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about Centering Possibility in Black Education

by Chezare A. Warren ...

Series series School : Questions
Improving education outcomes for Black students begins with resisting racist characterizations of blackness. Chezare A. Warren, a nationally recognized scholar of race and education equity, emphasizes the imperative that possibility drive efforts aimed at transforming education for Black learners. Inspired by the “freedom dreaming” of activists in the Black radical tradition, the book is comprised ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Improving education outcomes for Black students begins with resisting racist characterizations of blackness. Chezare A. Warren, a nationally recognized scholar of race and education equity, emphasizes the imperative that possibility drive efforts aimed at transforming education for Black learners. Inspired by the “freedom dreaming” of activists in the Black radical tradition, the book is comprised
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ASVAB Premium Prep 2026-2027: Includes 6 Full Length Practice Tests, 1000+ Practice Questions + In-book tear out Flashcards + Online Access to Interactive Video Lessons and Tutorials (Kaplan Test Prep)

by Kaplan Test Prep ...

Series series Kaplan Test Prep
Fully updated for 2026-2027, ASVAB Premium Prep is the gold standard preparation system designed to help you secure your place in the armed forces. Developed by seasoned ASVAB tutors and military professionals, this guide offers unparalleled value for aspiring military personnel through a comprehensive study approach.6 Full-Length Practice Tests: Simulate the actual exam experience with 6 total ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Fully updated for 2026-2027, ASVAB Premium Prep is the gold standard preparation system designed to help you secure your place in the armed forces. Developed by seasoned ASVAB tutors and military professionals, this guide offers unparalleled value for aspiring military personnel through a comprehensive study approach.6 Full-Length Practice Tests: Simulate the actual exam experience with 6 total
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Streams

Life Secrets for Writing Poems and Songs

by Sandra Hochman ...

Series series The Sandra Hochman Collection
- Activist, socialite, and artist: Hochman has a wide network of well-known and culturally-important artists, writers, journalist, producers, and many more. She has collaborated with Gloria Steinem on The Year of the Woman (re-released recently by Huffington Films), a film that showcases one of the most pivotal times for feminism in the 1970s. Amongst her friends were Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, ... Read more

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- Activist, socialite, and artist: Hochman has a wide network of well-known and culturally-important artists, writers, journalist, producers, and many more. She has collaborated with Gloria Steinem on The Year of the Woman (re-released recently by Huffington Films), a film that showcases one of the most pivotal times for feminism in the 1970s. Amongst her friends were Truman Capote, Norman Mailer,
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Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired

Resolve Workplace Crises Before You Quit, Get Axed, or Sue the Bastards

by Donna Ballman ...

Take a deep breath and learn how to deal with a bad work situation: "Like having an employment attorney on call. . . . It's exactly what employees need." —Alison Green, author of Ask A ManagerUSA Best Book Award WinnerHate your job? Ready to quit? Facing a layoff before you even have a chance to quit? Is your boss is a flaming jerk? Think you might have a lawsuit? If any of these scenarios apply ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Take a deep breath and learn how to deal with a bad work situation: "Like having an employment attorney on call. . . . It's exactly what employees need." —Alison Green, author of Ask A ManagerUSA Best Book Award WinnerHate your job? Ready to quit? Facing a layoff before you even have a chance to quit? Is your boss is a flaming jerk? Think you might have a lawsuit? If any of these scenarios apply
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Business Writing for Technical People

The most effective ways to get your message across

by Carrie Marshall ...

Technically-minded people can struggle with business writing and many businesses get it wrong, losing their readers in avalanches of acronyms and jungles of technical jargon. It doesn’t have to be that way. In this book you’ll discover how to give your communication skills an upgrade, exploring the tips and tricks that will enable you to write effectively and persuasively for any audience. You’ll ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Technically-minded people can struggle with business writing and many businesses get it wrong, losing their readers in avalanches of acronyms and jungles of technical jargon. It doesn’t have to be that way. In this book you’ll discover how to give your communication skills an upgrade, exploring the tips and tricks that will enable you to write effectively and persuasively for any audience. You’ll
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The Jossey-Bass Reader on Educational Leadership

Edited by Margaret Grogan ...

