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Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart

Rachel Botsman · PublicAffairs
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust?From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust--far from it. In this revolutionary book, world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipping...
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The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed

Scott Parazynski · Little A
Format: Hardcover

"Scott Parazynski's drive, curiosity, inventiveness, and great humor shine through the pages of The Sky Below and will certainly inspire future generations to pursue their dreams with every fiber in their being." - John Glenn, NASA astronautAn epic memoir from a man whose life...
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Power from the Wind: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale Energy Production

DAN CHIRAS · New Society Publishers
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

The completely revised and updated comprehensive guide to small wind energy systemsSkyrocketing energy costs and constant reminders of the impacts of conventional energy sources are making homeowners and businesses look at different ways to use energy more efficiently and to generate their...
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Mastering the College Application Essay: The Art of Writing to Discover

Gloria Heyung Chun · Outskirts Press,
Pages: 104
Format: Print book

Gloria Chun has written an artful book that applies insights from the best personal essays, behavioral neuroscience, and motivational science to the art of crafting the college application essay. -Gina Snyder, MA, MEd, Career Counselor at St. Mary's College. Mastering the College Application...
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Child Custody and Support

Emily Doskow Attorney · NOLO
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback

Custody and Support: Get the Answers You Need When you're getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for your children (and yourself) if you work with the other parent to draw up a custody plan and agree on child support. If you can't work out custody and support, you'll...
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Exonerated: A History of the Innocence Movement

Robert J Norris · NYU Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating story behind the innocence movement's quest for justice.Documentaries like Making a Murderer, the first season of Serial, and the cause célèbre that was the West Memphis Three captured the attention of millions and focused the national discussion on wrongful convictions....
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Help Your Kids with Study Skills

Carol Vorderman · DK Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Help Your Kids with Study Skills is a unique step-by-step visual guide with invaluable advice on how to support your child's classwork, homework, and revision, with effective study methods that suit a range of learning styles for the third grade level and beyond.From exploring your child's...
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Method to the madness : a common core guide to creating critical thinkers through the study of literature

B H James; Elizabeth James · Rowman & Littlefield
Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats

The authors intent is to empower districts and their teachers to create their own (free!) curriculum that will exceed the expectations of Common Core assessments, as well as create life-long learners that are college and career ready. By employing inquiry based units of study that insist...
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Rethinking the Classroom Landscape: Creating Environments That Connect Young Children, Families, and Communities

Sandra Duncan · Gryphon House
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

An early childhood classroom should reinforce and enhance young children's sense of belonging and connection to their environment, each other, their families, and their community. Rethinking the Classroom Landscape invites educators and administrators to rethink the traditional classroom,...
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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 Dairy Goat Handbook: For Backyard, Homestead, and Small Farm

Ann Starbard · Voyageur Press
Format: Print book

The Dairy Goat Handbook explains everything goat keepers need to know about their animals, from the best ways to keep them healthy to methods for making delicious goat cheese.The Dairy Goat Handbook is a guidebook for those who would like to raise dairy goats - or dream of raising dairy...
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Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World: An Invitation

William Ayers · Teachers College Press
Pages: 98
Format: Print book

''Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World offers energized democratic thinking: ''freedom dreams'' and 21 other great ideas that resist the current climate of neoliberalism where only numbers count. Bill Ayers invites you to imagine teaching in ways that make...
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Steam Makers: Fostering Creativity and Innovation in the Elementary Classroom

Jacie Maslyk · Corwin/A SAGE Company
Pages: 148
Format: Print book

Build the essential 4 - creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking! Go beyond theory and learn how to systematically integrate STEAM and Maker spaces that prepare students for real-world experiences. This engaging resource outlines step-by-step processes to help anyone...
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In the Footsteps of Columbus: European Missions to the International Space Station

John O'Sullivan · Springer
Pages: 391
Format: Paperback

The European Space Agency has a long history of human spaceflight, flying in space with both NASA and the Soviet/Russian space agencies over the years. This book tells the story of the ESA astronauts who have visited the International Space Station over its first decade and how they have...
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The Crisis of Campus Sexual Violence: Critical Perspectives on Prevention and Response

Sara Carrigan Wooten · Routledge
Pages: 204
Format: Print book

Although awareness of campus sexual assault is at a historic high, institutional responses to incidents of sexual violence remain widely varied. The Crisis of Campus Sexual Violence provides higher education scholars, administrators, and practitioners with a necessary and more holistic...
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