Phillip Done fixes staplers that won't staple, zippers that won't zip, and pokes pins in the caps of glue bottles that will not pour. He has sung "Happy Birthday" 657 times. A witness to the joys of...
Thomas H. Jones a rugged fugitive from Wilmington, North Carolina. Thomas, better known as "Uncle Tom", reflects on his youth as the servant of a storekeeper....
Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in its subject field, Barron's EZ-101 Study Keys gives you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style...
In this profoundly significant book Michael Gurian synthesizes this current knowledge and presents a new way to educate our children based on brain science, neurological development, and chemical and...
Subtitled "A Guide for Parents & Students," this book starts you at square one, before you know what questions to ask, what colleges to read about, or what statistics to look up.
Written by the premier author on Windows software, William Stanek, and addressing the needs of computer users everywhere regardless of skill level, Conquering Windows Vista Classroom-To-Go is...
This book builds on a simple premise: good teaching cannot be reduced to technique but is rooted in the identity and integrity of the teacher. Good teaching takes myriad forms but good teachers...
In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary...
In a volume he describes as “a series of covert and no-so-covert autobiographical pieces,” Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—in his case, with examples as diverse as western...