The newest edition of the bestselling book on educational leadershipThis expanded and thoroughly updated edition of the popular anthology contains the articles, book excerpts, and seminal reports that define and drive the field of educational leadership today. Filled with critical insights from bestselling authors, education research, and expert practitioners, this comprehensive volume features ... Read more

$38.00 USD

The newest edition of the bestselling book on educational leadershipThis expanded and thoroughly updated edition of the popular anthology contains the articles, book excerpts, and seminal reports that define and drive the field of educational leadership today. Filled with critical insights from bestselling authors, education research, and expert practitioners, this comprehensive volume features
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Homeschooling for the Rest of Us

How Your One-of-a-Kind Family Can Make Homeschooling and Real Life Work

by Sonya Haskins ...

Homeschooling parents are under great pressure. Besides trying to balance teaching responsibilities and family life, they often face unrealistic expectations from relatives, churches, other homeschoolers, and society at large. Even parents considering homeschooling sense the need to be perfect.Sonya Haskins doesn't want any more families to give up on homeschooling. In this book she shares ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Homeschooling parents are under great pressure. Besides trying to balance teaching responsibilities and family life, they often face unrealistic expectations from relatives, churches, other homeschoolers, and society at large. Even parents considering homeschooling sense the need to be perfect.Sonya Haskins doesn't want any more families to give up on homeschooling. In this book she shares
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Pharmacist 101

101 Tips to Start, Grow, and Succeed as a Pharmacist From A to Z

by HowExpert, Ann Klemz PharmD ...

If you want to learn how to become a pharmacist, then get this “Pharmacist 101” guide today!In Pharmacist 101, you will learn these top lessons from a real pharmacist.• Evaluation of the real pharmacy lifestyle• Broken down into sections for before pharmacy school, during pharmacy school, during rotations, and after graduation• Additional chapters on finance and extra reading suggestions• Expanded ... Read more

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If you want to learn how to become a pharmacist, then get this “Pharmacist 101” guide today!In Pharmacist 101, you will learn these top lessons from a real pharmacist.• Evaluation of the real pharmacy lifestyle• Broken down into sections for before pharmacy school, during pharmacy school, during rotations, and after graduation• Additional chapters on finance and extra reading suggestions• Expanded
... Read more
Copywriting Second Edition

Successful Writing for Design, Advertising, Marketing

by Mark Shaw ...

Writing copy is often assumed to be a natural talent. However, there are simple techniques you can employ to craft strong written content with ease. This new, expanded edition teaches the art of writing great copy for digital media, branding, advertising, direct marketing, retailing, catalogues, company magazines and internal communications.Using a series of exercises and up-to-date illustrated ... Read more

$2.99 USD

Writing copy is often assumed to be a natural talent. However, there are simple techniques you can employ to craft strong written content with ease. This new, expanded edition teaches the art of writing great copy for digital media, branding, advertising, direct marketing, retailing, catalogues, company magazines and internal communications.Using a series of exercises and up-to-date illustrated
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Spanish Short Stories For Beginners: 56 Entertaining Short Stories To Refresh Your Spanish

by Felipe Moya, Leslie Pérez ...

Have you always wished you could carry on simple dialogues in Spanish?But then it got frustrating because you just couldn't keep up with real-life conversations?Have you studied with numerous books and methods—only that they're either so difficult you get a headache or so dull and easy they bore you to sleep?If this sounds like you, we get it—and we have just the thing to solve your problems.So ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Have you always wished you could carry on simple dialogues in Spanish?But then it got frustrating because you just couldn't keep up with real-life conversations?Have you studied with numerous books and methods—only that they're either so difficult you get a headache or so dull and easy they bore you to sleep?If this sounds like you, we get it—and we have just the thing to solve your problems.So
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Expletive Deleted

A Good Look at Bad Language

by Ruth Wajnryb ...

Have we always "sworn like sailors"? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese, for instance) supposedly do not contain any nasty words? Throughout the twentieth century there seems to have been a dramatic escalation in the use and acceptance of offensive language in ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Have we always "sworn like sailors"? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese, for instance) supposedly do not contain any nasty words? Throughout the twentieth century there seems to have been a dramatic escalation in the use and acceptance of offensive language in
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It Just Doesn't Add Up

Explaining Dyscalculia and Overcoming Number Problems for Children and Adults

by Paul Moorcraft ...

• This book explains dyscalculia — but for the first time from the perspective of a sufferer. • It is estimated up to 5% of the population suffers from the condition • Often humorous, sufferers and their carers will find it a relief and a joy to share experiences and learn more about how to cope. ... Read more

$17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

• This book explains dyscalculia — but for the first time from the perspective of a sufferer. • It is estimated up to 5% of the population suffers from the condition • Often humorous, sufferers and their carers will find it a relief and a joy to share experiences and learn more about how to cope.
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Handgun Reloading The Basics

by Michael Billing ...

