In this unintimidating, pocket-sized book, students from colleges across the U.S. share their "hot tips" and solid strategies for success. Their revelations - and confessions - provide a "tell it like it is" manual that will help new collegians, as well as veterans avoid the pitfalls of campus life and maximize the countless resources. Data confirms that retention of college students is based on their success in and out of the classroom. This savvy, 'easy-reader' reveals the academic and lifestyle management skills necessary for that success.
Everyone remembers the milestones and events of a baby's first year. Now 'baby' is facing another year of 'firsts' -- college. This is a tongue-in-cheek reflection of college life in the form of a traditional fill-in baby book -- a perfect keepsake/scrapbook for young people beginning their college years.
AT THE END OF AN ERA. THE NEW DAWN BEGINS Leaving college is an easy choice for Maia Fuentes. With no siblings and a dead war hero father, stepping away to be alongside her sick mother is a no-brainer. But her summer full of job applications and hospital visits comes to a rough start when she meets the charismatic, yet annoying, Jules Devereaux, and learns of the Gifted— a race of ability-wielding people. Turns out she's one of them. When the Legion seeks Maia to join their effort against those threatening the secrecy of their kind, she’s taken to a small desert town to live among others like her, training and waiting for the day the twenty-five-year ceasefire between the Legion and the Elite inevitably comes to an end. With the threat of civil war on the horizon, the untold secrets of the past begin to unravel. But for Maia, learning the truth of her place within the Legion and the Gifted may be far deadlier than the lies…
In these times of global economic crisis, social unrest towards the powers that be, and a yearning for alternative systems and organization, it is now more relevant than ever for you to take a critical stance to your management studies in order to analyse, understand and question the world around you and the capitalist stronghold in which you live and work. This new thought-provoking text uses critical theory and revolutionary ideas to help you challenge the status quo and prevailing ideologies in management. It covers key issues, thinkers and topics in an accessible style to provide a broad and clear understanding of vital theory which is applied to the real world through international case studies and reflective questions and think points for you to carry into practice. A companion website provides additional learning materials for personal study and class activities. This text is essential reading for any undergraduate or postgraduate student studying critical management or any management course with a critical slant.
Francis tells the breathtaking story of what happens after a Voodoo Ladys prediction comes true and biracial Sadie Winter is left behind by her white country singing mother, Annie, and forced to live with her intolerant, hard-driving grandmother on a mountain in Tennessee. Through the narrative of this audaciously curious girl, light is shed on the bigotry of this small, southern town, as well as the history of hypocrisy and secrets within her own family. But as what was meant to be temporary becomes long-term and the years go by and a girl approaches womanhood, will the Voodoo Ladys other predictions also come true? What might another upheaval do to Sadies life?
Helps school leaders cultivate improvement-driven, cross-age learning communities by providing case studies, workplace alternatives, and easy-to-apply strategies to promote cross-generational collaboration.
Criminological Theories is an anthology of previously published articles and book focuses on the major theories, past and present, that inform criminology today.
Everyone remembers the milestones and events of a baby's first year. Now 'baby' is facing another year of 'firsts' -- college. This is a tongue-in-cheek reflection of college life in the form of a traditional fill-in baby book -- a perfect keepsake/scrapbook for young people beginning their college years.
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