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Computer Science Made Simple [Secure]
by V. Anton Spraul
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Be smarter than your computer. If you don't understand computers, you can quickly be left behind in today's fast-paced, machine-dependent society. Computer Science Made Simple offers a straightforward resource for technology novices and advanced techies alike. It clarifies all you need to know, from the basic components of today's computers to using advanced applications. The perfect primer, it explains how it all comes together to make computers work. Topics covered include: * hardware * softwa... more info>>
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Sometimes the Magic Works: Lesson from a Writing Life [Secure]
by Terry Brooks
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In 1841, a St. Louis businessman had a dream: to open up the far reaches of the Yellowstone river and commerce with In 1977, the New York Times Trade Paperback Bestseller list--back then the exclusive province of self-help guides, cartoon collections, and any number of cat books--played host to its very first work of fiction: The Sword of Shannara, an epic quest through a mythical land, by first-time author Terry Brooks. Nineteen New York Times bestselling novels later, it would be easy enough t... more info>> (Published: 2003)
Category: Education/People
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A Dash of Expectation: Poems of the Classroom
by Russell J. Fee
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These accessible poems take you into the classroom where you will find triumph and defeat; spirit and apathy; laughter and tears; pettiness and heroics, sometimes all in the same day. (Published: 2009)
Words: 4689 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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Acing the College Application: How to Maximize Your Chance for Admission to the College of Your Choice [Secure]
by Michele Hernandez
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With so many qualified applicants, competition for college admissions is fiercer than ever. Now you can put yourself ahead of the pack by making your application flawless! When applying for college, good grades and high standardized test scores are not always enough to guarantee admission. What sets you apart, argues Michele Hernandez, is the way you describe yourself in your application. But how do you present yourself with flair, and highlight all your talents, skills, and passions, in just a ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Category: Education/General Nonfiction
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Breaking Out: VMI and the Coming of Women [Secure]
by Laura Fairchild Brodie
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On July 26, 1996, the United States Supreme Court nullified the single-sex admissions policy of the Virginia Military Institute, the last all-male military college in America. Capturing the voices of female and male cadets, administrators, faculty, and alumni, Laura Brodie tells the story of the Institute's intense planning for the inclusion of women and the problems and triumphs of the first year of coeducation.Brodie takes us into the meetings where every aspect of life at VMI was analyzed fro... more info>>
Category: Education
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Driving While Black: Highways, Shopping Malls, Taxi Cabs, Sidewalks: How to Fight Back if You Are a Victim of Racial Profiling [Secure]
by Kenneth Meeks
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A practical handbook for people who want to be safe and do something. Racial profiling does happen. And while cases where victims find themselves looking down the barrel of a policeman's gun make the six o'clock news, dozens of less extreme, yet troubling, examples occur every day. Cabs that whiz by only to be seen stopping for ""safer""-looking people just up the block; being asked for multiple pieces of identification when making purchases with credit cards; being followed around a department... more info>>
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Go Solar Without Big Daddy's Help
by Geoffrey Trager
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If you've been dreaming of getting started with clean, green, solar energy on your own, but decided it was just too expensive, or maybe you are not handy enough, then GO SOLAR WITHOUT BIG DADDY'S HELP is for you. You can stop dreaming and start doing right now. The age of alternative energy is upon us, and for do-it-yourselfers its now easier than ever. Small solar panel kits for under $400 are currently available at certain retail stores, with light-weight parts that are simple to set up in y... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 8574 - Reading Time: 24-34 min.
