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New Bankruptcy, The: Will It Work for You?
New Bankruptcy, The: Will It Work for You?

Stephen Elias Attorney · NOLO
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback

Choose the best bankruptcy option Is bankruptcy right for you? It's tough to know on your own. Here, you'll find clear-cut answers, worksheets and strategies to help you figure out whether bankruptcy is the best solution for your debt problems. Find out: Whether you qualify for Chapter...
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Renters' Rights: The Basics
Renters' Rights: The Basics

Janet Portman Attorney · NOLO; Eighth Edition edition
Format: Print book

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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Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business
Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business

Fred S. Steingold Attorney · NOLO
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback

The all-in-one business law book When you run a small business, legal questions crop up almost on a daily basis. Ignoring them can threaten your enterprise - but hiring a lawyer to help with routine issues can devastate the bottom line. Fortunately, you have a better alternative. Legal...
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Patent Searching Made Easy: How to do Patent Searches on the Internet and in the Library
Patent Searching Made Easy: How to do Patent Searches on the Internet and in the Library

David Hitchcock · Nolo; Sixth Edition edition
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

In the past, if you wanted to assess the novelty of an idea, you had to wade through the patent database at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) in Virginia -- or hire a lawyer to do a patent search for $500 and up. The cost and inconvenience of these searches often meant that good...
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Solve Your Money Troubles: Strategies to Get Out of Debt and Stay That Way
Solve Your Money Troubles: Strategies to Get Out of Debt and Stay That Way

Robin Leonard J.D. · NOLO
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback

Overwhelmed by debt? Start here. Facing wage garnishment, car repossession, foreclosure, lawsuits, or collection calls? Solve Your Money Troubles provides you with the legal and practical information you need, plus sample letters and budgeting worksheets, so that you can get out of debt...
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Make: Getting Started with BeagleBone: Linux-Powered Electronic Projects With Python and JavaScript
Make: Getting Started with BeagleBone: Linux-Powered Electronic Projects With Python and JavaScript

Matt Richardson · Make
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback

Many people think of Linux as a computer operating system, running on users' desktops and powering servers. But Linux can also be found inside many consumer electronics devices. Whether they're the brains of a cell phone, cable box, or exercise bike, embedded Linux systems blur...
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Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era
Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

Tony Wagner · Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From two leading experts in education and entrepreneurship, an urgent call for the radical re-imagining of American education so that we better equip students for the realities of the twenty-first century economy. Today more than ever, we prize academic achievement, pressuring our children...
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Copyright Questions and Answers for Information Professionals: From the Columns of Against the Grain (Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences)
Copyright Questions and Answers for Information Professionals: From the Columns of Against the Grain (Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences)

Laura N. Gasaway · Purdue University Press
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback

Copyright law is a critical issue for authors, librarians, publishers, and information vendors. It is also a complex area, with many shades of gray. Librarians continually need to seek answers to questions ranging from the reproduction of copyrighted works for library users, through the performance...
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Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

William Deresiewicz · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 245
Format: Hardcover

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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Patent, Copyright & Trademark: An Intellectual Property Desk Reference
Patent, Copyright & Trademark: An Intellectual Property Desk Reference

Richard Stim · NOLO; Thirteenth Edition edition
Format: Print book

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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On Your Case: A Comprehensive, Compassionate
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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A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System
A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System

Mark Thompson · Pegasus Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening and provocative tour of our solar system, from one of Britain's celebrated astronomists. Have you ever dreamed of being an astronaut, traveling through the universe on your very own space mission? What would it be like to tour the solar system, visiting the sun and the planets,...
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Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage
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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Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You'll Ever Make
Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You'll Ever Make

Peter Cappelli · PublicAffairs
Pages: 215
Format: Print book

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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Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Alex Prud'homme · Oxford University Press
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback

Constantly in the news and the subject of much public debate, fracking, as it is known for short, is one of the most promising yet controversial methods of extracting natural gas and oil. Today, 90 percent of natural gas wells use fracking. Though highly effective, the process-which fractures...
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