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Infuse student success into any program with our “Engaging Activities for…” Series.  Written and compiled by National Student Success Institute (NSSI^®) co-founders Amy Baldwin, Steve Piscitelli, and Robert Sherfield, the material is sure to connect, support, and empower educators in the Two-Year, Technical, and Career Colleges.  These booklets contain strategies, procedural information, and activities that you can use with your students immediately.   

Any time you travel to another country or just cross streets in your community, you are faced with differing cultural norms, artifacts, and rituals.  Students who are the first in their family to attend college or just new college students must learn and deal with cultural issues as well.  College expectations, syllabi and financial aid forms, and the seemingly endless readings, papers, and tests can be overwhelming and confusing.  For some, they have difficulty assimilating as college students.  The engaging activities for Understanding the Culture of College will help students learn how to transition successfully to the college environment.  

Amy, Steve, and Robb have developed this practical compilation, Engaging Activities for Understanding the Culture of College, as an indispensable, hands-on resource for educators to address the topic of college culture.  This booklet will empower teachers, professional development coordinators, coaches, and administrators with tools to actively engage in their classes.  They are confident you will find these activities as useful as they have with their students.

If you like this NSSI^® Booklet on Engaging Activities for Understanding the Culture of College, you will love the series:  Academic Success, Retention, Active Learning, Critical Thinking, and Motivation.

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Infuse student success into any program with our “Engaging Activities for…” Series.  Written and compiled by National Student Success Institute (NSSI^®) co-founders Amy Baldwin, Steve Piscitelli, and Robert Sherfield, the material is sure to connect, support, and empower educators in the Two-Year, Technical, and Career Colleges.  These booklets contain strategies, procedural information, and activities that you can use with your students immediately.   

Most students approach a study skills course (or book) with little or no enthusiasm. It is not one of the most popular topics in the course catalog. What do you think of when you hear the term study skills? For our purposes, the term “study skills” will refer to the abilities to learn how to do academic things well.

Amy, Steve, and Robb have developed this practical compilation, Engaging Activities for Academic Success, as an indispensable, hands-on resource for educators to address the topic of study skills.  This booklet will empower teachers, professional development coordinators, coaches, and administrators with tools to actively engage in their classes.  They are confident you will find these activities as useful as they have with their students.

If you like this NSSI^® Booklet on Engaging Activities for Academic Success, you will love the series:  Active Learning, Understanding the Culture of College, Critical Thinking, Motivation, and Retention.

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Infuse student success into any program with our “Engaging Activities for…” Series.  Written and compiled by National Student Success Institute (NSSI^®) co-founders Amy Baldwin, Steve Piscitelli, and Robert Sherfield, the material is sure to connect, support, and empower educators in the Two-Year, Technical, and Career Colleges.  These booklets contain strategies, procedural information, and activities that you can use with your students immediately.   

Few colleges in the nation are not only concerned with their retention rates as an institution, but also retention in degree programs and individual classes.  Many reasons are given as to why students leave college — from financial problems, to learned helplessness, to apathy, to self-esteem and motivation issues, to family problems, to lack of academic preparedness.  The classroom is one of the most important places where the academic community can have positive effects on students in relation to retention. 

Amy, Steve, and Robb have developed this practical compilation, Engaging Activities for Retention, as an indispensable, hands-on resource for educators to address the topic of retention.  This booklet will empower teachers, professional development coordinators, coaches, and administrators with tools to actively engage in their classes.  They are confident you will find these activities as useful as they have with their students.

If you like this NSSI^® Booklet on Engaging Activities for Retention, you will love the series:  Academic Success, Active Learning, Understanding the Culture of College, Critical Thinking, and Motivation.

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Infuse student success into any program with our “Engaging Activities for…” Series.  Written and compiled by National Student Success Institute (NSSI^®) co-founders Amy Baldwin, Steve Piscitelli, and Robert Sherfield, the material is sure to connect, support, and empower educators in the Two-Year, Technical, and Career Colleges.  These booklets contain strategies, procedural information, and activities that you can use with your students immediately.   

Can motivation be taught?  Can educators actually write a lecture and create activities that show students how to develop and use internal motivation?  We think the answer is yes.  Perhaps the greatest teaching tool we have as educators is the ability to model motivational behavior, show passion for our vocation, and exude energy that is unmistakable.  The activities in this booklet are secondary to this theory. 

Amy, Steve, and Robb have developed this practical compilation, Engaging Activities for Motivation, as an indispensable, hands-on resource for educators to address the topic of motivation.  This booklet will empower teachers, professional development coordinators, coaches, and administrators with tools to actively engage in their classes.  They are confident you will find these activities as useful as they have with their students.

If you like this NSSI^® Booklet on Engaging Activities for Motivation, you will love the series:  Academic Success, Retention, Active Learning, Understanding the Culture of College, and Critical Thinking.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Two expert practitioners offer a practical guide to the fast-changing law of employment practices. What private employers and their legal counsel should know. Includes Ohios interpretation of the employment at will doctrine. Coverage includes substantive law and procedural aspects of defending wrongful discharge actions and similar claims. Features a Table of Lawful/Unlawful Interview Questions; an extensive glossary; and articles on the implications of federal laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Mississippi Quarterly, published by Mississippi State University on March 22, 2000. The length of the article is 1558 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes Completed: A Scholarly Text.(Review) (book review)
Author: Stephen Meats
Publication: The Mississippi Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2000
Publisher: Mississippi State University
Volume: 53Issue: 2Page: 325

Article Type: Book Review

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Actor Stephen Baldwin and writer Andrew Cosby (creator of Sci-Fi Channel's EUREKA)unleash THE REMNANT. When natural disasters erupt the world and people start to vanish, former C.I.A. agent David Sacker is pulled back onto the job into a dangerous mystery that will challenge everything he knows about himself, the world and his wife. As the death toll begins to number in thousands, it is up to David Sacker to put together all the pieces of the puzzle before it's too late. A supernatural thriller in the vein of 24, THE REMNANT explores the fundamental questions of human life and our perception of reality. ... Read more

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Riveting
Reason for Reading: Stephen Baldwin's name first caught my eye. I'll admit I like the guy. But the plot's "24" comparison intrigued me and I wanted to see how (or if) Baldwin's Christian influence showed up in the book.

