Education

To Choose Your College Major in A Day you will need to understanding your direction, your personality type, the marketplace for careers, and your strongest skills.  You don’t have to read every page of this book to help you analyse all of this information and choose a college major that suits your needs.  It is designed to offer each student the tools they need to make their own choice.

Creating Your First Resume is written in a workbook style with brand new resume samples for each type of entry level and that represent the push toward STEM technical programs to provide training and certifications for high school students. It includes effective material for training in technical programs and high school career classes. It contains fully updated information with recent resume examples and is presented in clear, plain language with directions and suggestions for creating the best resume possible for the job seeker’s experience.

Cruising Has No Limits is all about skimming before caressing trade winds, savoring tropical landfalls and evading stormy seas. Such is the image of the cruising life under sail. It is all this, but it can be so much more. Join Lin and Larry Pardey as they recount some of their most memorable adventures during more than 30 years of cruising. Sail with them across the Indian Ocean on board 29-foot, 9-inch Taleisin. Learn how they planned and executed a seven-month “Champagne Safari on a Beer Budget,” outfitting a 4X4 to reach remote corners of southern Africa. Share their memories of campfire evenings with Kalahari Bushmen, life in a sculptors’ commune in Zimbabwe’s northern reaches, and days of animal-watching at waterholes far from game reserves. Then voyage onward with them to Brazil, and see how two 14-year-old nephews led them into a unique, eight-month-long island encounter with nine Rio de Janeiro families who dreamed of their own offshore adventures. Finally, sail north through the Atlantic to Ireland’s music-filled shores and a summer of history, classic sailing, and friendship.

Direct Hits Essential Vocabulary targets middle school and early high school learners. The book focuses on words students need to know as part of the Common Core curriculum as well as words frequently found on standardized tests like the SSAT and PSAT. The following features are included in the book:

Selective vocabulary found in the Common Core academic language curriculum for grades 6-9

High frequency vocabulary found on the recent SSATs and PSATs

More than 250 words used in context. No more memorizing definitions of long lists of seemingly unrelated words

Relevant and vivid examples from literature, history, current events, and pop culture make the words memorable for students
A prefix, root, or suffix reference card and pro-tip box is found in every chapter

When Alison Bernhoft set out to homeschool her six children, her grand plans were constantly derailed by the second law of thermodynamics: Entropy. Entropy happens. It enters our houses, spreads toys and dishes around, creates chaos throughout the day, and most importantly steals our time. But Alison discovered that chaos and homeschooling are far from mutually exclusive; indeed, suitably restrained, entropy can be the best teacher of all.

Entropy Academy reveals how you can train your home (even a messy one) to do half of your teaching, while much of the other half can be taught entropy style in the natural process of everyday life.