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.

After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered is she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and...

Throw off the shackles of formal schooling and embark upon a rich journey of self-directed, life-long learning.

In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft—a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men—uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship. He says he loves...

From the author of, The Anatomy of Awakening, this bestselling revolutionary, and accessible seven-step guide—grounded in energy medicine, neurobiology, and quantum physics— will help you transform your life by allowing you to awaken your true health and potential through energy healing...

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s famous investigations of “optimal experience” have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with...

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....

In Running the Room: The Teacher's Guide to Behaviour, Tom Bennett rewrote the book on behaviour management, and outlined the psychology and dynamics underpinning student habits. In this companion, he goes into more detail about how to apply those principles to the classroom...

Narrated by the author! Experience Life on the Bridge in the voice of Autistic Advocate, Love on the Spectrum cast member, and therapist Kaelynn Partlow herself. This audiobook features new material that makes it a must-listen, including an introduction from and read by Cian O'Clery, director of...

Would you like to have the life of your dreams? Great health Amazing relationships A fantastic career Significant wealth Real happiness Then this book is for you! Millions of people are familiar with manifesting what they want, creating results through goal setting, focus of attention and...

Renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence. Parents have an important task: figure out who their child...

Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning....

In The Executive Function Playbook, ADHD and executive function specialist Mike McLeod delivers an evidence-based, effective toolkit for parents, teachers, therapists, counselors, principals, directors, and superintendents who work with and care for youth with ADHD. The book is filled with real...

What is your art really about? Where is it going? What stands in the way of getting it there? These are questions that matter, questions that recur at each stage of artistic development - and they are the source for this volume of wonderfully incisive commentary. Art & Fear explores the way art...

What makes us happy? Bill Bailey plays crazy golf and hugs trees to find out. Is there a knack to being happy? From paddle-boarding down the Thames in a Santa hat, to wild swimming in a glacial river and cooking sausages on a campfire, Bill revels in the exhilaration of the outdoors, as well as...

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. In this edition, you'll...

Manifest Now provides a step-by-step guide with tools, techniques, and proven strategies to raise your frequency and create the reality you want. This audiobook is designed to guide you through the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of manifesting all that your heart desires....

All kids occasionally space out, get sidetracked, run out of time, or explode in frustration—but some do it much more often than others. If you have a “smart but scattered” child, take heart.

With accessible strategies grounded in trauma-informed education and positive psychology, this audiobook equips teachers to support all students, particularly the most vulnerable. It will help them to build their resilience, increase their motivation and engagement, and fulfil their full...

An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought....

This new edition of The Writing Revolution adds guidance for teachers seeking a way to bring their students' writing ability up to rigorous state standards. As thousands of educators have already discovered, The Writing Revolution provides the road map they need, clearly explaining how to...

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

'Francis is doing for teaching what This is Going to Hurt did for medicine. Brutal, honest and laugh-out-loud funny.' Jimmy Carr 'A great subject covered by a guy unafraid to tell it like it is' Geoff Norcott The class weren't laughing with me, they were laughing at me and there is no lonelier...

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their...

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....

Heart-Centered Connections teaches the best practices to support kids who are misunderstood and marginalized—those who are neurodivergent, have a learning disability, or are trauma survivors. They have extraordinary potential waiting to be unleashed. Heart-Centered Connections is based on decades of groundbreaking research with over 1,000 child-serving professionals—principals, teachers, foster care program directors, social workers, and parents. Dr. Elliott offers seven pillars that will help you create environments where kids can achieve their full potential.

AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE FOR ALL TEENAGERS CONSIDERING EDUCATION OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL Does any of this sound like you? · You find regularly attending school difficult or you have been excluded · School makes you feel unhappy, ill or overwhelmed · You get so angry at school that you just can't keep...

The important role of play, sound, music, and the heart for life-long learning, joy and parenting is presented in this wonderfully readable synthesis of scientific research and story. Biologist, educator and author, Carla Hannaford, beautifully reinforces what we instinctively know will heal our...

Looking for a powerful, unique way to engage your staff or team? This parable from bestselling author Todd Whitaker offers a refreshingly different form of professional development. It is a beautifully designed short story about a veteran teacher who reconnects with a former student who manages...

The Cemetery of Untold Genius explores the quiet places inside us where ideas wait, where talent sits unclaimed, and where ambition whispers but never fully steps forward. It begins with a simple truth: the richest ground on Earth is the cemetery, the vast landscape of potential left untouched. This book reframes that loss not as a misunderstanding, but as a gap between what we feel called to do and what we allow ourselves to begin.

Sex Therapy: The Basics offers an introduction to modern sex therapy and is essential listening for anyone working professionally with sexual issues or just interested in sex. This book contains all you need to know to get started, find more information, or learn how and when to refer. Current...

An evidence-based approach to community college transformation featuring innovative practices that strengthen offerings and foster student success In More Essential Than Ever, researchers Davis Jenkins, Hana Lahr, John Fink, Serena C. Klempin, and Maggie P. Fay center US community colleges as...

