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Green Beret and outdoor survival expert Mykel Hawke provides the most practical and accessible survival skills and information necessary for anyone to survive an unexpected situation in the outdoors. These are the most tried-and-true methods based on Hawke’s 25-year career as a captain in the US Army Green Berets, founder of the survival training company Spec Ops Inc, and popular survival expert on a wide range of television shows. Geared to the untrained civilian, Hawke provides essential and easy-to-apply information.

A teenage girl has been murdered in the sand dunes just outside the house of Dr. Peter Hamilton. The victim is his daughter. Among those looking on as the police investigate is 17-year-old neighbor Amy Lund, a gifted, home-schooled student almost certain of admission to Harvard. Yet she has a secret - and is torn between keeping quiet about what she knows and divulging information that would destroy her own reputation.

Si la educación siempre plantea retos, la de los hijos con altas capacidades representa un desafío mayúsculo. Los padres tienen que lidiar en su día a día con cuestiones que las familias con niños normotípicos ni siquiera intuyen. Y es que las personas con competencias intelectuales excepcionales también necesitan -y merecen- ser educadas de una manera excepcional.

The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. But why is sexual assault such a common feature of college life? And what can be done to prevent it? Drawing on the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) at Columbia University, the most comprehensive study of sexual assault on a campus to date, Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan present an entirely new framework that emphasizes sexual assault’s social roots

The best brain teasers are those that have challenged and captivated the attention of puzzle lovers throughout time. Collected here to keep your wits sharp, this book features the cleverest brain teasers from around the world and throughout history. The 125 Best Brain Teasers of All Time gives you hours of fun-filled entertainment with brain teasers that develop your problem-solving skills in math, logic, and wordplay. Organized as an integrated challenge, these brain teasers build in momentum as they increase in difficulty from classic nursery rhymes to the riddle of the sphinx.

Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status. Yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land the best jobs. Pedigree takes listeners behind the closed doors of top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms to reveal the truth about who really gets hired for the nation's highest-paying entry-level jobs, who doesn't, and why.

Philanthropy has long been a distinctive feature of American culture, but its crucial role in the economic well-being of the nation - and the world - has remained largely unexplored. Why Philanthropy Matters takes an in-depth look at philanthropy as an underappreciated force in capitalism, measures its critical influence on the free-market system, and demonstrates how American philanthropy could serve as a model for the productive reinvestment of wealth in other countries.

After Alice Dreger's live tweeting of her son's abstinence sex ed class went viral, Dreger was asked by many parents how she had managed to raise a 14-year-old so comfortable talking about sex - comfortable enough even to challenge sex ed teachers when they presented misinformation. The Talk is a response to those questions.

AUSGEGRÜBELT! Was wirklich gegen Overthinking hilft. Grübelschleifen rauben Kraft und sind ungesund. "Gedankenstopp" heißt da das Wundermittel, das uns Coaches und der Self-Help-Markt verordnen wollen. Doch wenn wir einfach auf Knopfdruck aufhören könnten im Kreis zu denken, würden wir das nicht tun? Und viel mehr noch: sollten wir das überhaupt? Philosophin Judith Werner sagt nein. Denn die Themen, die unsere Gedanken kreisen lassen, stummzuschalten, hält uns nur vom Lösen unserer Probleme ab.

" J'ai décidé de publier le cours de mon frère pour lui rendre sa dignité d'homme et de professeur. Parce que ce cours est la raison pour laquelle mon frère est mort, et que vous ignorez tout de son contenu. Vous ne savez pas que c'est dans le cadre de cet enseignement, inscrit au programme de quatrième, que Samuel a montré des caricatures. Je le publie aussi parce que j'ai entendu trop de " Oui, mais. " Or en France, on ne met pas de " Oui, mais " après qu'un professeur se soit fait décapiter. On met un point. ".

「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。

La generazione dei chiusi in casa davanti ai videogiochi e degli impegnati che scendono in piazza. La generazione dei violenti e degli indomiti. Sembrano appartenere a specie diverse i giovani che di cronaca in cronaca vediamo descritti dai media. In realtà, hanno qualcosa in comune: l'energia. Gli adolescenti la esprimono in vari modi e possono essere disastrosi: bullismo e vandalismo. Ma anche meravigliosi: passione civile e impegno sociale.

Poco più di dieci anni fa, quando uscì per la prima volta, questo libro – cui seguì anche un blog, tuttora attivo – divenne subito un piccolo culto, amatissimo dai futuri genitori. Il racconto sincero di una mamma alle prese con miti da smantellare e riti da seguire, mese per mese, dal "D-Day"(il giorno delle doglie!) e per tutto il primo anno di vita del bambino, è uno slalom tra errori, fatiche, scoperte e gratificazioni – a volte mescolati tutti assieme – nel tentativo di "trovare una quadra" e ricomporre l'immagine di sé andata in frantumi con il parto.

日本で唯一の治療的里親として知られる著者が、怒りの止まらない「怒鳴り親」の怒りの原因と、親自身ができるアンガーマネジメントを伝授。いますぐ、誰にでもできる「怒る必要のない子育て」のノウハウも公開する。

立方体の模写は、標準的な子どもであれば大体7歳から9歳までの間にクリアする課題である。しかし著者は少年院に、立方体が描けない中学生や高校生が数多く収容されていることに気づく。

Il Profeta - il capolavoro di Kahlil Gibran - sottolineando che "nell'intera letteratura del mondo esistono pochissime affermazioni che abbiano altrettanta bellezza, verità e sincerità." Osho ricorda però di non lasciarsi incantare dalla semplice visione aulica di Gibran, perché condizionata dai limiti del poeta, spiegando: "Gibran è di certo un grande poeta, ma non è un mistico; ed esiste una grandissima differenza tra un poeta e un mistico.

重要ポイントの「まとめ」、授業中のノート取り、教科書への線引き……。従来「効果がある」とされてきた勉強法も、今最新の脳科学によってことごとく「効果なし」と判定されている。

◆40万部突破シリーズ、最新作！◆仕事にも勉強にも趣味にも効果絶大！これが【偏差値35からの東大合格】を支えた「学びの王道」だ！

Este Volumen II de la trilogía "Oposiciones docentes" hace inmersión en tres aspectos fundamentales de la oposición. En primer lugar, expone de una forma muy minuciosa cómo realizar una planificación para la oposición. Tratando aspectos como la gestión del tiempo, la distribución del esfuerzo y la organización semanal del opositor. Este apartado incluye diversos recursos adicionales descargables desde la web del autor. En segundo lugar, muestra un análisis basado en la literatura científica sobre cómo aprender a aprender.

"L'asilo nel bosco" è un progetto pedagogico rivolto ai bambini dai 2 ai 6 anni che si propone di rispondere ai loro bisogni attraverso una quotidianità scolastica che si svolge quasi per intero all'aria aperta. Nell'asilo nel bosco la classe, intesa come spazio chiuso e sempre uguale, scompare e lascia il posto all'ambiente esterno ricco di stimoli. Così facendo i bambini 'imparano facendo' attraverso diverse esperienze che stimolano la curiosità, l'immaginazione, l'autonomia e la creatività.