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Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education
Charles J. Sykes - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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The cost of a college degree has increased by 1,125% since 1978 -- four times the rate of inflation. Total student debt has surpassed $1.3 trillion. Nearly two thirds of all college students must borrow to study, and the average student graduates with more than $30,000 in debt. Many college... |
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Teaching Creative and Critical Thinking: An Interactive Workbook
Marjorie S. Schiering - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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This workbook contains over sixty activities for learning-through-play. The activities were created by teacher-candidates, retired educators, and student-learners. They include interdisciplinary activities for first through twelfth grade levels. Each activity includes how-to-implement instructions... |
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Know My Name
Emily Doe - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting, powerful memoir of the woman whose letter to Brock Turner gave voice to millions of survivors |
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Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Keep Your Property & Repay Debts Over Time
Stephen Elias - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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This plain-English guide to decide if Chapter 13 is right for you and to learn how to keep valuable property and discharge your unsecured debts. Chapter 13 legal concepts, procedures, and monetary calculations can be tricky. Nolo's Chapter 13 Bankruptcy breaks down the Chapter 13 process... |
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Ten Great American Trials: Lessons in Advocacy
Glenn C Altschuler - American Bar Association
Format: Paperback
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Ten Great American Trials provides chapter-length accounts of some of the most highly publicized -- and fascinating -- court cases of the twentieth century. Embedded in each of our narratives is an analysis of the use by prosecutors and defense attorneys of trial advocacy techniques (involving... |
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Arrested: What to Do When Your Loved One's in Jail
Wes Denham - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback
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When family members or loved ones are arrested, things get crazy fast. Inmates want bail bonds and private attorneys, food from the commissary, healthcare and prescription drugs. They want someone to prove, somehow, that witnesses were lying or that police reports were incorrect. Lawyers... |
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Nolos Quick LLC: All You Need to Know About Limited Liability Companies
Anthony Mancuso - NOLO
Format: Hardcover
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Limit your liability, simplify taxes with an LLCIf you run your own business, youve probably heard about limited liability companies. Cheap to set up and easier than a corporation to maintain, LLCs are more popular than ever. Business owners who operate LLCs arent personally liable for business... |
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Estate Planning Basics
DENNIS CLIFFORD - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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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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How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim
Joseph Matthews - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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After your injury: Settle your claim the right wayWhen you've been hurt in an accident, dealing with insurance companies and lawyers can feel exhausting. But armed with the right information, you can handle a claim yourself -- and save many thousands of dollars in the process.How to Win Your... |
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Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance
Ady Barkan - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this inspirational and moving memoir - reminiscent of When Breath Becomes Air and The Bright Hour - activist Ady Barkan explores his life with ALS and how his diagnosis gave him a profound new understanding of his commitment to social justice for all. Ady Barkan loved taking... |
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Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love
Nina Renata Aron - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, codependency, and our appetite for obsessive love "The disease he has is addiction," Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend, K. "The... |
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
Jane Sherron de Hart
Format: Paperback
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In this bestselling comprehensive, revelatory biography - fifteen years of interviews and research in the making - historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg's passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality, and her meticulous... |
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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
Nicholas Carr - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure and reveals something we already... |
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson - Riverhead Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life... |
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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach,... |
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Dancing with Bees: A Journey Back to Nature
Brigit Strawbridge Howard - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A naturalist's passionate dive into the world of bees of all stripes--what she has learned about them, and what we can learn from them Brigit Strawbridge Howard was shocked the day she realised she knew more about the French Revolution than she did about her native trees. And birds. And wildflowers.... |
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Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
Rebecca M. Jordan-Young - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Testosterone is not what you think it is, and it is decidedly not a "male sex hormone." Here is the debunking life story of a molecule we thought we all knew.Testosterone is a familiar villain, a ready explanation for innumerable social phenomena, from the stock market crash and the overrepresentation... |
