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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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101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions
Ronald W Fry · Course Technology
Pages: 182
Format: eBook |
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Tough interview questions are inevitable in today's competitive job market. Ron Fry's "101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions" has helped more than 500,000 job seekers pinpoint what employers are really asking with every question, and more importantly: what... |
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K-2 Chart Sense: Common Sense Charts to Teach K-2 Informational Text and Literature
Rozlyn Linder Ph.D. · The Literacy Initiative |
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K-2 Chart Sense is the ultimate resource for primary teachers who are ready to create meaningful, standards-based charts with their students. The same literature and informational text charts that Rozlyn creates with students when she models and teaches in classrooms across the nation are all included... |
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How to Get a Green Card
Ilona Bray , · NOLO; Eleventh Edition edition |
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U.S. immigration law is a tangle of details. This book explains the most likely bases upon which an everyday person might qualify for a green card family, marriage, asylum, the visa lottery, and a few lesser-known categories. Then, the book leads readers safely through the enormous immigration... |
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Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
Kennedy Odede · Ecco Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover |
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Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. With a Foreword by Nicholas Kristof.This is the story of two young people from completely different... |
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Help Your Kids with Language Arts
DK Publishing · DK ADULT |
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Reduce the stress of studying English and help your child with their homework! The perfect guide for parents who want to assist their children with schoolwork, Help Your Kids with Language Arts is designed to make all facets of studying the English language easy and interesting. Presenting... |
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Common Core Standards For Parents For Dummies
Jared Myracle · For Dummies; 1 edition |
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A parents guide to understanding the Common Core educational standards Designed to ensure a similar level of job and college preparedness for students from all backgrounds and regions the Common Core standards have been adopted in states from coast to coast These new common standards are designed... |
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8 Ways to Avoid Probate
Mary Randolph · NOLO; Tenth Edition edition |
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Some simple planning can spare families the cost and delay of probate court proceedings after a loved one's death. Probate can drag on for years, and can easily cost thousands of dollars -- money that would otherwise have gone to survivors. 8 Ways to Avoid Probate offers simple... |
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
Greg Milner · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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Pinpoint tells the story of GPS, a scientific marvel that enables almost all modern technology -- but is changing us in profound ways.Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Even as it guides us across town, GPS helps... |
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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
Nicholas Carr · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure and reveals something we already... |
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