Education

This book is the most up-to-date, cutting-edge, best-practice version of Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking method that will not only set you free from smoking but will also ensure that you find it easy and even enjoyable to quit....

Make It Stick will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement....

On Healing Trauma, respected therapist and teacher Peter A. Levine brings you face to face with his effective new treatment - not a "talking" cure...

Transform your life with this revolutionary and accessible seven-step guide - grounded in energy medicine, neurobiology, and quantum physics - to awaken your true health and potential through energy healing....

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a collection of techniques for managing moods and modifying behaviors. Build a robust self-improvement toolkit with this expert guidance....

The Art of Learning takes listeners through Waitzkin's unique journey to excellence....

Drawing together the worlds of classroom practice, school leadership, and scientific research, this is an essential how-to guide for initiating and maintaining a school improvement journey based on the science of learning.

In this abridged audiobook version of his best-selling title, Paul Dix talks you through the book’s hugely influential behavior management approach - an approach whereby expectations and boundaries are exemplified by people, not by a thousand rules that nobody can recall....

Teach Your Own helped launch the homeschooling movement; now, its timeless and revolutionary message of recognizing the ways children come to understand the world has been updated for today’s environment....

What if we actually have the ability to break free from the pitfalls of impulsive decisions and develop positive, godly habits? What if becoming the person you want to be starts now, before you make a decision?....

Among the book's many tales we meet Feynman's first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love's irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb....

Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only White people can be racist? Listen to find out more....

Teach Like a Champion 3.0 is the long-awaited update to Doug Lemov's highly regarded guide to the craft of teaching. This book teaches you how to create a positive and productive classroom that encourages student engagement, trust, respect, accountability, and excellence....

This guide offers a step-by-step plan that helps parents cultivate daily routines so that they can turn life with toddlers into a mutually rich time of curiosity and learning....

Your brain is not hardwired; it's "softwired" by experience. This book shows you how you can rewire parts of the brain to feel more positive about your life, remain calm during stressful times, and improve your social relationships.....

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners....

From Stephen R. Covey, bestselling author of The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness, comes the accompanying personal workbook that will help you further realize the power of this new habit.

With accessible strategies grounded in trauma-informed education and positive psychology, this audiobook equips teachers to support all students, particularly the most vulnerable....

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed has helped to empower countless people throughout the world. This 50th anniversary edition includes an updated introduction by Donaldo Macedo, a new afterword by Ira Shor, and many inspirational interviews....

Neurodivergent children experience and interact with the world differently to many of their peers. Standard educational systems often fail to adapt to their unique strengths and ways of learning. School, and even the act of learning, can become a source of great anxiety and trauma.

Changing Our Minds brings together research, theory and practice on learning. It includes interviews with influential thinkers in the field of self-directed education and examples from families alongside practical advice....

Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way....

John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, "learning is as natural as breathing." In this delightful yet profound book, he looks at how we learn to talk, to read, to count, and to reason, and how we can nurture and encourage these natural abilities in our children....

The research is clear that quality leaders are second only to quality teachers in their impact on student achievement....

At the height of Mao's infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled...

Drawing together the worlds of classroom practice, school leadership, and scientific research, this is an essential how-to guide for initiating and maintaining a school improvement journey based on the science of learning.

A relação entre o humano e o sagrado é a mais antiga das instituições e há quem diga que não existem povos originalmente ateus—respondendo uma ânsia moderna de universalizar culturas. O curso trata dos primeiros traços de uma "espiritualidade" e da elaboração de elementos divinos e profanos, além das possíveis aproximações entre elementos de diferentes religiões, buscando delinear, uma vez que não há uma "religião pura", quais relações, ritos, propostas e narrativas compuseram uma pré-história da busca humana por aquilo que nos transcende.

The science of reading movement has done much to improve instruction in foundational skills. But that hard-won progress may be reversed unless we also help children acquire the knowledge and vocabulary they need to understand complex text. At the same time, the science of learning movement has introduced many educators to evidence-based teaching principles that can be effective for all students. In Beyond the Science of Reading, Wexler addresses a missing piece of the conversation: the ways in which typical reading comprehension and writing instruction conflict with those principles.

The Premed Playbook: Guide to the Medical School Personal Statement helps guide students in crafting their stories for the medical school Admission Committees. It's not only a collection of essays from students who got into top schools, but is a showcase of essays that started badly and were honed to tell great stories.

Shermin Kruse vous propose une approche différente, permettant de mieux comprendre les gens qui vous entourent tout en conservant une certaine distance. Elle s'appuie sur la philosophie stoïcienne et les découvertes scientifiques contemporaines pour nous enseigner l'art de la régulation des émotions et du contrôle de soi.

Os maiores filósofos da História da Humanidade refletem, nesta seleção de textos, sobre as grandes questões da existência, as que mais nos preocupam no dia a dia. Eles nos ensinam, com linguagem simples e clara, a resolver desde os mais elementares até os mais complexos dilemas do cotidiano. Amor, beleza, desejo, ética, existência, felicidade, justiça, liberdade, loucura, moral, morte, política, prazer, religião, sabedoria, tempo – nada escapa, nessa coletânea organizada, apresentada e comentada, com clareza e bom humor, por Claudio Blanc, editor e tradutor com formação em Filosofia.

Poucas são as empresas e instituições que ainda não abordaram, de alguma forma, temáticas de diversidade e inclusão. Ainda assim, o reconhecimento de sua urgência social e estratégica esbarra em discursos que evidenciam o descompasso entre o passado que se nega, o presente que se constrói e o futuro que se almeja. Deste descompasso, iniciativas e políticas organizacionais tropeçam em ineficiência, descontinuidade e promessas abstratas.

