29 Best books for teachers
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Beyond Birds and Bees
- By: Bonnie J. Rough
- Narrator: Bonnie J. Rough
- Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 21, 2018
- Language: English
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4.46(298 ratings)
4.46(298 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDA provocative inquiry into how we teach our children about bodies, sex, relationships and equality — with revelatory, practical takeaways from the author’s research and eye-opening observations from the world-famous Dutch approachA provocative inquiry into how we teach our children about bodies, sex, relationships and equality — with revelatory, practical takeaways from the author’s research and eye-opening observations from the world-famous Dutch approach
Award-winning author Bonnie J. Rough never expected to write a book about sex, but life handed her a revelation too vital to ignore. As an American parent grappling with concerns about raising children in a society steeped in stereotypes and sexual shame, she couldn’t quite picture how to teach the facts of life with a fearless, easygoing, positive attitude. Then a job change relocated her family to Amsterdam, where she soon witnessed the relaxed and egalitarian sexual attitudes of the Dutch. There, she discovered, children learn from babyhood that bodies are normal, the world’s best sex ed begins in kindergarten, cooties are a foreign concept, puberty is no big surprise, and questions about sex are welcome at the dinner table.
In Beyond Birds and Bees, Rough reveals how although normalizing human sexuality may sound risky, doing so actually prevents unintended consequences, leads to better health and success for our children, and lays the foundation for a future of gender equality. Exploring how the Dutch example translates to American life, Rough highlights a growing wave of ambitious American parents, educators, and influencers poised to transform sex ed — and our society — for the better, and shows how families everywhere can give a modern lift to the birds and bees.
Down to earth and up to the minute with our profound new cultural conversations about gender, sex, power, autonomy, diversity, and consent, Rough’s careful research and engaging storytelling illuminate a forward path for a groundbreaking generation of Americans who want clear examples and actionable steps for how to support children’s sexual development — and overall wellbeing — from birth onward at home, in schools, and across our evolving culture.
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Blackboard
- By: Lewis Buzbee
- Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 02, 2014
- Language: English
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3.52(83 ratings)
3.52(83 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDLewis Buzbee looks back over a lifetime of experiences in schools and classrooms, from kindergarten to college and beyond. He offers fascinating histories of the key ideas informing educational practice over the centuries, which have shapedLewis Buzbee looks back over a lifetime of experiences in schools and classrooms, from kindergarten to college and beyond. He offers fascinating histories of the key ideas informing educational practice over the centuries, which have shaped everything from class size to the layout of desks and chairs. Buzbee deftly weaves his own biography into this overview, approaching his subject as a student, a father, and a teacher. He credits his success to the well-funded California public school system and bemoans the terrible price that state is paying as a result of funding being cut from today’s budgets. For Buzbee, the blackboard is a precious window into the wider world, which we ignore at our peril.
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How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog
- By: Chad Orzel
- Narrator: Will Collyer
- Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: February 11, 2020
- Language: English
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3.88(463 ratings)
3.88(463 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDThey say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But what about relativity? Physics professor Chad Orzel and his inquisitive canine companion, Emmy, tackle the concepts of general relativity in this irresistible introduction toThey say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But what about relativity?
Physics professor Chad Orzel and his inquisitive canine companion, Emmy, tackle the concepts of general relativity in this irresistible introduction to Einstein’s physics. Through armchair- and sometimes passenger-seat-conversations with Emmy about the relative speeds of dog and cat motion or the logistics of squirrel-chasing, Orzel translates complex Einsteinian ideas — the slowing of time for a moving observer, the shrinking of moving objects, the effects of gravity on light and time, black holes, the Big Bang, and of course, E=mc2 — into examples simple enough for a dog to understand.
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A lively romp through one of the great theories of modern physics, How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog will teach you everything you ever wanted to know about space, time, and anything else you might have slept through in high school physics class. -
Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young Readers
- By: James Loewen
- Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 23, 2019
- Language: English
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4.19(108 ratings)
4.19(108 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDNow adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important-and successful-history books ofNow adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important-and successful-history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. Now Rebecca Stefoff, the acclaimed nonfiction children’s writer who adapted Howard Zinn’s bestseller A People’s History of the United States for young readers, makes Loewen’s beloved work available to younger students. Essential reading in our age of fake news and slippery, sloppy history, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition cuts through the mindless optimism and outright lies found in most textbooks that are often not even really written by their “authors.” Loewen is, as historian Carol Kammen has said, the history teacher we all should have had. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and then covering characters and events as diverse as the first Thanksgiving, Helen Keller, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen’s lively, provocative telling of American history is a “counter-textbook that retells the story of the American past” (The Nation). This streamlined young readers’ edition is rich in vivid details and quotations from primary sources that poke holes in the textbook versions of history and help students develop a deeper understanding of our world. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition brings this classic text to a new generation of readers (and their parents and teachers) who will welcome and value its honesty, its humor, and its integrity.
