Education

• Money
  From simple exchange systems in earliest times to the increasingly cashless society of our own day, this fascinating book presents an accessible and authoritative introduction to the history of money. With the aid of over 500 illustrations, it explores the origins, spread and especially the cultura...
• Oliver Twist
  Cliffs Test Preparation Guides help students prepare for and improve their performance on standardized tests ACT Preparation Guide CBEST Preparation Guide CLAST Preparation Guide ELM Review GMAT Preparation Guide GRE Preparation Guide LSAT Preparation Guide MAT Preparation Guide MATH Review for Sta...
• Schaum's Easy Outline of College Algebra
  This book is useful when you don't have the time...but you still need the grade! If your life is too busy to spend hours ploughing through weighty textbooks, and you need every study minute to count, this "Schaum's Easy Outline" is perfect for you! This super-condensed, high-torque study guide give...
• Celebrating Student Achievement
  This second edition provides a timely analysis of assessment and reporting, examining a wide range of strategies. The text reflects on current and enduring debates and provides students and beginning teachers with knowledge of the theoretical and practical sources of assessment and reporting. Brady...
• Dumbing Down
  Passionate observers across the political /intellectual spectrum confront the downward spiral of American life, art, and thought. With vigor, wit, learning, common sense, and urgency, twenty-three essayists -- including John Simon, Cynthia Ozick, Phillip Lopate, George E Kennan, Sven Birkerts, J...
• Leading for Results
  Praise for the First Edition: 'Sparks rejects simplistic solutions to school improvement, and honors the practical knowledge and expertise of educators' - Richard DuFour, Educational Author and Consultant 'Dennis Sparks has given us a practical, original, and tough-minded book about what schools ne...
• Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus
  Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus (or Oedipus Rex) has exerted more influence than any other drama, ancient or modern, on the history of theatre, and this influence has extended far beyond the boundaries of the western theatrical tradition to include African and Oriental theatre histories as well. This v...
• Amer Public School Law 6e
  This market-leading text for graduate-level courses in educational law is a combined textbook/casebook that provides a comprehensive view of the law that governs the public school system of America. The case method approach allows instructors to involve discussion to discover and expose the reasoni...
• Bright Sparks: Podlet and Spike
  Bright Sparks Literacy Project is a set of reading materials that provide staged opportunities for the progressive acquisition of literacy skills in the early years of schooling. Each title draws on a broad base of literacy skills, yet focuses on one or two skills, enabling teachers to appropriatel...
• Electrical Control for Machines
  Now in its sixth edition, this book continues to provide a complete introduction to the range of technologies found in 2003's state-of-the-art industrial systems. By providing readers with a practical understanding of the logic and safety conditions required for efficient control of a single machin...
• The Link Between Health, Social Issues, and Secondary Education
  The Link between Health, Social Issues and Secondary Education is based on country studies in six Sub-Saharan African countries - Eritrea, Mali, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania, and a literature review. It looks at the role of secondary education and training in promoting health, civics...
• Play, Development and Early Education
  Respected play scholars James Johnson and James Christie join esteemed author Francis Wardle in this exciting new text on the theorizing and research of childhood play. Play is the universal language of childhood. In order to converse with new generations of children, today's teachers must prepare ...
• Thriving as an RE Teacher
• Tom Thumb's Musical Maths
  Tom Thumb's musical maths - the book which put the fun into the numeracy hour - is relaunching with a fresh new cover. This wonderfully clever collection of songs and rhymes with familiar tunes, teaches numceracy skills in fun and memorable ways. Completely new is a whole set of content links with ...
• Word Power Made Easy
  Do You Always Use the Right Word? Can You Pronounce It -- and Spell It -- Correctly? Do You Know How to Avoid Illiterate Expressions? Do You Speak Grammatically, Without Embarrassing Mistakes? If the answer to any of these questions is NO, you ought to read Word Power Made Easy. Now tho...
• Business Studies for NSW: Preliminary
  Written for tbe new senior Business Studies syllabus for NSW. Topics include: the nature of business estbalishing a business key business functions and developing a business plan....
