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Oops…That’s Illegal!

A Handbook for the Wildly Curious (and the Accidental Outlaw)

de Mike Mandell ...

From the popular creator of @LawByMike, a hilarious guide to all your legal questions—from the obscure to the downright absurd.Could you be arrested if you let your kids have a few sips of wine with dinner? Is it illegal to lie on your dating profile? Can a python be an emotional support animal?Most people don’t know the majority of our country’s laws, so they don’t know how to avoid breaking them ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

From the popular creator of @LawByMike, a hilarious guide to all your legal questions—from the obscure to the downright absurd.Could you be arrested if you let your kids have a few sips of wine with dinner? Is it illegal to lie on your dating profile? Can a python be an emotional support animal?Most people don’t know the majority of our country’s laws, so they don’t know how to avoid breaking them
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A World Away From IEPs

How Disabled Students Learn in Out-of-School Spaces

de Erin McCloskey ...

Series series Disability, Culture, and Equity Series
Step outside of the IEPs and behavioral paperwork currently generated in schools, go where disabled people are thriving today, and see the results in learning, growth, and expression. This authoritative book offers readers alternative ways to think about learning and behavior in special education. Through illustrative case studies and a disability studies lens, author Erin McCloskey uses the ... Leer más

$33.99 USD

Step outside of the IEPs and behavioral paperwork currently generated in schools, go where disabled people are thriving today, and see the results in learning, growth, and expression. This authoritative book offers readers alternative ways to think about learning and behavior in special education. Through illustrative case studies and a disability studies lens, author Erin McCloskey uses the
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Diversity is not Our Strength

How the Left and Right Broke Multiculturalism and How to Fix It

de Katharine Birbalsingh ...

'I recommend it strongly, especially to those minded to consider its author guilty until proven innocent, precisely because it will surprise them. Wherever you stand on the culture wars - what we used to just call 'politics' - Birbalsingh is a thinker and practitioner you have to reckon with . . . I suggest all those who think they know her, read this book . . . and think again' Amol Rajan'Some ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

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'I recommend it strongly, especially to those minded to consider its author guilty until proven innocent, precisely because it will surprise them. Wherever you stand on the culture wars - what we used to just call 'politics' - Birbalsingh is a thinker and practitioner you have to reckon with . . . I suggest all those who think they know her, read this book . . . and think again' Amol Rajan'Some
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Statistics with R

A Beginner′s Guide

de Robert Stinerock ...

Statistics is made simple with this award-winning guide to using R and applied statistical methods.With a clear step-by-step approach explained using real world examples, learn the practical skills you need to use statistical methods in your research from an expert with over 30 years of teaching experience. With a wealth of hands-on exercises and online resources created by the author, practice ... Leer más

$79.99 USD

Statistics is made simple with this award-winning guide to using R and applied statistical methods.With a clear step-by-step approach explained using real world examples, learn the practical skills you need to use statistical methods in your research from an expert with over 30 years of teaching experience. With a wealth of hands-on exercises and online resources created by the author, practice
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Bilingual Language Development & Disorders in Spanish–English Speakers

de Dr. Aquiles Iglesias, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Raúl Rojas, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Dr. Lisa Bedore, Ph.D., Lisa Lopez Ph.D., Nan Bernstein Ratner, BA, MA, Ed.D., Dr. Kelly Escobar, Ph.D, Ms. Julie C. Smith, M.S., Dr. Carol Scheffner Hammer, Ph.D, Dr. Barbara Rodríguez, Ph.D., Dr. Megha Sundara, Ph.D, Dr. Adriana Soto-Corominas, Ph.D, Janet L. Patterson, Ph.D., Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D., Ellen Stubbe Kester, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Li Sheng, Ph.D., Solaman J. Cooperson, Ph.D., Raquel T. Anderson, Ph.D., M. Adelaida Restrepo, Ph.D., Dr. Kai Greene, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Dr. Christine E. Fiestas, Ph.D., Megan Dunn Davison, Ph.D., María R. Brea, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Christina Gildersleeve-Neumann, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Dr. Lucía I. Méndez, Ph.D., CCC-SLP ...

Dual language learners are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. student population, and the majority speak Spanish as a first language. This graduate-level textbook—now in its third edition—gives future speech-language pathologists the comprehensive knowledge they need to work effectively with Spanish–English bilingual children and support their language development.Aligned with current best ... Leer más

$39.99 USD

Dual language learners are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. student population, and the majority speak Spanish as a first language. This graduate-level textbook—now in its third edition—gives future speech-language pathologists the comprehensive knowledge they need to work effectively with Spanish–English bilingual children and support their language development.Aligned with current best
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Atlas of Vanishing Places

The lost worlds as they were and as they are today WINNER Illustrated Book of the Year - Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020

de Travis Elborough ...

