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The Roth Revolution

Pay Taxes Once and Never Again

by James Lange, Ed Slott ...

"Clearly explains the remarkable advantages of Roth IRAs and their role in estate planning." —Burton G. Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall StreetA Roth IRA conversion requires paying taxes on the portion of your IRA or 401(k) that you convert, but then that money can grow income tax-free for the rest of your, your spouse's, your children's and grandchildren's lives. The advantage of a tax ... Read more

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"Clearly explains the remarkable advantages of Roth IRAs and their role in estate planning." —Burton G. Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall StreetA Roth IRA conversion requires paying taxes on the portion of your IRA or 401(k) that you convert, but then that money can grow income tax-free for the rest of your, your spouse's, your children's and grandchildren's lives. The advantage of a tax
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Researching UX: User Research

by James Lang, Emma Howell ...

How well do you really know your users? With properly conducted user research, you can discover what really makes your audience tick. This practical guide will show you, step-by-step, how to gain proper insight about your users so that you can base design decisions on solid evidence. You'll not only learn the different methodologies that you can employ in user research, but also gain insight into ... Read more

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How well do you really know your users? With properly conducted user research, you can discover what really makes your audience tick. This practical guide will show you, step-by-step, how to gain proper insight about your users so that you can base design decisions on solid evidence. You'll not only learn the different methodologies that you can employ in user research, but also gain insight into
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The Devil's Bagpipe

The True Life of Martin Luther

by James Lang ...

Translated by Fr. Robert Nixon ...

In the following pages, we read about an ambitious Luther trying to obtain for himself the dignity of the cardinalate at a young age. We learn about the true motives for his objections to indulgences, which sprang principally from resentment at the loss of income for his own Augustinian Order. We witness also his bad temper and vitriolic tongue, his nocturnal conversations with demons (whether ... Read more

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In the following pages, we read about an ambitious Luther trying to obtain for himself the dignity of the cardinalate at a young age. We learn about the true motives for his objections to indulgences, which sprang principally from resentment at the loss of income for his own Augustinian Order. We witness also his bad temper and vitriolic tongue, his nocturnal conversations with demons (whether
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Unplug Him:

A Triumph Against the Odds

by James Lange Amundson ...

By the end of the day on February 11, 2001, forty-five-year-old James Lange Amundson was fighting for his life. While on a snowmobiling excursion in his home state of Wisconsin, Amundson’s sled was broadsided by another snowmobile traveling almost 100 miles per hour. Married with three children, Amundson suffered a variety of life-threatening injuries, including a closed traumatic brain injury. ... Read more

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By the end of the day on February 11, 2001, forty-five-year-old James Lange Amundson was fighting for his life. While on a snowmobiling excursion in his home state of Wisconsin, Amundson’s sled was broadsided by another snowmobile traveling almost 100 miles per hour. Married with three children, Amundson suffered a variety of life-threatening injuries, including a closed traumatic brain injury.
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Feeding a Hungry Planet

Rice, Research, and Development in Asia and Latin America

by James Lang ...

Rice is the food crop the world depends on most. In Feeding a Hungry Planet, James Lang demonstrates how research has benefited rice growers and increased production. He describes the life cycle of a rice crop and explains how research is conducted and how the results end up growing in a farmer’s field. Focusing on Asia and Latin America, Lang explores lowland and upland rice systems, genetics, ... Read more

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Rice is the food crop the world depends on most. In Feeding a Hungry Planet, James Lang demonstrates how research has benefited rice growers and increased production. He describes the life cycle of a rice crop and explains how research is conducted and how the results end up growing in a farmer’s field. Focusing on Asia and Latin America, Lang explores lowland and upland rice systems, genetics,
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Distracted

Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It

by James M. Lang ...

Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions—which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher's biggest problems.Why is it so hard to get students to pay attention? Conventional wisdom blames iPhones, insisting that access to technology has ruined students' ability to focus. The logical response is to ban electronics in class ... Read more

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Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions—which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher's biggest problems.Why is it so hard to get students to pay attention? Conventional wisdom blames iPhones, insisting that access to technology has ruined students' ability to focus. The logical response is to ban electronics in class
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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2 [newly updated] (Golden Deer Classics)

by Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, Golden Deer Classics, Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, J.M. Barrie, B.M. Bower, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert William Chambers, G.K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Darwin, Daniel Defoe, Margaret Deland, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexandre Dumas, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Hardy, Hermann Hesse, James Joyce, Andrew Lang, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Strunk Jr., Vatsyayana, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf ...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow ... Read more

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This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow
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Small Teaching

Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning

by James M. Lang ...

A freshly updated edition featuring research-based teaching techniques that faculty in any discipline can easily implementResearch into how we learn can help facilitate better student learning—if we know how to apply it. Small Teaching fills the gap in higher education literature between the primary research in cognitive theory and the classroom environment. In this book, James Lang presents a ... Read more

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A freshly updated edition featuring research-based teaching techniques that faculty in any discipline can easily implementResearch into how we learn can help facilitate better student learning—if we know how to apply it. Small Teaching fills the gap in higher education literature between the primary research in cognitive theory and the classroom environment. In this book, James Lang presents a
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Small Teaching Online

Applying Learning Science in Online Classes

by Flower Darby, James M. Lang ...

Find out how to apply learning science in online classesThe concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom.This book outlines practical and feasible applications ... Read more

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Find out how to apply learning science in online classesThe concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom.This book outlines practical and feasible applications
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The Greatest Fantasy Collection of all Time - 10 Classic Novels

by Lyman Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen, Yei Theodora Ozaki, J.M. Barrie, Andrew Lang, James Stephens, Edith Nesbit, Rudyard Kipling, Kenneth Grahame ...

