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The Attica Turkey Shoot: Carnage, Cover-Up, and the Pursuit of Justice
Malcolm Bell · Skyhorse Publishing Pages: 416 Format: Print book
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The Attica Turkey Shoot tells a story that New York State did not want you to know. In 1971, following a prison riot at the Attica Correctional Facility, state police and prison guards slaughtered thirty-nine hostages and inmates and tortured more than one thousand men after they had surrendered.... |
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Daniel J Levitin · Dutton Pages: 292 Format: Print book
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From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process - especially in election season. It's raining... |
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The Handy Technology Answer Book
Naomi Balaban · Visible Ink Press Pages: 450 Format: Paperback
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Technology pervades our daily lives and modern society, and not just when it comes to computers and smart phones. Before there was the computer, there was the abacus. Before the smart phone, there was the telegraph and ball point pen. Electricity, penicillin, and the compass have all led to revolutionary... |
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2015 International Existing Building Code
International Code Council. · Delmar Pages: 306 Format: Book
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Learn the requirements needed to instill safety and stability in existing and historic buildings - without requiring full compliance with the new construction requirements in the building code. The 2015 INTERNATIONAL EXISTING BUILDING CODE SOFT COVER contains requirements intended to encourage... |
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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson · Riverhead Books Pages: 336 Format: Print book
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit... |
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Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Keep Your Property & Repay Debts Over Time
CARA O'NEILL · NOLO Pages: 416 Format: Paperback
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Are you considering filing for Chapter 13 bankruptcy? Use this plain-English guide to decide if a Chapter 13 case is right for you. Chapter 13 Bankruptcy explains how the process works, which debts will get discharged at the end of your bankruptcy case, how much you'll pay through your... |
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Machinery's Handbook Guide
John M Amiss · Industrial Press, Inc. Pages: 296 Format: Paperback
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Completely updated and revised to reflect the changes and additions made to the Machinery's Handbook, 30th Edition, the Machinery's Handbook Guide enables users to maximize the enormous practical value of the invaluable information in the Handbook. |
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Leaning on the Arc: A Personal History of Criminal Defense
M Gerald Schwartzbach · American Bar Association Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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Leaning on the Arc: A Personal History of Criminal Defense is a memoir by renowned trial lawyer M. Gerald Schwartzbach, who is perhaps best known for successfully defending actor Robert Blake against charges he had murdered his wife. Each chapter details a different trial in the author's... |
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Kevin Kelly · Viking Pages: 328 Format: Print book
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A New York Times BestsellerFrom one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our livesMuch of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological... |
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Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
Paul Collins · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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A delectable true-crime story of scandal and murder at America's most celebrated university.On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting... |
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
David Reich · Pantheon Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking book about how technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing controversies.Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze... |
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Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability: Getting & Keeping Your Benefits
David A Morton · NOLO Pages: 456 Format: Paperback
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Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability covers the criteria for getting disability benefits for back problems, heart and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, autoimmune diseases, mental issues like depression and anxiety, and 200 more medical conditions. Learn how to match the medical... |
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer A Doudna · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use.... |
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