Series series Ammunition Reloading
A practical guide to reloading Handgun ammunition. This guide shows an easy step by step process to manufacturing your own ammunition. Each step of the process is explained with words and pictures so as the reader can understand the reloading process. Explanation of how to set up the reloading dies is explained as this is critical to the process of manfucturing ammunition. All this and more is ... Read more

$7.03 USD

A practical guide to reloading Handgun ammunition. This guide shows an easy step by step process to manufacturing your own ammunition. Each step of the process is explained with words and pictures so as the reader can understand the reloading process. Explanation of how to set up the reloading dies is explained as this is critical to the process of manfucturing ammunition. All this and more is
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Critical Thinking

Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life

by Richard Paul, Linda Elder ...

Written by two of the leading experts in the field, this introductory text presents critical thinking as a process for taking charge of and responsibility for one’s thinking.Based in theory developed over the last 30 years, Richard Paul and Linda Elder's text focuses on an integrated, comprehensive concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical. It fosters the development of ... Read more

$72.99 USD

Written by two of the leading experts in the field, this introductory text presents critical thinking as a process for taking charge of and responsibility for one’s thinking.Based in theory developed over the last 30 years, Richard Paul and Linda Elder's text focuses on an integrated, comprehensive concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical. It fosters the development of
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Statistics Made Simple for School Leaders

A New Approach for Using Student, Staff, and Community Data

by David J. Carroll, Susan Rovezzi Carroll ...

School leaders come in many forms - superintendents, principals and other building leaders, department heads, Board of Education members, heads of the Parent Teacher organizations, teachers’ union representatives, state and federal agency heads, and others. As leaders they are expected to make wise, expeditious and knowledgeable decisions. It is not acceptable to speculate and base decisions on ... Read more

$30.99 USD

School leaders come in many forms - superintendents, principals and other building leaders, department heads, Board of Education members, heads of the Parent Teacher organizations, teachers’ union representatives, state and federal agency heads, and others. As leaders they are expected to make wise, expeditious and knowledgeable decisions. It is not acceptable to speculate and base decisions on
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Point Made

How to Write Like the Nation's Top Advocates

by Ross Guberman ...

With Point Made, legal writing expert, Ross Guberman, throws a life preserver to attorneys, who are under more pressure than ever to produce compelling prose. What is the strongest opening for a motion or brief? How to draft winning headings? How to tell a persuasive story when the record is dry and dense? The answers are "more science than art," says Guberman, who has analyzed stellar arguments ... Read more

$30.99 USD

With Point Made, legal writing expert, Ross Guberman, throws a life preserver to attorneys, who are under more pressure than ever to produce compelling prose. What is the strongest opening for a motion or brief? How to draft winning headings? How to tell a persuasive story when the record is dry and dense? The answers are "more science than art," says Guberman, who has analyzed stellar arguments
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How to Find Out Anything

From Extreme Google Searches to Scouring Government Documents, a Guide to Uncovering Anything About Everyone and Everything

by Don MacLeod ...

In How to Find Out Anything, master researcher Don MacLeod explains how to find what you're looking for quickly, efficiently, and accurately—and how to avoid the most common mistakes of the Google Age.Not your average research book, How to Find Out Anything shows you how to unveil nearly anything about anyone. From top CEO’s salaries to police records, you’ll learn little-known tricks for ... Read more

$8.99 USD

In How to Find Out Anything, master researcher Don MacLeod explains how to find what you're looking for quickly, efficiently, and accurately—and how to avoid the most common mistakes of the Google Age.Not your average research book, How to Find Out Anything shows you how to unveil nearly anything about anyone. From top CEO’s salaries to police records, you’ll learn little-known tricks for
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How To Write ... Steampunk

by Evelyn Page ...

Step into the mesmerizing world of steampunk, where the elegance of Victorian aesthetics collides with the wonders of advanced machinery and fantastical inventions. "How to Write Steampunk Mysteries" is the ultimate guide for aspiring authors eager to master this enchanting genre. Evelyn Page invites you to explore the intricate settings and dynamic characters that define steampunk narratives, ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Step into the mesmerizing world of steampunk, where the elegance of Victorian aesthetics collides with the wonders of advanced machinery and fantastical inventions. "How to Write Steampunk Mysteries" is the ultimate guide for aspiring authors eager to master this enchanting genre. Evelyn Page invites you to explore the intricate settings and dynamic characters that define steampunk narratives,
... Read more
New York's Finest

Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City

by Michael Daly ...

