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41) The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2013: Students on Campus Tell You What You Really Want to Know
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The Insider's Guide to the Colleges has been, for 39 years, the most relied-upon resource for high school students looking for honest reports on colleges from their fellow students. Having interviewed hundreds of their peers on more than 330 campuses and by getting the inside scoop on everything from the nightlife and professors to the newest dorms and wildest student organizations, the reporters at the Yale Daily News have created the most candid...
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Peterson's Cool Colleges 101 is an undergraduate guide featuring colorful, easy-to-read profiles of hundreds of colleges and universities across the United States and abroad. You're about to make one of the most important decisions of your life, and you need the best information possible. Peterson's guide can help you make that choice with hundreds of school photos that provide a preview of campus and student life, enlightening articles on applying...
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Our newly updated, Peterson's Cool Colleges 2014, features colorful, easy-to-read profiles of hundreds of "cool" colleges and universities across the United States and abroad. You're about to make one of the most important decisions of your life, and you need the best information possible. Peterson's eBook can help you make that choice with hundreds of school photos that provide a preview of campus and student life, enlightening articles on applying...
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Peterson's Two-Year Colleges 2015 includes information on more than 1,900 accredited two-year undergraduate institutions in the United States and Canada, as well as some international schools. It also includes detailed two-page descriptions written by admissions personnel. College-bound students and their parents can research community and two-year colleges and universities for information on campus setting, enrollment, majors, expenses, student-faculty...
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Whether you are returning to school as a working adult, going to college for the first time, or moving up to a larger, four-year university from a smaller two-year one, living off campus as a student will present you with a unique set of challenges. While it can be a great learning experience, it can also be filled with uncertainty, especially when you withstand events that you never thought you would have had to deal with before.
If you've picked...
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Earn College Credit with REA's Test Prep for CLEP* Analyzing & Interpreting Literature Everything you need to pass the exam and get the college credit you deserve. CLEP* is the most popular credit-by-examination program in the country, accepted by more than 2,900 colleges and universities. For over 15 years, REA has helped students pass the CLEP* exam and earn college credit while reducing their tuition costs. Our CLEP* test preps are perfect for...
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There has been an explosion of publishing in the faith-work movement in the last twenty years. Work is increasingly seen as the new frontier for Christian mission. However, the church and theological colleges have failed to keep up with the interest among, and needs of, workplace Christians.
This book is the urgent corrective that is needed, moving past Theology of Work 101 to much deeper encounters with God's word as it relates to daily work. These...
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“Ministry in Context: A Guide to Theological Field Education and Ministry Internships in Australia and New Zealand” has been written for students, field placement supervisors, and theological college coordinators to introduce the basic principles and practices of theological field education and ministry internships. The book covers all aspects of field-based learning, including biblical and historical foundations, the place of calling and vocation,...
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Brings relational sociology to bear on educational research.
Relational sociology was conceived by theorists frustrated by what they viewed as an incomplete accounting of social reality. Torn between notions of structural rigidity, on the one hand, and rational choice individualism, on the other, relational sociologists have sought new units of analysis. Social reality, they have argued, is manufactured through relationships. People are who they...
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It's Like Having the Test In Advance!Your first step toward getting into your first choice medical school is a high score on the MCAT®. This book gives you what you need to prepare for your high-stakes test-powerful practice. With two full-length exams and an online practice set, MCAT® Power Practice mirrors the official test so you know exactly what to expect. It includes:-Two full-length practice exams in the book based on the most recent test...
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"In my bibliographies there are no women in the evangelical tradition, and no Australian women scholars." This unique volume addresses this gap, with eighteen biblically rich and academically rigorous chapters by established and emerging Australian women scholars in the evangelical tradition. The authors consider our relationship with the land and Indigenous peoples, neighborhood, embodiment, (dis)ability, abortion, leadership, work, architecture,...
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In recent years American colleges and universities have become the locus of impassioned debates about race-conscious social policies, as conflicting theories clash over the ways to distribute the advantages of higher education in a fair and just manner. Just below the surface of these policy debates lies a complex tangle of ideologies, histories, grievances, and emotions that interfere with a rational analysis of the issues involved. As never before,...
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Today Americans feel powerless in the face of problems on every front. Such feelings are acute in higher education, where educators are experiencing an avalanche of changes: cost cutting, new technologies, and demands that higher education be narrowly geared to the needs of today's workplace. College graduates face mounting debt and uncertain job prospects, and worry about a coarsening of the mass culture and the erosion of authentic human relationships....
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How to Survive Your Freshman Year offers incoming college freshmen the experience, advice, and wisdom of their peers: hundreds of other students who have survived their first year of college and have something interesting to say about it. Based on interviews with hundreds of college students at every type of higher-learning institution across the country, this book has insights on every aspect of college life, including, what to take to the dorm,...
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How to Survive Your Freshman Year (6th edition) is the perfect send-off gift for college-bound high school graduates. This revamped edition of America's #1 college advice guide includes new advice from hundreds of college students from around the country, alongside the best timeless advice from earlier editions. This ultimate "insider's guide" to college life helps entering freshmen navigate the challenging transition to college life. In addition,...
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This book presents key features, attributes and defining characteristics of Canadian Community Colleges and Institutes of Technology and the lessons they offer to developing countries in Asia. Internationalization initiatives of Community Colleges suggest that partnerships in skills and human capital development are possible in countries at various stages of development and are in fact the hallmark of successful global economies. The publication draws...
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Listos Para La Universidad es una guía integral para padres que desmitifica la transición a la universidad-y satisfará las necesidades de los padres de habla hispana con estudiantes universitarios entrantes. El primer año de universidad está lleno de emoción e incertidumbre.
Listos Para La Universidad brinda una guía práctica, por parte de un grupo de administradores universitarios expertos, sobre lo que se debe hacer durante el verano previo...
58) No Safe Spaces
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In this movie-tie-in released alongside the highly anticipated documentary NO SAFE SPACES, editors Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph compile the most poignant, shocking, and upsetting things they uncovered during their film's investigation of political correctness run amuck on college campuses. With a foreword by Adam Carolla and fascinating interviews with 12 Rules for Life author Jordan Peterson and Not a Daycare author Dr. Everett Piper, NO SAFE SPACES...
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Multidisciplinary anthology on teaching issues of race and racism in US college classrooms.
The college classroom is inevitably influenced by, and in turn influences, the world around it. In the United States, this means the complex topic of race can come into play in ways that are both explicit and implicit. Teaching Race in Perilous Times highlights and confronts the challenges of teaching race in the United States-from syllabus development and...
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Catherine Cornille, Boston College
David Tracy, University of Chicago Divinity School
Werner Jeanrond, University of Glasgow
Marianne Moyaert, University of Leuven
John Maraldo, University of North Florida
Reza Shah-Kazemi, Institute of Ismaili Studies
Malcolm David Eckel, Boston University
Joseph S. O'Leary, Sophia University
John P. Keenan, Middlebury College
Hendrik Vroom, VU University Amsterdam
Laurie Patton, Emory University
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