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| 1. |  | The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them from Broadway Price: $7.97 Customer Review:  Received item in a very timely manner...would certainly recommend this seller to others...keep up the good work! God's blessings and prosperity to you! |
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| 2. |  | The Official Guide to the TOEFL iBT with CD-ROM, Third Edition from McGraw-Hill Price: $20.91 Customer Review:  it is not much different from the previous edition, but in general is a good book for studying for the TOEFL |
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| 3. |  | This Side Of Paradise from NuVision Publications, LLC Price: $9.65 Customer Review: There was a time when if I used the name of the 20th century American writer Ernest Hemingway it also almost always meant that name of the author under review, F. Scott Fitzgerald, would follow in the next breathe (and then John Dos Passos). At that time I placed Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" and... |
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| 4. |  | Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men from Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc. Price: $37.77 Customer Review: The books were in great condition and I highly recommend this book to teachers and mothers of boys. Very informative and full of ideas to cope with boys who don't want to learn. |
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| 5. |  | Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom from Jossey-Bass Price: $12.89 Customer Review: This book is an excellent resource for teachers. It should probably be required reading somewhere along the line. It really addresses how students think and learn and what teachers often do wrong. This book will really challenge teachers to carefully consider how they teach. Willingham clearly... |
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| 6. |  | Law School Confidential (Revised Edition): A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students from St. Martin's Griffin Price: $9.98 Customer Review: I've only read the first few chapters because they're the only ones that apply to me so far. So far the advice is sound, there seems to be a lot of input from various people who have graduated from some of the top schools in the country. The writing is compelling and speaks directly to the reader in... |
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| 7. |  | The Mis-Education of the Negro from The ASALH Press Price: $5.93 Customer Review: There is two types of education a person receives: (1) The kind which is given. (2) The kind which you give yourself. These two unknown criterions form the bases for which the negro has been mis-educated. Again, knowledge gives people the potential to govern themselves. This is a prestigious piece... |
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| 8. |  | Critical Thinking from McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Price: $69.94 Customer Review: Very good condition as a used book. Received it in a timely manner. Very easy to understand, since it's literature is more modern with today's real world events and how to deal with the reliability of information. |
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| 9. |  | Med School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Medical School Experience: By Students, for Students from St. Martin's Griffin Price: $11.70 Customer Review: Book is actually a few years outdated to the med school process. Still good info but not if you need guidelines on the correct steps to take b/c that part is out of date. |
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| 10. |  | Countdown to College: 21 To Do Lists for High School: Step-By-Step Strategies for 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Graders 2nd Edition from Front Porch Press (MI) Price: $5.89 Customer Review: I found this book to be very helpfull in planning for the junior year...it gave me alot of insight. i purchased copies for my children...to get them motivated and helpful in planning for the upcomming school years. I like how it was broken down into sections by year. The suggestions/quotes by... |
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| 11. |  | The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do from Three Rivers Press Price: $8.53 Customer Review: The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do Review by Richard L. Weaver II, Ph.D. This 311-page book expands the cover story Tyre, a senior writer for Newsweek, wrote in 2006 entitled, "The Boy Crisis." The... |
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| 12. |  | What High Schools Don't Tell You: 300+ Secrets to Make Your Kid Irresistible to Colleges by Senior Year from Hudson Street Press Price: $6.45 Customer Review: This book changed the way I'm parenting our 13 year old. Our youngest son (8th grade) picked 3 "dream goals" from the list given, which actually helped me understand him better. I found several great ideas in the book to help him work towards his goals (including the Congressional Youth Award.) It's... |
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| 13. |  | Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It from Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development Price: $17.24 Customer Review: I am reading this book as part of a project for the district I work in and just a few pages into it, I realized what a great book it was going to be. This author has a real handle on both students and schools that face the issue of poverty. He gives realistic and easy ways to be sure every group of... |
