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The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir
Thomas Dolby · Flatiron Books Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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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 80's.... |
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Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
Carol S Steiker · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Pages: 390 Format: Print book
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Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial... |
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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
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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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Open Concept Houses
FRANCESC ZAMORA · Harper Design Pages: 480 Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the successful 150 Best series comes the debut entry in the forward-thinking Open Concept Houses series, filled with nearly 500 pages of color photos - sure to become the ultimate resource for this fast-growing trend in home design and renovation.One of the hottest lifestyle... |
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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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Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime
Val Mcdermid · Grove Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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In the course of researching her best-selling books, McDermid has become familiar with many branches of forensics, and now she uncovers the history of this science and the people who make sure that for murderers, there is no hiding place. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past... |
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Private Secondary Schools 2014-15
Peterson's · Peterson's; 35 edition Format: Print book
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Peterson's Private Secondary Schools 2014-15 is a valuable resource to help parents and students evaluate and choose from more than 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and throughout the world. Featured institutions include independent day schools, special-needs schools, and boarding... |
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The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
Adam Piore · Ecco Pages: 400 Format: Print book
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For millennia, humans have tried - and often failed - to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier is the human body: the greatest engineers of our generation have turned their sights inward, and their work is beginning to revolutionize... |
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Tesla Vs Edison: The Life-Long Feud that Electrified the World
Nigel Cawthorne · Chartwell Books Pages: 192 Format: Print book
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Nikola Tesla today is largely unknown and overlooked among the great scientists of the modern era. While Thomas Edison, the most famous inventor in American history, gets all the glory for discovering the light bulb. But it was his one-time assistant and life-long arch nemesis, Tesla, who made... |
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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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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Safiya Umoja Noble · NYU Press Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms Run a Google search for "black girls" - what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But,... |
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