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Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

By: Greg Mortenson

Viking Adult

115099 Features: Follow Greg Mortenson as provides aid in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan after a 2005 earthquake Read about the Central Asia Institute's (CAI) efforts in Afghanistan which place Mortenson in the way of harm from Afghan warlords, militia commanders, tribal leaders, and Islamic clerics Learn how Mortenson survived a an 8-day armed abduction by the Taliban to all as he continues to further the progress of his 2-decade humanitarian effort Get a first-person account of Mortenson's work with his manager, Sarfraz Khan as they staked out the first schools in Badakhshan Province in the far northeast of Afghanistan Specifications: Pages: 448 Edition: first Jacket: hard cover ISBN-10: 0670021156 Publisher: Viking Adult

Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College

By: Doug Lemov

Jossey-Bass

Gift quality. Unable to ship to APO and FPO at this time.

The Daily Five

By: Gail Boushey, Joan Moser

Stenhouse Publishers

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 7th Edition

By: Modern Language Association

Modern Language Association of America

Widely adopted by universities, colleges, and secondary schools, the MLA Handbook gives step-by-step advice on every aspect of writing research papers, from selecting a topic to submitting the completed paper. For over half a century, the MLA Handbook is the guide millions of writers have relied on.

The seventh edition is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to research and writing in the online environment. It provides an authoritative update of MLA documentation style for use in student writing, including simplified guidelines for citing works published on the Web and new recommendations for citing several kinds of works, such as digital files and graphic narratives.

Every copy of the seventh edition of the MLA Handbook comes with a code for accessing the accompanying Web s...

Atlas of Human Anatomy: with Student Consult Access (Netter Basic Science)

By: Frank H. Netter MD

Saunders

Atlas of Human Anatomy uses Frank H. Netter, MD's detailed illustrations to demystify this often intimidating subject, providing a coherent, lasting visual vocabulary for understanding anatomy and how it applies to medicine. This 5th Edition features a stronger clinical focus-with new diagnostic imaging examples-making it easier to correlate anatomy with practice. Student Consult online access includes supplementary learning resources, from additional illustrations to an anatomy dissection guide and more. Netter. It's how you know.

• See anatomy from a clinical perspective with hundreds of exquisite, hand-painted illustrations created by, and in the tradition of, pre-eminent medical illustrator Frank H. Netter, MD.






• Join the global community of ...

The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher

By: Harry K. Wong, Rosemary T. Wong

Harry K. Wong Publications

THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL 4TH EDITION

The CAFE Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literary Assessment and Instruction

By: Gail Boushey, Joan Moser

Stenhouse Publishers

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

By: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey

McGraw-Hill

Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

"Most books make promises. This one delivers. These skills have not only helped us to change the culture of our company, but have also generated new techniques for working together in ways that enabled us to win the largest contract in our industry's history."--Dain M. Hancock, President, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics

A powerful, seven-step approach to handling difficult conversations with confidence and skill

"Crucial" conversations are interpersonal exchanges at work or at home that we dread having but know we cannot avoid. How do you say what needs to be said while avoiding an argument with a boss, child, or relationship partn...

Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements

By: Bill Moyer, JoAnn MacAllister, Mary Lou Finley Steven Soifer

New Society Publishers

This activist tool offers a theoretial model for ensuring that social movements are successful in the long term. Beginning with an overview of social movement theory and the MAP (Movement Action Plan) model, Doing Democracy outlines the eight stages of social movements, the four roles of activists, and case studies from the civil rights, anti-nuclear energy, Central America, gay/lesbian, women's health and globalization movements.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Ed...

By: Diane Ravitch

Basic Books

On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

By: William Zinsser

Harper Paperbacks

Whether you write an occasional professional letter or a daily newspaper column, William Zinsser's On Writing Well should be required reading. Simplicity is Zinsser's mantra: he preaches a stripped-down writing style, strong and clear. He has no patience for excess (most use of adjectives and adverbs, he writes, just adds clutter) or tired phraseology (for instance, he'd like to outlaw all leads involving those "future archaeologists" most often found "stumbl[ing] upon the remains of our civilization"). He recommends that all writers of nonfiction read their work aloud (don't commit something to paper that you wouldn't actually say) and write under the assumption that "the reader knows nothing" (not to be confused with assuming the reader's an idiot). In addition to t...