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Soft Robotics: A DIY Introduction to Squishy, Stretchy, and Flexible Robots
Matthew Borgatti - Maker Media, Inc
Format: Paperback
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Soft robotics is an emerging field that approaches robots in new ways, enabling them to operate in environments that are unstructured or unstable and to perform tasks that require delicacy and malleability. It's all about engineering with soft materials -- silicone, cloth, balloons,... |
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Justice Statistics: An Extended Look at Crime in the United States 2017
Shana Hertz Hattis - Bernan Press
Format: Paperback
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Justice Statistics: An Extended Look at Crime in the United States is a special edition of Crime in the United States. It brings together nine key reports that fall under this category. Topics covered include capital punishment, rape and sexual assault among college-age women, correctional... |
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Crimes That Changed Our World: Tragedy, Outrage, and Reform
Paul H Robinson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Can crime make our world safer? Crimes are the worst of humanity's wrongs but, oddly, they sometimes "trigger" improvement in our lives. Crimes That Changed Our World explores some of the most important trigger cases of the past century, revealing much about how change comes... |
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Cannabis For Dummies
Dummies - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Make informed decisions about the benefits of using cannabis Pot is hot - for good reason. To date, 30 states have legalized medical marijuana to the tune of nearly $11B in consumer spending. Whether it's to help alleviate symptoms of an illness or for adults to use recreationally,... |
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Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket
Fraser MacDonald - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The long-buried truth about the dawn of the Space Age: lies, spies, socialism, and sex magickLos Angeles, 1930s: Everyone knows that rockets are just toys, the stuff of cranks and pulp magazines. Nevertheless, an earnest engineering student named Frank Malina sets out to prove the doubters... |
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PRAXIS: CORE/PLT (Barrons Test Prep)
Robert D. Postman Ed.D. - Barrons Educational Services
Format: Seventh Edition
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This brand-new, updated resource provides full preparation and two practice tests for the new computer-delivered Core Academic Skills for Educators (5712, 5722, 5732) . The book incorporates the most recent computer delivered Praxis Core test question. Comprehensive Reading, Writing and Mathematics... |
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The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
Susan Wise Bauer - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition.Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging... |
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Police Exams Prep 2020-2021: 4 Practice Tests Proven Strategies
Kaplan Test Prep - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Paperback
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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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Online Learning: A User-Friendly Approach for High School and College Students
Leslie Bowman - R&L Education
Format: Hardcover
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In every online class, some students are wildly successful, some earn average or slightly below-average grades, some barely pass, some fail, and some drop out. Whatever a students age, situation, or lifestyle, everything needed for successfully completing an online class is right here in this... |
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Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
Mike Thomson - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of a small, makeshift library in the town of Daraya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during a four-year siege.Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years it lived in another world. Besieged... |
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The Power of Voice: A Guide to Making Yourself Heard
Denise Woods
Format: Hardcover
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Foreword by Academy Award-winner Mahershala AliAn internationally renowned and highly sought-after Hollywood voice coach shares proven practices to help anyone utilize the often-untapped power of their own authentic voice.From a toddler's first words to professional public speaking,... |
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The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
Susan Hockfield - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives.A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telephones, televisions, aircraft, radar, nuclear... |
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Having and Being Had
Eula Biss - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A timely and arresting new look at affluence by a consistently surprising writer"My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts," Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after." Having just purchased her first home, she now embarks... |
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Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To
Melanie Cullen - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Everything you need to get organized This workbook provides a complete system for structuring and organizing your information and documents into a records binder. For each topic, you will find helpful content, rich resources, and step-by-step instructions. Also, available: A companion... |
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Archival Basics
Charlie Arp - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Paperback
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Archival Basics for Historic Record Collections is an introduction to the concepts, policies, infrastructure and tasks needed to collect, preserve and make archival collections available to researchers. The book is based on content presented in workshops by the Council of State Archivists... |
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Becoming a Dangerous Woman: Embracing Risk to Change the World
Pat Mitchell - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and inspiring memoir and call to action from Pat Mitchell -- groundbreaking media icon, global advocate for women's rights, and co-founder and curator of TEDWomen Raised in a small town in Georgia with no money or connections, Pat Mitchell challenged expectations to become... |
