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Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
David R Montgomery · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A MacArthur Fellow's impassioned call to make agriculture sustainable by ditching the plow, covering the soil, and diversifying crop rotations.The problem of agriculture is as old as civilization. Throughout history, great societies that abused their land withered into poverty or disappeared... |
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Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
Tim Fernholz · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The inside story of the new race to conquer space, as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos spend billions of their own money to explore the final frontier For the larger‑than‑life personalities now staking their fortunes on the development of rocket ships, the new race to explore space... |
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I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
MATT TAIBBI · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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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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Electronics All-in-One For Dummies
Doug Lowe · For Dummies
Pages: 864
Format: Print book
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A comprehensive collection of 8 books in 1 offering electronics guidance that can't be found anywhere else! If you know a breadboard from a breadbox but want to take your hobby electronics skills to the next level, this is the only reference you need. Electronics All-in-One For Dummies... |
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Brown V. Board of Education
Diane Telgen · Omnigraphics
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover
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Provides a narrative of the events leading from slavery to segregation, the organizations that sought parity in education, the road to the Supreme Court, the crises that resulted, and the legacy of the 1954 decision. |
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark · Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology - and there's nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark,... |
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Lesson Plan: An Agenda for Change in American Higher Education
William G Bowen · Princeton University Press
Pages: 184
Format: Print book
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American higher education faces some serious problems--but they are not the ones most people think. In this brief and accessible book, two leading experts show that many so-called crises--from the idea that typical students are drowning in debt to the belief that tuition increases are being... |
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U.S. Immigration Made Easy
Ilona Bray J.D. · NOLO
Pages: 688
Format: Print book
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Many people have misconceptions about the complex tangle that is U.S. immigration law. Even a prospective immigrant with simple questions about who is eligible to come to the U.S. on a permanent or temporary basis will find the rules hard to interpret, and even harder to act upon. U.S.... |
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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
TED GENOWAYS · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
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Is there still a place for the farm in today's America?The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a small ranch, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in York County,... |
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Breaking Through: Using Educational Technology for Children with Special Needs
Barbara Albers Hill · Square One Publishers
Pages: 143
Format: Paperback
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While one-on-one therapy is certainly beneficial, for some children, the process of developing social skills, manual dexterity, and educational competency presents much more of a challenge. Fortunately, the introduction of new and easy-to-use technological devices has created a quiet revolution... |
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Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
Cory Doctorow · McSweeney's
Format: Hardcover
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In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow's Information Doesn't Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This... |
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Forensic Science
Ayn Embar-seddon O'reilly · Salem Press
Pages: 1200
Format: Hardcover - Revised Ed.
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This completely updated, new edition of Forensic Science approaches its subject from multiple directions. One primary approach is from the points of view of forensic investigators. In addition to its core essays on subspecialties and allied fields, the set has essays on specific types of investigations,... |
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