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Street Talk

By Randy Kearse

Advice and How-To

Street Talk: Da Official Guide to Hip-Hop & Urban Slanguage is the most authentic slang language lexicon that interprets the hip-hop and urban slang dialect. Over 10,000+ enteries, you will find the word, term or metaphor followed by information from…

Studies of Life Positioning

By Jack Martin

General Nonfiction

This book illustrates how Life Positioning Analysis can be used as a theoretical and methodological approach to sociocultural psychobiography. Life positioning psychobiography studies lives as they unfold within a world of interactivity. It recognizes and portrays us as social beings…

Stoned

By Andrew Loog Oldham

Biographies and Memoirs

'People say I made the Stones. I didn't. They were there already. They only wanted exploiting. They were all bad boys when I found them. I just brought out the worst in them.' Andrew Loog Oldham was nineteen years old…

Stay True

By Hua Hsu

Biographies and Memoirs

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award One of the The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century New York Times Bestseller “Quietly wrenching…To say that this book is about grief…

Stanton

By Benjamin P. Thomas

Biographies and Memoirs

At the time of his death, renowned Lincoln biographer Benjamin Thomas was at work on a life of one of the most controversial figures in American history: Edwin McMasters Stanton, the man who marshaled the military forces of the Union…

Snowden’s Box

By Dale Maharidge

Nonfiction

Two behind-the-scenes players in the edward snowden story reflect on the meaning of snowden’s revelations in our age of surveillance One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The…

So Help Me God

By Mike Pence

Biographies and Memoirs

The New York Times bestselling autobiography of former Vice President Mike Pence. Loyalty is a Vice President’s first duty; but there is a greater one—to God and the Constitution. Mike Pence spent more hours in the Oval Office than any…

Six Frigates

By Ian W. Toll

History

"A fluent, intelligent history...give[s] the reader a feel for the human quirks and harsh demands of life at sea."—New York Times Book Review Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military became the…