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Sentencing Youth to Life in Prison

Justice Denied

By: Kathi Milliken-Boyd,James Windell

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Sentencing Youth to Life in Prison

Justice Denied

By: Kathi Milliken-Boyd,James Windell

This book analyzes the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court rulings deeming juvenile life without parole (LWOP) sentences to be cruel and unusual punishment. These Court decisions brought about controversy and resistance in the criminal justice field, while at the same time providing hope for those 2,300 people who never thought they had a chance to experience life as an adult outside prison. By looking in depth at the lives of some of the individuals serving life terms, and understanding both the prosecutors who oppose review and resentencing of juvenile lifers and those who are sincerely following the Supreme Court’s guidelines, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the issues – as well as the people – involved in the sentencing (and potential resentencing) of juveniles to life without the possibility of parole. The authors provide unique, perceptive and straightforward profiles on some of the prisoners who were ultimately sentenced to LWOP after being involved in criminal offenses committed before their 18th birthdays. The book poignantly features the experiences of young people who did not commit a murder yet were still sentenced to life terms, but also delves into the perspectives of the families of victims of juvenile offenders, prosecutors on both sides of the issue, psychologists who have interviewed many of the juvenile lifers and advocates for change in the way juveniles are treated by the criminal justice system. The decisions in Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana clearly demonstrated that the Court’s view of juveniles evolved over decades to reflect advances in our understanding of the unique characteristics of youth and their involvement in juvenile crimes. This book takes the position that the sentence of life without the possibility of parole for youth is wasteful of both human lives and scarce public resources. The authors write about the human concerns on both sides of the question, and, ultimately, allow readers to make their own decisions about how society should best handle juvenile offenders. This engaging ethnographic treatment will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, corrections, juvenile justice, and delinquency; practitioners working in social policy; and all those interested in a criminal justice system capable of positive outcomes for involved youth.

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Routledge

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1000530337

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9781000530339

Widow’s Guide to Healing

Gentle Support and Advice for the First 5 Years

By: Kristin Meekhof,James Windell

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Widow’s Guide to Healing

Gentle Support and Advice for the First 5 Years

By: Kristin Meekhof,James Windell

A very valuable and practical guide for any woman who has lost her husband due to an untimely death. Kristin Meekhof's journey is both inspiring and courageous and something we can all learn from." —Dr. Deepak Chopra An inspiring, accessible, and empowering guide for how to navigate the unique stresses and challenges of widowhood and create a hopeful future. When Kristin Meekhof lost her husband to cancer, she discovered what all widows learn: the moment you lose your partner, you must make crucial decisions that will impact the rest of your life. But where do you begin? This inspiring book shows grieving widows what to expect and how to deal with the challenges of losing a life partner. From immediate issues like finances, estates and medical bills to long-term hurdles such as single parenthood, being a widow in the workplace and navigating social situations by yourself, this book guides widows through the tumultuous and painful first five years to a more hopeful future.

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257

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1492620610

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9781492620617

Cognitive Behavioral Protocols for Medical Settings

A Clinician’s Guide

By: Jennifer Labuda,Bradley Axelrod,James Windell

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Cognitive Behavioral Protocols for Medical Settings

A Clinician’s Guide

By: Jennifer Labuda,Bradley Axelrod,James Windell

This book offers specific evidence-based behavioral treatment plans for the most commonly observed symptoms seen in medical and clinical settings. It will address the needs of therapists who work in fast-paced clinics and are often mandated to provide time-limited and effective treatment. Intended for early career clinicians as well as experienced psychotherapists, clear goal-directed protocols are outlined in a specific manner to assist the clinician in treating frequently reported pain complaints, somatic illnesses, anxiety, sleep difficulties, panic, agitation, anger management, and more. A brief review of symptoms is followed by specific cognitive behavioral treatment strategies, quantitative treatment tracking tools, and methods to address obstacles and facilitate progress. This clinician-friendly manual will guide research based interventions and documentation needs, while also showing how the intervention can best be used to avoid common pitfalls in treatment.

