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Best Graduate Schools 2017

U S News and World Report - U.S. News & World Report
Format: Hardcover

Whether you are considering an MBA, a law degree, a master's, or a Ph.D., this must-have guide to more than 1,900 U.S. graduate programs can help you find the best one for you - and the money to pay the bills. Explore U.S. News & World Report's latest exclusive rankings of programs...
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Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law

Stephen Elias - NOLO; Seventeenth Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Legal Research: Take the law into your own hands Do you have legal questions at home, at work, or as part of law-related course work? Legal Research provides everything you need, laying out easy-to-follow research methods that will help you find the right answers. Find out how to: locate...
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Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future

Caitlin Shetterly - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book

A disquieting and meditative look at the issue that started the biggest food fight of our time--GMOs. From a journalist and mother who learned that genetically modified corn was the culprit behind what was making her and her child sick, a must-read book for anyone trying to parse the incendiary...
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Estate Planning Basics

DENNIS CLIFFORD - NOLO
Format: Paperback

This book provides concise, straightforward, and easy-to-read information about the major components of estate planning - without going into endless detail about arcane options that apply only to the wealthy. Topics include: choosing beneficiaries estate planning by parents with minor...
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Make Your Own Living Trust

Denis Clifford - Nolo
Format: Print book

Living trusts simplified! Protect your family and avoid probate with this bestselling guide Death may be inevitable, but probate doesn't have to be. By creating a living trust, your property will bypass lengthy and expensive probate proceedings and go directly to the people you've...
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Cabins & Cottages and Other Small Spaces

Editors of Fine Homebuilding - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback

Bigger doesn't always mean better. Especially when it comes to your mortgage payment. Unfortunately the recent real estate crisis taught us that important lesson. Cabins & Cottages: and Other Small Spaces will inspire you to think smaller and smarter. Think small! With each turn of the page...
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U.S. Immigration Made Easy

Ilona Bray J.D. - NOLO; Seventeenth Edition edition
Format: Print book

Ready to move to the USA? Here's the insider's guide you need! Want to live, work or travel in the United States? U.S. Immigration Made Easy has helped tens of thousands of people get a visa, green card or other immigration status. You'll learn: whether you and your family...
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What About Bankruptcy?: The one guide to read before filing for bankruptcy protection.

Christopher H. Ariano Esq. - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

Are you struggling with debt? Are you looking for a path that leads you towards financial freedom? Do you wonder whether you could benefit from filing for bankruptcy protection? Look no further. In "What about Bankruptcy?" Arizona attorney Christopher Ariano introduces readers...
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Copyright Handbook, The: What Every Writer Needs to Know

Stephen Fishman J.D. - NOLO
Format: Paperback

What copyright law protects... . and doesn't No writers like to see their hard work or creativity copied by others - or to be accused of copying. Fortunately, The Copyright Handbook provides everything you need to protect yourself Find information and forms to help you: register your work...
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Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education

Ken Robinson - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A revolutionary reappraisal of how to educate our children and young people by Ken Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Finding Your Element Ken Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most...
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What Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know

E D Jr Hirsch - Bantam
Format: Print book

Grade by grade, these groundbreaking and successful books provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of a good education for first to sixth graders. B & W photographs, linecuts, and maps throughout; two-color printing. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm

TED GENOWAYS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Is there still a place for the farm in today's America?The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a small ranch, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in York County,...
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The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth

MICHIO KAKU - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies.Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human...
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Common Core Math For Parents For Dummies with Videos Online

Christopher Danielson - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Help your child succeed with a better understanding of Common Core Math Common Core Math For Parents For Dummies is packed with tools and information to help you promote your child's success in math. The grade-by-grade walk-through brings you up to speed on what your child is learning,...
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The Green and the Black: The Complete Story of the Shale Revolution, the Fight over Fracking, and the Future of Energy

Gary Sernovitz - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Gary Sernovitz leads a double life. A typical New York liberal, he is also an oilman - a fact his left-leaning friends let slide until the word "fracking" entered popular parlance. "How can you frack?" they suddenly demanded, aghast. But for Sernovitz, the real question...
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Employer's Legal Handbook, The: Manage Your Employees & Workplace Effectively

Fred S. Steingold Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

All the laws employers need to know! What do employers need to know about the law? Plenty! Employment laws change often. Staying on top of them is essential to running an efficient, fair workplace -- and heading off expensive lawsuits. Use this comprehensive guide to find answers to workplace...
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Ashlee Vance - Ecco
Format: Paperback

New York Times and International Bestseller Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Audible and AmazonMore than 1 million copies sold In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary...
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Networking All-in-One For Dummies

