Adult University Resource Center
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Adult University Resource Center
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Arts and Literature
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Course: | Creative Art for Preschoolers |
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Color In Tattoos Kit (Recommended) | |
| Author: | by Creativity for Kids | |
| Description: | Apply outline transfers of butterflies, snakes, hearts and other popular images to your arms, hands, legs, etc. Then use the six tattoo markers included to color in the transfers anyway you like. When you're ready to remove the tattoo, just wash off with soap and water. More than two dozen images provided. |
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Course: | Creative Writing |
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The Elements Of Style (Required) | |
| Author: | William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White | |
| Description: | THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE is indispensable for anyone who wants to write. It distills the essence of writing clear, direct, logical prose. |
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Course: | Music Appreciation |
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Concise History of Western Music (Required) | |
| Author: | Barbara Russano Hanning, Donald Jay Grout | |
| Description: | The history of Western art music comes alive in this sweeping overview. Based on the definitive Grout/Palisca A History of Western Music, Concise History of Western Music offers a wealth of information in a convenient form accessible to all music lovers and features lush illustrations, music examples, and contemporary accounts from musicians through the ages. |
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Business and Entrepreneurship
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Course: | Advertising Small Businesses |
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The Mythical Man-Month (Required) | |
| Author: | Frederick P., Jr. Brooks, Frederick P. Brooks Jr | |
| Description: | No book on software project management has been so influential and so timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. Now 20 years after the publication of his book, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (best known as the "father of the IBM System 360") revisits his original ideas and develops new thoughts and advice both for readers familiar with his work and for readers discovering it for the first time. |
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Course: | Advertising Small Businesses |
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Ogilvy on Advertising (Recommended) | |
| Author: | by David Ogilvy | |
| Description: | A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called "the most sought after wizard in the business". 223 photos. |
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Course: | Business Math |
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The Complete Book of Business Math : Every Manager's Guide to Analyzing Facts and Figures for Smart Business Decisions (Recommended) | |
| Author: | by Joel G. Siegel, Jae K. Shim (Contributor), David Minars (Contributor) | |
| Description: | Business math made easy is the goal of this reference volume. One hundred and forty-three commonly used calculations are outlined in a step-by-step presentation with an explanation of how and when they can be used in business situations from budgeting and forecasting to marketing and payroll. The material is organized by business transaction for easier access. Exhibits, graphs, diagrams, and information on software programs are included. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. |
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Course: | Choosing the Right Logo |
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The Artist's Way : A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Recommended) | |
| Author: | Julia Cameron | |
| Description: | With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity. This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe, and has, in the four years since its publication, spawned a remarkable number of support groups for artists dedicated to practicing the exercises it contains. |
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Course: | Choosing the Right Logo |
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A Dictionary of Symbols (Recommended) | |
| Author: | by Jean Chevalier (Editor), Alain Gheerbrant (Contributor), John Buchanan-Brown (Translator) | |
| Description: | A bestseller in France, where it was originally published, this supremely erudite book draws together folkloric, literary, and artistic sources and focuses on the symbolic dimension of every color, number, sound, gesture, expression, or character trait that has benefited from symbolic interpretation. |
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Course: | Effective Public Speaking |
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101 Secrets of Highly Effective Speakers : Controlling Fear, Commanding Attention (Recommended) | |
| Author: | by Caryl Rae Krannich | |
| Description: | Practice these 101 Secrets and you can construct a good speech as well as formulate an effective speech. Sharpen your delivery and present your speech with dynamism and you can be a successful, effective speaker. Develop your speaking skills and you develop the power to communicate your ideas and your passions. |
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Course: | Effective Public Speaking |
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7 Steps to Fearless Speaking (Recommended) | |
| Author: | by Lilyan Wilder | |
| Description: | This seven-step program for improving oral communication skills tells how to improve the voice itself, structure a presentation, use props, and demonstrate conviction.
