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Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era
Tony Wagner · Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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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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Audio Engineering 101: A Beginner's Guide to Music Production
Tim Dittmar · Focal Press
Pages: 245
Format: Paperback
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Audio Engineering 101 is a real world guide for starting out in the recording industry. If you have the dream, the ideas, the music and the creativity but don't know where to start, then this book is for you! Filled with practical advice on how to navigate the recording world, from... |
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Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition
Paul Scherz · Mcgraw-Hill Education, 2016.
Pages: 1072
Format: Print book
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A Fully-Updated, No-Nonsense Guide to ElectronicsAdvance your electronics knowledge and gain the skills necessary to develop and construct your own functioning gadgets. Written by a pair of experienced engineers and dedicated hobbyists, Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition,... |
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The Perfect Score Project: Uncovering the Secrets of the SAT
Debbie Stier · Harmony
Format: Hardcover
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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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Homeschooling with the Brain in Mind: Teaching Based on How Children Learn
Sheila Fernley · SAF Educational Solutions
Pages: 91
Format: Print book
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Every parent who homeschools their child should read this book. The author shares with parent educators what she has learned from her 25 plus years of experience as a teacher and trainer of teachers. "We must balance what we teach with how children learn." Recent research on how the brain... |
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Public Domain, The: How to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More
Stephen Fishman J.D. · NOLO
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
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Need content? Find public domain works free for the taking! Even though you've always been told otherwise, writers and artists can often 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 Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
Jim Bell · Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission - told by a scientist who was there from the beginning.The Voyager spacecraft are our farthest-flung emissaries - 11.3 billion miles away from the crew who built and still operate them, decades since their launch.Voyager... |
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Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People's Justice
Karen Houppert · The New Press; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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On March 18, 1963, in one of its most significant legal decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that all defendants facing significant jail time have the constitutional right to a free attorney if they cannot afford their own. Fifty years later, 80 percent... |
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The Heart of the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights became the Bill of Rights
Gerard N Magliocca · Oxford University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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This is the untold story of the most celebrated part of the Constitution. Until the twentieth century, few Americans called the first ten constitutional amendments drafted by James Madison in 1789 and ratified by the states in 1791 the Bill of Rights. Even more surprising, when people finally... |
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Common Core Standards For Parents For Dummies
Jared Myracle · For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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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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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL · City Lights Publishers
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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"This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States. This is the book we need right now to find our bearings in the chaos."--Roxanne... |
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Patent, Copyright & Trademark: An Intellectual Property Desk Reference
Richard Stim · NOLO; Thirteenth Edition edition
Format: Print book
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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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