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Common Core Standards For Parents For Dummies
Jared Myracle - For Dummies
Format: 1st Edition
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A parents guide to understanding the Common Core educational standards Designed to ensure a similar level of job and college preparedness for students from all backgrounds and regions, the Common Core standards have been adopted in 45 states from coast to coast. These new common standards... |
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Citizenship as Foundation of Rights: Meaning for America
Richard Sobel - Cambridge University Press
Format: Computer file
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Citizenship as Foundation of Rights explores the nature and meaning of American citizenship and the rights flowing from citizenship in the context of current debates around politics, including immigration. The book explains the sources of citizenship rights in the Constitution and focuses... |
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Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
Sylvia Libow Martinez - Constructing Modern Knowledge Press
Format: Hardcover
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Join the maker movement!Theres a technological and creative revolution underway. Amazing new tools, materials and skills turn us all into makers. Using technology to make, repair or customize the things we need brings engineering, design and computer science to the masses. Fortunately for educators,... |
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Visual Leap: A Step-by-Step Guide to Visual Learning for Teachers and Students
Jesse Berg - Lamprey & Lee
Format: Paperback
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Visual Leap is a how-to book for teachers, students and parents interested in making learning easier. In step-by-step fashion, it presents an effective, universal, visual method to teach students how to think independently and critically, and how to organize their ideas for any instructional... |
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501 Reading Comprehension Questions
LLC LearningExpress - Learningexpress, Llc; 5th Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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The newly revised and updated 501 Reading Comprehension Questions offers the most extensive and varied practice for all types of questions students might face on standardized and in-class tests. Beginning with the basics—questions that test basic vocabulary in context—the... |
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Convicting the Innocent: Death Row and America's Broken System of Justice
Stanley Cohen - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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"A landmark in the fight against the death penalty. Extensively researched and brilliantly written." Martin Garbus, criminal defense attorneyIn January 2000, Illinois Governor George H. Ryan declared a moratorium on state executions. Three years later, Ryan commuted all Illinois... |
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Tax Savvy for Small Business
Frederick W. Daily Attorney - NOLO; Eighteenth Edition edition
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Getting your tax matters on track will free up your time to do what really counts: run a profitable business. Tax Savvy for Small Business can help you create a business tax strategy that can save you time, energy and money. It shows you how to: deduct operating expenses deduct travel,... |
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From Flapping to Function: A Parent's Guide to Autism and Hand Skills
Barbara A Smith - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Print book
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Occupational therapist, Barbara Smith shared her creative fine-motor strategies in her groundbreaking book- "From Rattles to Writing: A Parent's Guide to Hand Skills". Now her new book- "From Flapping to Function: A Parent's Guide to Autism and Hand Skills"... |
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Tap, Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens
Lisa Guernsey - Jossey-Bass
Format: Paperback
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A guide to promoting literacy in the digital age With young children gaining access to a dizzying array of games, videos, and other digital media, will they ever learn to read? The answer is yes if they are surrounded by adults who know how to help and if they are introduced to media designed... |
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Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business
Fred S. Steingold Attorney - Nolo; Eighth Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Most small business owners, can't afford to hire a lawyer to draft the legal documents they need in the course of day-to-day business. Now there's an affordable solution. Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business provides over 60 legal forms and documents and all the step-by-step... |
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101 Law Forms for Personal Use
Nolo Editors - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Reliable legal forms for common personal and family transactions At one time or another, we all need to get an agreement in writing. But where to start? 101 Law Forms for Personal Use makes it easy to create legal agreements and organize essential information. The plain-English instructions... |
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Careers in renewable energy : your world, your future
Gregory McNamee - PixyJack Press
Format: Book : English : Updated 2nd edition
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"Vocational guidance for students and adults seeking jobs in renewable energy, including solar and wind energy, geothermal, hydropower, bioenergy, green building / energy management, hydrogen energy, green transportation, and energy education and economics"-- |
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Make: Basic Arduino Projects: 26 Experiments with Microcontrollers and Electronics
Don Wilcher - O'Reilly & Associates
Format: Paperback
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This companion book to MakerShed's Ultimate Arduino Microcontroller Pack provides 26 clearly explained projects that you can build with this top-selling kit right away--including multicolor flashing lights, timers, tools for testing circuits, sound effects, motor control, and sensor... |
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Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide
Stephen Fishman J.D. - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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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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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Daniel J Levitin - Dutton
Format: Print book
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From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process - especially in election season.... |
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Child Custody and Support
Emily Doskow Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Custody and Support: Get the Answers You Need When you're getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for your children (and yourself) if you work with the other parent to draw up a custody plan and agree on child support. If you can't work out custody and support, you'll... |
