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The New Global Student: Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition, and Get a Truly International Education

10 best books like The New Global Student: Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition, and Get a Truly International Education (Maya Frost): 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World, Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School, The Scavengers' Manifesto, The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity, Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't, Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success, The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, Your Child's Strengths: Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them, Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities, The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, the K-12 Education That Every Child Deserves

360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World
AuthorJohn Higham
ISBN1593501080
Much more than a travel narrative 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family’s Journey Around the World is a glimpse at what it means to be a “global citizen”—a progressively changing view of the world as seen through the eyes of an American family of four.

After more than a decade of planning,...
Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School
AuthorGrace Llewellyn
ISBN0471349607
GUERRILLA LEARNING IS CREATING A HOME ENVIRONMENT THAT FILLS YOUR CHILD WITH THE JOY OF LEARNING

Let your daughter read her library books instead of finishing her homework . Ask your eleven-year-old's beloved third grade teacher to comment on his poetry. Invite a massage therapist to dinner...
The Scavengers' Manifesto
AuthorAnneli Rufus
ISBN1585427179
Destined to become the bible for a bold new subculture of eco-minded people who are creating a lifestyle out of recycling, reusing, and repurposing rather than buying new.

An exciting new movement is afoot that brings together environmentalists, anticonsumerists, do-it-yourselfers,...
The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity
AuthorMatt Miller
ISBN0805087877
A leading political and business thinker identifies the greatest threat to our economic future: the things we think we know—but don’t



America is at a crossroads. In the face of global competition and rapid technological change, our economy is about to face its most severe...
Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't
AuthorKevin Maney
A Fresh and Important New Way to Understand Why We Buy

Why did the RAZR ultimately ruin Motorola? Why does Wal-Mart dominate rural and suburban areas but falter in large cities? Why did Starbucks stumble just when it seemed unstoppable?

The answer lies in the ever-present tension...
Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success
AuthorJames Marcus Bach
ISBN1439109087
This unique and insightful book challenges our prevailing and often fallacious attitudes about schooling. In today's volatile job market, ideas are more important than training, innovation is more important than credentials; traditional schooling may no longer be necessary or even useful. The...
The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
AuthorK. Anders Ericsson
ISBN0521600812
This book was the first handbook where the world's foremost 'experts on expertise' reviewed our scientific knowledge on expertise and expert performance and how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of their development, training, reasoning, knowledge, social support, and innate talent....
Your Child's Strengths: Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them
AuthorJenifer Fox
ISBN0670018767
An essential book for parents and teachers that explores how children’s individual strengths create success

With this groundbreaking work, educator Jenifer Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in this country. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying...
Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities
AuthorWilliam G. Bowen
The United States has long been a model for accessible, affordable education, as exemplified by the country's public universities. And yet less than 60 percent of the students entering American universities today are graduating. Why is this happening, and what can be done? Crossing the Finish Line...
The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, the K-12 Education That Every Child Deserves
AuthorHoward Gardner
ISBN0140296247
In The Disciplined Mind, Howard Gardner argues that K-12 education should strive for a deep understanding of three classical principles: truth, beauty, and goodness. Such an understanding requires mastery of the major disciplines that human beings have created over the centuries. As powerful...
Rich Like Them: My Door-to-Door Search for the Secrets of Wealth in America's Richest Neighborhoods
AuthorRyan D'Agostino
ISBN0316021466
Ryan D'Agostino, former senior editor at Money, wanted to know how the wealthiest in America got that way. So he asked. Knocking on 500 doors in some of the most affluent zip codes in America, D'Agostino met with men and women who welcomed him in and shared their most difficult financial decisions, toughest...
iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind
AuthorGary Small
ISBN0061340332
“A book about your brain that should make you think—twice.”

