• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

    The updated edition of the book that has changed millions of lives with its insights into the growth mindset. After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with a g... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0345472322
    • ASIN: 0345472322
    • ISBN: 9780345472328
    • Brand: Ballantine Books
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

  • The Craft of Research, Fourth Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

    With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level—from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in business and government—learn how to conduct effective and meaningful research. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, this fundamental work explains how to find and evaluate sources, anticipate and respond to reader reservations, and integrate these pieces into an argument that... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 022623973X
    • ASIN: 022623973X
    • ISBN: 022623973X
    • Brand: University of Chicago Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

  • Official GRE Super Power Pack, Second Edition

    Save money and get total official GRE test preparation with this 3 book bundle from the test maker! This Power Pack includes three Official Guides: The Official Guide to the GRE, 3rd edition Official GRE Quantitative Reasoning Questions, Volume 1, Second Edition Official GRE Verbal Reasoning Questions, Volume 1, Second Edition This Official GRE Super Power Pack 2017 Edition provides key information and the practice you need to do your best on the GRE General Test. For less than what you would pay for each book separately, the bundle packages. The Official Guide to the GRE General Test, 3rd Ed... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1260026396
    • UPC: 781349366667
    • ASIN: 1260026396
    • ISBN: 1260026396
    • Brand: McGraw-Hill Education
    • Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

  • Proposal Writing: Effective Grantsmanship for Funding (SAGE Sourcebooks for the Human Services)

    The updated Fifth Edition of the best-selling Proposal Writing: Effective Grantsmanship for Funding offers a fresh, robust presentation of the basics of program design and proposal writing for community services funding. Authors Soraya M. Coley and Cynthia A. Scheinberg help readers develop the knowledge they need to understand community agencies, identify and describe community needs, identify funding sources, develop a viable program evaluation, prepare a simple line-item budget, and write a compelling need statement. The jargon-free, step-by-step presentation makes the book as useful to stu... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1483376435
    • ASIN: 1483376435
    • ISBN: 1483376435
    • Brand: SAGE Publications, Inc
    • Manufacturer: SAGE Publications, Inc

  • Proposal Writing for Nursing Capstones and Clinical Projects

    While advanced practice nursing students generally have good clinical skills, many lack the clinical scholarship capabilities that are required for writing scholarly proposals. The only resource of its kind, this is a practical guide for MSN project students and DNP capstone students who must plan and organize their clinical projects into quality proposals. It provides the requisite guidelines for integrating research and best evidence with clearly communicated professional objectives. The book's "how-to" approach helps to demystify the organization and packaging of advanced practice clinical ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0826122884
    • ASIN: 0826122884
    • ISBN: 0826122884
    • Manufacturer: Springer Publishing Company

  • Writing a Successful Thesis or Dissertation: Tips and Strategies for Students in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

    This comprehensive manual offers direction for every step of the thesis or dissertation process, from choosing an appropriate topic to adapting the finished work for publication.

    • ASIN: 141294225X
    • ASIN: 141294225X
    • ISBN: 141294225X
    • Brand: Corwin
    • Manufacturer: Corwin

  • Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

    In addition to providing guidance on grammar, the mechanics of writing, and APA style, this manual offers an authoritative reference and citation system. It also covers the treatment of numbers, statistical and mathematical data, tables and figures.

    • ASIN: 1433805596
    • ASIN: 1433805596
    • ISBN: 9781433805592
    • Brand: American Psychological Association
    • Manufacturer: American Psychological Association (APA)

  • Essay Exam Writing for the California Bar Exam

    Based on the authors proven-effective methodology, Essay Exam Writing for the California Bar Exam contains everything bar exam candidates need to pass the essay portion of the California bar exam. This text combines instruction and practice in essay writing, fact analysis, and issue spotting, with a remarkably efficient review of substantive law, as well as time management tips and strategies for improving test performance. New to the Second Edition: Updates to the law (there have been some important changes to the law, particularly in Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure a... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1454898526
    • ASIN: 1454898526
    • ISBN: 1454898526
    • Manufacturer: Wolters Kluwer

  • Applied Behavior Analysis (2nd Edition)

    Applied Behavior Analysis provides a complete description of the principles and procedures needed to systematically change socially significant behavior and to understand the reasons for that change. This comprehensive text, appropriate for courses in basic principles, applications, and behavioral research methods, helps students, educators, and practitioners appreciate and begin to acquire the conceptual and technical skills necessary to foster socially adaptive behavior in diverse individuals.

    • ASIN: 0131421131
    • ASIN: 0131421131
    • ISBN: 0131421131
    • Brand: Cooper, John O./ Heron, Timothy E./ Heward, William L.
    • Manufacturer: Pearson

  • Program Evaluation for Social Workers: Foundations of Evidence-Based Programs

    Now in its seventh edition, this comprehensive text once again provides beginning social work students and practitioners with a proven, time-tested approach to help them understand and appreciate how to use basic evaluation techniques within their individual cases (case-level) and the programs where they work (program-level). As with the previous six editions, this text is eminently approachable, accessible, straightforward, and most importantly, practical.