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Direct Hits Advanced Vocabulary: Vocabulary for the ACT, SAT, Advanced Placement Exams, GMAT, and more
Direct Hits - Direct Hits Publishing
Format: Print book
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Direct Hits Advanced Vocabulary: Vocabulary for the ACT, SAT, Advanced Placement Exams, GMAT, and more Words are our tools for learning and communicating. A proficient and robust vocabulary is critical to success in school, business, the professions, AND standardized tests such as the AP Exams,... |
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On Your Case: A Comprehensive, Compassionate
Lisa Green - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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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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Plan Your Estate
Denis Clifford - Nolo
Format: Print book
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Turn to Plan Your Estate for straightforward, plain-English explanations of each of your estate-planning options, so you can make the best decisions for you and those you love. Attorney Denis Clifford shows you how to: avoid probate leave property through a will or trust use life insurance... |
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Quick & Legal Will Book
Denis Clifford - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Make your own legal will, quickly & easily! If you want to create a will without the trouble, the Quick & Legal Will Book is the simplest and fastest way to reach your goal. Get the forms and step-by-step instructions to make a basic will that meets your needs with this all-in-one... |
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Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
Frank Bruni - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their... |
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The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases
Deborah Halber - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Mary Roach meets C.S.I. in this “lively study that’s part whodunit, part sociological study…The result is eminently entertaining and will be devoured by armchair detectives” (Publishers Weekly).Currently, upwards of forty thousand people in America are dead and unaccounted... |
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Going to College with Autism: Tips and Strategies from Successful Voices
Emily Rutherford - Rowman & Littlefield Education
Format: Print book
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This book provides students and professionals in higher education with information to better support individuals with Autism. The intended readership for this book includes educators and students in secondary and higher education, high school counselors, and high school transition specialists.... |
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The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, 2nd Edition
Carol A Tomlinson - ASCD
Format: Paperback
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Although much has changed in schools in recent years, the power of differentiated instruction remains the same and the need for it has only increased. Today's classroom is more diverse, more inclusive, and more plugged into technology than ever before. And it's led by teachers under... |
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Math Phobia: Strategies to Overcome Apathy and Improve Performance
Lourdes Ferrer - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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Math Phobia: Strategies to Overcome Apathy and Improve Performance is the product of three distinct generations, baby boomer, millennial and z-generation, working together to provide readers with twelve possible reasons for students apathy and low performance on standardized tests and twelve... |
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The Renewable Energy Home Handbook: Insulation & energy saving, Living off-grid, Bio-mass heating, Wind turbines, Solar electric PV generation, Solar water heating, Heat pumps, & more
Lindsay Porter - Veloce Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The Renewable Energy Home Handbook is biased towards the practical, and covers the installation of all leading types of alternative domestic energy sources - from ground- and air-source heat pumps, PV solar electricity generation and solar water heating, to bio-mass domestic heating systems... |
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Middle School Math for Parents: 10 Steps to Help Your Child Master Math
Scott Meltzer - Learningexpress, Llc
Format: Book
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Why doesn't my child understand math? How can I help my child with this if I don't even understand it? Why doesn't the textbook look like it used to? Questions like these vex even the most educated parents. This book is for any parent who has ever felt baffled, frustrated,... |
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Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom
Patricia A Jennings - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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Teaching is one of the most rewarding professions, but also one of the most demanding. This book offers simple, ready-to-use, and evidence-proven mindfulness techniques to help educators manage the stresses of the classroom, cultivate an exceptional learning environment, and revitalize... |
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ASVAB: Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
LLC LearningExpress - Learningexpress, Llc; 5th Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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The military offers a good salary, career training, tuition assistance, and travel opportunities. To take advantage of these benefits, applicants must first pass the ASVAB. This easy-to-use guide helps readers learn how the test is used for recruitment and placement, the exact questions... |
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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
Format: Book
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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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Fiance and Marriage Visas: A Couple's Guide to U.S. Immigration
Ilona Bray JD - NOLO; Eighth Edition edition
Format: Print book
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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 easy, right It's not. Information can be hard to find, the government bureaucracy isn't helpful, delays are inevitable. Fortunately, this easy-to-use... |
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Firefighter Exam
Learningexpress. - Learning Express, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Challenging, rewarding, and well-paying, firefighting is a terrific career choice. But before they join the ranks of one of the nation's most admired occupations, applicants must pass a rigorous exam. With 5 total practice exams, this guide provides the most thorough and up-to-date... |
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Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet
Leonard David - National Geographic Soc
Format: Print book
