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IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans: Strategies for Taking Your Money Out

Twila Slesnick PhD · NOLO
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Take cash out of your retirement plan while avoiding taxes and penalties If you have a retirement plan, IRAs, 401(k) s & Other Retirement Plans is your comprehensive guide on taking money out of it. Make sense of the complex tax rules governing when you can take money out of your...
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Chasing the Demon: A Secret History of the Quest for the Sound Barrier, and the Band of American Aces Who Conquered It

DAN HAMPTON · William Morrow
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot chronicles another thrilling chapter in American aviation history: the race to break the sound barrier.In the aftermath of World War II, the United States accelerated the development of technologies that would give it an advantage over...
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CNA Exam Prep: Nurse Assistant Practice Test Questions

Jane John-Nwankwo · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Book

CNA Exam Prep is a bank of more than 400 practice test questions for nurse assistants. Questions were chosen from different areas of nursing care to enhance comprehensive review.
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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

ZACH WEINERSMITH · Penguin Press
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover

From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation into future technologies -- from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing What will the world of tomorrow be like?...
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Mary Roach · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 285
Format: Print book

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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Fires in the Mind: What Kids Can Tell Us About Motivation and Mastery

Kathleen Cushman · Jossey-Bass
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Teens talk to adults about how they develop motivation and mastery Through the voices of students themselves, Fires in the Mind brings a game-changing question to teachers of adolescents: What does it take to get really good at something? Starting with what they already know and do well,...
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The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth

MICHIO KAKU · Doubleday
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies.Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization...
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EY Tax Guide 2015

Ernst & Young · Wiley; 3 edition
Format: Print book

File taxes with confidence and maximize deductions with this industry-leading guide EY Tax Guide 2015 is your solution for a streamlined filing process. Authoritative and easy to follow, this trusted guide is designed to be accessible for individuals who need help navigating these turbulent...
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The Grants Register 2011: The Complete Guide to Postgraduate Funding Worldwide

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd · Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 1104
Format: Hardcover

The most comprehensive guide available to postgraduate grants and professional funding worldwide. For twenty-nine years the leading source for up to date information on the availability of, and eligibility for, postgraduate and professional awards. Each entry is verified by its awarding...
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Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science

Carey Gillam · Island Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

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The Grants Register 2015: The Complete Guide to Postgraduate Funding Worldwide

Palgrave Macmillan · Palgrave Macmillan; Thirty-Third Edition, Revised edition
Format: Hardcover

The Grants Register 2015Thirty-third Edition The most authoritative and comprehensive guide available to postgraduate and professional funding worldwide International coverage of grants in 51 countries, both English and non-English speaking Almost 1,200 awarding bodies provide...
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I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street

MATT TAIBBI · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police - from the bestselling author of The Divide "[A] searing exposé . . . What emerges from the author's superb reporting and vivid writing...
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Richard Posner

William Domnarski · Oxford University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Judge Richard Posner is one of the great legal minds of our age, on par with such generation-defining judges as Holmes, Hand, and Friendly. A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the principal exponent of the enormously influential law and economics movement, he writes...
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The Comparative Guide to American Elementary & Secondary Schools 2014 / 2015: Covers All Public School Districts Serving 1,500 or More Students ... to American Elementary and Secondary Schools)

Grey House Publishing · Grey House Publishing
Pages: 1000
Format: Paperback

The only guide of its kind, offering a snapshot profile of every public school district in the United States serving 1,500 or more students-more than 5,900 districts are covered. Organized alphabetically by district within state, each chapter begins with a two-page Statistical Overview...
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I Got Schooled: The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing America's Education Gap

M. Night Shyamalan · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

I Got Schooled offers a look at Americas educational achievement gap that could only have come from an outsider Famed director M Night Shyamalan has long had a serious interest in education The foundation he and his wife started once gave college scholarships to promising inner-city students...
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