Category: Reference

ACT All-Nighter: The Ultimate Crash Course! (Spark Notes)

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Publisher: Sparknotes

Seller ID: 748794

ISBN-13: 9781411405226

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Disney Learning Magical Adventures in Preschool Workbook, Preschool Math, Reading Comprehension, and Writing Practice, Preschool Workbooks With Reward Stickers, PreK Classroom or Homeschool Curriculum

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Publisher: Disney Learning : March 2020

Seller ID: 766434

ISBN-13: 9781483858654

Binding: Trade Paperback

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WORKBOOK FEATURES: - Ages 3-5, Pre-K- 256 pages, 7.7 inches x 10.6 inches- Features your child's favorite Disney characters including Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto- 200+ learning activities help develop your child's school readiness skills- Topics covered: letter recognition and sounds, handwriting, counting, colors, patterns, shapes and more- 140 colorful reward stickers - Includes answer key and completion certificateFOCUSED PRACTICE: The Disney Learning Magical Adventures in Preschool Workbook helps kids ages 3-5 develop math and reading readiness and gets them ready for Kinderg...
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Summer Bridge Activities 3-4 Grade Workbooks, Math, Reading Comprehension, Writing, Science, Social Studies, Summer Learning 4th Grade Workbooks All Subjects With Flash Cards (160 pgs)

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Summer Bridge Activities : January 2015

Seller ID: 723849

ISBN-13: 9781483815831

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Workbook Features: - Ages 8-10, Grades 3-4 - 160 pages, about 8 inches x 10 1/2 inches - Reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and more - Includes fun fitness activities - Flash cards, stickers, completion certificate, and answer key included Hands-On Summer Learning: Summer Bridge Activities Workbook helps third--fourth graders keep their skills sharp during the summer months to prevent summer learning loss through fun practice pages and activities, engaging fitness activities, and more. What's Included: This book covers all subjects, focusing on reading comprehension skills, wor...
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Unprofitable Schooling: Examining Causes of, and Fixes for, America's Broken Ivory Tower

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Publisher: Cato Institute : February 2019

Seller ID: 465607

ISBN-13: 9781948647045

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Most economies advance by simultaneously decreasing costs and increasing quality. Unfortunately, when it comes to higher education, this has been turned on its head. Costs keep rising while quality declines. How has this happened? What can be done?This exceptional volume looks at the issues facing higher education from the perspective of both economics and history. Each chapter explores how the lessons learned from market competition in other sectors of the economy can be applied to higher education in order to bring about innovation, improved quality, and lower costs.The opening section offer...
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Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction

By: Allen, Robert C.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : November 2011

Seller ID: 749404

ISBN-13: 9780199596652

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, global income differences were small, but disparities have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. In this Very Short Introduction, Robert C. Allen shows how the interplay of geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. Allen shows how the industrial revolution was Britain's path-breaking response to the challenge of globalization. Western Europe and North America joined Britain to form a club of rich nations, pursuing four polices--creating a national marke...
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Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses

By: Arum, Richard/Roksa, Jospia

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : January 2017

Seller ID: 377036

ISBN-13: 9780226028569

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they're born. Almost everyone strives to go, but almost no one asks the fundamental question posed by Academically Adrift: are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there? For a large proportion of students, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's answer to that question is a definitive no. Their extensive research draws on survey respo...
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Redesigning America?s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success

By: Bailey, Thomas R.

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 376526

ISBN-13: 9780674368286

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the United States, 1,200 community colleges enroll over ten million students each year--nearly half of the nation's undergraduates. Yet fewer than 40 percent of entrants complete an undergraduate degree within six years. This fact has put pressure on community colleges to improve academic outcomes for their students. Redesigning America's Community Colleges is a concise, evidence-based guide for educational leaders whose institutions typically receive short shrift in academic and policy discussions. It makes a compelling case that two-year colleges can substantially increase their rates of ...
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What the Best College Teachers Do

By: Bain, Ken

Price: $6.50

Publisher: : December 2013

Seller ID: 731501

ISBN-13: 9780674013254

Binding: Hardcover

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What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators. The short answer is--it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the special way teachers comprehend the subject and value human learning. Whether historians or physicists, in El Paso or St. Paul, the best teachers know their subjects inside and out--but they also k...
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Seventeenth Edition)

By: Bartlett, John/Kaplan, Justin

Price: $7.50

Publisher: : June 2011

Seller ID: 483239

ISBN-13: 9780316084604

Binding: Hardcover

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First published in 1855, BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS has been completely updated and revised for the seventeenth edition by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan. This 17th edition, under Kaplan's splendid direction, contains over 20,000 quotations, representing 2,500 authors, 90 of whom are new to BARTLETT'S. New comers include Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Tony Kushner, Tammy Wynette, Margaret Atwood, Mary Oliver, Maya Angelou, Frank O'Hara, Martin Amis, Kingsley Amis, Mother Teresa, Jacques Cousteau, Rudolph Giuliani, Alfred Hitchcock, L. M. Montgomery, Eric Ambler, Jerry Sein...
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On Writing the College Application Essay

By: Bauld, Harry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : October 2012

