Books of Knowledge

Guiding Children?s Social Development and Learning, 6E focuses on ways professionals and students can help children develop positive feelings about themselves while developing social competence. Guiding Children?s Social Development and Learning, 6E offers practical, developmentally appropriate strategies for how to proceed.

  The purpose of this book is to demonstrate how to do authentic classroom-based assessment, and then how to interpret and use that information to plan curriculum responsive to and supportive of children’s learning. The fifth edition of Assessing and Guiding Young Children’s Development and Learning has been revised and updated to reflect t[Read More]

Thorough. Accurate. Reliable. Engaging. These are just a few of the words used by adopters and reviewers of John Santrock’s Child Development. Child Development is widely considered the most accurate and up-to-date topically-organized text in the field. Used by hundreds of thousands of students over eleven editions, its learning goals-driven le[Read More]

The classic guide to understanding children’s mental development is now updated and better than ever!Hailed by parents and educators, Your Child’s Growing Mind is a window into the fascinating process of brain development and learning. It looks at the roots of emotion, intelligence, and creativity, translating the most current scientific resea[Read More]

A clear, easy-to-understand tutorial for developers who want to write software for today's hottest market: iPhone, iTouch, and App Store!   The start-to-finish, hands-on introduction to iPhone programming for every developer, regardless of experience Introduces the iPhone development environment and teaches every essential Objective-C concept wit[Read More]

Product Description In this down-to-earth guide, parenting expert Michele Borba offers advice for dealing with children's difficult behavior and hot button issues including biting, temper tantrums, cheating, bad friends, inappropriate clothing, sex, drugs, peer pressure, and much more. Written for parents of kids age 3-13, this book offers easy-to[Read More]

A one-of-a-kind resource written for educational leaders-teachers and administrators-who want to successfully restructure and enhance school curriculumPraise for the First Edition"Curriculum Leadership presents the fundamentals of the curriculum development process and provides educators with the foundation to be curriculum specialists."-Amany Sale[Read More]

How to Grow Leaders is an authoritative account of leadership development, the nature of leadership and how it can be taught.  John Adair identifies the seven key principles of leadership development and answers vital questions on how to select, train and educate leaders.  In doing so he discusses topics such as the manager as leader, how people[Read More]