An essential aid for training sitting and aspiring admissions officers in the skills required to succeed in higher education today The college admission deanship―often called "the hottest seat on campus"―requires navigating institutional politics, legal hurdles, revenue allocation, and more...

Classroom Management from the Trenches is a practical, honest guide for teachers who want calmer classrooms without losing their humanity. Drawing on more than three decades in education, Jim Johnson speaks directly to the realities teachers face every day: difficult transitions, inconsistent...

This book provides tips and strategies to help school leaders improve, neutralize, or eliminate resistant and negative teachers. Learn how to handle staff members who gossip in the teacher's lounge, consistently say "it won't work" when any new idea is suggested, send an excessive number of...

This text outlines the relative merits of qualitative interviewing to new and emerging scholars in an accessible way. This is achieved not by providing an exhaustive 'how-to' guide but in introducing researchers to the interview technique and using examples of 'best practice' from across the...

Keep in Mind explores already available resources that makes practical mental health possible for everyone. Taking a holistic approach, the book presents fifteen resources that serve the full spectrum of the human experience. Organized topically for ease of reference, Keep in Mind celebrates...

My dad died the January of my freshman year of high school. We had no money. And just like that, the plans for college disappeared. This book isn’t about motivation. It’s about a problem—and the system that solved it. By the time I graduated, I had won over $250,000 in scholarships, including the Gates Millennium Scholarship. My degrees, even my master's, were fully paid for. I didn’t owe anyone a dime. This book shows you exactly how I did it—and how you can do it too. Most students apply to a few big scholarships, get rejected, and stop. That’s not a strategy, that’s a gamble.

An eye-opening look at the relationship between students' majors and their entry-level jobs. Humanities majors are used to answering the question, "So, what are you going to do with that degree?" The common misconception is that students in humanities programs don't learn any useful skills for...

"Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Autism" is a comprehensive resource designed to provide listeners with a clear and compassionate understanding of autism spectrum disorder. This guide explores the causes, characteristics, and challenges associated with autism while celebrating the unique strengths of individuals on the spectrum.

Most of us assume that public schools in America are unequal—that the quality of the education varies with the location of the school and that as a result, children learn more in the schools that serve mostly rich, white kids than in the schools serving mostly poor, black kids. But it turns...

Trusted Adults = Accessible, Boundaried, Caring. Research shows that just one trusted adult can have a profound effect on a child’s life, influencing that young person toward positive growth, greater engagement in school and community activities, and better overall health. Those of us who teach and mentor young people must learn to build trust while outlining clearly the limits that keep the relationship healthy and our professional practices sustainable.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Gioseph Louis, a visual artist and writer, delves into the complex relationship between memory, heritage, and the immigrant experience in his book, Elba. Drawing from six decades of stories shared by his parents, Louis recounts their remarkable journey...

Kids today can learn more from a five-minute YouTube video or AI chatbot than they can from a full day of lectures. So what then is our role as classroom teachers? In this groundbreaking book, seasoned educator Kyle Wagner explains the new role of the teacher in the fourth industrial revolution...

An expansive study shows how politics can work for, not just against, efforts to improve America's schools. The education reform project has always been about making America's schools more effective for the children who attend them. In Making Politics Work, authors Paul T. Hill and Ashley E...

What if your memory isn't broken… but misunderstood? You read, study, and try to remember—yet information slips away. Names disappear. Ideas fade. Knowledge feels unstable. But the problem isn't your memory. It's how you've been using it. In The Living Memory Loop, neuroscientist Moawiah Naffaa, PhD reveals a powerful truth: Memory is not storage. It is a living system.

Manifestation is not wishing. It is becoming.12 Stoic Sigma Male Manifestations is a practical guide for men who want stronger discipline, mental toughness, emotional control, and quiet confidence in real life. Most men want better results, but keep repeating the same patterns. They want confidence, but break promises to themselves. They want peace, but let anger, overthinking, comfort, and distraction control their mind. This book shows a stronger path.

Do you feel like your brain doesn't work as well as it used to? In an age of constant connectivity, Digital Amnesia plagues us all. We outsource our recall to search engines, our directions to GPS, and our schedules to notifications. Our internal memory systems are decaying. But your memory isn't broken. It's just out of practice.

An ethnographic analysis of how insecurity is at the heart of contemporary higher education. Institutions of higher education are often described as "ivory towers," places of privilege where students exist in a "campus bubble," insulated from the trials of the outside world. These metaphors...

AI can answer almost anything. It cannot teach your child how to think. That work is still yours, and you are ready for it. Your child is growing up in a world where artificial intelligence delivers an instant answer to almost any question. It is natural to wonder whether you are preparing them for the right things. Should they be coding already? Do they need more screen time, more apps, more enrichment? Which Way to Smart? offers a calmer answer. The children who thrive in an AI-driven world will not be the ones who simply use the newest tools. They will be the ones who know how to think.