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Dealing With Problem Employees: How to Manage Performance & Personal Issues in the Workplace

Amy Delpo - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Manage employee problems, legally and effectively Every workplace has occasional problems with employees. This book is packed with the legal and practical information you need to handle all kinds of issues -- from small corrective actions to major problems that put your company at risk....
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Ten Great American Trials: Lessons in Advocacy

Glenn C Altschuler - American Bar Association
Format: Paperback

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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Know My Name

Emily Doe - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The riveting, powerful memoir of the woman whose letter to Brock Turner gave voice to millions of survivors
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Teaching Creative and Critical Thinking: An Interactive Workbook

Marjorie S. Schiering - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

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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Data-ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else

Steve Lohr - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Steve Lohr, a technology reporter for the New York Times, chronicles the rise of Big Data, addressing cutting-edge business strategies and examining the dark side of a data-driven world.Coal, iron ore, and oil were the key productive assets that fueled the Industrial Revolution. Today,...
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Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Keep Your Property & Repay Debts Over Time

Stephen Elias - NOLO
Format: Paperback

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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Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education

Charles J. Sykes - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Seeing Life through Private Eyes: Secrets from America's Top Investigator to Living Safer, Smarter, and Saner

THOMAS G MARTIN - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Life is full of obstacles, and in today's complicated, hyperconnected world we are all seeking to gain insight and knowledge that will allow us to take charge of our own safety and well-being. As a highly decorated former DEA agent and leading private investigator, Thomas G. Martin...
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Sacred Herb Bundles for Energy Cleansing: Your Guide to a Powerful Healing Practice to Purify, Bless and Inspire

Kiera Fogg - Llewellyn Publications
Format: Paperback

The spiritual art of working with herb bundles has become a worldwide phenomenon, with celebrities, business executives, and modern spiritual seekers embracing the simple and powerful practice. Sacred Herb Bundles for Energy Cleansing is all about simplifying the process of creating custom...
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Setting Limits in the Classroom, 3rd Edition: A Complete Guide to Effective Classroom Management with a School-wide Discipline Plan

Robert J. Mackenzie - Harmony
Format: Paperback

Disruptive behavior, power struggles, lack of motivation, attention deficit disorder - at times the list of obstacles to teaching seems endless. Thats why thousands of teachers and child-care providers have turned to the solutions in Setting Limits in the Classroom. This fully updated and expanded...
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The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Robert Iger - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A grand vision defined: The CEO of Disney, one of Time's most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring the magic to life. Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney...
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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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Nolos Quick LLC: All You Need to Know About Limited Liability Companies

Anthony Mancuso - NOLO
Format: Hardcover

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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Arrested: What to Do When Your Loved One's in Jail

Wes Denham - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback

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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The Complete Writer, Writing With Ease: Strong Fundamentals: A Guide to Designing Your Own Elementary Writing Curriculum

Susan Wise Bauer - Peace Hill Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A revised and improved edition of the best-selling elementary writing handbook, from the author of The Well-Trained Mind Susan Wise Bauer lays out a plan for teaching writing that combines the best elements of old-fashioned writing instruction with innovative new educational methods. Writing...
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How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim

Joseph Matthews - NOLO
Format: Paperback

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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The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

Daniel Markovits - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal - that...
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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World

Steven Johnson - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book

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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Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance

Ady Barkan - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

Jane Sherron de Hart
Format: Paperback

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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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

Steven Johnson - Riverhead Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

"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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Soft Robotics: A DIY Introduction to Squishy, Stretchy, and Flexible Robots

Matthew Borgatti - Maker Media, Inc
Format: Paperback

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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Dancing with Bees: A Journey Back to Nature

Brigit Strawbridge Howard - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Hardcover

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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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

Nicholas Carr - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

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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Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love

Nina Renata Aron - Crown
Format: Hardcover

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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Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography

Rebecca M. Jordan-Young - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket

Fraser MacDonald - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

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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Crimes That Changed Our World: Tragedy, Outrage, and Reform

Paul H Robinson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

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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Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege

Mike Thomson - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

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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PRAXIS: CORE/PLT (Barrons Test Prep)

Robert D. Postman Ed.D. - Barrons Educational Services
Format: Seventh Edition

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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Justice Statistics: An Extended Look at Crime in the United States 2017