Category: Education/General Nonfiction
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Lecture to Art Students [MP3 Audio]
by Oscar Wilde
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With a professional's insight, an opinionated mind, and not a small amount of trademark dry wit, Oscar Wilde offers his advice on "what makes an artist and what does the artist make; what are the relations of the artist to his surroundings, what is the education the artist should get, and what is the quality of a good work of art." Read by Damian Hess. (Published: 1883)
Length: 0 hours, 20 minutes, 6 secs
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Letters to a Young Teacher [Secure]
by Jonathan Kozol
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In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca's likably irreverent questioning, he also reveals his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools. Letters to a Young Teacher reignites a number of the controversial issues Jonathan has powerfully addressed in recent years: the mania of high-stakes testing that turns many cl... more info>>
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Morning by Morning: How We Home-Schooled our African-American Sons to the Ivy League [Secure]
by Paula Penn-Nabrit
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Home schooling has long been regarded as a last resort, particularly by African-American families. But in this inspirational and practical memoir, Paula Penn-Nabrit shares her intimate experiences of home-schooling her three sons, Charles, Damon, and Evan. Paula and her husband, C. Madison, decided to home-school their children after racial incidents at public and private schools led them to the conclusion that the traditional educational system would be damaging to their sons' self-esteem. This... more info>> (Published: 2003)
Category: Education
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Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America [Secure]
by Donna Foote
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A revealing look inside a national phenomenon, Teach For America, which, since its founding in 1990, has pursued one of the most daring--and controversial--strategies for closing the educational achievement gap between the richest and poorest students in the country. The story is set in South Los Angeles at Locke High School, an institution founded in 1967 in the spirit of renewal that followed the devastating Watts riots but that, four decades on, has made frustratingly little progress in lifti... more info>>
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Signing: How To Speak With Your Hands - Revised Edition [Secure]
by Elaine Costello, Ph.D., Lois A. Lehman
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American Sign Language is a wonderful silent language of hands, face, and body that is rich with nuance, emotion, and grace. Bantam is proud to present the newly revised Signing : How To Speak With Your Hands, a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide that has long been the invaluable and definitive guide for families, friends, and professionals who need to communicate effectively with deaf children and adults. Now this expanded edition, with redesigned interiors and updated material, incl... more info>>
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Teach with Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers [Secure]
by Erin Gruwell
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In this memoir and call to arms, Erin Gruwell, the dynamic young teacher who nurtured a remarkable group of high school students from Long Beach, California, who called themselves the Freedom Writers, picks up where The Freedom Writers Diary (and the movie The Freedom Writers) end and catches the reader up to where they are today. Teach with Your Heart will include the Freedom Writers' unforgettable trip to Auschwitz, where they met with Holocaust survivors; toured the attic of their beloved Ann... more info>>
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Teaching Hope: Stories from the Freedom Writer Teachers and Erin Gruwell [Secure]
by Erin Gruwell
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“There are lives lost in this book, and there are lives saved, too, if salvation means a young man or woman begins to feel deserving of a place on the planet.... What could be more soul-satisfying? These are the most influential professionals most of us will ever meet. The effects of their work will last forever.” –from the foreword by Anna Quindlen Now depicted in a bestselling book and a feature film, the Freedom Writers phenomenon came about in 1994, when Erin Gru... more info>>
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The New Global Student: Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition, and Get a Truly International Education [Secure]
by Maya Frost
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Good-bye, Old School. Hello, Bold School! In 2005, Maya Frost and her husband sold everything and left their suburban American lifestyle behind in order to have an adventure abroad. The tricky part: they had to shepherd their four teenage daughters through high school and into college. This hilarious and conspiratorial how-to handbook describes the affordable, accessible, and stunningly advantageous options they stumbled upon that any American student can leverage to get an outrageously relevant... more info>>
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The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America [Secure]
by Jonathan Kozol
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"The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we're committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable." Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he finds that conditions have grown worse for inner-city children in the 15 years since federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Boa... more info>>
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Vector Theory and the Plot Structures of Literature and Drama
by Cynthia Joyce Clay
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This book examines what literary and dramatic plotting is--what plot is. The premise of this book is that the concept of forces in literature and drama is analogous to the concept of forces in physics. In physics, vectors represent the forces that push and pull--that move, propel, objects. Vectors are used analogously to describe how characters, objects, and locations which are the "bodies" of literature and drama reflect the propelling of literary and dramatic "forces." Vector theory "elegantly... more info>> (Published: 2005)
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White's Rules: Saving Our Youth One Kid at a Time [Secure]
by Ron Arias, Paul D. White
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One heroic schoolteacher has saved hundreds of lives with unconditional love and zero tolerance for rule-breakers. His students are the worst of the worst--drug addicts, gang members, and violent criminal offenders. They have flunked out or been thrown out of every other school they've attended. They may be the children of addicts, of abusers, or even of good parents, but they have one thing in common: they have been rejected by everyone except Paul White. With ten simple rules, he has helped hu... more info>>
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