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Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English.

In When Grit Isn't Enough, Nathan investigates five assumptions that inform our ideas about education today, revealing how these beliefs mask systemic inequity. Seeing a rift between these false promises and the lived experiences of her students, she argues that it is time for educators to face these uncomfortable issues head-on and explores how educators can better serve all students, increase college retention rates, and develop alternatives to college that don't disadvantage students on the basis of race or income.

Are you overstressed, overworked, and overwhelmed? In today's uncertain economy many people believe that the best way to survive and thrive is to put your head down and work harder. However, that approach will harm your health, relationships, and your career progress. Instead, become a WorkJockey® and learn to work less, live more, accomplish more, and be happier.

Can free speech coexist with an inclusive campus environment? Hardly a week goes by without another controversy over free speech on college campuses. On one side, there are increased demands to censor hateful, disrespectful, and bullying expression and to ensure an inclusive and nondiscriminatory learning environment. On the other side are traditional free speech advocates who charge that recent demands for censorship coddle students and threaten free inquiry.

This book is about the line of bullshit all the universities are telling you. There is a big conspiracy out there and I want to share it with you. Please listen to this audiobook before you take the plunge and sign up for college. Thank you and enjoy.

Whether you are planning to start your first business, or are growing an existing business, having a mentor who has been there and done it before is an invaluable tool.

Whether you are planning to start your first business, or are growing an existing business, having a mentor who has been there and done it before is an invaluable tool.

Whether you are planning to start your first business, or are growing an existing business, having a mentor who has been there and done it before is an invaluable tool.

Sie wollten schon immer Ihre Allgemeinbildung von deutscher Geschichte über Naturwissenschaften bis hin zu Literatur auffrischen? Mitreden können, wenn es um Politik, Gesellschaft oder Wirtschaftstheorien geht? Einen Monet von einem Matisse unterscheiden können? Wissen, wie gut Kryptowährung eigentlich abgesichert ist? Oder Sie möchten einfach Ihren eigenen Horizont erweitern und dabei einige Wissenslücken schließen? Dann ist Allgemeinwissen für Superhirne genau das Richtige für Sie.

Wie denken und wie lernen Erwachsene? Zwischen einem 20-Jährigen und einem 80-Jährigen gibt es augenscheinlich Unterschiede. Doch in welchem Alter hört das Gehirn auf zu reifen? Worin zeichnet sich Weisheit bei einem alten Menschen aus? Ist es tatsächlich für einen 40-Jährigen schwieriger, eine Fremdsprache zu lernen, als für einen 20-Jährigen? Klar ist, dass das Nervensystem eines Kindes wächst, aber bedeutet das im Umkehrschluss, dass ein Erwachsener geistig abbaut?

"Mit 66 Jahren fängt das Leben an", sang Udo Jürgens in den siebziger Jahren und nahm damit als Künstler vorweg, was die Wissenschaft Jahre später bestätigte. Immer mehr Menschen bleiben auch im hohen Alter gesund, körperlich und geistig fit; immer mehr erreichen ein Alter von einhundert Jahren. Findet der geistige Verfall also nicht statt, wie man oft hört? Hat das "alternde Gehirn" auch Vorteile, wie Hirnforscher immer öfter aufzeigen? Was verändert sich im hohen Alter im menschlichen Denkapparat? Kann man die geistige Flexibilität fördern und degenerative Krankheiten verhindern?

In diesem Hörbuch geht es um die Hintergründe, rechtlichen Grundlagen, Aufgaben, Arbeitsabläufe und Organisationsstrukturen der Elektrosicherheit und somit um die Rolle der verantwortlichen Elektrofachkraft. Dabei wird auf die Voraussetzungen und die Installation einer VEFK ebenso eingegangen wie auf die Vermeidung eines Organisationsverschuldens oder dem Ablauf einer Unfallanalyse. Dieses Hörbuch wurde für Verantwortliche in der operativen Arbeit genauso geschrieben wie für Mitglieder der Geschäftsleitung.

In der Nacht vor der Klausur noch schnell den Lernstoff in den Kopf bekommen, das versuchen viele. Doch schon zwei Wochen später ist alles wieder vergessen. Wie aber gelingt es, Wissen langfristig zu behalten? Noch dazu in einer Welt, in der Wissen Vorsprung schafft? Verstehen ist die Zauberformel - und die wahre Stärke menschlichen Denkens. Hirnforscher Henning Beck zeigt, wie es geht. Ob in der Schule, in Unternehmen oder im täglichen Leben: Um der heutigen Informationsflut gerecht zu werden, müssen wir lebenslang lernen. Lernen ist aber nur die halbe Miete.

After all the testing and touring and applying, your child has been accepted to college. Congratulations! Now what? Distilling lessons and sharing stories (some cautionary, some entertaining, all helpful) from her long college advisory career, three-time Ivy League Dean Monique Rinere presents a unique month-by-month road map to a college experience that is rich, rewarding, and successful for teens and parents alike.  

Higher education faces a looming demographic storm. Decades-long patterns in fertility, migration, and immigration persistently nudge the country toward the Hispanic Southwest. As a result, the Northeast and Midwest...expect to lose five percent of their college-aged populations between now and the mid-2020s. In Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education, Nathan D. Grawe has developed the Higher Education Demand Index (HEDI), which relies on data from the 2002 Education Longitudinal Study (ELS) to estimate the probability of college-going using basic demographic variables.

Bridge That Gap! How Schools Can Help Students Get Their First Job and Build the Career They Want by Angela Middleton is a thoughtful and insightful audiobook that will be of invaluable assistance to teachers who really care about the futures of their pupils. Most education professionals will concede that there is a chasm between school careers advice and the reality for young people in gaining the skills that will help them make it in the real world of employment.  

 The Truth About College Admission is the easy-to-follow, comprehensive, go-to guide for families. The expert authors - with inside knowledge from both the high school and university sides of the experience - provide critical advice, thoughtful strategies, helpful direction, and invaluable reassurance during the long and often bewildering college admission journey. 

Exploring American higher education from its founding in the 17th century to its struggle to innovate and adapt in the first decades of the 21st century, Thelin demonstrates that the experience of going to college has been central to American life for generations of students and their families. Drawing from archival research, along with the pioneering scholarship of leading historians, Thelin raises profound questions about what colleges are - and what they should be.