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An in-depth exploration and expos of the predatory nature of the student loan industryAlan Collinge never imagined he would become a student loan justice activist. He planned to land a solid job after college, repay his student loan debt, and then simply forget the loans ever existed. Like millions of Americans, however, in spite of working hard, Collinge fell behind on payments and entered a labyrinthine student loan nightmare.

Community leaders and activists Gómez and Arroyo worked with children, teenagers, and parents - both the victims and the bullies - to put together this searing anthology of original essays, poetry, plays, and commentary on how bullying has affected their lives.

A unique and significant guide to selling more books through personal appearances and online interviews, brimming with information and resources as well as tips and ideas from nearly two dozen author-speaker professionals.The most powerful tool in your book promotion toolkit is your personality. The fact is that personality sells books.

Do you have what it takes to become an author, but are not sure where to start? Promote Your Book gives enterprising authors the advantage they need to navigate the publishing industry and gain a better understanding of what book promotion is all about. This well-organized collection of the most successful low-cost and no-cost ideas provides solutions for both aspiring and seasoned authors in any genre. You will learn how to promote the book without changing your lifestyle; how to promote creatively, locally, and through social media; submit news releases and tip sheets; and more.

Newspaperman tells the story of how an immigrant's shy son from Queens, New York, rose to the top of his industry, powered by little more than passion, brains, and hard work. Phillips began his career working as a copyboy for the New York Herald Tribune for 16 dollars a week... and ended it as publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of its parent corporation, Dow Jones & Company. The life story of Warren Phillips is the story of the American newspaper business.

Ben Mattlin lives a normal, independent life. Why is that interesting? Because Mattlin was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital weakness from which he was expected to die in childhood. Not only did Mattlin live through childhood, he became one of the first students in a wheelchair to attend Harvard, from which he graduated and became a professional writer. His advantage?

In a reporting tour de force, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children and points the way to reversing that failure. Brill not only takes us inside their roller-coaster battles, he also concludes with a surprising prescription for what it will take from both sides to put the American dream back in America’s schools.

In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around the work and person of Walt Whitman, and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it, to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction - or reintroduction - to Whitman.

Excuse Me, College Is Now is an invaluable, up-beat guide for college students, and their parents, on how to navigate the stresses of college life to enjoy it. Filled with real-life stories and practical tips, this is a user-friendly book that deals with the major issues college kids face today.

What explains the growing class divide between the well-educated and everybody else? Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and skills - the right "human capital" - reap the majority of the economic rewards. The complexity of today's economy is not only making these lucky elites richer - it is also making them smarter.

Reflecting cultural, political, and technological changes, this detailed exploration of Canadian book publishing displays trends of the industry from the last 50 years. Against the backdrop of historical highlights, the book dives into modern events in book publishing, focusing on the explosion of national book publishing in the 1970s and detailing the sparring match between the industry and government during the 1970s through the 1990s.

To glimpse America’s future, one needs to look no further than its college campuses. Of those institutions, none holds more clout than Yale University, the hallowed “cradle of presidents”. In Sex and God at Yale, recent graduate Nathan Harden undresses perversity among the Ivy and ideology gone wild as the upper echelon of academia is mired in nothing less than a full-fledged moral crisis.

Conservative pundits allege that the pervasive liberalism of America's colleges and universities has detrimental effects on undergraduates, most particularly right-leaning ones. Yet not enough attention has actually been paid to young conservatives to test these claims - until now. In Becoming Right, Amy Binder and Kate Wood carefully explore who conservative students are, and how their beliefs and political activism relate to their university experiences.

How Lincoln Learned to Read tells the American story from a fresh and unique perspective: how do we learn what we need to know? Beginning with Benjamin Franklin and ending with Elvis Presley, author Daniel Wolff creates a series of intimate, interlocking profiles of notable Americans that track the nations developing notion of what it means to get a good education.

Occuparsi del linguaggio pubblico e della sua qualità non è un lusso da intellettuali o una questione accademica. È un dovere cruciale dell'etica civile. Non è possibile pensare con chiarezza se non si è capaci di parlare e scrivere con chiarezza. Sono parole del filosofo John Searle, teorico del rapporto fra linguaggio e realtà istituzionali. Le società vengono costruite e si reggono essenzialmente su una premessa linguistica: sul fatto cioè che dire qualcosa comporti un impegno di verità e di correttezza nei confronti dei destinatari.

Si può prendere un classico della letteratura mondiale per bambini e ricavarne indicazioni su come condurre una vita di stupore e meraviglia? È quello che fa Davide Bregola con Lezioni di vita del Piccolo Principe per disillusi: attraverso le citazioni e i segreti dei personaggi che costellano il libro, Bregola traccia un sentiero, una rotta per seguire con fiducia lo stupore della scoperta di noi stessi, per ricacciare la disillusione della vita contemporanea e trovare una via che coniughi intelligenza e innocenza.

Le idee sbagliate sono sempre pericolose, ma ne esistono due che sembrano resistere nel tempo e, se combinate, costituiscono una miscela deflagrante. Sono la convinzione che esistano lingue migliori di altre, lingue banali e lingue geniali, lingue musicali e lingue stonate, e quella che la realtà si veda in modo diverso secondo la lingua che si parla, come se potesse condizionare i nostri sensi e i nostri ragionamenti. Andrea Moro affronta questi pregiudizi, e ne scopre i limiti, con ogni arma a disposizione: dalla filosofia, alla linguistica, alle neuroscienze.

Giocare. Ecco l'attività principale, la più importante negli anni dell'infanzia. Attraverso il gioco il bambino scopre la realtà, conosce se stesso e il mondo che lo circonda, sviluppa le sue abilità psicomotorie, allena le competenze cognitive, impara e... si diverte. Insomma, giocare è una cosa seria. Ecco perché è fondamentale che i genitori accompagnino il bambino in questo percorso di scoperta, apprendimento e maturazione.

Che cos'è il metodo Montessori e perché molti scelgono le scuole dove si mettono in pratica gli insegnamenti della grande pedagoga italiana, famosa in tutto il mondo? Maria Montessori ci ha lasciato una visione di come la scuola possa trasformarsi per aderire ai bisogni di apprendimento dei bambini. Di quella visione abbiamo ancora bisogno perché la scuola "tradizionale" molte di quelle pratiche non le ha ancora fatte proprie.

Perché è meglio non dire cincin o buon appetito? Come si scrive una mail? Quando si può dare del tu? Perché non si augura salute dopo uno starnuto? Le buone maniere, pur essendo molto legate alla tradizione non sono regole incise nella pietra, ma indicazioni soggette a continue modifiche. Anche se a volte possono sembrare arbitrarie o pure convenzioni, sono colme di significato e la loro conoscenza può offrire una rassicurazione. Le buone maniere, infatti, dovrebbero essere interpretate come un linguaggio capace di comunicare in modo efficace il nostro pensiero.