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...

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...

In this instant New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.” “Inspiration for non-geniuses everywhere” (People). The daughter of a...

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...

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.

Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising—on campus as well as nationally. How did...

Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the five “breakthroughs” in the evolution of human...

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

“For those ready and willing to build a new life, here are the tools. Powerful, incisive, extraordinary writing.” —Neale Donald Walsch, New York Times bestselling author of Conversations with God Transform your life with this bestselling, revolutionary, and accessible seven-step...

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn, New York...

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...

Celebrate the power of friendship with all four of the beloved Frog and Toad I Can Read stories by Arnold Lobel This audio collections includes all four classics: Frog and Toad Are Friends, Frog and Toad Together, Frog and Toad All Year, and Days with Frog and Toad. Share the adventures of best...

A heartbreaking and empowering debut memoir about a mother’s all-consuming love, a son’s perilous quest to discover the world beyond the front door and the unregulated homeschool system that impacts millions like him Stefan Merrill Block was nine when his mother pulled him from school...

BONUS FEATURE: Conversation between the author and the editor, David Fickling. Berlin 1942 When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far...

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....

“Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will make you a better cook” (Bon Apetit). Millions of readers and cooks of all levels have radically transformed their skillset thanks to this indispensable cookbook from the chef NPR called “the next Julia Child.” Transform how you prep, cook, and think about...

A Fun and Highly Engaging Guide for Every LevelEmbark on the ultimate Spanish-learning adventure with over 83 hours of dynamic content that will take you from beginner to advanced fluency.

Come with us to an Enchanted Place, a forest where Winnie-the-Pooh lived with Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore, Kanga, and Little Roo....

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Spanish With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Spanish — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will...

This program is read by the author. The mental wellbeing of our children is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, knows why. And he knows what we can do. "We have a crisis on our hands, and its victims are our children." Marc Brackett is a professor in Yale University’s...

With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. A CNN Book of the Week: “Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES DISCLAIMER: The long term effects of listening to this audio are unknown. Scientists have detected slightly higher rates of panic, fright and free-floating anxiety amongst listeners to this audio than that found in those listeners who engaged in more pleasant...

For this new edition, Loewen has added a new preface that shows how inadequate history courses in high school help produce adult Americans who think Donald Trump can solve their problems....

New York Times Bestseller! From the bestselling author of Who Gets In and Why, a must-have playbook for families coping with a more stressful era of startling low admission rates and sky-high prices—one that widens the aperture beyond the Top 25 schools and connects students, parents, and...

“There’s a book I recommend for everybody: It’s Howard Gardner’s Frames of Mind. It has helped me immensely.” – Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power What do we mean when we call someone smart? That they are good at math and got a high score on the SAT? That they learn...

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...

From a New York Times bestselling authority on education and children’s mental health comes a groundbreaking guide to navigating classroom challenges through an approach that is aimed at meeting kids where they’re at and being responsive to the developmental variability inherent in every...

The average reader instantly recognizes 30,000 to 70,000 words—with no need to sound them out. How does that happen? Through a process called orthographic mapping. This audiobook explains the process by which readers embed words into their long-term memories, and the instruction necessary to help K-5 students do just that.

The yoga teacher’s guide to planning and sequencing yoga classes—with 67 yoga pose sequences for students of all skill levels. Also features additional resources, including yoga class planning worksheets, comprehensive glossaries, and much more! Addressing one of the most popular topics in...

Inspirado pelas reflexões do livro Se a Cidade Fosse Nossa, este curso examina como a ideia de desempoderamento das cidades compromete uma de suas funções essenciais: a de formar cidadanias.

Este curso é uma jornada pela riqueza e sabedoria dos povos indígenas, com foco na memória coletiva e na oralidade como pilares essenciais para a preservação da identidade cultural e da conexão com o mundo.

Thinking Outside the Prize Box presents a fresh, research-based approach to supporting children and promoting positive behavior in the classroom. This book explores why traditional behavior management methods often fail to create lasting change and emphasizes the importance of relatedness, autonomy, and competence in addressing challenging behaviors.

With twenty years of experience building companies and raising millions in venture capital, Jeffrey Chernick introduces a transformative power called High Five Energy—a magnetic flow state where things just click, doors open, the right people show up, and conversations flow. You can move...

Unschooling, a learner-centred educational philosophy, breaks away from the confines of traditional schooling, advocating for a more organic, child-centric approach. Its essence lies in the belief that learning is a natural and lifelong process. It is cemented in the fact that children are...

