The true majority of American students are working-age adults. 
Approximately 80% of those who need to start or finish a degree are over 25 years old, yet most institutions of higher education treat them as an afterthought. Courageous Learning offers a closer look at the needs of adult learners and provides a clear, comprehensive assessment of the adult higher education landscape. 
The book features: in-depth profiles of a variety of long-established, accredited, adult-serving institutions; self-portraits of adult learners; definitions of post-traditional terms, such as ''credit by exam,'' and ''credit by assessment''; and, discussions on the major issues confronting higher education with some of the nation's most outspoken proponents for reform. 
Courageous Learning underscores an urgent need to embrace a culture of lifelong learning. It is an invaluable tool for adults making the connection between learning and life success. It is also a must-have resource for educators who recognize our country's future is dependent on the ability to attract and support more courageous learners.

Courageous Learning: Finding a New Path Through Higher Education

Education & Teaching

Patrick, William B.

Ebersole, John

Higher & Continuing Education

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Foreword Magazine 2012 - Gold BOYTA (Memoir) IPPY 2012 - Silver (Autobiography) Growing up in a working class town on Long Island, Anthony D'Aries watched his father rebuild muscle cars, groove to rock 'n' roll, slice meat at the local deli, and bring roadkill back to life in his taxidermy workshop. Anthony, the impressionable younger son, loved his father. Emulated him. Acted out visceral scenes from Taxi Driver and Raging Bull with his dad and older brother. Soaked up his father's lurid wartime tales the hooch and the hos in 'Nam. The Language of Men begins with Anthony's search to learn who his father was. When he travels to Vietnam with his wife, Vanessa, who has a job leading health and anatomy classes for sex workers in Ho Chi Minh City, Anthony isn't sure what he will find. Visiting Long Binh where his father was stationed, then seeing his relationship with Vanessa begin to deteriorate, Anthony arrives at realizations that begin to explain his father's life...

Language of Men; A Memoir

D'Aries, Anthony

Foreword Magazine 2012 - Gold BOTYA (Memoir) IPPY 2012 - Silver (Autobiography) 
Growing up in a working class town on Long Island, Anthony D'Aries watched his father rebuild muscle cars, groove to rock 'n' roll, slice meat at the local deli, and bring roadkill back to life in his taxidermy workshop. Anthony, the impressionable younger son, loved his father. Emulated him. Acted out visceral scenes from Taxi Driver and Raging Bull with his dad and older brother. Soaked up his father's lurid wartime tales -- the hooch and the hos in 'Nam. 
The Language of Men begins with Anthony s search to learn who his father was. When he travels to Vietnam with his wife, Vanessa, who has a job leading health and anatomy classes for sex workers in Ho Chi Minh City, Anthony isn't sure what he will find. Visiting Long Binh where his father was stationed, then seeing his relationship with Vanessa begin to deteriorate, Anthony arrives at realizations that begin to explain his father's life, as well as his own troubling behaviors. Reluctant to deny or admit complicity, Anthony returns home to look for answers in his past.

The Language of Men: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Shot is an intimate portrait of a young woman's sudden transition to type 1 diabetes. Treatment for a routine infection one Monday morning yielded, with stunning speed, to a glucose monitor, test strips, and a life-altering diagnosis. 
In Shot, Amy Ryan shows what it really takes to live with and manage an incurable disease. She charts the essential duties that keep her stable while revealing the daily concerns, the simple rewards and victories, the fears of highs and lows, and the psychological strain of depending on herself, a drug, and a network of health care providers to stay alive with diabetes. 
People who manage life-threatening diseases will recognize their own struggles in Amy's compelling story. The millions who care for and support family, friends, or patients with diabetes will have their eyes opened to the human side of living with a chronic condition.

Shot: Staying Alive with Diabetes

Ryan, Amy F

Professionals & Academics

The Call of Nursing is not your typical book about nurses. In its twenty-three candid self-portraits, we go behind the curtain of silence that often hangs between us - the patients who rely on the health care system - and the women and men who form the backbone of that system. We hear why nurses today do what they do, and see what has mattered most to them in their professional careers. A hospice nurse describes a search for ethical practice that led her from Russia to the United States. A nurse corps officer in a traumatic brain injury ward recalls his deployment to Iraq while still in nursing school. An emergency and critical care nurse describes 9/11 as a rookie paramedic. A pediatric nurse describes her unwavering devotion to victims of sexual abuse.
 The Call of Nursing succeeds at helping us see more clearly the kinds of challenges nurses face and accept on a routine basis, and offers a rare glimpse into the lives of women and men dedicated to care and service.

