Books for College & Adult

Explore 48 curated books for College & Adult students. Each resource has been reviewed for quality and age-appropriateness.

Learn Like a Pro: Science-Based Tools to Become Better at Anything

A short, 160-page distillation of Barbara Oakley's learning research, co-written with Olav Schewe — the fastest way into the material for an older teen.

I Want More Pizza: Real World Money Skills For High School, College, And Beyond

A short, teen-friendly intro to money skills that uses a pizza metaphor to teach saving, budgeting, and compound growth. Written for high-school and college students; a quick, actionable first personal-finance read.

Why Didn't They Teach Me This in School?: 99 Personal Money Management Principles to Live By

A concise personal-finance primer built around 8 principles and 99 practical money lessons — budgeting, saving, credit, and investing — for teens and young adults. A popular graduation gift and homeschool money-skills supplement.

The Thinking Toolbox: Thirty-Five Lessons That Will Build Your Reasoning Skills

A friendly, comic-illustrated follow-up to The Fallacy Detective, with 35 hands-on lessons and activities that teach practical reasoning, evidence, and problem-solving for ages 13 and up.

Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster

International Grandmaster of Memory Kevin Horsley shares powerful memory techniques and learning strategies to help students remember anything and learn faster.

A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

Barbara Oakley's bestselling guide to mastering math and science, based on her popular "Learning How to Learn" course — the world's most enrolled online class.

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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

A groundbreaking book that draws on cognitive science research to reveal the most effective learning strategies — and why many common study techniques don't work.

How to Become a Straight-A Student

Cal Newport's evidence-based guide to earning top grades while studying less, based on interviews with real straight-A students at elite universities.

Kaplan ACT Prep Plus 2025

Kaplan's flagship ACT guide with 5 full-length practice tests, online resources, and their proven score-raising strategies used by millions of students.

Barron's ACT Premium Study Guide with 6 Practice Tests

Expert ACT preparation from Barron's featuring 6 full-length practice tests, comprehensive subject review, and proven test-taking strategies.

Princeton Review ACT Premium Prep, 2026

Comprehensive ACT preparation with 8 full-length practice tests, proven score-raising strategies, and detailed content review for all test sections.

The Official ACT Prep Guide 2025-2026

The only ACT prep guide written by the test makers at ACT, Inc., featuring 8 full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations.

The Human Body Coloring Book: The Ultimate Anatomy Study Guide (DK)

A hands-on DK anatomy study guide using coloring to teach all major body systems — ideal for grades 6 through adult learners.

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition

A practical Python programming guide teaching automation of real-world tasks, for high school and adult beginners.

Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism

A paradigm-shifting book that reframes autism as a difference to be understood rather than a disorder to be fixed, with practical guidance for parents and educators.

Smart but Scattered Teens: The Executive Skills Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential

The teen-focused follow-up to the bestselling Smart but Scattered, providing executive skills strategies specifically designed for adolescents aged 12-18.

The Explosive Child (6th Edition)

A groundbreaking guide to understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children using Collaborative & Proactive Solutions.

Mathematical Mindsets

A groundbreaking book for parents and educators that explains how to foster a growth mindset in math, transforming how children think about numbers and their own potential.

Living Language French, Essential Edition

Complete beginner French course with coursebook, 3 audio CDs, and free online learning, providing structured instruction in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium Fourth Edition

Comprehensive Spanish grammar workbook with systematic coverage of all major structures, exercises, and McGraw Hill Language Lab app integration for high school and adult learners.

Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish All-in-One, Premium Third Edition

Comprehensive Spanish learning workbook combining five bestselling Practice Makes Perfect titles, covering grammar through conversation for high school and adult learners.

The Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments

Comprehensive home chemistry lab manual with 170+ real experiments covering college-prep topics from basic techniques to advanced analytical chemistry.

Keys to Drawing

A classic art instruction book presenting 55 practical keys to drawing from observation, used in art schools and by self-taught artists worldwide.

Drawing for Older Children & Teens: A Creative Method for Adult Beginners, Too

Advanced drawing instruction for teens and adult beginners using the Monart Method, covering proportion, perspective, shading, and realistic drawing techniques.

You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less

A bestselling 30-day drawing course by Emmy Award-winning PBS host Mark Kistler, teaching anyone to draw with daily 20-minute lessons.

Bible Study Guide for All Ages

A multi-age Bible curriculum with hands-on activities, timelines, and maps designed so the whole family can study Scripture together.

A Universe Of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination

In A Universe of Consciousness, Gerald Edelman builds on the radical ideas he introduced in his monumental trilogy-Neural Darwinism, Topobiology, and The Remembered Present-to present for the first time an empirically supported full-scale theory of c...

