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The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 88,463 ratings — published 1918
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,846 ratings — published 1843
The Chicago Manual of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 6,191 ratings — published 1906
The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 704 ratings — published 1993
Skin Cleanse: The Simple, All-Natural Program for Clear, Calm, Happy Skin – A Holistic Wellness Guide to Organic Beauty and Whole Foods Healing (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,444 ratings — published 2015
The Usborne Book of World History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 2,173 ratings — published 1979
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 170,642 ratings — published 2001
Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: A Comprehensive Bible Commentary on Old Testament Quotations, Allusions & Echoes That Appear from Matthew through Revelation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 1,474 ratings — published 2007
High Output Management (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 22,234 ratings — published 1983
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 32,585 ratings — published 2014
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,782 ratings — published 2019
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 199,346 ratings — published 2016
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 228,114 ratings — published 2016
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 5,270 ratings — published 2014
Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 750 ratings — published 2015
The Film Book (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 330 ratings — published 2011
Building Backwards to Biotech: The Power of Entrepreneurship to Drive Cutting-Edge Science to Market (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.33 — 141 ratings — published
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 115,198 ratings — published 2014
From Clocks to Chaos (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 14 ratings — published 1988
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,912 ratings — published 2001
The Library of Greek Mythology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,629 ratings — published 200
القرآن الكريم (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 75,590 ratings — published 632
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.13 — 17,571 ratings — published 2007
Robert's Rules of Order (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,953 ratings — published 1876
Postbaccalaureate Futures: New Markets, Resources, Credentials (ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2000
The End of Membership as We Know It: Building the Fortune-Flipping, Must-Have Association of the Next Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 139 ratings — published 2011
The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 988 ratings — published
Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2006 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 17 ratings — published 2006
Braving the Wilderness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 123,208 ratings — published 2017
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 301,423 ratings — published 2025
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 76,224 ratings — published 2024
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell (ebook)
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avg rating 3.90 — 11,956 ratings — published 2014
Introducing Machiavelli (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 472 ratings — published 1999
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 79,686 ratings — published 2025
Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed and What We Can Do to Help (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 9,093 ratings — published 2023
The Yearling (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 31,144 ratings — published 1938
Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 6,283 ratings — published 1951
Healing Prayers and Renunciations (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.89 — 18 ratings — published
Through the Year with Tomie dePaola (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.62 — 32 ratings — published
The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 747 ratings — published 1984
Maxims and Counsels of Saint Francis de Sales for Every Day of the Year (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
Lives of the Saints: For Every Day in the Year (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 627 ratings — published 1750
The Prayers of Catherine of Siena (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 13 ratings — published 1983
Catechism of the Catholic Church (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.75 — 170 ratings — published
The Catholic All Year Compendium: Liturgical Living for Real Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.73 — 560 ratings — published
Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 735 ratings — published 2025
How to Write Romantasy: Blending Fantasy and Romance into One Heart-Stopping Adventure (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 238 ratings — published
Belgian Street Art Today (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,057,534 ratings — published 1623