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Metrics That Matter: Counting What's Really Important to College Students

Zachary Bleemer - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback

Colleges sell themselves by the numbers -- rankings, returns on investments, and top-ten lists -- but these often mislead prospective students. What numbers should they really be paying attention to?High school and college students are inundated by indicators and rankings supposedly designed...
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Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

Barbara McQuade - Seven Stories Press
Format: Hardcover

An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practical solutions that can be pursued to strengthen the public, media, and truth-based politics. MSNBC's legal expert breaks down the ways disinformation has become a tool to drive voters to extremes,...
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Yale and Slavery: A History

David W. Blight - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investigate Yale University's historical involvement with slavery, the slave trade, and abolition....
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Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation

Kyle Edward Williams - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism.Recent controversies around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing and "woke capital" evoke an old idea: the Progressive Era vision of a socially responsible corporation....
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Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2022–2032 (Occupational Outlook Handbooks)

Bureau of Labor Statistics - Bernan Press
Format: Paperback

The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is the premier, nationally recognized source for career information. Especially designed to provide valuable up-to-date information, the Handbook is great for all individuals making decisions about their future including students about to graduate...
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Henke's Med-Math 10e: Dosage Calculation, Preparation & Administration

SUSAN BUCHHOLZ - LWW
Format: Paperback

A visually engaging, hands-on approach to solving problems, Henke's Med-Math: Dosage Calculation, Preparation, and Administration, 10th Edition, continues a successful tradition in training students to confidently calculate medication dosages and ensure safe, effective drug administration...
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The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor

Hamilton Nolan - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan. Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix it. Organized...
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GRE 5-Hour Quick Prep For Dummies (For Dummies (Career/education))

Ron Woldoff - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Fast, focused test prep to help you score your best on the GRE GRE 5-Hour Quick Prep For Dummies is your ticket to confidence and success on test day. Calm your jitters with an overview of test content, learn what to expect on the day of the exam, and take a short-form practice test with...
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Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

David Bellos - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we do.Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very...
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How to Steal a Presidential Election

Lawrence Lessig - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

From two distinguished experts on election law, an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen - by entirely legal means Even in the fast and loose world of the Trump White House, the idea that a couple thousand disorganized protestors storming the U.S. Capitol might...
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