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Help Your Kids with Science
DK Publishing · DK |
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Following the success of Help Your Kids with Math, Help Your Kids with Science is a comprehensive and stress-free approach to science. With clear graphics, instantly understandable diagrams, and welcoming, jargon-free text — covering all the important areas of biology, chemistry and physics... |
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Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You'll Ever Make
Peter Cappelli · PublicAffairs
Pages: 215
Format: Print book |
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The decision of whether to go to college, or where, is hampered by poor information and inadequate understanding of the financial risk involved.Adding to the confusion, the same degree can cost dramatically different amounts for different people. A barrage of advertising offers new degrees... |
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Practical electronics : components and techniques
John M Hughes, (Systems engineer) · O'Reilly Media
Format: Print book : English : First editionView all editions and formats |
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How much do you need to know about electronics to create something interesting, or creatively modify something that already exists? If you'd like to build an electronic device, but don't have much experience with electronics components, this hands-on workbench reference helps you find... |
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The Public Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More
Stephen Fishman · NOLO; Seventh Edition edition |
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Need content? Find public domain works free for the taking! Even though you've always been told otherwise, writers and artists can copy other people's work and get away with it. Enter the world of the public domain, where everything is free for the taking, and the only secret... |
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Nonfiction Strategies That Work: Do This--Not That!
Lori G. Wilfong · Routledge; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Teachers are being bombarded with ideas for teaching nonfiction, but what really works? In this essential book, dynamic author Lori G. Wilfong describes ten best practices for teaching nonfiction and how to implement them in the classroom. She also points out practices that should be avoided,... |
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Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire
Gary S. Cross · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover |
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From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other consumer goods came to be mass-produced,... |
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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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Renters' Rights: The Basics
Janet Portman Attorney , · NOLO; Eighth Edition edition |
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Handle problems with landlords and roommates The landlord ignores your repair requests. Your roommate is always late with his share of the rent. Your upstairs neighbors party all the time. The landlord won't return your security deposit. How can you deal with these problems - and others... |
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