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Common Core Standards For Parents For Dummies
Jared Myracle · For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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A parents guide to understanding the Common Core educational standards Designed to ensure a similar level of job and college preparedness for students from all backgrounds and regions the Common Core standards have been adopted in states from coast to coast These new common standards are designed... |
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Women and Leadership
Deborah L. Rhode · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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For most of recorded history, men have held nearly all of the most powerful leadership positions. Today, although women occupy an increasing percentage of leadership positions, in America they hold less than a fifth of positions in both the public and private sectors. The United States... |
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The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir
Thomas Dolby · Flatiron Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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The remarkable story of rising to the top of the music charts, a second act as a tech pioneer, and the sustaining power of creativity and art.Thomas Dolby's hit songs "She Blinded Me with Science" and "Hyperactive!" catapulted him to international fame in the early... |
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Fiancé and Marriage Visas: A Couple's Guide to U.S. Immigration
Ilona Bray JD · NOLO
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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Obtain a visa and stay with your spouse in the U.S. You're engaged or married to a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, and all you want is the right to be together in the U.S. Should be simple, right? It's not. The pile of application forms can be overwhelming, the bureaucracy... |
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Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America
Brian McGinty · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 259
Format: Print book
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The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight.In the early hours of May 6, 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge -- the first railroad bridge ever to span the Mississippi... |
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Blake J. Harris · It Books
Format: Hardcover
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Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized... |
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Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
Rachel Botsman · PublicAffairs
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust?From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust--far from it. In this revolutionary book, world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipping... |
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Help Your Kids with Study Skills
Carol Vorderman · DK Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Help Your Kids with Study Skills is a unique step-by-step visual guide with invaluable advice on how to support your child's classwork, homework, and revision, with effective study methods that suit a range of learning styles for the third grade level and beyond.From exploring your child's... |
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Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
William Deresiewicz · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 245
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be - but aren't - providing.As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest... |
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson · Riverhead Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life... |
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Building a Parenting Agreement That Works: Child Custody Agreements Step by Step
Mimi Lyster Zemmelman · NOLO; Eighth edition
Format: Paperback
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Avoid custody battles -- save time, money and grief Working out a fair and realistic child custody agreement is one of the most difficult tasks for parents going through a divorce or separation. Building a Parenting Agreement That Works is the only book to show separating or divorcing... |
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