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Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age

Cory Doctorow - McSweeney's
Format: Hardcover

In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow's Information Doesn't Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This...
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The Old Farmer's Almanac 2019

Bill Cosby - Old Farmer's Almanac
Pages: 304
Format: Audiobook

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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Police Exams Prep 2020-2021: 4 Practice Tests Proven Strategies

Kaplan Test Prep - Kaplan Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Kaplan's Police Exams Prep 2020-2021 is your guide to acing the entrance exams for police departments across the United States. With up-to-date content review, realistic practice questions, and clear explanations, Police Exams Prep is your complete guide to becoming a police officer.We...
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All of Which I Saw: With the US Marine Corps in Iraq

Lucian Read - Schiffer Military History
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

All of Which I Saw captures the United States Marine Corps during some of the most dramatic and important moments of the Iraq War. The book takes the viewer across the Pacific aboard ship, into the Battle of Najaf and Second Battle of Fallujah - where Read took his now-iconic photograph...
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Parakeets For Dummies

Nikki Moustaki - For Dummies; 2nd edition
Format: Paperback

There are lots of perks to owning a parakeet (also known as a budgie) . This book introduces you to your beautiful budgie buddy and prepares you to give that bird a home that other avian companions will envy. Perfect for first-time bird owners and seasoned bird parents, Parakeets For Dummies...
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How Things Work: The Inner Life of Everyday Machines

Theodore Gray - Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Million-copy bestselling author of The Elements, Molecules, and Reactions Theodore Gray applies his trademark mix of engaging stories, real-time experiments, and stunning photography to the inner workings of machines, big and small, revealing the extraordinary science,...
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Fix It with Food: More Than 125 Recipes to Address Autoimmune Issues and Inflammation

Michael Symon - Clarkson Potter
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The first-ever health-focused cookbook from everyone's favorite celebrity chef, Michael Symon. Fix It with Food shares how Symon learned which foods caused his inflammation and pain (he calls these his food triggers) and helps readers discover their own food triggers. By beginning...
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ACT 2022 For Dummies

Lisa Zimmer Hatch - For Dummies; 8th edition
Format: Paperback

For over 20 years, the fun-and-friendly Dummies ACT guides have helped college hopefuls like you crush it on test day and get into the schools of their dreams! ACT 2022 For Dummies makes it easy to pump up your English, math, science, and readings scores, and to write circles around the graders,...
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Songwriting For Dummies

Jim Peterik - For Dummies
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Proven techniques for songwriting success This friendly, hands-on guide tackles the new face of the recording industry, guiding you through the shift from traditional sales to downloads and mobile music, as well as how you can harness social media networks to get your music "out there."...
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The Address Book: What Our Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

Deirdre Mask - ST MARTINS PR
Format: Hardcover

An exuberant work of popular history: the story of how streets got their names and houses their numbers, and why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or enforce power.

In a 2013 article for The Atlantic, Deirdre Mask documented the efforts by West...

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