Series series Unexpected Atlases
2020 WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDDiscover unusual and secret places that have disappeared from modern atlases, and revel in imagining what the world once looked like. Award-winning author Travis Elborough takes you on a fascinating voyage to all corners of the world in search of the lost, disappearing and vanished.Unearth ancient seats of power and long ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

2020 WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDDiscover unusual and secret places that have disappeared from modern atlases, and revel in imagining what the world once looked like. Award-winning author Travis Elborough takes you on a fascinating voyage to all corners of the world in search of the lost, disappearing and vanished.Unearth ancient seats of power and long
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Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition

An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

de Joshua Foer, Ella Morton, Dylan Thuras, Atlas Obscura ...

Series series Atlas Obscura
The bestselling book that celebrates wonder all around the world and in our backyards, now in an updated second edition with more than 120 brand-new destinations to explore, new city guides, and a full-color gatefold map.**“A wanderlust-whetting cabinet of curiosities on paper.” —**The New York TimesInspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of a travel book that ... Leer más

$18.99 USD

The bestselling book that celebrates wonder all around the world and in our backyards, now in an updated second edition with more than 120 brand-new destinations to explore, new city guides, and a full-color gatefold map.**“A wanderlust-whetting cabinet of curiosities on paper.” —**The New York TimesInspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of a travel book that
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Pulp on Pulp: Tips and Tricks for Writing Pulp Fiction

de Kit Sun Cheah, Misha Burnett, J D Cowan, Matthew P. Schmidt, James A Buck, Morgon Newquist, Anthony Perconti, Robert Stultus, D. G. D. Davidson, Christopher Lansdown, David Eyk, T J Marquis ...

Write Fast. Write Well. Get Paid.These were the watchwords of old-school pulp fiction: fun, fast-paced, and immensely popular with readers.The pulp era is coming back.Blending timeless lessons from the grandmasters of the pulp era with the genres, tastes and technologies of today, PulpRev forges boldly ahead into the future of fiction.Hugo and Dragon Award nominated writer Kit Sun Cheah teams up ... Leer más

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Write Fast. Write Well. Get Paid.These were the watchwords of old-school pulp fiction: fun, fast-paced, and immensely popular with readers.The pulp era is coming back.Blending timeless lessons from the grandmasters of the pulp era with the genres, tastes and technologies of today, PulpRev forges boldly ahead into the future of fiction.Hugo and Dragon Award nominated writer Kit Sun Cheah teams up
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes

de Arthur Conan Doyle ...

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) ... Leer más

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Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning)
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Lettres d'une Péruvienne. BAC 2026

de Françoise de Graffigny ...

Séparée de son amant lors de la conquête du Pérou, Zilia, une jeune Inca, se retrouve en France où elle est placée sous la protection de Déterville. Elle y est l’objet de toutes les curiosités. Mais, observée, elle se fait également observatrice. Son regard neuf, sans préjugés, permet une critique de la société européenne. Sa voix, qui s’exprime dans ce grand roman d’amour épistolaire, résonne ... Leer más

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Séparée de son amant lors de la conquête du Pérou, Zilia, une jeune Inca, se retrouve en France où elle est placée sous la protection de Déterville. Elle y est l’objet de toutes les curiosités. Mais, observée, elle se fait également observatrice. Son regard neuf, sans préjugés, permet une critique de la société européenne. Sa voix, qui s’exprime dans ce grand roman d’amour épistolaire, résonne
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A Compassionate Vision for Elementary Social Studies

A Holistic View

de Thomas A. Lucey ...

This text offers readers a holistic view of elementary social studies that instills compassion for all classroom voices and for those outside the classroom. This approach provides a social studies perspective that enables readers to articulate, apply, and defend engaging learning experiences that value each student. A revision of the original textbook by John Hoge and contributions by Laura E. ... Leer más

$60.99 USD

This text offers readers a holistic view of elementary social studies that instills compassion for all classroom voices and for those outside the classroom. This approach provides a social studies perspective that enables readers to articulate, apply, and defend engaging learning experiences that value each student. A revision of the original textbook by John Hoge and contributions by Laura E.
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Way Home

Journeys through Homelessness

de Josephine Ensign ...