• The Essential Research Guide to Doing Research
• Heinemann Biology Two
• Heinemann Legal Studies: Preliminary Course
  This new edition is an extensive revision and update, written to meet the requirements of the Stage 6 Legal Studies syllabus, due for implementation in 2000. All the popular features of the first editions have been retained, with a number of new inclusions and a colourful design. Pre-publication pr...
• Inclusion in Action
  Is a revision of Integration and Inclusion in Action, reflecting the changes in policy and practice. It focuses on good teaching practice for students with a range of educational needs, and will help regular class teachers develop skills to plan appropriate programs. Editor from University of Newca...
• The Schools Our Children Deserve
  In this lively, provocative and well-researched book (Theodore Sizer), AlTe Kohn builds a powerful argument against the back to basics philosophy of teaching and simplistic demands to raise the bar. Drawing on stories from real classrooms and extensive research, Kohn shows parents, educators, and o...
• Teaching Primary Science Constructively
  Written for students in undergraduate primary teacher education courses and for practising primary teachers. It enables teachers to facilitate their students' understanding of how their world works from a scientific point of view....
• Home
  Do you believe that you can define a person by the home they live in and the possessions they surround themselves with? Do the books on their shelves and the paint on their walls give away their personality, and what would you think about someone who lived in a white, minimal space with nothing at ...
• Information Literacy
  This is the definitive work on information literacy. Dr. Michael Eisenberg, known worldwide as one of the originators of the innovative Big6 Information Problem Solving Process, and frequent presenters on the subject Carrie A. Lowe and Kathleen L. Spitzer have extensively revised and updated this l...
• New Kid in School
  This book provides educators and support staff with viable and inspired ways to meet the particular needs of children in transition, whether it be children who have recently moved to a new home or children who will be moving in the future. This ground-breaking volume provides a model of transition ...
• Basic Math and Pre-algebra
  The CliffsStudySolver workbooks combine 20 percent review material with 80 percent practice problems (and the answers!) to help make your lessons stick. CliffsStudySolver Basic Math and Pre Algebra is for students who want to reinforce their knowledge with a learn by doing approach. Inside, you'll ...
• Natural Disasters
  Jake and Tor return in this long-awaited sequel to the bestselling Bareback! Having bought the ranch they've worked on for so long, they're now the proud owners of a spread of their own. There's more than enough on their plate coping with their new responsibilities and their arguments over ranch ma...
• The Art of Integrative Counseling
  An excellent companion to the best-selling Theory and Practice Of Counseling and Psychotherapy or supplement for theories or practicum courses, The Art of Integrative Counseling, Second Edition, is part of a family of products that teaches you about the major concepts of counseling theories, how to...
• Fundamentals of Case Management Practice
  Guide your students from the classroom to success in today's social service setting with the step-by-step practical skills found in this outstanding case management text/workbook. Summers' FUNDAMENTALS OF CASE MANAGEMENT PRACTICE: SKILLS FOR THE HUMAN SERVICES, Third Edition, focuses on what's most...
• 365 Meditations for Teachers by Teachers
  365 Meditations for Teachers by Teachers offers a year's worth of short daily meditational readings written specifically for teachers, by teachers. Four different writers of faith present three months' worth of meditations each, providing a variety of topics and writing styles. Designed to be used ...
• Biology
  Without the daring, courageous, and innovative thinkers the past, life as we know it would be completely different Planes, trains, and automobiles would never have been invented Earth would be considered the center of the universe and strep throat, polio, and smallpox would still be incurable disea...
• Understanding Psychology
  Never Highlight a Book Again! Cram101 Textbook Outlines give the student all of the highlights, notes, and practice-tests for their textbook. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific, not generic....
• Cracking the GRE Chemistry Subject Test
  The GRE subject tests are among the most difficult standardized exams. Rather than testing general problem-solving skills, they require highly specialized knowledge. The experts at The Princeton Review have thoroughly research each subject test to provide students with the most thorough, up-to-da...