The Call of Nursing: Stories from the Front Lines of Health Care

We all know someone who has suffered a heart attack. But how often do we learn the intimate, potentially life-saving details that accompany coronary disease? In The Sanctuary of Illness, Thomas Larson The Memoir and the Memoirist; The Saddest Music Ever Written gives a powerful and personal inside tour of what happens when our arteries fail. He chronicles the three heart attacks in five years that he survived, and the emergency surgeries that saved his life each time. Slowly waking up to the genetic legacy and dangerous diet that pushed him to the brink, he reveals a path to healing that he and his partner, Suzanna, discovered together. Told with urgency and sensitivity, The Sanctuary of Illness is a subtle reminder that heart disease seldom affects just one heart.

The Sanctuary of Illness: A Memoir of Heart Disease

Larson, Thomas

The topic of cybersecurity has been covered with broad strokes in several books, but this work by the National Cybersecurity Institute at Excelsior College delves into specific areas in considerable detail. This book will help us understand the challenges and better prepare for our future.  From the Foreword by Donald Rumsfeld  13th and 21st U.S. Secretary of Defense As participation in online activities grows, so does the need for a workforce equipped to respond to the varying needs of public and private sector operations. Protecting Our Future looks at operational needs across the workforce: military, health care, international relations, telecommunications, finance, education, utilities, government, small businesses, and nonprofits, and offers an assessment of strengths and weaknesses within each subfield. Contributors introduce practitioners, as well as those considering a future in cybersecurity, to the challenges and opportunities when building a cybersecurity workforce.

Protecting Our Future

Jane LeClair

In the world of technology, cybersecurity is, without a doubt, one of the most dynamic topics of our times. Protecting Our Future brings together a range of experts from across the cybersecurity spectrum and shines a spotlight on operational challenges and needs across the workforce: in military, health care, international relations, telecommunications, finance, education, utilities, government, small businesses, and nonprofits. Contributors offer an assessment of strengths and weaknesses within each subfield, and, with deep subject-matter expertise, they introduce practitioners, as well as those considering a future in cybersecurity, to the challenges and opportunities when building a cybersecurity workforce. 
Contributors include: Melody L. Balcet, Anthony M. Bargar, Shana Kayne Beach, Tom Connors, Kyle M. Foley, James H. Jones, Jr., Gregory P. Keeley, Jane LeClair, K. Maman, Ernest McDuffie, Sean Murphy, Kai Roer, and Geoff Schwartz.

Protecting Our Future, Volume 1: Educating a Cybersecurity Workforce

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Learning at the Speed of Light is a collection of stories, articles, and interviews by and with pioneers and visionaries across the United States who shared a belief in greater access to higher education.
This belief that education was a right, not a privilege, put them on a path to create what is known as online learning. This book brings together the early ideas that guided their thinking, and shows how funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Asynchronous Learning Networks initiative (guided by Dr. Frank Mayadas) spurred experimentation and created a new community of innovators, the Sloan Consortium (now the Online Learning Consortium). It also describes the development of early influential technology, and shares a behind-the-scenes look at the uncommon persistence of those who imagined and built the systems that continue to bring us closer to fulfilling the democratic mission of education for all.

Learning at the Speed of Light: How Online Education Got to Now

Business & Money

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Did you know your car can be hacked? Your medical device? Your employer's HVAC system? Are you aware that bringing your own device to work may have security implications? Consumers of digital technology are often familiar with headline-making hacks and breaches, but lack a complete understanding of how and why they happen, or if they have been professionally or personally compromised. In Cybersecurity in Our Digital Lives, twelve experts provide much-needed clarification on the technology behind our daily digital interactions. They explain such things as supply chain, Internet of Things, social media, cloud computing, mobile devices, the C-Suite, social engineering, and legal confidentially. Then, they discuss very real threats, make suggestions about what can be done to enhance security, and offer recommendations for best practices. An ideal resource for students, practitioners, employers, and anyone who uses digital products and services. Contributors include Diane Burley, Ron Carpinella, Dave Chesebrough, Reg Harnish, Kevin Jackson, Thomas Malatesta, Pete O'Dell, Andrew A. Proia, Drew Simshaw, Derek Smith, James Swanson, and Justin Zeefe.

Cybersecurity in Our Digital Lives (Protecting Our Future)

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