Books by Jerold W. Apps

Text and photographs focus on rural objects of the past and how they were used, including kitchen stoves, windmills, threshing machines, and mail-order catalogs, as well as phenomena such as taverns, country stores, outhouses, and county fairs. Originally published as Symbols. Reprint.

A farmer is convinced that everyone will love rutabagas as much as he does if only they're grown right, and so he recruits his sons to help prepare the soil and plant, harvest, and sell the crop.

Suggests ways colleges can meet the needs of older students, those changing careers, minorities, and business and professional people.

In 1955, Andy Meyer, a young farmer and manager of the pickle factory in Link Lake, Wisconsin, and his fellow farmers are confronted by the arrival of the powerful H. H. Harlow Pickle Company, which uses heavy-handed tactics to force the locals to do things their way, threatening the rural community and its way of life.

Jerold W. Apps draws on twenty-five years of experience researching and teaching leadership and leadership development to provide adult educators with a blueprint for developing a profoundly different approach to leadership--one that is all-embracing of ideas and people, capitalizes on diversity, and remains open and responsive to change.

When the calf that his father promised him turns out to be a bull instead of a heifer, Jerry is disappointed, until a disaster on the farm teaches him an important lesson.

Adapted from Apps' STUDY SKILLS FOR ADULTS RETURNING TO SCHOOL, this text is designed to help both traditional and returning students improve their study skills, including learning with electronic media and learning in off-campus settings. It covers standard study skills topics such as reading, thinking, studying, listening and notetaking, writing, and exam preparation. Several unique features are also included: information on how to use the electronic library, and a chapter specifically for the new graduate student.

Text and photographs focus on rural objects of the past and how they were used, including kitchen stoves, windmills, threshing machines, and mail-order catalogs, as well as phenomena such as taverns, country stores, and county fairs.

This work illustrates learning for the whole person; including spiritual, biological, intellectual, and emotional dimensions.