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Social Media Law for Business: A Practical Guide for Using Facebook, Twitter, Google +, and Blogs Without Stepping on Legal Land Mines

Glen Gilmore · McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition

How to Avoid Legal Pitfalls on Social Media Social media is where your customers are--so it's where your business has to be. Unfortunately, this space is packed with land mines that can obliterate your hard-earned success in the time it takes to click a mouse. Written in easy-to-understand,...
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Plan Your Estate

Denis Clifford · NOLO; Twelfth Edition edition

Straightforward, plain-English explanations of every significant estate-planning option available, all in easy to understand language. Nolo's bestseller Plan Your Estate shows how to:
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The Small-Scale Dairy: The Complete Guide to Milk Production for the Home and Market

Gianaclis Caldwell · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback

The Small-Scale Dairy includes everything you need to know in order to successfully produce nourishing, healthy, farm-fresh milk. Whether for home use, direct sale to the consumer, or sale to an artisanal cheesemaker, high-quality raw milk is a delicate, desirable product. Successful and sustainable...
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Summer versus School: The Possibilities of the Year-Round School

James Pedersen · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

As American educational reformers continue to find innovative ways to address the global achievement gap, many experts seem to agree that increasing instructional time is a viable option. In addition to extending the school day, some educational leaders have looked to modifying the traditional...
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Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong

Robert Bryce · PublicAffairs
Pages: 371
Format: Hardcover

In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize, re-localize, ban the use of modern energy sources, and forswear prosperity. But in this provocative and optimistic...
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Teaching Particulars: Literary Conversations in Grades 6-12

Helaine L. Smith · Paul Dry Books

In Teaching Particulars, Helaine Smith engages her students, grammar school through twelfth gradeand any avid readerin the questions that great literature evokes. Included are chapters on Homer and Genesis plays by Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Beckett poems by Jonson, Donne, Coleridge, Browning,...
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Nolo's Encyclopedia of Everyday Law: Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Legal Questions

Shae Irving · Ingram Pub Services
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

Everything you wanted to know about the law, but couldn't afford to ask. How do I get a collection agency to stop harassing me? If I work 50 hours a week, shouldn't I be getting overtime? My new car is a lemon -- what can I do? Like it or not, the law affects practically every...
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A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control

Wendell Wallach · Basic Books (AZ)
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

We live in an age of awesome technological potential. From nanotechnology to synthetic organisms, new technologies stand to revolutionize whole domains of human experience. But with awesome potential comes awesome risk: drones can deliver a bomb as readily as they can a new smartphone;...
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The Battle Over Homework: Common Ground for Administrators, Teachers, and Parents

Harris M. Cooper · Carrel Books; Third Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Homework is the cause of more friction between schools and home than any other aspect of education and becomes the prime battlefield when schools, families, and communities view one another as adversaries. This comprehensive fourth edition tackles all the tough questions: What’s...
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