The Ultimate Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the Dorm Dorm life offers you a great chance to meet new people and trynew things. But leaving the comforts of home for the first time toenter the roommate-having, small-room-sharing,possibly-coed-bathroom-using world of the dorms can be overwhelmingand intimidating. The College Dorm Survival Guide offers expert advice and theinside scoop on: ? Choosing the right residence hall for you ? Getting along with your roommate (and handling conflict) ? Bathroom, laundry, and dining hall survival ? Dealing with stress, depression, and safety issues From avoiding the dreaded Freshman 15 to decorating your space,this informative and funny guide gives experts' advice oneverything you need to know to enjoy dorm living to thefullest.
Mind-opening writing on what kids need from school, from oneof education’s most outspoken voices Arguing that our schools are currently in the grip of a “cult ofrigor”—a confusion of harder with better that threatens to banishboth joy and meaningful intellectual inquiry from ourclassrooms—Alfie Kohn issues a stirring call to rethink ourpriorities and reconsider our practices. Kohn’s latest wide-ranging collection of writings will add to hisreputation as one of the most incisive thinkers in the field, whoquestions the assumptions too often taken for granted indiscussions about education and human behavior. In nineteen recently published essays—and in a substantiveintroduction, new for this volume—Kohn repeatedly invites us tothink more deeply about the conventional wisdom. Is self-disciplinealways desirable? he asks, citing surprising evidence to thecontrary. Does academic cheating necessarily indicate a moralfailing? Might inspirational posters commonly found on school
Every spring thousands of middle-class and lower-incomehigh-school seniors learn that they have been rejected by America’smost exclusive colleges. What they may never learn is how manycandidates like themselves have been passed over in favor ofwealthy white students with lesser credentials—children of alumni,big donors, or celebrities. In this explosive book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporterDaniel Golden argues that America, the so-called land ofopportunity, is rapidly becoming an aristocracy in which America’srichest families receive special access to elite highereducation—enabling them to give their children even more of a headstart. Based on two years of investigative reporting and hundredsof interviews with students, parents, school administrators, andadmissions personnel—some of whom risked their jobs to speak to theauthor—The Price of Admission exposes the corrupt admissionspractices that favor the wealthy, the powerful, and thefamous. In The Price of Admission, Golde
A joyous collection of tributes-both original and previouslypublished-that celebrate the gifts of remarkable teachers. Teachers have always made an indelible impression on theircharges. Now, in this new book, Gloria Wade-Gayles has broughttogether a winning and touching collection of pieces about teachersand teaching, with inspiring and dramatic anecdotes woven in. Eachstory offers a new and unique perspective on some of our country'smost beloved teachers. With pieces by legendary writers like Langston Hughes and AliceWalker, we see how a strong teacher can turn a nervous child into aworld renowned artist. Robin D. G. Kelley frames a short history ofbusing with a sweet story about having a crush on his third gradeteacher. Marian Wright Edelman celebrates Howard Zinn's teachingstyle, his insistence on exploration and questioning; and Zinnhimself provides an opinion on the profession he has practiced formost of his life. But we also hear from a diverse group of students: writers whowere
在线阅读本书 Women make up almost half of today's labor force, but in corporateAmerica they don't share half of the power. Only four of the Fortune 500 company CEOs are women, and it's only been inthe last few years that even half of the Fortune 500companies have more than one female officer. A major reason for this? Most women were never taught how to playthe game of business. Throughout her career in the supercompetitive, male-dominated mediaindustry, Gail Evans, one of the country's most powerfulexecutives, has met innumerable women who tell her that they feellost in the workplace, almost as if they were playing a gamewithout knowing the directions. She tells them that's exactly the case: Business is indeed a game,and like any game, there are rules to playing well. For the mostpart, Gail has discovered, women don't know them. Men know these rules because they wrote them, but women oftenfeel shut out of the process because they don't know when to speakup, when to ask for responsibi
Book De*ion From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of TheWind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literaryjournalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, asprovocative as it is profound. In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked theTokyo subway system with sarin, a gas twenty-six times as deadly ascyanide. Attempting to discover why, Murakami conducted hundreds ofinterviews with the people involved, from the survivors to theperpetrators to the relatives of those who died, and Underground istheir story in their own voices. Concerned with the fundamentalissues that led to the attack as well as these personal accounts,Underground is a document of what happened in Tokyo as well as awarning of what could happen anywhere. This is an enthralling andunique work of nonfiction that is timely and vital and aswonderfully executed as Murakami’s brilliant novels. From Publishers Weekly On March 20, 1995, followers of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyounleashed