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| 14. |  | How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students from Broadway Price: $5.77 Customer Review: Useful tips about how to be an outstanding student in college: how to deal with overwhelming hw and readings, how to perfectly finish all the school stuff and still have time to have fun. Pretty cool book. |
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| 15. |  | The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College from Sourcebooks, Inc. Price: $6.90 Customer Review:  Most of the stuff in this book is common sense, and quite trite. It reads kinda like your mom is lecturing you before you leave. Don't waste your money on it, unless you have too, because its full of worthless advices. |
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| 16. |  | Becoming A Master Student, 12th edition from Houghton Mifflin Price: $50.00 Customer Review:  This was supposed to be a "workbook" for an entry level college course for our daughter. I tried to cancel the order before it got here but was unsuccessful as the seller did not respond to my request. Therefore we had to purchase a new book at the college bookstore because my daughter already had... |
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| 17. |  | College Writing Skills w/ Readings from McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Price: $49.95 Customer Review: I FIND A GREAT PRICE WITH THEM AND AT THE BEGINING I WAS SCARED A LITTLE BIT, BUT NOW I FEEL THAT I WILL BUY AGAIN ANOTHER PRODUCT. BUT WITH MORE TIME ANTICIPATION. |
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| 18. |  | 1001 Things Every College Student Needs to Know: (Like Buying Your Books Before Exams Start) from Thomas Nelson Price: $3.86 Customer Review: My advice: get this wonderful book for your high school freshman...the tips will help her make the most of what her high school has to offer and be an attractive candidate colleges pursue. My only caveat is #6 on pg. 12 I think those scores are way too low to gain admission to top schools. |
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| 19. | [no image] | Becoming a Master Student from Wadsworth Publishing Price: $59.84 Customer Review: This book was missing pages when I received it! That's the downside to this book, I guess. The introduction to the book encourages readers to tear out pages and keep them for later reference. BUT...there was no mention of this in the description of the book when I was thinking of buying it! Buyer... |
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| 20. |  | Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write about Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy from Harcourt Price: $1.45 Customer Review: This item came WAY before the expected arrival date and was in the condition the seller stated it would be. I was very satisfied with it :) |
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| 21. |  | You're On Your Own (But I'm Here If You Need Me): Mentoring Your Child During the College Years from Fireside Price: $1.02 Customer Review: I heard about this book through the university my daughter was planning to attend. I got the book and I was really pleased with how helpful it was. I found out that I was as ready to send my daughter away to college as I was to become a mom when she first was born. How can people know what to do... |
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| 22. |  | Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus from NYU Press Price: $11.95 Customer Review: I wrote a paper on this topic for Human Sexuality class in 2003. I got an A. :) I found this book to be a boring and inaccurate account. Some quotes from students were amusing but in general the author did a very poor job of tackling a straight-forward topic. If she hadn't claimed to be... |
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| 23. |  | The Student Leadership Challenge: Five Practices for Exemplary Leaders (J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes/Posner) from Jossey-Bass Price: $18.00 | |
| 24. |  | Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your Add Child from Simon & Schuster Price: $5.36 Customer Review: Learned a lot about my son and his ABILITIES. At the beginning of the year, my 4 year old son's teacher was concerned about him being ready to start Kindergarten. Within a few months, he had progressed to reading on a 2 grade level. He (and I) take great pride in amazing everyone with his... |
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| 25. |  | The Complete Guide to the Gap Year: The Best Things to Do Between High School and College from Jossey-Bass Price: $9.96 Customer Review: Kristin White's reference book regarding the "Gap Year" is a wonderful, organized, and well written guide on how to spend a year doing something you ordinarily wouldn't do. While it is geared toward students wanting to take a year between high school and college, I think it can apply to any person... |
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| 26. |  | The Trouble With Black Boys: And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education from Jossey-Bass Price: $10.32 Customer Review: I never received the book that I purchased and when I emailed the company I didn't get a reply. I'm pretty ticked off with the customer service. |
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| 27. |  | 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny: Life Lessons from Teaching from Touchstone Price: $4.81 Customer Review: If you've ever taught school, you'll totally relate to Mr. Done's experiences. He's "spot on" and makes you laugh about even the most frustrating aspects of the job. All teachers should read the book as should parents to get an insight about what really happens in the classroom. |