The Botany Coloring Book

The Botany Coloring Book The Botany Coloring Book consisting or colorable drawings and terms, is an especially effective learning device for the study of plant structures, functions and life histories...

Ecological Architecture

Ecological rethinking and sustainable building concepts have become important topics in contemporary architecture. The use of renewable resources and the intention to build in harmony with nature are characteristic aspects for this development. Apart...

Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten

We use tables and graphs to communicate quantitative information: the critical numbers that measure the health, identify the opportunities, and forecast the future of our organizations. Even the best information is useless, however, if its story is p...

Drones for Dummies

Ready to soar into the world of unmanned aircraft? Drones For Dummies introduces you to the fascinating world of UAVs. Written in plain English and brimming with friendly instruction, Drones For Dummies provides you with the information you need to f...

Homeschooling: The Early Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 3- to 8- Year-Old Child

Discover the Rewards of Homeschooling Your Young Child Young children are full of curiosity, imagination, and a sense of wonder. They're willing to try new things and possess a natural joy of discovery. Yet in a traditional school, these natur...

Data Visualization For Dummies

Learn meaningful ways to show trending and relationships, how to convey complex data in a clear, concise diagram, ways to create eye-catching visualizations, and more. Effective data analysis involves learning how to synthesize data, especially big d...

Homeschooling: The Teen Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 13- to 18- Year-Old

Discover the Rewards of Homeschooling Your Teen ·Create unlimited learning on a limited budget ·Discover teaching methods for teens with different learning styles ·Utilize the best resources and technology ·Prepare...

Suzuki Piano School, Vol. 1

The New International Edition of Suzuki Piano School, Volume 1 includes French, German and Spanish translations as well as a newly recorded CD performed by internationally renowned recording artist Seizo Azuma. Now the book and CD can be purchased to...

Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Piano: Everything You Need to Know to Start Playing Now! (Teach Yourself Series)

Learn to play the piano and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about...

College Algebra

College Algebra provides a comprehensive exploration of algebraic principles and meets scope and sequence requirements for a typical introductory algebra course. The modular approach and richness of content ensure that the book meets the needs of a v...

Digital Wedding Photography Photo Workshop (9781118014110): Kenny Kim: Books

Learn to capture stunning and memorable wedding photographs You only get one chance to photograph a couple?s dream wedding, and this complete resource is an essential addition to any aspiring or current wedding photographer?s shelf. From brightly li...

The Electric Guitar Handbook: How to Buy, Maintain, Set Up, Troubleshoot, and Modify Your Guitar

This is the first hands-on how-to manual devoted to all electric guitars. This guidebook shows owners and dreamers the basics of selecting and buying electric guitars; maintenance and repairs such as tuning, setting intonation, fret repairs, bridge a...

Good Housekeeping Family Vegetarian Cooking: 225 Recipes Everyone Will Love

A vegetarian cookbook everyone in the family can love! From the most trusted name in America comes an all-purpose vegetarian cookbook for families looking to change their diet, in need of midweek meatless alternatives, or dealing with the demands of...

A Short History of Nearly Everything

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to under...

Drumset: Beginning, Intermediate, Mastering

Anyone interested in playing the drumset can pick up this well-paced, comprehensive method and get started right away. Beginning concepts include stick techniques, snare drum rudiments, accents, dynamics, and reading drumset music. Intermediate topic...

Closeup Shooting: A Guide to Closeup, Tabletop and Macro Photography

Close-up photography is one of the most fascinating areas in photography. This illustrated guide will take the reader on a journey into the wonderful world of small, smaller, and smallest objects and show him how he can capture their beauty with phot...

The Complete Dinosaur (Life of the Past): James Orville Farlow

More than 350 illustrations, including 16 pages in full color Each chapter written by an expert in dinosaur studies Includes the latest dinosaur discoveries New information on the warm-blooded/cold-blooded debate New insights on the possibility of is...

About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

An elegant, witty, and engaging exploration of the riddle of time, which examines the consequences of Einstein's theory of relativity and offers startling suggestions about what recent research may reveal. The eternal questions of science an...

Stuff! Good Synth Players Should Know: An A-Z Guide to Getting Better

Take your playing from ordinary to extraordinary with this all-encompassing book/CD pack for synthesizer players. Whether your interest lies in keyboard synths or virtual software synths, you'll receive valuable tips on...

Digital Photography Made Easy: Straightforward Advice

A comprehensive practical guide and reference aimed at beginner and intermediate photographers, Digital Photography Made Easy introduces the basics of taking, making, managing and sharing digital photos. The main features range from how digital camer...

Advanced Digital Black & White Photography

Fans of black-and-white photography can bring their skills up-to-date with this revised and richly illustrated guide! Extremely popular in its first edition, it now includes information about the latest cameras and photographic technology, as well as...