When people say they'd rather die than address an audience, they're not kidding. Fear of public speaking has even topped death in some surveys. But now top communications consultant Lilyan Wilder offers some sound advice on how to overcome the crippling inhibition of public speaking. Her clients have included media icons Oprah Winfrey and Charlie Rose, former President George Bush, John Sculley, and Katharine Graham. 7 Steps to Fearless Speaking will teach you how to cope with the panic, avoidance, and trauma of speaking as you give the gift of your conviction and experience your voice for the first time. |
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Course: | Introduction to Public Relations |
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Publicity and Public Relations (Barron's Business Library) (Required) | |
| Author: | Dorothy I. Doty | |
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Course: | The Basics of Job Search |
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2000 (Recommended) | |
| Author: | Richard Nelson Bolles, Dick Bolles (Preface) | |
| Description: | A brand new edition of "the gold standard of career guides" (Fortune). In the 25 years since the first publication of Richard Bolles' What Color Is Your Parachute?, the job market has become more complex, making the book thicker with prescriptions. The 26th annual edition divides, like the waters of the Red Sea, into two volumes within the same binding: a thinner verison of the updated classic and The Parachute Workbook and Resource Guide. |
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Computing and Internet
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Course: | Developing High Quality Software |
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Managing a Programming Project (Required) | |
| Author: | Philip Metzger and John Boddie | |
| Description: | The underlying principles of good management have not changed since the first edition of Managing a Programming Project was printed. The practical presentation of those principles in the previous editions has helped a generation of managers. The same principles can be found here as well. |
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Course: | Internet Culture and Community |
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Life on the Screen : Identity in the Age of the Internet (Required) | |
| Author: | Sherry Turkle | |
| Description: | How does computerization and being online shape and change our identities? In this ethnographic study of the computer world, Turkle poses such questions while sorting through examples and observations in a very readable manner. Turkle is a computer sociologist at MIT whose work focuses on psychoanalysis and culture and on the subjective side of people's relationships with technology, especially computers. |
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Course: | Internet Culture and Community |
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My Tiny Life : Crime and Passion in a Virtual World (Required) | |
| Author: | Julian Dibbell | |
| Description: | This is the story of one user's experience at a virtual-reality community called LambdaMOO. A MOO--short for multiuser dungeon, object oriented--is a virtual place where participants can construct human-like graphical representations of themselves to interact in a simulated world. Author Julian Dibbell begins by relating the facts surrounding the case of Mr. Bungle, a character who committed the crime of "virtual rape" in this fantastic electronic world, shocking LambdaMOO's members. However, the thread of discussion about this case is minimal and the book ultimately becomes Dibbell's diary of his "research" of this virtual world, which grows gradually more obsessive, and how it affects his RL (real life). |
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Course: | Internet Culture and Community |
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Being on Line (Required) | |
| Author: | Anthology | |
| Description: | The book Being on Line is an anthology of critical texts on the nature and psychology of online community. The anthology includes the work of a number of artists dealing with issues of the virtual, writers such as Mark Poster and Friedrich Kittler, and an introduction by Alan Sondheim. |
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Course: | Introduction to MS Word |
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Microsoft Word 2000 (Required) | |
| Author: | Microsoft | |
| Description: | Microsoft Word 2000 was designed to create common Web, e-mail, and print documents for international application. Word 2000 embraces HTML as a first-class file format and extends ease of use to the Web and e-mail. Word 2000 also extends ease of use to international users, making it easy to create multilingual documents. |
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Course: | Introduction to Visual Basic 6.0 |
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Microsoft Visual Basic Learning Edition (Required) | |
| Author: | Microsoft | |
| Description: | * Learn Windows-based programming quickly and easily with the complete Visual Basic development environment.
* Use the drag-and-drop programming, wizards, and IntelliSense. * Create polished, professional user interfaces quickly by simply dragging prebuilt ActiveX Controls into place. * Access often-used project and component templates from one central location for increased efficiency. |
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Course: | Java Programming |
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Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days, Second Edition (Required) | |
| Author: | Laura Lemay, Rogers Cadenhead | |
| Description: | Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days, Second Edition contains clear and personable writing, extensive use of examples and logical organization. This new edition maintains and improves upon all these qualities, while updating and revising the material to cover the latest developments in Java and the way the language is used today.
