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Democracy in America - Alexis Tocqueville
In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA: a su... -
Delivering Happiness_ A Path to - Tony Hsieh
SUMMARY: Tony Hsieh--the widely-admired CEO of on-line shoe retailer, Zappos--explains how he created a unique culture and commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of i... -
Deceptively Delicious - Jessica Seinfeld
Amazon.com ReviewIt has become common knowledge that childhood obesity rates are increasing every year. But the rates continue to rise. And between busy work schedules and the inco... -
Debtors' Planet - W. R. Thompson
Product DescriptionWhen a Vulcan space probe reports that the Ferengi are advancing the people of the planet Megara from a primitive agricultural state to a sophisticated technolog... -
Death on the Diagonal - Nero Blanc
SUMMARY: Rumor has it that the devastating fire at the Collins family stables may have been a torch job-and no wonder, with all the family feuds going on. Belle Graham guesses that... -
Death of an Outsider - M. C. Beaton
SUMMARY: Murder is a Tasty Dish The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland is sleeping with the fishes, or-more accurately-dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All... -
Death of a Prankster - M. C. Beaton
EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Hamish Macbeth hears that there has been a murder at the home of the practical joker Arthur Trent, he doesn't race to the scene of the crime. The last time h... -
Death of a Gossip - M. C. Beaton
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jane Winters--Lady Jane--was a noted gossip columnist enrolled in the Lachdubh School of Casting (fish casting, that is). She had something on everyone in class--... -
Death of a Chimney Sweep - M. C. Beaton
FromThe Scottish Highlands that Beaton depicts with such skill are beautiful and sinister, a fitting backdrop to her Hamish Macbeth series and especially to this one, her twenty-si... -
Death Wore White - Jim Kelly
SUMMARY: Rookie detective Peter Shaw, along with his chain-smoking, hard-as-nails, veteran partner, is confronted with a baffling crime that stretches him to the breaking point.