Can one city's solutions to homelessness help the United States face the issue nationally?The United States grapples with a solution for the unhoused by employing a patchwork of uneven rhetoric and policy. How can policymakers and public health professionals address this urgent problem in more innovative and sustainable ways? In Way Home, Josephine Ensign explores the contemporary landscape of ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

Can one city's solutions to homelessness help the United States face the issue nationally?The United States grapples with a solution for the unhoused by employing a patchwork of uneven rhetoric and policy. How can policymakers and public health professionals address this urgent problem in more innovative and sustainable ways? In Way Home, Josephine Ensign explores the contemporary landscape of
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Higher Education Reconsidered

Executing Change to Drive Collective Impact

Edición de Jason E. Lane ...

Series series SUNY series, Critical Issues in Higher Education
Focuses on the opportunities and challenges of using the science of change to improve the academic enterprise.This is not another book about why higher education needs to change. This volume is about how to facilitate change. What could higher education achieve if varied stakeholders decided to work together to accomplish a shared vision by using data and scaling up evidence-based interventions? ... Leer más

$33.99 USD

Focuses on the opportunities and challenges of using the science of change to improve the academic enterprise.This is not another book about why higher education needs to change. This volume is about how to facilitate change. What could higher education achieve if varied stakeholders decided to work together to accomplish a shared vision by using data and scaling up evidence-based interventions?
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The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria

The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship

de Greg King, Penny Wilson ...

"An extensively documented account of the 1956 sinking of the Italian luxury liner . . . amazing stories of serendipitous luck, heroism, cowardice, and tragedy." — BooklistIn 1956, a stunned world watched as the famous Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sank after being struck by a Swedish vessel off the coast of Nantucket. Unlike the tragedy of the Titanic, this sinking played out in real time ... Leer más

$14.39 USD

"An extensively documented account of the 1956 sinking of the Italian luxury liner . . . amazing stories of serendipitous luck, heroism, cowardice, and tragedy." — BooklistIn 1956, a stunned world watched as the famous Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sank after being struck by a Swedish vessel off the coast of Nantucket. Unlike the tragedy of the Titanic, this sinking played out in real time
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Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict

de Cass R. Sunstein ...

In Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, Cass R. Sunstein, one of America's best known commentators on our legal system, offers a bold, new thesis about how the law should work in America, arguing that the courts best enable people to live together, despite their diversity, by resolving particular cases without taking sides in broader, more abstract conflicts. Professor Sunstein closely analyzes ... Leer más

$27.99 USD

In Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, Cass R. Sunstein, one of America's best known commentators on our legal system, offers a bold, new thesis about how the law should work in America, arguing that the courts best enable people to live together, despite their diversity, by resolving particular cases without taking sides in broader, more abstract conflicts. Professor Sunstein closely analyzes
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The Emotional Craft of Fiction

How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

de Donald Maass ...

The essential guide to evoking emotional experiences in your readersWriters might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, but none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel.Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers. You ... Leer más

$10.99 USD

The essential guide to evoking emotional experiences in your readersWriters might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, but none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel.Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers. You
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The Complete AFOQT Study Guide 2020-2021

de Todd Phillips ...

Written by a course creator and pilot, this guide will ABSOLUTELY improve your AFOQT text score.The Air Force Qualifying Test or AFOQT is a deciding factor to your future career path in the Air Force. Make sure you get the best score possible by getting inside information into the AFOQT with this complete study guide and practice test.Access proven steps and preparation advice, as well as key ... Leer más

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Written by a course creator and pilot, this guide will ABSOLUTELY improve your AFOQT text score.The Air Force Qualifying Test or AFOQT is a deciding factor to your future career path in the Air Force. Make sure you get the best score possible by getting inside information into the AFOQT with this complete study guide and practice test.Access proven steps and preparation advice, as well as key
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Plotman to the Rescue

A Troubleshooting Guide to Fixing Your Toughest Plot Problems

de James Scott Bell ...

"Help! My plot drags, sags, and has no heart!"This looks like a job for Plotman!Yes, solving your plot problems is why the superhero of story came to Earth. His mission? To give practical, easy-to-apply answers to the most vexing plot questions writers face, such as:• How do I plan a plot if I'm not a plot planner?• Does my plot need a prologue?• What if I hit a plot wall?• What if my plot is ... Leer más

$4.99 USD

"Help! My plot drags, sags, and has no heart!"This looks like a job for Plotman!Yes, solving your plot problems is why the superhero of story came to Earth. His mission? To give practical, easy-to-apply answers to the most vexing plot questions writers face, such as:• How do I plan a plot if I'm not a plot planner?• Does my plot need a prologue?• What if I hit a plot wall?• What if my plot is
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The Total Money Makeover Updated and Expanded

A Proven Plan for Financial Peace

de Dave Ramsey ...