A thoroughly revised, updated, and improved edition of one of the world's leading Java tutorials Updated to cover version 1.3 of the Java 2 Standard Edition SDK Completely restructured to reflect contemporary Java programming needs--with less of an emphasis on applet programming and AWT, and more coverage of Swing |
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Course: | Microsoft Access |
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Microsoft Access 2000 (Required) | |
| Author: | Microsoft | |
| Description: | Microsoft Access 2000 is a versatile data management program, useful for home-office application as well as large-scale corporate databases shared by many users. It's fully compatible with Microsoft Windows 98, and features the same point-and-click simplicity of all Microsoft Office products. As with all Office 2000 products, Web integration is the key to the improvements of Access 2000 over previous versions. |
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Course: | Microsoft Excel |
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Microsoft Excel 2000 (Required) | |
| Author: | Microsoft | |
| Description: | Excel 2000 provides comprehensive tools to help you create, analyze, and share spreadsheets. Create rich spreadsheets more easily than ever, using enhanced formatting features. Analyze your data with charts, PivotTable dynamic views, and graphs, then post your results to the Web for universal viewing and collaboration. |
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Course: | Microsoft PowerPoint |
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 (Required) | |
| Author: | Microsoft | |
| Description: | Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 provides a complete set of tools for creating powerful presentations. Organize and format your material easily, illustrate your points with your own images or clip art, and broadcast your presentations over the Web. Now it's easier than ever to create professional and effective presentations. |
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Course: | Visual Basic 6.0 |
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Visual Basic 6.0 Learning Edition (Required) | |
| Author: | Microsoft | |
| Description: | • Learn Windows-based programming quickly and easily with the complete Visual Basic development environment
• Use the drag-and-drop programming, wizards, and IntelliSense • Create polished, professional user interfaces quickly by simply dragging prebuilt ActiveX Controls into place • Access often-used project and component templates from one central location for increased efficiency |
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Course: | Web Design for Beginners |
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The Non-Designer's Web Book : An Easy Guide to Creating, Designing, and Posting Your Own Web Site (Recommended) | |
| Author: | by Robin Williams, John Tollett (Contributor) | |
| Description: | The Non-Designer's Web Book is for anyone who has little or no background in design or the World Wide Web, but who still wants to participate in this communication explosion. If you are an aspiring Web designer, you'll learn why Web design is different from print design and how to take advantage of it, where to get or how to make Web graphics easily, how to use typography on the Web, how to get your finished Web site up on the World Wide Web, and much, much more. |
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Course: | Web Site Design |
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Teach Yourself HTML 3.2 in 24 Hours (Required) | |
| Author: | Dick Oliver | |
| Description: | Offers succinct, one-hour chapters that cover such areas as HTML basics, formatting text, working with graphics, using an HTML editor, publishing to a Web server, and adding interactivity to Web pages. |
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Health and Wellness
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Course: | Basic Athletic Training Skills |
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Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning (Recommended) | |
| Author: | by Thomas R. Baechle (Editor) | |
| Description: | This book is considered one of the best references on strangth training. It is used by the national Strength and Conditioning Association as part of its Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist certification program. |
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Course: | Childbirth Basics |
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Active Birth : The New Approach to Giving Birth Naturally, Revised Edition (Required) | |
| Author: | Janet Balaskas, Linda Ziedrich (Editor), Sheila Kitzinger (Foreword) | |
| Description: | Janet Balaskas revised edition of Active Birth is an inspiring book. She is writing to the lay public, to women anticipating a birth. However, this well written, informative and energetic book should be read by health professionals as well. |
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Course: | Couples Communication |
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Couples Communication I: Talking and Listening Together (Required) | |
| Author: | Miller, Miller, Nunnally, and Wackman | |
| Description: | This book is part of the kit which is required for participation in the Couples Communication course. |
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Course: | Dangerous Behaviors in Children |
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Child Safe : A Practical Guide for Preventing Childhood Injuries (Recommended) | |
| Author: | by Mark A., M.D. Brandenburg | |
| Description: | Did you know that certain household objects like 5-gallon buckets, window dressing pull-cords, clothing drawstrings and cradles can be deadly to an infant? CHILD SAFE, the book you are reading about, covers all these topics and much, much more. CHILD SAFE teaches the reader about hazards to children both inside and outside the home and it gives detailed advice on how to protect your children when dealing with swimming pools, automobiles, playgrounds, toys and so on. |
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Course: | Disability Awareness |