Shana Hertz Hattis - Bernan Press
Format: Paperback

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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Cannabis For Dummies

Dummies - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

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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Online Learning: A User-Friendly Approach for High School and College Students

Leslie Bowman - R&L Education
Format: Hardcover

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

Kaplan Test Prep - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Paperback

Kaplan's Police Exams Prep 2020-2021 is your guide to acing the entrance exams for police departments across the United States. With up-to-date content review, realistic practice questions, and clear explanations, Police Exams Prep is your complete guide to becoming a police officer.We...
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The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

Susan Wise Bauer - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

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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Social Security Handbook 2017: Overview of Social Security Programs

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION. - BERNAN PRESS
Format: Print book

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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Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To

Melanie Cullen - NOLO
Format: Paperback

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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The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

Susan Hockfield - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

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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Becoming a Dangerous Woman: Embracing Risk to Change the World

Pat Mitchell - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Archival Basics

Charlie Arp - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Paperback

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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The Complete Guide to Making Cheese, Butter, and Yogurt At Home Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply Revised 2nd Edition (Back to Basics)

Richard Helweg - Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc.
Format: Paperback

Since the earliest human civilizations in the west, milk has been gathered from domesticated animals such as the goat, sheep, and cow to create a wide variety of high protein and tasty foods including cheese, butter, and yogurt. With more than 3,000 kinds of cheese registered to the FDA and dozens...
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Don't Be a Victim: Fighting Back Against America's Crime Wave

Nancy Grace - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

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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Having and Being Had

Eula Biss - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

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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The Power of Voice: A Guide to Making Yourself Heard

Denise Woods
Format: Hardcover

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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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor

Steven Greenhouse - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

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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Educators Resource Directory, 2015/16

Laura Mars - Grey House Pub; 11 edition
Format: Print book

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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LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media

P W Singer - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

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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The Complete Guide to Special Education: Expert Advice on Evaluations, IEPs, and Helping Kids Succeed

Linda Wilmshurst - Jossey-Bass; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

Provides an insider's view of the special education process for parents and teachers. This book explores the special education process-from testing and diagnosis to IEP meetings and advocating for special needs children. Step by step the authors reveal the stages of identification,...
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Alone in the Wild: A Rockton Novel

Kelley Armstrong - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Solve Your Money Troubles: Strategies to Get Out of Debt and Stay That Way

CARA O'NEILL - NOLO
Format: Print book

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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The end of sex and the future of human reproduction

Henry T Greely - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book

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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U.S. Immigration Made Easy

Ilona Bray J.D. - NOLO
Format: Print book

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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A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System

MARK THOMPSON - Pegasus Books
Format: Paperback

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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Nolo's Patents for Beginners: Quick & Legal

David Pressman - 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 Book of the Moon: A Guide to Our Closest Neighbor

Maggie Aderin-Pocock - Abrams Image
Format: Hardcover

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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Library and Information Center Management

Barbara B. Moran - Libraries Unlimited
Format: Paperback

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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The Associated Press Stylebook 2018: and Briefing on Media Law

ASSOCIATED PRESS. - Basic Books
Format: Paperback

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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The Homeschooling Handbook: How to Make Homeschooling Simple, Affordable, Fun, and Effective

Lorilee Lippincott - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

The mere thought of homeschooling can be overwhelming. What curriculum do I choose? What if we cant afford all the books? How do I schedule our time? Will my children become socially awkward recluses? What if I screw up my kids education?! Lorilee Lippincott, a seasoned homeschooling mom,...
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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

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

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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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Mary Roach - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

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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Teaching for Educational Equity: Case Studies for Professional Development and Principal Preparation

Jennifer L Martin - ‎Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Reprint edition
Format: Reprint Edition

Teachers and school leaders are confronted by various issues pertaining to social justice every day. This volume will help school leaders to handle these issues ethically, and is intended to be used by administrators for the professional development of teachers, teacher leaders, and aspiring...
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Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions

Jeffrey Selingo - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

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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I Cant Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street

Matt Taibbi - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

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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Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

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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102 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum

Cathy Duffy - Grove Publishing; 2015 edition
Format: Print book

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 Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court

Richard J. Lazarus - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover

"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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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

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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All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change

