Games for Reading

Written by Peggy Kaye

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 12, 1984
Price: $17.95

HERE ARE OVER SEVENTY GAMES TO HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN TO READ--AND LOVE IT.

Peggy Kaye's Games for Reading helps children read by doing just what kids like best: playing games.  There is a "bingo" game that helps children learn vocabulary. There is a rhyming game that helps them hear letter sounds more... Read more >

Foxfire 7

Written by Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Edited by Paul Gillespie

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1982
Price: $19.95

The seventh Foxfire volume  presents traditions of mountain religious heritage,  covering ministers, revivals, baptisms,  gospel-singing, faith healing, camp meetings, snake handling,  and more. Read more >

Foxfire 10

Written by Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Edited by George P. Reynolds

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1993
Price: $19.95

Chock full of the wit and wisdom that has become  the Foxfire trademark, this entirely new volume in  the acclaimed, 6-million-copy best-selling  Foxfire series is on oral history of  Appalachian lives and traditions, homespun crafts,  and folk arts. Read more >

Fraternity
In 1968, a visionary priest recruited 20 black men to the College of the Holy Cross and changed their lives and the course of history.
Written by Diane Brady

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2012
Price: $12.99

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
San Francisco Chronicle • The Plain Dealer

The inspiring true story of a group of young men whose lives were changed by a visionary mentor
 
On April 4, 1968, the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., shocked the nation. Later that month... Read more >

Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos
How to Help the Child Who Is Bright, Bored and Having Problems in School
Written by Lucy Jo Palladino, Ph.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 19, 1999
Price: $16.00

Does your imaginative, computer-proficient daughter tune out in the classroom? Does your spirited son become headstrong and aggressive when faced with the simplest decisions? Does your bold, energetic child have trouble focusing on basic tasks?

Millions of children--one in five--have what psychologist Lucy Jo Palladino, Ph.D., calls the Edison trait: dazzling intelligence... Read more >

Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School

Written by Adam Ruben

Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $9.99

This is a book for dedicated academics who consider spending years masochistically overworked and underappreciated as a laudable goal. They lead the lives of the impoverished, grade the exams of whiny undergrads, and spend lonely nights in the library or laboratory pursuing a transcendent truth that only six or seven people... Read more >

Getting the Best Out of College, Revised and Updated
Insider Advice for Success from a Professor, a Dean, and a Recent Grad
Written by Peter Feaver, Sue Wasiolek and Anne Crossman

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $14.99

An insider’s guide that shows ambitious students how to optimize their college career, completely revised and updated for today’s academic landscape.

I WISH I’D KNOWN THAT IN COLLEGE
Your time as an undergrad has the potential to be incredibly fun, rewarding, and life changing in ways you may not yet even imagine–that is... Read more >

Young, Gifted, and Black
Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students
Written by Theresa Perry and Claude Steele
Edited by Asa Hilliard, III

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2004
Price: $16.00

Young, Gifted, and Black is a unique joint effort by three leading African-American scholars to radically reframe the debates swirling around the achievement of African-American students in school.

In three separate but allied essays, Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard place students' social identity as African-Americans at the very center of... Read more >

Children Who Are Not Yet Peaceful
Preventing Exclusion in the Early Elementary Classroom
Written by Donna Bryant Goertz

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2001
Price: $15.95

Charting the progress of twelve children in a real Texas classroom, educator Donna Goertz shows how positive change can occur given the proper environment. In each case she describes a child's transformation from destructive troublemaker to responsible citizen of the classroom community. Readers will learn how to apply Montessori methods to... Read more >

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 >