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2017 / 2018 ASVAB For Dummies
Rod Powers · For Dummies
Pages: 496
Format: Print book
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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,... |
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More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing
Diane Ravitch · Haymarket Books
Format: Book
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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... |
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Organic: A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling
Peter Laufer · Lyons Pr
Pages: 275
Format: Print book
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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... |
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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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Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System
Jerome F Buting · Harper
Pages: 339
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Caitlin Doughty · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut's... |
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Popular Mechanics Gadget Planet: 150 Gizmos & Inventions that Changed the World
Popular Mechanics · Hearst
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
Nicholas Carr · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures
Derek Diedricksen · Storey Books
Pages: 255
Format: Print book
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If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you'll love this gorgeous collection of creative and inspiring ideas for tiny houses, cabins, forts, studios, and other microshelters. Created by a wide array of builders and designers around... |
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101 Law Forms for Personal Use
Nolo Editors · NOLO
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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Reliable legal forms for common personal and family transactions At one time or another, we all need to get an agreement in writing. But where to start? 101 Law Forms for Personal Use makes it easy to create legal agreements and organize essential information. The plain-English instructions... |
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Apollo's Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings
Roger D. Launius · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon.
President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970.... |
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River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey
Helen Prejean · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In this revelatory, intimate memoir from the author of Dead Man Walking, the nation's foremost leader in efforts to abolish the death penalty shares the story of her growth as a spiritual leader, speaks out about the challenges of the Catholic Church, and shows that joy and religion... |
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