LOWE. - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Becoming a master of networking has never been easier Whether you're in charge of a small network or a large network, Networking All-in-One is full of the information you'll need to set up a network and keep it functioning. Fully updated to capture the latest Windows 10 releases...
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Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future

Brian Clegg - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Science fiction is a vital part of popular culture, influencing the way we all look at the world. TV shows like Star Trek and movies from Forbidden Planet to Inception have influenced scientists to enter the profession and have shaped our futures. Science fiction doesn't...
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Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World

Bill Nye - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Just as World War II called an earlier generation to greatness, so the climate crisis is calling today's rising youth to action: to create a better future.In UNSTOPPABLE, Bill Nye crystallizes and expands the message for which he is best known and beloved. That message is that with a combination...
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No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon

Buzz Aldrin - National Geographic
Format: Print book

Beloved American hero Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered through his event-filled life - both in outer space and on earth - in this inspiring guide-to-life for the next generation. Everywhere he goes, crowds gather to meet Buzz...
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Ham and Shortwave Radio for the Electronics Hobbyist

Stan Gibilisco - McGraw-Hill Education TAB; 1 edition
Format: Book

Get up and running as a ham radio operator―or just listen in on the shortwave bands! Ham and Shortwave Radio for the Electronics Hobbyist shows you, step by step, how to set up and operate your own ham radio station. It’s also perfect for those interested in shortwave listening,...
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Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph

Kristina Rizga - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover

"This book is a godsend ... a moving portrait for anyone wanting to go beyond the simplified labels and metrics and really understand an urban high school, and its highly individual, resilient, eager and brilliant students and educators." - Dave Eggers, co-founder, 826 National...
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Utopia is creepy : and other provocations

Nicholas Carr - W W Norton
Format: Print book

With a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley s unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade s worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy offers...
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Raise: What 4-H Teaches Seven Million Kids and How Its Lessons Could Change Food and Farming Forever

Kiera Butler - University of California Press
Format: Paperback

When city-dwelling journalist Kiera Butler visits a county fair for the first time, she is captivated by the white-uniformed members of the 4-H club and their perfectly groomed animals. She sets off on a search for a real 4-Her, a hypothetical wholesome youth whom she imagines wearing cowboy...
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Homeschooling 101: A Guide to Getting Started.

Erica Arndt - Erica Made Designs, LLC
Format: Paperback

So youve decided to homeschool but dont know where to start? Dont worry, Homeschooling 101 offers you a step by step practical guide that will help you get started and continue on in your homeschooling journey.Erica will walk you through all of the aspects of getting started, choosing and gathering...
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On Your Case: A Comprehensive, Compassionate

Lisa Green - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Television legal analyst and attorney Lisa Green offers something new: a witty, direct and empowering legal guide for women, filled with accessible information they can employ to understand and respond to common legal issues throughout their lives, from dating, marriage, and kids to jobs,...
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Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League

Dan-el Padilla Peralta - Penguin Press
Format: Print book

An undocumented immigrant's journey from a New York City homeless shelter to the top of his Princeton classDan-el Padilla Peralta has lived the American dream. As a boy, he came here legally with his family. Together they left Santo Domingo behind, but life in New York City was harder than...
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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

Randall Munroe - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, "ten hundred") most common words to provide...
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What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

MONA HANNA-ATTISHA - One World
Format: Book

Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan - in the name of austerity - shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water that flowed from their taps - but officials rebuffed them,...
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Open Concept Houses

FRANCESC ZAMORA - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the successful 150 Best series comes the debut entry in the forward-thinking Open Concept Houses series, filled with nearly 500 pages of color photos - sure to become the ultimate resource for this fast-growing trend in home design and renovation.One of the hottest lifestyle...
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Sonic Wind: The Story of John Paul Stapp and How a Renegade Doctor Became the Fastest Man on Earth

Craig Ryan - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of an eccentric, scientific visionary whose death-defying research has saved millions of lives.Sixty years ago, cars and airplanes were still deathtraps waiting to happen. Today, both are safer than ever, thanks in part to one pioneering air force doctor's research...
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The Best 381 Colleges, 2017 Edition: Everything You Need to Make the Right College Choice (College Admissions Guides)

Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Anniversary Edition

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF HELPING STUDENTS SELECT THE PERFECT COLLEGE!. The Princeton Review started publishing The Best Colleges in 1992 with surveys from 30,000 students. A quarter-century and more than a million student surveys later, we stand by our claim that there is no single "best"...
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The Old Farmer's Almanac 2016

Old FarmerÂ?s Almanac - Old Farmer's Almanac
Format: Paperback

The timeless reference book returns with full color pages; color weather-forecast maps; weather predictions; astronomical data; gardening advice; recipes; articles on fishing, raising animals, laughter, and more; ideas, hints, and charts that provide simple solutions for everyday challenges;...
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Learn to Timber Frame: Craftsmanship, Simplicity, Timeless Beauty

