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How to Be a Scholar: Smoothing the Transition from High School to College...and Beyond

Author(s): Paul A Verrell, Norah McCabe

For a growing number of people, moving from high school to college and then college to career are two of life’s biggest transitions. For many, they are also two of life’s biggest challenges. This book is intended to help make both of these transitions, but especially the first, smoother than they mi...

Fonda Money's Excel Financial Planning Guide

Author(s): Ladd Kochman

Simply said, financial planning is an ongoing effort to avoid future financial distress.  Key variables include present and future worth, rates of return, and time.  Want to know how many months or what rate of return is required to reach a savings goal?  What about today’s cost of future income? ...

Selected Aspects of Mentoring: Advice, Challenges, and Approaches

Author(s): Schuyler Webb, Benson G Cooke, Edwin J. Nichols, WILLIAM B. TALLEY, RAMAR HENDERSON

The publication captures the concept and application of mentoring as an age-old method of training and learning that has existed in all societies throughout recorded history and continues to impact virtually everyone across their life span. Moreover, it illuminates how mentoring has been indelibly i...

Social Justice and the Sociological Imagination: A Reader for the 21st Century

Author(s): University of Tennessee - Dept of Sociology

Most sociology readers offer a mix of classic and contemporary articles covering the breadth of sociological topics from A to Z. Others focus on one area, such as globalization or urban sociology. Some are intended as companions to particular textbooks; a few include novelties such as blog posts. So...

Business Algebra

Author(s): Kelly MacArthur

The primary goal of Business Algebra is to bring as simple, organized and straight-forward of an approach to business algebra as possible. Many students are somewhat mathemaphobic and are intimidated by mathematics textbooks. They typically don’t have a great desire (or any at all) to read all the t...

Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management: A Practitioner's Perspective - High School Version

Author(s): William McLaury, Eugene Spiegle

Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management, A Practitioner’s Perspective is based on both authors many years of experience working in the field of supply chain management.  It addresses the most fundamental concepts and best practices of contemporary supply chain management from the tactical and strate...