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100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism
Chavisa Woods - Seven Stories Press
Format: Paperback
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Shirley Jackson Award-winning author and three-time Lambda Finalist, Chavisa Woods presents one hundred personal stories of sexism, harassment, discrimination, and assault.Recounting her experiences with sexist discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual violence - beginning in childhood,... |
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The Executor's Guide: Settling a Loved One's Estate or Trust
Mary Randolph - NOLO; Sixth Edition edition
Format: Book
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The step-by-step guide to serving as an executor. If you need to wrap up the affairs of a loved one who has died, you may feel overwhelmed - especially when you're grieving. But you can do it, and this book will show you how. A roadmap to follow. The Executor's Guide will lead... |
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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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The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight
Valter Longo - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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The internationally renowned, clinically tested, revolutionary diet program to lose weight, fight disease, and live a longer, healthier life. Can what you eat determine how long, and how well, you live? The clinically proven answer is yes, and The Longevity Diet is easier to follow than... |
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Bridging the High School-College Gap: The Role of Concurrent Enrollment Programs
Gerald S. Edmonds - Syracuse University Press
Format: Reprint Edition
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Concurrent enrollment programs offer high-achieving high school students the opportunity to take college credit-bearing courses taught by college-approved high school teachers. This low-cost, scalable model brings accelerated coursework to urban, suburban, and rural students. In this book,... |
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Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
Rachel Botsman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust?From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust--far from it. In this revolutionary book, world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipping... |
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Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of Civilization
John Browne - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An impassioned defense of progress and innovation -- and an argument for social responsibility from engineer, businessman, and former CEO of BP Lord John Browne.Today's unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social... |
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A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind
D J Helfand - Columbia University Press
Format: Print book
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We live in the Information Age, with billions of bytes of data all just two swipes away. But how much of this is of value? How much is mis-, or even dis-information? Lots. And your search engine cannot tell the difference. As a result, an avalanche of misinformation threatens to overwhelm... |
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When Should Law Forgive?
Martha Minow - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The potential power of forgiveness in an age of resentment.Crimes and violations of the law require punishment, and our legal system is set up to punish, but what if the system was recalibrated to also weigh grounds for forgiveness? What if something like bankruptcy -- a fresh start for debtors... |
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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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Making Pre-Med Count: Everything I wish I'd known before applying
Elisabeth Fassas - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Paperback
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In Making Pre-Med Count, med student Elisabeth Fassas shares personal stories from her own experiences to help guide you through the pre-med process. You'll get first-hand guidance and learn how to apply her advice to your own med school journey.Counselors and checklists are helpful,... |
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Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition
P. Carl - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A memoir that is jolting, honest, passionate, and beautifully written" (Claudia Rankine) , Becoming a Man explores one man's gender transition amid a pivotal political moment in America. Becoming a Man is the striking memoir of P. Carl's journey to become the man he always... |
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Teaching with Heart: Poetry that Speaks to the Courage to Teach
Sam M Intrator - Jossey-Bass
Format: Book
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Each and every day teachers show up in their classrooms with a relentless sense of optimism. Despite the complicated challenges of schools, they come to and remain in the profession inspired by a conviction that through education they can move individuals and society to a more promising... |
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Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
Maya Schenwar - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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A crucial indictment of widely embraced "alternatives to incarceration" that exposes how many of these new approaches actually widen the net of punishment and surveillance "But what does it mean - really - to celebrate reforms that convert your home into your prison?"... |
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The Art of Natural Building: Design, Construction, Resources
Catherine Wanek - New Society Publishers; Revised Edition edition
Format: Book
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The popularity of natural building has grown by leaps and bounds, spurred by a grassroots desire for housing that is healthy, affordable, and environmentally responsible. While there are many books available on specific methods such as straw-bale construction, cob, or timber framing, there... |
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Wernick's Guide to U.S. Immigration and Citizenship
Allan Wernick - Astor + Blue Editions; Updated edition
Format: Print book
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Its like hiring your very own immigration lawyer but without the hourly fees. Obtaining your green card, visa, or citizenship can be a time-consuming, challenging, and stressful process. And for decades, nationally renowned Immigration Attorney Allan Wernick has been assisting individuals... |
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More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing
Diane Ravitch - Haymarket Books
Format: Book
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For too long so-called education reformers, mostly billionaires, politicians, and others with little or no background in teaching, have gotten away with using standardized testing to punish our nations youth and educators. Now, across the country, students are walking out, parents are opting... |
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Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom
