Academic Reading: College Major and Career Applications focuses on developing essential reading skills while showing students how to adapt them to specific academic disciplines and career fields. Kathleen McWhorter offers a unique, contextualized approach that focuses on academic reading skills and also motivates students towards a particular area of interest or field of study. Readers learn important comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills, as well as how to adapt these skills to study specific academic disciplines. While doing so, they also learn what each discipline involves and explore the available career paths. As an end result, Academic Reading teaches essential reading skills while opening up new academic and career possibilities. This edition of Academic Reading is supported by an enhanced MyReadingLab course, which offers text-specific exercises within the Learning Path, all of which feed into the MyReadingLab Gradebook.

For courses in Intermediate Reading or Reading and Study Skills. Presents reading and studying as inseparable skills, key to success in college and beyond College Reading and Study Skills provides complete coverage of both reading and study skills while demonstrating their relationship and interdependency. The "McWhorter Way" encourages students to approach reading and study skills as methods of selecting, processing, and organizing the information to be learned. The text also covers time management, analysis of learning style, note-taking strategies, improving vocabulary, and strengthening critical comprehension-elements crucial to student success. The 14th Edition revises and expands its coverage of the digital age in the context of reading and study; it features a stronger emphasis on discipline-specific college reading and expanded coverage of critical thinking. The thematic reader now covers non-traditional addictions and discrimination. Also available with MyLab Reading By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab Reading personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student.

Help your kids understand the value of money and become financially responsible adults with The Everything Kids' Money Book. From saving for a new bike to investing their allowance online, kids get the "cents" they need with this book. Kids will also learn: -How coins and bills are made -What money can buy-from school supplies to fun and games -How credit cards work -Ways to watch money grow-from savings to stocks -Cool financial technology -And more! Saving money isn't about a piggy bank anymore. Today's kids are investing money, starting their own small businesses, and watching their savings earn interest. This book will teach kids all they need to know about the "green" they earn so they can save or spend it wisely. This edition includes completely new material on online banking, opening a bank account, and saving allowance.

Unlike other career books, this book offers managers a team-focused approach to neutralizing a not-so-pleasant or ?productive--working atmosphere. Instead of isolating the one problem employee, relevant teams are considered as part of the solution. The result? Solutions stick and there's less likelihood of the bad apple ruining the bunch.
Complete with situational advice and case studies taken straight from the trenches, this simple and straightforward guide teaches managers how to:
Calm down combatants
Motivate wasters
Silence gossips
De-arm backstabbers
Convince passive-aggressives to open up
Teach narcissists the importance of the team
This book helps managers decide what the right course of action is?whether it means chastising negative behavior, encouraging positive outlooks, separating certain folks, creating teams for success, giving employees warnings, and/or firing the ones who are pretty much rotten through and through. This book is essential reading for any manager looking to ensure a pleasant, productive?and fruitful?work environment