• Cracking the GRE
  Cracking the GRE offers major features on DVD, including engaging video tutorials from The Princeton Review's top instructors. The 2008 edition includes over 300 practice questions in the book and exclusive free access to 4 practice exams and expert advice online. Of course, you'll also get all t...
• Cracking the CBEST, 2nd Edition
  The CBEST is required for teacher certification in California and Oregon. Each new teacher must receive certification, which means that they must pass the CBEST. This book shows them how....
• Broken Angels
  For one woman, Nancye O'Reilly, this shocking path of events is real. Such tragedies would have destroyed a lesser woman, but Nancye took control of her life and made some crucial decisions to improve her lot and that of her two remaining sons. As a result of her extraordinary experiences, she is n...
• Becoming an Orchestral Musician
  Becoming an Orchestral Musician takes you on a journey into the musical profession. It is the first comprehensive guide for professional musicians on how to succeed in joining an orchestra or ensemble, and how to survive as an orchestral musician. Such crucial topics as how to obtain the right tuit...
• Creative Careers in Crafts
  This state-of-the-art career guide guarantees informed choices for anyone seeking to pursue a creative career full-time or on the side. Featuring profiles of nearly fifty professionals from every area of the industry, this comprehensive career resource provides budding craftspeople and artists with...
• Thorstein Veblen and the American Way of Life
  Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an unrelenting critic of the American way of life. In his first and best-known work, The Theory of the Leisure Class, Verblen defined the social attitudes and values that condoned the misuse of wealth and the variety of way in which the resources of modern society w...
• UFOs
  - Background information to build content-area knowledge including: Scientific timelines, words to know, job descriptions, and seminal cases - Chapter Summaries and questions that recap the evidence: You're The Medical Examiner - Reading Cues and Clues: Prompts, call-outs, highlighted words, diag...
• Signs of the Times
• Accounting
  Accounting: Business Reporting for Decision Making Second Edition is written for students who are required to complete a one semester unit on introductory accounting, the text covers the basic principles of financial accounting, management, finance as well an introduction to ethics in business and ...
• Ethical Research with Children
  This book focuses on doing ethical research with children in today's climate of increased globalization, surveillance and awareness of children as competent research participants. It covers a range of conceptual, methodological and procedural issues, and provides a framework for doing ethical resea...
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to MBA Basics
  A revised edition of the popular classic, this title features updated topics to build MBA knowledge. Students and managers alike will learn about management skills, business operations, financial statements, marketing, product development, customer service, strategic planning, information managemen...
• 100 Careers in Film and Television
  Nearly everybody wants to get into the movies or be on television - and here's the book that shows them how! Every year, thousands of students graduate from film schools, then settle in major centers of film and TV activity - mainly Los Angeles or New York. This book is a practical guide to help th...
• The Big Book of Customer Service Training Games
  Help your employees to excel in dealing with the public with this stimulating, fun-filled collection of customer service training games. Designed not only to teach important skills but also to spark enthusiasm and a high level of involvement in the participants, these games utilize entertaining and...
• Conscious Choices
  For courses in Freshman Orientation, Human Development, and Critical Thinking. Promoting self-directed learning by creating an attitude and emotional readiness to learn, this text shows students how to develop qualities of emotional intelligence, increase critical thinking skills, and integrate per...
• Planning Programs for Adult Learners
  The ongoing education and training of adults has become a necessity in many professional areas. Yet the staff who set up and administer these programs often lack skills for the very task that is so critical to the success of their efforts - the plann...
• Creating Entrepreneurial Universities
  With the expansion of student demand, more and more different types of students of all ages attend universities and colleges to be educated in a growing array of subjects. Knowledge-based enterprises in the economy and society create an expanding and rapidly changing professional labour market for ...
• Marketing Yourself to the Top Business Schools
  Expert advice helps you get into the business school of your choiceEarning an MBA from a leading business school can be an important career boost. But first you have to get accepted. This straight-talking guide is dedicated to helping you conquer the business school admission process. Here, Phil an...