    • ASIN: 0190227303
    • ASIN: 0190227303
    • ISBN: 0190227303
    • Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings (The IVP Bible Dictionary Series)

    2009 Christianity Today Merit Award winner2009 ECPA Gold Medallion (Bible Reference Study) The Old Testament books of wisdom and poetry carry themselves differently from those of the Pentateuch, the histories or the prophets. The divine voice does not peal from Sinai, there are no narratives carried along by prophetic interpretation nor are oracles declaimed by a prophet. Here Scripture often speaks in the words of human response to God and God's world. The hymns, laments and thanksgivings of Israel, the dirge of Lamentations, the questionings of Qohelet, the love poetry of the Song of Songs, ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0830817832
    • ASIN: 0830817832
    • ISBN: 0830817832
    • Brand: InterVarsity Press
    • Manufacturer: IVP Academic

  • The Only Academic Phrasebook You'll Ever Need: 600 Examples of Academic Language

    11,000 COPIES SOLD (AS OF MARCH 2019)The Only Academic Phrasebook You’ll Ever Need is a short, no-nonsense, reader-friendly bank of academic sentence templates. It was written for both graduate and undergraduate students who already know the basics of academic writing but may still struggle to express their ideas using the right words. The Only Academic Phrasebook You’ll Ever Need contains 600 sentence templates organized around the typical sections of an academic paper. Here are some examples: 1. Establishing a research territory: The last few years have seen an increased interest in ____... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1539527751
    • ASIN: 1539527751
    • ISBN: 1539527751
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

  • A Student's Guide to Academic and Professional Writing in Education

    This concise handbook helps educators write for the rhetorical situations they will face as students of education, and as preservice and practicing teachers. It provides clear and helpful advice for responding to the varying contexts, audiences, and purposes that arise in four written categories in education: classroom, research, credential, and stakeholder writing. The book moves from academic to professional writing and chapters include a discussion of relevant genres, mentor texts with salient features identified, visual aids, and exercises that ask students to apply their understanding of ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0807761230
    • ASIN: 0807761230
    • ISBN: 0807761230
    • Brand: Teachers College Press
    • Manufacturer: Teachers College Press

  • An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics)

    An Introduction to Statistical Learning provides an accessible overview of the field of statistical learning, an essential toolset for making sense of the vast and complex data sets that have emerged in fields ranging from biology to finance to marketing to astrophysics in the past twenty years. This book presents some of the most important modeling and prediction techniques, along with relevant applications. Topics include linear regression, classification, resampling methods, shrinkage approaches, tree-based methods, support vector machines, clustering, and more. Color graphics and real-worl... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1461471370
    • ASIN: 1461471370
    • ISBN: 1461471370
    • Brand: Springer
    • Manufacturer: Springer

  • Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)

    Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan builds readers’ knowledge of and confidence in statistical modeling. Reflecting the need for even minor programming in today’s model-based statistics, the book pushes readers to perform step-by-step calculations that are usually automated. This unique computational approach ensures that readers understand enough of the details to make reasonable choices and interpretations in their own modeling work. The text presents generalized linear multilevel models from a Bayesian perspective, relying on a simple logical interpret... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1482253445
    • ASIN: 1482253445
    • ISBN: 1482253445
    • Manufacturer: Chapman and Hall/CRC

  • How To Gain Acceptance Into Top Graduate Programs: Best Kept Admission Secrets No More - eBook

    Get into Your First-Choice Graduate Program!Are you trying to maximize your future potential?Do you want to maximize your chances of acceptance by graduate schools?Would you like to know what really works (and what doesn’t) on

    • UPC: 139191876

  • Shut Up Shut Down

    The hard times faced by steelworkers and miners in America's rust belt inform these poetic oral

    • UPC: 25013095
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  • Coal Mountain Elementary

    "A tribute to miners and working people everywhere."--Howard

    • UPC: 10726212

  • The Successful High School Writing Center : Building the Best Program with Your Students

    The Successful High School Writing Center: Building the Best Program with Your Students (Language and Literacy Series), Dawn Fels, Jennifer

    • UPC: 16931165

  • The Successful High School Writing Center : Building the Best Program with Your Students

    This book highlights the work of talented writing center teachers who share practices and lessons learned from today's most important high school writing centers. The authors offer innovative methods for secondary educators who deal with

    • UPC: 16930545

  • The "Unwholesome" Side of MFA Programs

    How I Got into 4 Creative Writing MFA Programs

    In Praise of MFA Programs