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Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
JEFFREY KLUGER · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumphIn August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three... |
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"So What Are You Going to Do with That?": Finding Careers Outside Academia, Third Edition
Maggie Debelius · University Of Chicago Press; Third Edition edition
Format: Book
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Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of PhDs and MAs every year. Yet more than half of all college courses are taught by adjunct faculty, which means that the chances of an academic landing a tenure-track job seem only to shrink as student loan and credit card debts grow. What’s... |
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The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter
Greg Toppo · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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What if schools, from the wealthiest suburban nursery school to the grittiest urban high school, thrummed with the sounds of deep immersion? More and more people believe that can happen - with the aid of video games. Greg Toppo's The Game Believes in You presents the story of a small... |
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The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them
Christopher Newfield · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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Higher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a decade, the realm of American higher education has been wracked with... |
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College Tuition: Four Decades of Financial Deception
Dr. Robert V. Iosue · Blue River Press
Format: Hardcover
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College Tuition erases the notion that colleges are automatically trusted places of reverence. When it comes to finances, colleges lust for money and self-interest knows no bounds. The higher education system is broken and its future depends on developing a more productive mode of operation.... |
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AutoCAD 2019 3D Modeling
Munir Hamad · Mercury Learning & Information
Pages: 450
Format: Paperback
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This book provides new and seasoned users with step-by-step procedures on creating and modifying 3D models, working with cameras and lights, assigning materials to objects, rendering, and printing. Unlike many AutoCAD competitors, it uses both metric and imperial units to illustrate the myriad... |
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Building a Parenting Agreement That Works: Child Custody Agreements Step by Step
Mimi Lyster Zemmelman · NOLO; Eighth edition
Format: Paperback
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Avoid custody battles -- save time, money and grief Working out a fair and realistic child custody agreement is one of the most difficult tasks for parents going through a divorce or separation. Building a Parenting Agreement That Works is the only book to show separating or divorcing... |
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Supercommunicator: Explaining the Complicated So Anyone Can Understand
Frank J. Pietrucha · AMACOM
Format: Paperback
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In our increasingly complicated and data-driven world, many new developments are so complex that only experts comprehend their nuances. But what they don't grasp is how to tell the world about them. Communicating technical content to nontechnical listeners has fast become a critical... |
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The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger
Elizabeth H Blackburn · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 398
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease... |
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Write It Off! Deduct It!: The A-to-Z Guide to Tax Deductions for Home-Based Businesses
Bernard B. Kamoroff C.P.A. · Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Print book
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Are you paying more taxes than you have to? There are more than nineteen million home-based businesses in the United States—56 percent of all businesses—and they generate 102 billion in annual revenue. As far as the IRS is concerned, a home business is no different than any other business.... |
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