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The TAB Book of Arduino Projects: 36 Things to Make with Shields and Proto Shields

Simon Monk · McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition
Format: Book

The ultimate collection of DIY Arduino projects! In this easy-to-follow book, electronics guru Simon Monk shows you how to create a wide variety of fun and functional gadgets with the Arduino Uno and Leonardo boards. Filled with step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations, The TAB Book...
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Patent, Copyright & Trademark: An Intellectual Property Desk Reference

Richard Stim Attorney · NOLO
Pages: 632
Format: Paperback

A plain-English guide to intellectual property law. Whether you are in the world of business or creative arts, you need to understand the laws that govern your work. But given the convoluted terminology that surrounds patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights,...
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Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Keep Your Property & Repay Debts Over Time

Stephen Elias · NOLO
Pages: 401
Format: Paperback

This plain-English guide to decide if Chapter 13 is right for you and to learn how to keep valuable property and discharge your unsecured debts. Chapter 13 legal concepts, procedures, and monetary calculations can be tricky. Nolo's Chapter 13 Bankruptcy breaks down the Chapter 13 process...
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Common Core Math Grade 6: Activities That Captivate, Motivate, & Reinforce

Marjorie Frank · Incentive Publications; Csm Wkb edition
Format: Book

A collection of motivating and fun activities perfectly aligned with sixth grade Common Core State Standards for Mathematics Full of engaging puzzles, stories, and adventures, these supplemental activities deepen student understanding and reinforce specific math skills. Connections...
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Garden Legacy

Mary Louise Christovich · The Historic New Orleans Collection
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover

Garden Legacy accords the French-American tradition of landscape design and horticultural study its rightful place in transatlantic cultural history. French settlers in New Orleans adapted garden prototypes from the era of Louis XIV to the more abundant plant life yet smaller-scale gardens...
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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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Breaking Through: Using Educational Technology for Children with Special Needs

Barbara Albers Hill · Square One Publishers
Pages: 143
Format: Paperback

While one-on-one therapy is certainly beneficial, for some children, the process of developing social skills, manual dexterity, and educational competency presents much more of a challenge. Fortunately, the introduction of new and easy-to-use technological devices has created a quiet revolution...
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Advanced Common Core Math Explorations: Factors and Multiples

Jerry Burkhart · Prufrock Press
Format: Book

Students become mathematical adventurers in these challenging and engaging activities designed to deepen and extend their understanding of concepts from the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics. The investigations in this book stretch students mathematical imaginations to their limits...
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The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter

Greg Toppo · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

What if schools, from the wealthiest suburban nursery school to the grittiest urban high school, thrummed with the sounds of deep immersion? More and more people believe that can happen - with the aid of video games. Greg Toppo's The Game Believes in You presents the story of a small...
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Let's Talk About Math: The LittleCounters® Approach to Building Early Math Skills

Donna Kotsopoulos Ph.D. · Brookes Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Math cant wait. Children who can count with ease before kindergarten have a better shot at future mathematics success—and with this book, its simple and fun to weave counting and other math concepts into everyday activities. Drawn from the authorsâ playful and popular LittleCounters...
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Copyright Handbook, The: What Every Writer Needs to Know

Stephen Fishman JD · NOLO; Twelfth Edition edition
Format: Book

This must-have handbook for writers and artists provides every necessary form to protect written expression under U.S. and international copyright law. With step-by-step instructions, it illustrates how to register a written work with the copyright office determine what works can be protected...
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Bridge to Brilliance : How One Principal in a Tough Community Is Inspiring the World

Nadia Lopez · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"The story of Mott Hall Bridges Academy is the story of American education. Nadia Lopez . . . must be a principal, a mentor, and sometimes a mother. I hope that you're as impressed by her dedication to these kids as I've been." - Brandon Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling...
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Nolo's Patents for Beginners: Quick & Legal

David Pressman Attorney · NOLO
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback

A brilliantly clear and up-to-date patent guide Patent law is changing, and this bestselling primer on patent law has up-to-date information on the America Invents Act, the most important change to American patent law in two centuries. Packed with detailed information, Nolo's Patents...
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Electronics Workshop Companion for Hobbyists

Stan Gibilisco · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 259
Format: Print book

Set up your own home electronics workshop In this practical guide, electronics expert Stan Gibilisco shows you, step by step, how to set up a home workshop so you can invent, design, build, test, and repair electronic circuits and gadgets. Electronics Workshop Companion for Hobbyists provides...
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McGraw-Hill Education ASVAB, Fourth Edition

Janet E Wall · Mcgraw-Hill Education
Pages: 639
Format: Print book

The updated, complete guide for preparing for the ASVAB, the required entrance exam for all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces Each year one million people take the ASVAB exam. Sponsored by the Department of Defense, the exam is administered year-round in high schools and at recruiting centers...
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