Tag Archives: Education

Working Together: Learning About Cooperation and Citizenship (Character Education Readers)

Author: Regina Burch
Publisher: Creative Teaching Press

Cracking the ACT, 2010 Edition (College Test Preparation)

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
If it’s on the ACT, it’s in this book. Cracking the ACT, 2010 Edition includes:
 
·         3 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations—2 in the book and 1 online
·         Comprehensive and engaging review of all ACT subjects from trigonometry to reading comprehension
·         Practice questions and explanations in every [...]

The Naked Roommate

Rating: (41 reviews)
Author: Harlan Cohen
Publisher: Cumberland House

Product Description
In college, there’s a surprise around every corner…but that doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared! From sharing a bathroom with 40 strangers to sharing lecture notes, The Naked Roommate is your behind-the-scenes look at EVERYTHING you need to know about college (but never knew you needed to [...]

Hands Are Not for Hitting (Board Book) (Best Behavior Series)

Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: Martine Agassi Ph.D.
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing

Product Description
It’s never too soon for children to learn that violence is never okay, hands can do many good things, and everyone is capable of positive, loving actions.
In this bright, inviting, durable board book, simple words and full-color illustrations teach these important concepts in ways even [...]

Big Preschool Workbook

Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: School Zone Staff
Publisher: School Zone Pub

Product Description
This Big Preschool Workbook combines popular 32-page School Zone workbooks into one convenient 320-page volume. Child-friendly exercises and full-color illustrations make learning fun. Use Big Workbooks to reinforce or review grade-level skills or prepare for the upcoming school year. Contents include: Same or Different, Mazes, [...]

Barron’s AP Biology

Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Deborah T. Goldberg M.S.
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series

Product Description
Three full-length practice exams are presented with all questions answered and explained. The author also presents detailed reviews of all test topics and includes multiple-choice and free-response questions with answers at the end of each topic’s chapter. Test topics include: biochemistry, the cell, cell [...]

Essential SAT Vocabulary (flashcards) (College Test Preparation)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
Vocabulary practice is critical for success on the SAT, and these vocabulary flashcards provide you with an easy, efficient and portable way to prepare for the verbal section of the exam. This box of SAT flashcards includes 500 vocabulary words, with definitions and examples of each word [...]

Cracking the AP English Language & Composition Exam, 2010 Edition (College Test Preparation)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
This guide to the AP English Language & Composition Exam includes proven test-taking techniques from the AP experts at the Princeton Review. Cracking the AP English Language & Composition Exam, 2010 Edition also brings you:
•2 full-length AP English Language & Composition practice tests with detailed explanations
•Comprehensive review [...]

The Official SAT Study Guide, 2nd edition

Rating: (32 reviews)
Author: The College Board
Publisher: College Board

Product Description
The Official SAT Study Guide™ —with more than two million sold—just got better! Now offering 10 practice tests, The Official SAT Study Guide: Second Edition™ is the only book that features official SAT® practice tests created by the test maker. With over 1,000 pages and more [...]

1,296 ACT Practice Questions (College Test Preparation)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
The best way to prepare for standardized tests is to practice, and this resource offers you plenty of opportunities to do just that. 1,296 ACT Practice Questions includes:
*3 full-length practice tests
*648 additional practice questions
*detailed answer explanations for all practice questions
*a focused and informative overview of what’s on [...]

The Anxiety Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Deal With Anxiety & Worry

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Lisa M. Schab
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Product Description
If you feel anxious most of the time, you’re not alone. About one in three people your age struggles with feelings of worry, fear, and panic. And the scary thing is, if you don’t find a way to cope with anxiety, it can get worse [...]

Barron’s AP English Literature and Composition, 3rd Edition

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: George Ehrenhaft Ed.D.
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series

Product Description
This updated manual presents five full-length practice AP exams with all questions answered and clearly explained. To help students prepare for multiple-choice questions, the book offers many sample questions on poetry and prose fiction, along with commonsense tactics for choosing correct answers. Separate chapters review [...]

Cracking the SAT, 2010 Edition (College Test Preparation)

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
The SAT is a critical exam for college applicants, and more than 2 million students take the test each year. In Cracking the SAT the experts at The Princeton Review provide the information and strategies you need to succeed on the math, verbal and essay sections of [...]

Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses

Rating: (145 reviews)
Author: Dorothy Richmond
Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Product Description
This convenient worktext gives students a unique approach to learning, remembering, and reviewing how to use Spanish verbs correctly. The book provides a systematic presentation and review of Spanish verb forms and explains when and why a certain verb tense should be used. Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb [...]

Barron’s AP Music Theory with Audio Compact Discs

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Nancy Scoggin
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series

Product Description
This brand-new addition to Barron’s series of Advanced Placement test prep manuals presents a comprehensive review of music theory, followed by two full-length practice tests with all questions answered and explained. These practice tests include both aural and non-aural sections. The four audio CDs enclosed with [...]

The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges, 2010: Students on Campus Tell You What You Really Want to Know, 36th Edition

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Yale Daily News Staff
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

Product Description
The Straight-Talking Student’s Guide to the Best Colleges
For more than thirty-five years, The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges has been the favorite resource of high school students across the country because it is the only comprehensive college reference written and researched by students for [...]

Cracking the SAT Math 1 & 2 Subject Tests, 2009-2010 Edition (College Test Preparation)

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SAT Math Subject Tests is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about math—only the techniques and information you’ll need to maximize your score. In Cracking the SAT [...]

Multiplication 0-12 Flash Cards

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: School Zone Publishing Company Staff
Publisher: School Zone Pub

Book Description
School Zone Flash Cards offer a convenient way to drill basic skills. They also provide interesting and entertaining information.

Cracking the AP Chemistry Exam, 2010 Edition (College Test Preparation)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
Are you getting ready to take the AP Chemistry exam? The Princeton Review experts provide the help you need in Cracking the AP Chemistry Exam, 2010 Edition. It includes:
•2 full-length AP practice tests with detailed explanations
•Proven techniques to help get high scores
•All AP Chemistry review topics from [...]

Medical School Admission Requirements (MSAR) 2010-2011: The Most Authoritative Guide to U.S. and Canadian Medical Schools (Medical School Admission Requirements, United States and Canada)

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Association of American Medical Colleges
Publisher: Assn of Amer Medical Colleges

Product Description
This must-have book — often called the “bible of medical school guides” –is the #1 source for medical school applicants. The 2010-2011 edition features more information than ever before.
The MSAR is the #1 source for:>/b>

Information on newly accredited medical schools
Application procedures [...]

Examkrackers MCAT101 Passages in MCAT Verbal Reasoning

Rating: (43 reviews)
Author: David Orsay
Publisher: Osote Publishing

Product Description
The passages in this book have been designed to closely resemble official MCAT Verbal passages. From the type font to the subject matter to the number of words in each passage, question, and answer choice, these exas have the real MCAT feel. The questions in this book [...]

Max’s Christmas Stocking (Max Board Books)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Rosemary Wells
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

Product Description
Everybody’s favorite bunnies celebrate Christmas and Valentine’s Day in two adorable shaped board books just right for toddlers. When Santa mixes up their stockings, Max and Ruby are in for a big surprise on Christmas morning! And when Ruby uses all the candy to make her Valentine [...]

Cracking the SAT with DVD, 2010 Edition (College Test Preparation)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
More than 2 million students take the SAT each year. In Cracking the SAT with DVD, the experts at The Princeton Review provide the information and strategies you need to score high on every section of the test: math, verbal, and essay. This new 2010 edition of [...]

Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to the SAT 2009-2010 Edition

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Larry Berger
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Product Description
It’s the SAT guide that kids will actually enjoy using. And it’s the one that works: The students who developed Up Your Score all aced the SAT and went to the colleges of their choice. Irreverent, credible, delivered with attitude, Up Your Score combines the best [...]

Countdown to College: 21 To Do Lists for High School: Step-By-Step Strategies for 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Graders 2nd Edition

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Valerie Pierce
Publisher: Front Porch Press (MI)

Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (Published in association with The Open University)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Christopher Hart
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Book Description
Doing a Literature Review offers students from across the social sciences and humanities a practical and comprehensive guide to writing a literature review. It takes the reader through the initial states of an undergraduate dissertation or postgraduate thesis.