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Social Security Handbook 2017: Overview of Social Security Programs
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION. - BERNAN PRESS
Format: Print book
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he Social Security Handbook: Overview of Social Security Programs, 2016 provides information about Social Security programs and services, and identifies rights and obligations under the Social Security laws. The Handbook also contains information about related programs administered by agencies... |
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Don't Be a Victim: Fighting Back Against America's Crime Wave
Nancy Grace - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From street assaults and home predators to computer hackers, protect yourself and your loved ones from America's growing crime wave with this essential guide from legal expert, TV journalist, and New York Times bestselling author Nancy Grace. Nancy Grace wasn't always the iconic... |
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LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
P W Singer - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the internet. Terrorists... |
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Educators Resource Directory, 2015/16
Laura Mars - Grey House Pub; 11 edition
Format: Print book
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Educators Resource Directory is designed to provide both educators and education professionals with immediate access to a unique compilation of over 6,500 educational resources and over 130 tables and charts of education statistics and rankings. It would take many hours of searching through... |
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Alone in the Wild: A Rockton Novel
Kelley Armstrong - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover
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In #1 New York Times bestseller Kelley Armstrong's latest thriller, the hidden town of Rockton is about to face a challenge none of them saw coming: a baby.Every season in Rockton seems to bring a new challenge. At least that's what Detective Casey Duncan has felt since she decided... |
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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
Steven Greenhouse - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the longtime New York Times labor correspondent, an in-depth look at working men and women in America, the challenges they face, and how they can be re-empoweredIn an era when corporate profits have soared while wages have flatlined, millions of Americans are searching for ways to improve... |
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U.S. Immigration Made Easy
Ilona Bray J.D. - NOLO
Format: Print book
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Many people have misconceptions about the complex tangle that is U.S. immigration law. Even a prospective immigrant with simple questions about who is eligible to come to the U.S. on a permanent or temporary basis will find the rules hard to interpret, and even harder to act upon. U.S.... |
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Nolo's Patents for Beginners: Quick & Legal
David Pressman - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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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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Solve Your Money Troubles: Strategies to Get Out of Debt and Stay That Way
CARA O'NEILL - NOLO
Format: Print book
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Are you overwhelmed by debt? Facing collection calls, a wage garnishment, car repossession, or lawsuit? Solve Your Money Troubles is a comprehensive guide that provides the practical information you need to take financial control of your life. Learn how to: prioritize debts & create... |
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A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System
MARK THOMPSON - Pegasus Books
Format: Paperback
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An eye-opening and provocative tour of our solar system, from one of Britain's celebrated astronomists. Have you ever dreamed of being an astronaut, traveling through the universe on your very own space mission? What would it be like to tour the solar system, visiting the sun and the planets,... |
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The Book of the Moon: A Guide to Our Closest Neighbor
Maggie Aderin-Pocock - Abrams Image
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered if there are seasons on the moon or if space tourism will ever become commonplace? So has Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock. In fact, she earned her nickname "Lunatic" because of her deep fascination for all things lunar. In her lucidly written, comprehensive guide... |
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The end of sex and the future of human reproduction
Henry T Greely - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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Within twenty, maybe forty, years most people in developed countries will stop having sex for the purpose of reproduction. Instead, prospective parents will be told as much as they wish to know about the genetic makeup of dozens of embryos, and they will pick one or two for implantation,... |
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Library and Information Center Management
Barbara B. Moran - Libraries Unlimited
Format: Paperback
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This essential, single-volume textbook supplies a comprehensive introduction to library management that addresses all the functions of management, specifically within the ever-evolving modern library environment.* The latest edition of a best-selling core management text -- now in its ninth... |
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Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions
Jeffrey Selingo - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Getting into a top-ranked college has never seemed more impossible, with acceptance rates at some elite universities dipping into the single digits. In Who Gets In and Why, journalist and higher education expert Jeffrey Selingo dispels entrenched notions of how to compete and win at the admissions... |
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The Associated Press Stylebook 2018: and Briefing on Media Law
ASSOCIATED PRESS. - Basic Books
Format: Paperback
