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College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students
Jeffrey J. Selingo · New Harvest |
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What is the value of a college degree? The four-year college experience is as American as apple pie. So is the belief that education offers a ticket to a better life. But with student-loan debt surpassing the $1 trillion mark and unemployment on the rise, people are beginning to question... |
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The Perfect Score Project: Uncovering the Secrets of the SAT
Debbie Stier · Harmony
Format: Hardcover |
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The Perfect Score Project is an indispensable guide to acing the SAT – as well as the affecting story of a single mom’s quest to light a fire under her teenage son. It all began as an attempt by Debbie Stier to help her high-school age son, Ethan, who would shortly be studying... |
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Traveling the Power Line: From the Mojave Desert to the Bay of Fundy
Julianne Couch · University of Nebraska Press; 0th edition edition |
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In our power-hungry world, all the talk about energy—what’s safe and what’s risky, what’s clean and what’s dirty, what’s cheap and what’s easy—tends to generate more heat than light. What, Julianne Couch wanted to know, is the real story on power... |
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Tax Deductions for Professionals
Stephen Fishman J.D. · NOLO; Tenth Edition edition |
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Reduce your tax burden with the only plain-English guide to deductions written especially for professionals. Winner of the Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award. Architects, lawyers, dentists, chiropractors, doctors and other licensed professionals are subject... |
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Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People's Justice
Karen Houppert · The New Press; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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On March 18, 1963, in one of its most significant legal decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that all defendants facing significant jail time have the constitutional right to a free attorney if they cannot afford their own. Fifty years later, 80 percent... |
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Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
Judith D. Schwartz · Chelsea Green Publishing; 1 edition
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback |
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From the Publisher"Judith Schwartz reminds us that sustainable range management is as much about the microbes in the soil and their feedback loops with cattle as it is about the cattle themselves. When I finally go home on the range to be composted, I want to be part of the miraculous... |
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