The Path for Nontraditional Students

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  • Cambridge Latin Course Unit 1 Student's Text North American edition (North American Cambridge Latin Course)

    • ASIN: 0521782287
    • ISBN: 0521782287
    • Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    The North American Cambridge Latin Course is a well-established four-part Latin program whose approach combines a stimulating, continuous storyline with grammatical development, work on derivatives, and cultural information. There is also a complete Language Information section, plus numerous color photographs illustrating life in the Roman world. ... [Read More]

  • Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

    • ASIN: 1250127823
    • ISBN: 1250127823
    • Manufacturer: Picador

    *Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts.*Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete.*Europe’s urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heardover the din of traffic.How is this happening?Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growin... [Read More]

  • Choosing College: How to Make Better Learning Decisions Throughout Your Life

    • ASIN: 1119570115
    • ISBN: 1119570115
    • Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass

    Cut through the noise and make better college and career choices This book is about addressing the college-choosing problem. The rankings, metrics, analytics, college visits, and advice that we use today to help us make these decisions are out of step with the progress individual students are trying to make. They don't give students and families th... [Read More]

  • Schooling Beyond Measure and Other Unorthodox Essays About Education

    • ASIN: 0325074402
    • ISBN: 0325074402
    • Brand: Heinemann
    • Manufacturer: Heinemann

    In this collection of provocative articles and blog posts originally published between 2010 and 2014, Alfie Kohn challenges the conventional wisdom about topics ranging from how low-income children are taught, to whether American schools have really fallen behind those in other countries. Why, he asks, do we assume learning can be reduced to numeri... [Read More]

  • The Quantum Divide: Why Schrodinger's Cat is Either Dead or Alive

    • ASIN: 0198754078
    • ISBN: 0198754078
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Using a selection of key experiments performed over the past 30 years or so, we present a discussion of the strikingly counter-intuitive phenomena of the quantum world that defy explanation in terms of everyday "common sense" reasoning, and we provide the corresponding quantum mechanical explanations with a very elementary use of associated formali... [Read More]

  • Becoming a New Instructor

    • ASIN: 0415807468
    • ISBN: 0521885167
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

    Becoming a New Instructor guides new instructors through the planning, preparation, and execution of their first class, whether it is in person or online. Like any good mentor, this book provides clear, simple instructions and makes best-practice recommendations. Becoming a New Instructor provides a step-by-step guide to writing a syllabus, a simpl... [Read More]

  • Oh, China!: An Elementary Reader of Modern Chinese for Advanced Beginners - Revised Edition (The Princeton Language Program: Modern Chinese)

    • ASIN: 0691153086
    • ISBN: 0691153086
    • Brand: Princeton University Press
    • Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

    Oh, China! meets the needs of advanced beginners or "heritage learners" who already speak some Chinese but require instruction in reading and writing fundamentals before moving to the intermediate level. In this fully revised edition, state-of-the-art lessons go over the basics of standard Mandarin pronunciation and introduce students to Chinese ch... [Read More]

  • "Kids, have you seen my backpack...?" and Other Inspirational Stories of Non-Traditional Students: An Adult Learner Anthology

    • ASIN: 0595343694
    • ISBN: 0595343694
    • Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.

    Some are single, some are married, some have kids, some do not, some are twenty-four, some are sixty-four We are not straight out of high school living four more years of playfulness some of us are in college to improve our future or the future of our children, many of us are changing an academic legacy by being the first in our families to graduat... [Read More]

  • Chanting the Hebrew Bible (Student Edition)

    • ASIN: 0827608160
    • ISBN: 0827608160
    • Brand: Brand: Jewish Publications Society
    • Manufacturer: Jewish Publications Society

    Joshua Jacobson’s 2002 edition—the comprehensive 1000-page guide to cantillation—is now available in this condensed, 300-page, user-friendly paperback edition. It is an ideal instructional guide for adult and young-adult students of Torah, for b’nai mitzvah students, and for cantors, rabbis, and Jewish educators of all denominations.Like th... [Read More]

  • Missing, Presumed: A Novel (Manon Bradshaw)

    • ASIN: 0812998324
    • ISBN: 0812998324
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A page-turning mystery that brings to life a complex and strong-willed detective assigned to a high-risk missing persons caseNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST MYSTERIES OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL “An extraordinarily assured police procedural... [Read More]