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344

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Routledge

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1315282399

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9781315282398

Take Control of Your Divorce

Strategies to Stop Fighting and Start Co-Parenting

By: Judith Margerum,Jerome Price,James Windell

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Take Control of Your Divorce

Strategies to Stop Fighting and Start Co-Parenting

By: Judith Margerum,Jerome Price,James Windell

Hostile and contentious divorces aren't uncommon. But if you've been separated or divorced for more than a year or two and things haven't gotten better, something is very wrong. If you're not working together in a spirit of cooperation for the good of your children, you have not resolved the emotions following a divorce so you can go about the important job ahead: co-parenting your children! You can change the unproductive communication cycle you and your co-parent may have developed and go from a relationship featuring anger and hostility to one less volatile, more cooperative, and healthier for your children. Children caught up in post-divorce conflict are in considerable danger to suffer physically, emotionally, and behaviorally. The authors' intent for this book is to help you save your children--and yourself--from the ravages of anger, hostility, and conflict. They give you specific strategies you can use to resolve, overlook, or put aside the conflicts with your co-parent and get to the crucial task of being good parents.

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169

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Impact Publishers

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1886230978

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9781886230972

Looking Back in Crime

What Happened on This Date in Criminal Justice History?

By: James O. Windell

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Looking Back in Crime

What Happened on This Date in Criminal Justice History?

By: James O. Windell

Just as people are captivated by murder mysteries, detective stories, and legal shows, they are also compulsively interested in the history of criminal justice. Looking Back in Crime: What Happened on This Day in Criminal Justice History? features a treasure trove of important dates and significant events in criminal justice history.Offering hundre

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CRC Press

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149870414X

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9781498704144

8 Weeks To a Well-Behaved Child

A Failsafe Program for Toddlers Through Teens

By: James Windell

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8 Weeks To a Well-Behaved Child

A Failsafe Program for Toddlers Through Teens

By: James Windell

Windell presents a unique program for parents of children with discipline problems ranging from disobedience to criminal delinquency. This hands-on workbook offers a series of eight lessons designed to sharpen parenting skills, bring out-of-control children into line, and improve parent-child relationships.

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Wiley

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0028604156

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9780028604152

Unexpected Consequences

Why The Things We Trust Fail

By: James William Martin

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Unexpected Consequences

Why The Things We Trust Fail

By: James William Martin

In this book, interrelationships between more than 40 recent catastrophic events are explored, discussing failures of structures and machines, information technology, regulatory agencies, security designs, and more. The world is full of wonderful products and services that occasionally disappoint and even harm us. Unexpected Consequences: Why The Things We Trust Fail explores the reasons these failures occur, examining them from technological, human, and organizational perspectives. Using more than 40 recent catastrophic events to illustrate its points, the book discusses structural and machine failure, but also the often-overlooked failure of people and of systems related to such things as information technology, healthcare, and security. As the book demonstrates, faulty technology played a surprisingly small part in many of the scrutinized disasters. Author James William Martin finds cognitive factors and organizational dynamics, including ethics, are major contributors to most unexpected and catastrophic failures causing loss of life and extensive property damage. With that fresh perspective in mind, Martin is able to suggest remedies that address service failure and just may help prevent future disasters from taking place.

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312

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313393125

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9780313393129

The Fatherstyle Advantage

Surefire Techniques Every Parent Can Use to Raise Confident and Caring Kids

By: Kevin O'Shea,James Windell

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The Fatherstyle Advantage

Surefire Techniques Every Parent Can Use to Raise Confident and Caring Kids

By: Kevin O'Shea,James Windell

Flying in the face of long-held assumptions about the relative merits of mothers' and fathers' parenting styles, it is the first how-to child-raising guide ever to focus on the positive qualities that men bring to parenting. It emphasizes men's special contributions to the family unit, including a strong sense of play and exacting standards, and sets up the core elements of "fatherstyle" as a desirable model to be emulated by men and women alike. At a time when increasing numbers of men are spending more and more time with their children, this refreshingly different book is ideal for both fathers and mothers who are interested in new techniques that will lead to smarter parenting, better-adjusted, more confident children, and stronger, healthier families"--Publisher's description.

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212

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Harry N. Abrams

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1584794771

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9781584794776

A Tradition of Purple

An Inside Look at the Minnesota Vikings

By: James H. Bruton,Jim Bruton

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A Tradition of Purple

An Inside Look at the Minnesota Vikings

By: James H. Bruton,Jim Bruton

Since the creation of the Minnesota Vikings in 1960, this football team has been more than just another franchise. To the fans who love them, and the haters who can’t help but admire them, the Minnesota Vikings are an unstoppable force in the NFL. In this heartwarming and inspirational book, Jim Bruton takes a look beyond the game and examines what the Minnesota Vikings have meant to fans and communities across the country. Covering the Vikings from every angle, A Tradition of Purple is an up-close look at the players, coaches, charities, Hall of Famers, and people behind the scenes who have come to define what it means to be Purple over the last fifty years. Readers will get an inside look at such famous Vikings as Norm Van Brocklin, Bud Grant, Fran Tarkenton, Carl Eller, Alan Page, Jim Marshall, Chris Doleman, Adrian Peterson, and more. This is not a book only about football, this is also a book about life, community, and the team that inspires a legacy.

