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Help Your Kids with Study Skills
Carol Vorderman · DK Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Help Your Kids with Study Skills is a unique step-by-step visual guide with invaluable advice on how to support your child's classwork, homework, and revision, with effective study methods that suit a range of learning styles for the third grade level and beyond.From exploring your child's... |
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Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading
Jason Merkoski · Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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A groundbreaking vision on the future of reading, from an early innovator on Amazon's Kindle team. Is digital the death knell for print? Or will it reinvigorate the written word? What will happen to bookstores, book browsing, libraries,... |
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Romance Authors: A Research Guide
Sarah E. Sheehan · Libraries Unlimited
Format: Paperback
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Romance is the Rodney Dangerfield of popular fiction genres. Neither the readers nor the writers receive much respect, yet the genre remains astoundingly popular. Romance Authors: A Research Guide provides a starting place for librarians, student researchers, and fans who wish to find out more... |
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59 Reasons to Write: Mini-Lessons, Prompts, and Inspiration for Teachers
Kate Messner · Stenhouse Publishers
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
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In order to teach writing effectively, teachers must be writers themselves. They must experience the same uncertainty of starting a new draft and then struggling to revise. As they learn to move past the fear of failure, they discover the nervous rush and exhilaration of sharing work with... |
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Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
JEFFREY KLUGER · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumphIn August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three... |
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Identity Theft Do's & Don'ts What You Need to Know Now What?
Scott a. Merritt · Merritt & Associates Inc.
Format: Book
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Identity theft strikes people from all walks of life...with devastating effects. Based on the author's true story, this book provides detailed guidance to recapture your identity and take your life back. It is packed with invaluable tools for correcting errors on your credit report.... |
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The Happy Lawyer: Making a Good Life in the Law
Nancy Levit · Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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You get good grades in college, pay a small fortune to put yourself through law school, study hard to pass the bar exam, and finally land a high-paying job in a prestigious firm. You're happy, right? Not really. Oh, it beats laying asphalt, but after all your hard work, you expected... |
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The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis
Steven J. Harper · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A noble profession is facing its defining moment. From law schools to the prestigious firms that represent the pinnacle of a legal career, a crisis is unfolding. News headlines tell part of the storythe growing oversupply of new lawyers, widespread career dissatisfaction, and spectacular... |
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A Is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie
Kathryn Harkup · Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Agatha Christie's detailed plotting is what makes her books so compelling. Christie used poison to kill her characters more often than any other murder method, with the poison itself being a central part of the novel, and her choice of deadly substances was far from random; the chemical... |
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Murder at the Supreme Court: Lethal Crimes and Landmark Cases
Martin Clancy · Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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True-life reporting on vicious criminals and the haphazard system that punishes themIn 1969, the Supreme Court justices cast votes in secret that could have signaled the end of the death penalty. Later, the justices' resolve began to unravel. Why? What were the consequences for the rule... |
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Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
Kennedy Odede · Ecco Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. With a Foreword by Nicholas Kristof.This is the story of two young people from completely different... |
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You Can Do This: Hope and Help for New Teachers
Robyn R. Jackson · Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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HOPE IS ON THE WAY! “I firmly believe that what will make you a master teacher is not the advice I give you; what will make you a master teacher is that you figure out how to solve those challenges on your own, in your own way.” —From the Preface As a new teacher you face... |
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