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Nolo's Patents for Beginners: Quick & Legal

David Pressman Attorney · NOLO
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback

A brilliantly clear and up-to-date patent guide Patent law is changing, and this bestselling primer on patent law has up-to-date information on the America Invents Act, the most important change to American patent law in two centuries. Packed with detailed information, Nolo's Patents...
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The Invent To Learn Guide to 3D Printing in the Classroom: Recipes for Success

David Thornburg Ph.D. · Constructing Modern Knowledge Press
Format: Print book

This book is an essential guide for educators interested in bringing the amazing world of 3D printing to their classrooms. Learn about the technology, exciting powerful new design software, and even advice for purchasing your first 3D printer. The real power of the book comes from a variety...
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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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Newsworthy: The Supreme Court Battle over Privacy and Press Freedom

Samantha Barbas · Stanford Law Books
Pages: 348
Format: Hardcover

In 1952, the Hill family was held hostage by escaped convicts in their suburban Pennsylvania home. The family of seven was trapped for nineteen hours by three fugitives who treated them politely, took their clothes and car, and left them unharmed. The Hills quickly became the subject of international...
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Acquittal: An Insider Reveals the Stories and Strategies Behind Today's Most Infamous Verdi cts

Richard Gabriel · Berkley
Format: Hardcover

October 3, 1995. The shocking outcome of the O.J. Simpson trial leaves a nation divided. July 5, 2011. Casey Anthony walks free despite being convicted by millions on cable news and social media.There are times when something as supposedly simple as a just verdict rises to the level of cultural...
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The Cage-Busting Teacher

Frederick M. Hess · Harvard Education Press
Format: Print book

The Cage-Busting Teacher adopts the logic of Cage-Busting Leadership and applies it to the unique challenges and opportunities of classroom teachers. Detailed, accessible, and thoroughly engaging, it uncovers the many ways in which teachers can break out of familiar constraints in order...
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Fifty Materials That Make the World

Ian Baker · Springer
Pages: 271
Format: Hardcover

This book introduces materials and how advances in materials result in advances in technology and our daily lives. Each chapter covers a particular material, how the material was discovered or invented, when it was first used, how this material has impacted the world, what makes the material...
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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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The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World

Damon Krukowski · New Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

What John Berger did to ways of seeing, well-known indie musician Damon Krukowski does to ways of listening in this lively guide to the transition from analog to digital cultureHaving made his name in the late 1980s as a founding member of the indie band Galaxie 500, Damon Krukowski has watched...
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Automotive Maintenance & Light Repair

Rob Thompson · Delmar Cengage Learning
Pages: 850
Format: Hardcover

Delivering complete coverage of ASE Education Foundation's Maintenance & Light Repair (MLR) program standards, this accessible, practical resource features material spanning the entire MLR task list, as well as many supplemental tasks entry-level technicians need to master. With...
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Justice through Apologies: Remorse, Reform, and Punishment

Nick Smith · Cambridge University Press, 2014. ©2014
Pages: 402
Format: Print book

In this follow up to I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies, Nick Smith expands his ambitious theories of categorical apologies to civil and criminal law. After rejecting court-ordered apologies as unjustifiable humiliation, this book explains that penitentiaries were originally designed...
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How To Start A Worm Bin

Henry Owen · Groundswell
Pages: 106
Format: Print book

Do you want to learn to turn food scraps into valuable compost? Do you believe in taking responsibility for the waste we create? People all over the world are turning their food scraps into nutrient-rich worm compost through starting their own worm bin. This book contains everything you need...
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