Series series The Total Money Makeover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — A Trusted Plan for Becoming Debt-Free with Over 8 Million Copies Sold.Do you want to build a budget that actually works for you? Are you ready to transform your relationship with money? This New York Times bestseller has already helped millions of people just like you learn how to develop everyday money-saving habits with the help of America's favorite personal finance ... Leer más

$20.99 USD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — A Trusted Plan for Becoming Debt-Free with Over 8 Million Copies Sold.Do you want to build a budget that actually works for you? Are you ready to transform your relationship with money? This New York Times bestseller has already helped millions of people just like you learn how to develop everyday money-saving habits with the help of America's favorite personal finance
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

(37 plays, 160 sonnets and 5 Poetry Books With Active Table of Contents)(Bauer Classics)

de William Shakespeare, Bauer Books ...

Series Libro 1 - All Time Best Writers
This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!COMEDIESThe Comedy of ErrorsThe Taming of the ShrewThe Two Gentlemen of VeronaLove’s Labor’s LostA Midsummer Night’s DreamThe Merchant of Venice.. ... Leer más

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This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!COMEDIESThe Comedy of ErrorsThe Taming of the ShrewThe Two Gentlemen of VeronaLove’s Labor’s LostA Midsummer Night’s DreamThe Merchant of Venice..
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Terrorism

An Investigator's Handbook

de William E. Dyson ...

This handbook introduces the reader to the field of terrorism investigation. Describing how terrorists operate and how they differ from other criminals, it provides an outline of how terrorism investigations should be conducted. By helping investigators to develop skills and knowledge, this guide helps them to prepare prosecutable cases against terrorists. ... Leer más

$91.99 USD

This handbook introduces the reader to the field of terrorism investigation. Describing how terrorists operate and how they differ from other criminals, it provides an outline of how terrorism investigations should be conducted. By helping investigators to develop skills and knowledge, this guide helps them to prepare prosecutable cases against terrorists.
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In the Sun's House

My Year Teaching on the Navajo Reservation

de Kurt Caswell, Rex Lee Jim ...

In the year he spent teaching at Borrego Pass, a remote Navajo community in northwest New Mexico, Kurt Caswell found himself shunned as persona non grata. His cultural missteps, status as an interloper, and white skin earned him no respect in the classroom or the community-those on the reservation assumed he would come and go like so many teachers had before. But as Caswell attempts to bridge the ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

In the year he spent teaching at Borrego Pass, a remote Navajo community in northwest New Mexico, Kurt Caswell found himself shunned as persona non grata. His cultural missteps, status as an interloper, and white skin earned him no respect in the classroom or the community-those on the reservation assumed he would come and go like so many teachers had before. But as Caswell attempts to bridge the
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The Big Short

de Michael Lewis ...

The #1 New York Times bestseller—Now a Major Motion Picture from Paramount PicturesFrom the author of The Blind Side and Moneyball, The Big Short tells the story of four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predict the credit and housing bubble collapse before anyone else. The film adaptation by Adam McKay (Anchorman I and II, The Other Guys) features Academy Award® winners Christian Bale, ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

The #1 New York Times bestseller—Now a Major Motion Picture from Paramount PicturesFrom the author of The Blind Side and Moneyball, The Big Short tells the story of four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predict the credit and housing bubble collapse before anyone else. The film adaptation by Adam McKay (Anchorman I and II, The Other Guys) features Academy Award® winners Christian Bale,
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Mission High

One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph

de Kristina Rizga ...

"This book is a godsend a moving portrait for anyone wanting to go beyond the simplified labels and metrics and really understand an urban high school, and its highly individual, resilient, eager and brilliant students and educators." -- Dave Eggers, co-founder, 826 National and ScholarMatchDarrell is a reflective, brilliant young man, who never thought of himself as a good student. He always ... Leer más

$9.99 USD

"This book is a godsend a moving portrait for anyone wanting to go beyond the simplified labels and metrics and really understand an urban high school, and its highly individual, resilient, eager and brilliant students and educators." -- Dave Eggers, co-founder, 826 National and ScholarMatchDarrell is a reflective, brilliant young man, who never thought of himself as a good student. He always
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