This friendly, accessible, and supportive guide to achieving college success helps users assess their own strengths as a learner, better manage their time, hone good study skills, and write effective college papers. The volume outlines all aspects of becoming a student as an adult such as assessing learning needs and course requirements, identifying college resources, strategies for managing time and stress, developing note-taking, studying, and test-taking skills and strategies for reading, research and writing. For adults interested in pursuing a college education.

New Beginnings: A Guide for Adult Learners (2nd Edition)

Simon, Linda

Business & Money

Pearson College Div

Specifically addressing adults by relating to and drawing upon their life experiences, this friendly, accessible, and supportive guide to achieving college success helps users assess their own strengths as a learner, better manage their time, hone good study skills, and write effective college papers. The Third edition includes several important revisions focused on making successful oral presentations, managing collaborative work projects, doing research on the internet, and financing adult education.For practicing teachers to use with their adult students.

New Beginnings: A Reference Guide to Adult Learners

Adults who enter college have unique challenges and concerns. New Beginnings is entirely devoted to helping adults develop skills to succeed in college from how to manage time and stress to how to develop strong writing and study skills. Specifically addressing adults by building on skills they already use in their everyday work and lives, this friendly, accessible, and supportive guide shows readers what to expect and how to create success in college. The 4th edition offers an expanded section on internet research and writing with a word processor. Eight chapters include information on test-taking, note-taking, classroom protocol, resources for help, strategies for reading and thinking critically; plus a basic grammar and math review.

New Beginnings: A Reference Guide for Adult Learners

Self-Help

Pearson

Non-traditional or returning students have different challenges than the traditional college student. This text offers non-traditional students tips and ideas on how best to earn a degree--including tips on writing, balancing family life with an education, working while schooling, etc.

New Beginnings: A Guide for Adult Learners and Returning Students

PRENTICE/HALL

The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879, Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, only 20 percent of American families had wired their homes. Meanwhile, electrotherapy emerged as a popular medical treatment for everything from depression to digestive problems. Why did Americans welcome electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from their homes? And what does their reaction to technological innovation then have to teach us about our reaction to it today? In Dark Light, Linda Simon offers the first cultural history that delves into those questions, using newspapers, novels, and other primary sources. Tracing fifty years of technological transformation, from Morse's invention of the telegraph to Roentgen's discovery of X rays, she has created a revealing portrait of an anxious age.

Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray

History

Americas

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

This first full biography of William James in nearly a generation brings us the man alive in all his complexity. Intellectual rebel, romantic pragmatist, aristocratic pluralist, James was both a towering figure of the nineteenth century and a springboard into the twentieth century. Constitutionally opposed to the rigidity and stability of the nineteenth century, James guided his generation toward the ambivalence, unpredictability, and indeterminacy of the times that followed. His explorations of pluralism and pragmatism for modern psychology and recognized the possibility of multiple perspectives long before Cubism. "The word 'or'" he once wrote, "names a genuine reality." Profiting from a rich range of sources, among them 1,500 letters written between James and his wife, Alice, acclaimed biographer Linda Simon creates an intimate portrait of this multifaceted and contradictory man. Exploring James in the context of this irrepressible family, his diverse and often quirky friends, and the cultural and political forces to which he so energetically responded, Simon weaves the many threads of William James's life into a genuine, and vibrant, reality.

Genuine Reality: A Life of William James

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879 Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, only 20 percent of American families had wired their homes. Meanwhile, electrotherapy emerged as a popular medical treatment for everything from depression to digestive problems. Why did Americans welcome electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from their homes? And what does their reaction to technological innovation then have to teach us about our reaction to it today? In Dark Light, Linda Simon offers the first cultural history that delves into those questions, using newspapers, novels, and other primary sources. Tracing fifty years of technological transformation, from Morse's invention of the telegraph to Roentgen's discovery of X-rays, she has created a revealing portrait of an anxious age.

Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-ray

Mariner Books

Intellectual rebel, romantic pragmatist, aristocratic pluralist, William James was both a towering figure of the nineteenth century and a harbinger of the twentieth. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including 1,500 letters between James and his wife, acclaimed biographer Linda Simon creates an intimate portrait of this multifaceted and contradictory man. Exploring James's irrepressible family, his diverse friends, and the cultural and political forces to which he so energetically responded, Simon weaves the many threads of William James's life into a genuine, and vibrant, reality. "William James . . . has never seemed so vulnerably human as in Linda Simon's biography. . . . [S]he vivifies James in such a way that his life and thought come freshly alive for the modern reader."—David S. Reynolds, New York Times Book Review "Superb. . . . Genuine Reality is recommended reading for all soul-searchers."—George Gurley, Chicago Tribune "Ms. Simon . . . has provided an ideal pathway for James's striding. . . . [Y]ou become engaged in his struggles as if they were your own."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times "[A]n excellent narrative biography at once sensitively told and lucidly written."—John Patrick Diggins, Wall Street Journal

University of Chicago Press

a guide and sourcebook for writing, instructor's edition,

Good writing: A guide and sourcebook for writing across the curriculum

St.Martin's Press

Gertrude Stein a Composite Portrait

AVON.

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New Beginnings: A Guide for Adult Learners (2nd Edition)

New Beginnings: A Reference Guide to Adult Learners

New Beginnings: A Reference Guide for Adult Learners

New Beginnings: A Guide for Adult Learners and Returning Students

Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray

Genuine Reality: A Life of William James

Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-ray

Genuine Reality: A Life of William James

Good writing: A guide and sourcebook for writing across the curriculum

Gertrude Stein a Composite Portrait