Books for College & Adult

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

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.

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...

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...

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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...

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...

Biology: The Ultimate Self Teaching Guide - Introduction to the Wonderful World of Biology

If you have ever wanted to know more about biology, but thought it would too confusing, then this is the book for you. We take the concepts of biology and put them in simple terms, allowing you to better understand the amazing diversity of our planet...

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...

NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

Among the topics covered: Why the most brutal person in a child's life is often a sibling, and how a single aspect of their preschool-aged play can determine their relationship as adults. When is it too soon - or too late - to teach...

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...

Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time

You've heard the expression, “It’s the little things that count.” It's more than a simple platitude. Research has shown that integrating little daily practices into your life can actually change the way your brain works. This guide offers...

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...

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...

Introductory Business Statistics

Introductory Business Statistics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the one-semester statistics course for business, economics, and related majors. Core statistical concepts and skills have been augmented with practical busine...

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...

The All New Ball Book Of Canning And Preserving: Over 350 of the Best Canned, Jammed, Pickled, and Preserved Recipes

From the experts at Jarden Home Brands, makers of Ball canning products, comes the first truly comprehensive canning guide created for today's home cooks. This modern handbook boasts more than 350 of the best recipes ranging from jams and jelli...

Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success

Psychologist Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Privilege, brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode once and for all the myth that good grades, high test scores, and c...

Precalculus: A Prelude to Calculus

Sheldon Axler's Precalculus focuses only on topics that students actually need to succeed in calculus. Because of this, Precalculus is a very manageable size even though it includes a student solutions manual. The book is geared towards cours...

Teaching Kids Business: Why, What, When, Where, How & Impact

Simple and effective strategies and activities to develop life skills and experiences that prepares kids of all ages for business. Provides progressive thinking, ideas to implement, teaching techniques, and a solid framework to teach kids business. T...

Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages

Written by one of the world's foremost experts on dinosaurs, this award-winning title—honored by the NSTA and the AAAS—is an essential addition to any dinophile's library, regardless of age! Using casual language aimed at youn...

The Art of Sign Language

In our diversified multicultural world sign language can come in handy. The introduction goes through the basics including sentence structure, finger spelling, and the use of markers....

Record Label: Start, Manage, & Run Independent Record Label

Starting a record label requires tremendous amounts of dedication and hard work because the music industry is very competitive. It also requires a substantial investment of money to produce music, sign talent and promote your company. However, if you...

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...

A History of Western Music (Ninth Edition)

Combining current scholarship with cutting-edge pedagogy, the Ninth Edition of A History of Western Music is the text that students and professors have trusted for generations. Because listening is central to music history, the new Total Access progr...

Maran Illustrated Guide to Piano

Produced by the award-winning maranGraphics group, Maran Illustrated Guide to Piano is a valuable resource to a wide range of readers-from people who want to play a few songs for their family in the living room to those who aspire to become serious m...

Charlotte Mason's Original Homeschooling Series

This edition of Charlotte Mason's Original Homeschooling Series is out of print. It has been our pleasure these past 25 years to make Charlotte Mason's writings available to a new generation of readers. The Publishers. This is the complet...

Solar Living Source Book: Your Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living

Concerns over dwindling resources and environmental degradation are driving many to seek alternatives to our wasteful, polluting lifestyle. Clean technologies such as solar power, wind power, and biodiesel fuel are soaring in popularity. Real Goods S...

Everyday Food: Light: The Quickest and Easiest Recipes, All Under 500 Calories

The editors of Everyday Food magazine know that it’s not enough to get dinner on the table in a snap—it also has to be good for the whole family. Everyday Food: Light features delicious, healthful recipes, all under 500 calories. Organized seasonally...

The Electric Guitar Handbook: A Complete Course in Modern Technique and Styles

(Book). Backbeat's successful Handbook format applied to the world's most popular instrument. The Electric Guitar Handbook is the latest entry in Backbeat's best-selling handbook series, combining a two-part book and an audio CD in...

Biology 2e

Biology 2e is designed to cover the scope and sequence requirements of a typical two-semester biology course for science majors. The text provides comprehensive coverage of foundational research and core biology concepts through an evolutionary lens....

Teach Yourself to Play Guitar: A Quick and Easy Introduction for Beginners

(Guitar Educational). Teach Yourself to Play Guitar has been created specifically for the student with no music-reading background. With lesson examples presented in today's most popular tab format, which also incorporates simple beat notation...

Reading and Writing Chinese: Third Edition

This is a complete and easy–to–use guide for reading and writing Chinese characters. Learning written Chinese is an essential part of mastering the Chinese language. Used as a standard by students and teachers learning to read Chinese and write Chine...

Suzuki Flute School, Vol 1: Flute Part

The Suzuki Method® of Talent Education is based on Dr. Shinichi Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability, and that people are the product of their environment. According to Dr. Suzuki, a world-renowned violinist and teacher, the...

English Made Easy Volume One: A New ESL Approach: Learning English Through Pictures

English Made Easy is a breakthrough in English language learning—imaginatively exploiting how pictures and text can work together to create understanding and help learners learn more productively. It gives beginner English learners easy access to the...

The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbo...

See It and Say It in Spanish: A Beginner's Guide to Learning Spanish the Word-and-Picture Way

Master Spanish quickly and easily with this guide—written by internationally famous language teacher Margarita Madrigal—that has two built-in learning aids that has helped thousands of beginner students learn to speak Spanish. THE WORD AND PICTURE ME...

Wall Art: 35 Fresh and Striking Projects to Decorate Your Walls

Treat your home as your canvas and adorn your walls with hangings, paintings, stencils, papercrafts, tapestries and more. Update your interiors with these innovative, contemporary projects, some of which can be created in an afternoon....

Learn & Master Drums with Dann Sherrill

Learn how to practice, tune, and play your own drumset with a variety of musical styles

An Encyclopedia of the Violin

"No list of twentieth-century landmarks in music reference would be valid without Bachmann's Encyclopedia." —American Reference Book Annual. If there were such an award as one for the best reprint of our day, surely this book...

Learning Teaching: The Essential Guide to English Language Teaching

Handbook for practicing ELT teachers. The third edition has been extensively revised and restructured to take recent developments in ELT into account and now includes a DVD featuring a full lesson being taught as well as demonstrations of practical t...

Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

From two leading experts in education and entrepreneurship, an urgent call for the radical re-imagining of American education so that we better equip students for the realities of the twenty-first century economy. Today more than ever, we prize acade...

How to Brew: Everything You Need To Know To Brew Beer Right The First Time

Everything needed to brew beer right the first time. Presented in a light-hearted style without frivolous interruptions, this authoritative text introduces brewing in a easy step-by-step review....

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...

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...

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...

The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling

Socialization may well be the single most important aspect of education today. With high and rising rates of divorce, drug abuse, youth violence, alcoholism, teen promiscuity, and so forth, we cannot afford to let this issue go unexamined.To cling to...