Back Professional & Technical | December Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Professional & Technical  
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Kate Moore · Sourcebooks
Pages: 479
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller!"the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still." -- NPR Books The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark dangerThe Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

Nicholas Carr · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure and reveals something we already...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Popular Mechanics Gadget Planet: 150 Gizmos & Inventions that Changed the World

Popular Mechanics · Hearst
Format: Hardcover

These gadgets changed the world! In 2011, Popular Mechanics gathered a panel of experts—esteemed inventors, designers, tech gurus, even a moonwalking astronaut—to create a definitive list of 101 gadgets that changed the course of history. The feature was so popular that it became...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Working for Yourself: Law & Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers & Consultants

Stephen Fishman · NOLO; Ninth Edition edition
Format: Print book

Start your business off on the right foot Ready to be your own boss? Congratulations! This book provides all the legal and tax information you need. Whether you need to draft a contract, price your services, maximize your tax deductions, or sort out your benefits options, we've got you covered....
Read More check catalog
 
 
Ohio's Craft Beers: Discovering the Variety, Enjoying the Quality, Relishing the Experience

Paul L Gaston · Black Squirrel Books
Pages: 243
Format: Print book

Ohio's Craft Beers celebrates the variety of craft brewing in Ohio, offers appreciations of its quality, and reports on the renaissance of the brewer's art throughout the Buckeye State. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs, the book takes readers on a tour of more than 40 of Ohio's...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-Four Books That Can Change Lives.

David Denby · Henry Holt, 2015.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A bestselling author and distinguished critic goes back to high school to find out whether books can shape livesIt's no secret that millions of American teenagers, caught up in social media, television, movies, and games, don't read seriously-they associate sustained reading with duty or work,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing

Diane Ravitch · Haymarket Books
Format: Book

For too long so-called education reformers, mostly billionaires, politicians, and others with little or no background in teaching, have gotten away with using standardized testing to punish our nations youth and educators. Now, across the country, students are walking out, parents are opting...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

Kevin Kelly · Viking
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Quick & Legal Will Book

Denis Clifford · NOLO
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Organic: A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling

Peter Laufer · Lyons Pr
Pages: 275
Format: Print book

Part food narrative, part investigation, part adventure story, Organic is an eye-opening and entertaining look into the anything goes world behind the organic label. It is also a wakeup call about the dubious origins of food labeled organic. After eating some suspect organic walnuts that...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Stand Up to the IRS

Frederick W. Daily Attorney · NOLO
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback

IRS Bills? Get the information and strategies you need to deal with the taxman. Named a "Best Tax Book" by Entrepreneur.co The Internal Revenue Service can wreak havoc on your life. But now you can confront America's most intimidating government agency with confidence. Packed...
Read More check catalog
 
 
2017 / 2018 ASVAB For Dummies

Rod Powers · For Dummies
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

The bestselling enlistment test-prep - newly expanded and improved! Wanna join the military? Your first step is to take the ASVAB - the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. Your score on this important test helps determine your military career, so if you have a specific job in mind,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

Steven Kotler · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

It's the biggest revolution you've never heard of, and it's hiding in plain sight. Over the past decade, Silicon Valley executives like Eric Schmidt and Elon Musk, Special Operators like the Navy SEALs and the Green Berets, and maverick scientists like Sasha Shulgin and Amy Cuddy have turned...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System

Jerome F Buting · Harper
Pages: 339
Format: Hardcover

Interweaving his account of the Steven Avery trial at the heart of Making a Murderer with other high profile cases from his criminal defense career, attorney Jerome F. Buting explains the flaws in America's criminal justice system and lays out a provocative, persuasive blue-print for reform.Over...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business

Fred S. Steingold Attorney · Nolo; Eighth Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Most small business owners, can't afford to hire a lawyer to draft the legal documents they need in the course of day-to-day business. Now there's an affordable solution. Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business provides over 60 legal forms and documents and all the step-by-step...
Read More check catalog