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Boredom Busters: Transform Worksheets, Lectures, and Grading into Engaging, Meaningful Learning Experiences
Katie Powell · Dave Burgess Consulting, Incorporated
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
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If you ever have to stifle a yawn while teaching the same old thing in the same old ways, just imagine how your students feel. If you're bored, they are too!No matter how great a teacher you are, there will be days when you are short on time, resources, energy, or ideas. When your lesson... |
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Passing: A Memoir of Love and Death
Michael Korda · Liveright
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Year of Magical Thinking comes a legendary editor's unflinching love song about his radiant wife, Margaret, and her battle with cancer. It was a warm April in Pleasant Valley when Margaret Korda, normally a fearless horsewoman, dropped her horsewhip while... |
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Kids First from Day One: A Teacher's Guide to Today's Classroom
CHRISTINE HERTZ · Heinemann
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
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"This book is a place to start creating the classroom of your dreams from the very first minute of school, a classroom that is research based, child centered, and in step with the world today." - Christine Hertz and Kristine Mraz The classroom of your dreams starts with one big idea.... |
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Dreamland: An Autobiography
Bob Lazar · Interstellar
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Bob Lazar is the reason Area 51 became infamous in the 1980s and his recent appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast with 7 million listeners is credited with inspiring the Storm Area 51 phenomenon. In his DREAMLAND autobiography, Lazar reveals every detail of his highly controversial story... |
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Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
Charles Murray · Twelve
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same -- a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences.The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual... |
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Lady Liberty
Luce Lebart · Firefly Books
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
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A photographic essay recounting the creation and installation of the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty is known around the world as a symbol of freedom and democracy. Poet Emma Lazarus' words inscribed on its pedestal -- "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses... |
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Rembrandt: Biography of a Rebel
Jonathan Bikker · nai010 Publishers
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
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In 2019, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt (1606-69) , Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum is honoring the artist with an unprecedented exhibition, appropriately titled All the Rembrandts. The "Year of Rembrandt" also brings us Rembrandt: Biography of a Rebel,... |
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A History of America in 100 Maps
Susan Schulten · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout its history, America has been defined through maps. Whether made for military strategy or urban reform, to encourage settlement or to investigate disease, maps invest information with meaning by translating it into visual form. They capture what people knew, what they thought... |
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Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Sarah Scoles · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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For anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered, "Are we alone?" A brilliant examination of the science behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and its pioneer, Jill Tarter, the inspiration for the main character in Carl Sagan's Contact. Jill... |
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Basics: A Comprehensive Outline of Nursing School Content
Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions. · Kaplan Publishing
Pages: 711
Format: Paperback
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Ace your nursing school assignments and exams with Kaplan's The Basics content guide. Up-to-date. Updated annually by Kaplan's expert nursing faculty. Complete. Contains easy-to-understand outlines of basic content to prepare for all your nursing school assignments and tests. Learner-efficient.... |
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Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
Tatiana Schlossberg · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From former New York Times Science writer Tatiana Schlossberg comes Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have, a fascinating and unexpectedly entertaining look at the way climate change and environmental pollution are intimately involved in our everyday... |
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When Should Law Forgive?
Martha Minow · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The potential power of forgiveness in an age of resentment. Crimes and violations of the law require punishment, and our legal system is set up to punish, but what if the system was recalibrated to also weigh grounds for forgiveness? What if something like bankruptcy -- a fresh... |
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