Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Life Is What You Make It Life Is What You Make It Preeti Shenoy Book Summary of "Life Is What You Make It" What would you do if destiny twisted the road you took? What if it threw you to a place you did not want to go? Would you fight, would you run or would y… OL16084910W
This is NOT a fire drill This is NOT a fire drill Rick Myer "Recent tragedies on college and university campuses have highlighted the need for more comprehensive crisis management in higher education. Written by seasoned crisis intervention and prevention spe… OL16296103W
Home colleging Home colleging Patricia Marx "Welcome to Lumpkin Home College! Why Lumpkin, you ask? Because, Bradley H. Lumpkin, you took Ceramics instead of Physics. Because 'Pot Is My Passion' wasn't a smart topic for your college applicatio… OL17979810W
Dyslexia at college Dyslexia at college Miles, T. R. Offers useful and practical advice to students about how to get the most from their college experience and from the kind of support which is available. It also provides teachers with the information… OL1916847W
Collaborative Learning Collaborative Learning Kenneth A. Bruffee Advocates a far-reaching change in the relations between college and university professors and their students, between the learned and the learning. OL2030323W
African American men in college African American men in college Michael J. Cuyjet Publisher description: This book offers help for administrators and faculty concerned with recruitment, retention, and graduation of African American men. The book has two main purposes: First, to fi… OL20546075W
Planning for effective faculty development Planning for effective faculty development Patricia A. Lawler,Kathleen P. King Views faculty as adult learners and faculty development programs and initiatives as adult education. Introduces concepts of adult learning and program development in adult education and sets forth a … OL20623928W
Student Writing Student Writing Theresa M. Lillis Student Writing presents an accessible and thought-provoking study of academic writing practices. Informed by 'composition' research from the US and 'academic literacies studies' from the UK, the boo… OL222009W
The feminist classroom The feminist classroom Frances A. Maher "Drawing on in-depth interviews and using the actual words of students and teachers, the authors take the reader into classrooms at six colleges and universities - Lewis and Clark College, Wheaton Co… OL3455623W
The student loan handbook The student loan handbook Lana J. Chandler Describes all popular forms of financial aid for college, trade school, or technical training, including work study, grant, and scholarship programs, and presents family financial planning guidelines. OL4454014W
Biochemistry and human metabolism Biochemistry and human metabolism Burnham Sarle Walker,William C. Boyd,Isaac Asimov This is a medical text-book, designed for college students. It was written by three professors at the Boston University School of Medicine. They also taught its subject in their classes, they updated… OL6441037W
Indignation Indignation Philip A. Roth A dazzling new novel from a modern master of the form.It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is b… OL74649W
Joy in the Morning Joy in the Morning Betty Smith ***In Brooklyn, New York, in 1927, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love.*** Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law to marry hi… OL78356W