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101 Law Forms for Personal Use

Nolo Editors - NOLO
Format: Paperback

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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The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

Jim Bell - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission - told by a scientist who was there from the beginning.The Voyager spacecraft are our farthest-flung emissaries - 11.3 billion miles away from the crew who built and still operate them, decades since their launch.Voyager...
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The Everything Guide To Homeschooling: All You Need to Create the Best Curriculum and Learning Environment for Your Child

Sherri Linsenbach - Adams Media Corporation
Format: Paperback

An accessible guide for fun and stress-free homeschooling!When you homeschool your children, you can shape their education according to your own standards, values, and ideas. In The Everything Guide to Homeschooling, homeschooler Sherri Linsenbach provides you with all the information,...
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The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere

Kevin Carey - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

From a renowned education writer comes a paradigm-shifting examination of the rapidly changing world of college that every parent, student, educator, and investor needs to understand.Over the span of just nine months in 2011 and 2012, the world's most famous universities and high-powered...
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How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic

Michael Geier - McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Master the Art of Electronics Repair In this hands-on guide, a lifelong electronics repair guru shares his tested techniques and invaluable insights. How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic shows you how to repair and extend the life of all kinds of solid-state devices, from modern...
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Michigan divorce book : a guide to doing an uncontested divorce without an attorney without ... minor children.

Alan Bloomfield - Thunder Bay Pr
Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats

Now there's a low-cost divorce alternative -- The Michigan Divorce Book. With background information about divorce, step-by-step instructions, filled-in sample divorce forms and blank tear-out divorce forms, The Michigan Divorce Book is a complete do-it-yourself kit for doing an uncontested...
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No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon

Buzz Aldrin - National Geographic
Format: Print book

Beloved American hero Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered through his event-filled life - both in outer space and on earth - in this inspiring guide-to-life for the next generation. Everywhere he goes, crowds gather to meet Buzz...
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Cabins & Cottages and Other Small Spaces

Editors of Fine Homebuilding - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback

Bigger doesn't always mean better. Especially when it comes to your mortgage payment. Unfortunately the recent real estate crisis taught us that important lesson. Cabins & Cottages: and Other Small Spaces will inspire you to think smaller and smarter. Think small! With each turn of the page...
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Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon

JEFFREY KLUGER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

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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The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals: Choose the Best Breeds for Small-Space Farming, Produce Your Own Grass-Fed Meat, Gather Fresh ... Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Cattle, & Bees

Gail Damerow - Storey Publishing, LLC; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Imagine a weekend breakfast featuring eggs, bacon, and honey from your own chickens, pigs, and bees. Or a holiday meal with your own heritage-breed turkey as the main attraction. With The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals, even urban and suburban residents can successfully...
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Thunderstruck

Erik Larson - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world's "great hush."In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men - Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication...
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Michigan divorce book : a guide to doing an uncontested divorce without an attorney with ... minor children.

Alan Bloomfield - Thunder Bay Pr
Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats

Now there's a low-cost divorce alternative -- The Michigan Divorce Book. With background information about divorce, step-by-step instructions, filled-in sample divorce forms and blank tear-out divorce forms, The Michigan Divorce Book is a complete do-it-yourself kit for doing an uncontested...
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Mudpies to Magnets: A Preschool Science Curriculum

Robert A Williams - Gryphon House
Format: Paperback

224 hands-on science experiments and ideas with step-by-step instructions delight and amaze children as they experience nature, the human body, electricity, floating and sinking, and more. Children participate in projects such as making a tornado in a jar, creating constellations and growing...
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Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines

Larry Lankton - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback

Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one of America's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers' world underground, but is equally concerned with the mining communities...
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ARRL's Even More Wire Antenna Wire Classics

American Radio Relay League. - Amer Radio Relay League
Format: Book

Even More Antennas to Build Even More Ideas to Experiment WithThe third volume of the popular Wire Antenna Classics collection gathers the best antenna projects and innovative designs from QST, spanning over 10 years from 2002 through 2013. It features more than 40 practical designs for a wide...
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National Electrical Code Handbook 2014

Mark W. Earley - Natl Fire Protection Assn; 13 edition
Format: Hardcover

The 2014 National Electrical Code Handbook from NFPA does much more than bring you up-to-code -- it also explains the reasoning behind NFPA 70: NEC concepts, provides real-world examples, and gives you the background behind Code revisions, so you can work with authority. Trust the only...
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Michigan DUI Law: A Citizen's Guide

Patrick T Barone - Barone Defense Firm
Format: Book

A conviction for driving under the influence can be devastating. The consequences - fines, suspended license, insurance premium hikes, employment hassles, even jail time - can impact you for years into the future. In Michigan alone this year, 36,000 drivers will be arrested for DUI. In his new book,...
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Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage

Gordon Corera - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

The previously untold -- and previously highly classified -- story of the conflux of espionage and technology, with a compelling narrative rich with astonishing revelations taking readers from World War II to the internet age. As the digital era become increasingly pervasive, the intertwining...
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A Is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie

Kathryn Harkup - Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015.
Format: Print book

Agatha Christie's detailed plotting is what makes her books so compelling. Christie used poison to kill her characters more often than any other murder method, with the poison itself being a central part of the novel, and her choice of deadly substances was far from random; the chemical...
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Career Errors: Straight Talk about the Steps and Missteps of Career Development

Frank Burtnett - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Career Errors: Straight Talk About the Steps and Missteps of Career Development examines the career development encounters that people experience across their life-span. The book begins with a comprehensive examination of the career development process and why these eight phases must be understood...
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Ashlee Vance - Ecco Press
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller - Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Audible and Amazon
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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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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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How to Raise Pigs: Everything You Need to Know

Philip Hasheider - Voyageur Press; Revised, Revised & Updated edition
Format: Paperback

Backed by the National FFA Organization, our acclaimed series of How to Raise guides has helped countless first-time animal owners across the United States confidently care for their new companions. In this freshly updated second edition of How to Raise Pigs, farmer and author Philip Hasheider...
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Scotland's Best Castles and Stately Homes

Martin Coventry - Goblinshead
Format: Paperback

The best castles, historic houses, royal palaces, and stately homes to visit in Scotland. Contains detailed entries with locations, description, ownership, plan, and drawings. 64 pages of color photographs.
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A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System

Mark Thompson - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures

Derek Diedricksen - Storey Books
Format: Print book

If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you'll love this gorgeous collection of creative and inspiring ideas for tiny houses, cabins, forts, studios, and other microshelters. Created by a wide array of builders and designers around...
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Kids in the Syndrome Mix of ADHD, LD, Autism Spectrum, Tourette's, Anxiety, and More!: The one stop guide for parents, teachers, and other professionals

M.D. Martin L. Kutscher - Jessica Kingsley Pub; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

The completely updated and expanded new edition of this well-established text incorporates DSM-5 changes as well as other new developments. The all-in-one guide covers the whole range of often co-existing neuro-behavioral disorders in children - from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...
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The Complete Guide to Building Affordable Earth-Sheltered Homes: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply

Robert McConkey - Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.
Format: Paperback

Earth-sheltered building has existed since the heyday of Skara Brae in Scotland 5,000 years ago, and is used today by people around the world, from the Yaodong of northwest China to the subterranean residents of Coober Pedy, Australia, and even to converted missile silos in America. Contrary...
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