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Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto
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Cultural Mobility: A ManifestoCultural Mobility: A Manifesto

Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed.
 
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Ruhlmans Twenty: 20 Techniques 100 Recipes A Cooks Manifesto
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Ruhlmans Twenty: 20 Techniques 100 Recipes A Cooks ManifestoRuhlmans Twenty: 20 Techniques 100 Recipes A Cooks Manifesto

Rare is the cookbook that redefines how we cook. And rare is the author who can do so with the ease and expertise of acclaimed writer and culinary authority Michael Ruhlman. Twenty distills Ruhlman s decades of cooking, writing, and working with the world s greatest chefs into twenty essential ideas from ingredients to processes to attitude that are guaranteed to make every cook more accomplished. Whether cooking a multi-course meal, the juiciest roast chicken, or just some really good scrambled eggs, Ruhlman reveals how a cook s success boils down to the same twenty concepts.
 
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things RightThe Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

The New York Times best-selling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist.
We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies - neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication.
 
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The Multiple Sclerosis Manifesto: Action To Take, Principles to Live
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The Multiple Sclerosis Manifesto: Action To Take, Principles to LiveThe Multiple Sclerosis Manifesto: Action To Take, Principles to Live

Winner of a 2009 Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award Written for all people with MS, regardless of the type, severity of symptoms, gender, age, or time since diagnosis, The Multiple Sclerosis Manifesto: Action to Take, Principles to Live By contains critical information organized under action” statements and using examples of how this information can most effectively be used to help the readers.
 
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Miss Understanding
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Miss UnderstandingMiss Understanding

Lessing brings back fictional fashion-forward magazine Issues and its newly minted editorial honcho, sartorially challenged feminist Zoe, sister of She's Got Issues protagonist Chloe Rose. Publisher Dan Princely (aka Chloe's devoted new husband) has gone gaga for Zoe's agenda and gives her a mandate to revamp the magazine's usual fare of shoes, makeup and shopping into a manifesto of female empowerment, decorum and personal growth. Zoe renames the magazine Miss Understanding and gleefully introduces it to the staff as a didactic, humorless instruction manual.
 
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