Education:

Child Sense
From Birth to Age 5, How to Use the 5 Senses to Make Sleeping, Eating, Dressing, and Other Everyday Activities Easier While Strengthening Your Bond With Child
Written by Priscilla J. Dunstan
Foreword by Linda Acredolo, Ph.D. and Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D.

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $26.00

Your infant is crying and you don’t know why. Your toddler refuses every kind of food–except one. Your preschooler wages war with you each morning over what to wear. Every day, parents struggle unsuccessfully to understand why their children act the way they do. Now child development expert Priscilla J. Dunstan... Read more >

Montessori from the Start
The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
Written by Paula Polk Lillard and Lynn Lillard Jessen

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $15.00

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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: $21.95

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 >

Teach with Your Heart
Lessons I Learned from The Freedom Writers
Written by Erin Gruwell

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2008
Price: $13.95

In this passionate, poignant, and deeply personal memoir and call to arms, Erin Gruwell, the dynamic young teacher who nurtured a remarkable group of high school students from Long Beach, California, who called themselves the Freedom Writers, picks up where The Freedom Writers Diary—and the hit movie The Freedom Writers—left off... Read more >

The Freedom Writers Diary Teacher's Guide

Written by Erin Gruwell and The Freedom Writers

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $21.95

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 >

Acting Teachers of America
A Vital Tradition
Written by Ronald Rand and Luigi Scorcia
Foreword by J. Michael Miller

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $19.95

Acting Teachers of America presents detailed, revealing interviews with 50 of the most influential contemporary American acting teachers, as well as actors and directors who teach acting.


Michael Howard, Lloyd Richards, Olympia Dukakis, John Strasberg, Larry Moss, Anne Bogart, Zelda Fichandler, William Esper, Eric Morris, Terry Schreiber, Anne Jackson, Milton Katselas... Read more >

Teach with Your Heart
Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers
Written by Erin Gruwell

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $23.95

In this memoir and call to arms, Erin Gruwell, the dynamic young teacher who nurtured a remarkable group of high school students from Long Beach, California, who called themselves the Freedom Writers, picks up where The Freedom Writers Diary (and the movie The Freedom Writers) end and catches the reader up...

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Teach with Your Heart
Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers
Written by Erin Gruwell

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $13.95

In this memoir and call to arms, Erin Gruwell, the dynamic young teacher who nurtured a remarkable group of high school students from Long Beach, California, who called themselves the Freedom Writers, picks up where The Freedom Writers Diary (and the movie The Freedom Writers) end and catches the reader up... Read more >

Teacher Effectiveness Training
The Program Proven to Help Teachers Bring Out the Best in Students of All Ages
Written by Dr. Thomas Gordon

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2003
Price: $15.00

For nearly thirty years, Teacher Effectiveness Training, or the T.E.T. book, based on Dr. Thomas Gordon’s groundbreaking program, has taught hundreds of thousands of teachers around the world the skills they need to deal with the inevitable student discipline problems effectively and humanely.

Now revised and updated, T.E.T. can mean the difference... Read more >

Montessori from the Start
The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
Written by Paula Polk Lillard and Lynn Lillard Jessen

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2003
Price: $15.00

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Setting Limits in the Classroom, Revised
How to Move Beyond the Dance of Discipline in Today's Classrooms
Written by Robert J. Mackenzie

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2003
Price: $15.95

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

The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children
3rd Edition Revised and Updated
Written by Eden Ross Lipson

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2000
Price: $19.95

The Classic Guide That Helps You Select the Books the Child You Know Will Love

In this third, fully revised and updated edition of The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children, the children's book editor of The New York Times Book Review personally selects and recommends books... Read more >