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Barron's FE Exam, 3rd Edition: Fundamentals of Engineering Exam

Masoud Olia Ph.D P.E. · Barron's Educational Series; 3 edition

Passing the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam is the first step toward becoming a Registered, or Professional, Engineer. The P.E. designation is a prerequisite for work as a consulting engineer, as well as for engineering management positions in many industries. This book prepares applicants...
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It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens

danah boyd · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages: 281
Format: Hardcover

What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social...
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The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today

Colin Dueck · Oxford University Press
Pages: 323
Format: Print book

By mid-2015, the Obama presidency will be entering its final stages, and the race among the successors in both parties will be well underway. And while experts have already formed a provisional understanding of the Obama administration's foreign policy goals, the shape of the "Obama...
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Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War

Raghu Karnad · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A brilliantly conceived nonfiction epic, a war narrated through the lives and deaths of a single family.The photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother's house for as long as he could remember, beheld but never fully noticed. They had all fought in the Second World War,...
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Kaplan ASVAB 2016 Strategies, Practice, and Review with 4 Practice Tests: Book Online

Kaplan · Kaplan Publishing
Pages: 588
Format: Paperback

Kaplan's ASVAB 2016 Strategies, Practice, and Review with 4 Practice Tests is a print online mobile study system that prepares you to succeed on the ASVAB and AFQT, with extensive review of all ASVAB subject tests. Kaplan's ASVAB 2016 Strategies, Practice, and Review includes:4...
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Terrorists at the Table: Why Negotiating is the Only Way to Peace

Jonathan Powell · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Should governments talk to terrorists? Do they have any choice? Without doing so, argues author Jonathan Powell in Terrorists at the Table, we will never end armed conflict. As violent insurgencies continue to erupt across the globe, we need people who will brave the depths of the Sri Lankan...
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The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century

David Reynolds · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History. "If you only read one book about the First World War in this anniversary year, read The Long Shadow. David Reynolds writes superbly and his analysis is compelling and original." -Anne Chisolm, Chair of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman...
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Fiction Core Collection

Barbara A. Bristow · Hw Wilson Co; 17 edition
Pages: 1781
Format: Hardcover

Wilson's Fiction Core Collection (17th Edition, 2014) recommends novels, novellas, and story collections for the general adult audience. It is a guide to over 8,000 books, plus review sources and other professional aids for librarians. The collection is a valuable tool for collection...
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