Education

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

"Dr. Leonard Sax's The Collapse of Parenting should be required reading for all parents."―Dr. Nancy Kehoe, author of Wrestling with Our Inner Angels In The Collapse of Parenting, internationally acclaimed author Leonard Sax argues that rising levels of depression and anxiety among young people...

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...

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...

From the renowned authority on education and parenting, "an in-depth approach to aid parents and teachers to work together with behaviorally challenging students" (Publishers Weekly) - now revised and updated. School discipline is broken. Too often, the kids who need our help the most are...

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....

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...

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

From a child psychologist and New York Times bestselling authority on schools comes “a gift to educators who are feeling stuck and overwhelmed...it’s practical, based on the realities teachers face today, but also visionary and hopeful” (Joan Durrant, PhD, Professor Emerita, University of...

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. What we now know about learning and teaching is vast; yet often, wading...

Read by the author. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — A Trusted Plan for Becoming Debt-Free with Over 8 Million Copies Sold. Do you want to build a budget that actually works for you? Are you ready to transform your relationship with money? This New York Times bestseller has already helped millions...

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...

This playful, caring course demonstrates the effectiveness of mindfulness in responding to many of humanity's fundamental existential problems....

In this provocative and timely book, education writer Natalie Wexler argues that the best way to end the “reading wars” is to recognize that learning to read is inextricably linked to learning in general.

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.

Scientific methods to accelerate your learning to save time, beat competition, and get from point A to point B at the speed of light....

The charming adventures of one family's mission to build a deeper, lasting connection to land and community on their Vermont farm. When Ben Hewitt and his wife bought a sprawling acreage of field and forest in northern Vermont, they were eager to start a self-sustaining family farm. But over the...

'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...

Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in deep thinking, Peter Liljedahl has translated his 15 years of research into this practical guide on how to move toward a thinking classroom....

Compelling stories that present a new view of ADHD. Smart but Stuck offers 15 true and compelling stories about intelligent, capable teens and adults who have gotten "stuck" at school, work, and/or in social relationships because of their ADHD. Dr. Brown highlights the often unrecognized role...

"A lightning bolt of a book" makes the case for why self-directed learning — "unschooling" — is the best way to get kids to learn (Lenore Skenazy) In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today’s constantly changing...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Building Thinking, Not Answers challenges one of the biggest misconceptions about artificial intelligence in education: that AI is either a shortcut to answers or a threat to learning. Drawing on decades of experience in K-12 education, corporate training, instructional design, and advanced manufacturing, educator Paul Warrick presents a practical approach that uses AI as a thinking partner rather than an answer generator. Instead of replacing student work, AI becomes a guide that asks better questions, helps organize ideas, encourages reflection, and builds student ownership.

Your best stories do not have to become stale, overused, or emotionally hollow. The Story Beneath Your Story is an advanced personal development audiobook by TJ Walker for speakers, coaches, trainers, leaders, educators, and professional communicators who want to speak from deeper experience...

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...

The main subject of this book is the relationship between sexual health and spiritual evolution. Specifically, the book focuses on Wilhelm Reich’s discoveries regarding sexual health and George I. Gurdjieff’s concept of spiritual evolution. The thesis is that spiritual evolution, in Gurdjieff’s sense, is not possible apart from sexual health as Reich determined it.

High-Ticket Coaches Closing Discovery Calls Without Freezing reveals what actually breaks high-ticket discovery calls at the exact moment most coaches don’t realize they’re losing the deal. It’s not the lack of leads. It’s not the offer. And it’s not even objections. It’s what happens in the shift. The moment the conversation moves from fit → value → fee… something changes. Coaches who were confident just seconds earlier start overexplaining. They hesitate. They rush. They soften their pricing. Or they keep talking when the real decision point has already passed.

Leading with Love: The JUST CARE Framework for Transformative Leadership presents a research-informed model for leadership grounded in empathy, authenticity, and human connection. Drawing upon the JUST CARE acronym — Joy, Undo Your Tie (Humanity), Surrender Success, Take Time to Listen, Communicate, Affirm/Acknowledge/Account For, Reflect, and Exemplify Excellence, Dr. Queinnise Miller integrates theory, practice, and narrative to demonstrate how love-centered leadership fosters organizational trust, collaboration, and growth.

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...

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.

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...

The demands on a junior high teacher are many: educator, entertainer, organizer, diplomat, and morally upright leader. How can any teacher meet all these needs while maintaining his/her sanity? As a teacher with over thirty years of experience, Susan Carter explores both the practical and entertaining aspects of this challenging profession.

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.

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...

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.

The Weight of the Room is a reflective and practical audiobook for teachers who care deeply, give constantly, and sometimes wonder how much more they can carry. Drawing from more than three decades in the classroom, veteran music educator James M. Johnson speaks honestly about the emotional...

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...