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

By: Siegfried Engelmann, Phyllis Haddox, Elaine Bruner

Fireside

'Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons' is a complete, step-by-step program that shows parents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read. Spending twenty minutes a day is all that

Geometry

By: Ray C. Jurgensen, Richard G. Brown, John W. Jurgensen

Houghton Mifflin McDougal Littell

The Art of Public Speaking with Connect Lucas

By: Stephen Lucas

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

By far the leading speech textbook of our time, The Art of Public Speaking has defined the art of being the best for more than 10 million students and instructors. Whether a novice or an experienced speaker, every student will learn how to be a better public speaker through Lucas' clear explanations of classical and contemporary theory and thorough coverage of practical applications.

The new edition offers a revolutionary digital experience--McGraw-Hill Connect Lucas and Connect Lucas Plus. The Connect Lucas products allow students and instructors to access all course materials including a complete media and research library, study aids and speech preparation and assessment tools from a single place, connectlucas.com. With Connect Lucas

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

By: Donalyn Miller

Jossey-Bass

Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. Miller's unconventional approach dispenses with drills and worksheets that make reading a chore. Instead, she helps students navigate the world of literature and gives them time to read books they pick out themselves. Her love of books and teaching is both infectious and inspiring. The book includes a dynamite list of recommended "kid lit" that helps parents and teachers find the books that students really like to read.

Human Anatomy and Physiology with Interactive Physiology 10-System Suite (8th Edition)

By: Elaine N. Marieb, Katja Hoehn

Benjamin Cummings

With the Eighth Edition of the top-selling Human Anatomy & Physiology book, trusted authors Elaine N. Marieb and Katja Hoehn have produced the most accessible, comprehensive, up-to-date, and visually stunning anatomy & physiology book on the market. Marieb draws on her career as an A&P professor and her experience as a part-time nursing student, while Hoehn relies on her medical education and classroom experience to explain concepts and processes in a meaningful and memorable way.

The most significant revision to date, the Eighth Edition makes it easier for readers to learn key concepts in A&P. The new edition features a whole new art program that i...

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

By: Anne Lamott

Anchor

Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most

By: Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen, Roger Fisher

Penguin (Non-Classics)

We've all been there: We know we must confront a coworker, store clerk, or friend about some especially sticky situation--and we know the encounter will be uncomfortable. So we repeatedly mull it over until we can no longer put it off, and then finally stumble through the confrontation. Difficult Conversations, by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, offers advice for handling these unpleasant exchanges in a manner that accomplishes their objective and diminishes the possibility that anyone will be needlessly hurt. The authors, associated with Harvard Law School and the Harvard Project on Negotiation, show how such dialogues actually comprise three separate components: the "what happened" conversation (verbalizing what we believe really was said and done), the...

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

By: James W. Loewen

Touchstone

Winner of the American Book Award and the Oliver C. Cox
Anti-Racism Award of The American Sociological Association

Americans have lost touch with their history, and in Lies My Teacher Told Me Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying eighteen leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past.

In this revised edition, packed with updated material, Loewen explores how historical myths continue to be perpetuated in today's climate and adds an eye-opening ch...

The First Days Of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher

By: Harry K. Wong, Rosemary T. Wong

Harry K. Wong Publications

With nearly 1.4 million copies sold, you'll learn practical techniques on discipline, procedures and routines, teaching for mastery, cooperative learning, and positive expectations. You'll find it difficult to put this book down as you become an even more effective teacher.

