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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
Format: Print book

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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Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America

Jonathan Simon · The New Press
Format: Hardcover

For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degradingrelying on racist gangs, lockdowns,...
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The Public Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More

Stephen Fishman · NOLO; Seventh Edition edition
Format: Paperback

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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The Smartphone: Anatomy of an Industry

Elizabeth Woyke · The New Press
Format: Print book

We think we know everything about our smartphones. We use them constantly. We depend on them for every conceivable purpose. We are familiar with every inch of their compact frames. But there is more to the smartphone than meets the eye. How have smartphones shaped the way we socialize and interact?...
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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

Nicholas Carr · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

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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Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage

Gordon Corera · Pegasus Books
Pages: 431
Format: Print book

The previously untold -- and previously highly classified -- story of the conflux of espionage and technology, with a compelling narrative rich with astonishing revelations taking readers from World War II to the internet age. As the digital era become increasingly pervasive, the intertwining...
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Toll-Free Phone Book USA 2013

Julia Leeper · Rich's Business Directories; 17 edition
Format: Print book

A directory of toll-free numbers for businesses and organizations nationwide.
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The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself

Glenn H Reynolds · Encounter Books
Pages: 121
Format: Hardcover

Economist Herb Stein famously said that something that can't go on forever, won't. For decades now, America has been investing ever-growing fortunes into its K-12 education system in exchange for steadily worse results. Public schools haven't changed much from the late 19th...
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Making Cheese: Make Your Own Traditional Artisan Cheese, Butter and Yoghurt

Susan Ogilvy · Batsford; Revised edition
Format: Hardcover

Create artisanal cheeses - right at home! Susan Ogilvy's detailed instructions and line drawings take you through the process, so you can easily produce delicious fresh milk cheese; cream cheese; traditional soft cheeses like Colwick and Cambridge; a small Cheshire, and more. This wonderful...
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On Your Case: A Comprehensive, Compassionate

Lisa Green · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Television legal analyst and attorney Lisa Green offers something new: a witty, direct and empowering legal guide for women, filled with accessible information they can employ to understand and respond to common legal issues throughout their lives, from dating, marriage, and kids to jobs,...
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Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Keep Your Property & Repay Debts Over Time

Stephen Elias · NOLO
Pages: 401
Format: Paperback

This plain-English guide to decide if Chapter 13 is right for you and to learn how to keep valuable property and discharge your unsecured debts. Chapter 13 legal concepts, procedures, and monetary calculations can be tricky. Nolo's Chapter 13 Bankruptcy breaks down the Chapter 13 process...
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Postsecondary Play: The Role of Games and Social Media in Higher Education

Tracy Fullerton · Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover

The college application process—which entails multiple forms, essays, test scores, and deadlines—can be intimidating. For students without substantial school and family support, the complexity of this process can become a barrier to access. William G. Tierney and his team...
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Starting & Building a Nonprofit: A Practical Guide

Peri Pakroo · NOLO; Fifth Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Start a nonprofit and keep it running with this practical guideRescue a school library. Preserve an endangered species. Support the arts. Whatever it is you want to do to give back to your community, Starting & Building a Nonprofit provides the kick start you need.Filled with user-friendly...
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Getting Ready for College, Careers, and the Common Core: What Every Educator Needs to Know

David T. Conley · Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Create programs that prepare students for college, careers, and the new and challenging assessments of the Common Core State StandardsWritten for all educators but with an emphasis on those at the secondary level, this important resource shows how to develop programs that truly prepare...
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Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading

Jason Merkoski · Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback

A groundbreaking vision on the future of reading, from an early innovator on Amazon's Kindle team. Is digital the death knell for print? Or will it reinvigorate the written word? What will happen to bookstores, book browsing, libraries,...
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