A fun and engaging introduction to phonics, this book helps young learners recognise and practise the sounds of each letter from A to Z—building a strong foundation for reading.

「うちの子は国語力がない……」そんなふうにお悩みの保護者の方へ。本書は、未就学～小学生を対象とした、おうちで国語力を伸ばすための本です。

Productive Failure shows you how to design the experience of failing. Research shows that repeated experiences of intriguing, constructive failure can help students develop creativity and learn more deeply. When carefully curated, failure can become a signal for learning, not the noise detracting from it. Learners gain a lifelong readiness to push themselves outside of their comfort zones, using setbacks as launchpads.

In School Communities of Strength, Peter W. Cookson, Jr., lays out a blueprint for providing equitable educational opportunities for students from all socioeconomic strata, and particularly for the five million American children who live with the extreme material hardship known as deep poverty. This work issues an urgent call to action for K–12 schools to put in place the policies, practices, and programs that enable economically vulnerable students to thrive.

So, you’re thinking about getting a degree. But do you truly know what lies ahead? Author and financial coach Charles A. Chadwick Jr. does—and he’s lived it. In College Debt or Skill Set: A Critical Choice for Success, Charles takes you behind the scenes of the college hustle, sharing how he paid for two degrees without external help and slashed his costs by 40% using one powerful strategy: a skill set.

Over twenty years after the first edition laid the groundwork for twenty-first-century Montessori education, this revised and expanded edition of The Montessori Way incorporates the latest research and practical applications, culminating in an all-encompassing modern guide to understanding and implementing the Montessori method in various settings. An essential reference for both educators and parents, it starts with a strong emphasis on the core principles of Montessori, such as child-centered learning, independence, and hands-on experiences.

La meditación es una de las prácticas más antiguas para mantener en equilibrio la mente, el cuerpo y las emociones, pero también es una poderosa herramienta para alcanzar un estado de conciencia plena entre quien la practica y el entorno que le rodea. Así lo considera Jacobo Grinberg, quien nos acerca a este ejercicio desde sus propias experiencias meditativas y su profundo conocimiento sobre el cerebro y la conciencia. Esta obra es una guía excepcional y única sobre qué es la meditación y su poder para promover no solo la paz interior e individual, sino la colectiva.

This book by best-selling author and child psychotherapist Howard Glasser is about a time-tested, highly effective approach for successful parenting. This approach, also highly effective for educators and therapists, has an evidence base that is building fast. It is being successfully employed in thousands of homes, classrooms, therapy and coaching practices, and a growing number of schools and treatment programs across the U.S. and overseas.

Prepare to have your mind blown, your curiosity sparked, and your laughter unleashed with The Ultimate Fun Facts Encyclopedia! Dive into a massive, jaw-dropping collection of bizarre, funny, and absolutely true facts that cover everything from history's strangest moments to the wildest wonders of science, nature, and human behavior. Whether you're a trivia lover, a curious mind, or just looking for a perfect conversation starter, this book is your go-to source for endless amazement.

In seinen frühesten Veröffentlichungen hat Rudolf Steiner den Versuch unternommen, aus den naturwissenschaftlichen Schriften Goethes diejenigen epistemologischen und wissenschaftstheoretischen Prinzipien herauszuarbeiten, die den Goethe'schen Arbeiten auf diesem Feld unausgesprochen zugrunde liegen. Im Lichte der Steiner'schen Deutung erscheinen Goethes Beiträge zur Naturwissenschaft als zukunftweisende Ansätze eines wissenschaftsmethodisch und philosophisch fundierten und zugleich tief spirituellen Zugangs zum Verständnis des Lebendigen.

Get straight to the point with a toolkit that turns tough problems into clear solutions.

From creation stories to timeless human emotions, A Beginner's Guide to Greek Mythology reveals universal themes, transforming complex myths into relatable narratives that will inspire and captivate listeners of all ages.

Dietetics practitioners are food and nutrition experts who help people live healthier lives. They work in a variety of settings—from hospitals and research to sports, schools, nursing homes, and the food industry. Yet, despite the diversity of the populations they serve, the dietetics profession is predominantly female, white, and able-bodied. Only 2% of dietetics practitioners have a disability compared to 29% of US adults. There is an urgent need to diversify the field—especially by including practitioners with disabilities.

Are you an educator, instructional leader, or lifelong learner curious about artificial intelligence—but not sure where to begin? AI in Education: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence Tools to Transform Teaching and Professional Practice is your go-to audio companion for navigating the future of education with clarity and confidence. Whether you're driving, walking, or relaxing at home, this audiobook brings the world of AI to life with practical insights, real classroom examples, and visionary strategies designed to support your growth.

Navigate the ethical and legal complexities of our rapidly evolving technological landscape with this essential guidebook for professionals across all sectors. Technology is transforming our world in unprecedented ways, opening up new possibilities and challenges for professionals in various fields and domains. These challenges in technology confront us all with a variety of issues from technology ethics perspective. How can you make ethical and legal decisions that align with your values and responsibilities? How can you leverage technology to create value and impact in your work and society?

What would your life look like if you could remember names, facts, and entire presentations on command? Most people think a sharp memory is a genetic lottery. Neuroscientist Dr. Elias Thorne proves it’s a trainable skill—and hands you the blueprint.

In this 2nd edition of Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning, Mike Schmoker extends and updates the case that our schools could be on the cusp of swift, unparalleled improvements. But we are stymied by a systemwide failure to simplify and prioritize; we have yet to focus our limited time and energy on the most essential, widely acknowledged, evidence-based practices that could have more impact than all other initiatives combined.

Generative AI for Writers is your guide to escaping the echo chamber. This audiobook unpacks how to use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and copy generators without becoming generic. It's not just about prompts. It’s about positioning, strategy, and protecting the soul of your message.