Education and Study aids / Reference

The Librarian as Information Consultant: Transforming Reference for the Information Age

by Sarah Murphy

Murphy innovatively rethinks the philosophy behind current library reference services in this thought-provoking book.

Crazy English

by Richard Lederer

In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of...

Testing for Learning

by Ruth Mitchell

Arguing that traditional, test-based evaluation has a negative effect on many students, this book describes new methods of assessing student performance.

Angels and Us

by Mortimer J. Adler

A wonderfully enlightening work on the affinities between angels and human beings.

Mortimer Adler has always been ahead of his time. In 1982, before the current revival of interest in angels, Dr. Adler published...

We Must Take Charge!

by Jr., Chester E. Finn

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

The Play of Words

by Richard Lederer

Do you know the connection between the expression A HARROWING EXPERIENCE and agriculture, between BY AND LARGE and sailing, between GET YOUR GOAT and horses, or between STEAL YOUR THUNDER and show business?...

Trade Secrets: Get the Most for Your Money - All the Time- on Goods and Services Ranging from Alarms and Art, Cars and Computers- to Financial Plannin

by Winifred Conkling

Here's a fast, down and dirty guide that offers you sound advice and solid information for anything—and everything—you could possibly want to buy.

Smart shopping takes on a whole new meaning with Trade Secrets...

Grammar for Smart People

by Barry Tarshis

Good grammar is essential for effective communication. Yet many of us are plagued by the same nagging question:

If I'm so smart why does grammar make me feel so dumb? Grammar For Smart People can help.

Here...

Instant Vocabulary

by Ida Ehrlich

LEARNING NEW WORDS IS AS EASY AS ONE, TWO, THREE!

• RECOGNIZE the keys to the English language, the basic units from which all words are made

• FOLLOW clear examples of how the key explains a word's origin...

What High Schools Don't Tell You (And Other Parents Don't Want You toKnow): Create a Long-Term Plan for Your 7th to 10th Grader for Getting into the T

by Elizabeth Wissner-Gross

From the author of What Colleges Don’t Tell You, a plan to help parents of middle and early high school students prepare their kids for the best collegesIn order to succeed in the fiercely competitive college...

What Colleges Don't Tell You (And Other Parents Don't Want You to Know): 272 Secrets for Getting Your Kid into the Top Schools

by Elizabeth Wissner-Gross

A sought-after packager of high school students shares 272 secrets to help parents get their kids into the top schools

Targeting the savvy parents of today?s college-bound teenagers who seek to gain a proven...

Students' Guide to Colleges: The Definitive Guide to America's Top 100 SchoolsWritten by the Real Experts--the Students Who Attend Them

by Jordan Goldman & Colleen Buyers

College guides are a must for any teenager trying to choose the right school. Unfortunately, most guidebooks are vague, boring tomes written by administrators and journalists, instead of the real experts-the...

Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges

by Loren Pope

Now fully revised-the perennially popular guide to choosing the right college Prospective college students and their parents have been relying on Loren Pope's expertise since 1995, when he published the first...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to College Survival

by Laurie E. Rozakis

Laurie Rozakis, Ph.D., has published over 100 books and scores of articles. Her publications include trade books, young adult books, textbooks, biographies, reference books, articles, and scholarship. In addition...

Real College: The Essential Guide to Student Life

by Douglas Stone

Few people have as much experience helping students cope with college life as Douglas Stone, a long-time Harvard residential adviser and coauthor of Difficult Conversations, and Elizabeth Tippett, recent Harvard...

What You Don't Know Can Keep You Out of College: A Top Consultant Explains the 13 Fatal Application Mistakesand Why Character Isthe Key to College Adm

by Don Dunbar

In the tradition of The Gatekeepers, a veteran counselor provides the missing key to the college admissions door with insider wisdom about how admissions committees think, and the thirteen fatal mistakes that...

55 Successful Harvard Law School Application Essays

by The Staff of the Harvard Crimson

Separate yourself from the pack

Competition has never been more intense for admittance into the nation's top law schools. The application essay represents your only chance to plea your case to admissions officers....

Limitations and Possibilities of Dialogue Among Researchers, Policymakers, and Practitioners: International Perspectives on the Field of Education

by Mark B. Ginsburg & Jorge Gorostiaga

The chapters in this edited volume raise important issues of the relation between research and its various external "publics".

Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children's Literature

by Sandra L. Beckett & Maria Nikolajeva

Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children's Literature examines in depth eleven of the most celebrated European children's novels in substantial, critical essays written by well-known international scholars....

The Lecturer's Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Assessment, Learning and Teaching

by Phil Race

The Lecturer's Toolkit is the primary resource for all teachers in higher education, whatever their experience, who are seeking to improve their teaching skills. Developed around detailed, practical guidance...