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273

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Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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1613210027

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9781613210024

Building of A Nation

By: James Edward Gatling

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Building of A Nation

By: James Edward Gatling

Building of A Nation is a book which looks at the development of the United States. The story of America is a great one. Founded on the principals of independence and democracy.

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iUniverse

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1450209416

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9781450209410

A Study in the Theory and Practice of German Liberalism

Eduard Lasker, 1829-1884

By: James F. Harris

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A Study in the Theory and Practice of German Liberalism

Eduard Lasker, 1829-1884

By: James F. Harris

This is the only study in English of Eduard Lasker's role in the development of German Liberalism in the 1860's, 1870's, and 1880's. Through both original sources and quantitative analysis, the book assesses Lasker's importance in relation to the political movement of German Liberalism. Particularly useful to students of modern history, especially that of Germany.

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University Press of America

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0819141755

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9780819141750

Red Saxony

Election battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918

By: James Retallack

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Red Saxony

Election battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918

By: James Retallack

Red Saxony throws new light on the reciprocal relationship between political modernization and authoritarianism in Germany over the span of six decades. Election battles were fought so fiercely in Imperial Germany because they reflected two kinds of democratization. Social democratization could not be stopped, but political democratization was opposed by many members of the German bourgeoisie. Frightened by the electoral success of the Social Democrats after 1871, anti-democrats deployed many strategies that flew in the face of electoral fairness. They battled socialists, liberals, and Jews at election time, but they also strove to rewrite the electoral rules of the game. Using a regional lens to rethink older assumptions about Germany's changing political culture, this volume focuses as much on contemporary Germans' perceptions of electoral fairness as on their experiences of voting. It devotes special attention to various semi-democratic voting systems whereby a general and equal suffrage (for the Reichstag) was combined with limited and unequal ones for local and regional parliaments. For the first time, democratization at all three tiers of governance and their reciprocal effects are considered together. Although the bourgeois face of German authoritarianism was nowhere more evident than in the Kingdom of Saxony, Red Saxony illustrates how other Germans grew to fear the spectre of democracy. Certainly twists and turns lay ahead, yet that fear made it easier for Hitler and the Nazis to win elections in the 1920s and to entomb German democracy in 1933.

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715

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Oxford University Press

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0192523910

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9780192523914

Hacking Your LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Kit

By: John Baichtal,James Floyd Kelly

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Hacking Your LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Kit

By: John Baichtal,James Floyd Kelly

EV3 without limits! Build 5 amazing robotics projects that take DIY to a whole new level! You can do way more with your LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kit than anyone ever told you! In this full-color, step-by-step tutorial, top-maker and best-selling author John Baichtal shows you how to transcend Mindstorms’ limits as you build five cutting-edge robotics projects. You’ll discover just how much you can do with only the parts that came with your kit–and how much farther you can go with extremely low-cost add-ons like Arduino and Raspberry Pi. You’ll learn how to reprogram your Mindstorms Intelligent Brick to add additional hardware options and create more complex programs. Hundreds of full-color, step-by-step photos teach you every step, every skill. Whenever you’re ready for advanced techniques, Baichtal explains them in plain English. Here’s just some of what you’ll learn how to do: Build a drawing Plotter Bot that gyrates to draw new patterns Hack Mindstorms’ wires–and control robots without wires Create a remote-controlled crane, and operate it from your smartphone Use the EV3 brick to control third-party electronic modules of all kinds Replace the EV3 brick with smarter, more flexible Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or BeagleBone Black hardware Build a robotic flower whose petals open and close based on time of day Use third-party sensors to build robots that can sense practically anything Load an alternate operating system onto your EV3 brick 3D print, laser, and mill your own perfect LEGO parts Create ball contraptions, and extend them with your own custom parts Make a pole-climbing robot–and hook up an altimeter to track its height This book is not authorized or endorsed by the LEGO® Group. Register Your Book at www.quepublishing.com/register and receive 35% off your next purchase.

