Susan Shelly

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

Teens are targeted as consumers more and more. This gives them tremendous influence, but it also sets them up to be taken advantage of. "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Money for Teens" teaches them how to get money, save and invest it, budget it, spend it wisely, and keep track of it. Whether they're saving for their first car, trying to make sense of a checking account statement, or trying to establish a good credit history, this guide has solid information and teen-tested tips.

Money for Teens

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Jonathan B. Freedman

It share the prominent triumph of student in America through the avaid program , great book for teachers and parents

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

As public education declined and many Americans despaired of their children's future, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Freedman volunteered as a writing mentor in some of California's toughest innercity schools. He discovered a program called AVID that gave him hope. In this work of creative non-fiction, Mr. Freedman interweaves the lives of AVID's founder, Mary Catherine Swanson, and six of her original AVID students over a 20-year period, from 1980 to 2000. With powerful personalities, explosive conflicts, and compelling action, Wall of Fame portrays the dramatic story of how one teacher in one classroom created a pragmatic program that has propelled thousands of students to college. This story of determination, courage, and hope inspires a new generation of teachers, students, and parents to fight for change from the bottom up.

Wall of Fame

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Jonas A. Clark

50 Confessions

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David Gardner

Tom Gardner

8 Steps to Having More Money Than Your Parents Ever Dreamed Of

A guide to becoming financially independent with tips on saving and investing.

The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens

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Steve Murrie

Matthew Murrie

Fun Facts That Happen Every 60 Seconds

In just one minute's time, 2,137 pounds of popcorn will be eaten, 954 camera phones will be sold, and 750,000 gallons of water will tumble over Niagara Falls! This book has tons of fun facts sure to grab kids' attention while describing all of the amazing things happening around the world in a minute. Divided into eight chapters (Earth, Space, Human Body, Food, Animals, Pop Culture, Technology, and Sports), this book has a short description and funny illustration on every page.

Every Minute on Earth

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Mary Pat Fisher

Joseph Alan Adler

Science

Living Religions presents a highly readable and stimulating survey of the modern religious world though an emphasis on the personal consciousness of believers and their own accounts of their religion and relevance in contemporary life. "Religion is not a museum piece. Religion is a vibrant force in the lives of many people around the world, and many religions are presently experiencing a renaissance." - Mary Pat Fisher, Preface to Living Religions Along with a team of specialist consultants in each faith, and drawing on a wealth of scholarly research and firsthand source material, Mary Pat Fisher provides a fresh and challenging insight into the historical development and teachings of traditional faiths, indigenous religions, and new religious movements. She considers how the contemporary beliefs and practices of each of these traditions have evolved, and explores the changing nature of each religion; particularly the role of women, and the issues and controversies such as fundamentalism, violence, globalization, and interfaith initiatives.

Living Religions

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Jenny Downham

Three women. Three generations. Three secrets.A Stonewall Honor Book!Katie's life is falling apart: her best friend thinks she's a freak, her mother, Caroline, controls every aspect of her life, and her estranged grandmother, Mary, appears as if out of nowhere. Mary has dementia and needs lots of care, and when Katie starts putting together Mary's life story, secrets and lies are uncovered: Mary's illegitimate baby, her zest for life and freedom and men; the way she lived her life to the full yet suffered huge sacrifices along the way. As the relationship between Mary and Caroline is explored, Katie begins to understand her own mother's behavior, and from that insight, the terrors about her sexuality, her future, and her younger brother are all put into perspective.Funny, sad, honest, and wise, this powerful multigenerational novel from international bestseller Jenny Downham celebrates life like no book before.

Unbecoming

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Heather Averett

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Cooking Light Five Star Recipes

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R. J. Palacio

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

WONDER IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS AND JACOB TREMBLAY Over 8 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. Auggie & Me gives readers a special look at Auggie's world through three new points of view. These stories are an extra peek at Auggie before he started at Beecher Prep and during his first year there. Readers get to see him through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie's oldest friend; and Charlotte, Auggie's new friend at school. Together, these three stories are a treasure for readers who don't want to leave Auggie behind when they finish Wonder.

Auggie and Me: Three Wonder Stories

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Stephen M. R. Covey

Rebecca R. Merrill

Stephen R. Covey

Self help for business and leaders become great

The One Thing That Changes Everything

Explains how trust is a key catalyst for personal and organizational success in the twenty-first century, in a guide for businesspeople that demonstrates how to inspire trust while overcoming bureaucratic obstacles.

The SPEED of Trust

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Jim Collins

Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

Good to Great

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T. D. Jakes

10 Women of the Bible Who Changed the World Through Prayer

Find power in your prayer like never before with this inspiring guide from #1 New York Times bestselling author Bishop T.D. Jakes. In a time when women carry more influence than any other generation, the power of prayer has never been more important to remind us that we do not have to bear our crosses alone. We need prayer to stand guard over our hearts and minds and over the hearts and minds of our families. Women today are shattering glass ceilings and forging new paths in the world. What Happens When a Woman Prays is a clarion call for women to continue their progressive march of empowerment by dreaming like their daughters and praying like their grandmothers. Through exploring the lives of 10 prayer-filled women of the Bible, Bishop Jakes emphasizes the life-changing power that women have when they find their identity, their strength, their healing, and their voices in Christ.

