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The Complete Guide to Poultry Breeds: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply

Melissa Nelson · Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.
Format: Book

This book provides the details that every potential poultry breeder needs to create detailed plans for purchasing, raising, and breeding their new farm animals. You will learn about each of the more than 500 different breeds of poultry, from chickens to turkeys and ducks. Each breed will...
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The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation

Michael Cassutt · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

"The real book about the manned space program would be a book about George Abbey." - Richard Truly, former astronaut and Administrator of NASA One of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASA's history, George W. S. Abbey was called "the Dark Lord," "the...
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101 Law Forms for Personal Use

Nolo Editors · NOLO
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Reliable legal forms for common personal and family transactions At one time or another, we all need to get an agreement in writing. But where to start? 101 Law Forms for Personal Use makes it easy to create legal agreements and organize essential information. The plain-English instructions...
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The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World

Joel K Bourne Jr. · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 408
Format: Print book

"An urgent and at times terrifying dispatch from a distinguished reporter who has given heart and soul to his subject." -- Hampton Sides When the demographer Robert Malthus (1766-1834) famously outlined the brutal relationship between food and population, he never imagined the success...
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What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know

E.D. Hirsch Jr. · Delta; Revised edition
Format: Paperback

What should your child learn in the sixth grade How can you help him or her at home This book answers these important questions and more offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American sixth graders Featuring...
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Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

Alan Stern · Picador
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons' mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players.On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small...
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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World

Steven Johnson · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the New York Times-bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit...
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Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free: How to Decrease Cost and Increase Quality at American Universities

Robert Samuels · Rutgers University Press
Format: Hardcover

Universities tend to be judged by the test scores of their incoming students and not on what students actually learn once they attend these institutions. While shared tests and surveys have been developed, most schools refuse to publish the results. Instead, they allow such publications...
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A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System

Mark Thompson · Pegasus Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening and provocative tour of our solar system, from one of Britain's celebrated astronomists. Have you ever dreamed of being an astronaut, traveling through the universe on your very own space mission? What would it be like to tour the solar system, visiting the sun and the planets,...
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U.S. Immigration Made Easy

Ilona Bray J.D. · NOLO; Seventeenth Edition edition
Format: Print book

Ready to move to the USA? Here's the insider's guide you need! Want to live, work or travel in the United States? U.S. Immigration Made Easy has helped tens of thousands of people get a visa, green card or other immigration status. You'll learn: whether you and your family...
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Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard

Paul Collins · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A delectable true-crime story of scandal and murder at America's most celebrated university.On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting...
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U.S. Immigration Made Easy

Ilona Bray J.D. · NOLO
Pages: 688
Format: Print book

Many people have misconceptions about the complex tangle that is U.S. immigration law. Even a prospective immigrant with simple questions about who is eligible to come to the U.S. on a permanent or temporary basis will find the rules hard to interpret, and even harder to act upon. U.S....
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American Bar Association Guide to Wills and Estates, Fourth Edition: An Interactive Guide to Preparing Your Wills, Estates, Trusts, and Taxes

American Bar Association · Random House Reference; 4 edition
Format: Paperback

The American Bar Association Guide to Wills Estates, Fourth Edition, is the user-friendly guide that contains everything you need to know about planning an estate and preparing a will. It is organized in easy-to-follow chapters with sidebars containing tips, checklists, and key information,...
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How to Write a Killer SAT Essay: An Award-Winning Author's Practical Writing Tips on SAT Essay Prep

Tom Clements · Hit 'Em Up publishing
Format: Paperback

Why should you buy this book? Two reasons  The net is full of abstract information on WHAT to write my book is full of information on exactly HOW to write it. I include dozens of top-scoring, detailed essays from students of mine who have put my principles into practice. When you see step-by-step...
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Copyright Handbook, The: What Every Writer Needs to Know

Stephen Fishman J.D. · NOLO
Pages: 472
Format: Paperback

What copyright law protects... . and doesn't No writers like to see their hard work or creativity copied by others - or to be accused of copying. Fortunately, The Copyright Handbook provides everything you need to protect yourself Find information and forms to help you: register your work...
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