Former CIA agent David Stacker has just been married and is looking forward to his honeymoon. As he leaves the Federal Building, it suddenly explodes into a million pieces. Stacker is in hospital briefly with minor injuries. But then the bodies keep piling up as natural disasters around the world become more frequent, he finds a bomb in his kitchen and then people start to vanish into thin air. With a mysterious man telling David he will help him and the police on his trail as a suspect in the Federal House bombing, David finds himself being asked to come back to work for the CIA.

I really enjoyed this book! It is very fast-paced and compelling. The art is gorgeous. The opening scenes start with Hurricane Katrina and a supernatural element that is carried throughout the book. There is a mysterious man who looks very much like an older days preacher: black suit, white shirt and very narrow black tie. The plot starts off (not quietly) but at a beginning point then continues to pick up pace like a rolling stone until the final, shocking, abrupt ending. The story holds a very deep Christian theme throughout which is easily seen if one is looking for it. There is no God or Jesus talk, it's not Christian in that sense, but in the underlying themes. The ending is very abrupt and makes one think more is to come in future volumes but the ending is the true ending and from a certain Christian point of view makes perfect sense. Now, don't get me wrong as this is not a Bible-thumping graphic novel. The story is full of excitement, spies, and actually reads like a TV show, thus being compared to "24" in it's summary.

As to suitability for teens, the book states recommended for young teens and up. The only thing that would concern me as a parent is the violence, which there is plenty of including blood, though it is not extreme. As to swearing, the word d*mn is used and there is one short sensuous scene with underclothes on which clearly emphasizes it is a married couple "making out".

I thought the story was exciting and well-done. I enjoyed some of the Christian themes though ultimately it was in conflict with my own Christian beliefs but that didn't stop me from having a fun ride with this one. ... Read more

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Gerald the Welshman - Giraldus Cambrensis - was born, probably in 1147, at Manorbier Castle in the county of Pembroke. His father was a Norman noble, William de Barri, who took his name from the little island of Barry off the coast of Glamorgan. His mother, Angharad, was the daughter of Gerald de Windsor {1} by his wife, the famous Princess Nesta, the "Helen of Wales," and the daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr Mawr, the last independent Prince of South Wales. ... Read more

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Gerald the Welshman - Giraldus Cambrensis - was born, probably in 1147, at Manorbier Castle in the county of Pembroke. His father was a Norman noble, William de Barri, who took his name from the little island of Barry off the coast of Glamorgan. His mother, Angharad, was the daughter of Gerald de Windsor {1} by his wife, the famous Princess Nesta, the "Helen of Wales," and the daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr Mawr, the last independent Prince of South Wales. ... Read more

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Good for history, not for entertainment
This was written in 1191 as Cambrensis accompanied the Archbishop of Canterbury through Wales to preach the 3rd Crusade. (This is part 1 of the journey- part 2 is called A Description of Wales and is also available for the Kindle.) The editor gives a detailed biography of Cambrensis in the intro, and 2 prefaces written by Cambrensis are included. Cambrensis wrote in Latin, and this translation is in modern English.

I've read several travelogues from previous centuries, and this is the first I didn't like. Cambrensis was a archdeacon, and he writes most about the religious people he meets, and churches and monasteries. He also writes about local leaders, but he seldom describes the towns and cities, the countryside, the common people or natural events. He never talks about anything that happens as he travels from one town to another. It's more like a history book than a travelogue.

The editor frequently interjects info, which I found annoying- when Cambrensis mentions a town or person, the editor will use parentheses to insert up to a page and a half of info, so the editor contributes almost as much to the book as Cambrensis.

I'm not planning on reading the 2nd part which I mentioned in my first paragraph. I definitely wouldn't call this "one of the top 100 greatest books of all time" like the publisher's blurb says above. If you're interested in 12th century English religion this might be a great book, but this isn't the place to learn about everything else that occurred during that era. ... Read more

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Two expert practitioners offer a practical guide to the fast-changing law of employment practices. What private employers and their legal counsel should know. Includes Ohio;s interpretation of the employment at will doctrine. Coverage includes substantive law and procedural aspects of defending wrongful discharge actions and similar claims. Features a Table of Lawful/Unlawful Interview Questions; an extensive glossary; and articles on the implications of federal laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act. ... Read more

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The game of singles
Great book!Full of pertent and usable information.Written by a tennis player for tennis player.My coach, who played on the tour back with Pancho and those guys, recommended it.A great buy at a bargain price!

For masterful tactics...
For anyone who wants to improve their singles tactics this book is invaluable.The examples are from tennis long ago (good for tennis history buffs) but the lessons haven't changed, even with the more powerful racquets of today. The play diagrams take some getting used to, but generally it is easy to read. I would recommend this book to any serious tennis player who wants to elevate their game, esp. those who would like to consider a more attacking style of play. This book helped my game immensely. ... Read more