Lewis Buzbee - Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating meditation on education from the author of The Yellow-Lighted BookshopIn Blackboard, Lewis Buzbee looks back over a lifetime of experiences in schools and classrooms, from kindergarten to college and beyond. He offers fascinating histories of the key ideas informing educational... |
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The Beekeeper's Problem Solver: 100 Common Problems Explored and Explained
James E. Tew - Quarry Books
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While keeping bees certainly isnt rocket science, doing it properly does involve decent levels of understanding, commitment, and attention to detail. Getting the basics right is essential, and this demands a solid appreciation of important areas such as hives management, breed choice, and health... |
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One Giant Leap: The Untold Story of How We Flew to the Moon
Charles Fishman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author of The Wal-Mart Effect, Charles Fishman reveals the untold true story of the men and women charged with taking the United States to the Moon.President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress... |
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The Inventors Manual
Sean Michael Ragan - Weldon Owen
Format: Print book
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Contrary to popular wisdom, you don t have to be an ace electrician, a coding prodigy, or a mechanical master to come up with a game-changing invention You just need curiosity, a strong desire to fix a problem that you see in the world, and the determination to see your ideas become reality... |
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Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
Vivian Gornick - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her lifeI sometimes think I was born reading . . . I can't remember the time when I didn't have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic... |
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Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
Tim Fernholz - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The inside story of the new race to conquer space, as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos spend billions of their own money to explore the final frontier For the largerthanlife personalities now staking their fortunes on the development of rocket ships, the new race to explore space could be a dead... |
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The Chicken Keeper's Problem Solver: 100 Common Problems Explored and Explained
Chris Graham - Quarry Books
Format: Paperback
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While keeping chickens certainly isn't rocket science, doing it properly does involve decent levels of understanding, commitment, and attention to detail. Getting the basics right is essential, and this demands a solid appreciation of important areas such as housing, feeding, breed... |
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If She Fled
Blake Pierce - Lukeman Literary Management, Limited
Format: Paperback
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""A masterpiece of thriller and mystery. Blake Pierce did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their fears and cheer for their success. Full of twists, this book will keep you awake until the turn... |
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The Power of Questioning: Opening up the World of Student Inquiry
Starr Sackstein - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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Teaching and learning cannot happen without questions. Inquiry is the offspring of curiosity and creativity. Questions are incredibly powerful tools that open the world up. In the age of Google, the way we teach needs to change and students need to be reconnected with their early childhood... |
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Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
Alan Stern - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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The up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons' mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players.On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small... |
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The Collagen Diet: A 21-Day Plan for Sustained Weight Loss, Glowing Skin, Great Gut Health, and a Younger You
Josh Axe - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover
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Dr. Josh Axe, bestselling author of Keto Diet and Eat Dirt, explains how to lose weight, prevent disease, improve your digestion, and renew your youth by taking advantage of dietary collagen.Today, interest in dietary collagen is growing at an astounding rate, and with good... |
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How College Affects Students: 21st Century Evidence that Higher Education Works
Ernest T Pascarella - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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How College Affects Students, Volume 3 carries on the tradition of the past volumes (which covered research years 1967-2001) as a critical review, synthesis, and analysis of the research on college impact that has accumulated between 2002 and 2012. This synthesis and analysis helps the the field... |
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Beating the Devil's Game: A History of Forensic Science and Criminal
Katherine Ramsland - Berkley; Rei Prm edition
Format: Paperback
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Today, the basic precepts of criminal investigation—fingerprints, DNA, blood evidence—are known among professionals and lay people alike. But behind each of these familiar concepts is a fascinating story of the evolution of science and law, spearheaded by innovative thinkers,... |
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Introduction to Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Third Edition
David Jiles - CRC Press
Format: Paperback
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A long overdue update, this edition of Introduction to Magnetism and Magnetic Materials is a complete revision of its predecessor. While it provides relatively minor updates to the first two sections, the third section contains vast updates to reflect the enormous progress made in applications... |
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Defying Reality: The Inside Story of the Virtual Reality Revolution
David M Ewalt - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating exploration of the history, development, and future of virtual reality, a technology with world-changing potential, written by award-winning journalist and author David Ewalt, stemming from his 2015 Forbes cover story about the Oculus Rift and its creator Palmer Luckey.You've... |
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Special Needs Trusts: Protect Your Child's Financial Future
Kevin Urbatsch Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Leave money to a loved one with a disability -- without losing benefitsUse a special needs trust to provide financial security for your child (or anyone) with a disability, without jeopardizing important government benefits. Funds in a special needs trust do not count against eligibility... |
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Vacation Guide to the Solar System: Science for the Savvy Space Traveler!