• Survival Reading Skills for Secondary Students
  "Survival Reading Skills for Secondary Students" is your guide for working with struggling students in grades 5-12 no matter what their reading ability. This valuable resource is a down-to-earth guide that contains countless classroom-tested strategies that reading and content area teachers can use...
• The Vocabulary Teacher's Book of Lists
  'Edward Fry has the uncanny as well as canny (choose your word) ability to take a complex concept, in this case vocabulary, and present it in a form useful to students and teachers' - Allen Berger, Heckert Professor of Reading and Writing, Miami University. The Vocabulary Teacher's Book of Lists wi...
• The Wisdom of Practice: v. 1
  What do teachers need to know in order to teach well? How important is the depth and quality of teachers' content knowledge as a critical aspect of their ability to teach? How can teachers best be educated, and how can we assess their accomplishments as teachers? In what ways is the professional pr...
• Accountability in Higher Education
  With contributions from leading experts in the field, this comprehensive and timely book presents the principles and guidelines for effective accountability for states, colleges, and universities. Achieving Accountability in Higher Education clarifies the concept of accountability for both public a...
• Assessment Clear and Simple
  Assessment Clear and Simple is Assessment 101 in a book - a concise and step-by-step guide written for everyone who participates in the assessment process. This practical book helps to make assessment simple, cost-efficient, and useful to the institution, while at the same time meeting the requirem...
• The Adult Learner at Work
  Burns explores such questions as: What conditions have created lifelong learning, learning societies and learning organizations? How have government and business responded? What methods and processes enhance the learning potential of adults? How can we motivate adults to learn? What are the effects...
• Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
  1996 Winner of the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education " Brookfield] gently demystifies critically reflective learning and teaching with dozens of practical examples from the classroom in different scholarly fields. Lucid, wise, jargon-free, personal and fluently written. ...
• Disorders of Learning in Childhood
  Written by both a leading child psychiatrist and an educational psychologist, this reference presents the latest clinical research in learning disorders. With coverage on reading, spelling, writing, and mathematical disabilities, this text includes the latest clinical research in learning disorders...
• Dyslexia
  Many children spend their entire school lives struggling with their work. Research has shown that at least 10-15 per cent of children with apparently normal learning ability will show a significant problem with school learning. They may feel that whatever they do it is not good enough - either for ...
• E-Learning and the Science of Instruction
  In this thoroughly revised edition of the bestselling E-Learning and the Science of Instruction, authors Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard E. Mayer who are internationally recognized experts in the field of e-learning offer essential information and guidelines for selecting, designing, and developing a...
• Essentials of Business Research
  This book covers the essentials of business research for managers. It includes coverage of the increasing role of knowledge management as well as how to conduct information-gathering activities more effectively in a rapidly changing business environment. Because managers increasingly must make deci...
• Guide to Business Research Methods
  This textbook provides students at undergraduate and MBA levels with a thorough introduction to the research methods they need to be familiar with and how to apply them. A popular course text, it teaches the skills that are essential for planning, co...
• Guide to Presentations
  This concise, practical book is written for you if you need to give professional presentations. If giving a presentation makes you nervous, how can you relax? How can you enhance your credibility before, during, and after your presentation? How can you design slides to highlight key data and hold y...
• The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Exemplary Leadership
  Written by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner two of the foremost experts on the topic of leadership, The Jossey Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Exemplary Leadership clearly shows how anyone can develop the key leadership skills needed to get extraordinary things done on their campuses. Thi...
• Language and Communication Disorders in Children
  The fifth edition of Language and Communication Disorders in Children is a major revision that focuses on the area of language to explain different kinds of developmental disabilities in children. This fifth edition is a substantially revised introduction to the dynamic areas of speech-language pat...
• Learner-centered Teaching
  In this much needed resource, Maryellen Weimer-one of the nation's most highly regarded authorities on effective college teaching-offers a comprehensive work on the topic of learner-centered teaching in the college and university classroom. As the author explains, learner-centered teaching foc...
