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  • Pinball Wizards

    Jackpots, Drains, and the Cult of the Silver Ball

    by Adam Ruben ...
    Pinball's history is America's history, from gambling and war-themed machines to the arcade revolution and, ultimately, the decline of the need to leave your house. The strangest thing about pinball is that it persists, and not just as nostalgia. Pinball didn't just stick around—it grew and continues to evolve with the times. Somehow, in today's iPhone world, a three-hundred-pound monstrosity of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School

    by Adam Ruben ...
    This is a book for dedicated academics who consider spending years masochistically overworked and underappreciated as a laudable goal. They lead the lives of the impoverished, grade the exams of whiny undergrads, and spend lonely nights in the library or laboratory pursuing a transcendent truth that only six or seven people will ever care about. These suffering, unshaven sad sacks are grad ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Educating Elites

    Class Privilege and Educational Advantage

    by Beth Cooper Benjamin, Peter W. Cookson Jr, Raygine DiAquoi, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, Shamus Rahman Khan, Peter Kuriloff, June Newman-Graham, Sharon Ravitch, Michael Reichert, Joseph A. Soares, Brett Stoudt, Jenny M. Stuber ...
    The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned "down" toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study of poor and marginalized groups in public schools. Seldom have educational researchers considered ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Dragons Love Tacos/Dragones y tacos: A Bilingual Audiobook Collection

    by Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri ...
    Narrated by Adam Rubin, Rubén Trujillo ...

    Unabridged

    23 min

    Just in time for the holidays, the two bestselling audiobooks featuring everyone’s favorite dragons are available in a joint bilingual audiobook collection.Dragons Love Tacos and its companion, Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel, go together like tacos and salsa, and this audiobook collection makes purchasing both books a snap. Perfect for the holidays, birthdays, or any occasion. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks

    by Adam Carolla ...
    A couple years back, I was at the Phoenix airport bar. It was empty except for one heavy-set, gray bearded, grizzled guy who looked like he just rode his donkey into town after a long day of panning for silver in them thar hills. He ordered a Jack Daniels straight up, and that's when I overheard the young guy with the earring behind the bar asking him if he had ID. At first the old sea captain ... Read more

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  • I Was Told There'd Be Cake

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  • A Focus on Hope

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  • Not Taco Bell Material

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    In his second book, Adam Carolla—author of New York Times bestseller In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks and chart-topping podcaster—reveals all the stories behind how he came to be the angry middle-aged man he is today.Funnyman Adam Carolla is known for two things: hilarious rants about things that drive him crazy and personal stories about everything from his hardscrabble childhood to his slacker ... Read more

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  • Creating Multicultural Change on Campus

    by Raechele L. Pope, Amy L. Reynolds, John A. Mueller ...
    Embrace the best practices for initiating multicultural change in individuals, groups, and institutionsHigher education institutions have begun to take steps toward addressing multicultural issues on campuses, but more often than not, those in charge of the task have received little to no training in the issues that are paramount in serving culturally diverse students. Creating Multicultural ... Read more

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  • Why We Suck

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