OLIVIA KOSKI - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Packed with real science and fueled by imagination, a beautifully illustrated travel guide to traveling in our solar system Imagine taking a hike along the windswept red plains of Mars to dig for signs of life, or touring one of Jupiter's sixty-four moons where you can photograph its swirling... |
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Car Electrical & Electronic Systems
JULIAN EDGAR - Veloce Publishing
Format: Paperback
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This unique handbook assumes no starting knowledge of car electrical and electronics systems. It begins with simple circuits and finishes with complex electronic systems that include engine management, transmission control and stability control systems.If you want to diagnose a simple alternator... |
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville... |
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The Lazarus Files: A Cold Case Investigation
Matthew McGough - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply-reported, riveting account of a cold case murder in Los Angeles, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect - a female detective within the LAPD's own ranks.On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in the home she shared with her husband,... |
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In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth
Jack Goldsmith - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O'Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a career in law and government, he came to doubt and distance himself from the man long suspected by the FBI of perpetrating Hoffa's disappearance on behalf... |
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Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
Justin Farrell - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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How rich people use nature to enhance their status, find rural salvation, and resolve the complex predicaments in their livesBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve... |
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LGBTQAI books for children and teens : providing a window for all
Christina H Dorr - ALA Editions
Format: Print book
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There is a rich and varied body of literature for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, asexual/allied and intersexed young people, which can function as a mirror for LGBTQAI individuals and as a window for others. This resource for librarians who work with children and teens... |
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Make Your Own Living Trust
Denis Clifford Attorney - NOLO; Twelfth edition edition
Format: Print book
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Living trusts simplified! Protect your family and avoid probate with this bestselling guide Death may be inevitable, but probate doesn't have to be. By creating a living trust, your property will bypass lengthy and expensive probate proceedings and go directly to the people you've... |
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Becoming a U.S. Citizen: A Guide to the Law, Exam & Interview
Ilona Bray JD - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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The path from green card to U.S. citizenship can be a long and winding one -- and bureaucratic hassles are inevitable. But with Becoming a U.S. Citizen, you can shave months or years off the time it takes to become a citizen. Find out how to: . determine your eligibility make sure you wont... |
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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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GED Test Prep Plus 2019: 2 Practice Tests Proven Strategies Online
Caren Van Slyke - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Paperback
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With realistic practice, proven strategies, and expert guidance, Kaplan's GED Test Prep Plus 2019 gives you everything you need to pass the test. Kaplan is the official partner for live online prep for the GED test and our content is 100% aligned with the GED test objectives. For more... |
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Trial by Fire: One Man's Battle to End Corporate Greed and Save Lives
Mike Burg - Benbella Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the face of corporate bullies, one lawyer's passion and persistence paid off.Bullied as a Jewish kid in the hardscrabble neighborhoods of Chicago, Mike Burg had to learn how to fight at a young age. As an adult who started his own law firm from scratch that fire - and understanding... |
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Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
David R Montgomery - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A MacArthur Fellow's impassioned call to make agriculture sustainable by ditching the plow, covering the soil, and diversifying crop rotations.The problem of agriculture is as old as civilization. Throughout history, great societies that abused their land withered into poverty or disappeared... |
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Shared Living: Interior Design for Rented and Shared Spaces
Emily Hutchinson - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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Inspiration and interior design for those who crave a tasteful home -- while sharing with roommates.In the current housing market, with more people moving to cities than ever before, those who live with roommates are no longer exclusively recent college graduates with clashing decorating... |
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501 Ways for Adult Students to Pay for College: Going Back to School Without Going Broke
Gen Tanabe - SuperCollege; Fifth Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Adults can find the means to go back to school despite the pressures of work, family, and a mortgage with this guide to funding continued education. With expanded information on online and distance learning and part-time classes and new financial aid, loan, and scholarship opportunities,... |
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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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College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education
Ryan Craig - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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For nearly two decades, pundits have been predicting the demise of higher education in the United States. Our colleges and universities will soon find themselves competing for students with universities from around the world. With the advent of massive open online courses ("MOOCS")... |
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New Space Frontiers: Venturing into Earth Orbit and Beyond
Piers Bizony - Zenith Press
Format: Hardcover
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Take a journey into the New Space Frontier!It is easy to imagine that the space shuttle's retirement has edged the Space Age toward closure, at least in terms of human flight beyond the bounds of earth. In fact, there are more people-carrying ships being constructed now than at any time... |
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Make: Drones: How to Teach an Arduino to Fly
David Mcgriffy - O'Reilly Media
Format: Print book
