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The Day the Crayons Quit: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Jodene Smith · Shell Education; 1 edition

Explore the fun and quirky ways in which the crayons quit with this instructional guide for literature. Students will love analyzing the crayons struggles and complaints by completing age-appropriate, rigorous yet fun activities and lessons provided in this guide. Readers will enjoy figuring...
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Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

Judy Wajcman · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained...
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Self-Publisher's Legal Handbook: The Step-by-Step Guide to the Legal Issues of Self-Publishing

Helen Sedwick · Ten Gallon Press; 1 edition

Self-Publisher's Legal Handbook is the first step-by-step guide to the legal issues of self-publishing. Attorney and self-published author Helen Sedwick uses 30 years of legal experience to show writers how to stay out of court and at their desks. Topics include:* Business...
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The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere

Kevin Carey · Riverhead Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From a renowned education writer comes a paradigm-shifting examination of the rapidly changing world of college that every parent, student, educator, and investor needs to understand.Over the span of just nine months in 2011 and 2012, the world's most famous universities and high-powered...
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The Pocket Small Business Owner's Guide to Working with the Government

Marc Lamer · Allworth Pr
Pages: 237
Format: Print book

The Pocket Small Business Owner's Guide to Working with the Government is a thorough mentor that explains how to find, secure, and succeed with government contracts. Designed for any business eager to expand into the governmental arena, it also covers special small business opportunities...
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Baby You're a Rich Man: Suing the Beatles for Fun and Profit

Stan Soocher · ForeEdge
Format: Hardcover

The Beatles, the most popular, influential, and important band of all time, have been the subject of countless books of biography, photography, analysis, history, and conjecture. But this long and winding road has produced nothing like Baby Youre a Rich Man, the first book devoted to the cascade...
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The End of the Rainbow: How Educating for Happiness—Not Money—Would Transform Our Schools

Susan Engel · New Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Amid the hype of Race to the Top, online experiments such as Khan Academy, and bestselling books like The Sandbox Investment, we seem to have drawn a line that leads from nursery school along a purely economic route, with money as the final stop. But what price do we all pay for the increasingly...
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