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Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability: Getting & Keeping Your Benefits

David A Morton - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability covers the criteria for getting disability benefits for back problems, heart and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, autoimmune diseases, mental issues like depression and anxiety, and 200 more medical conditions. Learn how to match...
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Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life's Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union

Ruth Bader Ginsburg - University of California Press; First edition
Format: Hardcover

In the fall of 2019, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the University of California, Berkeley School of Law to deliver the first annual Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture in honor of her friend, the late Herma Hill Kay, with whom Ginsburg had coauthored the very first casebook on sex-based...
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A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?

Kelly Weinersmith - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlement. Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, no Twitter - beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....
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Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business

Fred S. Steingold Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

The all-in-one business law book When you run a small business, legal questions crop up almost on a daily basis. Ignoring them can threaten your enterprise - but hiring a lawyer to help with routine issues can devastate the bottom line. Fortunately, you have a better alternative. Legal...
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Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration

Rebecca Heisman - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The captivating, little-known true story of a group of scientists and the methods and technology they developed to uncover the secrets of avian migration.For the past century, scientists and naturalists have been steadily unravelling the secrets of bird migration. How and why birds navigate...
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Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom

Carl Bernstein - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

''"Carl Bernstein, Washington Star."With these words, the sixteen-year-old senior at Montgomery Blair High School set himself apart from the high school crowd and set himself on a track that would define his life. Carl Bernstein was far from the best student in his class...
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Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side

Trish Hall - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

From the former New York Times Op-Ed page editor, a definitive and entertaining resource for writers of every stripe on the neglected art of persuasion.From the former New York Times Op-Ed page editor, a definitive and entertaining resource for writers of every stripe on the neglected art of persuasion....
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Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People's Justice

Karen Houppert - The New Press; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

On March 18, 1963, in one of its most significant legal decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that all defendants facing significant jail time have the constitutional right to a free attorney if they cannot afford their own. Fifty years later, 80 percent...
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Two-Stroke Engine Repair and Maintenance

Paul Dempsey - McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Get Peak Performance from Two-Stroke EnginesDo you spend more time trying to start your weed trimmer than you do enjoying your backyard? With this how-to guide, you can win the battle with the temperamental two-stroke engine.Written by long-time mechanic and bestselling author Paul Dempsey,...
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After All ...: A Memoir

Maria de Lourdes Trautman Mrs.
Format: Paperback

She grew up thinking she deserved neglect. Can a young girl escape a loveless home to seize elusive peace?Portugal. As a baby, Maria Trautman was abandoned at birth by her mother and was raised by her adoring grandmother. But when her grandmother passed away, the distressed child was sent...
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