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| 28. |  | MBA Admissions Strategy: From Profile Building to Essay Writing from McGraw Hill Professional - Open University Press Price: $20.08 Customer Review: This book is incredible. I'm in the process of applying. If you've got the time to devote to doing apps 'right', this book will guide you through a surprisingly rigorous, insightful, and valuable process to decide on and write your essays. Particularly if you're of an analytical mindset, it will... |
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| 29. |  | College Confidence with ADD: The Ultimate Success Manual for ADD Students, from Applying to Academics, Preparation to Social Success and Everything Else You Need to Know from Sourcebooks, Inc. Price: $8.99 Customer Review: I found this book chock full of great strategies and advice for ADHD and school. The author has put his heart into this. I'm the mother of two teens with ADHD; I've read a ton of books on the subject but find this the most useful. This will really speak to you and give you strategies before problems... |
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| 30. |  | Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Research Papers (Quick Guides) from McGraw-Hill Price: $1.98 Customer Review: Though I purchased this from Amazon, I first saw this book in the campus bookstore and thought it would be useful reference for students writing research papers. The graduate students who have used this reference for writing research papers or theses have told me it was very useful. After reading... |
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| 31. |  | Ready-to-Use Social Skills Lessons & Activities for Grades 7-12 (J-B Ed: Ready-to-Use Activities) from Jossey-Bass Price: $17.60 Customer Review: I am a mental health therapist who works with adolescents with a variety of mental health needs, primarily deficient in how to perform socially with others and within community, school, etc. This book offers a simple interactive approach that reaches children/adolescents by incorporating a learning... |
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| 32. |  | Interpersonal Conflict from McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Price: $63.99 Customer Review: This book offers outstanding and comprehensive coverage of the field of interpersonal conflict. It is well researched, yet offers real life examples to apply the material to our own lives. I have read many books on the topic of interpersonal conflict, as I consult and conduct workshops on the topic,... |
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| 33. |  | No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning from Simon & Schuster Price: $9.00 Customer Review: Achieving equal educational achievement between white and African-American students is realistically impossible, given public education as arranged and practiced in the U.S. today. Why? Because, on average (at least this was true of findings from a study I reviewed back in the mid-1960's), the... |
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| 34. |  | How to Survive Your Freshman Year: By Hundreds of College Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors Who Did (Hundreds of Heads Survival Guides) from Hundreds of Heads Books Price: $4.95 Customer Review: I have never written a negative review for any book before, but this is one awful, unhelpful book, and it's not just me that thinks so. I bought it for my soon-to-be college freshman and she told her high school sister; "Don't read that book, it's just stupid." |
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| 35. | [no image] | Peak Performance from McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Price: $8.99 Customer Review: Book was in excellent condition better than expected and shipped faster than expected all in all a perfect transaction. I will look you up again next semester when i need more books. |
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| 36. | [no image] | Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide (The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) from Jossey-Bass Inc Pub Price: $5.00 Customer Review: For a comprehensive overview of adult education theory and pedagogy, buy this book! There is none better! It is an extremely valuable resource to guide you toward other major works in specific areas and gives excellent summaries of their work. |
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| 37. |  | Critical Thinking from McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Price: $60.00 Customer Review:  The book was more worn than the rating made it sound. It had lots of writing in it also. |
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| 38. |  | My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $6.99 Customer Review: Being a resident assistant, I was thoroughly intrigued by Rebekah's anthropological approach to residence life. I was surprised to find the book quite interesting, and quite accurate. But throughout the entire book, she doesn't seem to actually dive into the life of a freshman. She doesn't take... |
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| 39. |  | Motivating Black Males to Achieve in School & In Life from ASCD Price: $12.19 Customer Review: The achievement gap has a hold on the national imagination, with the focus primarily on the educational plight of the African American male student. Baruti Kafele's task is to have educators assist their African American male students in establishing a strong sense of self in the classroom ~ and by... |
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| 40. |  | Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students from Yale University Press Price: $8.13 Customer Review: The items arrived very quickly and in very good condition. These books were a required summer reading material for my daughter who alos was very impressed with how quickly we received the items and how easy it was to place the order. Thanks Charles W |
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