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War Play: Video Games and the Future of Armed Conflict

Corey Mead · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A behind-the-scenes look at how the military uses video game technology to train soldiers, treat veterans, and entice new recruits How does the U.S. military train its soldiers for new forms of armed conflict, all within the constraints of diminished defense budgets? Increasingly, the answer...
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A Student's Guide to Law School: What Counts, What Helps, and What Matters

Andrew B. Ayers · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback

Law school can be a joyous, soul-transforming challenge that leads to a rewarding career. It can also be an exhausting, self-limiting trap. It all depends on making smart decisions. When every advantage counts, A Student’s Guide to Law School is like having a personal mentor available...
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Parent Involvement: Collaboration Is the Key for Every Child's Success

Michele Wages · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 98
Format: Hardcover

In today's economy, where getting a good education has never been more important and school resources are stretched beyond points that most of us can remember, it is imperative that parents be fully engaged in their child's education, both at home and at school. Parents play an integral...
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The Essential Executor's Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource for Dealing With Wills, Trusts, Benefits, and Probate

David G Hoffman · The Career Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Many of you, regardless of your feelings on the matter, will eventually be appointed as executor of your parents', spouse's, or another's estate.Just calling an attorney isn't enough. Settling a decedent's estate may require the combined expertise of accountants, appraisers,...
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Makers: The New Industrial Revolution

Chris Anderson · Crown Business; First edition
Format: Hardcover

Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop.  In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product...
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Each Day: A Veteran Educator's Guide to Raising Children

Z Vance Wilson · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 172
Format: Print book

In vibrant prose, Z. Vance Wilson offers insight to anyone, whether parent or teacher, responsible for guiding children on the joyous, difficult, and ever-unpredictable path to becoming their best selves intellectually, socially, morally, and spiritually. With judiciousness, good will,...
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The Hidden Link Between Vision and Learning: Why Millions of Learning-Disabled Children Are Misdiagnosed

Wendy Rosen · Rowman and Littlefield
Pages: 183
Format: Print book

Vision, in all its complexity, is more than meets the eye. The knowledge that lies between the covers of this book will define, with depth and clarity, what this magnificent sense actually encompasses and why it is critical to the learning process. Far beyond 20/20, vision involves more...
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CliffsNotes Guide to the edTPA Assessment: Navigating the edTPA Process

Jane R Burstein · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

A teacher certification guide for the new edTPA portfolio-based assessment The edTPA Assessment measures teachers' ability to develop lesson plans and adjust them to the needs of their students, to teach in the classroom, and to analyze whether their students are learning. Teacher candidates...
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