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Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice
Nikhil Goyal · Doubleday, an Imprint of Penguin Random House,
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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An all-in attack on the American way of education and a hopeful blueprint for change by one of the most passionate and certainly youngest (twenty) writers of this subject. Are America's schools little more than cinder-block gulags that spawn vicious cliques and bullying, negate creativity,... |
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Mars One: Humanity's Next Great Adventure: Inside the First Human Settlement on Mars
Norbert Kraft · Benbella Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Human curiosity has lead us to explore our solar system, landing on the moon and sending spacecraft to study distant planetary objects. The next step in our great adventure is putting humans on Mars - but what will it really take to achieve this?In 2013, Mars One announced its intentions... |
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College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education
Ryan Craig · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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For nearly two decades, pundits have been predicting the demise of higher education in the United States. Our colleges and universities will soon find themselves competing for students with universities from around the world. With the advent of massive open online courses ("MOOCS")... |
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Patent, Copyright & Trademark: An Intellectual Property Desk Reference
Richard Stim · NOLO; Thirteenth Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Whether you're an inventor, designer, writer or programmer, you need to understand the language of intellectual property law. Otherwise, you can't intelligently deal with intellectual property issues such as: . who owns creative works or valuable information . how owners can protect... |
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The Secret of the Key: A Sixty-Eight Rooms Adventure
Marianne Malone · Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Filled with magic, mystery, miniatures, and adventure, the Sixty-Eight Rooms is the perfect series for fans of Chasing Vermeer, The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and The Dollpeople! Chicago sixth graders Ruthie and Jack think they've learned everything about the magic... |
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer A Doudna · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use.... |
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Marijuana Reform
H. W. Wilson · Hw Wilson Co
Format: Print book
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Marijuana Reform is a collection of articles that examine the recent push for marijuana policy reform in America, which has reached a turning point in 2013 as many states are trending towards legalization and taxation of the psychoactive drug, both medicinally and recreationally. The volume... |
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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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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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Quicken Willmaker Plus 2018 Edition: Book & Software Kit
Editors of Nolo · NOLO
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
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Quicken WillMaker Plus 2018 is the easiest ways to create your estate plan, whether it's your first time or you want to update a previous plan. You'll be guided through the process from beginning to end with practical and relevant legal information so that you can make the best decisions... |
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