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Benjamin Foster

In an age where social media dominates our daily lives and interactions, it's easy to believe that platforms like Facebook are essential to maintaining and nurturing relationships. However, in Beyond the Status Update: Why Facebook Isn't Essential in Relationships, Benjamin Foster takes a deep dive into the true nature of human connections, exploring how meaningful relationships thrive beyond the digital facade.Through insightful analysis and real-life examples, this book challenge...

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Benjamin Foster

What animal has a funny smile, feathery gills, lives underwater, and can regenerate parts of its body?The axolotl!The Axolotl Fact Book for Kids takes young readers on an exciting journey into the fascinating world of one of nature's most unusual amphibians.Inside this fun and educational book, kids will discover where axolotls come from, what they look like, how they breathe, what they eat, how they hunt, and what life is like in their natural habitat. They'll also...

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Benjamin R. Foster

The Age of Agade is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of Mesopotamian history, which saw the rise and fall of the world’s first empire during more than a century of extraordinary political, social, and cultural innovation. It draws together more than 40 years of research by one of the world’s leading experts in Assyriology to offer an exhaustive survey of the Akkadian empire.Addressing all aspects of the empire, including its statecraft and military, terri...

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Benjamin R. Foster, Karen Polinger Foster

In Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, Benjamin and Karen Foster tell the fascinating story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements ten thousand years ago to the Arab conquest in the seventh century. Accessible and concise, this is the most up-to-date and authoritative book on the subject. With illustrations of important works of art and architecture in every chapter, the narrative traces the rise and fall of successive civilizations and peoples in Iraq over the course of ...

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Anthony D'Amato, Benjamin Baiser, Aaron M. Ellison, David Orwig, Wyatt Oswald, Audrey Barker Plotkin, Jonathan Thompson

Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so Luzie quickly became translator, intermediary, and advocate for family left behind. Soon an unending stream of desperate requests from German relatives made their way to Arnold’s desk.   Luzie Hatch had faithfully preserved her letters both to and from far-flung...

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Penelope Bloom

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Kelsey Navarro Foster, Benjamin Sands

Who doesn't love a perfect wedding?James "The Wedding Wrecker" Carter. That's who.His mission is to expose cheaters, liars, and frauds before they can say "I do." And he's frustratingly good at his job.And me? I'm Emma Marshall, wedding planner extraordinaire who happens to believe in things like happily ever afters, love, and the power of a perfect wedding. Or at least I did until a certain wedding wrecker gave me the best night of my life, then wr...

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Benjamin Foster

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Benjamin Foster

What animal has a funny smile, feathery gills, lives underwater, and can regenerate parts of its body?The axolotl!The Axolotl Fact Book for Kids takes young readers on an exciting journey into the fascinating world of one of nature's most unusual amphibians.Inside this fun and educational book, kids will discover where axolotls come from, what they look like, how they breathe, what they eat, how they hunt, and what life is like in their natural habitat. They'll also...

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Benjamin Foster

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Benjamin Foster

What animal has a funny smile, feathery gills, lives underwater, and can regenerate parts of its body?The axolotl!The Axolotl Fact Book for Kids takes young readers on an exciting journey into the fascinating world of one of nature's most unusual amphibians.Inside this fun and educational book, kids will discover where axolotls come from, what they look like, how they breathe, what they eat, how they hunt, and what life is like in their natural habitat. They'll also...

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Benjamin Foster

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Riley Pines

Your credit score shapes countless aspects of your financial life, from loan approvals to job prospects, yet many people don't fully grasp its influence. Benjamin Foster's audiobook delves into the nuances of credit scoring, offering listeners practical insights to strengthen their financial position.The narrative explores how FICO scoring actually works, breaking down the five key elements that influence your creditworthiness. Foster shares strategies tailored to various situation...

This work provides an authoritative overview of the composition of public opinion in America, the methodologies by which public opinion is measured, and the importance of polling to U.S. politics, policy, and culture.This revised edition is a comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of public opinion polling in the United States, including major and emerging theories and concepts; historical and current methodologies; political, journalistic, and corpor...

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John S. C. Abbott, Benjamin Foster, Benjamin Foster

John S. C. Abbott's Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky recounts Boone's youth on the colonial edge, crossings through the Cumberland Gap, the opening of the Wilderness Road, the siege of Boonesborough, and episodes of captivity and loss. In brisk, moralizing prose that mingles anecdote with summary, Abbott situates Boone within the volatile interplay of expansion, Native resistance, and imperial rivalry. The book exemplifies nineteenth-century popular biography, shaping national memory ...

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Olaf Stapledon, Benjamin Foster, Benjamin Foster

Sirius (1944), subtitled A Fantasy of Love and Discord, imagines a dog endowed with human intelligence by experimental breeding and raised beside his human companion, Plaxy. The quasi-biographical narrative follows his schooling, farm labor on the Welsh border, wartime suspicion, and a piercing musical and religious sensibility. Stapledon fuses realist reportage with essayistic speculation, probing mind, language, scent, law, and the ethics of species difference. A philosopher-novelist wit...