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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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20 Makey Makey Projects for the Evil Genius
AARON GRAVES - McGraw-Hill Education TAB
Format: Paperback
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20 fun and inventive Makey Makey projects for Makers from beginner to expertThis hands-on guide is filled with DIY projects that show readers, step-by-step, how to start creating and making cool inventions with the Makey Makey invention kit. Each project features easy-to-follow, fully-illustrated... |
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Trademark: Legal Care for Your Business & Product Name
Stephen Fishman - Nolo
Format: Print book
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With the advent of the Internet, even small businesses now operate at a national level. While that's great for commerce, it can also open up a hornet's nest of trademark issues. Business owners and startups need to be careful not to infringe on other trademarks when selecting the name... |
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The Small-Scale Dairy: The Complete Guide to Milk Production for the Home and Market
Gianaclis Caldwell - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback
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The Small-Scale Dairy includes everything you need to know in order to successfully produce nourishing, healthy, farm-fresh milk. Whether for home use, direct sale to the consumer, or sale to an artisanal cheesemaker, high-quality raw milk is a delicate, desirable product. Successful and sustainable... |
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Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World
Marc Raboy - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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A little over a century ago the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were initially known, ships... |
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Profit From Your Idea: How to Make Smart Licensing Deals
Richard Stim - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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License your invention without the risk -- protect your idea You've got a great idea and are ready to strike it rich. But finding a company you can trust, hashing out a fair licensing deal, then watching your idea hit the marketplace -- well, you'll need help. Turn to Profit From... |
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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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Estate Planning Basics
DENNIS CLIFFORD - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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This book provides concise, straightforward, and easy-to-read information about the major components of estate planning - without going into endless detail about arcane options that apply only to the wealthy. Topics include: choosing beneficiaries estate planning by parents with minor... |
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Form Your Own Limited Liability Company
ANTHONY MANCUSO - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Make your business an LLCS Structuring your business as an LLC can bring important advantages: It lets you limit your personal liability for business debts and simplify your taxes. Here, you'll find the key legal forms you need to create an LLC in your state, including: LLC articles... |
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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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The Punisher's Brain: The Evolution of Judge and Jury
Morris B. Hoffman - Cambridge University Press
Format: Book
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Why do we punish, and why do we forgive? Are these learned behaviors, or is there something deeper going on? This book argues that there is indeed something deeper going on, and that our essential response to the killers, rapists, and other wrongdoers among us has been programmed into our brains... |
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Quicken Willmaker Plus 2018 Edition: Book & Software Kit
Editors of Nolo - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Quicken WillMaker Plus 2018 is the easiest ways to create your estate plan, whether it's your first time or you want to update a previous plan. You'll be guided through the process from beginning to end with practical and relevant legal information so that you can make the best decisions... |
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How to Get a Green Card
Ilona Bray - Nolo
Format: Print book
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Only a few categories of people are eligible for U.S. green cards (lawful permanent residence) , and many who apply for them are denied. This book helps everyday people figure out whether they match one of the most likely green card categories, such as through family relationships, asylum,... |
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Gap Year: How Delaying College Changes People in Ways the World Needs
Joseph OShea - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback
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The first study of how the gap year can make young people more effective students and better citizens.With some of the most prestigious universities in America urging students to defer admissions so they can experience the world, the idea of the gap year has taken hold in America. Since... |
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Organic: A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling
Peter Laufer - Lyons Pr
Format: Print book
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Part food narrative, part investigation, part adventure story, Organic is an eye-opening and entertaining look into the anything goes world behind the organic label. It is also a wakeup call about the dubious origins of food labeled organic. After eating some suspect organic walnuts that... |
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Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition
Paul Scherz - Mcgraw-Hill Education, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A Fully-Updated, No-Nonsense Guide to ElectronicsAdvance your electronics knowledge and gain the skills necessary to develop and construct your own functioning gadgets. Written by a pair of experienced engineers and dedicated hobbyists, Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition,... |
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Breaking Through: Using Educational Technology for Children with Special Needs
Barbara Albers Hill - Square One Publishers
Format: Paperback
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While one-on-one therapy is certainly beneficial, for some children, the process of developing social skills, manual dexterity, and educational competency presents much more of a challenge. Fortunately, the introduction of new and easy-to-use technological devices has created a quiet revolution... |
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LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
P W Singer - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the internet. Terrorists... |
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A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System