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Make: Drones will help the widest possible audience understand how drones work by providing several DIY drone projects based on the world's most popular robot controller--the Arduino. The information imparted in this book will show Makers how to build better drones and be better drone... |
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In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead
Susan Douglas - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Do you see women your age portrayed as puttering gardeners and docile grannies? Do you feel bombarded by anti-aging products that insist you must "defy" getting older? Do you feel invisible in professional and social situations? And have you had enough and are you ready to challenge... |
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The Complete Illustrated Guide to Farming
Samantha Johnson - Voyageur Press
Format: Book
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Crop Rotation Crop rotation, like green manures, dates back to the dawn of agriculture. It fell into disuse with the advent of modern chemical fertilizers and monocropping, but this was to the peril of soil health, so rotational cropping is considered a vital spoke in the wheel of organic... |
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Strategize to Win: The New Way to Start Out, Step Up, or Start Over in Your Career
Carla A Harris - Hudson Street Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Wall Street powerhouse and author of Expect to Win offers a new way to conceptualize career strategies and gives us proven tools for successful changeWhether we're starting out, striving toward a promotion, or looking for a new opportunity, the working world isn't what it used... |
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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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Marijuana 360: Differing Perspectives on Legalization
Nancy E. Marion - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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In 1996, California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana. Since then, 30 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws legalizing marijuana in some form. Nine of those states, including Alaska, Oregon, Colorado and Washington, have legalized marijuana for recreational... |
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Your Cabin in the Woods
Conrad E Meinecke - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Format: Print book
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Ever dream of escaping to a cozy cabin in the great outdoors? This unique bind-up of Conrad Meinecke's classic works helps make that a reality, while imparting a deeper appreciation of nature and of building something with your own two hands. For 70 years, readers have been enjoying Meinecke's... |
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The Perfect Score Project: Uncovering the Secrets of the SAT
Debbie Stier - Harmony
Format: Hardcover
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The Perfect Score Project is an indispensable guide to acing the SAT – as well as the affecting story of a single mom’s quest to light a fire under her teenage son. It all began as an attempt by Debbie Stier to help her high-school age son, Ethan, who would shortly be studying... |
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Make Your Own Living Trust
Denis Clifford - Nolo
Format: Print book
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Living trusts simplified! Protect your family and avoid probate with this bestselling guide Death may be inevitable, but probate doesn't have to be. By creating a living trust, your property will bypass lengthy and expensive probate proceedings and go directly to the people you've... |
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Invisible People: Stories of Lives at the Margins
Alex Tizon - Temple University Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Somewhere in the tangle of the subject's burden and the subject's desire is your story." - Alex Tizon Every human being has an epic story. The late Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alex Tizon told the epic stories of marginalized people - from lonely immigrants struggling... |
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Every Landlord's Legal Guide
Janet Portman - NOLO; Twelfth Edition edition
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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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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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The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Scott Dodson - Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a legal icon. In more than fifty years as a lawyer, professor, appellate judge, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ginsburg has influenced the law and society in real and permanent ways. This book chronicles and evaluates the remarkable achievements... |
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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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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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Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis
Laurie Winkless - Bloomsbury SIGMA
Format: Print book
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Science is secretly at work behind the scenes of major cities of the world and will continue to be so. Technological advances in fields as diverse as quantum mechanics, electronics, and nanotechnology are proving increasingly important to city life, and the urban world will turn to science... |
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The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
Sharon Moalem - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook
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An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life This program is read by the authorHere are some facts: Women live longer than men. They have stronger immune systems. Theyre better at fighting cancer... |
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Power from the Sun: A Practical Guide to Solar ElectricityRevised 2nd Edition
Dan Chiras - New Society
Format: Print book
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Written for the layman, this is the fully revised and updated guide for individuals and businesses interested in generating their own electricity using the Sun. Practical and accessible, it provides a basic understanding of electricity, wiring, and solar energy, and guides the reader through... |
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The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World
Joel K. Bourne Jr - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning environmental journalist introduces a new generation of farmers and scientists on the frontlines of the next green revolution.When the demographer Robert Malthus (1766-1834) famously outlined the brutal relationship between food and population, he never imagined the success... |
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Seventh Generation Earth Ethics: Native Voices of Wisconsin
Patty Loew - Wisconsin Historical Society Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Wisconsin’s rich tradition of sustainability rightfully includes its First Americans, who along with Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Gaylord Nelson shaped its landscape and informed its “earth ethics.” This collection of Native biographies, one from each of the twelve Indian... |
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Every Tenant's Legal Guide
Janet Portman - Nolo, 2015.
