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The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion
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The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American ExpansionThe Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion

Histories tend to emphasize conquest by Anglo-Americans as the driving force behind the development of the American West. In this fresh interpretation, Jay Gitlin argues that the activities of the French are crucial to understanding the phenomenon of westward expansion.
The Seven Years War brought an end to the French colonial enterprise in North America, but the French in towns such as New Orleans, St. Louis, and Detroit survived the transition to American rule.
 
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and HappinessNudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

"Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein''s Nudge is a wonderful book: more fun than any important book has a right to be-and yet it is truly both."-Roger Lowenstein, author of When Genius Failed (Roger Lowenstein )
"The suggestions in Nudge provide fascinating examples of how tiny changes in context can cue radically different behaviour. Awareness of these cues empowers consumers, voters and decision-makers."-Rebecca Walberg, National Post (Rebecca Walberg National Post )

 
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The Product Manager's Toolkit: Methodologies, Processes and Tasks in High-Tech Product Management
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The Product Manager's Toolkit: Methodologies, Processes and Tasks in High-Tech Product Management Product management is challenging, complex, and often misunderstood. Across the high-tech industry, drastically different duties and responsibilities are attributed to product management professionals. Diverse interpretations regarding the role of product management have only further confused practitioners and stifled the ability to develop clear and consistent product management methodologies.The book provides a consistent and holistic managerial approach to product management and presents a practical and comprehensive methodology (tasks, processes, deliverables, and roles) that covers nearly all aspects of product management.
 
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Ultimate Potato Book: Hundreds of Ways to Turn America's Favorite Side Dish into a Meal
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Ultimate Potato Book: Hundreds of Ways to Turn America's Favorite Side Dish into a MealUltimate Potato Book: Hundreds of Ways to Turn America's Favorite Side Dish into a Meal

Potatoes as a main course?
That's right, The Ultimate Potato Book moves the versatile potato to the center of every meal. Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough offer up main course classics such as Shepherd's Pie, Cod Cakes, and Chili Fries, along with some surprising new ideas -- Lasagna (potatoes replace the noodles), Enchiladas, and Twice-Baked Potatoes with bacon, asparagus, and Cheddar.
 
 
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Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics (Second Edition)
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Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics (Second Edition)

This updated second edition of Signs combines some of Sebeok's most important essays with a new general introduction, introductory passages at the outset of each chapter, a glossary, and brief biographies of the major semioticians. From an overview of the discipline to a more detailed exploration of sign categories, the author powerfully demonstrates the co-dependency of verbal and non-verbal communication.
 
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