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Quick & Legal Will Book

Denis Clifford · NOLO
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback

Make your own legal will, quickly & easily! If you want to create a will without the trouble, the Quick & Legal Will Book is the simplest and fastest way to reach your goal. Get the forms and step-by-step instructions to make a basic will that meets your needs with this all-in-one...
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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

ZACH WEINERSMITH · Penguin Press
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover

From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation into future technologies -- from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing What will the world of tomorrow be like?...
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One Nation Under Taught: Solving America's Science, Technology, Engineering & Math Crisis

Dr. Vince M. Bertram · Beaufort Books
Format: Hardcover

America has been steadily sliding in global education rankings for decades. In particular, our students are increasingly unable to compete globally in STEM science, technology, engineering, and math fields. According to the National Assessment of Education Progress NAEP, in 2010 only 26 percent...
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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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College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education

Ryan Craig · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

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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59 Reasons to Write: Mini-Lessons, Prompts, and Inspiration for Teachers

Kate Messner · Stenhouse Publishers
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

In order to teach writing effectively, teachers must be writers themselves. They must experience the same uncertainty of starting a new draft and then struggling to revise. As they learn to move past the fear of failure, they discover the nervous rush and exhilaration of sharing work with...
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Employment Law: The Essential HR Desk Reference

Lisa Guerin · NOLO; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Employment law A to Z in one easy-to-use desk reference If you're a human resources professional, it's important that you have quick access to the information you need to do your job. Enter Nolo's latest quick reference guide, Employment Law: The Essential HR Desk Reference,...
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The Sugarmaker's Companion: An Integrated Approach to Producing Syrup from Maple, Birch, and Walnut Trees

Michael Farrell · Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback

The Sugarmaker’s Companion is the first guide of its kind addressing the small- and large-scale syrup producer seeking to make a profitable business from maple, birch, and walnut sap. This comprehensive work incorporates valuable information on ecological forest management, value-added...
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The Happy Lawyer: Making a Good Life in the Law

Nancy Levit · Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

You get good grades in college, pay a small fortune to put yourself through law school, study hard to pass the bar exam, and finally land a high-paying job in a prestigious firm. You're happy, right? Not really. Oh, it beats laying asphalt, but after all your hard work, you expected...
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Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum

Kennedy Odede · Ecco Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

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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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

Randall Munroe · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 61
Format: Print book

Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, "ten hundred") most common words to provide simple...
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A Is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie

Kathryn Harkup · Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Agatha Christie's detailed plotting is what makes her books so compelling. Christie used poison to kill her characters more often than any other murder method, with the poison itself being a central part of the novel, and her choice of deadly substances was far from random; the chemical...
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Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System

Jerome F Buting · Harper
Pages: 339
Format: Hardcover

Interweaving his account of the Steven Avery trial at the heart of Making a Murderer with other high profile cases from his criminal defense career, attorney Jerome F. Buting explains the flaws in America's criminal justice system and lays out a provocative, persuasive blue-print for reform.Over...
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Practical electronics : components and techniques

John M Hughes · O'Reilly Media
Format:  Print book : English : First editionView all editions and formats

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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