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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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Two-Year Colleges 2016
Peterson's · Peterson Nelnet Co Pages: 448 Format: Paperback
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Peterson's Two-Year Colleges 2016 includes information on nearly 1,900 accredited two-year undergraduate institutions in the United States and Canada, as well as some international schools. It also includes detailed two-page descriptions written by admissions personnel. College-bound... |
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Two-Year Colleges 2015
Peterson's · Peterson's; 45 edition Format: Book
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Petersons Two-Year Colleges 2015 includes information on more than 1,900 accredited two-year undergraduate institutions in the United States and Canada, as well as some international schools. It also includes detailed two-page descriptions written by admissions personnel. College-bound... |
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Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works
Elizabeth Green · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Print book
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book A must-read book for every American teacher and taxpayer. Amanda Ripley, author of The Smartest Kids in the WorldLaunched with a hugely popular New York Times Magazine cover story, Building a Better Teacher sparked a national conversation about... |
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Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works
Elizabeth Green · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A 2014 New York Times Book Review Notable BookWe've all had great teachers who opened new worlds, maybe even changed our lives. What made them so great?Everyone agrees that a great teacher can have an enormous impact. Yet we still don't know what, precisely, makes a teacher great.... |
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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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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
ZACH WEINERSMITH · Penguin Press Pages: 358 Format: Hardcover
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From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation into future technologies -- from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing What will the world of tomorrow be like?... |
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Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System
Jerome F Buting · Harper Pages: 339 Format: Hardcover
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Interweaving his account of the Steven Avery trial at the heart of Making a Murderer with other high profile cases from his criminal defense career, attorney Jerome F. Buting explains the flaws in America's criminal justice system and lays out a provocative, persuasive blue-print for reform.Over... |
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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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Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Dan-el Padilla Peralta · Penguin Press Pages: 312 Format: Print book
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An undocumented immigrant's journey from a New York City homeless shelter to the top of his Princeton classDan-el Padilla Peralta has lived the American dream. As a boy, he came here legally with his family. Together they left Santo Domingo behind, but life in New York City was harder than... |
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The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed
Scott Parazynski · Little A Format: Hardcover
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"Scott Parazynski's drive, curiosity, inventiveness, and great humor shine through the pages of The Sky Below and will certainly inspire future generations to pursue their dreams with every fiber in their being." - John Glenn, NASA astronautAn epic memoir from a man whose life... |
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Private Secondary Schools 2016-2017
Peterson'S. · Peterson'S, 2016. Format: Print book
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Peterson's Private Secondary Schools 2016-17 is a valuable resource to help parents and students evaluate and choose from the overwhelming number of private secondary schools in the United States, Canada, and throughout the world. Featured institutions include independent day schools,... |
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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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