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554

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Que Publishing

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0134217462

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9780134217468

Germany's Second Reich

Portraits and Pathways

By: James Retallack

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Germany's Second Reich

Portraits and Pathways

By: James Retallack

Despite recent studies of imperial Germany that emphasize the empire’s modern and reformist qualities, the question remains: to what extent could democracy have flourished in Germany’s stony soil? In Germany’s Second Reich, James Retallack continues his career-long inquiry into the era of Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II with a wide-ranging reassessment of the period and its connections with past traditions and future possibilities. In this volume, Retallack reveals the complex and contradictory nature of the Second Reich, presenting Imperial Germany as it was seen by outsiders and insiders as well as by historians, political scientists, and sociologists ever since.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442624108

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9781442624108

Wetlands

Guide to Science, Law and Technology

By: Mark S Dennison,James F Berry

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Wetlands

Guide to Science, Law and Technology

By: Mark S Dennison,James F Berry

This book is intended as a practical guide to scientific, legal, and technical issues concerning wetlands. As such, it is written in the most practical terms, with numerous helpful examples and case studies of how specific issues should best be addressed. The book is organized in a way that exposes the reader in logical succession to the full gamut of complex scientific, legal, and technical aspects of wetlands. This book recognizes that wetland science, law, and technology are interdependent disciplines. Most other works focus on one of these disciplines while perhaps providing some cursory treatment of related disciplines. This book attempts to meld several different perspectives on the subject of wetlands and to show the interrelationships between the various professions that deal with wetland issues. The book is organized as a guide through the various scientific, legal, and technical components of wetlands. Within each individual chapter, extensive cross-referencing is provided to help the reader link related aspects of the issue being discussed. Further, within the presentation of each separate chapter is a discussion of how the various scientific, legal, and technical aspects of the subject interrelate. Each chapter has been written by a known authority with specialized experience in the topic being presented.

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Cambridge University Press

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081551333X

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9780815513339

John Burroughs and the Place of Nature

By: James Perrin Warren

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John Burroughs and the Place of Nature

By: James Perrin Warren

This study situates John Burroughs, together with John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, as one of a trinity of thinkers who, between the Civil War and World War I, defined and secured a place for nature in mainstream American culture. Though not as well known today, Burroughs was the most popular American nature writer of his time. Prolific and consistent, he published scores of essays in influential large-circulation magazines and was often compared to Thoreau. Unlike Thoreau, however, whose reputation grew posthumously, Burroughs wasa celebrity during his lifetime: he wrote more than thirty books, enjoyed a continual high level of visibility, and saw his work taught widely in public schools. James Perrin Warren shows how Burroughs helped guide urban and suburban middle-class readers “back to nature” during a time of intense industrialization and urbanization. Warren discusses Burroughs’s connections not only to Muir and Roosevelt but also to his forebears Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. By tracing the complex philosophical, creative, and temperamental lineage of these six giants, Warren shows how, in their friendships and rivalries, Burroughs, Muir, and Roosevelt made the high literary romanticism of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman relevant to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Americans. At the same time, Warren offers insights into the rise of the nature essay as a genre, the role of popular magazines as shapers and conveyors of public values, and the dynamism of place in terms of such opposed concepts as retreat and engagement, nature and culture, and wilderness and civilization. Because Warren draws on Burroughs’s personal, critical, and philosophical writings as well as his better-known narrative essays, readers will come away with a more informed sense of Burroughs as a literary naturalist and a major early practitioner of ecocriticism. John Burroughs and the Place of Nature helps extend the map of America’s cultural landscape during the period 1870-1920 by recovering an unfairly neglected practitioner of one of his era’s most effective forces for change: nature writing.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820330817

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9780820330815

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Sentencing Youth to Life in Prison

Sentencing Youth to Life in Prison

Widow’s Guide to Healing

Widow’s Guide to Healing

Cognitive Behavioral Protocols for Medical Settings

Cognitive Behavioral Protocols for Medical Settings

Take Control of Your Divorce

Take Control of Your Divorce

Looking Back in Crime

Looking Back in Crime

8 Weeks To a Well-Behaved Child

8 Weeks To a Well-Behaved Child

Unexpected Consequences

Unexpected Consequences

The Fatherstyle Advantage

The Fatherstyle Advantage

A Tradition of Purple

A Tradition of Purple

Building of A Nation

Building of A Nation

A Study in the Theory and Practice of German Liberalism

A Study in the Theory and Practice of German Liberalism

Red Saxony

Red Saxony

Hacking Your LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Kit

Hacking Your LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Kit

Germany's Second Reich

Germany's Second Reich

Wetlands

Wetlands

John Burroughs and the Place of Nature

John Burroughs and the Place of Nature

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