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College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students
Jeffrey J. Selingo · New Harvest
Format: Book
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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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Book of Decamot
Stanley Jackson · Xlibris
Pages: 564
Format: Print book
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This ingenious book tells the story of how a simple family game based on telling a story using ten unconnected words grew into a unique creative writing programme. Packed with illustrative stories and screenplays, it will entertain and inspire you in equal measure as you discover that Decamot... |
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Follow Your Interests to Find the Right College
Janet Marthers · Wheatmark
Pages: 421
Format: Print book
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Follow Your Interests to Find the Right College is a different sort of college guide -- one that helps students and their families better understand the vast amount of options available for college based on a student's interests. Topics in this comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide include,... |
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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
Format: Paperback
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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
Format: Book
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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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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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The Smartphone: Anatomy of an Industry
Elizabeth Woyke · The New Press
Format: Print book
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We think we know everything about our smartphones. We use them constantly. We depend on them for every conceivable purpose. We are familiar with every inch of their compact frames. But there is more to the smartphone than meets the eye. How have smartphones shaped the way we socialize and interact?... |
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Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Leonard E. Burman · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Despite their passion and fury, contemporary Americans are remarkably clueless about how their tax system works. But with heated debates over taxation now roiling Congress and the nation, an understanding of our tax system is of vital importance. Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know®,... |
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LLC or Corporation?: How to Choose the Right Form for Your Business
Anthony Mancuso Attorney · NOLO; Sixth edition
Format: Paperback
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Decide whether to form an LLC or a corporation -- the most important decision you'll make for your business Your company has grown -- now it's time to upgrade your legal structure to something that will protect you and your assets, as well as provide other benefits. In other words,... |
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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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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Mary Roach · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 285
Format: Print book
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A New York Times / National Bestseller
"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles... |
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Hobby Farm Animals: A Comprehensive Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Rabbits, Goats, Pigs, Sheep, and Cattle
Sue Weaver · I5 Press
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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Eggs, meat, milk, wool, fur, feathers, and some priceless bucolic bliss. No hobby farm is complete without critters ... possibly a small herd peppering the field or a microflock flapping around the hen house or pond. A single information-packed volume with everything a hobby farmer needs... |
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The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath
Nicco Mele · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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How seemingly innocuous technologies are unsettling the balance of power by putting it in the hands of the masses - and what a world without "big" will mean for all of us.In The End of Big, social media pioneer, political and business strategist, and Harvard Kennedy School faculty... |
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