College Education

This is the ultimate guide for university students seeking to master the art of focus in an increasingly distracting world. This book delves into essential aspects of focus, from understanding the basics of sleep, nutrition, and mental health to navigating the intricacies of attention spans influenced by digital media. What sets this book apart is its holistic approach. It doesn't just offer quick fixes but provides a deep understanding of how our brains focus and what environmental and lifestyle factors affect that focus.

The ultimate adulting guide for every teen and young adult – empower yourself with over 15 life skills today! Let’s face it, adulting is hard. While this might sound like a cliché, it does ring with truth. The moment your childhood years come to an end, you face a transitionary period of life – the teenage years – when you have to figure out where you fit. And in all this, you also need to struggle with the idea of living independently, preparing yourself for the life ahead.

“How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?” In the four years since Joe...

Higher education has seen better days. Harsh budget cuts, the precarious nature of employment in college teaching, and political hostility to the entire enterprise of education have made for an increasingly fraught landscape. Radical Hope is an ambitious response to this state of affairs, at once political and practical - the work of an activist, teacher, and public intellectual grappling with some of the most pressing topics at the intersection of higher education and social justice.

This fun guide reveals the secrets to smart, safe, and effective AI use in school, college, and university. Transform your study habits, rediscover the joy of learning, and recharge your creativity... all while keeping your academic integrity intact.

A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter. “The most profoundly original...

Master microbiology without the overwhelm. If you've ever felt buried under organism names, virulence factors, and antibiotic mechanisms that refuse to stick, you're not alone. Most microbiology textbooks pack in dense paragraphs and endless details—bacteria blur with viruses, and you're rereading without actually learning. Microbiology Made Easy is different. This is a complete learning system built on brain science, designed to help nursing, medical, and PA students learn faster, remember longer, and walk into exams and clinical rotations with confidence.

This book equips social work students with the tools to develop a social work identity. It provides a critical examination of the knowledge base of social work – from human growth and development to social work research – and explores how a practitioner's own values, principles and experience combine to shape their social work identity and practice alongside this.

Skilled Trade Career Planning For Teens will provide you with the Trusted and Proven path to a successful and REWARDING career in one of many hands-on skilled trades that make BIG MONEY! Many high school students ponder their career and financial goals as they go through high school. Wouldn’t you like to know all of the options before making such a big life-changing decision?

Nice witches finish last… A guilt-ridden former coven is forced to tap into the magic of their past . . . if they want to stop their lives from going up in flames again. On the outside, luxury real estate agent Sarah Nelson looks like every other mom in the suburb. But she has an edge that...

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Thirty years ago, tribal college educator and poet Thomas Davis began writing poems about the tribal college movement, beginning with the founding of College of Menominee Nation in Northern Wisconsin. He had no intention of developing a book out of the poems, using napkins and scraps of papers to create a mostly free verse poetry that chronicled the events and people trying to build a new kind of educational system that would preserve and evolve Indigenous language, history, and culture. Davis gave these poems away and many were lost. Until now.

What is the value of a college degree? The four-year college experience is as American as apple pie. So is the belief that higher education offers a ticket to a better life. But with student-loan debt surpassing the $1 trillion mark and unemployment of college graduates at historic highs, people are beginning to question that value. In College (Un)Bound, Jeffrey J. Selingo, editor at large of the Chronicle of Higher Education, argues that America’s higher education system is broken.

An educator’s essential guide to teaching inclusive financial literacy in any setting "A game-changer ... Her RICH Framework gives educators a clear path to making money conversations empowering for every student." —Tiffany "The Budgetnista" Aliche, New York Times best-selling author of Get...

In Capitalizing on College Joshua Brown illustrates how tuition-driven colleges and universities have been forced to innovate and adopt market-driven financial strategies. These institutions have longstanding commitments to offering access and opportunity to marginalized students, but the promise of improved educational outcomes stemming from federal policy changes aimed at increasing market competition never materialized. Instead competition for tuition dollars meant these colleges had to adopt new strategies to find more students to offset losses.

Exams can be incredibly stressful. And the SATs? Doubly so! Even those who have studied hard all year and expect to get high grades find their stomachs turning at the thought of SATs. After all, the higher the predicted grade, the higher the expectations, and the higher the chance of failure! Or so it can feel. But with the right support in your corner, you can fully prepare yourself for your SATs and do away with fear and uncertainty. I want to give you that support. It's what motivated me to write SAT Intensive Prep Guide—the perfect book to support you throughout the exam season!

Many students start college, but how many students graduate from college? The questions in this book will help students and parents to strategically think about how to enjoy and graduate from college in a timely fashion.

"Few people have the writing ability, education expertise, and thoughtfulness to write a book about the state of education. Jared is masterful in the classroom...and [his book] will change the landscape of education." —Dr. Christopher Emdin, New York Times best-selling author of For White...

The motivating, enjoyable “EASY LISTEN LESSONS” presented in this Audiobook will help you study smart and earn better grades with less effort and pressure. Imagine the confidence of walking into every exam, knowing that the strategies you used for studying have given you the knowledge to succeed. Dr. Gadaleto, an Emeritus Professor of Education, Psychologist, and former Director of a University Learning Skills Center, has poured decades of expertise into creating this Essential Guide to Study Skills.

The first uncensored biography to investigate our era's most celebrated, distinctive, and confounding filmmaker reveals the controversial private life behind the iconic public persona.