Catholic Social Teaching: Learning & Living Justice

By: Michael Pennock

Ave Maria Press

From Contents - Catholic Social Justice Overview; Justice and Virtues; Justice and Society; Justice and The right to Life; Justice and Prejudice; Justice and Racism; Poverty; Justice and Peace; Justice and Work; Justice and Environment. (Description by http-mart)

The Elements of Style (4th Edition)

By: William Strunk, E. B. White

Longman

You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered.This book's unique tone, wit and charm have conveyed the principles of English style to millions of readers. Use the fourth edition of "the little book" to make a big impact with writing.

Essential Words for the GRE

By: Philip Geer Ed.M.

Barron's Educational Series

An extensive working vocabulary is a prerequisite for test-taking success on the GRE Graduate Record Exam. This revised and updated test preparation guide presents 800 college-graduate-level words with definitions that frequently appear on the exam, while also familiarizing test takers with how the words are generally used in various contexts. Additional features include a pretest that serves as a diagnostic, a lengthy word list with extensive sentence-completion exercises, and a chapter that discusses and analyzes essential word roots. The book concludes with a detailed posttest. Answers are provided for all exercises and for all questions in the posttest.

Fiske Guide to Colleges 2011, 27E

By: Edward Fiske

Sourcebooks

Brand new edition with multiples available. Same day shipping most days with delivery confirmation.

Lost Encyclopedia

By: Tara Bennett, Paul Terry

DK Publishing

Featuring more than 400 pages and over 1500 images, the LOST Encyclopedia will be a comprehensive guide to the characters, items, locations, plotlines, relationships, and mythologies from all six seasons of the landmark series aired on ABC-TV and produced by ABC Studios. Created in full collaboration with ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios, this will be the first and only fully licensed and comprehensive reference to all things LOST, and it includes a foreword by executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.



LOST 2010. ABC Studios. All Rights Reserved.

Hot X: Algebra Exposed

By: Danica McKellar

Hudson Street Press

New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar tackles the toughest math class yet: Algebra!

In her two bestselling books, Math Doesn't Suck and Kiss My Math, actress and math genius Danica McKellar shattered the "math nerd" stereotype by showing girls how to ace middle school math-and actually feel cool while doing it!

Sizzling with Danica's trademark sass and style, Hot X: Algebra Exposed tackles algebra: the most feared of all math classes and the most common roadblock to high school graduation. McKellar instantly puts her readers at ease, showing teenage girls-and anyone taking algebra-how to feel confident, get in the driver's seat, and master topics like square roots, polynomials, quadratic equations, word problems and more ...

Your Life In Christ: Foundations of Catholic Morality

By: Michael Pennock

Ave Maria Press

Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book and Dictionary

By: Rick Steves

Avalon Travel Publishing

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

By: John Medina

Pear Press

See how the brain works while using it in the process of reading this book! Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know - like that physical activity boosts your brain power.How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget - and so important to repeat new information? Is it true that men and women have different brains?In "Brain Rules", Dr. John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule - what scientists know for sure about how our brains work...

Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach

By: Margarita Madrigal

Main Street Books

Based on the student's ability to create--not memorize by rote--the Madrigal method can help readers convert English into Spanish in an instant, develop perfect pronunciation (thanks to a handy pronunciation guide), form sentences from the very first lesson, and more. Previously announced in September.

Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction (4th Edition)

By: Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Shane Templeton, Francine Johnston

Prentice Hall

Gray's Anatomy for Students: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access

By: Richard L. Drake, A. Wayne Vogl, Adam W. M. Mitchell

Churchill Livingstone

It didn't take long for students around the world to realize that anatomy texts just don't get any better than Gray's Anatomy for Students. Only in its 2nd edition, this already popular, clinically focused reference has moved far ahead of the competition and is highly recommended by anyone who uses it. A team of authors with a wealth of diverse teaching and clinical experience has updated and revised this new edition to efficiently cover what you're learning in contemporary anatomy classes. An improved format, updated clinical material, and remarkable artwork by renowned illustrators Richard Tibbitts and Paul Richardson make anatomy easier than ever for you to master. Unique coverage of surface anatomy, correlative diagnostic images, and clinical case studies demonstrate practical appli...

