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Bringing nature home : how native plants sustain wildlife in our gardens
Douglas W. Tallamy.
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288 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
"As this book explains, there is an unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife. Indeed, most native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plant species disappear or are replaced by alien exotics, the insects disappear, thus impoverishing the Food source for birds and other animals. In many parts of the world, habitat destruction has been so extensive that local wildlife populations are in crisis and may well be headed toward extinction." "By favoring native plants, gardeners can provide a welcoming environment for wildlife of all kinds. This doesn't necessarily entail a drastic overhaul of existing gardens. The process can be gradual and can reflect both the gardener's preferences and local sensitivities. To help concerned gardeners, this clearly reasoned account includes helpful lists of native plants for different regional habitats."--BOOK JACKET.
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Bush's law : the remaking of American justice
Eric Lichtblau.
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xvii, 349 p. ; 25 cm.
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Castor de guerre
Danièle Sallenave.
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601 p. ; 23 cm.
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ChefMD's big book of culinary medicine : a food lover's road map to losing weight, preventing disease, and getting really healthy
John La Puma and Rebecca Powell Marx.
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300 p. ; 25 cm.
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The China price : the true cost of Chinese competitive advantage
Alexandra Harney.
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336 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Journalist Alex Harney shows how China is able to offer such amazingly low prices to the rest of the world. What she has discovered is a brutal world in which intense pricing pressure from Western companies combines with corruption and a lack of transparency to exact an unseen toll in human misery and environmental damage. Despite a decade of monitoring, foreign businessmen all too often have no idea of the conditions under which goods they buy are made. But change is coming. A generation of Chinese flocked from the rural interior to the coastal factories, in the largest mass migration in human history--but that migration has slowed dramatically. As pollution worsens and infrastructure buckles, and grassroots activism grows, pressures are mounting that will not dissipate without profound change. Managing the violence of that change is China's greatest challenge in the near future, and managing its impact on the world economy may be ours.--From publisher description.
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Como comprar su primera casa
Diana Brodman Summers.
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vi, 116 p. ; 21 cm.
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Cómo conseguir trabajo en los Estados Unidos : guía especial para Latinos
Mariela Dabbah.
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viii, 120 p. ; 21 cm.
This new addition to the Gu'as Prcticas series will help every immigrant master the necessary steps of looking for a job in the United States. It offers specific information, taking into consideration that many of the readers may not have proper documents to apply for all job openings. It identifies alternatives that will suit their individual situations and also deals with related cultural issues.
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Cómo iniciar su propio negocio
Mark Warda.
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vi, 122 p. ; 21 cm.
Provides explanations of federal laws, employment and labor laws, regulations and minute details of starting a business. Includes general information regarding state taxes, tips for financing a new business and how to register a company name and trademarks. Also includes easy-to-follow checklists for business start-ups as well as clear explanations of business structures.
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The corpse walker : real life stories : China from the bottom up
Liao Yiwu ; translated from the Chinese by Wen Huang.
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xiv, 320 p. ; 25 cm.
A compilation of twenty-seven extraordinary oral histories that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. Liao Yiwu (one of the best-known writers in China because he is also one of the most censored) chose his subjects from the bottom of Chinese society: people for whom the "new" China--the China of economic growth and globalization--is no more beneficial than the old. Here are a professional mourner, a trafficker in humans, a leper, an abbot, a retired government official, a former landowner, a mortician, a feng shui master, a former Red Guard, a political prisoner, a village teacher, a blind street musician, a Falun Gong practitioner, and many others--people who have been battered by life but who have managed to retain their dignity, their humor, and their essential, complex humanity. Liao's interviews were given from 1990 to 2003.--From amazon.com.
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Day of the Dead in Mexico. Puebla, Tlaxcala, San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo / text and photos by Mary J. Andrade = Día de Muertos en México. Puebla, Tlaxcala, San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo
texto y fotos por Mary J. Andrade.
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143 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm.
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Memories of life in Lhasa under Chinese rule
Tubten Khétsun ; translated and with an introduction by Matthew Akester.
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xx, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
"Born in 1941, Tubten Khetsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan peoples' uprising of March 10, 1959. Khetsun himself was arrested while defending the Dalai Lama's summer palace, and after four years in prisons and labor camps, he spent close to two decades in Lhasa as a requisitioned laborer and "class enemy."" "In this eloquent autobiography, Khetsun describes what life was like during those troubled years. His account is one of the most dispassionate, detailed, and readable firsthand descriptions yet published of Tibet under the Communist occupation. Khetsun talks of his prison experiences as well as the state of civil society following his release, and he offers keenly observed accounts of well-known events, such as the launch of the Cultural Revolution, as well as lesser-known aspects of everyday life in occupied Lhasa." "Since Communist China continues to occupy Tibet, the facts of this era remain obscure, and few of those who lived through it have recorded their experiences at length. Khetsun's story will captivate any reader seeking a refreshingly human account of what occurred during the Maoists' shockingly brutal regime."--BOOK JACKET.
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Dr. Patrick Walsh's guide to surviving prostate cancer
Patrick C. Walsh and Janet Farrar Worthington.
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xv, 575 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
The definitive book on surviving prostate cancer from the worlds leading authority incorporates the most recent advancements in treating the disease.
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