—Alvin Toffler, New York Times bestselling author of Future Shock

 

In his book iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind, Gary Small, one of America’s leading neuroscientists,...
My Orange Duffel Bag: A Journey to Radical Change
AuthorSam Bracken
ISBN0307984885
Abandoned at age 15, Sam Bracken battled homelessness, poverty, and abuse to successfully earn a full-ride football scholarship to the Georgia Institute of Technology. When he left for college, everything he owned fit in an orange duffel bag. Now, in this award-winning illustrated memoir and road...
This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future
AuthorJohn Brockman
ISBN0061899674
“This Will Change Everything offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world.”—Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel

Editor John Brockman continues in the same vein as his popular compilations What Are...
The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (and How You Can Too!)
AuthorKenneth L. Fisher
ISBN0470285362
Discover how your net worth can be worth more

The Ten Roads to Riches takes an engaging and informative look at some of America's most famous (and infamous) modern-day millionaires (and billionaires) and reveals how they found their fortunes. Surprisingly, the super-wealthy usually get...
Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization
AuthorYong Zhao
ISBN1416608737
This remarkable book will forever change the debate about what's wrong and what's right with American education and where it should be going. Based on his own experience as a student in China and as a parent of children attending school in the United States, Zhao skewers conventional wisdom while setting...
College Without High School: A Teenager's Guide to Skipping High School and Going to College
AuthorBlake Boles
ISBN0865716552
"Blake Boles has written a remarkable how-to handbook that is destined to change the lives of young people across North America. I highly recommend Blake's book to any middle school or high school student seeking more excitement and engagement in their educational journey. Smart parents should...
The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
AuthorAndrew Lih
ISBN1401303714
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." --Jimmy Wales With more than 2,000,000 individual articles on everything from Aa! (a Japanese pop group) to Zzyzx, California, written by an army of volunteer...
Why School?
AuthorMike Rose
ISBN1595584676
In the tradition of Jonathan Kozol, this little book is driven by big questions. What does it mean to be educated? What is intelligence? How should we think about intelligence, education, and opportunity in an open society? Why is a commitment to the public sphere central to the way we answer these questions?

Drawing...
50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School: Real-world Antidotes to Feel-good Education
AuthorCharles J. Sykes
Charles J. Sykes offers fifty life lessons not included in the self-esteem-laden, reality-light curriculum of most schools. Here are truths about what kids will encounter in the world post-schooling, and ideas for how parents can reclaim lost ground---not with pep talks and touchy-feely negotiations,...
Start Over, Finish Rich: 10 Steps to Get You Back on Track in 2010
AuthorDavid Bach
ISBN0307591190
Let 2010 Set You on the Path to Wealth.
 
Believe it or not, recessions make millionaires!  Will you be one? In Start Over, Finish Rich, America's best-loved financial expert, David Bach, explains that 2010 will be the best opportunity for building wealth we have seen in decades. And, as the...
The Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches: A Practical (and Fun) Guide to Enjoying Life More by Spending Less
AuthorJeff Yeager
ISBN1423350596
Jeff Yeager, the man dubbed The Ultimate Cheapskate by Matt Lauer on Today, offers a completely fresh take on personal finance, teaching us how to enjoy life more by spending less. He will show you how to buy less stuff, retire young, and live financially free, while you make a positive difference in people’s...
The Millionaire Maker: Act, Think, and Make Money the Way the Wealthy Do
AuthorLoral Langemeier
ISBN0071466150
Master the art of wealth building, and make money the way millionaires do! There are only two things millionaires have that you don't: wealth and the knowledge to build wealth. But that's all about to change. Thanks to "Millionaire Maker" Loral Langemeier, you can develop the same financial intelligence...
Why Sh*t Happens: The Science of a Really Bad Day
AuthorPeter J. Bentley
ISBN1594869561
Have you ever fallen victim to Murphy's law? Sometimes bad things just happen. In Why Sh*t Happens, esteemed British scientist Peter J. Bentley takes readers on an informative and amusing tour through the least lucky, most accident-prone day of their lives. From sleeping through the alarm clock and...
The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can't Change Your Life (and the World?) Think Again.
AuthorMichael Port
ISBN0470432373
Think Bigger. About Who You Are. And What You Offer the World.

Stand for something before someone stands on you. Revolt against the play-it-safe, don't disturb the peace, cynical and silenced society that, more often than not, buries big thoughts.

Michael Port, bestselling author...
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