Education and Study aids / Reference

Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915

by Kristine Moruzi

Focusing on six popular British girls' periodicals, Moruzi explores the debate about the shifting nature of Victorian girlhood between 1851 and 1915. Moruzi's analyses of competing discourses within girls' periodicals...

The Principal as School Manager, 2nd ed

by William L. Sharp & James K. Walter

Designed to teach the principal to become efficient and effective in accomplishing noninstructional roles, this book offers advice on expectations and survival techniques to ensure the principal's longevity...

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England

by Daniel Pool

For every frustrated reader of the great nineteenth-century English novels of Austen, Trollope, Dickens, or the Brontëeuml;s who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell "Tally Ho!"...

Ricoeur, Identity and Early Childhood

by Sandy Farquhar

In Western society, early childhood education is under increasing scrutiny as early education is becoming integral to economic growth and development. This scrutiny, however, is diminishing the concern for the...

Higher Education Assessments: Leadership Matters

by KRAMER/SWING

Higher Education Assessments: Leadership Matters by Gary L. Kramer and Randy L. Swing, reflects the work of a select group of researchers, scholars, and practitioners in higher education assessment. The contributors...

Essays that Worked for Medical Schools

by Ballantine

Discover why admissions officers from the nation’s top medical schools selected these essays of worthy applicants

With only a limited number of spaces available every year to the thousands of

qualified applicants...

Essays That Worked for Law Schools (Revised): 40 Essays from Successful Applications to the Nation's Top Law Schools

by Brian Kasbar & Boykin Curry

“Law school applicants should consider this a guide to producing a competitive, superior essay. . . . These successful examples speak louder than any written how-to instructions could.” –The Book Watch...

Benjamin S. Bloom: Portraits of an Educator

by Thomas R. Guskey

Few individuals in the history of education have had greater impact on educational policy and practice than Benjamin S. Bloom. Benjamin Bloom's stories are touching remembrances that offer special insight into...

Raising Multicultural Awareness in Higher Education

by Ana Maria Klein

This book is written for teacher-candidates who are becoming culturally responsible and informed reflective practitioners. As readers explore the contents of the textbook and carry out the suggested teaching...

Essays That Worked for Business Schools (Revised)

by Brian Kasbar & Boykin Curry

“Applicants looking for the competitive edge in getting accepted at the business school of their choice may want to peruse this book.” –Security Traders Handbook

Every year, thousands apply for a finite...

The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism

by Marilyn Martin-Jones, Adrian Blackledge & Angela Creese

The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism provides a comprehensive survey of the field of multilingualism for a global readership, and an overview of the research which situates multilingualism in its social,...

The Routledge International Handbook of Learning

by Peter Jarvis & Mary Watts

As our understanding of learning focuses on the whole person rather than individual aspects of learning, so the process of learning is beginning to be studied from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines....

Stephenie Meyer: In the Twilight

by James Blasingame, Kathleen Deakin & Laura A. Walsh

Stephenie Meyer: In the Twilight looks at the life and work of this author, beginning with her childhood and covering her teen years and life before stardom. This volume also profiles Meyer’s world since becoming...

Ringo

by Laurie Barber

In this sequel to the popular 'My Word', Laurie Barber highlights some of the common and not-so-common words used as we mangle our language. He also gives some fascinating stories about how words have evolved....

The Manhattan Directory of Private Nursery Schools, 7th Edition

by Victoria Goldman

The guide, now in its completely revised and updated seventh edition, is the accepted authority on nursery school options available to Manhattan parents. It describes more than 150 nursery and day care programs...

Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions

by Daisaku Ikeda

Daisaku Ikeda, who offers spiritual leadership to 12 million Soka Gakkai Buddhists throughout the world, responds to the complicated issues facing American young people in a straightforward question-and-answer...

Applying Successfully to Top US Universities

by Jason Morris

Peterson's Applying Successfully to Top U.S. Universities is a unique guide that assists highly ambitious Chinese students to get accepted to one of the top-ranked higher-education institutions in the United...

Leading a Creative School

by Ethel Sanders

Introducing creativity to the classroom is a concern for teachers, governments and future employers around the world, and there has been a drive to make experiences at school more exciting, relevant, challenging...

American Language Supplement 2

by H.L. Mencken

The DEFINITIVE EDITION OF The American Language was published in 1936.  Since then it has been recognized as a classic.  It is that rarest of literary accomplishments—a book that is authoritative and scientific...

American Language Supplement 1

by H.L. Mencken

Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th century...