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My ’70s Book: The "When I Was A Kid…" Book For The Generation That Grew Up In The ’70s lets you remember the music, the movies, the cars, the toys, the fashions, and so much more as your sentimental recollections play once again before you like a worn out 8mm movie in your mind.

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Boys’ Toys of the 70’s & 80’s: Toy Pages From the Legendary Sears Christmas Wishbooks 1970-1989 is a thick, 192 page book is jammed with authorized reprints of rare Sears, Roebuck and Co. Christmas "Wishbook" pages.

Organized by year from 1970 through 1989, these selected pages have all the great toys collectors want to know about

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Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies is an even-handed, reliable, comprehensive, and remarkably concise account of a decade whose events transformed the nation.

Watergate, Vietnam, the oil embargo, the rights revolution, stagflation, New York City’s fiscal meltdown, Three Mile Island, the Iran hostage crisis, The Godfather, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Berkowitz synthesizes all these — and more

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How We Got Here: The 70’s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life–For Better or Worse is a relentlessly smart book full of colorful anecdotes and deft pop-culture references, by author David Frum who describes the social convulsions of the 1970s.

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It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: America in the 1970s is a compelling and persuasive challenge to the journalistic characterization of the ’70s as the ‘Me Decade.’

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The Great Funk: Styles of the Shaggy, Sexy, Shameless 1970s. Populuxe throws the reader into a wonderful time machine, conjuring up the mood of the day as well as its distinctive look.

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The 1970s (American Popular Culture Through History) surveys the landscape of American popular culture during the 1970s.

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A professor of history and director of American Studies at Boston University, Schulman has fashioned a sprightly, neatly detailed and enlightening history of a period that many historians have written off as an uneventful time. View: The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics

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Tucked between the activist Sixties and the conservative Eighties lies a largely misunderstood and still under-appreciated decade.

Now nine leading scholars of postwar America offer a revealing look at the Seventies and their rightful place in the epic narrative of American history in America in the Seventies

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The first 70 pages of The 4-Hour Workweek are extremely engaging and well worth the price of the book.

A unique life plan by Tim Ferriss, author of “The 4 Hour Work Week” lets us live the lifestyle of a millionaire, while working just 4 hours a week.

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Does your corporate career leave you stressed out, burned out, or just plain bummed out? You’re not alone.

The good news is that there’s a way out- and its in Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams.

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Supercharged Retirement: Ditch the Rocking Chair, Trash the Remote, and Do What You Love is a valuable wake-up call, particularly if you’ve been focused on financial planning alone.

It will challenge your assumptions about this stage of life, refocus your sense of what’s possible, rekindle your passions, and reawaken your drive to spend your time, energy, and resources on what’s important to you.

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Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills And Talent is an excellent book about the impact of the upcoming retirement of the baby boomer generation.

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The Power Years: A User’s Guide to the Rest of Your Life is your step-by-step guide to re-powerment and personal reinvention after forty.

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