 | United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination
Publication Date: 2010This text is designed for a one-semester or one-year United States history course for students preparing to take the AP U.S. History Exam. Teachers can assign the book as the course textbook or as a supplement to a college-level textbook. U.S. History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination presents the history of the United States from pre-Columbian times to the Obama administration. It follows the curriculum put out by the College Board for this course of study. Thirty chapters, each covering a different time period. Each chapter begins with an historical qu...
 |  | The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Publication Date: June 15, 2012Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world. The author has been described by Fortune as a 'guru to industry' and by Businessweek as a 'genius'. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry - even to your bosses - but not to your competitors. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be ...
|  | Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0495812412 | ISBN-13: 978-0495812418| Edition: 8 Up to date and comprehensive, this practical, bestselling text (now available with an online personalized study plan) provides students with the basis for discovering their own guidelines for helping within the broad limits of professional codes of ethics and divergent theoretical positions. Respected authors Gerald Corey, Marianne Corey, and Patrick Callanan raise what they consider to be central issues, present a range of diverse views on these issues, discuss their position, and present many o...
|  | The Secret
Release Date: November 28, 2006Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it. In this book, you'll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life -- money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You'll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that's within you, and this revelation can bring joy to...
|  | A Father First: How My Life Became Bigger Than Basketball
Release Date: September 4, 2012 Dwyane Wade, the eight-time All-Star for the Miami Heat, has miraculously defied the odds throughout his career and his life. In 2006, in just his third season in the NBA, Dwyane was named the Finals' MVP, after leading the Miami Heat to the Championship title, basketball's ultimate prize. Two years later, after possible career-ending injuries, he again rose from the ashes of doubt to help win a gold medal for the United States at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. As co-captain, he helped lead the Heat to triumph in the 2012 NBA Championship. Little wonder that legen...
|  | The Kite Runner
Release Date: April 27, 2004The timely and critically acclaimed debut novel that's becoming a word-of-mouth phenomenon. An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takesus from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocitiesof the present.The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the processof being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price ofbetrayal, and the possibility of redempti...
|  | Barron's SAT, 26th Edition (Barron's Sat (Book Only))
Publication Date: August 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 1438000197 | ISBN-13: 978-1438000190| Edition: 26 The newly revised edition ofBarron's SATmanual presents:A diagnostic test and five full-length practice tests with all questions answered and explainedTest-taking tactics for the exam as a whole, and special strategies for each part of the testSubject reviews covering critical reading, grammar and usage, and mathDetailed instruction in writing the required SAT essayAn overview of the SAT, an explanation of the test's scoring method, and study advice Year after year, Barron's con...
|  | A History of Western Music (Eighth Edition)
Publication Date: January 30, 2009| ISBN-10: 0393931250 | ISBN-13: 978-0393931259| Edition: Eighth Edition The Eighth Edition of A History of WesternMusic is a vivid,accessible, and richly contextual view of music in Western culture.Building on his monumental revision of the Seventh Edition, PeterBurkholder has refined an inspired narrative for a new generation ofstudents, placing people at the center of the story.The narrative of AHistory of Western Music naturally focuseson the musical works, styles, genres, and ideasthat have proven most influential, enduring, and significant—b...
|  | The Kill Order (Maze Runner Prequel)
Release Date: August 14, 2012| Series: Maze Runner The prequel to the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series.Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth and mankind fell to disease. Mark and Trina were there when it happened, and they survived. But surviving the sun flares was easy compared to what came next.Now a disease of rage and lunacy races across the eastern United States, and there’s something suspicious about its origin. Worse yet, it’s mutating, and all evidence suggests that it will bri...
|  | Life After Death
Release Date: September 18, 2012In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr.—who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three—were arrested for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence, false testimony, and public hysteria. Baldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life in prison; while eighteen-year-old Echols, deemed the “ringleader,” was sentenced to death. Over the next two decades, the WM3 became known worldwide as a symbol of wrongful conviction and imprisonment, with...
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