Back Textbooks | September Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Textbooks  
Cracking the SAT with 5 Practice Tests, 2015 Edition

Adam Robinson · Princeton Review; Csm edition
Format: Paperback

THE PRINCETON REVIEW GETS RESULTS. Get all the prep you need to ace the SAT with 5 full-length practice tests, thorough SAT topic reviews, and extra practice online.Techniques That Actually Work. • Powerful strategies to avoid traps and beat the test• Tips for pacing yourself...
Read More check catalog
 
 
American Library Directory 2011-2012

Inc. Information Today · Information Today; 64 edition
Format: Hardcover

American Library Directory 2011-2012
Read More check catalog
 
 
International Student Handbook 2014

The College Board · College Board; 27 edition
Format: Paperback

The International Student Handbook 2014 by The College Board is the only book exclusively for foreign students! It has information on 2,900 colleges, including each schools international profile. This guide covers financial aid, Test of English as a Foreign Language TOEFL requirements,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Four-Year Colleges 2017

Peterson's · Peterson Nelnet Co
Pages: 1952
Format: Paperback

Peterson's Four-Year Colleges 2017 is a valuable resource that includes information on every accredited four-year undergraduate institution in the U.S. and Canada (and many international schools) -more than 2,600 institutions in all. It also includes detailed two-page descriptions written...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Inequality in America: Race, Poverty, and Fulfilling Democracy's Promise

Stephen M Caliendo · Westview Press, a Member of the Perseus Books Group
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback

Why does inequality have such a hold on American society and public policy? And what can we, as citizens, do about it? Inequality in America takes an in-depth look at individual-level and systemic inequality, focusing in particular on race, poverty, and gender, across a wide range of issues...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Parenting Difficult Children: Strategies for Parents of Preschoolers to Preteens

Michael Hammond · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Parenting young children is a challenge, and dealing with difficult or problem behavior can set up an atmosphere of tension and strife - not just between the child and the parents, but between parents as well. Parenting Difficult Children provides a method of removing that tension with...
Read More check catalog
 
 
On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory

Alan Ryan · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 204
Format: Print book

An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Machiavelli. In On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory, Alan Ryan illuminates the political and philosophical complexities of the often-reviled godfather of realpolitik. Thought by some to be the founder of Italian...
Read More check catalog
 
 
American Arsenal: A Century of Waging War

Patrick Coffey · Oxford University Press,
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

When America declared war on Germany in 1917, the United States had only 200,000 men under arms, a twentieth of the German army's strength, and its planes were no match for the German air force. Less than a century later, the United States today has by far the world's largest military...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? 2nd Edition

Steve Fox · Chelsea Green Publishing; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

In 2012, voters in Colorado shocked the political establishment by making the use of marijuana legal for anyone in the state twenty-one years of age or older. In the wake of that unprecedented victory, nationally recognized marijuana-policy experts Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Balancing the Big Stuff: Finding Happiness in Work, Family, and Life

Miriam Liss · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

While the current conversation about work-family balance and having it all tends to focus on women, both men and women are harmed when conditions make it impossible to balance meaningful work with family life. Yet, both will benefit from re-evaluating what it means to have it all and fighting...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Up Your Score: SAT: The Underground Guide, 2015 Edition

Ada Throckmorton · Workman Publishing Company
Format: Book

More college-bound seniors than ever are taking the SAT—in 2012, 1.66 million of them. Up Your Score: SAT is the only guide written for students, by students. Filled with expert advice and proven strategies, it injects a feisty attitude into the dry business of test prep, fending...
Read More check catalog
 
 
"Is It Easy Being Green?": Writing the New College Application Essay

Justin Nevin · Sourcebooks
Format: Print book

More and more universities and colleges are looking beyond grade point averages and standardized test scores to choose their incoming freshman. What criteria do these institutions of higher education use as their litmus test--the college application essay. But will your average high school...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America

Kevin Cook · Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover

At last, the true story of a crime that shocked the world. New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop -- a murder the New York Times called "a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change." The victim, Catherine "Kitty" Genovese,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Book of Majors 2015

College Entrance Examination Board. · College Board; Ninth Edition edition
Format: Book

The Book of Majors by The College Board helps students answer these questions Whats the major for me? Where can I study it? What can I do with it after graduation? Revised and refreshed every year, this book is the most comprehensive guide to college majors on the market. In-depth descriptions...
Read More check catalog