Ten Speed Press
College Guides
10 books found.
Getting the Best Out of College
Written by Anne Crossman and Peter Feaver and Sue Wasiolek
- Format: Trade Paperback
- On Sale: Jun 1, 2008
- Price: $14.95
YOUR REAL FRESHMAN ORIENTATION GUIDE
After years of standardized tests, group projects, community service, and high school woes, you’ve finally made it to college. So, what now?
Answering the all-too-familiar groan “I wish I’d known that as a freshman,” a prof, a dean, and a recent grad distill more than fifty years of expertise at top colleges into this crash-course guide to success. Proving… Read more »
Major in Success, 5th Ed
Written by Patrick Combs
- Format: Trade Paperback
- On Sale: Aug 1, 2007
- Price: $14.95
With so much at stake during college, students need smart and inspiring advice to help them excel. Now in its fifth edition, MAJOR IN SUCCESS reaches out to undecided freshmen and sophomores in search of a major that suits their interests and career ambitions; shows near-graduation students how to bolster their résumé and ace the interview to land their first real job; and presents innovative strategies for tackling the six biggest… Read more »
College Rules!
Written by Jodi Patrick Holschuh and Sherrie Nist-Olejnik
- Format: Trade Paperback
- On Sale: Apr 1, 2007
- Price: $14.95
In high school, students have lots of safety nets. In college, they sink or swim. This completely revised guide to college success educates students in the basic college survival skills that professors don't teach, such as how to study, take tests, balance school and social life, and more. Filled with advice on how to hit the campus running, this fun-spirited crash course in the rules of college provides tools to equip students for a lifetime of… Read more »
Bears Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning
Written by Mariah Bear and Thomas Nixon
- Format: Trade Paperback
- On Sale: Jan 1, 2006
- Price: $29.95
For 30 years, BEAR'S GUIDE TO EARNING DEGREES BY DISTANCE LEARNING is the most comprehensive, respected, and opinionated guide to the potential minefield of non-traditional education. It's often faster, cheaper, and even better to earn an associate's, bachelor's, master's, doctorate, medical, or law degree off campus. As more schools bring the classroom to the student through mail, video, and the internet, the need for an accurate, up-to-date, and… Read more »
The New Country Index
Written by Intl Educ Research Foundation Staff
- Format: Hardcover
- On Sale: Aug 1, 2004
- Price: $125.00
THE NEW COUNTRY INDEX is an essential tool for interpreting the educational backgrounds of people who have studied outside the United States and who need statements of educational equivalencies to enter the U.S. educational environment and workforce. This handy reference provides an outline of world educational systems and is used extensively by a variety of organizations in the assessment of foreign academic credentials. Compiled by current and… Read more »
10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College
Written by William D. Coplin
- Format: Trade Paperback
- On Sale: Aug 6, 2003
- Price: $14.95
You'll learn a lot of things in college, but there's one thing the textbooks won't teach you: how to acquire marketable job skills before you graduate.Award-winning college professor and student adviser Bill Coplin has been developing skill-based liberal arts curricula for more than 30 years, and has helped thousands of students get great jobs. Here, he lays down the essential skills you need to survive and succeed in today's job market, based on… Read more »
Bears' Guide to Earning High School Diplomas Nontraditionally
Written by Thomas Nixon
- Format: Trade Paperback
- On Sale: Jun 24, 2003
- Price: $14.95
Profiling a variety of programs, including online and correspondence high schools, G.E.D. tests, home-schooling, high school proficiency exams, and charter schools. BEARS'¬? GUIDE TO EARNING HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMAS NONTRADITIONALLY is for people who aren'¬?t willing (or able) to subject themselves to a conventional, four-year high school. Read more »
Bears' Guide to the Best Education Degrees by Distance Learning
Written by John Bear and Mariah Bear and Tom Head
- Format: Trade Paperback
- On Sale: Jul 23, 2001
- Price: $14.95
It'¬?s no mystery that one of the keys to improving our nation'¬?s schools is to staff them with better-qualified teachers. However, the traditional means for improving or gaining teaching skills-through an education degree or certificate program-can be time-consuming and costly, making it difficult for teachers and aspiring teachers to take their skills to the next level. Education authorities John and Mariah Bear have found the answer… Read more »
Bears' Guide to the Best Computer Degrees by Distance Learning
Written by John Bear and Mariah Bear
- Format: Trade Paperback
- On Sale: Feb 27, 2001
- Price: $14.95
Although it'¬?s a challenging job market for the high-tech elite-software designers, database programmers, website builders, network administrators, and IT professionals-this new Bears'¬? Guide maps the most direct route to those top-dollar salaries, showing you how to earn a fully accredited undergraduate or graduate high-tech degree without setting foot on a college campus. Profiles over 100 distance-learning programs in such fields as… Read more »
Bears' Guide to the Best MBAs by Distance Learning
Written by John Bear and Mariah P. Bear
- Format: Trade Paperback
- On Sale: Aug 1, 2000
- Price: $17.95
In this booming economy, there's a growing number of career-minded professionals who want an MBA but don't want to put their lives and careers on hold for the traditional two years it takes to get one. In BEARS' GUIDE TO THE BEST MBAs BY DISTANCE LEARNING, distance-learning experts John and Mariah Bear take you through every step of the process of getting an MBA without ever leaving your home, from choosing the right program (from the 100 featured… Read more »
