learning and scholarship

Offers teachers practical ideas and strategies for using block scheduling in the classroom and explains the benefits of block scheduling.

Includes step-by-step explanations and examples for incorporating multiple intelligence instruction into the elementary through high school classroom.

Presents a comprehensive workbook that includes practical advice for self-improvment and covers areas of time management, organizational skills, problem solving, study techniques, and reading, memory, and test-taking.

The Little Angel of Learning tries to help Nick discover that it is more rewarding to gain knowledge than it is to make things up.

Contains cross-referenced definitions, and historical contexts, of various schools of thought, terms, movements, and religions, arranged in categories such as politics, history, philosophy and the arts, science, medicine, and laws.

Presents a comprehensive survey of the development of Muslim growth, tradition, and thought covering a span of fourteen hundred years, and includes maps, notes, and illustrated photographs.

A secular compendium of 365 readings designed to refresh the spirit and stimulate the mind, featuring daily devotionals that, over the course of each week, cover the fields of history, literature, visual arts, science, music, philosophy, and religion.

Recounts the efforts of the Mars Society to begin the virtual exploration of Mars through a series of unique missions, using habitat modules, space suits, and next-generation exploration equipment to replicate and study the real-life challenges of exploring the Red Planet.

Describes a variety of instructional strategies for use in kindergarten through twelfth-grade classrooms, appropriate for teaching any subject; grouped in nine categories, with exercises, assessment rubrics, worksheets, masters, and other materials.

Identifies job options for scholarly people, featuring descriptions of nine possible career paths, including university professor, archivist, and researcher, each with information on training, outlook, and salaries, and providing profiles of people on the job, and resources for further reading.