K-12

LEARNING HOW TO LEARN

Author: Barbara Oakley PhD, Terrence Sejnowski PhD, Alistair McConville

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

ISBN13: 9780143132547

A Mind for Numbers and its wildly popular online companion course "Learning How to Learn" have empowered more than two million learners of all ages from around the world to master subjects that they once struggled with. In this new book for kids and teens, the authors reveal how to make the most of time spent studying. 

This book explains:

• Why sometimes letting your mind wander is an important part of the learning process

• How to avoid "rut think" in order to think outside the box

• Why having a poor memory can be a good thing

• The value of metaphors in developing understanding

• A simple, yet powerful, way to stop procrastinating

Filled with illustrations, application questions, and exercises, this book makes learning easy and fun.

AWESOME ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS

Author: Christina Schul

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

ISBN13: 9780143132547

Awesome Engineering Activities for Kids is packed with more than 50 fascinating STEAM-exercises, complete with step-by-step instructions, colorful pictures, and simple explanations of why the experiments work.

This engaging book about engineering for kids includes:

• Activities kids can do themselves. Make engineering for kids easy and fun with projects like toothpick towers and paper cup phones that use common, inexpensive household materials so they can play and learn anytime.

• The power of STEAM- Lessons are based in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math to show kids how these things are everywhere, and help them become better problem solvers and logical thinkers.

• The basics of engineering-Kids will learn all about engineering with a brief guide to the different types of engineers, an explanation of what they do, and what kids need to know to become one.

SCIENCE IN THE CITY: CULTURALLY RELEVANT STEM EDUCATION  (RACE AND EDUCATION)

Author: Bryan A. Brown

Publisher: Harvard Education Press

ISBN: 978-1-68253-374-1

Science in the City examines how language and culture matter for effective science teaching. Author Bryan A. Brown argues that, given the realities of our multilingual and multicultural society, teachers must truly understand how issues of culture intersect with the fundamental principles of learning. This book links an exploration of contemporary research on urban science teaching to a more generative instructional approach in which students develop mastery by discussing science in culturally meaningful ways.

The book illustrates how science education can flourish if it is connected to students’ backgrounds, identities, language, and culture. In this empowered—and inclusive—form of science classroom, the role of narrative is key: educators use stories and anecdotes to induct students into the realm of scientific thinking; introduce big ideas in easy, familiar terms; and prioritize explanation over mastery of symbolic systems.

HUMAN BODY ACTIVITY BOOK FOR KIDS: HANDS-ON FUN FOR GRADES K-3

Author: Ph.D., Katie Stokes, M.Ed.

Publisher: Rockridge Press

ISBN: Print 978-1-64152-263-2

Super fun activities to help kids ages 4 to 8 to learn all about their bodies

From eyes and ears to skin and bones, there’s a lot to discover about the human body for kids! Featuring crosswords, mazes, and more, this book is bursting with all kinds of activities to help kids understand what makes them tick.

This awesome guide to the human body for kids includes:

• A full body breakdown-Make it simple for kids to see what they’re made of with informative, illustrated chapters broken down by system.

• Lots of ways to play-Keep lessons engaging with everything from connect-the-dots and crosswords to hands-on experiments.

• Science for kids-Did you know hair grows slower at night and that you’re taller in the morning than the evening? Make kids want to learn more with neat trivia.

Higher Education

PICTURES OF HEALTH A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF HEALTH CARE IN PHILADELPHIA, 1860-1945

Author: Janet Golden and Charles E. Rosenberg

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN e-book: 9781512816303

From the days of its colonial glory, Philadelphia has had an important place in the history of American health care. In Pictures of Health, Janet Golden and Charles E. Rosenberg have assembled a series of photographs illuminating that history. Almost all the photographs in this collection were taken between 1890 and 1945. While there are early photographs of health care in Philadelphia, particularly of the city’s Civil War hospitals, it was not until the late nineteenth century that photographs began to be taken of the varied health care activities within the city.

WOMEN AT WAR THE STORY OF FIFTY MILITARY NURSES WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM.

Author: Elizabeth Norman

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN: 9780812213171

Norman tells the dramatic story of fifty women—members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps—who went to war, working in military hospitals, aboard ships, and with air evacuation squadrons during the Vietnam War. Here, in a moving narrative, the women talk about why they went to war, the experiences they had while they were there, and how war affected them physically, emotionally, and spiritually. There were strong feelings of loyalty to country among the nurses. They had a sense of pride and a sense of duty. These women knew they could not be drafted like their brothers and high school friends, but they felt an equal responsibility to serve. The result of this enthusiasm was an excess of nurses volunteering for Vietnam duty.

AMERICA AT THE BALLOT BOX ELECTIONS AND POLITICAL HISTORY

Author:  Edited by Gareth Davies and Julian E. Zelizer

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN:  9780812247190

Elections are, and always have been, the lifeblood of American democracy. Often raucous and sharply contentious, sometimes featuring grand debates about the nation's future, and invariably full of dramatic moments, elections offer insight into the character and historical evolution of American politics. America at the Ballot Box uses the history of presidential elections to illuminate American political democracy and its development from the early Republic to the late twentieth century.  This book seeks to stimulate additional historical work that analyzes presidential and midterm elections in a way that balances the benefits of a journalistic narrative, capturing the personalities and contingencies of each of these events, with the structural, economic, and institutional contexts that social scientists have shown play such a huge role in shaping the outcome.

AMERICAN CAPITALISM SOCIAL THOUGHT AND POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Author:  Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein

Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN: 9780812219401

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the legitimacy of American capitalism seems unchallenged. The link between open markets, economic growth, and democratic success has become common wisdom, not only among policy makers but for many intellectuals as well. In this instance, however, the past has hardly been prologue to contemporary confidence in the free market. American Capitalism presents thirteen thought-provoking essays that explain how a variety of individuals, many prominent intellectuals but others partisans in the combative world of business and policy, engaged with anxieties about the seismic economic changes in postwar America and, in the process, reconfigured the early twentieth-century ideology that put critique of economic power and privilege at its center.