Mark Thompson - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening and provocative tour of our solar system, from one of Britain's celebrated astronomists. Have you ever dreamed of being an astronaut, traveling through the universe on your very own space mission? What would it be like to tour the solar system, visiting the sun and the planets,... |
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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
TED GENOWAYS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Is there still a place for the farm in today's America?The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a small ranch, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in York County,... |
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Criminal Law Handbook, The: Know Your Rights, Survive the System
PAUL BERGMAN - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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The criminal justice system is complicated, understand it and your rights Criminal law is full of complex rules and procedures, but this book demystifies them. It explains how the system works, why police, lawyers, and judges do what they do, and -- most important -- the options for suspects,... |
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Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
John Markoff - ECCO
Format: Print book
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As robots are increasingly integrated into modern society - on the battlefield and the road, in business, education, and health - Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times science writer John Markoff searches for an answer to one of the most important questions of our age: will these machines... |
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The essential guide to federal employment laws
Lisa Guerin - Nolo
Format: Print book
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Quick answers to questions about 20 Key Employment Laws This book explains, in plain English, the 20 most important federal employment laws that come up in the workplace. You can look up what each law allows and prohibits, which businesses must comply, and how to fulfill record-keeping,... |
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The Smartphone: Anatomy of an Industry
Elizabeth Woyke - The New Press
Format: Print book
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We think we know everything about our smartphones. We use them constantly. We depend on them for every conceivable purpose. We are familiar with every inch of their compact frames. But there is more to the smartphone than meets the eye. How have smartphones shaped the way we socialize and interact... |
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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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101 Law Forms for Personal Use
Nolo Editors - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Reliable legal forms for common personal and family transactions At one time or another, we all need to get an agreement in writing. But where to start? 101 Law Forms for Personal Use makes it easy to create legal agreements and organize essential information. The plain-English instructions... |
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Jumpstarting the Arduino 101: Interacting with a Computer That Learns
YINING SHI - Maker Media, Inc
Format: Paperback
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Arduino 101 houses an Intel Curie module which offers a better performance at a lower power footprint. The module has two 32-bit MCUs - an x86 Intel Quark processor and an ARC EM4 processor along with 384kB flash memory and 80kB SRAM. These onboard MCUs combine a variety of new technologies... |
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The Smartphone: Anatomy of an Industry
Elizabeth Woyke - New Press, The
Format: Hardcover
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We think we know everything about our smartphones. We use them constantly. We depend on them for every conceivable purpose. We are familiar with every inch of their compact frames. But there is more to the smartphone than meets the eye.How have smartphones shaped the way we socialize and interact... |
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Copyright Handbook, The: What Every Writer Needs to Know
Stephen Fishman J.D. - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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What copyright law protects... . and doesn't No writers like to see their hard work or creativity copied by others - or to be accused of copying. Fortunately, The Copyright Handbook provides everything you need to protect yourself Find information and forms to help you: register your work... |
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The Crime Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Dorling Kindersley, Inc. - DK
Format: Hardcover
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An essential guide to criminology, exploring the most infamous cases of all time, from serial killers to mob hits to war crimes and more.From Jack the Ripper to Jeffrey Dahmer, The Crime Book is a complete study of international true crime history that unpacks the shocking stories... |
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Kitchen Creamery: Making Yogurt, Butter & Cheese at Home
Louella Hill - Chronicle Books,
Format: Print book
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As the DIY movement continues to gain momentum, it's no wonder home cheesemaking is the next hot topic. And from cheesemaking authority and teacher Louella Hill comes an education so timely and inspiring that every cheese lover and cheesemonger, from novice to professional, will have... |
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer A Doudna - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use.... |
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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 Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter
Greg Toppo - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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What if schools, from the wealthiest suburban nursery school to the grittiest urban high school, thrummed with the sounds of deep immersion? More and more people believe that can happen - with the aid of video games. Greg Toppo's The Game Believes in You presents the story of a small... |
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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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Creating Media for Learning: Student-Centered Projects Across the Curriculum
Sam Gliksman - Corwin a SAGE Company
Format: Print book
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Place Your Students At The Forefront of 21st Century Media Production All education hinges on effective communication. This book shows how student mastery of media literacy and creation is the key to demonstrating learning in the 21st Century. The strategies and tactics these pages offer... |
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Beginner's Guide to Reading Schematics
STAN GIBILISCO - McGraw-Hill Education TAB
Format: Spiral-bound
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This updated resource shows how to interpret schematic diagrams -- and design your ownWritten by an experienced engineer, this easy-to-follow TAB guide shows, step-by-step, how to navigate the roadmaps of electronic circuits and systems. Filled with new illustrations and DIY examples, the book... |