  • Philosophy

    • ASIN: 1623156378
    • ISBN: 1623156378
    • Brand: Zephyros Press
    • Manufacturer: Zephyros Press

    Philosophy is to question everything. More than a lifestyle, larger than any single idea, broader than a conviction, philosophy is the love of exploration, of knowledge, of uncertainty, and of that cornerstone of free thinking: doubt. Kevin Perry's "Philosophy" takes the reader on a grand tour of life's biggest questions, examining all that the wor... [Read More]

  • The Days of the Dead: Mexico's Festival of Communion with the Departed (English and Spanish Edition)

    • ASIN: 0764906194
    • ISBN: 0764906194
    • Brand: Brand: Pomegranate
    • Manufacturer: Pomegranate

    Introduces the Mexican holiday and its customs.

  • College Shortcuts: An Express Undergraduate Degree with Zero Student Loans: Reviews of The Best Colleges, Free Online Courses, College Transfers and More ... Planning and Career Counseling Series)

    • ASIN: B078T3FBBB

    Complete your Bachelor’s degree in under $10,000 and in half the timeAre you overwhelmed by the increasing cost of college?Do you get stressed out thinking about borrowing so much money in student loans?Are you praying for a way out of this mess so you can get a college degree and still not incur so much debt?Or are you hoping someone or somethin... [Read More]

  • Hawai'i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture

    • ASIN: 0824827856
    • ISBN: 0824827856
    • Manufacturer: University of Hawaii Press

    The Hawai‘i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture is a collection of more than ninety primary sources―all but a few of which were translated specifically for this volume―of cultural significance from the Bronze Age to the turn of the twentieth century. They take into account virtually every aspect of traditional culture, including sources fro... [Read More]

  • Roots of Radicalism: Jews, Christians, and the Left

    • ASIN: 156000889X
    • ISBN: 156000889X
    • Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers

    When Roots of Radicalism first appeared. Nathan Glazer noted "this is a major work on the relationship between radical politics and psychological development." He went on to predict "no one will be able to write about the left and radicalism without taking it into account." Now finally available in a paperback edition, with a new introduction, the ... [Read More]

  • Maxwell's Demon and the Golden Apple: Global Discord in the New Millennium

    • ASIN: 1421412772
    • ISBN: 9781421412771
    • Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins University Press

    Just what exactly will follow the American century? This is the question Randall L. Schweller explores in his provocative assessment of international politics in the twenty-first century.Schweller considers the future of world politics, correlating our reliance on technology and our multitasking, distracted, disorganized lives with a fragmenting wo... [Read More]

  • How to Become a Professor: A Non-traditional Guide

    • ASIN: 1719956219
    • ISBN: 1719956219
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    Do you want to become a professor? Professors, teachers at colleges and universities, have one of the coolest gigs around. At least that's what I think after doing so for 20 years. In addition to teaching myself, I have hired and supervised well over a thousand faculty at different colleges and universities. Higher education is changing, and the tr... [Read More]

  • Let's Read Japanese Level 1 Volume 1

    • ASIN: 0992929946
    • ISBN: 0992929946
    • Manufacturer: Oxford Brookes University

    The Let's Read Japanese series provides graded stories for all learners of Japanese, allowing them to practice the language at different levels, and also learn about Japanese culture and society.The books include famous stories from Japan and other parts of the world—re-tellings of traditional stories, classic tales, Japanese legends and poems, a... [Read More]

  • Kickstarting Your Academic Career: Skills to Succeed in the Social Sciences

    • ASIN: 1442635614
    • ISBN: 1442635614
    • Manufacturer: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division

    Kickstarting Your Academic Career is a primer on the common scholastic demands that social sciences students face upon entering college or university. Based on the challenges that instructors most often find students need help with, the authors offer practical advice and tips on topics such as how to communicate with instructors, take notes, read a... [Read More]

  • The MedEdits Guide to Medical School Admissions: Practical Advice for Applicants and their Parents

    • ASIN: 0983129150
    • ISBN: 0983129150
    • Manufacturer: MedEdits Publishing

    New & Updated 2016 Edition The competition to get in to medical school is fierce. Stand out from the crowd by following the tips and guidance in this book. Dr. Jessica Freedman, formerly on faculty at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine where she served on medical school and residency admissions committees, will guide you step by step to improve you... [Read More]

  • The Path for Nontraditional Students

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