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American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

DAVID BARON - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Richly illustrated and meticulously researched, American Eclipse ultimately depicts a young nation that looked to the skies to reveal its towering ambition and expose its latent genius.On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon's shadow descended on the American...
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GED Test 2017 Strategies, Practice & Review with 2 Practice Tests: Online Book

Caren Van Slyke - Kaplan Pub
Format: Print book

Strategies, practice, and review for all sections of the GED Tests from a top expert The GED is a high school equivalency test that is recognized by educational institutions and employers throughout the United States and Canada. Every year, hundreds of thousands of individuals obtain GED diplomas...
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Corporal Punishment in Rural Schools: Student Problem Behaviours, Academic Outcomes and School Safety Efforts

Seunghee Han - Springer
Format: Paperback

This book presents an analysis of corporal punishment practices in rural schools. It examines trends in corporal punishment at rural schools for school years from 1999-2000, 2003-2004, 2005-2006 and 2007-2008, multiple stakeholders' perspectives on corporal punishment (e.g., school...
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2017 / 2018 ASVAB For Dummies

Rod Powers - For Dummies
Format: Print book

The bestselling enlistment test-prep - newly expanded and improved! Wanna join the military? Your first step is to take the ASVAB - the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. Your score on this important test helps determine your military career, so if you have a specific job in mind,...
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Cell Phones in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Educators

Liz Kolb - International Society for Technology in Education
Format: Paperback

Bring student cell phones out of pockets and backpacks and into the learning environment. Students are walking around with incredible computing power. Their cell phones are calculators, internet browsers, video cameras, calendars, social media devices, and so much more. Why then are educators...
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Mass Shootings: Media, Myths, and Realities

Jaclyn Schildkraut Ph.D. - Praeger
Format: Hardcover

This book provides readers and researchers with a critical examination of mass shootings as told by the media, offering research-based, factual answers to oft-asked questions and investigating common myths about these tragic events.* Tackles common misconceptions about mass shootings perpetrated...
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Cracking the ASVAB, 4th Edition: All the Strategies, Practice, and Review You Need to Score Higher

Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Print book

If it's on the ASVAB, it's in this book! The Princeton Review's Cracking the ASVAB brings you everything you need to conquer the ASVAB exams. Inside, you'll find comprehensive reviews of the test topics, proven strategies for overcoming challenging questions, and all the practice...
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

JESSICA BRUDER - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The end of retirement?From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short,...
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