Summer Hot Reads for Incoming Students and Families
Hot Reads for Incoming First-Year Students and Parents
From eating healthy on campus to making sure your dorm room is Feng Shui certified, this list of books are some of our favorites for incoming college students
Our Resource Library carries each of these books. Come visit us and check one out today!
Mindful Eating 101: A Guide to Healthy Eating in College and Beyond
By Susan Albers
Book Description
Each year, thousands of young men and women show up at college unprepared for many of the challenges and experiences they will encounter for the next four years of their lives. And while parents, friends and teachers will always have advice to offer on the dangers of drugs & alcohol, tips for good hygiene and better work habits, how to do laundry and the importance of quickly making friends with someone who has a car, one vital area is often overlooked.
In this book, Dr. Susan Albers brings her unique approach to college students, their parents, and college staff. Using the principles of mindfulness, Dr. Albers presents a guide to healthy eating and self acceptance that will help readers navigate the weight obsessed, diet-crazed, high pressured, fast-food-saturated college environment, establishing patterns of eating that will form the groundwork for a healthier life well beyond college.
Hooking Up: A girls all-out guide to sex and sexuality
By Amber Madison
Book Description
Hilarious, uninhibited, and chock full of must-have knowledge about safer sex and sexuality, Hooking Up gives you a tour of female anatomy plus frank talk on a slew of meaningful issues concerning sexual activity and intimacy. Revealing her own experiences and sometimes humorous mishaps, Amber covers topics ranging from safer sex and avoiding sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy to being comfortable with your own body; being aware of stereotypes surrounding female sexuality; and understanding guys' bodies, emotions, and their insecurities. She teaches you how to avoid being pressured into sex and equips you with the tools to be safe and responsible if you engage in sexual activities.
Educating Ourselves: The College Woman's Handbook
By Rachel Dobkin and Shana Sippy
Book Description
Comprehensive, passionate, and detailed--like an Our Bodies, Ourselves for undergraduate women--this book compiles and organizes a world of information. From managing everyday expenses to career issues to health, sexuality, and birth control, The College Woman's Handbook addresses hundreds of specific needs, questions, and concerns that college women have.
Dorm Room Feng Shui
By Katherine Olaksen
Book Description
Fifteen million students go off to college each fall, laden down with bedding, wall hangings, computer, books, clothes, stereo, mini-fridge, photos, etc. — and they are determined to cram it all into one very small dorm room. The problem is compounded when the roommate shows up with an equal pile of stuff.
How do you make a dorm room comfortable and conducive to everything from sleeping to studying to socializing? When confronted with this dilemma in her own tiny, first-year dorm room, author Katherine Olaksen called for help — and feng shui answered. In Dorm Room Feng Shui, Olaksen presents quick, cheap, and innovative feng shui fixes designed to cure any student's troubles.
The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College
By Harlan Cohen
Book Description
In college, there's a surprise around every corner...But that doesn't mean you can't be prepared! From sharing a bathroom with 40 strangers to sharing lecture notes, The Naked Roommate is your behind-the-scenes look at EVERYTHING you need to know about college (but never knew you needed to know).
This essential guide is packed with expert advice on everything from managing money to managing stress—plus hilarious, outrageous and telling stories from students from over 100 college campuses.
The Smart Student's Guide to Healthy Living: How to Survive Stress, Late Night and the College Cafeteria
By M.J. Smith and Fred Smith
Book Description
College life is full of possibilities-and pitfalls. Dorm food isn't very good, but there sure is a lot of it. And you can eat as much of anything-and everything-as you want. There's no one in a college dorm to tell you when to go to bed, and the all-night cram session is something of a badge of honor (to say nothing of all-night parties.) And exercise-what's that? The good news is that, with a little good advice, the first-year students in your life can eat right and get the sleep and exercise they need to excel academically and creatively.
My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
By Rebekah Nathan
Book Description
After more than fifteen years of teaching, Rebekah Nathan, a professor of anthropology at a large state university, realized that she no longer understood the behavior and attitudes of her students.
Nathan decided to put her wealth of experience in overseas ethnographic fieldwork to use closer to home and apply to her own university. Accepted on the strength of her high school transcript, she took a sabbatical and enrolled as a freshman for the academic year. She immersed herself in student life, moving into the dorms and taking on a full course load.
Based on her interviews and conversations with fellow classmates, her interactions with professors and with other university employees and offices, and her careful day-to-day observations, My Freshman Year provides a compelling account of college life that should be read by students, parents, professors, university administrators, and anyone else concerned about the state of higher education in America today.
By focusing on the actual experiences of students, My Freshman Year offers a refreshing alternative to the frequently divisive debates surrounding the political, economic, and cultural significance of higher education-as well as a novel perspective from which to look at the achievements and difficulties confronting America's colleges and universities in the twenty-first century.
Sex Matters for College Students: FAQ's in Human Sexuality
By Sandra L. Caron
Book Description
Using a convenient question/answer format, this brief, easy-to-read, affordable paperback is designed specifically for today's young adults to answer basic sexual questions in a friendly, nonthreatening, age-appropriate way. Featuring questions that come from young adults themselves, it helps readers wade through the barrage of information/misinformation overload they encounter everyday as they struggle to become aware of and understand their sexual feelings and responses, to accept these feelings in themselves, and to enhance their lives.
College Student's Guide to Eating Well on Campus
By Ann Selkowitz
Book Description
The College Student's Guide To Eating Well On Campus offers young men and women straightforward ideas on how to eat nutritiously on campus. Ann Selkowitz covers everything from fueling the college athlete; to suggestions for making the most of dorm cafeteria and restaurant menus; to understanding the special nutritional considerations of vegetarian students. Highly recommended to the attention of concerned parents and nutrition conscious students, The College Student's Guide To Eating Well On Campus also addresses such issues as eating disorders, alcohol and drugs; and is enhanced with thirty recipes with great taste and minimal cooking skills required.
Been There, Should Have Done That: More Tips for Making the Most of College
By Suzette Tyler, Jeff Fillion
Book Description
This book is compiled by a parent but the information is from students and professors who have truly been there and done that or are in the process of now. There is a broad spectrum of colleges and universities represented.
Managing Stress: Principles and Strategies for Health and Well-Being
By Brian Luke Seaward
Book Description
Referred to as the "bible of stress management" by students and professionals, Managing Stress, Fourth Edition contains the most comprehensive approach honoring the integration, balance and harmony of mind, body, spirit and emotions. The holistic approach taken by internationally acclaimed lecturer and author Brian Luke Seaward gently guides the reader to greater levels of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing by emphasizing the ageless wisdom of mind-body-spirit unity.
The Male Body: An Owner's Manual
By the Editors of Men's Health Books
Book Description
The Male Body: An Owner's Manual is the first book ever to offer all the tools and methods a man needs to live longer, stronger, healthier and wiser. The writers and editors of Men's Health Books consulted with more than 350 top experts to put together the most comprehensive guide possible for taking control of a man's health and well-being.
Beer, Booze and Books: A Sober Look at Higher Education
By Jim Matthews
Book Description
One of the best handbooks for college students, this manual contains the most important information about college drinking including types of drinks and their strength, impairment risks, addiction, recovery, academics, family issues, spring break, fraternities and sororities, other drugs, impact on athletic performance and more.
Getting Loaded: Make a Million...While You're Still Young Enough to Enjoy It
By Peter Bielagus
Book Description
Entrepreneur and investor Bielagus shows how youth can be a major advantage on the road to riches with savvy, entertaining, and comprehensive advice on money: how to make it, how to save it, and what to do with it once you have it.
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