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Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories

E D Hirsch · Harvard Education Press
Pages: 270
Format: Print book

In Why Knowledge Matters, influential scholar E. D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform and shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences. Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit,...
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Teaching Montessori in the Home: Pre-School Years: The Pre-School Years

Elizabeth G Hainstock · Plume
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

The great, pioneering achievement of Maria Montessori was to recognize the crucial importance of a child's first six years of development. During this time, a child's power of absorption are at their highest, and lifelong attitudes and patterns of learning are formed. It is for this very...
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

Daniel J Levitin · Dutton
Pages: 292
Format: Print book

From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process - especially in election season. It's raining...
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Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans

Simon Head · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

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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The New Horse-Powered Farm: Tools and Systems for the Small-Scale, Sustainable Market Grower

Stephen Leslie · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

In an era when fuel is a primary concern draft horses are seen by many as the solution to small-scale resilient farming with a closed-loop system Horses bring farmers back to the roots of what it means to work the land and present a viable model for a small farm that lasts while offering...
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The Public Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More

Stephen Fishman · NOLO; Seventh Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Need content? Find public domain works free for the taking! Even though you've always been told otherwise, writers and artists can copy other people's work and get away with it. Enter the world of the public domain, where everything is free for the taking, and the only secret...
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Leases & Rental Agreements

Marcia Stewart · NOLO
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Essential rental forms every landlord needs Looking for a quick way to create the key documents necessary for owning or managing rental property, including a legally valid lease or rental agreement? Leases & Rental Agreements provides the practical and legal information necessary you need....
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Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon

JEFFREY KLUGER · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumphIn August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three...
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2015 International Residential Code for One- and Two-Family Dwellings

International Code Council · ICC
Format: Book

This comprehensive code for homebuilding combines building, plumbing, mechanical, fuel gas, energy, and electrical provisions into a single resource. The 2015 INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL CODE FOR ONE- AND TWO- FAMILY DWELLINGS SOFT COVER uses these provisions to provide detailed insight into...
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HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship

Nadine Strossen · Oxford University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover

HATE dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony. We hear too many incorrect assertions that "hate speech" -- which...
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Graduate Programs in the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences 2015

Peterson's · Peterson's; 49 edition
Format: Hardcover

Peterson's Graduate Programs in the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences 2015 contains details on over 11,000 graduate programs of study across all relevant disciplines-including the arts and architecture, communications and media, psychology and counseling, political science and international...
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Graduate Programs in the Biological/Biomedical Sciences & Health-Related Medical Professions 2015

Peterson's · Peterson's; 49 edition
Format: Hardcover

Peterson's Graduate Programs in the Biological/Biomedical Sciences & Health-Related Medical Professions 2015 contains profiles of 6,750 graduate programs at over 1,200 institutions in the biological/biomedical sciences and health-related/medical professions. Informative data profiles...
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Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption

BENJAMIN RACHLIN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

During the last two decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and provides the clearest picture yet of the national scourge of wrongful conviction and of the opportunity for meaningful...
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2015 International Building Code

International Code Council · ICC
Format: Print book

Featuring the very latest industry standards in material design, the 2015 INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE SOFT COVER version offers up-to-date, comprehensive insight into the regulations surrounding the design and installation of building systems. It provides valuable structural, fire-, and life-...
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