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Astronomy Today 
By Dr. Dinah Moche, Random House Library of Knowledge, 2nd Ed.
Totally updated text and index, new NASA
photos, and easy-to-read star maps for beginners. This beautiful book tells the
latest discoveries and ideas about our solar system and what lies beyond. The
workings of telescopes, rockets, astronaut missions, and robot spacecraft are
explained
Brand-new
edition of a favorite introduction to basic astronomy - All Updated
- Item# 4238
- Softcover
- For ages 8 through Adult
- 96 pgs., softcover, 0-394-84423-8
- Reg. $12.99 - Sale Price $11.69
- School orders please call 1-800-431-1579 for pricing of 50% off on orders
of 10 or more copies.
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Black Student's Guide to Colleges, The
Edited by Barry Beckham, 4th edition
Newly expanded and extensively updated, the fourth edition of The Black
Student's Guide to Colleges is essential reading for college-bound black
students, their parents, and their advisors. Detailed profiles of almost
two hundred of the nation's top colleges, both historically black and
predominantly white, are based on interviews, questionnaires, and official
college statistics. This book gives the inside scoop about the special
concerns of black students at colleges all over the country. Entries begin
with statistical information, including number of students, number of black
students and black faculty, and tuition. Each profile describes a school's
academic climate, support services, black student organizations (including
fraternities and sororities), and social life and atmosphere.
- Item# 0804a
- 471 pp., softcover, 1-56833-080-4
- $19.95
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Black Student's Guide to Scholarships, The
Edited by Barry Beckham
Does a college education seem like an impossible, expensive dream? It
doesn't have to. This indispensable guide to scholarships for black and
minority students will help turn your dream of going to college into
reality. Thoroughly revised and updated, the fifth edition of The Black
Student's Guide to Scholarships is an invaluable reference tool, including:
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alphabetical listing of scholarships from
schools, fraternities and sororities, churches, and organizations
and foundations;
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information on federal sources of financial
aid, including grants, loans, and work study programs;
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bibliography of other helpful reference works,
including Internet resources; and
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indexes organized by institution, discipline,
and state.
"The most thorough guide available to
financial aid for black student." ~ Dr. Israel Tribble, Jr.,
President, Florida Education Fund
- Item# 1177
- 243 pp., softcover, 1-56833-117-7
- $17.95
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College Shock
by Sally Landau and Val Holwerda
How to survive the first year of college....first-hand, confidential
interviews.
This is the Naked Truth.
First-hand, confidential interviews with college women who spoke absolutely
candidly about their experiences at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard,
Northwestern, NYU, Princeton, Swarthmore, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Los
Angeles, U.C. San Diego, U. Michigan, U. Pennsylvania, Washington University,
Williams, and many more.
Freshman and sophomore women look back at their first year to relate their
experiences about the expected and unexpected challenges of college, as well as
the expected and unexpected rewards. What it’s like to make the transition to
college, how best to navigate the pitfalls, and how best to make the most of
time spent; what they would like to differently or do the same all over again.
Not surprisingly, freshman year is about so much more than academics.
The resource book for heading off to college.
Topics include…
- making friends - stress
- sex - sororities
- loneliness - dating
- roommates - alcohol
- time management - academics
- homesickness - drugs
- making it all work - depression
The guide to doing college right.
The first time.
- Item# zz5854
- 178 pp., softcover, 0-9629458-5-4
- $16.95
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