Format: Print book
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What every renter needs to know The only book of its kind, Every Tenant's Legal Guide gives you the legal and practical information (plus dozens of sample letters) you need to: find a great home and landlord know your rights when it comes to pets fight improper rent increases and late... |
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Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice
Nikhil Goyal - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Schools on Trial is an all-in attack on the American way of education and a hopeful blueprint for change by one of the most passionate and certainly youngest writers on this subject.. Are Americas schools little more than cinder-block gulags that spawn vicious cliques and bullying, negate... |
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The Data Guidebook for Teachers and Leaders: Tools for Continuous Improvement
Eileen Depka - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover
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Are you looking for new ways to use data in the decision-making process? Are you seeking tools that provide better flow-through from data to improved student achievement? Have you ever considered including students in the data-to-improvement cycle? Schools recognize that data is an essential... |
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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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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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One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels
Jonathan Vaughters - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The new memoir tracing story of cycling since the 1980s, throught he eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, founder of team Education First and one of the sport's most towering figures.Jonathan Vaughters' story is the story of modern cycling. From his early years as a keen cyclist in his hometown... |
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The Suburban Chicken: The Guide to Keeping Healthy, Thriving Chickens in Your Backyard
Kristina Mercedes Urquhart - i-5 Publishing
Format: Print book
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With more and more city dwellers and suburbanites embracing the notion of getting back to basics and living simpler, more rustic lives, it's no surprise that the popularity of backyard chicken keeping has skyrocketed in recent years. Whether for enjoyment as pets or for the convenience... |
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Leases & Rental Agreements
Marcia Stewart - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Essential rental forms every landlord needs Looking for a quick way to create the key documents necessary for owning or managing rental property, including a legally valid lease or rental agreement? Leases & Rental Agreements provides the practical and legal information necessary you need.... |
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Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, 6th Edition
Stan Gibilisco - Mcgraw-Hill Education
Format: Print book
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Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals and applications -- all without taking a formal course This fully updated guide offers practical, easy-to-follow instruction on electricity and electronics. Written by a pair of experienced instructors, Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics,... |
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Europe by Rail: The Definitive Guide
Nicky Gardner - hidden europe publications
Format: Paperback
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Life is too good to waste time in airport departure lounges. That's why more and more travellers are discovering that the train is the ideal way to explore Europe. Sit back, relax and watch mountains, coastlines and historic communities slip by beyond the window. Whether you are making... |
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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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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
David Reich - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking book about how technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing controversies.Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze... |
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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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My War Criminal: Personal Encounters with an Architect of Genocide
Jessica Stern - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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An investigation into the nature of violence, terror, and trauma through conversations with a notorious war criminal and hero to white nationalistsBetween October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with... |
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Fianc and Marriage Visas: A Couple's Guide to U.S. Immigration
Ilona Bray JD - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Obtain a visa and stay with your spouse in the U.S. You're engaged or married to a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, and all you want is the right to be together in the U.S. Should be simple, right It's not. The pile of application forms can be overwhelming, the bureaucracy... |
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Clearing the Air
Tim Smedley - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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"Read this book and join the effort to terminate air pollution."--Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Governor of CaliforniaThe story of what's happened to the air we breathe, the impact it has had on our health and what we can do to fight back.Clearing the Air tells the full story... |
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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
Lewis Dartnell - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch?If our technological society collapsed tomorrow, perhaps from a viral pandemic or catastrophic asteroid impact, what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the postapocalyptic survivors? What... |
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Game of Snipers
Stephen Hunter - Center Point Pub
Format: Large Print
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Master sniper Bob Lee Swagger takes on his biggest job to date . . . and confronts an assassin with skills that match his own. |
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Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8?
Ethan Brown - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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Soon to be a Showtime documentary, Murder in the Bayou is a New York Times bestselling chronicle of a high-stakes investigation into the murders of eight women in a troubled Southern parish that is "part murder case, part corruption expos, and part Louisiana noir"... |
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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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A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future
Jonas Salk - City Point Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future provides a startling, fresh new message of understanding, perspective and hope for today's tense, rapid-fire, kaleidoscopically changing world.Drawn from the writings of visionary scientist Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine,... |
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Electronics All-in-One For Dummies
Doug Lowe - For Dummies
Format: Print book
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A comprehensive collection of 8 books in 1 offering electronics guidance that can't be found anywhere else! If you know a breadboard from a breadbox but want to take your hobby electronics skills to the next level, this is the only reference you need. Electronics All-in-One For Dummies... |
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In the Dream House: A Memoir
Carmen Maria Machado - Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover
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A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other PartiesIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural... |
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