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The Disability Awareness Handbook (Recommended) | |
| Author: | by Richard C. Senelick | |
| Description: | A new book that looks at how to be aware of and considerate of people with disabilities and differences. |
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Course: | First Aid |
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The American Red Cross First Aid and Safety Handbook (Recommended) | |
| Author: | by Kathleen Handal M.D., Kathleen A. Handal (Contributor), Elizabeth H. Dole | |
| Description: | Helps readers learn the crucial first aid measures to be applied in any situation, from cuts and burns to cardiac arrest, with instructions and drawings adapted for the first time for home use. Lit Guild. |
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Course: | Hands-on Healing |
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Psychic Massage (Recommended) | |
| Author: | Roberta Delong Miller | |
| Description: | This is a wonderfully user friendly book on how to engage in touch that is healing and compassionate. |
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Course: | HIV 101 |
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Answering Your Questions About AIDS (Required) | |
| Author: | Seth C. Kalichman, PhD | |
| Description: | This book will help you to learn the most current information about AIDS, HIV and the pandemic. |
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Course: | Medicinal Herbalism |
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101 Medicinal Herbs: An Illustrated Guide (Recommended) | |
| Author: | Stephen Foster | |
| Description: | Color photographs of 101 herbs provide a visual reference to identify the most frequently used herbs for health and healing. Arranged alphabetically, the listings include detailed information on herb forms, benefits, parts used, side effects, and dosages. An index and resource guide are included, as well as a cross-referencing section with information about easy-to-find remedies for various ailments. |
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Course: | Medicinal Herbalism |
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Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (Recommended) | |
| Author: | Scott Cunningham | |
| Description: | Full of lore and useful information, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in using herbs. |
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Course: | Medicinal Herbalism |
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Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs (Recommended) | |
| Author: | Claire Kowalchik (Editor), William H. Hylton (Editor), Anna Carr (Illustrator) | |
| Description: | Comprehensive and authoritative, this herb encyclopedia features information on the science and lore of herbs, complete information on gardening with herbs indoors and out, specifics on how to use herbs, and more. Home remedies, cooking with herbs, and crafting with herbs are also covered. 225 photos, 75 in color. Illustrations, charts & lists throughout. |
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Course: | Oriental Herbs |
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The American Association of Oriental Medicine's Complete Guide to Chinese Herbal Medicine : How to Treat Illness and Maintain Wellness With Chinese Herbs (Recommended) | |
| Author: | by David Molony, the American Association of Accupuncture Original and o, Ming Ming Pan Molony | |
| Description: | This book traces the history of the oldest and most comprehensive form of internal medicine and offers information on more than 170 herbs and herb combinations. Includes an alphabetized list of illnesses that can be treated with Chinese herbs, a glossary of common terms, a list of reputable suppliers, and more . |
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Course: | Stress Management |
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Virtual Survival: Staying Heathy on the Internet (Recommended) | |
| Author: | Walter I. Zeichner | |
| Description: | Virtual Survival is a non-fiction book for internet users on how to stay sane, healthy and on a path of self awareness while being involved in cyberspace. Virtual Survival is a combination of essay, personal story, and workbook. It is friendly, entertaining, and thought provoking. |
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Course: | Teaching Dyslexic Children |
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To Read or Not to Read (Required) | |
| Author: | Daphne M. Hurford | |
| Description: | Written by a former journalist who is now a learning specialist, "To Read or Not to Read" is the first book to explain fully and in simple terms what dyslexia is--and what it isn't. |
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Course: | Vegetarian Cooking |
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Horn of the Moon Cookbook (Recommended) | |
| Author: | Ginny Callan | |
| Description: | Healthful, meatless dishes with a gourmet, international flare, perfected at Vermont's popular Horn of the Moon Cafe. Illustrated. |
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Course: | Vegetarian Cooking |
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Recipes from the Moon: More Recipes from the Horn of the Moon Café (Recommended) | |
| Author: | Ginny Callan | |
| Description: | Here are 120 recipes from Vermont's oldest vegetarian restaurant, The Horn of the Moon. The restaurant's distinctive down-home characteristics come through deliciously in this book, and all recipes are clearly marked as to whether they are simply meatless, or also dairy-and/or egg-free, to accomodate all levels of vegetarianism. |
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Course: | Vegetarian Cooking |
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Beyond the Moon Cookbook (Recommended) | |
| Author: | Ginny Callan | |
| Description: | Callan is former chef of the famous vegetarian restaurant Horn of the Moon in Vermont: retired now to raise a family, she hasn't stopped creating new recipes, and this provides a sequel to her Horn Of The Moon Cookbook. Over two hundred new vegetarian dishes provide everything from Mexican dishes and pasta innovations to less easily defined blends of cuisines. |
