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Grit and Hope: A Year with Five Latino Students and the Program That Helped Them Aim for College

Barbara Davenport · University of California Press
Pages: 225
Format: Print book

Grit and Hope tells the story of five inner-city Hispanic students who start their college applications in the midst of the country's worst recession and of Reality Changers, the program that aims to help them become the first in their families to go college. This year they must keep...
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The Reunion Planner: The Step-by-Step Guide Designed to Make Your Reunion a Social and Financial Success!

Linda Johnson Hoffman · Goodman Lauren Publishing; 4 edition
Format: Print book

The Reunion Planner, How to Make Your Reunion a Social and Financial Success, is now in its 4th and completely updated Edition. For many years, this guidebook has been helping non-professional planners create reunions that are successful and memorable. The book contains many ideas, resources,...
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Sustainability in Architecture and Urban Design

Carl Bovill · Routledge; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Sustainability in Architecture and Urban Design will help you understand the nature of the sustainability problem and show you how to implement your design for a sustainable future. Organized in six parts, the problem, the environment, the residential scale, the commercial scale, the urban...
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Cancelled, Delayed, Grounded: Law for the Frustrated Air Traveler

Cecil C. III Kuhne · American Bar Association
Format: Print book

A lot can happen in the aviation domain, and contained in this book are a just few of the "frustrating" (and unfortunately, all-too-familiar) circumstances associated with air travel that have led to some fascinating litigation. Passengers are bumped, falsely accused of assaulting...
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The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World

Steve Levine · Viking
Format: Hardcover

A Soul of the New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult...
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Nolo's Deposition Handbook

Paul Bergman JD · NOLO; Sixth Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Getting deposed? Conducting a deposition? Heres the book you need to take the mystery out of the deposition process and answer questions with confidence. Youll even learn the three golden rules for answering questions and the trick questions lawyers often use to influence testimony. A perfect...
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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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Richard Posner

William Domnarski · Oxford University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Judge Richard Posner is one of the great legal minds of our age, on par with such generation-defining judges as Holmes, Hand, and Friendly. A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the principal exponent of the enormously influential law and economics movement, he writes...
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The Copyright Book: A Practical Guide

William S. Strong · MIT Press (MA)
Pages: 481
Format: Hardcover

Through five editions since 1981, this book has offered the most comprehensive accessible guide available to all aspects of copyright law. Now, with the sixth edition, The Copyright Book has been thoroughly updated to cover copyright for the Internet...
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Get an Internship and Make the Most of It: Practical Information for High School and Community College Students

Joan E. McLachlan · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Too often students automatically think that an internship is not for them. They seem to believe that internships are just for those students who are in AP or engineering and science programs or for students who know exactly what career they want to pursue. They don't take internship...
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Unboxing IT: A Look Inside the Information Technology Black Box

Christopher McCay · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 135
Format: Print book

Computers and technology have reached a level of invisibility in our lives that is equal to indoor plumbing and electricity. We don't think about the mechanics of how they work, but when any of those systems breaks it is a MASSIVE disruption in our lives. All of us understand the basics...
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Make: Drones: How to Teach an Arduino to Fly

David Mcgriffy · O'Reilly Media
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Make: Drones will help the widest possible audience understand how drones work by providing several DIY drone projects based on the world's most popular robot controller--the Arduino. The information imparted in this book will show Makers how to build better drones and be better drone...
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