Collection HQ Non Fiction Transfers 9/13/16

41) Middle passages: African American journeys to Africa, 1787-2005

Author

Campbell, James T

Series

The Penguin history of American life

Notes

kevin's reading interest: 3/5

42) Mike McGrath's book of compost

Author

McGrath, Mike

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Reveals why compost is the answer to virtually every garden question. McGrath explains why compost improves soil structure; why it provides the perfect amount of food for every plant; how it fights plant diseases more safely and effectively than any chemical fungicide; and how to make your own.--From publisher description.

43) Mind Whispering: A New Map to Freedom from Self-Defeating Emotional Habits

Author

Bennett-Goleman, Tara

Formats:

eBook, Kindle

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With her book Mind Whispering, Tara Bennett-Goleman, the New York Times bestselling author of Emotional Alchemy, draws on the the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and Eastern traditions to present a workable means to overcome the negative patterns in our lives.

Mind Whispering is a new map of the emotional mind. This groundbreaking approach shows us that we have a choice of our moods, emotions, actions, and reactions. Mind Whispering

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44) Modern Japanese: a basic reader

Author

Hibbett, Howard

45) movable feast ten millennia of food globalization

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46) my crazy century

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47) natural science of the human species an introducti

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48) Neil Gaiman's Teknophage: based on a concept created by Neil Gaiman.

Author

Veitch, Rick

49) Oxford picture dictionary: English/Brazilian Portuguese = Ingles/Português do Brasil

Author

Adelson-Goldstein, Jayme

Notes

kevin's reading interest: 5/5

50) The real-life MBA: your no-BS guide to winning the game, building a team, and growing your career

Author

Welch, Jack

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The founders of the Jack Welch Management Institute, a fully accredited online MBA program, present a guide to overcoming modern business challenges, with recommendations for creating effective strategies, leading others, and building a thriving career.

51) Ringworld: the graphic novel.Part one

Author

Mandell, Robert

Notes

kevin's reading interest: 4.5/5

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In Ringworld, two-hundred-year-old human Louis Wu is recruited by a two-headed alien named Nessus to join him, a catlike warrior alien named Speaker, and the infinitely lucky human Teela Brown to explore an alien artifact. They find a Ringworld, a ribbon millions of miles long built around a distant sun. The civilization has fallen into savagery, though, and after crashing into the Ringworld, Louis must come up with a clever plan to get back to known...

52) rough guide to the greek islands

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53) Sams teach yourself Minecraft mod development in 24 hours

Author

Koene, Jimmy

54) Saving Italy: the race to rescue a nation's treasures from the Nazis

Author

Edsel, Robert M

Description

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When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes--artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt--embarked from Naples on the tresure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars...

55) Secret lives of the tsars: three centuries of autocracy, debauchery, betrayal, murder, and madness from Romanov Russia

Author

Farquhar, Michael

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

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A chronicle of the passions, intrigues, and scandals of the Romanov dynasty includes accounts of such topics as Peter the Great's torture of his own son and Catherine the Great's many young lovers.

56) Seed libraries: and other means of keeping seeds in the hands of the people

Author

Conner, Cindy

57) The Simpsons forever!: a complete guide to our favorite family-- continued

58) South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland

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The only guide to include coverage of Lesotho and Swaziland; South Africa is a growth tourist destination; Includes detailed full-colour maps.

59) The spine of the continent: the most ambitious wildlife conservation project ever undertaken

Author

Hannibal, Mary Ellen

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As climate change encroaches, animals and plants around the globe are having their habitats pulled out from under them. At the same time, human development has made islands out of even our largest nature reserves, stranding the biodiversity other lives within them. The Spine of the Continent introduces readers to the most ambitious wildlife conservation effort ever undertaken: to create linked protected areas extending from the Yukon to Mexico, the...

60) Starling

Author

Stossel, Sage

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For Amy Sturgess, life in the big city comes with trouble. Her marketing career is being derailed by a conniving coworker stealing her accounts. Her family crises range from her down-and-out brother running afoul of the law to her mother's growing affections for the house cats. And Amy's love life just flatlined thanks to an unexpected reunion with the one that got away--who's now engaged. When Xanax and therapy fail to relieve her stress, Amy does...