Education:

Educating for Character
How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility
Written by Thomas Lickona

Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: September 2, 2009
Price: $17.99

Calls for renewed moral education in America's schools, offering dozens of programs schools can adopt to teach students respect, responsibility, hard work, and other values that should not be left to parents to teach. Read more >

Homework for Grown-ups
Everything You Learned at School and Promptly Forgot
Written by E. Foley and B. Coates

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $19.99

A nostalgic compendium of essential knowledge that can help you show the world that you’re smarter than a ten-year-old after all!

Have you ever stared blankly at your kids when they’ve asked why the sky is blue? Or clumsily changed the subject when they’ve wanted to know why the wind blows? If... Read more >

Homework for Grown-ups
Everything You Learned at School and Promptly Forgot
Written by E. Foley and B. Coates

Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $11.99

A nostalgic compendium of essential knowledge that can help you show the world that you’re smarter than a ten-year-old after all!

Have you ever stared blankly at your kids when they’ve asked why the sky is blue? Or clumsily changed the subject when they’ve wanted to know why the wind blows? If... Read more >

Foxfire 12

Written by Foxfire Fund, Inc.

Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $14.99

For more than thirty years, Foxfire books have brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative-self-sufficiency, the art of natural remedies, home crafts, and preserving the stories and customs of Appalachia. Inspiring and practical, this classic series has become an American institution.

Foxfire 12 is the... Read more >

In Defense of Childhood
Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness
Written by Chris Mercogliano

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2008
Price: $16.00

The pressures of modern life are increasingly squeezing the adventure, the wonder, the physicality-the juice -out of children's lives. Virtually every arena of kids' experience is now subject to some form of outside control, and this is a serious threat to the unique spark that animates every child. Lamenting risk-averse parents... Read more >

In Defense of Childhood
Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness
Written by Chris Mercogliano

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 1, 2007
Price: $13.95

As codirector of the Albany Free School, Chris Mercogliano has had remarkable success in helping a diverse population of youngsters find their way in the world. He regrets, however, that most kids' lives are subject to some form of control from dawn until dusk. Lamenting risk-averse parents, overstructured school days, and... Read more >

Foxfire 12

Written by Foxfire Fund, Inc.

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $19.95

For more than thirty years, Foxfire books have brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative-self-sufficiency, the art of natural remedies, home crafts, and preserving the stories and customs of Appalachia. Inspiring and practical, this classic series has become an American institution.

Foxfire 12 is the... Read more >