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The Essential Guide to Hobby Farming: A How-To Manual for Crops, Livestock, and Your Business

Carol Ekarius · i5 Press; Second Edition edition
Format: Print book

Six containers of heirloom tomatoes, miniature squashes, and herbs on your back patio or six acres of beets, cabbages, and strawberries? Five chickens and a honey bee hive or a small farm with three dozen sheep and a couple of quarter horses?Regardless of the size of your "field of dreams,"...
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Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth

Judith D. Schwartz · Chelsea Green Publishing; 1 edition
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

From the Publisher"Judith Schwartz reminds us that sustainable range management is as much about the microbes in the soil and their feedback loops with cattle as it is about the cattle themselves. When I finally go home on the range to be composted, I want to be part of the miraculous...
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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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Best 380 colleges 2017.

Princeton Review. · Random House
Pages: 880
Format:  Print book : English

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF HELPING STUDENTS SELECT THE PERFECT COLLEGE!The Princeton Review started publishing The Best Colleges in 1992 with surveys from 30,000 students. A quarter-century and more than a million student surveys later, we stand by our claim that there is no single "best"...
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Make Your Own Living Trust

Denis Clifford Attorney · NOLO; Twelfth edition edition
Format: Print book

Living trusts simplified! Protect your family and avoid probate with this bestselling guide Death may be inevitable, but probate doesn't have to be. By creating a living trust, your property will bypass lengthy and expensive probate proceedings and go directly to the people you've...
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Prepper's Total Grid Failure Handbook: Alternative Power, Energy Storage, Low Voltage Appliances and Other Lifesaving Strategies for Self-Sufficient Living

Alan Fiebig · Ulysses Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

The ultimate guide to creating, storing and utilizing lifesaving power in the most critical circumstancesWith America's antiquated grid, it takes little to cause a power outage - everyday wind, and lightning often result in blackouts. When a major disaster strikes, a complete and total...
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Open Concept Houses

FRANCESC ZAMORA · Harper Design
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the successful 150 Best series comes the debut entry in the forward-thinking Open Concept Houses series, filled with nearly 500 pages of color photos - sure to become the ultimate resource for this fast-growing trend in home design and renovation.One of the hottest lifestyle...
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The Perfect Score Project: Uncovering the Secrets of the SAT

Debbie Stier · Harmony
Format: Hardcover

The Perfect Score Project is an indispensable guide to acing the SAT – as well as the affecting story of a single mom’s quest to light a fire under her teenage son. It all began as an attempt by Debbie Stier to help her high-school age son, Ethan, who would shortly be studying...
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Estate Planning in Texas: What you Need to Know

Thomas J. Daley JD · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; Second edition
Format: Paperback

In this expanded second edition of "What You Need to Know About Estate Planning in Texas," family law attorney Thomas Daley explains the building blocks of a comprehensive estate plan in plain English. Even if you don't know the difference between a Springing Power of Attorney...
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Law in Popular Belief: Myth and Reality

Anthony Amatrudo · Manchester University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In recent years there has been a significant growth in interest of the so-called "law in context" extending legal studies beyond black letter law. This book looks at the relationship between statute law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality and more precisely...
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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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This Old Harley

Michael Dregni · Voyageur Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

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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)

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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Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science

Carey Gillam · Island Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

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