Product Description: Book by Linz, Cathie

Chronicles briefly scientific theories about and search for intelligent life beyond the Earth.

Product Description: This revision of the author's edited collection of cases will expose readers to real world situations in the fields of hospitality marketing and management. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Outlines the admissions process, suggests strategies for choosing the right school, and discusses the role of parents

Updated Edition of Bestseller!Full of warmth and humor, this book will help educators and parents work positively with kids to strengthen their self-esteem and feelings of self-worth.

College Learning and Study Skills provides an excellent in-depth examination of the academic strategies students need to succeed in class. The text offers detailed advice with little busy work and focuses on the essential areas that students need to pass their exams, complete assignments, and write informative term papers. Noted for its interactive text/workbook format and student-friendly style, all the exercises in the book help monitor students' comprehension of each chapter. Throughout the book there are numerous opportunities for the students to reflect on their own habits and to practice their writing, research, and use of the Internet. Detailed examples are integrated throughout the narrative so that students can see the application of essential study skills in a real life context.

Taras Stepaniak, a half-Russian, half-Ukrainian opportunist, is hired by the leader of Russian militant nationalists who want to seize the Soviet nuclear arsenal, but Taras's divided loyalties threaten to tear him apart. Reprint.

Product Description: ORIENTATION TO COLLEGE: A READER ON BECOMING AN EDUCATED PERSON offers a rich collection of articles designed to encourage students to reflect on the meaning of a college education, and to explore the opportunities for personal and professional development offered in college...read more

Product Description: Now in its third edition, this bestseller offers new data, recommendations, and observations that explore the choices for success available to students in the academic middle.

Product Description: This college orientation text emphasizes self-management and strategic planning by reinforcing the principles of a long-acclaimed corporate tool called Continuous Quality Improvement (teamwork, creative thinking and problem-solving in small groups, making decisions on the basis of data, and the fervent desire to continuously improve ones products and services)...read more

Product Description: Teachers, counselors, and youth workers love to give their students these sturdy, credit-card-size reminders of the positive values that should guide kids in life. One side lists the six assets dealing with positive values, and the other side gives questions to help young people make reasonable choices...read more

Product Description: This handy tri-fold laminated pocket reference for students has a host of URL addresses related to college success-to give your students a guided tour of the Internet! Available free when packaged with many Wadsworth texts.

This book will appeal to coordinators of College Success courses-in particular, those who place equal emphasis on academic skills and personal adjustment. It is innovative and pedagogically sound and addresses course topics from the standpoint of the individual.

A workbook style text that includes extensive coverage of mainstream college success topics with a focus on the unique challenges facing student athletes.

Product Description: By Mark D. Meyers and J. Doyle Casteel. Thirty reproducible story dilemmas challenge students to develop and practice decision-making strategies. Dealing with issues such as conflict, cooperation, and competition, students react to the dilemmas both on an individual basis and in small groups aiming for consensus...read more

Product Description: Shows users how the keys to success in higher education are also the keys to success in life. Conversely, this text shows how the same academic and personal skills for college success will also ensure their success in their professional careers and personal lives.