If you like to read and own your copies of books, the author of this article has 10 good suggestions for helping you stretch your book budget. Using your local library is one way, but he also includes internet resources that allow you to download copies of the classics or sites for trading or selling books you no longer want.
99 Classroom calamities…and how to avoid them: or how to survive in teaching beyond your training
A guide to qualitaitive field research
Boys and writing
Caring for the older person: practical care in hospital, care home or at home
Children’s personal and social development
Designing effective instructional tasks for physical education and sports
Edward Hopper: an intimate biography
Family theories
Feminism
Feminism in development: contradictions, contestations, and challenges
Fundamentals of development: the psychology of childhood
Gender communication theories & anayses: from silence to perfromance
Good germs, bad germs: health and survival in a bacterail world
How to speak your spouse’s language: ten easy steps to great communication from one of America’s foremost counselors
Influence: the psychology of persuasion
Key concepts in developmantal psychology
Methods of family research
Money for nothing: a history of the music video from the Beatles to the White Stripes
More picture-perfrect science lessons: using children’s books to guide inquiry
Plato’s republic: a biography
Racism: a very short introduction
Readings in family theory
Religon in the age Shakespeare
The Cambridige introduction to tragedy
The electronic front porch: an oral history of the arrrival of modern media in rural Appalachia and the Melgungeon community
The politics of the veil
Women in politics, and power: a global perspective
Women in the middle east: past and present
Find out what it means and pick your own favorite from the list of runner ups. Provided by The Resource Shelf–the Oxford “Word of 2007.”
Say “I love you” to someone special –choose your language. Maybe Swahili or Icelandic will do the trick.
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As part of its Livelong Literacy Campaign, the Library of Congress suggests these titles for children and young adults. The LOC believes these books can spark the imagination of young readers and transport them to new and exciting places.
More suggestions for kids in the following genres are also available:
Alternative Medicine
American culture in the 1980s
Chaos: a very short introduction
Christianity and the transformation of the book: Origen, Eusebius, and the library of Caesarea
Does feminism discriminate against men?: a debate
Endangered Species
Fired up or burned out: how to reignite your team’s passion, creativity, and productvity
Freud: inventor of the modern mind
Hunting
Identifying trees: an all-season guide to Eastern North America
Immigration
Invasive plants: a guide to identification and the impacts and control of common North American species
Life in the soil: a guide for naturalists and gardeners
Literacy learning communities: a guide for creating sustainable change in secondary schools
Milton, Spenser and The chronicles of Narnia: literary sources for the C.S. Lewis novels
Nobodies: modern American slave labor and the dark side of the new global economy
Professional writing: the complete guide for business, industry, and IT
Psychology: six perspectives
Resistance training: the total approach
School Policies
Shakespeare on film: such things as dreams are made of
Social intelligence: the new science of human relationships
Substitute teaching from A to Z
Talking, drawing, writing: lessons for our youngest writers
Teach terrific grammar, grades 4-5
Teen Smoking
The curtain: an essay in seven parts
The fire this time: young activists and the new feminism
The joy of drinking
The little philosophy book
Training for life: walk your way to fitness and weight loss in 14 days
White supremacy groups
Goodreads, the worlds largest on-line bookclub, provides the following list of “best” books based on the titles most read by Goodreads members during 2007.
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Business Writer’s Free Library
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A form and style manual for paralegals
Accounting at your fingertips
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 how-to’s: 100 essential techniques
An ocean of air: Why the wind blows and other mysteries of the atmosphere
Armed America: The remarkable story of how and why guns became as American as apple pie
Basic manuel for the lawyer’s assistant
Blazing heritage: A history of wildland fire in the national parks
Boone: A biography
Childminder’s handbook
Cite right: A quick guide to citation styles–MLA,APA, Chicago, the sciences, professions, and more
Cooking in ancient civilizations
Depression
Evolution: A historical perspective
Fire them up!: 7 simple secrets to inspire colleagues, customers, and clients, sell yourself, your vison, and your values, communicate with charisma and confidence
Fun works: Creating places where people love to work
Google sketchup for dummies
Health-care careervision book and DVD view what you’d do
How to say it business writing works: The simple, 10-step target outline system to help you reach your bottom line
Human resource management
Ice cream: The delicious history
Imaging for students
Otters: Ecology, behavior, and conservation
Predators: Who they are and how to stop them
Selectional anatomy for imaging professionals
Stop domestic violence: Innovative skills, techniques, options, and plans for better relationships
Taking the piss: A potted history of pee
The bristlecone book: A natural history of the world’s oldest trees
The HACCP food safety training manuel
The national grasslands: A guide to America’s undiscovered treasures
The natural history of weasels and stoats: Ecology, behavior, and management
The turkey: An American story
Tobacco information for teens: Health tips about the hazards of using cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and other nicotine products
Wild orchids of the Northeast: New England, New York, Pennsylvaniz, and New Jersey
Wildlife-habitat relationships: Concepts and applications
Wine: From Neolithic times to the 21st century
You don’t have to be famous:Hhow to write your life story