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Welcome to The Periodic Table of Hip Hop. Instead of hydrogen to helium, here you'll find James Brown to Kendrick Lamar - 94 artists that have defined Hip Hop arranged following the logic of The Peri
With funny and relatable illustrations throughout, find out what it's really like to live with ADHD.
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Meet the business anthropologists seeking to explain how we buy, sell, work and think.
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Bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman and co-author Cary Cherniss reveal practical methods for applying the principles of EI to enter an optimal state of high performance, offer
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From G. T. Karber, the creator of the popular online daily mystery game at www.Murdle.com, comes this fiendishly compulsive and absolutely killer collection of 100 original murder mystery logic puzzl
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A ground-breaking global survey of today’s most innovative artists working with text
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