B Is for Bethlehem: A Christmas Alphabet Board Book

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Isabel Wilner
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

Product Description
Tender and joyful, this alphabet board book tells the story of Jesus’ birth in graceful couplets. Radiant collage art shimmers with all the glad expectancy of the Christmas season. The original picture book edition was an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists and a Child Study Association [...]

Castle

Rating: (25 reviews)
Author: David Macaulay
Publisher: Sandpiper

Product Description
The word itself conjures up mystery, romance, intrigue, and grandeur. What could be more perfect for an author/illustrator who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern man? With typical zest and wry sense of humor punctuating his drawings, David Macaulay traces [...]

Listen to the Wind

Author: Greg Mortenson
Publisher: Dial

Product Description
Greg Mortenson stumbled, lost and delirious, into a remote Himalayan village after a failed climb up K2. The villagers saved his life, and he vowed to return and build them a school. The remarkable story of his promise kept is now perfect for reading aloud. Told in the voice of Korphe’s [...]

Cracking the AP Chemistry Exam, 2009 Edition (College Test Prep)

Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
Scoring high on the AP Chemistry Exam is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about chemistry—only the strategies and information you’ll need to get your highest score. In Cracking the AP Chemistry Exam, we’ll teach you how [...]

Fiske Guide to Colleges 2009

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Edward B Fiske
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Product Description
For more than 20 years, this leading guide to more than 300 colleges and universities has been an indispensable source of information for college-bound students and their parents. Hip, honest and straightforward, the Fiske Guide to Colleges delivers an insider’s look at the academic climates and [...]

The Official SAT Question of the Day 2009 Calendar

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: The College Board
Publisher: College Board

Product Description
The College Board–maker of the SAT (R)–provides the only pager-per-day calendar with Official SAT practice questions.  Every day, students can practice with a question just like the ones on the SAT and PSAT/NMSQT (R).  The calendar features 365 questions (one per page); critical reading, writing, and [...]

Cracking the SAT, 2009 Edition (College Test Prep)

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
Cracking the SAT brings you proven techniques from the test prep experts! The 2009 edition includes full-length practices tests and exclusive free access to further review online. In Cracking the SAT, we’ll teach you how to think like the test writers and
· Master specific strategies for answering [...]

Increase Your Score in 3 Minutes a Day: SAT Essay

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Randall McCutcheon, James Schaffer, Randall McCutcheon, James Schaffer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Product Description
This accessible guide gives you the tools you need to score high on the new SAT essay.
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Best 368 Colleges, 2009 Edition (College Admissions Guides)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
College students (120,000 of them) reveal what life is really like at the nation’s top schools. This must-have guide gives you college rankings like no other and covers all the essentials — from academics to social life to financial aid, and everything in between. We also provide [...]

What’s Going on Down There?: Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask

Rating: (44 reviews)
Author: Karen Gravelle, Nick Castro, Chava Castro, Robert Leighton, Walker & Co
Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers

Product Description

Why is my voice making such weird sounds? When will I be able to start shaving? Why do I keep getting pimples? What is a wet dream?
 
Your body has been behaving very strangely lately. You hardly [...]

CLEP Official Study Guide 2009 (Clep Official Study Guide)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: The College Board
Publisher: College Board

Product Description
Every year, students save countless hours and dollars through the College-Level Examination Program (R) (CLEP (R)).  CLEP examinations allow students to demonstrate college-level knowledge, for which they can earn credit at more than 2,900 colleges and universities.  The CLEP Official Student Guide 2009, developed by the [...]

Cracking the SSAT & ISEE, 2009 Edition (Private Test Prep)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SSAT and ISEE exams is very different from getting straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about English and math–only what you’ll need to score higher on the exam. There’s a big [...]