The gritty, true blue story of two remarkable cops and an equally extraordinary nurse who provided the spirit and smarts that transformed Fear City into the safest big city in America.NEW YORK'S FINEST is the story of a city's transformation through the tireless efforts of Detective Steven McDonald, Nurse Justiniano, Jack Maple, and a host of hero cops—including the great niece of Jazz Age great ... Read more

$12.99 USD

The gritty, true blue story of two remarkable cops and an equally extraordinary nurse who provided the spirit and smarts that transformed Fear City into the safest big city in America.NEW YORK'S FINEST is the story of a city's transformation through the tireless efforts of Detective Steven McDonald, Nurse Justiniano, Jack Maple, and a host of hero cops—including the great niece of Jazz Age great
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The Creative Habit

Learn It and Use It for Life

by Twyla Tharp ...

One of the world’s leading creative artists, choreographers, and creator of the smash-hit Broadway show, Movin’ Out, shares her secrets for developing and honing your creative talents—at once prescriptive and inspirational, a book to stand alongside The Artist’s Way and Bird by Bird.All it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. It is the product of ... Read more

$14.99 USD

One of the world’s leading creative artists, choreographers, and creator of the smash-hit Broadway show, Movin’ Out, shares her secrets for developing and honing your creative talents—at once prescriptive and inspirational, a book to stand alongside The Artist’s Way and Bird by Bird.All it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. It is the product of
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An Introduction to Communication

by Lynn H. Turner, Richard West ...

Prioritizing brevity and clarity, this textbook introduces the study of communication through examples and applications of communication in a variety of contexts. With a unique focus on diversity and the impact of culture, each chapter opens with a case study that identifies a communication challenge, which the chapter addresses throughout, and concludes with questions that respond to that ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Prioritizing brevity and clarity, this textbook introduces the study of communication through examples and applications of communication in a variety of contexts. With a unique focus on diversity and the impact of culture, each chapter opens with a case study that identifies a communication challenge, which the chapter addresses throughout, and concludes with questions that respond to that
... Read more
Imaginary Languages

Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions

by Marina Yaguello ...

Translated by Erik Butler ...

An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.In Imaginary Languages, Marina Yaguello explores the history and practice of inventing languages, from religious speaking in tongues to politically utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics. She looks for imagined ... Read more

$18.99 USD

An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.In Imaginary Languages, Marina Yaguello explores the history and practice of inventing languages, from religious speaking in tongues to politically utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics. She looks for imagined
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Korean Made Simple

A beginner's guide to learning the Korean language

by Billy Go ...

Series Book 1 - Korean Made Simple
Korean Made Simple is a book for anyone who wishes to begin learning the Korean language. No matter your age, you can learn how to read, write, speak and understand Korean.Learn the Korean writing system, Korean culture, and even history. Learn over 1,000 vocabulary words and phrases through 20 in-depth and fun lessons, filled with plenty of examples. Additionally, practice sections with answer ... Read more

$14.98 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Korean Made Simple is a book for anyone who wishes to begin learning the Korean language. No matter your age, you can learn how to read, write, speak and understand Korean.Learn the Korean writing system, Korean culture, and even history. Learn over 1,000 vocabulary words and phrases through 20 in-depth and fun lessons, filled with plenty of examples. Additionally, practice sections with answer
... Read more
How to Think Like a Mathematician

A Companion to Undergraduate Mathematics

by Kevin Houston ...

Looking for a head start in your undergraduate degree in mathematics? Maybe you've already started your degree and feel bewildered by the subject you previously loved? Don't panic! This friendly companion will ease your transition to real mathematical thinking. Working through the book you will develop an arsenal of techniques to help you unlock the meaning of definitions, theorems and proofs, ... Read more

$38.99 USD

Looking for a head start in your undergraduate degree in mathematics? Maybe you've already started your degree and feel bewildered by the subject you previously loved? Don't panic! This friendly companion will ease your transition to real mathematical thinking. Working through the book you will develop an arsenal of techniques to help you unlock the meaning of definitions, theorems and proofs,
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