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A fully revised and updated edition of the bible of the newspaper industry.The style of The Associated Press is the gold standard for news writing. With The AP Stylebook in hand, you can learn how to write and edit with the clarity and professionalism for which their writers and editors... |
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Free Speech Beyond Words: The Surprising Reach of the First Amendment
Mark V Tushnet - New York University Press
Format: Print book
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The Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock's paintings, Arnold Schoenberg's music, and Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" are "unquestionably shielded" by the First Amendment. Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense: all receive... |
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In Praise of Litigation
Alexandra D Lahav - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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It is not difficult to find critics of America's famously litigious society. We have more lawyers per capita than anywhere else. Critics say we are unmatched in our willingness to sue, pointing to anecdotes of frivolous suits such as a man who sued his drycleaner over a pair of pants... |
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I Cant Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
Matt Taibbi - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover
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A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police - from the bestselling author of The DivideNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTOn July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old... |
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Mary Roach - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind... |
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Nursing School Entrance Exams: HESI A2 / NLN PAX-RN / PSB-RN / RNEE / TEAS
Sandra S. Swick R.N. B.C. - Barrons Educational Series
Format: Paperback
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Barron's Nursing School Entrance Exams provides detailed review and practice materials that you need to achieve success on the various Nursing School Entrance Exams (including the HESI A2, NLN PAX-RN, PSB-RN, RNEE, and the TEAS) . This edition features:A multi-part exam that covers... |
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The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court
Richard J. Lazarus - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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"The gripping story of the most important environmental law case ever decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Richard Lazarus's compelling narrative is enlivened by colorful characters, a canny dissection of courtroom strategy, and a case where the stakes are, literally, as big as the world."... |
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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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102 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum
Cathy Duffy - Grove Publishing; 2015 edition
Format: Print book
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102 Top Picks makes it easy for home educators to select the right curriculum for each family situation and each child's learning style. Widely-recognized curriculum expert Cathy Duffy walks you through the curriculum selection process: goal setting, figuring out which educational approach... |
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The Consequential Frontier: Challenging the Privatization of Space
Peter Ward - Melville House
Format: Hardcover
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"A lucid, bright and essential work of reporting, analysis and genuine care. Peter Ward has given us a new way to think about private endeavors in space. Superb." - Rivka Galchen, author of Little LaborsThis in-depth work of reportage dares to ask what's at stake in privatizing... |
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All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
Michael Klare - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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All Hell Breaking Loose is an eye-opening examination of climate change from the perspective of the U.S. military.The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change -- still linked, for many people, with polar bears... |
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Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we - and the planet we inhabit - could not survive without them.Insects comprise roughly half of the animal kingdom. They live everywhere - deep inside caves, 18,000 feet high in the Himalayas, inside computers,... |
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GMAT Prep Plus 2020: 6 Practice Tests Proven Strategies Online Mobile
Kaplan Test Prep - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Paperback
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In this newest edition of Kaplan's GMAT Prep Plus 2020, you'll get over 120 new practice questions and updated videos in the online resources. This edition reflects the most recent test changes.The book guides you through your GMAT prep step-by-step, with online practice and videos... |
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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Jodi Kantor - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer-prize winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movementOn October 5, 2017, the New... |
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Apollo's Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings
Roger D. Launius - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon.President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group... |
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YMBA Business Math: YMBA Learning Workbook Series -Business Math and Useful Life Skills
L.J. Keller - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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YMBA Business and Consumer Math presents real-world math topics that each student immediately appreciates as practical and useful. Designed with students in grades 6 to 9, but enjoyed by students of all ages who seek to learn about consumer and business math. Computing sales tax percentages,... |
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Common Spiders of North America
Richard A. Bradley - University of California Press
Format: Paperback
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This stunning field guide provides a comprehensive resource for identifying and appreciating nearly 500 species of spiders.