Kaplan 12 Practice Tests for the SAT, 2009 Edition (Kaplan 12 Practice Tests for the Sat)

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Kaplan
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing

Product Description
Includes the most SAT practice available with:
*12 full-length practice exams
*Over 600 math grid-ins and multiple-choice questions
*Over 800 sentence completion and reading comprehension questions
*Over 500 writing multiple-choice questions
*Complete answer explanations
*12 essay prompts, model essays, and a guide to self-grading

How to Do Homework Without Throwing Up

Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Trevor Romain
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing

Product Description
“Everybody who goes to school does homework. You are not alone. And they feel just as sick as you do when they have to do it.” Trevor Romain knows how horrible homework can be, and kids will see this right away as they page through this [...]

40 Fabulous Math Mysteries Kids Can’t Resist (Grades 4-8)

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Marcia Miller, Martin Lee
Publisher: Teaching Resources

Product Description
Humorous, reproducible math mystery stories will give your math sleuths a chance to have fun while practicing important math problem solving skills. They’re just perfect for classwork and homework and help you meet the NCTM standards. For use with Grades 4-8.

Gruber’s Complete SAT Guide 2009 (Gruber’s Complete SAT Guide -12th Edition)

Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Gary Gruber
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Product Description
More Than 7 Million Gruber Books Sold!
“The best book on the SAT” -CBS Radio
“Gary Gruber is the leading expert on the SAT” -Houston Chronicle
“Gary Gruber is the most prominent guru of SAT preparation.” -Chicago Tribune
“His methods make the questions seem amazingly simple to solve.” -Library Journal
“Dr. Gruber [...]

240 Vocabulary Words 3rd Grade Kids Need To Know

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Linda Ward Beech
Publisher: Teaching Resources

Product Description
Teachers can build word power with these 24 ready-to-reproduce, 3-page lessons. Each lesson is packed with fun, research-based activities that help students to explore roots, prefixes, and suffixes; use students’ prior knowledge for greater understanding.

Master the SSAT & ISEE 2009 (Master the Ssat and Isee)

Author: Peterson’s
Publisher: Arco

Product Description
The guide for students AND parents! Master the SSAT & ISEE provides all the prep needed to score higher on the SSAT and ISEE: up-to-date information on the tests, hundreds of practice questions and four full-length practice tests (all with detailed answer explanations), and solid test-taking advice. Also includes guidance for parents [...]

Looking Beyond the Ivy League: Finding the College That’s Right for You

Rating: (24 reviews)
Author: Loren Pope
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Product Description
The celebrated book that revolutionized the way Americans choose colleges—now fully revised and updated
An invaluable guide with virtually no competition, this book helped to establish Loren Pope as one of the nation’s most respected experts on the college application process. Now fully revised and updated, Looking Beyond [...]

Cracking the SAT Literature Subject Test, 2007-2008 Edition (College Test Prep)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SAT Literature Subject Test is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about literature–only the techniques and information you’ll need to maximize your score. In Cracking the SAT [...]

A Young People’s History of the United States, Vol. 1: Columbus to the Robber Barons

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Product Description
Praise for A People’s History of the United States:
“Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded with telling quotations from labor leaders, war resisters and fugitive slaves. There are vivid descriptions of events that [...]

Insider’s Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology: 2008/2009 Edition (Insider’s Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical Psychology)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: John C. Norcross, Michael A. Sayette, Tracy J. Mayne
Publisher: The Guilford Press

Product Description

With more than 100,000 copies in print, this bestseller is the resource students rely on to find graduate clinical and counseling psychology programs that meet their needs–and gain admission to them. The 2008/2009 edition includes:
*The most current data on [...]

How to Spell Like a Champ

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Barrie Trinkle, Carolyn Andrews, Paige Kimble
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Product Description
Be all over “minuscule.” Score big with “curvaceous.” Hit “trireme” out of the park. From the authorities behind the Scripps National Spelling Bee comes a comprehensive illustrated book on the endangered art of spelling.
Written for ages 9 and up, How to Spell [...]

The Official SAT Subject Tests in Mathematics Levels 1 & 2 Study Guide (Official Sat Subject Tests in Mathematics Levels 1 & 2 Study Guide)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: The College Board
Publisher: College Board

Product Description

The best way to practice for the SAT Subject Tests in Mathematics
Every year more than 230,000 high school students take a SAT Subject Test in Mathematics. The Official SAT Subject Tests in Mathematics Levels 1 & 2 Study Guide is the only source of official questions [...]