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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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Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
JEFFREY KLUGER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumphIn August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three... |
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Renters' Rights: The Basics
Janet Portman - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Handle problems with landlords and roommates! The landlord ignores your repair requests. Your roommate is always late with his share of the rent. Your upstairs neighbors party all the time. The landlord won't return your security deposit. How can you deal with these problems--and others--and... |
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How to Write a Business Plan
Mike McKeever - NOLO; Twelfth Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Write a business plan that potential investors will embrace! If you're thinking of starting a business or raising money to expand an existing one, you need a plan. Running a successful business requires a great deal of forethought, so write a business plan and secure your venture's... |
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Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Keep Your Property & Repay Debts Over Time
Stephen Elias - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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This plain-English guide to decide if Chapter 13 is right for you and to learn how to keep valuable property and discharge your unsecured debts. Chapter 13 legal concepts, procedures, and monetary calculations can be tricky. Nolo's Chapter 13 Bankruptcy breaks down the Chapter 13 process... |
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Capital offenses : business crime and punishment in americas corporate age
Samuel Buell - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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From the lead prosecutor on the Enron investigation, an eye-opening examination of the explosion of American white-collar crime.If "corporations are people too," why isn't anyone in jail?A serious defect in a GM car causes accidents; Enron scams investors out of their money; banks... |
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The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
Christian Davenport - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes... |
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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
Nicholas Carr - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure and reveals something we already... |
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SUMMER MELT
CASTLEMAN & PAGE - Harvard Education Press
Format: Print book : English
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"Under increasing pressure to raise graduation rates and ensure that students leave high school college- and career-ready, many school and district leaders may believe that, when students graduate with college acceptances in hand, their work is done. But as Benjamin L. Castleman and Lindsay... |
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The Invent To Learn Guide to 3D Printing in the Classroom: Recipes for Success
David D Thornburg - Constructing Modern Knowledge Press; Illustrated edition
Format: Paperback
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"3D printing will be bigger than the Web."Chris Anderson, former editor-in-chief of Wired magazineThis book is an essential guide for educators interested in bringing the amazing world of 3D printing to their classrooms. Learn about the technology, exciting powerful new design... |
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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies Thatll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Kelly Weinersmith - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestseller!A Wall Street Journal Best Science Book of the Year!A Popular Science Best Science Book of the Year! From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation into... |
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Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why
Paul Tough - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control, and conscientiousness play a critical role in children's success. Now, in Helping Children Succeed, Tough takes on a new set of pressing questions:... |
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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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The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
Susan Hockfield - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives.A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telephones, televisions, aircraft, radar, nuclear... |
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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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Maximum LEGO EV3: Building Robots with Java Brains
Brian Bagnall - Variant Pr
Format: Book
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The LEGO Mindstorms EV3 set is the latest in robotics technology, allowing you to build incredible motorized inventions without knowing anything about electronics. As a mass market device with hundreds of pieces and a suite of available programming tools, it can be both powerful and overwhelming.... |
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The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens
Gabriel Zucman - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world's wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at which we tax the wealthy. But with... |
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Nolo's Deposition Handbook
Paul Bergman JD - NOLO; Sixth Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Getting deposed? Conducting a deposition? Heres the book you need to take the mystery out of the deposition process and answer questions with confidence. Youll even learn the three golden rules for answering questions and the trick questions lawyers often use to influence testimony. A perfect... |
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Becoming a U.S. Citizen: A Guide to the Law, Exam & Interview
Ilona Bray JD - NOLO
Format: Print book
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Everything you need to become a naturalized U.S. citizenFor a green card holder, taking the next step to U.S. citizenship offers a host of benefits. But the application process itself can be long and confusing. With Becoming a U.S. Citizen, you can save months, or even years. Best of all,... |
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Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius, Second Edition
Robert Iannini - McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 2 edition
Format: Print book
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BUILD ALL-NEW FIENDISHLY FUN ELECTRONICS PROJECTS! Spark your creativity with this wickedly inventive guide. Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius, Second Edition, is filled with completely new, amped-up projects that will shock and amaze, such as super-big Tesla coils, lasers, plasma... |
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Parents Matter: Supporting Your Child with Math in Grades K-8
Regina M Mistretta - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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Parents are social factors in children's lives that can positively influence math achievement; and one does not need a degree in math to provide support! What one needs is a guidebook filled with good questions to pose, tips for supporting math thinking and general attitudes about math,... |
