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Burglar's guide to the city.
Geoff Manaugh · Farrar
Pages: 304
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Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again.At the core of A Burglar's Guide to the City... |
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Common Core Standards For Parents For Dummies
Jared Myracle · For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book |
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A parents guide to understanding the Common Core educational standards Designed to ensure a similar level of job and college preparedness for students from all backgrounds and regions the Common Core standards have been adopted in states from coast to coast These new common standards are designed... |
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21st Century Robot: The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories
Brian David Johnson · Maker Media, Inc; 1 edition
Format: Book |
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When companies develop a new technology, do they ask how it might affect the people who will actually use it? That, more or less, sums up Brian David Johnsons duties as Intels futurist-in-residence. In this fascinating book, Johnson provides a collection of science fiction prototyping stories... |
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Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change
Orrin H Pilkey · Columbia University Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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With its 28-foot storm surge and 174 mph winds, 2005's Hurricane Katrina was responsible for nearly 2,000 deaths and more than $100 billion in damage. The event was only a preview of what will soon hit coastal communities as climate change increases the power of storms that can lay waste... |
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Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System
Jerome F Buting · Harpercollins
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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Interweaving an insider's account of the true crime saga driving Netflix sensation Making a Murderer with other controversial cases from his career, this powerful memoir from Steven Avery's defense attorney reveals the flaws in America's criminal justice system and puts forth a provocative,... |
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The Perfect Score Project: Uncovering the Secrets of the SAT
Debbie Stier · Harmony
Format: Hardcover |
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The Perfect Score Project is an indispensable guide to acing the SAT – as well as the affecting story of a single mom’s quest to light a fire under her teenage son. It all began as an attempt by Debbie Stier to help her high-school age son, Ethan, who would shortly be studying... |
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Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
William Deresiewicz · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 245
Format: Hardcover |
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A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be - but aren't - providing.As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest... |
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Mary Roach · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 285
Format: Print book |
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A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind... |
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Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
Jay Barbree · Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition ~1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, Americas modern hero, historys most famous space traveler, and the first man to walk on the moon. Yet shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Here for the first time... |
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Blake J. Harris · It Books
Format: Hardcover |
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Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized... |
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Quick & Legal Will Book
Denis Clifford · NOLO
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback |
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Make your own legal will, quickly & easily! If you want to create a will without the trouble, the Quick & Legal Will Book is the simplest and fastest way to reach your goal. Get the forms and step-by-step instructions to make a basic will that meets your needs with this all-in-one... |
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