1001 Most Useful Spanish Words (Beginners' Guides)

By: Seymour Resnick

Dover Publications

Indispensable learning aid includes definitions of common Spanish words arranged by such categories as foods, numbers, days of the week, months, colors, seasons and family. The heart of the book is a dictionary, from a to zapato, in which each word is used in a Spanish sentence (with English translation) demonstrating its proper use.

Spaces & Places: Designing Classrooms for Literacy

By: Debbie Diller

Stenhouse Publishers

The First Six Weeks of School (Strategies for Teachers Series, )

By: Paula Denton, Roxann Kriete

Northeast Foundation for Children

Learn how to structure the first six weeks of school to lay the groundwork for a productive year of learning. Discover how taking the time to build a solid foundation in the early weeks of school can pay off all year long in increased student motivation, cooperation, responsibility, and self-control. This comprehensive guidebook for K-6 teachers features: Daily plans for the first three weeks and commentary about these plans at three grade levels: primary (K-2), middle (3-4), and upper (5-6) Detailed guidelines for: -Building community -Creating rules and teaching routines -Introducing engaging curriculum -Fostering autonomy -Integrating social and academic learning -Establishing high expectations for learning and behavior An extensive collection of games, activities, greetings, songs, ...

Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work

By: Debbie Diller

Stenhouse Publishers

Robert's Rules of Order in Brief: The Simple Outline of the Rules Most Often Needed at a Meeting,...

By: Henry M. Robert III, William J. Evans, Daniel H. Honemann, Thomas J. Balch

Da Capo Press

A concise and user-friendly guide to the essentials for conducting a meeting by the official Robert's Rules of Order authorship committee.

In a club, a condo association, or a board of overseers, how is business carried over from one meeting to the next? How is a meeting best kept on track? Who keeps the order and who decides what the agenda will be in the first place?

The answers to these concerns of assembly can be found in the rulebook of orderly meetings: Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised 10th Edition. But weighing in at over 700 pages, at least 80 percent of its content will be needed less than 20 percent of the time. Those not well versed in parliamentary procedure can find themselves lost while trying to get guidance on the everyday basics.

The solution?

The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding : The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revised

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Simon & Schuster

Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn't competed as a bodybuilder since he won the Mr. Olympia title in 1980, but he remains the sport's No. 1 icon. He hosts an annual bodybuilding contest in Columbus, Ohio, and allows a column to be ghost-written under his name in a muscle magazine. Today's bodybuilders may have bigger muscles than Arnold ever did, but everyone inside and outside the iron game gives him credit for exponentially broadening the popularity of physique training.

With this updated Encyclopedia (it was originally published in 1985), Schwarzenegger wraps his huge arms around the entire sport. He hits the history of bodybuilding, the champions (he's quite generous in his praise of predecessors, contemporaries, and successors alike), the training systems. Some of ...

How to Read a Book (A Touchstone book)

By: Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren

Touchstone

'How to Read a Book', originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it

Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy

By: Gerald Corey

Thomson Brooks/Cole

Develop your own counseling style using Corey's bestselling THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY. You will see the major theories of counseling (psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, Gestalt, reality, behavior, cognitive-behavior, family systems, feminist and, and postmodern approaches) as they are used in practice through a case study focused on one client, "Stan." The case of "Stan" appears in each chapter so you can see how the theory presented in that chapter informs therapeutic decision-making. "At a Glance" charts pinpoint the major differences between theories in areas such as multicultural focus, basic philosophies, and limitations.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire

Continuum

This text argues that the ignorance and lethargy of the poor are the direct result of the whole economic, social and political domination. The book suggests that in some countries the oppressors use the system to maintain a 'culture of silence'. Through the right kind of education, the book suggests, avoiding authoritarian teacher-pupil models and based on the actual experiences of students and on continual shared investigation, every human being, no matter how impoverished or illiterate, can develop a new awareness of self, and the right to be heard.

