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Title: Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right
Author: Bill Bryson
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words is a book by Bill Bryson, first released 1984, that catalogs some of the English language's most commonly misused words and phrases in order to demonstrate correct usage.

Title: College Algebra
Author: Robert F. Blitzer
This book presents the traditional content of Precalculus in a manner that answers the age-old question of When will I ever use this? Highlighting truly relevant applications, this book presents the material in an easy to teach from/easy to learn from approach. Chapter topics include equations, inequalities, and mathematical models; functions and graphs; polynomial and rational functions; exponential and logarithmic functions; systems of equations and inequalities; matrices and determinants; conic sections; and sequences, induction, and probability. For engineers of every kind, manufacturing personnel, technologists, technicians, and technical marketing professionals.

Title: Guide to Research on North American Indians
Author: Michael Dorris
Studies on Native Americans
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Title: Habeas Corpus: Practice Commentaries and Statutes
Author: Steven M. Statsinger
This book offers a brief, practical discussion of the habeas corpus process from the viewpoint of the author, Steven Statsinger, a federal public defender. The commentaries serve as a primer for those who are unfamiliar with the intricacies of habeas corpus practice, while those who are experienced in these proceedings will find new, practical advice in this book. The statutes relating to habeas corpus are in a separate section following the commentaries. This format allows for quick reference to specific statutes.

Title: Learning GNU Emacs, 2nd Edition
Author: Debra Cameron Bill Rosenblatt Eric S. Raymond
The second edition of Learning GNU Emacs describes all of the new features of GNU Emacs 19.30, including fonts and colors, pull-down menus, scroll bars, enhanced X Window support, and correct bindings for most standard keys. GNUS, a Usenet newsreader, and ange-ftp mode, a transparent interface to the file transfer protocol, are also described.

Title: Learning The Korn Shell - Unix Programming
Author: Bill Rosenblatt
This book provides a clear and concise explanation of the Korn shell's features. It explains ksh string operations, co-processes, signals and signal handling, and one of the worst dark corners of shell programming: command-line interpretation. It does this by introducing simple real-life examples and then adding options and complexity in later chapters, illustrating the way real-world script development generally proceeds. An additional (and unique) programming aid, a Korn shell debugger (kshdb), is also included.

Title: Lectures on Jurisprudence
Author: Adam Smith
Lectures on Jurisprudence is a collection of notes taken from Adam Smith's early lectures, plus an early draft of The Wealth of Nations.

Title: Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Author: Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson, bestselling author of The Mother Tongue, now celebrates its magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle called his befeathered cap Macaroni.

Title: Microbe Hunters
Author: P. De Kruif
In this classic bestseller, Paul de Kruif dramatizes the pioneering bacteriological work of such scientists as Leeuwenhoek, Spallanzani, Koch, Pasteur, Reed, and Ehrlich.

Title: New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning
Author: Andres Duany
Patterned on The American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art (1922), one of the most successful and well-known architecture books ever published, The New Civic Art, with 1,200 new illustrations and all new text for over 1,000 entries, exemplifies the very best urban planning and town design. This entirely new book thoroughly details the most important recent trends as well as time-honored precedents. It includes information drawn from over 200 international sources. Information has been selected to make this volume the essential encyclopedic reference and textbook for decades to come.

Title: Psychology of Learning and Behavior
Author: Barry Schwartz Edward A. Wasserman Steven J. Robbins
Now on its Fifth Edition, Psychology of Learning and Behavior is one of the most highly regarded texts in its field. Barry Schwartz, Steven J. Robbins, and new co-author Edward A. Wasserman offer students an engaging introduction to the basic principles of Pavlovian conditioning, operant conditioning, and comparative cognition.

Title: Teaching Other People's Children: Literacy and Learning in a Bilingual Classroom
Author: Cynthia Ballenger
The book promotes sensitivity, communication, and problem solving as keys to providing what children need according to their individual development and their parents’ beliefs.

Title: The Communist Manifesto
Author: Friedrich Engels Gareth Stedman Jones Karl Marx
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), usually referred to as The Communist Manifesto, was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most influential political tracts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League's purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian (working class) revolution to overthrow the bourgeois social order and to eventually bring about a classless and stateless society, and the abolition of private property.

Title: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
Author: David R. Henderson
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (CEE) is a widely-used encyclopedia of economics. It is used by students and teachers from high school to college to graduate school, and is one of the most popular worldwide resources for researching and understanding topics in economics. Articles are written by the most respected economists in their fields, including many Nobel Prize winners. There are also over 80 biographies of famous economists, including accessible summaries of their main contributions to economics with links to their works and secondary resources.

Title: The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers
Author: Scott Kelby
Scott Kelby, the best-selling Photoshop author in the world today, once again takes this book to a whole new level as he uncovers the latest, most important and most exciting new Adobe Photoshop CS2 techniques for digital photographers.

Title: The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers
Author: Scott Kelby
Are you ready for an Elements book that breaks all the rules–again? Like the best-selling former edition, The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers breaks new ground by doing something for digital photographers that’s rarely done–it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly how to do it. It’s not a bunch of theory; it doesn’t challenge you to come up with your own settings or figure things out on your own. Instead, it does something that virtually no other Elements book has ever done–it tells you flat-out which settings to use, when to use them, and why.

Title: The Processing Pinnacle: An Educator's Guide To Better Processing
Author: Steven Simpson Buzz Bocher Dan Miller
The Processing Pinnacle offers a theoretical approach to more effective processing, the reflective component of experience. Offering different points of view from the growing world of experiential education, the authors consider the difficulties of processing and suggest techniques to remove these roadblocks.