Michael Klare - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet

Leonard David - National Geographic Soc
Format: Print book

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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The Consequential Frontier: Challenging the Privatization of Space

Peter Ward - Melville House
Format: Hardcover

"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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YMBA Business Math: YMBA Learning Workbook Series -Business Math and Useful Life Skills

L.J. Keller - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

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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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Jodi Kantor - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

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

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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Common Spiders of North America

Richard A. Bradley - University of California Press
Format: Paperback

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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GMAT Prep Plus 2020: 6 Practice Tests Proven Strategies Online Mobile

Kaplan Test Prep - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Paperback

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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Stealing History: Art Theft, Looting, and Other Crimes Against our Cultural Heritage

COLLEEN MARGARET CLARKE - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

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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Shocking Cases from Dr. Henry Lee's Forensic Files: The Phil Spector Case / the Priest's Ritual Murder of a Nun / the Brown's Chicken Massacre and More!

Henry C. Lee - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Henry C. Lee is highly regarded throughout the law-enforcement community as one of the most talented and experienced forensic scientists in the world. He has also received widespread public recognition and media attention through his association with sensational criminal investigations,...
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Nursing School Entrance Exams Prep Plus 2019-2020: Your All-in-One Guide to the Kaplan and HESI Exams

KAPLAN NURSING. - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Paperback

Completely revised and reorganized, Kaplan's Nursing School Entrance Exams Prep 2019-2020 is focused review of the HESI A2 and the Kaplan Nursing Admission Test - two major nursing school entrance assessments. Exam-specific practice, concise content review, and proven test-taking...
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Building Everyday Leadership in All Kids: An Elementary Curriculum to Promote Attitudes and Actions for Respect and Success

Mariam G. MacGregor M.S. - Free Spirit Publishing; Book with Digital Content edition
Format: Paperback

Building Everyday Leadership in All Kids emphasizes that anyone can be a leader—and it’s never too early to start learning what leadership means and how to lead. This resource engages all emerging leaders, at all emotional and academic levels, by taking a full, practical approach...
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Confronting Underground Justice: Reinventing Plea Bargaining for Effective Criminal Justice Reform

William R. Kelly - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Plea negotiation is rife with due process concerns, including a heightened risk of coerced pleas, ignoring mens rea, serious questions about assistance of counsel, limited discovery and little litigation of the evidence, the conviction of innocent defendants and significant questions about...
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River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey

Helen Prejean - Random House
Format: Hardcover

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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How To Write Funny: Your Serious, Step-By-Step Blueprint For Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing

Scott Dikkers - Scott Dikkers
Format: Print book

The definitive comedy-writing handbook from one of the genre's most celebrated writers, this easy-to-follow guide lays out a clear system for creating humor that gets big, milk-coming-out-of-your-nose laughs, reliably and repeatably. You'll learn... * the three sure-fire ways to generate...
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Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times

Joel R Paul - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

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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IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans: Strategies for Taking Your Money Out

Twila Slesnick PhD Enrolled Agent - NOLO
Format: Thirteenth Edition

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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Make: Wearable Electronics: Design, prototype, and wear your own interactive garments

Kate Hartman - Maker Media, Inc; 1 edition
Format: Print book

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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Floored!: Real-Life Stories from a Slip and Fall Expert Witness

Russell J. Kendzior - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

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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Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth

Kate Greene - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

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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The Butler's Child: An Autobiography

Lewis Steel - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Johnny Nhan - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Illustrated Edition

DESCRIPTION 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

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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Practical Blacksmithing: The Four Classic Volumes in One

M. T. Richardson - Chartwell Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Now You're Talking: Human Conversation from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence

Trevor J Cox - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

A history of how humans developed our capacity for conversation -- and what might happen now that computers are catching up Trevor Cox has been described by The Observer as "a David Attenborough of the acoustic realm." In Now You're Talking, he takes us on a journey through...
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2015 International Fuel Gas Code

International Code Council. - Delmar
Format: Print book

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

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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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

Jane Sherron De Hart - Knopf
Format: Book

In this comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg's passion for justice.
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Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have

Tatiana Schlossberg - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

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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The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos

Christian Davenport - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

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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Reading behind Bars: A Memoir of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian

Jill Grunenwald - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover

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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