Seller ID: 504700

ISBN-13: 9780064637220

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

What does an admissions officer look for in a college application essay?You. It's that simple. There's no formula, no trick, no strategy, says Harry Bauld, a former Ivy League admissions officer. But with acceptance rates at all-time lows, just being yourself in an essay means understanding your readers and the unique form in which you are writing. In this fully revised and updated edition of the classic guide to writing the best essay of your life, Bauld reveals the big cliches (The Trip, The Jock, Miss America, Pet Death) and helps you discover ways to come alive on the page as a real person...
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On Writing the College Application Essay, 25th Anniversary Edition: The Key to Acceptance at the College of Your Choice

By: Bauld, Harry

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 622041

ISBN-13: 9780062123992

Binding: Trade Paperback

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One of the most stressful aspects of the college application process is the essay. Most students worry about what an admissions officer looks for in a writing sample. But that's the wrong way to approach this vital component, says former college admissions officer Harry Bauld. At Brown and Columbia, he saw what prospective students often did wrong--and now tells you how to do it right.On Writing the College Application Essay is his inside guide to writing a college application essay that will stand out from the pack. Baum advises you on how to avoid platitudes and find your authentic voice, gi...
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'I Love Learning; I Hate School': An Anthropology of College

By: Blum, Susan D

Price: $11.00

Seller ID: 405561

ISBN-13: 9781501700217

Binding: Hardcover

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Frustrated by her students' performance, her relationships with them, and her own daughter's problems in school, Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology, set out to understand why her students found their educational experience at a top-tier institution so profoundly difficult and unsatisfying. Through her research and in conversations with her students, she discovered a troubling mismatch between the goals of the university and the needs of students. In I Love Learning; I Hate School, Blum tells two intertwined but inseparable stories: the results of her research into how students learn c...
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The Craft of Research, Third Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

By: Booth, Wayne C.,Colomb, Gregory G.,Williams, Joseph M.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press : April 2008

Seller ID: 145282

ISBN-13: 9780226065663

Binding: Trade Paperback

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With more than 400,000 copies now in print, The Craft of Research is the unrivaled resource for researchers at every level, from first-year undergraduates to research reporters at corporations and government offices. Seasoned researchers and educators Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams present an updated third edition of their classic handbook, whose first and second editions were written in collaboration with the late Wayne C. Booth. The Craft of Research explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; how to anticipate the reservations of readers and to resp...
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Dictionary of Theories

By: Bothamley, Jennifer

Price: $8.00

Publisher: : October 2014

Seller ID: 91696

ISBN-13: 9781578590452

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Freshman Survival Guide

By: Bradbury, Nora

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : April 2012

Seller ID: 532411

ISBN-13: 9780446560115

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A values-based guide to navigating that critical first year of college that speaks to college students in their own language and offers practical tools that readers need to keep from drinking, sleeping or skipping their way out of college. There are numerous guides for choosing a college, paying for college and getting good grades in college But THE FRESHMAN SURVIVAL GUIDE is the first to offer advice on academics, relationships and lifestyle and combine it with guidance on how to cope with the spiritual, emotional and ethical questions and issues that confront young adults. Divided into five ...
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How Did It Begin?: The Origin of Our Curious Customs and Superstitions

By: Brasch, Rudi/Brasch, Li

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Seller ID: 392157

ISBN-13: 9781606710722

Binding: Trade Paperback

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110 Words You Need to Know

By: Bromberg, Murray

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : October 2009

Seller ID: 580986

ISBN-13: 9780764113659

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A Barron's bestseller for years, this book is better than ever in a brand new fourth edition. In addition to its standard vocabulary lists, this edition includes a new section called Panorama of Words. In this feature, each of the 1100 words appears in a sentence selected from among well known novels, plays, poems, and even newspaper editorials and TV broadcasts. The book is a vocabulary builder aimed directly at college-bound high school students, as well as college students who need extra vocabulary help. Students will find word lists with definitions, analogy exercises, entertaining word ga...
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You Majored in What?

By: Brooks, Katharine

Price: $7.00

Publisher: : October 2014

Seller ID: 376154

ISBN-13: 9780452296008

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Fully revised and updated in 2017, the revolutionary career guide for a new generation of job-seekers, from one of the U.S.'s top career counselors "So what are you going to do with your major?" It's an innocent question that can haunt students from high school to graduate school and beyond. Relax. Your major is just the starting point for designing a meaningful future. In this indispensable guide, Dr. Katharine Brooks shows you a creative, fun, and intelligent way to figure out what you want to do and how to get it--no matter what you studied in college. You will learn to map your experien...
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Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction

By: Brown, Jonathan

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Seller ID: 690142

ISBN-13: 9780199559282

Binding: Trade Paperback

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As the founder of Islam, a religion with over one billion followers, Muhammad is beyond all doubt one of the most influential figures in world history. But learning about his life and understanding his importance has always proven difficult, as our only source of knowledge comes from the biography of him written by his followers, the reliability of which has been questioned by Western scholars. This Very Short Introduction provides a superb introduction to the major aspects of Muhammad's life and its importance, providing both Muslim and Western historical perspectives. It explains the promine...
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Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

By: Brun, Frank

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Publisher: : August 2016

Seller ID: 731573

ISBN-13: 9781455532704

Binding: Hardcover

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Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years. Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no. In Where You Go is Not Who ...
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