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A Delicate Aggression
- By: David O. Dowling
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 18 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.55(31 ratings)
3.55(31 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA vibrant history of the renowned and often controversial Iowa Writers’ Workshop and its celebrated alumni and faculty As the world’s preeminent creative writing program, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop has produced an astonishingA vibrant history of the renowned and often controversial Iowa Writers’ Workshop and its celebrated alumni and faculty
As the world’s preeminent creative writing program, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop has produced an astonishing number of distinguished writers and poets since its establishment in 1936. Its alumni and faculty include twenty-eight Pulitzer Prize winners, six US poet laureates, and numerous National Book Award winners. This volume follows the program from its rise to prominence in the early 1940s under director Paul Engle, who promoted the “workshop” method of classroom peer criticism.
Meant to simulate the rigors of editorial and critical scrutiny in the publishing industry, this educational style created an environment of both competition and community, cooperation and rivalry. Focusing on some of the exceptional authors who have participated in the program–such as Flannery O’Connor, Dylan Thomas, Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Smiley, Sandra Cisneros, T. C. Boyle, and Marilynne Robinson–David Dowling examines how the Iowa Writers’ Workshop has shaped professional authorship, publishing industries, and the course of American literature.
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Do Dice Play God?
- By: Ian Stewart
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 03, 2019
- Language: English
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4.02(1337 ratings)
4.02(1337 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDA celebrated mathematician explores how math helps us make sense of the unpredictableWe would like to believe we can know things for certain. We want to be able to figure out who will win an election, if the stock market will crash, or if a suspect... Read moreA celebrated mathematician explores how math helps us make sense of the unpredictableWe would like to believe we can know things for certain. We want to be able to figure out who will win an election, if the stock market will crash, or if a suspect definitely committed a crime. But the odds are not in our favor. Life is full of uncertainty — indeed, scientific advances indicate that the universe might be fundamentally inexact — and humans are terrible at guessing. When asked to predict the outcome of a chance event, we are almost always wrong.Thankfully, there is hope. As award-winning mathematician Ian Stewart reveals, over the course of history, mathematics has given us some of the tools we need to better manage the uncertainty that pervades our lives. From forecasting, to medical research, to figuring out how to win Let’s Make a Deal, Do Dice Play God? is a surprising and satisfying tour of what we can know, and what we never will. -
The End of Molasses Classes
- By: Ron Clark
- Narrator: Ron Clark
- Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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4.18(1277 ratings)
4.18(1277 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDNew York Times bestselling author and educator Ron Clark challenges parents, teachers, and communities everywhere embrace a difference in the classroom and uplift, educate, and empower our children.Read this book to find out why so many across theNew York Times bestselling author and educator Ron Clark challenges parents, teachers, and communities everywhere embrace a difference in the classroom and uplift, educate, and empower our children.
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Read this book to find out why so many across the country have embraced these powerful rules.
* Set the electric tone on day one
* Teach your children how to study–don’t expect it to come naturally
* Don’t constantly stress about test scores
* Not every child deserves a cookie
* Lift up your teachers. No, really, lift them up!
* If kids like you all the time, you’re doing something wrong
* Don’t be a penny parent
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The Myth of Laziness
- By: Mel Levine
- Narrator: Mel Levine
- Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2003
- Language: English
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3.9(367 ratings)
3.9(367 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.95 USD“When we call someone lazy, we condemn a human being,” writes Mel Levine, M.D. In The Myth of Laziness, the bestselling author of A Mind at a Time shows that children dismissed as unproductive or “lazy” usually suffer from“When we call someone lazy, we condemn a human being,” writes Mel Levine, M.D. In The Myth of Laziness, the bestselling author of A Mind at a Time shows that children dismissed as unproductive or “lazy” usually suffer from what he calls “output failure”—a neurodevelopmental dysfunction that can continue to cause difficulties into adulthood if left unchecked.
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The desire to be productive is universal, says Dr. Levine, but that drive can often be frustrated by dysfunctions that obstruct output or productivity. Drawing on his clinical experience and using real-life examples of both children and adults he has worked with, Dr. Levine shows how to identify and remedy these dysfunctions. A child suffering from language production dysfunction, for example, may be incapable of clearly expressing or explaining his thoughts, thereby leading to low productivity in school. A child who has difficulty making choices may wait until it is too late to complete a project or may act impulsively, creating a pattern of bad judgments. Similarly, a child with memory weaknesses may be unable to draw on his accumulated knowledge for an assignment. In each of these cases, as Dr. Levine shows, writing skills are often the key to diagnosing specific causes of output failure.
