Your College Experience: Strategies for Success, 9th Edition

Written by the leading authorities on the first-year seminar and grounded in research, Your College Experience offers students practical help in making the transition to college and getting the most out of their time there.
Speaking with evident respect for students at all kinds of institutions, with all kinds of learning styles, and with all kinds of backgrounds, the authors ask them to consider their own goals, and their purposes for being in college.

The Big Book of Hormones

The Big Book of Hormones: Survival Secrets to Naturally Eliminate hot flashes, Regulate your moods, Improve your memory, Loose weight, Sleep better, and more!

Behind the scenes your hormones have played a huge role where your health and well-being are concerned. So much depends on them, just as their functioning depends on many other aspects of your life. Despite a woman’s tendency to ruefully bemoan her hormones, God invented hormones and He knew what He was doing. He designed their intricate dances within your body. He also designed your mind to be able to understand how to live in and maintain a healthy body.

How It Works - Special Issue: Book of Great Inventors & Their Creations

Featuring – among many others – brilliant mathematicians Archimedes of Syracuse and Charles Babbage, celebrated scientists Michael Faraday and Alfred Nobel, and photography pioneers Nicephore Niépce and George Eastman, the How It Works Book Of Great Inventors & Their Creations is the ultimate guide to learning how these geniuses worked and what incredible inventions earned them their rightful place in history.

Oxford Discover uses Big Questions such as these to tap into students' natural curiosity. It enables them to ask their own questions, find their own answers, and explore the world around them.

Big Questions linked to school subjects form the basis of every unit
Authentic fiction and non-fiction texts on every topic provide different views on the Big Question
Video clips provide an introduction to each Big Question, helping students activate prior knowledge

The War That Used Up Words: American Writers and the First World War

In this provocative study, Hazel Hutchison takes a fresh look at the roles of American writers in helping to shape national opinion and policy during the First World War. From the war's opening salvos in Europe, American writers recognized the impact the war would have on their society and sought out new strategies to express their horror, support, or resignation.