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• Adult Literacy and New Technologies: Tools for a Lifetime (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Classrooms That Work: Teaching Generic Skills in Academic and Vocational Settings, by Cathleen Stasz, K. Ramsey, R. Eden, J. DaVanzo, H. Farris, and M. W. Lewis (PDF files at rand.org)

• Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants (2015), by United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (PDF at uscis.gov)

• Economics for Life: Real-World Financial Literacy (Philadelphia et al.:North Broad Press, c2023), by Donald Thomas Wargo (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Be Your Own Therapist: Psychology Self Help (ca. 1995), by Thayer White (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Focusing on the Emotions of Daily Life: A Guide for Their Maintenance, by Ilan Shalif (HTML at shalif.com)
• Becoming Your Own Therapist: An Introduction to the Buddhist Way of Thought, by Thubten Yeshe, ed. by Nicholas Ribush (PDF at buddhanet.net)
• Good Mood: The New Psychology of Overcoming Depression, by Julian Lincoln Simon (HTML at juliansimon.com)

• Success, contrib. by Orison Swett Marden (partial serial archives)

• 12 Steps to Destruction: Codependency Recovery Heresies (Santa Barbara, CA: EastGate Publishers, c1991), by Martin Bobgan and Deidre Bobgan (PDF at pamweb.org)

• Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion (New York and London: New York University Press, 1995), by Jennifer L. Manlowe (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2019), by Joseph Michael Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)

• More Revealed: A Critical Analysis of Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps (online edition, 2005), by Ken Ragge (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment (Tucson, AZ: See Sharp Press, 2000), by Stanton Peele (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Recovery literature in English, by Narcotics Anonymous (PDF files at na.org)

• 12-Step Horror Stories: True Tales of Misery, Betrayal, and Abuse in AA, NA, and 12-Step Treatment (2000), by Rebecca Fransway (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Alcoholics Anonymous in Iceland: From Marginality to Mainstream Culture (2000), by Hildigunnur Ólafsdóttir (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Homeland (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1946), by Georges Surdez (page images at HathiTrust)

• Learn Anything: Shortcuts to Learning (electronic edition, 1999), by Harry Van Bommel (illustrated HTML at carelibrary.com)
• Only Connect: Discovery Pathways, Library Explorations and the Information Adventure (Lepton: Innovative Libraries, 2013), ed. by Andrew Walsh and Emma Coonan (PDF and Epub with commentary in the UK)
• College Success (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2010), by Bruce John Beiderwell, Linda F. Tse, Thomas A. Lochhaas, and Nicholas B. DeKanter (PDF at saylor.org)
• Universities in Transition: Foregrounding Social Contexts of Knowledge in the First Year Experience (Adelaide: Adelaide University Press, c2014), ed. by Heather Brook, Deane Fergie, Michael Maeorg, and Dee Michell (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester (2007), ed. by Nancy Fried Foster and Susan Gibbons (PDF at ALA)
• How to Learn Easily: Practical Hints on Economical Study (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1916), by George Van Ness Dearborn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• How to Study and Teaching How to Study, by Frank M. McMurry (Gutenberg text)
• How to Use Your Mind: A Psychology of Study (second edition, 1921), by Harry Dexter Kitson (Gutenberg text)
• The Student's Guide (fifth impression; London: University of London Press, 1920), by John Adams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Roots in the Sawdust: Writing to Learn Across the Disciplines (c1985), ed. by Anne Ruggles Gere (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
• How to Succeed as a Student (1994 Griffith edition), by Kevin B. Bucknall (zipped RTF at homestead.com)

• A Field of Dreams: Independent Writing Programs and the Future of Composition Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), ed. by Peggy O'Neill, Angela Crow, and Larry W. Burton (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies (2014), by Doug Belshaw (PDF at dougbelshaw.com)
• The Design, Development, and Evaluation of Literacy Education: Application and Practice (LEAP), by Elizabeth C. Stephens (HTML at archive.org)
• An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance (revised and expanded edition), by John Foster (Gutenberg text)

• Reading in the Mobile Era: A Study of Mobile Reading in Developing Countries (Paris: UNESCO, 2014), by Mark West and Han Ei Chew (PDF with commentary at unesco.org)

• Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2004), by Iris Parush (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2013), by Francis Cody (multiple formats at Cornell)

• Family Literacy: Summary of Papers of a National Symposium, ed. by L. Ann Benjamin and Jerome Lord (HTML at ed.gov)

• Family Literacy: Summary of Papers of a National Symposium, ed. by L. Ann Benjamin and Jerome Lord (HTML at ed.gov)

• The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2013), by Francis Cody (multiple formats at Cornell)

• Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1989), by William J. Gilmore-Lehne (PDF at Tennessee)

• Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading (Washington: Allance for Excellent Education, c2010), by Steve Graham and Michael Hebert (PDF with commentary at carengie.org)

• The Civilization of Illiteracy (1997), by Mihai Nadin (Gutenberg text)

• Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics (c2008), by Elenore Long (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), ed. by Bronwyn T. Williams (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (2010), by Common Core State Standards Initiative (HTML and PDF at corestandards.org)

• Reading in the Bilingual Classroom: Literacy and Biliteracy (originally printed 1978, reprinted 1984), by Kenneth S. Goodman, Yetta M. Goodman, and Barbara Flores (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Rhetorical Dimensions of Cyberspace (c1996), ed. by Beth Williams Baldwin and Tim Flood (frame-dependent HTML at Colorado State)
• The Civilization of Illiteracy (1997), by Mihai Nadin (Gutenberg text)

• A New Literacies Dictionary: Primer for the Twenty-First Century Learner (c2011), by Adam Mackie (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• Rhetorics of Literacy: The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Nadia Nurhussein (PDF at Ohio State)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.