When Women Pray

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Morten T. Hansen

Collin’s delivers great message management is obtainable by mayor mortals and that practitioners can build great institutions

Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

The new question Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague, Morten Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times. The new study Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Collins’s prior work by its focus not just on performance, but also on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today. With a team of more than twenty researchers, Collins and Hansen studied companies that rose to greatness—beating their industry indexes by a minimum of ten times over fifteen years—in environments characterized by big forces and rapid shifts that leaders could not predict or control. The research team then contrasted these “10X companies” to a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to achieve greatness in similarly extreme environments. The new findings The study results were full of provocative surprises. Such as: The best leaders were not more risk taking, more visionary, and more creative than the comparisons; they were more disciplined, more empirical, and more paranoid. Innovation by itself turns out not to be the trump card in a chaotic and uncertain world; more important is the ability to scale innovation, to blend creativity with discipline. Following the belief that leading in a “fast world” always requires “fast decisions” and “fast action” is a good way to get killed. The great companies changed less in reaction to a radically changing world than the comparison companies. The authors challenge conventional wisdom with thought-provoking, sticky, and supremely practical concepts. They include: 10Xers; the 20 Mile March; Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs; Leading above the Death Line; Zoom Out, Then Zoom In; and the SMaC Recipe. Finally, in the last chapter, Collins and Hansen present their most provocative and original analysis: defining, quantifying, and studying the role of luck. The great companies and the leaders who built them were not luckier than the comparisons, but they did get a higher Return on Luck. This book is classic Collins: contrarian, data-driven, and uplifting. He and Hansen show convincingly that, even in a chaotic and uncertain world, greatness happens by choice, not chance.

Great by Choice

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Saundra Ciccarelli

J. White

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

An Exploration

For courses in Introductory Psychology

The most learner-centered and assessment-driven brief text available
Throughout Psychology: An Exploration , 4th Edition, Saundra Ciccarelli and J. Noland White employ a learner-centered, assessment-driven approach that maximizes student engagement, and helps educators keep students on track. In this brief text, the authors draw students into the discipline by showing how psychology relates to their own lives. Clear learning objectives, based on the recommended APA undergraduate learning outcomes, guide students through the material. And assessment tied to these learning objectives lets students check their understanding, while allowing instructors to monitor class progress and intervene when necessary to bolster student performance.

Available to package with Psychology: An Exploration, 4th Edition, MyLab(tm) Psychology is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. MyLab Psychology is ideal for courses requiring robust assessments.

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Psychology

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John Langan

English

The Reading-Writing Connection will help you become a more effective reader and writer. You will learn, in a nutshell, that good readers (1) recognize a main point and (2) recognize the support for that point, and that good writers (1) make a point and (2) support the point.

The Reading-Writing Connection

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Frankenstein: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Frankenstein 

Lucy Hood

Susan K. Leddy

Now in its Sixth Edition, this text provides nurses with a comprehensive overview of the evolving marketplace, emphasizing the need to develop and maintain sound professionalism. The book discusses the nurse's role in public policy and management of patient care. This edition includes new material on professional nursing roles, nursing management and leadership theories, quality improvement processes, and working in diverse and international communities.

Each chapter includes clinical vignettes representing real-life practice situations, thought-provoking questions to stimulate critical thinking, research briefs to promote the use of research in practice, and critical thinking exercises. Internet exercises are included to familiarize students with online resources.

Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing

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Caren Van Slyke

2 Practice Tests + Proven Strategies

With realistic practice, proven strategies, and expert guidance, Kaplan's GED Test Prep 2018 gives you everything you need to pass the test. Kaplan is the official partner for live online prep for the GED test and our content is 100% aligned with the GED test objectives. While other GED guides are intended for classroom use, our book is designed for self-study so you can prep at your own pace, on your own schedule. Kaplan is so certain that GED Test Prep 2018 offers the guidance you need that we guarantee it: After studying with our book, you'll pass the GED—or you'll get your money back. Essential Practice More than 1,000 practice questions with detailed explanations Two full-length practice tests: one in the book and one online A diagnostic pretest to help you set up a personalized study plan Essential skills and review for all GED subjects: Reasoning through Language Arts, Mathematical Reasoning, Science, and Social Studies Effective strategies for writing extended responses and short answers that appear on three of the four tests Clear instructions on using the Texas Instruments TI-30XS MultiView calculator Expert Guidance We know the test: Our Learning Engineers have put tens of thousands of hours into studying the GED – using real data to design the most effective strategies and study plans. Kaplan's expert psychometricians make sure our practice questions and study materials are true to the test. We invented test prep—Kaplan (www.kaptest.com) has been helping students for almost 80 years. Our proven strategies have helped legions of students achieve their dreams. Want more expert guidance in 60 online videos? Try GED Test Prep Plus 2018. The previous edition of this book was titled GED Test 2017 Strategies, Practice & Review with 2 Practice Tests.

GED Test Prep 2018-2019

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J.Mills

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