• Bonds
  A bond, in its simplest form, is a loan whereby the issuer is obliged to repay the original sum plus interest when it matures. Bonds provides a revolutionary approach to bond investing, offering a clarity not found in other books. The authors show how bonds offer a way to limit the risk of investme...
• Macroeconomics
  The new 3rd edition of Macroeconomics is designed for students who have not previously studies economics. It provides a clear explanation of basic macroeconomic principles through analogies, real-world examples and user-friendly graphs and illustrations. The third edition has been substantially res...
• Think!
  'Real Thinking for Real Life'. For your classes in Critical Thinking, McGraw-Hill introduces THiNK, the latest in its acclaimed M Series. Critical Thinking begins by listening and we began THiNK by listening to and observing students and instructors. McGraw-Hill conducted extensive research to gain...
• Management
  ***Now available in Australia with the most up-to-date information about the new 'Work Choices' legislation. For orders use isbn 0470813229. This new Australasian text effectively blends the three aspects of contemporary undergraduate introductory management education: management theory, concept ap...
• Principles of Microeconomics
  In recent years, innovative texts in mathematics, science, foreign languages, and other fields have achieved dramatic pedagogical gains by abandoning the traditional encyclopedic approach in favor of attempting to teach a short list of core principles in depth. Two well-respected writers and resear...
• Cost-sharing and Accessibility in Higher Education
  Higher education finances lie at the crossroads in many Western countries. Hence, worldwide, the most common approach to the need for increasing revenue was to use some form or forms of cost sharing, or the shift of some of the higher educational per-student costs from governments and taxpayers to ...
• 101 More Training Games
  Games, simulations, role-plays, brain-teasers, case studies and other related activities have been used successfully in countless training situations by countless trainers. 101 More Training Games, written by best-selling training consultant and auth...
• Careers and Jobs in Travel and Tourism
  Praise and reviews include: 'The Tourism Society is delighted to be associated with this publication.' - Adrian Clark, Director, The Tourism Society. Travel and tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors in the United Kingdom. Budget airlines, the Internet and the growth of specialist holidays h...
• The Shorter MBA
  A unique distillation of the skills that people need to develop to be successful in business. Most people cannot give up two years to study for a Masters in Business Administration, but the techniques that are taught for an MBA are invaluable. Here, in one short, pithy book, are the essentials that...
• Information Technology
  For the introductory course in computers, computer literacy, information systems, or information technology found in department of Business and CIS. Written by a highly regarded, internationally-known consultant and educator in business and information systems, the third edition focuses on the way ...
• Administrative Office Management
  Administrative Office Management continues to provide students with the most up-to-dateinformation reflecting contemporary management thinking, issues, and trends that everyoffice employee needs to know. The text provides a strong management-based backgroundwhile utilizing a humanistic approach for...
• Property
  Read about a range of jobs in this exciting industry and find out who are the main players and what they have to offer, with 25+ interviews from people working in residential, commercial and industrial property this book will help you to land your dream job in this high-stakes industry....
• Zoom
  Oil is the problem. Cars are the solution. Those two simple sentences by the authors of Zoom define the scope of their illuminating and important book, an examination of a transformation in business and culture that is occurring before our eyes. We are living in the midst of a Great Awakening. P...
• Communication for Business
  This text developed by NSW TAFE uses illustrations, case studies and authentic workplace activities to help readers understand fundamental communication concepts, relate communication concepts to a business environment and to develop communication reltated competencies. Special Price $38.00 (Textbo...
• Emerging Technologies for Knowledge Resource Management
  Summary: Examines various factors that contribute to an enabled environment for optimum utilisation of information resources. These include the digital form of information resources, which are inherently sharable, consortia as a concept to bring people and materials together and unified portals as ...
• Boost Your Creative Intelligence
  Everyone has, at one time or another, experienced a flash of inspiration, or been on a roll when everything seems to go right, or found a better way of doing something we have been doing for years. For most, these things are all too infrequent, but neurological experts believe they have identified ...
