Nonfiction / Education Best Sellers

Twelve-year-old Dexter Foreman has lived at The Pines Retirement Village with his grandmother since he was 6 years old, homeschooled by the residents until he's forced to attend middle school, where he sticks out like a sore thumb.

How to save America\'s public schools; a companion to the film.

Over a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of 66, he burst onto the literary scene with "Angela''s Ashes," the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came "''Tis," his glorious account of his early years in New York. McCourt''s classic audiobook about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer, "Teacher Man" is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and heartbreaking honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. "Teacher Man" shows McCourt developing his unparalleled ability to tell a great story as he works to gain the attention and respect of unruly, hormonally-charged or indifferent adolescents. McCourt''s rocky marriage, his failed attempt to get a Ph.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, and his repeated firings due to his propensity to talk back to his superiors ironically lead him to New York''s most prestigious school, Stuyvesant High School, where he finally finds a place and a voice.

"A Mind at a Time" by Mel Levine is a non-fiction work that explores the varied ways in which children learn. Levine, a pediatrician, outlines different cognitive strengths and weaknesses, offering insights to help parents and educators support children's individual learning styles. The book advocates for a personalized approach to education that recognizes and nurtures diverse abilities.

The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.

Van Loon's Geography is a book by Hendrik Willem van Loon about the history of the world.