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Computing Essentials 2008, Complete Edition (Paperback)

Computing Essentials 2008, Complete Edition

Students are introduced to a broad range of computing topics, including computer components, applications software, databases, storage devices, etc.

About the Author

Tim O’Leary is a professor of IS at ASU, and has written many books on Computing and Information Systems. Linda O’Leary is a professional trainer in Computing. She has developed training manuals for large corporations, presented seminars on a wide variety of application programs, and has co-authored several books with her husband, Tim.

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Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains (Paperback)

Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains

Review

“Each teacher must have a toolkit of time-tested strategies that are effective with all types of students. Teaching Outside the Box is the unique resource that also acknowledges the importance of each teacher’s personal attitudes and beliefs about teaching. I am recommending this book to every teacher I know!” –Gayle Robertson Jones, Safe and Drug-Free School Coordinator, Oklahoma State Department of Education “LouAnne Johnson is an exceptional teacher who is unafraid to grapple with the untidy human realities of teaching and learning, and who is willing to share the secrets of her success with others. Teaching Outside the Box offers a wealth of important questions and answers that all teachers should seriously think about.” –Edward Pajak, director, graduate education, Johns Hopkins University “As a student, I wish all teachers would read this book. If they put these strategies to use, school would be more fun. Teaching Outside the Box sho (more…)

What You Should Know About Politics…But Don’t: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues (Paperback)

What You Should Know About Politics...But Don't: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues

From Booklist

Conrad’s father is the senior Democratic senator of North Dakota, and her uncle is the Republican U.S. agricultural secretary and former governor of North Dakota. Still, she manages to be nonpartisan in this very helpful guide to American politics. She highlights the foibles of both parties when explaining campaign financing, special interest groups, and voting irregularities. Conrad gives readers the essentials on elections, the economy, foreign policy, the military, civil liberties, and other issues. She details all the elements that go into a presidential election, from primaries and caucuses to pledged delegates and superdelegates, and why more Americans need to pay attention to the mechanics of elections before things go wrong. She begins with a brief background of current debates on issues from abortion and the right to die (under the topic “Culture Wars”) to highway privatization and FEMA (under “Homeland Security”).This is an essenti (more…)