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  For a Dollar and a Dream - State...

  Jonathan D. Cohen

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  Every week, one in eight Americans place a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot. Americans spend more on lottery tickets annually than on video streaming services, concert tickets, books, and movie tickets combined.The story of lotteries in the United States may seem straightforward: tickets are bought predominately by poor people driven by the wishful belief that they will overcome infinitesimal odds and secure lives of luxury. The reality is more complicated. For a Dollar and a Dream shows how, in an era of stagnant upward mobility, millions of Americans turned to the lottery as their only chance at achieving the American Dream. Gamblers were not the only ones who bet on betting. As voters revolted against higher taxes in the late twentieth century, states saw legalized gamblingas a panacea, a way of generating revenue without cutting public services or raising taxes. Alongside stories of lottery winners and losers, Jonathan Cohen shows how gamblers have used prayer to help them win a jackpot, how states tried to pay for schools with scratch-off tickets, and how lottery advertising has targeted lower income and nonwhite communities.For a Dollar and a Dream charts the untold history of the nation's lottery system, revealing how players and policymakers alike got hooked on hopes for a gambling windfall.

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  Cuba beyond the Beach - Stories...

  Karen Dubinksy

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  Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana’s residents—old Communist ladies, their sceptical offspring, musicians, underground vendors, entrepreneurial landlords, and poverty-stricken professors—go about their daily lives.As Cuba undergoes dramatic change, there is much to appreciate, and learn from, in the unlikely world Cubans have collectively built for themselves.A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Queen’s University Student Overseas Travel Fund - The Sonia Enjamio Fund, which funds Cuban/Canadian student exchange.

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  I Was a Really Good Mom Before I...

  Trisha Ashworth, Amy Nobile

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  Three hilarious and insightful books on getting through the challenges of modern motherhood—featuring interviews with moms around the country. 
   
  This bundle gives you three books for the price of two and includes: I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids, I’d Trade My Husband for a Housekeeper, and Dirty Little Secrets from Otherwise Perfect Moms. Popular authors Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile tackle the tough issues of twenty-first century parenthood and marriage with a frank, yet encouraging tone.  
   
  Interviewing hundreds of mothers (and fathers too), they extend a loving hand in the middle of the madness and help readers see their marriages and families in new lights.

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  21 Day English Guide for...

  HowExpert, Veronica Cordido

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  “21 Day English Guide for Tourists Visiting America" is a practical, concise and complete language book designed with our modern busy lifestyles in mind. This guide was designed to help speakers of another language quickly and efficiently master English skills for tourists.In order to do this, we have divided this book into 21 lessons to be mastered in 21 days, investing only one hour a day. Each lesson will cover a common scenario tourists will face when traveling to an English speaking country. 
  By the time you finish the 21 days, you should be able to communicate well in English when: 
  • Buying your tickets 
  • Checking in at the airport, going through security, and boarding the plane 
  • Requesting, asking, and answering questions while on the plane 
  • Claiming your bags and going through Immigration and Customs 
  • Renting a car or taking the bus, subway, a cab, or the train 
  • Making a hotel reservation and checking in/out 
  • Going to restaurants, bars, and coffee shops 
  • Going shopping and asking for prices (from clothing stores to pharmacies) 
  • Asking for directions 
  • Basic ways to express how you feel if you get sick. 
  • You will also find some important tips, and dos and don’ts when traveling to the USA. 
  About the Expert: 
  Veronica Cordido is an English-Spanish-English translator, English as a Second Language (ESL) instructor, and author of English and Spanish language guides and books designed for foreigners to master the basics of both languages fast and easily. Having been there as a foreigner more than 20 years ago, and having found in languages her passion, she combines the best of both experiences, the one as a student and the one as a teacher, into her own teaching methods. 
  HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

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  Print & Stamp Lab - 52 Ideas for...

  Traci Bunkers

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  "Tells readers how to turn everyday materials and objects into custom stamps and printmaking tools . . . The graphics are colorful and inspiring." —Barbara Delaney, Cloth Paper Scissors 
   
  Artist and popular workshop instructor Traci Bunkers can turn just about anything into an interesting stamp, printing block, or tool. In this book, she shows readers how to see overlooked, everyday objects in a new way, and how to "MacGyver" them like she does.  
   
  You'll learn to create fifty-two easy-to-use print blocks and stamp tools, all from inexpensive, ordinary, and unexpected materials—string, spools, bandages, flip flops, ear plugs, rubber bands, school erasers, and a slew of other repurposed and upcycled items. The book also shows how to use those simple tools to make gorgeous multi-layered prints and patterns that can be used to enhance journal covers, stationery, fabrics, accessories, and more.

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  The Whale Hunters

  Sebastian Junger

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  This piece, which appeared in Outside magazine in 1995 and was originally recorded for "Rough Water: Stories of Survival From The Sea," is about an old man, a Bequian harpooner, who uses a wooden sailboat to hunt humpback whales. The piece is an elegy of sorts--an unsentimental lament for something lost.

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