Showing 1-10 of approximately 1198 books results for "educated" .
Author: Susan Wise Bauer
ISBN: 0393050947
Recommended Retail Price: $27.95
An engaging, accessible guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition.
Surrounded by more books than ever, readers today are frequently daunted by the classics they have left unread. The Well-Educated Mind, debunking our own inferiority complexes, is a wonderful resource for anyone wishing to expl...
Author: Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 0060012358
Recommended Retail Price: $6.99
Winner of the 2001 Carnegie Medal
One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. And they were amazing when the rats f...
Author: William J. Bennett, Jr., Chester E. Finn, Jr., John T.E. Cribb
ISBN: 0684872722
Recommended Retail Price: $19.95
The Educated Child defines a good education and offers parents a plan of action for ensuring that their children achieve it. Combining the goals that William Bennett enumerated as Secretary of Education, key excerpts from E. D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge Sequence, and the latest research, it sets forth clear cu...
Author: Sam Burchers, Max Burchers, Bryan Burchers
ISBN: 0965242277
Recommended Retail Price: $12.95
Kids learned a word a minute in independent school test! 210 words every grammar school student should know, presented in an easy to read format with memory aids in the form of rhyming words and humorous cartoons for every word. Makes vocabulary fun! As easy as the comics.
Author: Rick Bisio, with Mike Kohler
ISBN: 0979846773
Recommended Retail Price: $18.95
There is nothing more expensive than ignorance -- let The Educated Franchisee serve as your guide for selecting a franchise that meets your needs!
The Educated Franchisee will show you:
-How to find a franchise that is right for you
-How owning a franchise can create wealth
-Where to...
ISBN: 193519156X
Recommended Retail Price: $20.00
Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training. An older tradition—the Great Tradition—of education in the West is waiting to be heard. ...
Author: Tom Lichtenheld
ISBN: 068984381X
Recommended Retail Price: $18.99
Where did all these monsters come from?
The closet, the basement, under the bed, the outhouse, even the school furnace room! But mostly, they came from a healthy imagination, just like yours!
Using a patented system of made-up facts and educated guesses, Everything I Know About Monsters reveals all t...
Author: Alfie Kohn
ISBN: 0807032670
Recommended Retail Price: $16.00
Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. Time magazine has called him "perhaps the country"s most outspoken critic of education"s fixation on grades [and] test scores." And the Washington Post says he is "the most energetic and charismatic figure standin...
Author: Northrop Frye
ISBN: 0253200881
Recommended Retail Price: $11.95
Addressed to educators and general readers -- the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life -- this important new book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the teaching of literature at lower school levels, designed both to ...
Author: Julian Fleisher, Adam Robinson
ISBN: 0609811088
Recommended Retail Price: $29.95
Some interesting word facts:
• The word "noisome" had nothing whatsoever to do with noise.
• "Ordinance" and "ordnance" have two distinct meanings.
• An "errant" fool is a fool who is lost, while and "arrant" fool is one whose foolishness is obvious.
Word Smart II exposes hundreds of examples...