This edition comes with Professional Formatting and with several Table of Contents for easy accessibility.WHATS INCLUDED:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollFairy Tales of Hans Christian AndersenJapanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora OzakiPeter Pan (Peter and Wendy) by J.M. BarrieThe Blue Fairy Book by Andrew LangThe Crock of Gold by James StephensThe Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit<l. ... Read more

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This edition comes with Professional Formatting and with several Table of Contents for easy accessibility.WHATS INCLUDED:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollFairy Tales of Hans Christian AndersenJapanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora OzakiPeter Pan (Peter and Wendy) by J.M. BarrieThe Blue Fairy Book by Andrew LangThe Crock of Gold by James StephensThe Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit<l.
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The Greatest Classics of All Time

Enriched edition. Timeless Masterpieces: A Literary Journey Through the Ages

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stendhal, Jules Verne, Gustave Flaubert, Lewis Carroll, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, Plato, Honoré de Balzac, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe0, Rabindranath Tagore1, Fyodor Dostoyevsky2, Walt Whitman3, Niccolò Machiavelli4, Oscar Wilde5, Robert Louis Stevenson6, James Fenimore Cooper7, Edgar Allan Poe8, William Shakespeare9, Giovanni Boccaccio0, Confucius1, George MacDonald2, Bram Stoker3, Charlotte Brontë4, Emily Brontë5, Henry David Thoreau6, Weedon Grossmith7, Jack London8, Henry James9, Louisa May Alcott0, Victor Hugo1, Arthur Conan Doyle2, Frances Hodgson Burnett3, Joseph Conrad4, Jane Austen5, Herman Melville6, George Eliot7, Laurence Sterne8, Thomas Hardy9, Jonathan Swift0, Edith Wharton1, Benito Pérez Galdós2, Daniel Defoe3, Henry Fielding4, Alexandre Dumas5, Kalidasa6, Kenneth Grahame7, Marcel Proust8, Willa Cather9, Nathaniel Hawthorne0, Homer1, Gaston Leroux2, Charles Baudelaire3, Wilkie Collins4, William Makepeace Thackeray5, Voltaire6, Kate Chopin7, Apuleius8, John Milton9, Frederick Douglass0, Laozi1, John Keats2, James Joyce3, Ann Ward Radcliffe4, Kahlil Gibran5, Kakuzo Okakura6, Soseki Natsume7, Princess Der Ling8, H. G. Wells9, W. B. Yeats0, J. M. Barrie1, G. K. Chesterton2, T. S. Eliot3, L. M. Montgomery4, C. S. Lewis5, D. H. Lawrence6, E. M. Forster7, H. P. Lovecraft8, Marcus Aurelius9, Friedrich Nietzsche0, Lewis Wallace1, Ivan Turgenev2, Anton Chekhov3, Leo Tolstoy4, Nikolai Gogol5, Sir Walter Scott6, George Bernard Shaw7, Miguel de Cervantes8, Mary Shelley9, Cao Xueqin0, Emile Zola1, Válmíki2, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee3, P. B. Shelley4, Elizabeth von Arnim5, Herman Hesse6, Dante7, Pedro Calderon de la Barca8, Sun Tzu9, Inazo Nitobé00, Hudson Redwick43 ...

Translated by James Legge02, Andrew Lang03, Bayard Taylor04, Ellen Marriage05, Samuel Butler06, Thomas Seltzer07, Lionel Giles08, Constance Garnett09, Havelock Ellis10, Benjamin Jowett11, Miriam S. Knight12, Louise Maude13, Thomas Common14, C. J. Hogarth15, Alexander Pope16, John Payne17, Aylmer Maude18, Helen Zimmern19, William F. Fleming20, Cyril Scott21, William Robson22, Gunther Olesch23, W. K. Marriott24, Ralph T. H. Griffith25, Arthur W. Ryder26, Yasotarō Mōri27, Eleanor Marx-Aveling28, Frederick Amadeus Malleson29, Lewis Page Mercier30, Isabel Hapgood31, Horace B. Samuel32, H. W. Longfellow33, William Adlington34, Anke Dreher35, Amy Coulter36, Stefan Langer37, Semyon Chaichenets38, C. K. Scott Moncrieff39, Edward Fitzgerald40, Henry Bencraft Joly41 ...

The Greatest Classics of All Time offers an unparalleled journey through the epochs of literary achievement, showcasing a rich tapestry of themes and genres from the pens of the world's most revered authors. From the existential musings of Dostoyevsky to the innovative adventures of Verne, the anthology transcends temporal and cultural boundaries. Woven within its pages are tales of human folly, ... Read more

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The Greatest Classics of All Time offers an unparalleled journey through the epochs of literary achievement, showcasing a rich tapestry of themes and genres from the pens of the world's most revered authors. From the existential musings of Dostoyevsky to the innovative adventures of Verne, the anthology transcends temporal and cultural boundaries. Woven within its pages are tales of human folly,
... Read more
Write Like You Teach

Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Bigger Audience

by James M. Lang ...

Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
This engaging guide offers practical advice to teachers on how to utilize their existing classroom skills to become more effective public writers.After years spent cultivating their expertise and passion for a subject, scholars are uniquely positioned to write great books. Yet, accustomed to writing for an audience of their peers, many scholars find it challenging to adapt their writing to a style ... Read more

$14.39 USD

This engaging guide offers practical advice to teachers on how to utilize their existing classroom skills to become more effective public writers.After years spent cultivating their expertise and passion for a subject, scholars are uniquely positioned to write great books. Yet, accustomed to writing for an audience of their peers, many scholars find it challenging to adapt their writing to a style
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