Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Argues that a good education and a secure job are not guarantees for financial success, and describes six guidelines for making money work for you.

The only one-volume book you'll need to retrieve and improve the education you already have. "I've Forgotten Everything I Learned in School!" is no ordinary self-help book. Truly revolutionary in its construction, brilliant in its simple way of teaching skills, and imaginative in its presentation of a library of necessary information, it is a book that will be used both in the home and at school for years to come. If you're like most of us, the things...

The author argues that reading is alive and well in America. Millions of devoted readers support hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully...

Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting? Susan Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise.

"A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today, millions have viewed and subscribed to the Khan Academy's YouTube videos, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject. Like all great innovators, Sal Khan established himself...

Dyer takes the viewer through a journey into the seven faces of intention: creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansiveness, abundance, and receptivity. Includes 20 minutes of bonus material.