Written in a positive, motivational style, On Course empowers students with tools they need to take charge of their success in college and life. Downing's distinctive guided journal entries help students develop essential life skills by encouraging exploration of personal responsibility, self-motivation, interdependence, and self-esteem. Extensive coverage of study skills--including reading, note taking, memorizing, and test taking--provided in the Wise Choices in College sections help students excel in all of their college courses.

Product Description: The On Course Success Strategies Review Card is a two-sided laminated card with the 8 Choices of Successful Students on one side and the Wise Choice Process on the other. Use this card to integrate On Course strategies in any course at your campus or to encourage students to carry key elements from the On Course text with them at all times! Quantity discounts are available from your Cengage Learning sales representative...read more

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Product Description: ON COURSE: STRATEGIES FOR CREATING SUCCESS IN COLLEGE AND IN LIFE, STUDY SKILLS PLUS, 3rd Edition, empowers you with the tools you need to take charge of your academic and lifelong success. A self-assessment at the beginning of the text helps you identify behaviors and beliefs you may wish to change in order to achieve more of your potential in college and in life...read more

Product Description: Students save money by purchasing this bundle which includes Downing's On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life, 8th edition and 6 months printed access card to MindTap. MindTap is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers...read more

Product Description: Dead or in Prison is the debut book from New Zealand author Yahu. The untold reality of some young people labeled as 'At Risk', it is their story, their world. Full colour version.

P.O.W.E.R. Learning is the only research-based student success series with a unifying system for critical thinking and problem solving. P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Foundations of Student Success utilizes this P.O.W.E.R. framework to maximize students' potential for success in college and life addressing the diverse, 2-year student population by providing direct, practical solutions to the challenges that students face as they navigate college and prepare for their careers. Using the scientifically-based, yet simple and class-tested principles of the P.O.W.E.R. (Prepare, Organize, Work, Evaluate, and Rethink) system, students gain a sense of mastery and achievement as they move through the text; with the growth of their confidence comes the increased intellectual enthusiasm and personal discipline needed for them to excel.

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

Teen's Guide to College & Career Planning is intended for use by students at any stage of middle and high school, but it has the most relevance for high school sophomores and juniors who are starting to get serious about the decisions they will need to make after graduation. Whether they're planning to head to a two-year or four-year college, to a technical school, to an apprenticeship, to the military, or directly into the workforce-or are still undecided-here's where they'll find information on the various options available and which ones best suits their skills, needs, and wants.

Product Description: "Drinking with Ghosts illuminates both past and present and is an invaluable contribution to understanding what South Africa is today. Written with verve and passion, it's an unputdownable read."—Hamilton Wende, author of Only the DeadDrinking with Ghosts is a fascinating exploration of the dark corners of South Africa's past by a seasoned journalist...read more

Product Description: Get inside Harvard with this brand-new edition of the Crimson Key Society's guide, a behind-the-scenes look at one of America's most prestigious universities. Tracing Harvard's riveting 375-year-long history — from storied past to thriving present — Inside Harvard offers unique insight into student life, as well as full-color maps and photographs, fun facts and figures, walking tours, and student, alumni and architectural spotlights...read more