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Reading Comprehension Success (Skill Builders)
Reading Comprehension Success (Skill Builders)
by Elizabeth Chesla
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Good reading isn't just about knowing the words. It is about being able to understand what is being read and putting it to use. Reading Comprehension Success: In 20 Minutes a day, 2nd edition guides the reader through the specific techniques of reading... (read more)

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An Insider's Guide to Creative Writing Programs with CDROM
An Insider's Guide to Creative Writing Programs with CDROM
by Amy Holman
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Get the final word on creative writing programs in this unique reference guide. With detailed information on recent graduates, visiting writers, application requirements, costs, and program highlights, this authoritative guide offers writers of all... (read more)

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What Smart Students Know (93 Edition)
What Smart Students Know (93 Edition)
by Adam Robinson
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Starting from the premise that successful students are not necessarily any more brilliant than their less successful peers, but have simply mastered the art of efficient learning, Adam Robinson introduces high school and college students to an innovative... (read more)

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How to Get A's in College: Hundreds of Student-Tested Tips
How to Get A's in College: Hundreds of Student-Tested Tips
by Frances Northcutt
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Here, hundreds of successful college grads explain how to survive the college years, including how to get top grades, find the right major, manage time, stay motivated, avoid stress, seek out the best teachers and courses, form important relationships... (read more)

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Exploring Leadership: For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference
Exploring Leadership: For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference
by Susan R Komives
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This is the thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the best-selling book Exploring Leadership. The book is designed to help college students understand that they are capable of being effective leaders and to guide them in developing their... (read more)

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Getting the Best Out of College: Insider Advice for Success from a Professor, a Dean, and a Recent Grad (Getting the Best Out of College: Insider Advice for Success)
Getting the Best Out of College: Insider Advice for Success from a Professor, a Dean, and a Recent Grad (Getting the Best Out of College: Insider Advice for Success)
by Peter Feaver
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An insider's guide that shows ambitious students how to optimize their college career, completely revised and updated for today's academic landscape. I WISH I'D KNOWN THAT IN COLLEGE Your time as an undergrad has the potential to be incredibly fun... (read more)

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25 Ways to Make College Pay Off: Advice for Anxious Parents from a Professor Who's Seen It All
25 Ways to Make College Pay Off: Advice for Anxious Parents from a Professor Who's Seen It All
by Bill Coplin
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In the next few years, parents can expect to spend more than $40,000 per year on their child’s college tuition. While that number may seem frightening, it is not as grim as the statistics that predict their child’s chances of actually... (read more)

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Getting What You Came for: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or a PH.D.
Getting What You Came for: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or a PH.D.
by Robert L Peters
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Is graduate school right for you? Should you get a masters or a Ph.D.? How can you choose the best possible school? This classic guide helps students answer these vital questions and much more. It will also help graduate students finish in less time, for... (read more)

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Real College: The Essential Guide to Student Life
Real College: The Essential Guide to Student Life
by Douglas Stone and Elizabeth Tippett
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An invaluable education for college students on how to get the big things right — in and out of the classroom. Few people have as much experience helping students cope with college life as Douglas Stone, a long-time Harvard residential adviser... (read more)

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The Freshman Survival Guide: Soulful Advice for Studying, Socializing, and Everything in Between
The Freshman Survival Guide: Soulful Advice for Studying, Socializing, and Everything in Between
by Nora Bradbury Haehl
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A values-based guide to navigating that critical first year of college that speaks to college students in their own language and offers practical tools that readers need to keep from drinking, sleeping or skipping their way out of college. There are... (read more)

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Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
by Philip De Broughton
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Two years in the cauldron of capitalism-"horrifying and very funny" (The Wall Street Journal) In this candid and entertaining insider's look at the most influential school in global business, Philip Delves Broughton draws on his crack reporting skills to... (read more)

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Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: College
Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: College
by Joshua Piven and Jennifer Worick and David Borgenicht
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The college years are a time of noble pursuit of knowledge, self-betterment — and unending peril Students are at risk from the moment they receive their acceptance letters. Fortunately, the authors of the phenomenally best-selling Worst-Case... (read more)

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Super Memory - Super Student: How to Raise Your Grades in 30 Days
Super Memory - Super Student: How to Raise Your Grades in 30 Days
by Harry Lorayne
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Memory is the stepping-stone to thinking, because without remembering facts, you cannot think, conceptualize, reason, make decisions, create. or contribute. There is no learning without memory.... (read more)

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Here's How: Improve Your Study Skills (Here's How)
Here's How: Improve Your Study Skills (Here's How)
by Marcia J Coman
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Here's How books gives them the guidelines they need to get going and take charge-- even of complicated or daunting challenges. Each Here's How book: <BR>Breaks down a goal, project, or task into manageable steps <BR>Leads the reader step-by... (read more)

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WTF? College: How to Survive 101 of Campus's Worst F*#!-Ing Situations
WTF? College: How to Survive 101 of Campus's Worst F*#!-Ing Situations
by Gregory Bergman
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Be it in the dorm room or classroom, during finals week or spring break, campus's most frustrating and perplexing situations are handled in this hilarious step-by-step guide.... (read more)

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The Real-World Aptitude Test: Everything You Need to Score an 800 in Life
The Real-World Aptitude Test: Everything You Need to Score an 800 in Life
by Homer E. Moyer Jr.
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The R.A.T. will test your preparedness for the real world, and provide answers to some of life??'s most common stumbling... (read more)

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Last Minute Term Papers (Last Minute)
Last Minute Term Papers (Last Minute)
by Ronald Fry
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The well-known author of our best-selling How to Study Program shows students of all ages how to write a winning paper when there's simply too little time to do it the "right" way. This is a book about the reality many students face.... (read more)

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Improve Your Memory (Ron Fry's How to Study Program)
Improve Your Memory (Ron Fry's How to Study Program)
by Ronald W Fry
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Provides the reader with the essential principles of memory to help them increase their ability to retain what they read, perform better on tests, or just remember where you they last put their car keys. For high school students, college students, and... (read more)

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Does Mastercard Accept Visa?: And Other Issues You'll Face After Graduation
Does Mastercard Accept Visa?: And Other Issues You'll Face After Graduation
by Michael Ross
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Michael and Tiffany Ross offer sound advice to prepare graduates to face challenges and make decisions as they enter this significant stage of life.Does MasterCard Accept Visa? will help graduates: Assess their interests, skills, and personality... (read more)

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College in a Nutskull: A Crash Ed Course in Higher Education
College in a Nutskull: A Crash Ed Course in Higher Education
by Anders Henriksson
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He's back. Anders Henriksson, author of The New York Times bestseller Non Campus Mentis (retitled Ignorance Is Blitz), returns with even funnier, nuttier, more outrageous material culled from the actual exam books of real college students. And it's a... (read more)

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