Education; psychology; DK encyclopedias

Schools for all kinds of minds : boosting student success by embracing learning variation / Mary-Dean Barringer, Craig Pohlman, Michele Robinson ; foreword by Paul Orfalea. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

With the light : raising an autistic child / Keiko Tobe. New York : Yen Press, 2007-2010. (Publisher’s description)

Animals: a visual encyclopedia. New York: DK Pub., 2008. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)  (DK encyclopedias are the ones with the incredibly detailed photographs.  They are generally written for children.  You can look for more of them here.)

Education; Theater; Sociology

Stories from novice teachers [electronic resource] : this is induction? / Lisa Scherff, Mike Daria. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Historical dictionary of contemporary American theater, 1930-2010 [electronic resource] / James Fisher. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Unequal childhoods [electronic resource] : class, race, and family life / Annette Lareau. 2nd ed., with an update a decade later. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Governance; Education; National Gallery

Key concepts in governance / Mark Bevir. Los Angeles, Calif. : SAGE, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Key concepts in education / Fred Inglis and Lesley Aers. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2008. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

The National Gallery companion guide / Erika Langmuir. London: National Gallery, 2006. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

The Great Depression; Education; Political theories

The Great Depression / Richard C. Hanes, editor ; Sharon Hanes, associate editor. Detroit : Gale, 2002. (Click here to access resource)

Education: meeting America’s needs? / Gina Giuliano. Detroit, Mich. : Thomson/Gale, 2006. (Click here to access resource)

Political theories for students / Matthew Miskelly and Jaime Noce, editors. Detroit : Gale Group, 2002. (Click here to access resource)

World education; Abortion; Sports in America

World education encyclopedia: a survey of educational systems worldwide / Rebecca Marlow-Ferguson. editor and project coordinator ; Chris Lopez, associate editor. 2nd ed. Detroit, MI : Gale, 2002. (Click here to access resource)

Abortion: an eternal, social, and moral issue / Sandra M. Alters. Detroit, Mich. : Thomson/Gale, 2006. (Click here to access resource)

Sports in America: recreation, business, education, and controversy / Robert Jacobson. Detroit, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2006. (Click here to access resource)

Early childhood education; breast cancer research; American literature

Contemporary perspectives on early childhood education / edited by Nicola Yelland. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Scientific characters: rhetoric, politics, and trust in breast cancer research / Lisa Keränen. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

The war on words: slavery, race, and free speech in American literature / Michael T. Gilmore. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Learnable intelligence; Science teaching; Children, media, culture

New kinds of smart: how the science of learnable intelligence is changing education / Bill Lucas and Guy Claxton. Maidenhead, England : Open University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Good practice in science teaching: what research has to say / edited by Jonathan Osborn and Justin Dillon. 2nd ed. Maidenhead ; New York : Open University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Children, media and culture / Máire Messenger Davies. Maidenhead : New York : Open University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Women and reading; the Coptic papacy; the new atheism

Sicherman, Barbara. Well-read lives: how books inspired a generation of American women. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Swanson, Mark N. The Coptic papacy in Islamic Egypt (641-1517). Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Amarasingam, Amarnath, ed. Religion and the new atheism: a critical appraisal. Leiden: Brill, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Research ethics; Plagiarism; The corporate university

Oliver, Paul. The student’s guide to research ethics. 2nd ed. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Neville, Colin. The complete guide to referencing and avoiding plagiarism. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Tuchman, Gaye. Wannabe u: inside the corporate university. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Education

Koyama, Jill P. Making failure pay: for-profit tutoring, high-stakes testing, and public schools. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Franklin, Cynthia G. Academic lives: memoir, cultural theory, and the university today. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Valencia, Richard R. Chicano students and the courts: the Mexican American legal struggle for educational equality. New York: New York University Press, 2008. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)