• Program Evaluation
  Program Evaluation 3rd editionhas the hallmarks of thoroughness, insight and fluency of other editions but brings us up to date with a map of the evaluation territory new travelers will find invaluable.'Professor Murray Saunders, UK and European Evaluation SocietiesJohn Owen's Program Evaluationhel...
• Vault/Inroads Guide to Corporate Diversity Programs
  This annual Guide describes diversity programs at 500 major corporations--diversity internship and entry-level programs or efforts profiles of diversity team members, part-time/flex-time options, family leave policy, quantitative information regarding diversity staffing levels, and special programs...
• Facilitating Reflective Learning Through Mentoring and Coaching
  What is the difference between a 'coach' and a 'mentor'? How can practitioners and clients assess their benefits if there is little or no general understanding as to their meaning? This book offers answers by describing the different theoretical models available for coaching and mentoring and by lo...
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
  Penguin Readers is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age m...
• Pride and Prejudice
  Mr and Mrs Bennet live with their five daughters. Jane, the eldest daughter, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich batchelor who takes a house nearby with his two sisters and friend, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy is attracted to the second daugher, Elizabeth, but a bad account of him is given to El...
• A Tale of Two Cities
  This stirring tale of resurrection, renunciation and revolution is one of Charles Dickens' most popular novels. The two cities are Paris and London. Dr Manette has been confined for 18 years in the Bastille because he found out the Marquis de Evremonde and his brother had ill treated a girl and mor...
• Go Figure
  Ryan is not obsessing.... But she does want to lose weight. Ever since she was outted as a fat girl at chearleading camp in fifth grade, Ryan's been on a mission to shed more than a few pounds. Lately she's also on the hunt for a new relationship. Now that her ex-boyfriend is a rock star - cu...
• A Christmas Carol
  ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP The story of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, and the ghosts who show him the true spirit of Christmas. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: - A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information - A chronol...
• The Odyssey
  The Homeric text that we have is written in what became the standard verse form for high-serious composition in the classical world. Yet certain recent scholars have speculated that the oral composition of the poem in its early form may have been written with a phrase-by-phrase prosody, not the for...
• Swan Song
  Mitch lives with his ranger father in the beautiful Coorong National Park in South Australia and often helps his father with his work protecting the wildlife, especially the waterbirds, of the region. One day Mitch finds an abandoned swan's egg and takes it home, despite his father's disapproval. W...
• When I Care About Others
  A little bear explains that he cares about the feelings of others and that others care about him....
• When I Feel Angry
  A little rabbit describes what makes her angry and the different ways she can control her anger....
• Animals
  From the pet that we live with and care for, to news items such as animal cloning, and the use of various creatures in film, television and advertising, animals are a constant presence in our lives. "Animal" is a timely overview of the many ways in which we live with animals, and assesses many of t...
• Knights and Castles
  Meet the hilarious knight Sir Spearalot, who takes you on a magical history tour back to the exciting time of knights and castles. Explore Lord Fancypantss castle, find out what goes on in his busy courtyard, watch a thrilling jousting tournament, and discover what the Lord and Lady like to eat at ...
• Abraham Lincoln
  In 1890, Abraham Lincoln's two main White House secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, published the ten-volume biography Abraham Lincoln: A History. Although the authors witnessed the daily events occurring within the executive mansion and the national Capitol, their lengthy biography is more ...
• The Alphabet
  The Ladybird Learning at Home range has been specially devised to help children develop and practise at home the skills they will need at school. The Alphabet provides colourful and entertaining pre-reading exercises based on the letters of the alphabet. The alphabet has been treated phonetically s...
• Julius Caesar
  More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped Rome for generations, and his name became a synonym for emperor -- not only in Rome but as far away as Germany and Russia. He is best known as the general who defeated the Gauls and do...
• As You Like it
  The stories come originally from the highly successful gift collection The Orchard Book of Shakespeare Stories. Also included are useful notes on the themes within the stories and a background to the Globe theatre. Andrew Matthews's vibrant and accessible retellings, coupled with expressive and fun...