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"A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood,...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015.
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xxi, 536 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), charts, photographs ; 24 cm.
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Offers a natural alternative to ineffective procedures and a biologically proven method of fertility control for avoiding or achieving pregnancy.
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"The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss alerts you to the challenges involved and provides proven strategies for surmounting these obstacles and succeeding. You'll also learn what you need to put in place before taking the leap to being your own boss to help assure your success."--Amazon.com.
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The Planning Shop
Pub. Date
[2010]
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xxvi, 411 pages : illustrations, charts, forms ; 28 cm
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Now you can find what venture capitalists and bankers really want to see before they fund a company. Gives you their personal tips and insights for successful business plan development. The sample business plan provides a guideline for you to follow in writing your own plan. Breaks the chore down into easy-to-manage steps, so you can end up with a fundable proposal.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
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[xiv, 343] pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"Building and Dwelling is the definitive statement on cities by the renowned public intellectual Richard Sennett. In this sweeping work, he traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai. He shows how Paris, Barcelona, and New York City assumed their modern forms; rethinks the reputations of Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford, and others; and takes us on a tour of...
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When you hear the word retirement, you probably don't imagine yourself scrambling to pay your bills in your golden years. But for too many Americans, that's the fate that awaits unless they take steps now to plan for the future. Whether you're twenty-five and starting your first job or fifty-five and watching the career clock start to wind down, today is the day to get serious about your retirement. In Retire Inspired, Chris Hogan teaches that retirement...
29) Happy ever after
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Bride quartet (Nora Roberts) volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
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Bridal expert Parker "Legs" Brown meets her perfect match in Roberts's delicious ode to weddings and happy endings, the charming conclusion of the Bride Quartet (after Savor the Moment) about four childhood friends who as adults form a Connecticut wedding planning company. In the palatial Brown estate, a multitude of marriages have been celebrated while each wedding planner in turn has found her heart's desire. Cupid's target for Parker is her brother...
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Sellers Publishing
Pub. Date
c2015
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240 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Professional wedding entertainer Peter Merry shines light on how to create fun and entertaining wedding receptions, with details on finding the right vendors, mapping out an agenda, and creating memorable moments that can be personalized to individual styles and sensibilities.
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Filipacchi
Pub. Date
c2009
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144 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm.
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Find that knockout gown at a fraction of its original price, search for wedding invitations, rings, and flowers at reduced costs, read about creative ways to save on wedding cakes and reception menus, and locate incredible reception sites at affordable prices.
34) Wedding season
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
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424 p. ; 22 cm.
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Sarah Stratford is a wedding planner hiding a rather inconvenient truth--she doesn't believe in love. Or not for herself, anyway. But she somehow finds herself agreeing to organize two more, on the same day and only two months away. Luckily Sarah has two tried and true friends on hand to help her. As the big day draws near, all three women find that patience is definitely a virtue in the marriage game. And as all their working hours are spent preparing...
35) A necessary end
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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386 pages ; 24 cm
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"Thirty-nine-year-old Adrienne is desperate to be a mother. And this time, nothing is going to get in her way. Sure, her husband, Gabe, is ambivalent about fatherhood. But she knows that once he holds their baby, he'll come around. He's just feeling a little threatened, that's all. Because once upon a time, it was Gabe that Adrienne wanted more than anything; she was willing to do anything. . . . But that was half a lifetime ago. She's a different...
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Sterling
Pub. Date
c2009
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xii, 340 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Featuring easy-to-follow explanations and a wealth of real-life examples, AARPs guide to retirement planning helps readers take advantage of every available tool to make their retirement years the best of their lives.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
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xxi, 519 pages ; 24 cm
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"The first ever practical, compassionate, and comprehensive guide to dying--and living fully until you do. "There is nothing wrong with you for dying," palliative care doctor BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger write in A Beginner's Guide to the End. "Our ultimate purpose here isn't so much to help you die as it is to free up as much life as possible until you do." Theirs is a clear-eyed and big-hearted action plan for approaching the end of life, written...
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