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  21: Bringing Down the House

  The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

  by Ben Mezrich

  #1 National Bestseller! The amazing inside story about a gambling ring of M.I.T. students who beat the system in Vegas -- and lived to tell how. Robin Hood meets the Rat Pack when the best and the brightest of M.I.T.'s math students and engineers take up blackjack under the guidance of an eccentric mastermind. Their small blackjack club develops from an experiment in counting cards on M.I.T.'s campus into a... (more)
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  The Uglies: Book 2

  Pretties

  by Scott Westerfeld

  Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect. Perfectly wrong. Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted. But beneath all the fun -- the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom -- is a nagging sense that something's wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally's... (more)
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  Raw Materials for the Mind: A Teacher's Guide to Digital Literacy

  by David Warlick

  In the last five years, a new digital economy has risen, where creative information artisans from across the globe are producing media products and marketing them through a new digital bazaar. The challenge for professional educators is to answer the question, "What are the basic skills in this information driven age, and how do we teach them?" This book helps educators to understand how information has... (more)
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  Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century

  by David Warlick

  * Prepares students for a technologically defined 21st century!; *Practical, yet visionary; *Focused on literacy within the context of technology; and *Demystifies the future of literacy and "makes it simple" for educators and students alike. Create students of the future and leaders for tomorrow’s information highway! Walk away with a new definition of literacy for the Information Age that you can pass on to... (more)
• The Pocket Guide to Gambling (Fireside Books (Holiday House))David Spanier

  

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  The Pocket Guide to Gambling (Fireside Books (Holiday House))

  by David Spanier