Will Beemer - Storey Publishing
Format: Print book

The first guide to timber framing written specifically for beginners Expert Will Beemer takes you through the entire process from start to finish, beginning with timber sourcing and ending with a finished building. Using full-color photos, detailed drawings, and clear step-by-step instructions,...
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Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools

Joel Klein - Harper
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller (Education) The Economist Best Books of the Year SelectionIn this revealing and provocative memoir, the former chancellor of the New York City schools offers the behind-the-scenes story of the city's dramatic campaign to improve public education and an inspiring...
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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...
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Mars: Science Fiction to Colonization

Lightning Guides - Lightning Guides
Format: Paperback

Mars: Science Fiction to Colonization, explores how science fiction has emerged into scientific fact as the prospect of colonizing Mars grows ever more tangible. From modern technology borne straight from the pages of classic novels to the Space Race, the first orbiter missions to the hypothesized...
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Criminal Law Handbook, The: Know Your Rights, Survive the System

Paul Bergman - ‎NOLO; Fourteenth edition
Format: Fourteenth Edition

The criminal justice system is complicated -- Understand it and your rights Criminal law is full of complex rules and procedures, but this book demystifies them. It explains how the system works, why police, lawyers, and judges do what they do, and -- most important -- the options...
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Natural Soapmaking

Marie Browning - Sterling; 1st Pbk. Ed edition
Format: Paperback

“Soap is...one of the better crafts to consider as gifts...supplies directions for more than 20 different kinds of hand-milled soap, an easier process than starting from lye...instructions extend to bath oils and salts and to packaging, labeling, and creating a munificence of fragrance....
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Living Together: A Legal Guide for Unmarried Couples

Ralph Warner - NOLO; Fifteenth Edition edition
Format: Book

Living together out of wedlock can mean anything, especially in court -- unlike married couples, most unmarried couples don't automatically inherit or receive protection under the law. Consequently, you must document everything from property ownership and children to wills and other...
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Frugal Innovation: How to do more with less

Navi Radjou - The Economist; First Trade Paper Edition edition

Frugal innovation is a way that companies can create high-quality products with limited resources. Once the preserve of firms in poor markets, Western companies are now seeking ways to appeal to cost-conscious and environmentally-aware consumers at home. With an estimated trillion-dollar...
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The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human

Adam Piore - Ecco
Format: Print book

For millennia, humans have tried - and often failed - to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier is the human body: the greatest engineers of our generation have turned their sights inward, and their work is beginning to revolutionize...
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The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School

Ed Boland - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

THE BATTLE FOR ROOM 314In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable...
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Nolo's Patents for Beginners: Quick & Legal

David Pressman Attorney - NOLO
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 Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power

Keith Barnham - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Using the little-known equation E=hf as the foundation for a compelling new vision, The Burning Answer reveals the importance of embracing solar energy as the only solution to the global energy crisis. Our society faces a choice. We could be enjoying a sustainable lifestyle but we have...
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Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System

Jerome F Buting - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Interweaving his account of the Steven Avery trial at the heart of Making a Murderer with other high profile cases from his criminal defense career, attorney Jerome F. Buting explains the flaws in America's criminal justice system and lays out a provocative, persuasive blue-print for reform.Over...
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

Margot Lee Shetterly - William Morrow & Company
Format: Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestsellerThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst,...
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Living Together: A Legal Guide for Unmarried Couples

Ralph Warner - NOLO; Fifteenth Edition edition
Format: Book

Living together out of wedlock can mean anything, especially in court -- unlike married couples, most unmarried couples don't automatically inherit or receive protection under the law. Consequently, you must document everything from property ownership and children to wills and other...
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds

Greg Milner - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

Pinpoint tells the story of GPS, a scientific marvel that enables almost all modern technology -- but is changing us in profound ways.Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Even as it guides us across town, GPS helps...
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Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum

Kennedy Odede - Ecco Press
Format: Hardcover

Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. With a Foreword by Nicholas Kristof.This is the story of two young people from completely different...
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Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight

Margaret Lazarus Dean - Graywolf Press
Format: Print book

Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known itIn the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake...
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Profit From Your Idea: How to Make Smart Licensing Deals

Richard Stim - NOLO
Format: Paperback

License your invention without the risk -- protect your idea You've got a great idea and are ready to strike it rich. But finding a company you can trust, hashing out a fair licensing deal, then watching your idea hit the marketplace -- well, you'll need help. Turn to Profit From...
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback

A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice - from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice...
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Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

