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Product Description: "Straight from the trenches, a mom's tale of weathering her daughter's transformation from sweetheart to snark mouth." - PeopleWith the eye of a reporter, the curiosity of an anthropologist, and the open-and sometimes wounded-heart of a mother, award-winning author Lauren Kessler launches an eighteen-month mission, embedding herself in her about-to-be-teenage daughter Lizzie's life...read more
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Hardcover:

9780670021697 | Viking Pr, August 5, 2010, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A veteran journalist navigates the mother-daughter relationship at its most crucial moment With the eye of a reporter, the curiosity of an anthropologist, and the open (and sometimes wounded) heart of a mother, award-winning author Lauren Kessler embeds herself in her about-to-be-teenage daughter's life.

Paperback:

9780143119456 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 30, 2011), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: "Straight from the trenches, a mom's tale of weathering her daughter's transformation from sweetheart to snark mouth.

Miscellaneous:

9781101189788 | Viking Pr, August 5, 2010, cover price $12.99

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Product Description: Help your students apply the concepts presented in the text with this exercise workbook containing activities and exercises designed to give them the hands-on practice they need to build their confidence. The workbook offers 36 exercises that closely mirror the concepts outlined in the main text, giving students the chance to use their new skills in tasks that test their understanding of everything from appositives to passive voice, as well as a comprehensive 100-question diagnostic grammar test and a final grammar, spelling, and word-use exam...read more
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9780495901617 | 8 workbook edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, January 1, 2011), cover price $56.95 | About this edition: Help your students apply the concepts presented in the text with this exercise workbook containing activities and exercises designed to give them the hands-on practice they need to build their confidence.

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Product Description: Japanese immigrant Masuo Yasui arrived in America in 1903 with nothing but big dreams. He went on to become a successful orchardist and raise a large family. But World War II would change their lives forever.
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CD/Spoken Word:

9781433246005 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 31, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Japanese immigrant Masuo Yasui arrived in America in 1903 with nothing but big dreams.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781433245961 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 31, 2008), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Japanese immigrant Masuo Yasui arrived in America in 1903 with nothing but big dreams.

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Product Description: Japanese immigrant Masuo Yasui arrived in America in 1903 with nothing but big dreams. He went on to become a successful orchardist and raise a large family. But World War II would change their lives forever.
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9780679414261, titled "Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese-American Family" | Random House Inc, October 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Beginning in 1903 with the arrival of sixteen-year-old Masuo Yasui in Oregon, the author chronicles the struggles and ultimate triumph of three generations of Japanese Americans

Paperback:

9780870714177 | Oregon State Univ Pr, October 15, 2008, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land.
9780875952963 | Oregon Historical Society Pr, January 30, 2006, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: "Stubborn Twig", originally published in 1994, is a classic American tale of immigrants making their way in a new land.
9780452273016 | Reprint edition (Plume, November 1, 1994), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In 1903, Masuo Yasui came to America and eventually became a successful orchardist and father of eight children.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781433245978 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 31, 2008), cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Japanese immigrant Masuo Yasui arrived in America in 1903 with nothing but big dreams.

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Product Description: Previously published in HC as Dancing With Rose One journalist?s riveting?and surprisingly hopeful? in-the-trenches view of Alzheimer?s Nearly five million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer?s. Like many children of Alzheimer?s sufferers, Lauren Kessler, an accomplished journalist, was devastated by the disease that seemed to erase her mother?s identity even before claiming her life...read more
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9780143113683 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 27, 2008), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Previously published in HC as Dancing With Rose One journalist?

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Documents a journalist's work as a caregiver for Alzheimer's patients after the disease claimed her mother's life, a process during which she came to deeply respect and admire the contributions of a care facility's overworked, underpaid, and humor-possessing employees.
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9780670038596 | 1 edition (Viking Pr, May 31, 2007), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: One journalist's surprisingly hopeful in-the-trenches look at Alzheimer's, the disease that claimed her mother's life.

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A portrait of Soviet spy-turned-FBI informant Elizabeth Bentley describes her work at the head of two of Russia's most productive spy rings in America, decision to expose Communist agents in her own government, and contributions to American political life. Reprint.
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9780060185190 | Harpercollins, August 1, 2003, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A portrait of the Soviet spy-turned-FBI informant describes her work at the head of two Russian spy rings in America, decision to expose Communist agents in her own government, and contributions to American political life.

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9780060959739 | Reprint edition (Perennial, August 1, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A portrait of the Soviet spy-turned-FBI informant describes her work at the head of two Russian spy rings in America, decision to expose Communist agents in her own government, and contributions to American political life.

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9781417702305 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A portrait of the Soviet spy-turned-FBI informant describes her work at the head of two Russian spy rings in America, decision to expose Communist agents in her own government, and contributions to American political life.