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Hobbies and Interests
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Course: | European Hearth Breads |
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Artisan Baking Across America: The Breads, The Bakers, The Best Recipes (Recommended) | |
| Author: | Maggie Glezer | |
| Description: | Nothing is more satisfying than savoring the crust and aroma of truly great home-baked bread. Maggie Glezer has traveled across America and persuaded the country's most gifted artisan bread bakers to share their very best recipes and techniques so that home cooks can now reproduce sourdoughs, pizzas, corn breads, and baguettes that are truly out of this world. Along with the recipes and the sumptuous photography, the fascinating portraits of the bakers tell the story of the artisan bread movement in America. Glezer opens a window to a world never before revealed. |
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Course: | European Hearth Breads |
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The Bread Builders : Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens (Recommended) | |
| Author: | Daniel Wing, Alan, Scott | |
| Description: | The author, Daniel Wing , May 19, 1999 At last: how to make wonderful sourdough hearth bread! Taste and smell are the memory senses. My Proustian drive for many years has been to make bread that is as good as my memory of the best bread I ever ate. Although I have been baking (fairly regularly, but at home) for thirty years, it has only been for about ten years that I have been able to make bread that approached the best I have ever eaten, and only about five years that I have been able to make bread that is as good or better than the best available-- hearth breads with wonderful color, chewy/crisp crust, resilient crumb, satisfying flavor, and full nutritional value. |
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Course: | Making Romance Work |
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1001 Ways to Be Romantic (Recommended) | |
| Author: | Gregory J. P. Godek | |
| Description: | Gregory J.P. Godek--dubbed America's Romance Coach--offers "1001 creative, sexy, loving tips and ideas" in the fifth anniversary edition of 1001 Ways to Be Romantic. Packed with advice, from "Little Things That Mean a Lot" to "The Mindset of a Romantic" and "Making Beautiful Music Together," Godek's straightforward approach is perfect for those new to romance or those needing a refresher course in the art of love. |
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Course: | Runemal (The Art of Rune Casting) |
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The Book of Runes (Recommended) | |
| Author: | Ralph H. Blum | |
| Description: | This book comes with the complete set of 25 Runes. |
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Self Study Programs
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Course: | Organizational Behavior |
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Organizational Behavior : Concepts, Controversies, Applications (Required) | |
| Author: | Stephen P. Robbins | |
| Description: | Used by over 600 colleges worldwide, this highly reputable text continues to provide the most comprehensive, reality- based review of organizational behavior of its kind. Fully engaging students with its lively, conversational style, it helps students explain and predict behavior in organizations - pivoting discussions around three levels of analysis: the individual, the group, and the organization system |
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Course: | Spanish 101 |
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501 Spanish Verbs (Required) | |
| Author: | Christopher Kendris | |
| Description: | Verbs are conjugated and set up one-per-page in alphabetical order in this easy-to-use series. Commonly used idioms that use a verb are presented at the bottom of the page that presents the appropriate verb. Approximately 1,000 additional verbs are listed in the infinite form with their English meanings. |
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Society and Culture
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Course: | The World of Educational Alternatives |
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The Education Revolution (Required) | |
| Author: | AERO | |
| Description: | The Education Revolution is the networking magazine of the Alternative Education Resource Organization. Each issue is packed with hundreds of contacts and dozens of articles about public and private alternative schools and homeschooling. It features successful programs and events and poignient viewpoints on vital issues. It is targeted at leaders of schools, teachers and parents. It also has sections on upcomming conferences, teachers seeking jobs and jobs seeking teachers, international news, and a special Changing Schools section. Changing Schools was formerly the magazine of the International Alternative Education Conference. |
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Course: | The World of Educational Alternatives |
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Summerhill School : A New View of Childhood (Required) | |
| Author: | A. S. Neill | |
| Description: | A guide to experimental education, originally published in 1960 and expanded for the 1990s, features a discussion of how American education lags behind the rest of the world and what people can do to change that. |
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Course: | The World of Educational Alternatives |
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Making It Up As We Go Along : The Story of the Albany Free School (Required) | |
| Author: | Chris Mercogliano | |
