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Think big and kick ass in business and life

2007
Trump is an icon: the very definition of the American success story. Bill Zanker started The Learning Annex with $5,000 of his own money. After meeting Donald Trump, Zanker learned to Think BIG himself and grew The Learning Annex from a $5 million-a-year company into one that's over $100 million a year in sales, and still growing. Here, you too can learn Trump's secrets to thinking BIG! Learn: momentum: how to get it and how to get it back; revenge: how and when to get it; why contracts in business and personal life are so important. Plus real-life stories from people who've applied the think BIG formula in their own lives.--From publisher description.

Tigers in red weather

a quest for the last wild tigers
2006
Ruth Padel, the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin, recounts her efforts to save the world's tigers from extinction, describing her journeys into the wild searching for wild tigers in their true habitat.

Dead certain

the presidency of George W. Bush
2007
Robert Draper offers an inside look at George W. Bush's administration, with special emphasis on the role Bush's strong personality has played on his choices and actions while in office, as well as the country's response to those actions.

The family

the real story of the Bush dynasty
2004
A biography of the Bush family that focuses on Senator Prescott Sheldon Bush and Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, describing their personal lives and political careers.

Platoon leader

1985
Describes the author's transition from a green, wide-eyed newcomer to a seasoned combat veteran establishing authority over the men of his platoon, gaining their trust and coping with the responsibilities of life and death amidst the brutality of war.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

activist first lady
1994
Close up look at first Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton from her childhood through her college years to the White House.

The accidental president

how 413 lawyers, 9 Supreme Court justices, and 5,963,110 (give or take a few) Floridians landed George W. Bush in the White House
2001
Offers a behind-the-scenes look at the events surrounding the 2000 presidential election, explaining how the thirty-seven days during which the election results were contested changed the nation's view of politics and government.

Philip Pullman

master of fantasy
2006
Examines the life and career of British writer Philip Pullman, the award-winning author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, looking at the themes in his work, events that have influenced his stories, and debates over his depictions of religion and science.

George W. Bush

from Texas to the White House
2003
Examines the life of George W. Bush, discussing his childhood in Texas, his youth and college years, his work as an oil man and owner of a baseball team, and his political career as governor of Texas, and president of the United States.

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