country, and with a boy. And then another boy. And then about a dozen boys fell in love with her. Many linguistic and romantic antics ensued, and a happy ending unlike any she could have foreseen.
This is a story for everyone - the armchair traveler and the real one, the lover of love stories and the connoisseur of culture - but above all, it's a...
12) I'm an American
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[2023]
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"A beautifully illustrated, thought-provoking picture book depicts the broad range of cultures in America, the values that bring us together as one people despite our differences, and the many ways we define what it means to be an American"--
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From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation's founding. New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slavery or a landmark in the antislavery movement? Leaders of the founding who called for American liberty are scrutinized...
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Within this book, beloved children's author Sara Cone Bryant offers advice on how to convert fidgety listeners into enthralled ones in a few simple, easy-to-follow lessons. Covering such subjects as selecting, adapting, and voicing stories, this concise guide will teach you how to grab and hold children's attention when reading stories to them. You will also be taught how to appropriately adapt each tale to the length, language, and content suitable...
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Keith B. Richburg was an experienced and respected reporter who had paid his dues covering urban neighborhoods in Washington D.C. and won praise for his coverage of Southeast Asia. But nothing prepared him for the personal odyssey that he would embark upon when he was assigned to cover Africa. In this powerful book, Richburg takes the reader on an extraordinary journey that sweeps from Somalia to Rwanda to Zaire and finally to South Africa. He shows...
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This is a collection of what I feel are some of the most important social/cognitive psychology experiments, studies, demonstrations, biases, and systematic reviews, presented in an entertaining way while adhering to academic standards.
I have always been fascinated by how our behaviors, cognition (thoughts), and affect (how we feel) are greatly dependent upon our social environment and our imperfect brains. I find it fascinating—perhaps because...
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Are you getting close to retirement yet? Many people don't live past 50. As you well know retirement in the USA is getting more expensive every year with the rising property taxes and the cost of living and our Social Security benefits just aren't enough. So we start dipping into our savings which is not a good idea. But there is another choice for those of you that have an adventurous spirit and have nothing holding you back. Did you know there are...
20) Socially Psyched: A Short Book Breaking Down Over a Dozen of the Most Important Findings in Social P
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This is a collection of what I feel are some of the most important social/cognitive psychology experiments, studies, demonstrations, biases, and systematic reviews, presented in an entertaining way while adhering to academic standards.
I have always been fascinated by how our behaviors, cognition (thoughts), and affect (how we feel) are greatly dependent upon our social environment and our imperfect brains. I find it fascinating--perhaps because...
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