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GED Test For Dummies
Murray Shukyn · For Dummies; 3 edition
Format: Print book
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Score higher on the GED with this easy-to-use guide Having undergone an extensive update in 2014, the current GED test covers a lot of ground. In today's job environment, earning a GED can give you an edge against the competition, whether it's to get a new job or advance in the one you already... |
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The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques
Tracy DiSabato-Aust · Timber Press; Expanded Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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With more than 130,000 copies sold since its original publication, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden has proven itself to be one of the most useful tools a gardener can have. Now, in this expanded edition, there's even more to learn from and enjoy. This is the first, and still the most... |
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Washington Information Directory 2012-2013
CQ Press · CQ Press
Format: Hardcover
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Washington Information Directory is the essential one-stop source for information on U.S. governmental and nongovernmental agencies and organizations. It provides capsule descriptions that help users quickly and easily find the right person at the right organization. Washington Information... |
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Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools
Tom Little · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Noted educator Tom Little and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Ellison reveal the home-grown solution to turning American students into life-long learners.The longtime head of Park Day School, Tom Little embarked on a tour of 43 progressive schools across the country. In this... |
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Getting Into Medical School
Kaplan · Kaplan Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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This guide gives applicants the insider advice onPlanning for medical school during college--what courses to take and extracurricular activities to get involved inResearching the best medical school for each applicantPreparing an outstanding application and excelling in the interviewPersonalized... |
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Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
Janice P. Nimura · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Surprising and richly satisfying" (Megan Marshall) ; "beautifully crafted . . . subtle, polished, and poised" (Stacy Schiff) .In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help... |
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Starting With Science: Strategies for Introducing Young Children to Inquiry
Marcia Talhelm Edson · Stenhouse Pub
Format: Paperback
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Young children arrive at school with unrestrained curiosity and wonder about the world. A fact-based, hands-on activity approach to teaching science, however, is not enough to help them deepen their scientific thinking or discoveries. In Starting with Science: Strategies for Introducing... |
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Health Care Careers Directory 2010-2011
American Medical Association · Amer Medical Assn; 38 edition
Format: Book
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Indispensable information on 82 health care careers, including listings for 8,600 accredited educational programs in all 50 US states, Puerto Rico, Canadian provinces, and other countries.Educational programs are listed alphabetically by state and city and include the name and address of the program's... |
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Barron's New MCAT with CD-ROM, 2nd Edition
Jay B. Cutts M.A. · Barron's Educational Series; 2 edition
Format: Print book
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Completely revised and expanded for the 2015 MCAT, Barron's New MCAT test prep manual with enclosed CD-ROM provides test takers with an in-depth, easy-to-use science review and a set of often-neglected but critical strategies for test taking that cover timing, test anxiety, scientific... |
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A History of War in 100 Battles
R J Overy · Oxford University Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Their very names--Gettysburg, Waterloo, Stalingrad--evoke images of great triumph and equally great suffering, moments when history seemed to hang in the balance. Considered in relation to each other, such battles--and others of less immediate renown--offer insight into the changing nature... |
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Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America
Kevin Cook · Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
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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,... |
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Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage
Jeremy Butterfield · Oxford University Press; 4 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Why literally shouldn't be taken literally.Why Americans think home in on something is a mistake and Brits think hone in is.Is it OK to spell OK okay?What's wrong with hence why?Was Alanis Morrisette ever ironic?Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage is the world-famous... |
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Guns in American Society
Gregg Lee Carter Ph.D. · ABC-CLIO; 2 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The landmark 2002 edition of Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law was acclaimed for helping readers get beyond the sometimes overheated rhetoric and navigate the overwhelming amount of unbiased academic research on gun-related issues. Now,... |
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Broken Bonds: What Family Fragmentation Means for America's Future
Mitch Pearlstein · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The United States has the highest family fragmentation rates in the industrial world. Nonmarital birth rates for the nation as a whole are 40%, with proportions dramatically higher in many communities as defined by race, ethnicity, or geography. Divorce rates, while moderating in recent... |
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