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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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Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness, Grades 6-12: 15 Must-Have Skills Every Student Needs to Achieve

James R. Burke · Corwin; Spi edition
Format: Print book

Analyze, argue, compare/contrast, describe, determine, develop, evaluate, explain, imagine, integrate, interpret, organize, summarize, support, and transform . . . Can a mere fifteen words turn today’s youth into the innovative, ambitious thinkers we need? Yes, contend Jim Burke...
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The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms

Kevin Davis · Penguin Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from a twelfth-story window. The woman's husband, Herbert Weinstein, soon confessed to having hit and strangled his wife after an argument, then dropping her body out of their apartment...
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Exploring Poetry with Young Children: Sharing and creating poems in the early years

Ann Watts · Routledge
Pages: 190
Format: Print book

With the increased focus on children's language in Early Years education, poetry can be a valuable tool in enhancing speaking, listening and communication. This book provides parents and practitioners with a guide on how and where to start with using poetry with children. Combined with...
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The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight

VALTER LONGO · Avery
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The internationally renowned, clinically tested, revolutionary diet program to lose weight, fight disease, and live a longer, healthier life. Can what you eat determine how long, and how well, you live? The clinically proven answer is yes, and The Longevity Diet is easier to follow than...
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Stand Up to the IRS

Frederick W. Daily Attorney · NOLO
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback

IRS Bills? Get the information and strategies you need to deal with the taxman. Named a "Best Tax Book" by Entrepreneur.co The Internal Revenue Service can wreak havoc on your life. But now you can confront America's most intimidating government agency with confidence. Packed...
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Practical electronics : components and techniques

John M Hughes · O'Reilly Media
Format:  Print book : English : First editionView all editions and formats

How much do you need to know about electronics to create something interesting, or creatively modify something that already exists? If you'd like to build an electronic device, but don't have much experience with electronics components, this hands-on workbench reference helps you find...
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William Strickland and the Creation of an American Architecture

Robert Douglass Russell · Univ Tennessee Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover

William Strickland (1788aEURO"1854) was, in his day, among the most notable architects in the United States. An erstwhile student of Benjamin Henry Latrobe and a contemporary of Robert Mills, Strickland first entered the world of architecture at a young age in Philadelphia. But given...
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Research-Based Practices for Teaching Common Core Literacy

P. David Pearson · Teachers College Press
Format: Print book

This one-of-a-kind resource will be invaluable to every teacher educator, every curriculum director, and every literacy coach, whether or not they must meet Common Core Standards. Bringing together perspectives from literacy luminaries, each addressing their specialty, this book offers...
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Privacy in the New Media Age

Jon L. Mills · University Press of Florida
Format: Hardcover

"An essential book for anyone concerned with the increasingly ubiquitous clashes between a technologically borderless world, free press, safety and personal privacy." - Charlotte Laws, board member, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative "Elucidates a path that both enhances dignity...
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Toxic Cocktail: How Chemical Pollution Is Poisoning Our Brains

Barbara Demeneix · Oxford University Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

In today's world, everyone carries a toxic load of dozens of industrially produced chemicals in their bloodstream. Not only do these adversely affect the health of adults and children, but also, and more worryingly, they damage the development of unborn infants. The amniotic fluid of pregnant...
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The Old Farmer's Almanac 2018, Trade Edition

Old Farmer's Almanac · Old Farmer's Almanac
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

It's another new year celebrating everything under the Sun, including the Moon, with The Old Farmer's Almanac, America's oldest continuously published periodical! Always timely, topical, and distinctively "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor," the Almanac has been...
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Mary Roach · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 285
Format: Print book

A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind...
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Mastering the Raspberry Pi

Warren Gay · Apress; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

You probably already know that the Raspberry Pi is an excellent teaching tool. If you want to teach Linux basics or Python programming or basic electronics, it's a great place to start. But what if you are an electronics engineer or a Linux systems administrator or a very experienced...
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Electronics All-in-One For Dummies

Doug Lowe · For Dummies
Pages: 864
Format: Print book

A comprehensive collection of 8 books in 1 offering electronics guidance that can't be found anywhere else! If you know a breadboard from a breadbox but want to take your hobby electronics skills to the next level, this is the only reference you need. Electronics All-in-One For Dummies...
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