handbooks, manuals, etc

Provides high school graduates with advice to help them prepare for and survive in the real world, presenting a wide range of options for life after graduation.

Top students and recent graduates from leading colleges and universities offer advice to incoming freshmen on how to handle the ups and downs of the first year of college, discussing homesickness, classes, extra-curricular activities, partying, dating, and other topics.

Top students and recent graduates from leading colleges and universities offer specific advice on how to pay for college, avoid unnecessary debt, and manage available funds.

Presents an instructional guide to knitting, for beginners and experienced knitters, and includes twenty-five projects, rescue techniques for common mistakes, a list of skills needed, and advice for successful designs. Includes illustrations and photographs.

A guide to choosing a college or university as an athlete, with tips on assessing your true abilities and deciding on the right NCAA division for you, and including guidelines on the recruitment process, a sport-by-sport listing of scholarships and financial aid, and NCAA rules and regulations.

Offers guidelines for citing Internet sources when writing footnotes or bibliographic entries, formatting documents for online publication, and electronically preparing texts for print publication.

Guide for students with lessons on how to think critically, developing documentation skills, and writing for college audiences. Includes a model research paper and evaluation guides.

A step-by-step guide on how to write and how to manage the writer's life. Tells how to get started and move beyond first drafts, and discusses writer's block, writing groups, and publication.

A guide to the writings of Tony Hillerman, including a comprehensive "concordance" of all the characters in his fiction, a chronology of his life, a personal interview, background information on Navajo Indians, and a selection of short fiction and nonfiction by Hillerman.