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.

The Ride of Our Lives is the humorous yet deeply movingaccount of NBC journalist Mike Leonard's cross-country odyssey withhis eccentric parents, three grown children, and a daughter-in-law.Full of ups and downs, laughs and tears, the month-long journeybecomes a much larger tale of hope, persistence, and valuablelessons learned along the way. A celebration of the ties betweenparents and children, as well as the unforgettable community ofpeople one can meet across America, The Ride of Our Lives is aninspiring narrative of self-discovery and self-fulfillment-and howone unique family found blessings and simple pleasures on the roadcalled life.

Does assigning fifty math problems accomplish any more thanassigning five? Is memorizing word lists the best way to increasevocabulary—especially when it takes away from reading time? Andwhat is the real purpose behind those devilish dioramas? The time our children spend doing homework has skyrocketed inrecent years. Parents spend countless hours cajoling their kids tocomplete such assignments—often without considering whether or notthey serve any worthwhile purpose. Even many teachers are in thedark: Only one of the hundreds the authors interviewed and surveyedhad ever taken a course specifically on homework duringtraining. The truth, according to Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish, is thatthere is almost no evidence that homework helps elementary schoolstudents achieve academic success and little evidence that it helpsolder students. Yet the nightly burden is taking a serious toll onAmerica’s families. It robs children of the sleep, play, andexercise time they need for prop

In her popular “Power Tools for Women” workshop, managementconsultant Joni Daniels teaches women how to be more effective andefficient at work and at home. The key is to tap into the metaphorof the tool kit. Too few women grow up wielding power tools andenjoying the sense of accomplishment and self-sufficiency theyimpart. With her new book, Daniels equips you with eleven powertools—invaluable skills you can transport between work and home.With conviction and a dose of humor, she explains how and when touse them to be more successful in every part of your life. Your newtool kit includes: * The Demolition Hammer: to break the rules * The Electrical Sensor: to follow your intuition * The Power Drill: to get the right information * Safety Goggles: to create your vision of success . . . andmore Whether you’re juggling work/life responsibilities, reenteringthe employment market, or striving to achieve your goals, this bookwill give you the right tools for the job.

Book De*ion The "unwritten" final chapter of Anne Frank: The Diary of a YoungGirl tells the story of the time between Anne Frank's arrest andher death through the testimony of six Jewish women who survivedthe hell from which Anne Frank never retumed. From Publishers Weekly With approximately 30% more material than the original 1947edition, revealing a more rebellious and complex narrator, the newedition of Frank's classic diary spent five weeks on PW'sbestseller list. From School Library Journal Lindwer presents the tran*s of six in-depth interviewsconducted in preparation for his film documentary, The Last SevenMonths of Anne Frank . Although "Lies Goosens," real name HannahElisabeth Pick-Goslar, will be the most familiar to readers of AnneFrank: The Diary of a Young Girl , each of these women'sfirst-person accounts is compelling. They relate their backgrounds,their capture, details of the concentration camp experience, andde*ions of the time immediately following liberation. Eachincludes her relationship

Original essays by Top Women Writers Julianna Baggott _ Curtis Sittenfeld _ Catherine Ingrassia _Elizabeth Crane Lara Vapnyar _ Lisa Carver _ Carina Chocano _ Rory Evans _ JenniferArmstrong _ Elise Mac Adam _ Janelle Brown _ Daisy de Villeneuve _Meghan Daum _ Amy Sohn _ Samina Ali _ Farah L. Miller _ Gina Zucker_ Kathleen Hughes _ Jacquelyn Mitchard _ Ruth Davis Konigsberg _Lori Leibovich _ Julie Powell _ Jill Eisenstadt _ Anne Carle _Amanda Eyre Ward _ Amy Bloom _ Dani Shapiro Anyone who is intimated by the prospect of planning a wedding willlaugh out loud and take solace in Altared. In this unexpected,heartwarming, thought-provoking collection, more than two dozen ofour most perceptive and entertaining writers offer a wide range oftakes on the modern wedding. It's all here. Fantasies.Realities. Fond memories. A few regrets. From planning it to doingit and everything in between.

UPDATED, WITH NEW MATERIAL BY THE AUTHOR"WOMEN WHO RUN WITHTHE WOLVES isn t just another book. It is a gift of profoundinsight, wisdom, and love. An oracle from one who knows."--AliceWalkerWithin every woman there lives a powerful force, filled withgood instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She isthe Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. Butshe is an endangered species. In WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES, Dr.Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, and stories,many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with thefierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature.Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, weretrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman and hold heragainst our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr.Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche.Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truestsense, a knowing of the soul."This volum

Searching for Faith, Family, and Inner Peace on the Back of aMotorcycle Between 1846 and 1866, about 50,000 Mormons traveled the Mormontrail, burying more than 6,000 of the faithful along the way. Fourgenerations ago, seven of Jana Richman’s eight great-greatgrandmothers walked all or part of the 1,300-mile trek, fromNauvoo, Illinois, on the Mississippi River to Salt Lake City.Traveling on faith and little else, they endured unfathomablehardships—bitter cold, extreme heat, mud, icy river crossings,blizzards, buffalo stampedes, disease, hunger, and exhaustion—neverstopping until they reached their promised land where they could befree to practice a religion that few outsiders understood and manyviolently condemned. One hundred and fifty years later, Jana Richman packs maps and alaptop computer on the back of a motorcycle and follows the routeof her ancestors, searching for the peace and faith the womenbefore her carried with so much confidence. Jana also searches fora clearer understan

Now you can have normal vision all the time, thanks to excimerlaser treatment–commonly known as PRK and LASIK–a painlessprocedure that takes less than five minutes. Dr. Andrew I. Caster,one of the leading physicians in the permanent correction ofnearsightedness, astigmatism, and farsightedness, takes you throughthe entire process–including the experiences of patients who haveundergone the procedure and their incredible joy at suddenly beingable to see again. ·What are the differences between the PRK, LASIK, and RKprocedures, and which is right for me? ·What are the most common side effects of excimer lasertreatment? ·How do I judge whether a doctor is sufficiently qualified toperform excimer laser treatment? ·Will the procedure be painful? ·When can I fully resume normal daily activities such as drivingand reading? ·Will eye laser treatment stop my eyes from getting worse? ·How well has the FDA monitored this technique? ·How many people have

People know Bill Moyers from his many years of path-breakingjournalism on television. But he is also one of America's mostsought-after public speakers. In this collection of speeches,Moyers celebrates the promise of American democracy and offers apassionate defense of its principles of fairness and justice. Moyers on Democracy takes on crucial issues such as economicinequality, our broken electoral process, our weakened independentpress, and the despoiling of the earth we share as our commongift.

Tall, striking, and adventurous to a fault, young Britishrelief worker Emma McCune came to Sudan determined to make adifference in a country decimated by the longest-running civil warin Africa. She became a near legend in the bullet-scarred,famine-ridden country, but her eventual marriage to a rebel warlordmade international headlines—and spelled disastrous consequencesfor her ideals. Enriched by Deborah Scroggins’s firsthand experience as anaward-winning journalist in Sudan, this unforgettable account ofEmma McCune’s tragically short life also provides an up-close lookat the volatile politics in the region. It’s a world whereinternational aid fuels armies as well as the starving population,and where the northern-based Islamic government—with ties to Osamabin Laden—is locked in a war with the Christian and pagan southover religion, oil and slaves. Tying together these vastlydisparate forces as well as Emma’s own role in the problems of theregion, Emma’s War is at once a disturbing love sto