Higher & Continuing Education

Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....

"Tom Robbins has a grasp on things that dazzles the brain and he's also a world-class storyteller." --Thomas Pynchon In Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, his seventh and biggest novel, the wise, witty, always gutsy Tom Robbins brings onstage the most complex and compelling character he has...

This book—Rescue Yourself: How to complete a PhD without a supervisor—helps students organize their habits, strategies, behaviour and emotions to finish a PhD. Let's start our work from the fear, confusion and worry, and scaffold a thesis to success.

We are currently living in a (Post) Peterson Paradigm. This book–12 Rules for (Academic) Life—explores what has happened to teaching, learning and politics through this odd and chaotic time....

For thousands of people every year, choosing to become an electrician can be the most important decision they make. Not everyone who starts this journey will finish it.

The Dalai Lama presents the basic worldview of Buddhism while offering answers to some of life's most profound and challenging questions: Why are we in this situation? Where are we going? Do our lives have any meaning? How should we live our lives? Basing his explanation on the twelve links of...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great political and cultural fault line of American life Winner of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award | Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction | ""This book is simply...

Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way....

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners....

Beginning Theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades....

Freeman A. Hrabowski III and coauthors Philip J. Rous and Peter H. Henderson probe the way senior leaders, administrators, staff, faculty, and students facilitate academic success by cultivating an empowering institutional culture and broad leadership for innovation.

In this startling group memoir, four friends - Black and White, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born - use Toni Morrison’s novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism and living whole in times of uncertainty....

Ten drafts to complete a PhD is a book of propulsive purpose. Only one percent of the world's population holds a PhD. But attrition rates remain high. Tara Brabazon provides a concrete strategy to complete a doctorate.

Energize your classrooms with these key techniques for college teaching....

Starting a PhD is tough. Completing a PhD is even tougher. Tara Brabazon offers strategies to reclaim, restart and reboot a PhD. She takes the barriers - the full stops - in the doctoral process and transforms them into a comma, to enable momentum and success....

By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning....

From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time...

Internationally best-selling author Umberto Eco is a master stylist whose books, including The Name of the Rose and Baudolino, have been savored by millions around the world....

In this groundbreaking and practical guide, teachers will discover how to harness and manage AI as a powerful teaching tool.

Entering the world of engineering and STEM isn’t just for “brainiacs". Anyone can succeed in this arena, but it does require dedication and attention to critical skills. Jake Ryland shares seven practical steps for good grades and continued success in the world of engineering....

Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a great way to explore the subject of abnormal psychology....

Among the book's many tales we meet Feynman's first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love's irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb....

Zero to Finals Medicine, 2nd edition, is part of the Zero to Finals series, aimed at providing key learning material for students. The books are designed to be studied from cover to cover in preparation for your exams.

Academia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count. But without kindness at its core, Catherine Denial suggests, higher education fails students and instructors—and its mission—in critical ways.

Any conversation about effective teaching must begin with a consideration of how students learn. However, instructors may find a gap between resources that focus on the technical research on learning and those that provide practical classroom strategies....

Ten drafts to complete a PhD is a book of propulsive purpose. Only one percent of the world's population holds a PhD. But attrition rates remain high. Tara Brabazon provides a concrete strategy to complete a doctorate. Structured through ten drafts, the goal is to—iteratively—improve the PhD dissertation or thesis to enable a successful examination.

Ivy League universities can no longer be trusted to produce well-educated students. Even a cursory review of the course titles at top schools shows that these $320,000-plus diplomas may confer legacy prestige to graduates, but not necessarily knowledge or wisdom. At Cornell, for example, students can take Queer Girlhood and Intersectional Disability Studies. Even worse, these courses actually fulfill general education requirements. It is still possible to earn a great education at Ivy League universities, but doing so requires prudence and persistence.

This is the ultimate guide for university students seeking to master the art of focus in an increasingly distracting world. This book delves into essential aspects of focus, from understanding the basics of sleep, nutrition, and mental health to navigating the intricacies of attention spans influenced by digital media. What sets this book apart is its holistic approach. It doesn't just offer quick fixes but provides a deep understanding of how our brains focus and what environmental and lifestyle factors affect that focus.

During the past century, the United States was rated first among nations in technological innovation. This provided a strong foundation for a booming economy and the emergence of countless improvements in how we live. We now are ranked fourth. We rate 41st in education, and a dismal 85th in the percentage of graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This audiobook describes things that this country can do to regain its preeminence in scientific creativity and innovation.

This is not a manual. It’s a quiet act of rebellion. Letters to a Young Teacher is a poetic and piercing exchange between two educators — a seasoned guide and a young teacher navigating burnout, grief, and the quiet longing to feel again. What begins as an honest back-and-forth becomes a reckoning with perfectionism, a gentle rebellion against performative strength, and a soft return to joy. These letters don’t preach. They breathe. They carry tools that don’t demand, stories that regulate the body, and language that grants permission — to rest, to feel again, to reclaim wonder.