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Growing Up Absurd
Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
Written by Paul Goodman
Afterword by Susan Sontag
Foreword by Casey Nelson Blake
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $17.95
Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist... Read more >
Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
Written by Paul Goodman
Afterword by Susan Sontag
Foreword by Casey Nelson Blake
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $17.95
Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist... Read more >
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Cool Colleges
For the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different
Written by Donald Asher
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2007
Price: $21.99
Fully revised since the first edition, COOL COLLEGES covers the most exciting schools in the U.S. and Canada, with a new chapter on eco schools, an update on tuition-free schools, and the total low-down on the so-called top-ranked schools. Are you hyper-intelligent? Self-directed? A late-bloomer? Or just different? Then you need... Read more >
For the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different
Written by Donald Asher
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2007
Price: $21.99
Fully revised since the first edition, COOL COLLEGES covers the most exciting schools in the U.S. and Canada, with a new chapter on eco schools, an update on tuition-free schools, and the total low-down on the so-called top-ranked schools. Are you hyper-intelligent? Self-directed? A late-bloomer? Or just different? Then you need... Read more >
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Teaching As a Subversive Activity
Written by Neil Postman
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 15, 1971
Price: $15.00
A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world. Read more >
Written by Neil Postman
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 15, 1971
Price: $15.00
A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world. Read more >
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The Freedom Writers Diary Teacher's Guide
Written by Erin Gruwell and The Freedom Writers
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $18.99
Designed for educators by the teacher who nurtured and created the Freedom Writers, this standards-based teachers’ guide includes innovative teaching techniques that will engage, empower, and enlighten.
In response to thousands of letters and e-mails from teachers across the country who learned about Erin Gruwell and her amazing students in The Freedom... Read more >
Written by Erin Gruwell and The Freedom Writers
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $18.99
Designed for educators by the teacher who nurtured and created the Freedom Writers, this standards-based teachers’ guide includes innovative teaching techniques that will engage, empower, and enlighten.
In response to thousands of letters and e-mails from teachers across the country who learned about Erin Gruwell and her amazing students in The Freedom... Read more >
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So You're Thinking About Homeschooling: Second Edition
Fifteen Families Show How You Can Do It
Written by Lisa Whelchel
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $13.99
Discover the Diversity of Homeschooling
Confused and intimidated by the complexities of homeschooling, many parents assume it could never work for them. Now an updated edition of So You're Thinking About Home Schooling by Lisa Whelchel—herself a homeschooling mother of three—introduces to readers fifteen composite portraits of homeschooling families who show... Read more >
Fifteen Families Show How You Can Do It
Written by Lisa Whelchel
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $13.99
Discover the Diversity of Homeschooling
Confused and intimidated by the complexities of homeschooling, many parents assume it could never work for them. Now an updated edition of So You're Thinking About Home Schooling by Lisa Whelchel—herself a homeschooling mother of three—introduces to readers fifteen composite portraits of homeschooling families who show... Read more >
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The Schools We Need
And Why We Don't Have Them
Written by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 17, 1999
Price: $17.95
Now in paperback with a new introduction, The Schools We Need offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America's schooling methods and ideas--by one of America's most important educators, and author of the bestselling Cultural Literacy.
For over fifty years, American schools have operated under the assumption that challenging... Read more >
And Why We Don't Have Them
Written by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 17, 1999
Price: $17.95
Now in paperback with a new introduction, The Schools We Need offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America's schooling methods and ideas--by one of America's most important educators, and author of the bestselling Cultural Literacy.
For over fifty years, American schools have operated under the assumption that challenging... Read more >
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College Admission
From Application to Acceptance, Step by Step
Written by Robin Mamlet
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: August 30, 2011
Price: $13.99
College Admission is the ultimate user's manual and go-to guide for any student or family approaching the college application process.
Featuring the wise counsel of more than 50 deans of admission, no other guide has such thorough, expert, compassionate, and professional advice.
Let’s be honest: applying to college... Read more >
From Application to Acceptance, Step by Step
Written by Robin Mamlet
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: August 30, 2011
Price: $13.99
College Admission is the ultimate user's manual and go-to guide for any student or family approaching the college application process.
Featuring the wise counsel of more than 50 deans of admission, no other guide has such thorough, expert, compassionate, and professional advice.
Let’s be honest: applying to college... Read more >
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Feel-Bad Education
And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling
Written by Alfie Kohn
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $15.00
Mind-opening writing on what kids need from school, from one of education’s most outspoken voices
Almost no writer on schools asks us to question our fundamental assumptions about education and motivation as boldly as Alfie Kohn. The Washington Post says that “teachers and parents who encounter Kohn and his thoughts come away... Read more >
And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling
Written by Alfie Kohn
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $15.00
Mind-opening writing on what kids need from school, from one of education’s most outspoken voices
Almost no writer on schools asks us to question our fundamental assumptions about education and motivation as boldly as Alfie Kohn. The Washington Post says that “teachers and parents who encounter Kohn and his thoughts come away... Read more >
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Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads
Finding a Path to Your Perfect Career
Written by Sheila Curran and Suzanne Greenwald
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2006
Price: $16.99
Most people would love to have 20/20 hindsight on their careers. In Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads, college career experts Sheila Curran and Suzanne Greenwald have assembled the next best thing: the collective wisdom of a diverse and inspiring cast of success stories—twenty-three liberal arts graduates who have gone on... Read more >
Finding a Path to Your Perfect Career
Written by Sheila Curran and Suzanne Greenwald
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2006
Price: $16.99
Most people would love to have 20/20 hindsight on their careers. In Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads, college career experts Sheila Curran and Suzanne Greenwald have assembled the next best thing: the collective wisdom of a diverse and inspiring cast of success stories—twenty-three liberal arts graduates who have gone on... Read more >
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Light without Fire
The Making of America's First Muslim College
Written by Scott Korb
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $25.95
The Making of America's First Muslim College
Written by Scott Korb
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $25.95
The story of America’s first Muslim institution of higher education, Zaytuna College
In the fall of 2010, anti-Muslim furor in the United States reached a breaking point, capping a decade in which such sentiment had surged. Loud, angry crowds gathered near New York’s Ground Zero to protest plans to build...
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