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|  | Fell's Official Know-It-All Guide by Marianne Pilgrim Calabrese
Practical advice for anyone interested in becoming a teacher. AUTHOR: Marianne Pilgrim Calabrese
PUBLISHER: Fell, Frederick Publishers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | Courage of Strangers Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement by Jeri Laber, Vaclav Havel
After Jeri Laber earned a Master's degree in Russian studies at Columbia University, she became a part-time writer and editor and a full-time wife and mother. Then one day in 1973 she read an article about torture that altered her life and subsequently the lives of countless others around the world. THE COURAGE OF STRANGERS tells how Laber became a founder and the executive director of Helsinki Watch, which grew to be Human Rights Watch, one of the world's most influential organizations. She describes her secret trips to unwelcoming countries, where she met with some of the great political activists of the time. She also recalls what it was like to come of age professionally in an era when women were supposed to follow rather than lead; how she struggled to balance work and family; and how her fight for human rights informed her own intellectual, spiritual and emotional development. This story of the birth of the human rights movement is also a sweeping history of dissent and triumph in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Elegantly written, full of passion, humor and political wisdom, it is exciting history as well as a moving, entertaining, inspiring story of a woman's life. AUTHOR: Jeri Laber, Vaclav Havel
PUBLISHER: PublicAffairs, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Breaking Out by Laura Fairchild Brodie
This report on the effort of the Virginia Military Institute to assimilate women into its classes stresses process. Having accepted a courts ruling that it must change, the leaders of VMI instituted a slow, deliberate, but democratic sharing of ideas that would seek to retain both the sense of tradition and the essence of the institution while preparing for the smooth matriculation of the next class. AUTHOR: Laura Fairchild Brodie
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Lost World by Michael Crichton
They thought the dinosaurs were destroyed, but something survived. A sequel to Jurassic Park . AUTHOR: Michael Crichton
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Flatland by Alan P. Lightman, B. Hoffmann, David W. Davies, Edwin A. Abbott
A deft mixture of social satire and science fiction that continues to pose provocative questions about perception and reality Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it...and you will have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen . So begins Edwin Abbott's delightful fable of Flatland -- a world that quite literally lacks depth. All existence is limited to length and breadth in Flatland, its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. Abbott's amiable narrator, A Square, provides an overview of this fantastic world -- its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs, and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his worldview is forever shattered. Written more than a century ago, Flatland conceals within its brilliant parody of Victorian society speculations about the universe that resonate in Einstein's theory of relativity as well as the current string-theory of nature. If , as Alan Lightman writes in his Introduction, the very dimensionality of space is open to question, then what beliefs remain sacred? AUTHOR: Alan P. Lightman, B. Hoffmann, David W. Davies, Edwin A. Abbott
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Haynes General Motors Automotive Repair Manual 1982-1994 by Haynes Publications Staff
Haynes disassembles every subject vehicle and documents every step with thorough instructions and clear photos. Haynes repair manuals are used by the pros, but written for the do-it-yourselfer. AUTHOR: Haynes Publications Staff
PUBLISHER: Haynes Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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