Your Child's Growing Mind
Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence
Written by Jane Healy

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2004
Price: $14.95

The classic guide to understanding children’s mental development is now updated and better than ever!

Hailed by parents and educators, Your Child’s Growing Mind is a window into the fascinating process of brain development and learning. It looks at the roots of emotion, intelligence, and creativity, translating the most current scientific research... Read more >

The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child
Your Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right Start
Written by Linda Dobson

Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2001
Price: $18.00

Homeschool the right way from day one.
Are you considering homeschooling for your family? Today, many parents recognize that their child's school options are limited, inadequate, or even dangerous, and an increasing number are turning to homeschooling. But where do you start and how do you ensure the highest-quality educational experience, especially... Read more >

Leap Write In!
Adventures in Creative Writing to Stretch and Surprise Your One-of-a-Kind Mind
Translated by Karen Benke

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $14.95

Invite your jittery mind into quiet slips of timed or untimed writing experiments that are designed to encourage your timid heart to forge forgotten feelings and entice your shy-self to make friends with emerging emotions. With a bounty of prompts to select from, you’ll be inspired to explore all the wacky... Read more >

Setting Limits in the Classroom, 3rd Edition
A Complete Guide to Effective Classroom Management with a School-wide Discipline Plan
Written by Robert J. Mackenzie and Lisa Stanzione

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2010
Price: $16.99

Disruptive behavior, power struggles, lack of motivation, attention deficit disorder—at times the list of obstacles to teaching seems endless. That’s why thousands of teachers and child-care providers have turned to the solutions in Setting Limits in the Classroom. This fully updated and expanded third edition offers the most up-to-date alternatives to... Read more >

The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas
500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12
Written by Linda Dobson

Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: November 26, 2002
Price: $16.95

Fun and Effective Home Learning Activities for Every Subject
As a homeschooling parent, you're always looking for new and creative ways to teach your child the basics. Look no longer! Inside this innovative helper, you'll find kid-tested and parent-approved techniques for learning math, science, writing, history, manners, and more that you can... Read more >

College Cooking
Feed Yourself and Your Friends
Written by Megan Carle and Jill Carle

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2007
Price: $19.99

You have a midterm tomorrow and a fierce growl in your stomach. Your roommate just nabbed your last cup o' ramen. Do you: (A) Ignore your stomach and brew another pot of coffee? (B) Break out the PB&J? (C) Order pizza—again? (D) Make a quick trip to the grocery store? The... Read more >

Foxfire 5

Written by Foxfire Fund, Inc. and Eliot Wigginton

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1979
Price: $19.95

The fifth Foxfire volume includes rain-making, blacksmithing, bear hunting, flintlock rifles, and more. Read more >

Positive Discipline: A Teacher's A-Z Guide
Hundreds of Solutions for Almost Every Classroom Behavior Problem!
Written by Jane Nelsen, Ed.D., Linda Escobar, Kate Ortolano, Roslyn Ann Duffy and Debbie Owen-Sohocki

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2001
Price: $16.99

Take Back the Classroom and Make a Positive Difference in Your Students' Lives
Many teachers today are facing problems and discipline issues they never dreamed of when they decided to become teachers. Combine violence, behavioral disorders, and downright defiant attitudes from students with the age-old problems of bullying, poor attendance, and more... Read more >

The End of Education
Redefining the Value of School
Written by Neil Postman

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 29, 1996
Price: $15.00

Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier generations. Instead, today's schools promote the false "gods" of economic utility, consumerism, or ethnic separatism and resentment. What alternative strategies can we use to... Read more >

Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School

Written by Adam Ruben

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $12.00

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 >