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BOOKS

The Teaching and Learning Center provides many books on different academic areas and learning strategies. Students are welcome to use these books in the Center.  As with our other resources, the books are not available for checkout, since they must be available at all times for all students or for the staff to use with students.  If you have any requests for books that we do not have, please contact us. 

ACCOUNTING

  • Fundamental Accounting Principles
  • Personal Finance Study Guide

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BUSINESS

  • Business Careers
  • Business Spelling and Word Power
  • Business:  Study Guide
  • Developing Management Skills
  • Experiencing Modern Management:  A Workbook of Study Activities

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COMPUTER

  • Microsoft Office 2000:  The Complete Reference - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Access, and Publisher
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 4 for Windows for Dummies
  • Microsoft Office:   How to Use Word (Make Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows Work for You)
  • Microsoft Office 4 for Dummies
  • More Word for Windows 6 for Dummies
  • Word Processing (Beginners Guide to Microsoft Word)
  • Word Processing (Beginners Guide to Microsoft Word)
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INTERNET

  • Distance Learning Online for Dummies
  • Doing Research on the Internet
  • How to Use the Internet
  • Internet Adventures
  • The Internet Complete Reference
  • Internet Road Map Workshop
  • The Internet Yellow Pages
  • NDLC Internet Gateway Users Guide to the Internet
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CRITICAL THINKING

  • Basic Thinking Skills - Miscellaneous
  • Brain Power:  Improve Thinking Skills
  • Brain Stretchers Books 1 and 2
  • Cognitive Reorganization
  • Critical Thinking for Nursing
  • Critical Thinking:  Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum
  • Food for Thought:  Reading and Thinking Critically
  • Let's Think About Thinking
  • Thinking Critically
  • Thinking Tools
  • Think Lab 1 - 86

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ENGLISH

  • The Allyn and Bacon Handbook
  • Arguing in Communities
  • The Beacon Handbook
  • The Blair Handbook
  • The College Writer's Reference
  • Contexts:  Writing and Reading
  • Creativity is Forever
  • Crossing Boundaries
  • Decisions - A Writer's Handbook
  • Everything's An Argument
  • Final Touch:  Editing, Rewriting and Polishing Writing Skills
  • Four Worlds of Writing
  • Grassroots:  The Writer's Handbook
  • Guide for Change
  • Hodges' Harbrace Handbook
  • The Least You Should Know About English
  • The Longwood Reader
  • The McGraw-Hill College Handbook and Workbook
  • MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
  • The Norton Sampler
  • Othello Notes
  • The Power of Writing
  • The Practical Stylist
  • The Practical Writer
  • The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers
  • Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers
  • The Process of Discovery
  • A Reader for Developing Writers
  • A Reading and Writing Short Arguments
  • The Rinehart Handbook for Writers
  • The Riverside Handbook
  • Rules of Thumb
  • Sentence Skills:  A Workbook for Writers
  • The Short Handbook for Writers
  • The Simon & Schuster Guide to Writing
  • Strategies for Successful Writing
  • Thinking on Paper:  A Writing Process Workbook
  • Troubleshooting Basic Writings
  • Verbal Classifications
  • Verbal Sequences
  • Working It Out
  • The Writer's Brief Handbook
  • The Writer's Express
  • The Writer's Workplace with Readings
  • Writing Arguments
  • Writing Exploratory Essays
  • The Writing Express
  • Writing in the Disciplines to Accompany the Rinehart Handbook for Writers
  • Writing Skills Handbook
  • Writing Research Papers

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FOREIGN LANGUAGE - SPANISH

  • A Conocernos
  • Asies Spanish Manual
  • Pasajes
  • Tu Diras!  Introduccion a la Lenqua y Cultura Hispanicas

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HISTORY

  • A Civilization Primer
  • A History of Western Society, Volumes 1 & II
  • Sources of Western Tradition Volume's 1 & II

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LEARNING STRATEGIES

  • Asking the Right Questions
  • Better Listening Skills
  • How to Study in College
  • Learning to Learn - An Approach to Study Skills
  • Net Study Guide to Getting Better Grades
  • Reading and Study Strategies for Nursing Students
  • Memory, Applying Study Skills to Essay Projects and Exams (plus audio cassette)
  • Note Taking Techniques and Note Taking Applications (plus audio cassette)
  • Preparing to Study (plus audio cassette)
  • Studying in the Content Areas:  The Sciences (plus accompanying audio cassette)
  • How to Pass an Essay Examination

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MATH

  • Basic College Mathematics - An Applied Approved
  • Basic Mathematics and Problem Solving
  • College Algebra/Student Solutions Manual
  • Complete Solutions Manual
  • Concepts of Intermediate Algebra
  • Earth Algebra
  • Elementary Algebra - Instructor's Edition (available for staff's use)
  • Interactive Tutorials for Mathematics
  • Interactive Tutorials for Mathematics
  • Math, Science, Technology Teacher's Guide to Projects on the Internet
  • The Mathematics of Drugs and Solutions
  • Problem Solving in Mathematics Worksheets
  • Solutions Manual for Introductory Algebra:  An Applied Approach

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PSYCHOLOGY

  • Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

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READING

  • 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary
  • College Vocabulary Skills
  • Contexts Writing and Reading
  • The Curious Reader
  • Developmental and Cognitive Aspects of Learning to Spell
  • Eccentrics
  • How to Develop College Level Vocabulary
  • Improving Reading Speed and Comprehension
  • Increase Your Vocabulary
  • Open Ended Problems
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Reading Comprehension, Reading Speed, and Reading Practice
  • Reading in the Content Fields:  English (with accompanying audio cassette)
  • Reading in the Content Fields:  Math (with accompanying audio cassette)
  • Reading in the Content Fields:  Practical Arts (with accompanying audio cassette)
  • Reading in the Content Fields:  Science (with accompanying audio cassette)
  • Reading in the Content Fields:  Social Studies (with accompanying audio cassette)
  • Reading for Thinking
  • The Reading Key:  Word Attack
  • Reasoning by Analogy
  • Selected Readings in English
  • The Vocabulary Energizers
  • Word Power
  • Word Power Made Easy

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SCIENCE

  • Biology:  A Human Approach
  • Student's Solution Manual to Accompany University Physics
  • Study Guide to Accompany University Physics

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