Why Don't Students Like School? - A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
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Easy-to-apply, scientifically-based approaches for engaging ...

Sex at Dawn - How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
Sex at Dawn - How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Me...
“Sex at Dawn challenges conventional wisdom about sex in a ...

Move Fast and Break Things - How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and What It Means For All Of Us
Move Fast and Break Things - How Facebook, Google, and ...
The question isn’t who’s going to let me: it’s who is goi...

How the Weather Works
How the Weather Works
Why do hurricanes happen? What is a tornado? Why does it sno...

How the Mighty Fall - And Why Some Companies Never Give in
How the Mighty Fall - And Why Some Companies Never Give...
Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can...

How Not to Kill Your Houseplant - Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged
How Not to Kill Your Houseplant - Survival Tips for the...
How Not to Kill Your Houseplant is your guide to every stage...

Book Yourself Solid - The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selli
Book Yourself Solid - The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Re...
Kick off the cycle of success with serious self-promotion th...

The Mind Manual - Mindapples 5 a Day for a Happy, Healthy Mind
The Mind Manual - Mindapples 5 a Day for a Happy, Healt...
From the people who brought you the Mindapples “5-a-day for...

The Internet Book: Everything You Need to Know About Computer Networking and How the Internet Works
The Internet Book: Everything You Need to Know About Co...
The Internet Book: Everything You Need to Know About Compute...

That's Not How We Do It Here! - A Story About How Organizations Rise, Fall - and Can Rise Again
That's Not How We Do It Here! - A Story About How Organ...
A new business parable from John Kotter – the leading autho...

Subliminal - The New Unconscious and What it Teaches Us
Subliminal - The New Unconscious and What it Teaches Us...
Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard’s...

Why Don't Students Like School? - A Cognitive Scientist Answers Q

Why There Is No God - Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God

“Science can’t explain the complexity and order of life; God must have designed it to be this way.” “God’s existence is proven by scripture.” “There’s no evidence that God doesn’t exist.” “God has helped me so much. How could none of it be true?” “Atheism has killed more people than religion, so it must be wrong!” How many times have you heard arguments like these for why God exists?...

Angel Answers Oracle Cards - A 44-Card Deck and Guidebook

Sometimes you need a simple and to-the-point answer to your questions, such as ‘Is it “Yes” or “No”?’ and ‘When will I get that job… meet my soul mate… move to a better location?’ and so on. Angel Answers Oracle Cards offer you trustworthy guidance when a short-but-sweet response is required. If you’re navigating through a confusing situation, this card deck will yield straightforward ...

The First Christmas and Other Bible Stories From the New Testament

A beautiful cloth-bound gift edition containing 16 of the best-known New Testament stories retold for children, by Enid Blyton, one of the world’s best-loved storytellers. The perfect Christmas gift. ’Enid Blyton’s retelling of Christ’s own stories and the meaning of His time on Earth is full of love – Christ’s love for us, our love for each other – and Enid’s caring and timeless love for...

The Language Instinct - How the Mind Creates Language

‘Dazzling…Pinker’s big idea is that language is an instinct…as innate to us as flying is to geese…Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker’s investigations’- Independent ’A marvellously readable book…illuminates every facet of human language: its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, it acquisition by children, its grammatical structure, the ...

Thieme Test Prep for the USMLE (R) - Medical Histology and Embryology Q&A

Thieme Test Prep for the USMLE ®: Medical Histology and Embryology is the choice of medical students… …The major test-prep resources do not focus on these subjects in detail. A question bank…would be beneficial to those who struggle with these as an additional resource for studying … – Ethan Young (Fourth-year medical student, University of South Dakota, Sanford School of Medicine) I espec...

Thieme Test Prep for the USMLE (R) - Pathology Q&A

Thieme Test Prep for the USMLE ®: Pathology is the choice of medical students… …I am very impressed …These answers and explanations waste no time getting right to the point and hit the high-yield points a student must know… for the USMLE ® Step 1 exam. – Nicholas T. Gamboa, MS-II (Second-year medical student, University of Utah School of Medicine) These path questions really tested the co...

Move Fast and Break Things - How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and What It Means For All Of Us

The question isn’t who’s going to let me: it’s who is going to stop me. “A powerful argument for reducing inequality and revolutionizing how we use the web for the benefit of the many rather than the few.” Kirkus “Jonathan Taplin, more than anyone I know, can articulate the paralyzing complexities that have arisen from the intertwining of the tech and music industries … Every musician and...

Endure - Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

`This book is AMAZING!’ – MALCOLM GLADWELL `If you want to gain insight into the mind of great athletes, adventurers, and peak performers then prepare to be enthralled by Alex Hutchinson’s Endure.’ – BEAR GRYLLS How high or far or fast can humans go? And what about individual potential: what defines a person’s limits? From running a two-hour marathon to summiting Mount Everest, we’re fasc...