Kaplan Medical USMLE Master the Boards Step 3 (Kaplan USMLE)

By: Conrad Fischer, Sonia Reichert

Kaplan Publishing

Kaplans Step 3 book, with vibrant full-colormedical illustrations,will be the first book that covers the content of the exam in a logical and methodical fashion, emphasizing the following for several categories of residency:

• A logical step-by-step approach to management
• An assessment ofseverity, prognosis, and next course of action for specific conditions
• How toprioritize whilemanaging, especially in emergency or acute cases
• An outline ofsigns/symptoms anddiagnostic or lab tests that signify the need for change in management approaches
• An outlined follow-up schedule and necessary monitoring approach for specific patientcircumstances

This book will also review how to approach Clinical Case Scenarios, which make up 20% of a students' ...

Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in our Schools (Jossey-Bass Teacher)

By: Milton Chen

Jossey-Bass

An educational innovator who worked at Sesame Workshop and The George Lucas Educational Foundation offers a new vision for learning

As a result of constant innovation, learning is no longer limited by traditional confines and we're moving beyond students tied to their chairs, desks, and textbooks-and teachers locked away in classrooms. In Education Nation author Milton Chen draws from extensive experience in media-from his work on Sesame Street in its nascent years to his role as executive director of the George Lucas Educational Foundation-to support a vision for a new world of learning. This book, in six chapters, explores the "edges" in education--the places where K-12 learning has already seen revolutionary changes through innovative reform and the use of techno...

Barron's SAT Critical Reading Workbook (Critical Reading Workbook for the Sat)

By: Sharon Weiner Green, Mitchel Weiner

Barron's Educational Series

Updated to reflect the current SAT format and questions found on its most recent exams, this workbook concentrates on the SAT Critical Reading section with an extensive series of exercises. They reflect that sections two question types: sentence completion and reading comprehension. The exercises for both question types are divided into three levels of increasing difficulty, labeled from A to C, with all questions answered and explained. Students who master level C of both sections will be prepared to excel on the actual exam. The author also presents test-taking tips and an extensive vocabulary review.

McDougal Littell Algebra 2: Pupil's Edition

By: Ron Larson, Laurie Boswell, Timothy D. Kanold, Lee Stiff

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

A Guide to MLA Documentation

By: Joseph F. Trimmer

Wadsworth Publishing

Briefer, more affordable, and easier to use than the MLA's own handbook, this popular booklet features current MLA guidelines, a new section on evaluating online sources, and an up-to-date APA appendix. The guide also provides numerous examples, a sample research paper, and helpful hints on such topics as avoiding plagiarism and taking notes.

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation: An Easy-to-Use Guide with Clear Rules, Real-World Examp...

By: Jane Straus

Jossey-Bass

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is filled with easy-to-understand rules, real-world examples, dozens of reproducible exercises, and pre- and post-tests. This handy workbook is valuable for anyone who takes tests or writes reports, letters, Web pages, e-mails, or blogs. The Blue Book offers instant answers to everyday English usage questions. Authors: Jane Straus and Mignon Fogarty Format: 176 pages, paperback Grades: middle school through college Publisher: Jossey-Bass ISBN: 9780470222683

Leadership: Theory and Practice

Sage Publications, Inc

Frindle

By: Andrew Clements

Atheneum

Nicholas Allen has plenty of ideas. Who can forget the time he turned his third-grade classroom into a tropical island, or the times he fooled his teacher by chirping like a blackbird? But now Nick s in fifth grade, and it looks like his days as a troublemaker are over. Everyone knows that Mrs. Granger, the language arts teacher, has X-ray vision, and nobody gets away with anything in her classroom. To make matters worse, she s also a fanatic about the dictionary, which is hopelessly boring to Nick. But when Nick learns an interesting tidbit about words and where they come from, it inspires his greatest plan yet: to invent a new word. From now on, a pen is no longer a pen -- it s a frindle. It doesn t take long for frindle to take root, and soon the excitement spreads well beyond his sc...

Vistas: Introduccion a la lengua espanola - Student Edition

By: Jose A. Blanco, Philip Redwine Donley

Vista Higher Learning