| Description: | Making It Up as We Go Along is the story of the Albany Free School, a school based on real freedom, real community, real democratic principles, and real affection between teachers and students. There, for over twenty-five years Chris Mercogliano has taught a never-ending variety of children-kids of all ages from every race and social class, from those with developmental and behavioral problems to the so-called "gifted." Thanks to this ongoing experiment in education, one of the longest running of its kind in America. |
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Course: | The World of Educational Alternatives |
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The Almanac of Education Choices (Recommended) | |
| Author: | Jerry Mintz | |
| Description: | The Almanac of Education Choices offers firsthand accounts of the trials and triumphs of homeschoolings pioneers and the difficult, often uninformed search for high-quality alternatives outside the home. |
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Course: | Your Personal Philosophy of Life |
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Narcissus and Goldmund (Required) | |
| Author: | Hermann Hesse | |
| Description: | This modern classic follows two very different men, close friends, through their lives. One is a monk in a monestary, the other a wanderer and man of the world. |
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Spirituality and Religion
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Course: | Christianity 101 |
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Letters From a Skeptic (Required) | |
| Author: | Gregory A., Dr. Boyd, Edward K. Boyd | |
| Description: | Edward Boyd's agnosticism rested "not ... too much on any positive position ... but rather on a host of negative ones" about Christianity. In an attempt to address these negative issues, his son Greg, a professor of theology, asked his father, a strong-willed, highly intelligent, and stubborn 70-year-old, to enter into a correspondence in which "all of their cards would be laid on the table." Greg would give his father the opportunity to raise all his objections to the veracity of Christianity, and Greg would "answer these objections as well as give positive grounds for holding to the Christian faith." |
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Course: | Christianity 101 |
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God of the Possible : A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God (Required) | |
| Author: | Gregory A. Boyd | |
| Description: | Greg Boyd presents a powerful argument for the open view of God as omnipotent, sovereign, and yet vulnerable. Boyd's God is alive and personal as well as infinite and perfectly wise. The portrait of God drawn here is unrecognizable compared to the caricatures of openness theism's God crudely crafted by many of its critics. It is much more majestic and beautiful as well as biblical. Inquiring Christian minds will love this book for its creativity and clarity. Closed minds will despise it for the same reasons. Those who have been merely "open to the openness of God" will find its arguments difficult to resist. Everyone who reads it will be challenged to reconsider traditional ideas of God in the light of a fresh reading of Scripture. Baker Book House is to be commended for living up to its Reformed commitments by publishing this book. To be "Reformed" is to be open to new light from God's Word: "reformed and always reforming." |
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Course: | Introduction to Wicca |
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Wicca : A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner (Llewellyn's Practical Magick Series) (Required) | |
| Author: | Scott Cunningham | |
| Description: | Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner is the essential primer from one of the best known authors on Wicca. Focusing on the importance of individualism in your spiritual path, Cunningham explains the very basics of Sabbats (holy days), ceremonies, altars, and other nuts and bolts of Wicca that a solitary practitioner may have trouble finding elsewhere. While Wicca shouldn't be your sole point of reference when considering Wicca as your way of life, it is one of the best starting points. |
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Course: | Introduction to Wicca |
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Living Wicca : A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner (Llewellyn's Practical Magick) (Recommended) | |
| Author: | Scott Cunningham | |
| Description: | Living Wicca is the perfect companion to Cunningham's Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, containing the same concise and comprehendible style that makes the first book so enjoyable. With Living Wicca, Cunningham goes beyond the mechanics of the faith and emphasizes the importance of making Wicca a part of your everyday life. Focusing on the solitary practitioner, Cunningham encourages you to make your own path within the Wiccan tradition, and offers simple suggestions, from recycling to visiting the park, that heighten your spiritual awareness of the mundane world. |
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Course: | Introduction to Wicca |
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The Spiral Dance : A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (Required) | |
| Author: | Starhawk | |
| Description: | The original book that brought Goddess worship to the public eye has marked its 10th anniversary, yet it still remains an integral part of the Wiccan canon. The Spiral Dance leans heavily toward the feminist aspects of Wicca, but Starhawk's comments on the new edition make it clear that she is aware of the growing male presence in witchcraft. However, this edition is not some watered down, politically correct revision of the original. Very little is changed aside from the addition of Starhawk's observations on how the book has weathered its first decade, and what few changes she would make if she were writing it today. Readers interested in learning more about contemporary witchcraft, whether considering Wicca as a way of life or simply desiring to understand this earth-based religion, will find a wealth of information in The Spiral Dance, and will notice that it becomes one of the most frequently consulted books in their Wicca libraries. |