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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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Law and Disorder: Absurdly Funny Moments from the Courts
Charles M. Sevilla - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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More hilarious, unbelievable-but-true stories from our nations courts, from the author of Disorder in the Court and Disorderly Conduct. Charles M. Sevilla finds comic gems in court transcripts and now brings readers a delightful, all-new collection. Starting with a chapter on the defendants... |
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The Grants Register 2015: The Complete Guide to Postgraduate Funding Worldwide
Palgrave Macmillan - Palgrave Macmillan; Thirty-Third Edition, Revised edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Grants Register 2015Thirty-third Edition The most authoritative and comprehensive guide available to postgraduate and professional funding worldwide International coverage of grants in 51 countries, both English and non-English speaking Almost 1,200 awarding bodies provide... |
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Postsecondary Play: The Role of Games and Social Media in Higher Education
Tracy Fullerton - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The college application process—which entails multiple forms, essays, test scores, and deadlines—can be intimidating. For students without substantial school and family support, the complexity of this process can become a barrier to access. William G. Tierney and his team... |
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Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession
Benjamin H. Barton - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The hits keep coming for the American legal profession. Law schools are churning out too many graduates, depressing wages, and constricting the hiring market. Big Law firms are crumbling, as the relentless pursuit of profits corrodes their core business model. Modern technology can now handle... |
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
Greg Milner - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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Pinpoint tells the story of GPS, a scientific marvel that enables almost all modern technology -- but is changing us in profound ways.Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Even as it guides us across town, GPS helps... |
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On Your Case: A Comprehensive, Compassionate
Lisa Green - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Television legal analyst and attorney Lisa Green offers something new: a witty, direct and empowering legal guide for women, filled with accessible information they can employ to understand and respond to common legal issues throughout their lives, from dating, marriage, and kids to jobs,... |
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Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy
Benjamin Balint - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the international struggle to preserve Kafka's literary legacy.Kafka's Last Trial begins with Kafka's last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring... |
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
Jane Sherron De Hart - Knopf
Format: Book
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In this comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg's passion for justice.
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The College Blue Book: 6 volume set
Gale Cengage Learning - Macmillan Reference USA
Format: 44th Edition
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Guide to thousands of 2- and 4-year schools in the U.S. and Canada. Covers the expected listings and detailed descriptions, degree programs offered, scholarships, and occupational education programs. |
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Everybody's Guide to Small Claims Court
Ralph Warner Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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You don't need a lawyer to win in small claims court -- you need to know how to prepare and present your own case. Smart preparation for your day in court can make the difference between receiving a check and writing one. Everybody's Guide to Small Claims Court provides the information,... |
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TExES Core Subjects EC-6
Dr. Luis A. Rosado Ed.D. - Research & Education Association
Format: Print book
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REA's TExES Core Subjects EC-6 (291) Test Prep Gets You Certified and in the Classroom!Texas teacher candidates seeking a generalist certificate for early childhood and elementary school are required to take the TExES Core Subjects EC-6 (291) test. REA's all-new test prep... |
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Pocket Guide to APA Style
Robert Perrin - Wadsworth Cengage Learning
Format: Paperback
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The POCKET GUIDE TO APA STYLE, 5E is an essential tool for writing research papers across the disciplines. Concise and thorough, the POCKET GUIDE offers straightforward explanations, annotated examples, and margin notes designed to help writers produce properly documented papers in the latest... |
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Contracts : the essential business desk reference
Richard Stim - Nolo
Format: Print book
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Understand virtually any contract and sign on the dotted line with confidence. This is the first book to explain contract terms in language for the layperson. This indispensable A to Z guide covers: definitions of over 300 common terms found in contracts how to decipher the language... |
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Craft Beer for the Homebrewer: Recipes from America's Top Brewmasters
Michael Agnew - Motorbooks Intl
Format: Hardcover
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As the craft beer craze continues to sweep the nation, more and more people are deciding to try their hand at creating their own perfect brew. In Craft Beer for the Homebrewer, beer writer and certified cicerone (think sommelier for beer) Michael Agnew merges the passions of consumption... |
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Essential Guide to Handling Workplace Harassment & Discrimination, The
Deborah C. England - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Every day, it seems, another company is in the news for the wrong reason: It's been accused of harassment or discrimination against employees. Your company can avoid this fate by making sure managers and employees recognize and know how to respond to illegal conduct promptly and effectively.... |
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NFPA 70: National Electrical Code
National Electrical Code Committee - Natl Fire Protection Assn
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"Throughout the United States and around the world, NFPA 70: National Electrical Code (NEC) sets the foundation for electrical safety in residential, commercial, and industrial occupancies. The 2017 edition of this trusted Code presents the latest comprehensive regulations for electrical... |
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