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Her Body, Our Laws: On the Front Lines of the Abortion War, from El Salvador to Oklahoma
Michelle Oberman · Beacon Press
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
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With stories from the front lines, a legal scholar journeys through distinct legal climates to understand precisely why and how the war over abortion is being fought.Drawing on her years of research in El Salvador - the only country to ban abortion without exception - legal scholar Michelle... |
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Living Roofs in Integrated Urban Water Systems
Daniel Roehr · Taylor & Francis Group
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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With the infrastructure to manage storm water threats in cities becoming increasingly expensive to build or repair, the design community needs to look at alternative approaches. Living roofs present an opportunity to compliment ground-level storm water control measures, contributing to a holistic,... |
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The Executor's Guide: Settling a Loved One's Estate or Trust
Mary Randolph · NOLO; Sixth Edition edition
Format: Book
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The step-by-step guide to serving as an executor. If you need to wrap up the affairs of a loved one who has died, you may feel overwhelmed - especially when you're grieving. But you can do it, and this book will show you how. A roadmap to follow. The Executor's Guide will lead... |
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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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What Your Third Grader Needs to Know
E.D. Hirsch Jr. · Bantam
Pages: 528
Format: Print book
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Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated What Your Third Grader Needs to Know What should your child learn in the third grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands... |
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Raspberry Pi Cookbook
Simon Monk · O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA
Pages: 393
Format: Paperback
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The world of Raspberry Pi is evolving quickly, with many new interface boards and software libraries becoming available all the time. In this cookbook, prolific hacker and author Simon Monk provides more than 200 practical recipes for running this tiny low-cost computer with Linux, programming... |
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Staff-Less Libraries: Innovative Staff Design
Carl G Johannsen · Chandos Publishing
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
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Staff-Less Libraries: Innovative Staff Design considers the challenges of this approach, its pros and cons, identifies international experiences, and discusses best practices. It presents a step-by-step approach to implementing a staffless library and/or services, and seeks to inspire professionals... |
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Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up
Philip N. Howard · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Should we fear or welcome the internet’s evolution? The “internet of things” is the rapidly growing network of everyday objects—eyeglasses, cars, thermostats—made smart with sensors and internet addresses. Soon we will live in a pervasive yet invisible network... |
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Stand Your Ground: A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense
Caroline E Light · Beacon Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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A history of America's Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon MartinIn the aftermath of the 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, conservative legislators and school administrators shocked some observers when they proposed armed "public school patrols"... |
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Form Your Own Limited Liability Company
ANTHONY MANCUSO · NOLO
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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Make your business an LLCS Structuring your business as an LLC can bring important advantages: It lets you limit your personal liability for business debts and simplify your taxes. Here, you'll find the key legal forms you need to create an LLC in your state, including: LLC articles... |
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Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans
Simon Head · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs) - the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide... |
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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
ZACH WEINERSMITH · Penguin Press
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover
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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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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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