SCB SPRING 2012 SCB: TRULY INDEPENDENT SCB DISTRIBUTORS IS Bascom-Hall Publishing Co. PROUD TO INTRODUCE Bettie Youngs Book Publishers Bluewater Productions Creation Oneiros Scorpionic The Film Collaborative Food for Talk Hilton Publishing iam8bit Productions Kontur Publishing Merlin Unwin Books One Peace Books Quotable Zodiac Publishing Smart Guide Publications Soundcheck Books Studio 407 Sun Vision Press The Temple Publications Ltd. True Compass Press Twin Span Press Vision Sports Publishing SCB: TRULY INDEPENDENT The cover image for this catalog is from page 98 of Matthieu Forichon’s Miss in Paris, published by Editions Akileos, and reprinted by courtesy of the publisher. This title can be found on page 35 of this catalog. Catalog layout by Dan Nolte, based on an original design by Rama Crouch-Wong The Neurotic Parent’s Guide to College Admissions Strategies for Helicoptering, Hot-housing & Micromanaging By J.D. Rothman A light-hearted, yet serious guide to a family’s most expensive, stressful decision. Admissions rates of 6%? Kids applying to 32 colleges? Has the nation lost its mind? Why yes, it has! The college admissions process now sucks approximately 1250% more time, money and psychic energy than it did when today’s parents were going through the same process. When you read this, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll pack up and move your family to Australia, where getting into college is reput- edly just like it was in the US in 1972. Includes: I Why the New York Times “Vows” Section Caused This Whole Mess I College Confidential: The Scariest Place on the Internet SUCCESSFULLY MANAGE MODERN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS I leaked E-Mails Between the Neurotic Parent & the Tiger Mom I Junior Kumon Tips for Preschoolers I The Itsy-Bitsy Fiske Guide I Haikus for the Neurotic Parent, and much, much, more J.D. Rothman writes The Neurotic Parent, The Neurotic Parent’s www.theneuroticparent.com, a top US blog for Guide to College admissions counselors and parents. It was Admissions excerpted in I’m Going to College – Not You! (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2010). Rothman lives in LA. 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