Arachnids are among the most diverse groups of terrestrial invertebrates, yet they are among the least studied and understood. This is the most comprehensive field... |
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Stealing History: Art Theft, Looting, and Other Crimes Against our Cultural Heritage
COLLEEN MARGARET CLARKE - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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When compared to terrorism, drugs and violent crimes that occupy the news today art is not considered as important. But, as it turns out, art and cultural crime is currently ranked as the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world. What exactly is art crime? Why does art matter? And what... |
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River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey
Helen Prejean - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In this revelatory, intimate memoir from the author of Dead Man Walking, the nation's foremost leader in efforts to abolish the death penalty shares the story of her growth as a spiritual leader, speaks out about the challenges of the Catholic Church, and shows that joy and religion... |
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Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
Joel R Paul - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States.No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more... |
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Floored!: Real-Life Stories from a Slip and Fall Expert Witness
Russell J. Kendzior - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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When watching the evening news you can be led to believe that most slip and fall claims are bogus and nothing more than a scam designed to fleece business owners and the insurance industry for money. But not all Plaintiffs are scam artists, and not all victims are seeking to cash in on their... |
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Make: Wearable Electronics: Design, prototype, and wear your own interactive garments
Kate Hartman - Maker Media, Inc; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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What if your clothing could change color to complement your skin tone, respond to your racing heartbeat, or connect you with a loved one from afar? Welcome to the world of shoes that can dynamically shift your height, jackets that display when the next bus is coming, and neckties that can nudge... |
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Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth
Kate Greene - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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When it comes to Mars, the focus is often on how to get there: the rockets, the engines, the fuel. But upon arrival, what will it actually be like?In 2013, Kate Greene moved to Mars. That is, along with five fellow crew members, she embarked on NASA's first HI-SEAS mission, a simulated... |
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IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans: Strategies for Taking Your Money Out
Twila Slesnick PhD Enrolled Agent - NOLO
Format: Thirteenth Edition
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Save your nest egg from the IRS . About to retire? Over 70 and facing mandatory withdrawal rules? Just inherited money from a retirement plan? . Whether you have an IRA, Roth IRA, 401(k) , Keogh or other retirement plan, this book will help you make sense of the rules for taking your money... |
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Johnny Nhan - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Illustrated Edition
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In each chapter of Issues and Controversies in Policing Today, author Johnny Nhan explores a provocative issue sure to spark classroom discussion. Grounding each topic in theory, recent published research, and practice, he focuses on providing students with an understanding... |
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Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
Eliese Colette Goldbach - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as one young woman returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland.Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly of the mill...To ArcelorMittal Steel Eliese... |
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The Butler's Child: An Autobiography
Lewis Steel - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Butler's Child is the personal story of a Warner Brothers family grandson who spent more than fifty years as a fighting, no holds barred civil rights lawyer. Lewis M. Steel explores why he, a privileged white man, devoted his life to seeking racial progress in often uncomprehending... |
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Practical Blacksmithing: The Four Classic Volumes in One
M. T. Richardson - Chartwell Books
Format: Hardcover
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The blacksmith's ABCs - learn metalworking as taught by the old masters! The forging of metal gave birth to the Iron Age, and Practical Blacksmithing is the classic primer on the craft that shaped modern civilization. Featuring more than 1,000 illustrations, this foundational text describes... |
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2015 International Fuel Gas Code
International Code Council. - Delmar
Format: Print book
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The 2015 INTERNATIONAL FUEL GAS CODE LOOSE LEAF sets forth requirements that address the design and installation of fuel gas systems and gas-fired appliances, based on the most current information and technology available. The requirements are performance-driven, making this an effective... |
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Breaking the chains of gravity : the story of spaceflight before nasa
Amy Shira Teitel - Bloomsbury Sigma
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NASA's history is a familiar story, culminating with the agency successfully landing men on the moon in 1969, but its prehistory is an important and rarely told tale. America's space agency drew together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. At the end of World... |
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Reading behind Bars: A Memoir of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian
Jill Grunenwald - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover
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In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master's degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But the economy had a different idea. As the Great Recession reared its ugly head, jobs were scarce. After some searching, however,... |
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
Jane Sherron De Hart - Knopf
Format: Book
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In this comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg's passion for justice.
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The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
Christian Davenport - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes... |
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Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
Tatiana Schlossberg - Grand Central Publishing
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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