10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College, Revised
The Skills You Need to Succeed
Written by Bill Coplin

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $11.99

A handy, straightforward guide that teaches students how to acquire marketable job skills and real-world know-how before they graduate—revised and updated for today’s economic and academic landscapes.

Award-winning college professor and adviser Bill Coplin lays down the essential skills students need to survive and succeed in today’s job market, based on his extensive interviews with... Read more >

Teaching Hope
Stories from the Freedom Writer Teachers and Erin Gruwell
Written by The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell
Foreword by Anna Quindlen

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $13.99

“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... Read more >

Baby Minds
Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love
Written by Linda Acredolo, Ph.D. and Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D.

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2011
Price: $11.99

More than 65 delightful games and activities to jump-start your baby's amazing brainpower

Can simply singing a song or blowing a dandelion under a toddler's nose help her mind to blossom? Can your baby count, remember events, and solve problems even before he can talk? The exciting answer to both questions is... Read more >

Widening the Circle
The Power of Inclusive Classrooms
Written by Mara Sapon-Shevin

Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: March 15, 2007
Price: $17.00

Widening the Circle is a passionate, even radical argument for creating school and classroom environments where all kids, including children labeled as "disabled" and "special needs," are welcome on equal terms.

In opposition to traditional models of special education, where teachers decide when a child is deemed "ready to compete" in "mainstream"... Read more >

In the Mind's Eye
Creative Visual Thinkers, Gifted Dyslexics, and the Rise of Visual Technologies
Written by Thomas G. West

Format: Hardcover, 516 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2009
Price: $25.99

Now in its fifteenth printing, In the Mind’s Eye has been recognized as a classic in its field. The book still stands alone as a uniquely compelling argument for the great importance of visual thinking and visual technologies as well as the high creative potential of many individuals with dyslexia or... Read more >

Letters to a Young Teacher

Written by Jonathan Kozol

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $13.99

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... Read more >

Can We Talk about Race?
And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
Written by Beverly Tatum
Afterword by Theresa Perry

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $16.00

In Can We Talk About Race? psychologist and educator Beverly Daniel Tatum, one of our leading commentators on race and schools, analyzes some of the most resonant issues in American education and race relations. Read more >

Will Standards Save Public Education?

Written by Deborah Meier
Edited by Joshua Cohen

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2000
Price: $16.00

Somewhere. . . there is a place of sanity where education is intense and substantive. . . . It's in that place that Deborah Meier has been working all these years. Her voice conveys a life of struggle in the front lines-victories and losses, hopes and disappointments. . . . It's... Read more >

Think Like a Genius

Written by Todd Siler

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 5, 1999
Price: $18.00

Learn the easy steps to harnessing the incredible creative power of your mind that can enable anyone to Think Like A Genius.


How you already think like a genius without even knowing it--page 6
The secret formula for genius: C.R.E.A.T.E.--page 22
Ways to overcome the fear that inhibits the genius within... Read more >

The Essential Conversation
What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other
Written by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $14.95

With the insights she has gleaned from her close and subtle observation of parent-teacher conferences, renowned Harvard University professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot has written a wise, useful book about the ways in which parents and teachers can make the most of their essential conversation—the dialogue between the most vital people in a... Read more >