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The next frontier in space exploration is Mars, the red planet and human habitation of Mars isn t much farther off. In October 2015, NASA declared Mars an achievable goal; that same season, Ridley Scott and Matt Damon s"The Martian"drew crowds into theaters, signaled by its nearly... |
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Secrets from an Inventor's Notebook: Advice on Inventing Success
Maurice Kanbar - Council Oak Books; Second Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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When the fuzz from his sweater was pulled off by a brick wall he was leaning against, Maurice Kanbar had a brainstorm. Soon he had patented, produced, and successfully promoted the D-Fuzz-It sweater comb, and made his first fortune at the age of 22. In this engaging “master class”... |
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Jon Krakauer - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From best-selling author Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana - stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape. Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, with... |
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8 Ways to Avoid Probate
Mary Randolph - Nolo
Format: Print book
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Did you know? If you plan carefully, your estate may not have to go through the process of probate. Probate can drag on for years, and can easily cost your family thousands of dollars--money that would otherwise have gone to them. 8 Ways to Avoid Probate offers simple and effective methods... |
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Blake J. Harris - It Books
Format: Hardcover
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Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Warsa mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized... |
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Working for Yourself: Law & Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers & Consultants
Stephen Fishman - NOLO; Ninth Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Start your business off on the right foot Ready to be your own boss? Congratulations! This book provides all the legal and tax information you need. Whether you need to draft a contract, price your services, maximize your tax deductions, or sort out your benefits options, we've got you covered.... |
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Every landlord's legal guide
Marcia Stewart; Ralph E Warner; Janet Portman - Nolo
Format: Print book : English : Thirteenth editionView all editions and formats
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Every Landlord's Legal Guide gives landlords the legal and practical solutions they need to rent residential property right. From move-in to move-out, this book covers a wide range of issues, including fair housing, repairs, sublets, screening for good tenants, and environmental hazards... |
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Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement
Jean Casella - New Press
Format: Print book
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The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has denounced the use of solitary confinement beyond fifteen days as a form of cruel and degrading treatment that often rises to the level of torture. Yet the United States holds more than eighty thousand people in isolation on any given day. Now sixteen... |
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Praxis II: ParaPro Test Prep
LearningExpress - LearningExpress
Format: Print book
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Paraprofessionals, also known as teaching assistants, are an invaluable tool in today's classrooms. As class sizes swell, teachers rely on paraprofessionals to assist with the complicated tasks of classroom management and content instruction. Like teachers, the field of paraprofessionals... |
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Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System
Jerome F Buting - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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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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Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda
Marion Nestle - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Sodas are astonishing products. Little more than flavored sugar-water, these drinks cost practically nothing to produce or buy, yet have turned their makers--principally Coca-Cola and PepsiCo--into a multibillion-dollar industry with global recognition, distribution, and political power.... |
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"So What Are You Going to Do with That?": Finding Careers Outside Academia, Third Edition
Maggie Debelius - University Of Chicago Press; Third Edition edition
Format: Book
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Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of PhDs and MAs every year. Yet more than half of all college courses are taught by adjunct faculty, which means that the chances of an academic landing a tenure-track job seem only to shrink as student loan and credit card debts grow. What’s... |
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Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education
Ken Robinson - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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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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Officer Candidate Tests
LearningExpress - Learningexpress, Llc; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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In addition to military academies and Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), the United States military services also draw a significant number of officer trainees from the military enlisted ranks and from civilian college graduates. All these paths, however, converge on a common factor:... |
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How to File for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
Stephen Elias - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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If you have more debt than you can possibly pay off, the bankruptcy system is there to help -- and with How to File for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, you'll find the clear and user-friendly information, advice, and step-by-step instructions you'll need to get through the entire process.... |
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Court Officer Exam
LearningExpress LLC - Learningexpress, Llc; 2nd Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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This all new, updated second edition provides prospective courtroom attendants, courtroom deputies, bailiffs, and marshals, with the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on what court officers do, how they are selected, what the their exam could consist of, and how it is administered.... |
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How to Write a Business Plan
Mike McKeever - NOLO; Twelfth Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Write a business plan that potential investors will embrace! If you're thinking of starting a business or raising money to expand an existing one, you need a plan. Running a successful business requires a great deal of forethought, so write a business plan and secure your venture's... |
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