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Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism
by Elizabeth Becker
Hardcover: 16 Apr 2013
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| Elizabeth Becker investigates global travel industry practices in an eye-opening examination of this $6.5 trillion phenomenon. |
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The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time
by Bob Harris
Hardcover: 5 Mar 2013
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| After making hundreds of microloans online, Bob wanted to see the results first-hand, so he travels from Peru and Bosnia, to Rwanda and Cambodia, introducing us to some of the most inspiring and enterprising people we've ever met. |
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The Great Northern Express: A Writer's Journey Home
by Howard F. Mosher
Hardcover: Mar 2012
Paperback: 5 Mar 2013
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| From bestselling, nationally celebrated author Howard Frank Mosher, a wildly funny and deeply personal account of his three-month, 20,000-mile sojourn to discover what he loved enough to live for. |
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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
by Matthew Goodman
Hardcover: 26 Feb 2013
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| 1889: Two women, successful journalists and writers, set off in a desperate rate in opposite directions, each determined to outdo Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than eighty days. |
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An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies
by Tyler Cowen
Hardcover: Apr 2012
Paperback: 26 Feb 2013
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| Provocative, incisive, and as enjoyable as a juicy, grass-fed burger, An Economist Gets Lunch will influence what you'll choose to eat today and how we're going to feed the world tomorrow. |
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Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man
by Mark Kurlansky
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 12 Feb 2013
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| The first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture. |
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
by Timothy Egan
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 6 Aug 2013
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| How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, brilliant man who made them. |
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City: A User's Guide to the Past, Present, and Future of Urban Life
by P.D. Smith
Hardcover: 19 Jun 2012
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| With erudite prose and carefully chosen illustrations, this unique work of metatourism explores what cities are and how they work. It covers history, customs and language, districts, transport, money, work, shops and markets, and tourist sites, creating a fantastically detailed portrait of the city through history and into the future. |
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