Tony Wagner - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The basis for a major documentary, two leading experts sound an urgent call for the radical reimagining of American education so we can equip students for the realities of the twenty-first-century economy. "If you read one book about education this decade, make it this one" (Adam...
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Make It! Write It! Read It!: Simple Bookmaking Projects to Engage Kids in Art and Literacy

Wendy M L Libby - Zephyr Press
Format: Paperback

2015 Gelett Burgess Childrens Book Award Winner in Activity Book Category Perfect for preschool through elementary-level educators seeking to enhance classroom lessons or parents and other caregivers looking for fun and creative hands-on activities for children, Make It! Write It! Read...
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Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America

Wil Haygood - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this stunning new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the emotional...
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Fianc and Marriage Visas: A Couple's Guide to U.S. Immigration

Ilona Bray JD - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Obtain a visa and stay with your spouse in the U.S. You're engaged or married to a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, and all you want is the right to be together in the U.S. Should be simple, right It's not. The pile of application forms can be overwhelming, the bureaucracy...
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Ashlee Vance - Ecco Press
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller - Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Audible and Amazon
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Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream

Joshua Davis - FSG Originals
Format: Hardcover

Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a major motion pictureIn 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born...
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Painless Algebra

Lynette Long - Barrons Educational Series
Format: Print book

Defines algebraic terms, shows how to avoid pitfalls in calculation, presents painless methods for understanding and graphing equations, and makes problem-solving fun. Titles in Barron's extensive Painless Series cover a wide range of subjects, as they are taught at middle school and high...
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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Martin Ford - Basic Books
Format: eBook

What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine - and hope - that today's industrial revolution will unfold like the last: even as some jobs are eliminated, more will be created to deal with the new innovations of a new era. In Rise of the Robots,...
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Forensics For Dummies

Douglas P. Lyle - For Dummies
Format: Print book

Understand the real-life science behind crime scene investigation Forensics For Dummies takes you inside the world of crime scene investigation to give you the low down on this exciting field. Written by a doctor and former Law & Order consultant, this guide will have you solving...
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Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide

Stephen Fishman J.D. - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Maximize your tax deductions. Named a "Top 10 Real Estate Book" by Robert Bruss, syndicated real estate columnist. If you own residential rental properties, you will want to know about all the valuable deductions you are entitled to take as a landlord. Every Landlord's Tax Deduction...
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Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon

JEFFREY KLUGER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumphIn August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three...
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The Old Farmer's Almanac 2017: Special Anniversary Edition

Old Farmer'S Almanac. - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

What is 225 years old yet always of the moment? The Old Farmer's Almanac! America's oldest continuously published periodical, beloved by generations for being "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor," celebrates its unique history with a special edition and more readers...
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Amazing Stories of the Space Age: True Tales of Nazis in Orbit, Soldiers on the Moon, Orphaned Martian Robots, and Other Fascinating Accounts from the Annals of Spaceflight

Rod Pyle - Prometheus
Format: Print book

Award-winning science writer and documentarian Rod Pyle presents an insider's perspective on the most unusual and bizarre space missions ever devised inside and outside of NASA. The incredible projects described here were not merely flights of fancy dreamed up by space enthusiasts, but actual...
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Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart

Rachel Botsman - PublicAffairs
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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2017 / 2018 ASVAB For Dummies

Rod Powers - For Dummies
Format: Print book

The bestselling enlistment test-prep - newly expanded and improved! Wanna join the military? Your first step is to take the ASVAB - the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. Your score on this important test helps determine your military career, so if you have a specific job in mind,...
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The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet

Henry Fountain - Crown
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, The Great Quake is a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history -- the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega...
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Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools

Tom Little - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Noted educator Tom Little and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Ellison reveal the home-grown solution to turning American students into life-long learners.The longtime head of Park Day School, Tom Little embarked on a tour of 43 progressive schools across the country. In this...
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Nolo's Encyclopedia of Everyday Law: Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Legal Questions

Shae Irving - Nolo
Format: Print book

Everything you wanted to know about the law, but couldn't afford to ask. How do I get a collection agency to stop harassing me? What are the pros and cons of the different types of adoption? Do I need a copyright for my YouTube videos? What are my rights when it comes to a noisy neighbor?...
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Form Your Own Limited Liability Company

ANTHONY MANCUSO - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Make your business an LLCS Structuring your business as an LLC can bring important advantages: It lets you limit your personal liability for business debts and simplify your taxes. Here, you'll find the key legal forms you need to create an LLC in your state, including: LLC articles...
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Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done

Mick Ebeling - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

What if you discovered by accident that you could change the world? Mick Ebeling - a film producer by trade, optimist by nature - set out to perform a simple act of kindness that quickly turned into a lifelong mission. In the process he discovered that he could, indeed, change the world...
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