The world is changing fast. Are you ready for what's next? Technical skills alone won't keep you ahead anymore. Creativity has now become the dividing line between those who will lead the future and those who will be automated out of it. This book shows you how to build the creative abilities AI can't touch: finding problems worth solving, linking ideas in new ways, and infusing work with meaning that only humans understand. These aren't vague ideas - they're real skills you can start building today.

Most CDL candidates fail. Not because they're dumb—but because they studied the WRONG way. Those bloated study guides bury you in CB radio slang and trucker stories while skipping Air Brakes—the ONE section that trips up more candidates than anything else. You walk into the exam, hit question three about dual air brake systems, and freeze. Because your "comprehensive" guide gave Air Brakes two paragraphs. You fail. Pay the retest fee. And that $65,000/year trucking job? Gone. This audiobook stops that nightmare. No filler. No outdated rules. No gaps.

Power up your prep with the GMAT Official Guide, the only study guide that features real exam questions. You'll get exclusive tips and tricks directly from the exam creators and gain access to more than 975 practice questions to set you up for success on test day.

Your phone buzzes. Your mind wanders. Tasks pile up. And no matter how hard you try, concentration feels harder than ever. The Focus Formula offers a simple, realistic system to eliminate distractions, train your attention, and learn at your highest potential without burnout, extreme discipline, or giving up technology.

A principal's job is astonishingly complex, and its competing demands can be overwhelming, especially in the first few years. In this book, Jen Schwanke, a principal herself, provides a mentor's guidance to steer new principals through the period of adjustment and set the foundation for a long and rewarding career. The topics you wish your graduate program had covered are covered here—directly, practically, and without the jargon.

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...

In Learning Without Burnout, Katherine Coba reveals how to study smarter, not harder, so you can achieve better results with less stress. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and real-world strategies, this game-changing guide dismantles the myth of "hustle culture" and shows you how to build sustainable habits that prevent mental fatigue and boost retention.

Ce livre repose sur une conviction, à savoir que la plupart des gens s'intéressent à la philosophie mais ont l'impression que la philosophie n'est pas faite pour eux. En mêlant récits fictifs, faits d'actualité et culture populaire, Charles Robin rend accessibles les idées des plus grands penseurs, de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Loin du langage intimidant des universitaires, mais avec rigueur et précision, ce livre se donne un objectif clair : vous réconcilier enfin avec la philosophie !

Ao expor uma visão integral da cultura, considera tanto suas dimensões antropológica e política quanto o potencial econômico desta que é uma de nossas principais riquezas. A autora se vale de sua atuação como parlamentar e de sua experiência como Secretária Municipal de Cultura na cidade do Rio de Janeiro para demonstrar que a gestão democrática e inclusiva da vida cultural pode se converter em um instrumento poderoso de transformação. Conduzidos por Jandira Feghali somos levados à importante compreensão de que Cultura é Poder!

You've finished books you can't remember. You've highlighted pages you never returned to. You've walked away from something genuinely valuable and watched it dissolve within a week, leaving nothing behind but a vague impression and a spine on a shelf. This is not a memory problem. It is a method problem. And it is completely fixable. How to Read a Book and Actually Remember It is a practical guide to the part of reading nobody teaches — what happens between your eyes and your memory, and why most of what you read evaporates before it ever becomes something you can use. Drawing on ...

The Reading Mind is a brilliant, beautifully crafted, and accessible exploration of arguably life's most important skill: reading. Daniel T. Willingham, the bestselling author of Why Don't Students Like School?, offers a perspective that is rooted in contemporary cognitive research. He deftly describes the incredibly complex and nearly instantaneous series of events that occur from the moment a child sees a single letter to the time they finish reading.

In schools, every day is "game day." Every day, teachers need the best resources and forms of support because students deserve the best we as educators can offer. An instructional playbook aims to serve as that kind of support: a tool that coaches can use to help teachers match specific learning goals with the right research-based instructional strategies.

A practical and systematic approach to deepening student engagement, promoting a growth mindset, and building a classroom culture that truly supports thinking and learning.

In "How to Eat An Elephant," Anthony "AB" Brooks draws from decades of experience working with young people to offer a refreshingly practical approach to youth mentorship. Through heartwarming personal stories from his childhood in the close-knit community of Brooksville, Brooks illustrates how meaningful youth development happens not through finding perfect solutions, but through small, intentional steps—one bite at a time.

Too many of today’s colleges and universities are defined by their silos and separations: teaching and research, student affairs and academic affairs, courses and careers, academia and industry, online and on-campus. The list goes on. But demographic shifts, technological breakthroughs, economic upheaval, and new ways of learning and working mean that higher education must change.

Success isn’t reserved for a select few. It isn’t determined by where you start, what you’ve been through, or what others expect of you. Success is closer than you think, and it is within your reach.