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Obtaining A Criminal Pardon: Clear Your Name Legally

Christopher Guly · Self-Counsel Press, Inc.; Pap/Psc edition
Format: Print book

Hundreds of thousands of people have criminal records that need not impede their ability to work, travel and thrive. But the process of gaining a full pardon of your record can be a challenging and intimidating one. Legal journalist Christopher Guly provides a step-by-step guide to clear...
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Waves and Forms: Electronic Music Devices and Computer Encodings in China

Basile Zimmermann · The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

Technical objects constrain what users do with them. They are not neutral entities but embody information, choices, values, assumptions, or even mistakes embedded by designers. What happens when a technology is designed in one culture and used...
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Brew Better Beer: Learn

Emma Christensen · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In this colorful homebrewing guide, The Kitchn's Emma Christensen gives you the keys to the brewery. Start out by mastering the basic styles, like A Very Good IPA and A Very Good Porter, then move on to inspired variations such as Centennial Dry-Hopped Double IPA, Campari IPA, and Smokey...
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Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the "Jeff Davis 8?"

Ethan Brown · Scribner
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

An explosive, true-life southern gothic story, Murder in the Bayou chronicles the twists and turns of a high-stakes investigation into the murders of eight women in a troubled Louisiana parish.Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were discovered around the murky canals and crawfish...
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The Complete Guide to Writing Effective College Applications & Essays: Step by Step Instructions with Companion CD REVISED 2nd Edition

Kathy L Hahn · Atlantic Publishing Group
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Applying to college can be one of the most stressful times in a student's life. Not only are you faced with the task of finding the perfect school for you, but you also have to find scholarships to be able to go to the school you want. These two intertwining obstacles require a lengthy...
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Landlord's Legal Kit For Dummies

Griswold · For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book

The landlords essential guide to residential rental law Landlords Legal Kit For Dummies is a comprehensive guide to the laws and legalities of renting property. This one-stop legal reference provides both guidance and the correct forms that help landlords avoid tenant issues, which could...
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Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains

LouAnne Johnson · Jossey-Bass
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Bring a fresh perspective to your classroom Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students by Their Brain, Third Edition integrates practical strategies and engaging advice for new and experienced teachers. Whether you are preparing for your first year of teaching or have been working...
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Beyond Human: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Extending Our Lives

Eve Herold · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Never before in the history of medicine has mankind faced such hope and peril as those of us poised to embrace the radical medical technologies of today. Beyond Human examines the medical technologies taking shape at the nexus of computing, microelectronics, engineering, nanotechnology,...
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Drawing for Architects: How to Explore Concepts, Define Elements, and Create Effective Built Design through Illustration

Julia McMorrough · Rockport Publishers
Format: Book

Immediate and constructive, the physicality of hand drawing, upon which representation formats are based, is a necessary skill needed to communicate ideas in the field of architectural design. Drawing for Architects provides what practicing architects and architectural students need - a technique-based,...
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iTake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Digital Era

David Arditi · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

iTake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Digital Era sheds light on the way large corporations appropriate new technologies related to recording and distribution of audio material to maintain their market dominance in a capitalist system. All too commonly, scholars have asserted too confidently,...
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Every Landlord's Guide to Finding Great Tenants

JANET PORTMAN · NOLO
Pages: 488
Format: Print book

Searching for the perfect tenant? Get the only book devoted to the most important decision a landlord can make! Landlords face many challenges, but choosing new tenants has the greatest potential to affect your bottom line. Fortunately, Every Landlord's Guide to Finding Great Tenants...
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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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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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