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Product Description: This third edition expands its coverage to media writing and includes additional advertizing, public relations and further examples. In addition a chapter on spelling teaches a way of thinking about spelling, rather than listing rules and exceptions.
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Hardcover:

9780534562113, titled "When Words Collide: A Media Writer's Guide to Grammar and Style" | 6th (Hardcover with CD) edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, April 1, 2003), cover price $45.95 | About this edition: This third edition expands its coverage to media writing and includes additional advertizing, public relations and further examples.
9789990141191, titled "When Words Collide: A Media Writer's Guide to Grammar And Style" | Thomson Learning, April 1, 2003, cover price $0.02

Paperback:

9780534561338 | 5th sprl edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, August 1, 1999), cover price $47.95 | About this edition: WHEN WORDS COLLIDE is the most versatile grammar and usage handbook for beginning and continuing media writers.
9780534257408, titled "When Words Collide: A Media Writers Guide to Grammar and Style" | 4th sprl edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, June 1, 1995), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: This best-selling stylebook is useful as a refresher for basic grammar and as a handy, permanent reference.
9780534170288 | 3rd edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, January 1, 1992), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Covers parts of speech, sentence structure, agreement, case, passive voice, punctuation, spelling, clarity, sexism, and word-use issues

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Product Description: WHEN WORDS COLLIDE is the most versatile grammar and usage handbook for beginning and continuing media writers. The book is praised by readers for its straightforward, clear treatment of grammar, offered in a lighthearted, almost conversational tone...read more
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9780534562069 | 6 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, March 1, 2003), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: WHEN WORDS COLLIDE is the most versatile grammar and usage handbook for beginning and continuing media writers.
9789990063103 | 6 edition (Thomson Learning, March 1, 2003), cover price $0.02

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Product Description: Kessler and McDonald's "When Words Collide, International Edition" is praised by students and professors alike for its straightforward and clear-almost conversational-presentation of grammar. This versatile grammar and usage handbook works for both beginning and continuing media writers, providing concise, clear explanations and examples, as well as quick and accurate answers to grammar or usage questions...read more
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Paperback:

9780534562083 | 6 workbook edition (Thomson Learning, March 1, 2003), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Kessler and McDonald's "When Words Collide, International Edition" is praised by students and professors alike for its straightforward and clear-almost conversational-presentation of grammar.
9780534561345 | Thomson Learning, November 1, 1999, cover price $22.95

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Product Description: Pancho Barnes was a force of nature, a woman who lived a big, messy, colorful, unconventional life. She ran through three fortunes, four husbands, and countless lovers. She outflew Amelia Earhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank the Mexican Army, and out- maneuvered the U...read more
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9780375501241 | Random House Inc, May 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Relates the story of pioneer female flying ace Pancho Barnes, chronicling her adventures as an aviator and a hard-drinking friend and host to Hollywood's elite.

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9780812992526 | Random House Inc, May 23, 2000, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Pancho Barnes was a force of nature, a woman who lived a big, messy, colorful, unconventional life.

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Chronicles the story of the new coach and her underdog women's basketball team at the University of Oregon who overcame administrative and technical obstacles to play a winning season
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9780525940357 | E P Dutton, March 1, 1997, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the story of the new coach and her underdog women's basketball team at the University of Oregon who overcame administrative and technical obstacles to play a winning season

Paperback:

9780452274877 | Penguin USA, August 1, 1998, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the story of the new coach and her underdog women's basketball team at the University of Oregon who overcame administrative and technical obstacles to play a winning season

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9780534257415 | Thomson Learning, August 1, 1996, cover price $17.95

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Product Description: Takes an upbeat approach to discovering the information that mass media professionals require, whether in public relations, advertising, broadcast, or news reporting. It is intended to be of interest to students of journalism and mass communication, newswriting and reporting.
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Paperback:

9780534162788 | 2 sub edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, August 1, 1991), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Takes an upbeat approach to discovering the information that mass media professionals require, whether in public relations, advertising, broadcast, or news reporting.

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Fifty political activists of the 60s describe how they have integrated socially conscious ideals into their lives and careers
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9780938410928 | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Fifty political activists of the 60s describe how they have integrated socially conscious ideals into their lives and careers

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Product Description: This book should be of interest to degree and diploma students taking courses in media writing.
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9780534096786 | Wadsworth Pub Co, October 1, 1988, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This book should be of interest to degree and diploma students taking courses in media writing.

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Based on the latest medical information, this book explains how the human body system changes over time and provides practical advice on how to minimize the effectds of the aging process
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9780816013036 | Facts on File, May 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Based on the latest medical information, this book explains how the human body system changes over time and provides practical advice on how to minimize the effectds of the aging process

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Product Description: Kessler and McDonald's WHEN WORDS COLLIDE is praised by students for its straightforward and clear-almost conversational-presentation of grammar. This versatile grammar and usage handbook will work for you as a beginning student and as you continue as a media writer...read more
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Paperback:

9780534085742 | 2nd edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, October 1, 1987), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Kessler and McDonald's WHEN WORDS COLLIDE is praised by students for its straightforward and clear-almost conversational-presentation of grammar.

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Product Description: Kessler challenges the idea that the worlds of media and journalism have ever conformed to a 'free marketplace' image. This present volume investigates a handful of the many fringe groups who, denied access to the mainstream, started marketplaces of their own...read more
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Hardcover:

9780803920866 | Sage Pubns, March 1, 1984, cover price $44.50 | About this edition: Kessler challenges the idea that the worlds of media and journalism have ever conformed to a 'free marketplace' image.

Paperback:

9780803920873 | Sage Pubns, January 1, 1984, cover price $77.00 | About this edition: Kessler challenges the idea that the worlds of media and journalism have ever conformed to a 'free marketplace' image.

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