Product Description: Do you want to develop useful skills, gain admission to top colleges, win scholarship money, excel at science competitions, and explore career options all while having fun? By reading this book and using the advice within it, you will learn how to formulate a research project idea, find people who can help you complete it, effectively present it to diverse audiences, and participate successfully in research competitions...read more

Product Description: Tobias' lucid explanations help take the sting out of math anxiety and make math more accessible. Updated chapters demonstrate how little we really know about sex differences in brain function and new programs, many for women only, are described in detail. Illustrations.

Presents a collection of essays by prominent scientists, scholars, and educators on ways to transform science education in the United States and promote a more literate society. (view table of contents)

Product Description: As one of the main players in the second wave of feminism, Sheila Tobias returns to Kate Millet’s central tenet, “sexual politics,” and argues that it can still unite progressive men and women around a common set of goals. Providing a map of a complex terrain, Tobias details “generations” of issues, each more radical and therefore harder to tackle than the ones before...read more

Product Description: This resource manual for college-level science instructors reevaluates the role of testing in their curricula and describes innovative techniques pioneered by other teachers. part I examines the effects of the following on lower-division courses: changes in exam content, format, and environment; revisions in grading practices; student response; colleague reaction' the sharing of new practices with other interested professionals, and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This resource manual for college-level science instructors reevaluates the role of testing in their curricula and describes innovative techniques pioneered by other teachers. part I examines the effects of the following on lower-division courses: changes in exam content, format, and environment; revisions in grading practices; student response; colleague reaction' the sharing of new practices with other interested professionals, and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explains why science is important to non-science majors, surveys science history, and discusses science vocabulary, problem solving, and future directions

Product Description: This valuable collection examines closely the construction of male and female identity around the theme of collective violence. Why did such violence get 'moralized' for men in the case of warfare-but not for women? Women, Militarism and War presents alternatives to both 'business as usual' thinking and excessively utopian or naive feminist accounts...read more

Product Description: They're not Dumb They're Different is the ground-breaking study of why college students abandon science for other disciplines. First published in 1990 by Research Corporation for its membership of science professionals, it is now available to the general public by the author.

Offers techniques for achieing math competence and demonstrates the importance and application of math skills in business