The E-Myth Manager - Why Most Managers Don't Work and What to Do About It

More than ten years after his first bestselling book, The E-Myth, changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of small business owners, Michael Gerber椮trepreneur, author, and speaker extraordinaire楩res the next salvo in his highly successful E-Myth Revolution. Drawing on lessons learned from working with more than 15,000 small, medium-sized, and very large organisations, Gerber has discov...

Lillian Armfield - How Australia's first female detective took on Tilly Devine and the Razor Gangs and changed the face ...

An engaging account of an extraordinary, trailblazing woman – Australia’s first female detective – LILLIAN ARMFIELD is also the vivid and gripping story of the origins of Sydney’s organised crime underbelly. ’Special Constable’ Lillian Armfield was policing Sydney’s mean streets during some of the most dramatic years of crime in the city. By the late 1920s, eastern Sydney was the heartland...

Stick and Rudder - An Explanation of the Art of Flying

WHAT’S IN STICK AND RUDDER: * The invisible secret of all heavier-than-air flight—the Angle of Attack. What it is, and why it can’t be seen. How lift is made, and what the pilot has to do with it. * Why airplanes stall * How do you know you’re about to stall? * The landing approach. How the pilot’s eye functions in judging the approach. The visual clues by which an experienced pilot unco...

Sane New World - Taming the Mind

The mental health and mindfulness bestseller from Ruby Wax, comedian, writer and mental health campaigner, who shows us why and how our minds can send us mad and how we can rewire our thinking to calm ourselves in a frenetic world.’Finally – a map for the troubled human mind. And it’s funny.’ -Caitlin MoranRuby Wax – comedian, writer and mental health campaigner – shows us how our minds can ...

How To Be Single And Happy - Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soulmate

An upbeat guide for single women on how to navigate the crazy world of modern dating and live their best lives, whether single or coupled It’s easy to fall into a bad relationship with dating today, especially for single women. From living in fear of being “ghosted” to enduring endless well-meaning questions about why you haven’t found Mr. Right yet, it’s tough to be unattached without feeli...

High-Profit Prospecting - Powerful Strategies to Find the Best Leads and Drive Breakthrough Sales Results

Buyers are evolving-and so should your prospecting. As a salesperson, your pipeline is the key to your success. No matter what changes, that remains the same. Top producers prospect-and they do it ALL THE TIME. “But how” you ask, “In the age of the Internet, isn’t cold-calling dead” Now, in his new book, sales expert Mark Hunter shatters costly prospecting myths and eliminates confusion about...

Answers to Questions Teachers Ask About Sensory Integration - Forms, Checklists, and Practical Tools

You know them: they can’t get their coats on straight, are easily distracted, impulsive, over- or under-sensitive to sounds, lights, textures, etc. In this book, you’ll find tried and true instructions for developing their fine motor, “organizing,” and motor planning skills, and providing an appropriate “Sensory Diet” that will benefit all your students. Checklists help you identify students...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass - And What Alice Found There

It’s a warm summer’s afternoon when young Alice first tumbles down the rabbit hole and into the adventures in Wonderland that have kept readers spellbound for more than 150 years. Collected here are Lewis Carroll’s two classics – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass – in which Alice encounters the laconic Cheshire Cat, the anxious White Rabbit and the terrifying Red...

An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017

From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic masterpiece. `My favourite classicist once again combines meticulous literary investigation with warm and wrenching human emotion – books like these are why I love reading’ LEE CHILD When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enrol ...

Book Yourself Solid - The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even i...

Kick off the cycle of success with serious self-promotion that works Book Yourself Solid is a handbook for self-promotion that translates into results. We tend to think of “busy” as the equivalent of “successful”?but that’s not always the case. The key lies in what you’re busy doing. Success means spending your time doing work that gets you closer to your goals, and the critical driving forc...

Bear Awareness - Questions and Answers on Taming Your Wild Mind

The bestselling author of Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? and one of the world’s most beloved Buddhist monks answers meditators’ questions. Most mindfulness meditation teachers praise the benefits of bare awareness, but English monk Ajahn Brahm teaches bear awareness. He helps meditators make friends with the scary things that come up on the cushion, and he knows how to lift the mood with a ...

Brain Quest Grade 3, Revised 4th Edition - 1,000 Questions and Answers to Challenge the Mind

Brain Quest is beloved by kids, trusted by parents, used and recommended by teachers. It’s the curriculum-based, fast-paced, question-and-answer game that challenges kids on the stuff they need to know, when they need to know it. It’s the brand that says “It’s fun to be smart!” And it delivers. For the fourth edition every deck is thoroughly revised and includes 20 percent new material. The c...

Brain Quest Grade 1, Revised 4th Edition - 750 Questions and Answers to Challenge the Mind

Brain Quest is beloved by kids, trusted by parents, used and recommended by teachers. It’s the curriculum-based, fast-paced, question-and-answer game that challenges kids on the stuff they need to know, when they need to know it. It’s the brand that says “It’s fun to be smart!” And it delivers. For the fourth edition every deck is thoroughly revised and includes 20 percent new material. The c...