Practical, wise, and compassionate, The Myth of Laziness offers parents and teachers day-to-day strategies and support to prevent output failure and, when necessary, to help children overcome dysfunction and become productive, successful adults. -
The Read-Aloud Family
- By: Sarah Mackenzie
- Length: 7 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: March 27, 2018
- Language: English
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4.46(8188 ratings)
4.46(8188 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDDiscover practical strategies to make reading aloud a meaningful family ritual. The stories we read–and the conversations we have about them–help shape family traditions, create lifelong memories, and become part of our legacy. ReadingDiscover practical strategies to make reading aloud a meaningful family ritual.
The stories we read–and the conversations we have about them–help shape family traditions, create lifelong memories, and become part of our legacy. Reading aloud not only has the power to change a family–it has the power to change the world.¬†
But we all know that connecting deeply with our families can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven society. Reading aloud is one of the best ways to be fully present with our children, even after they can read themselves, but it isn’t always easy to do. Discover how to:
- Prepare your kids for academic success through reading to them
- Develop empathy and compassion in your kids through books
- Find time to read aloud in the midst of school, sports, and dinner dishes
- Choose books across a variety of sibling interests and ages
- Make reading aloud the best part of your family’s day
The Read-Aloud Family¬†also offers age-appropriate book lists from infancy through adolescence. From a toddler’s wonder to a teenager’s resistance, you will find the inspiration you need to start a read-aloud movement in your own home.
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The Sensational Past
- By: Carolyn Purnell
- Narrator: Carolyn Purnell
- Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 28, 2017
- Language: English
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3.96(111 ratings)
3.96(111 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDSight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch-as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today. Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? WearingSight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch-as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today. Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing “flea”-colored clothes? These actions may seem odd to us, but in the eighteenth century, they made perfect sense. As often as we use our senses, we rarely stop to think about their place in history. But perception is not dependent on the body alone. Carolyn Purnell persuasively shows that, while our bodies may not change dramatically, the way we think about the senses and put them to use has been rather different over the ages. Journeying through the past three hundred years, Purnell explores how people used their senses in ways that might shock us now. And perhaps more surprisingly, she shows how many of our own ways of life are a legacy of this earlier time. Author bio: Carolyn Purnell received her PhD from the University of Chicago. She is a history instructor, an interior design writer, and a lover of bizarre facts. This is her first book.
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A PhD Is Not Enough!
- By: Peter J. Feibelman
- Narrator: Peter J. Feibelman
- Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 23, 2020
- Language: English
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3.9(1005 ratings)
3.9(1005 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDEverything you ever need to know about making it as a scientist. Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarelyEverything you ever need to know about making it as a scientist. Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find. In A Ph.D. Is Not Enough!, physicist Peter J. Feibelman lays out a rational path to a fulfilling long-term research career. He offers sound advice on selecting a thesis or postdoctoral adviser; choosing among research jobs in academia, government laboratories, and industry; preparing for an employment interview; and defining a research program. The guidance offered in A Ph.D. Is Not Enough! will help you make your oral presentations more effective, your journal articles more compelling, and your grant proposals more successful. A classic guide for recent and soon-to-be graduates, A Ph.D. Is Not Enough! remains required reading for anyone on the threshold of a career in science. This new edition includes two new chapters and is revised and updated throughout to reflect how the revolution in electronic communication has transformed the field.
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Beyond Infinity
- By: Eugenia Cheng
- Narrator: Eugenia Cheng
- Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 28, 2017
- Language: English
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3.84(528 ratings)
3.84(528 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDUnderstanding the concept of infinity is a lofty task, but this creative and easy-to-follow book helps break down all the mathematic complexities so anyone can gain a better understanding of the universe.“[Cheng] does a great service byUnderstanding the concept of infinity is a lofty task, but this creative and easy-to-follow book helps break down all the mathematic complexities so anyone can gain a better understanding of the universe.
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“[Cheng] does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works.” — Wall Street Journal
How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is infinity + 1 is the same as 1 + infinity? Such questions occur to young children and our greatest minds. And they are all the same question: What is infinity? In Beyond Infinity, Eugenia Cheng takes us on a staggering journey from elemental math to its loftiest abstractions. Along the way, she considers how to use a chessboard to plan a worldwide dinner party, how to make a chicken-sandwich sandwich, and how to create infinite cookies from a finite ball of dough. Beyond Infinity shows how one little symbol holds the biggest idea of all. -
Dante and the Early Astronomer
- By: Tracy Daugherty
- Narrator: David Stifel
- Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.16(19 ratings)
3.16(19 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDExplore the evolution of astronomy from Dante to Einstein, as seen through the eyes of trailblazing Victorian astronomer Mary Acworth Evershed. In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as sheExplore the evolution of astronomy from Dante to Einstein, as seen through the eyes of trailblazing Victorian astronomer Mary Acworth Evershed.
In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante’s Divine Comedy. Was Dante’s astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as insightful as one could be about the sky?
As the twentieth century began, women who wished to become professional astronomers faced difficult cultural barriers, but Evershed joined the British Astronomical Association and, from an Indian observatory, became an experienced observer of sunspots, solar eclipses, and variable stars. From the perspective of one remarkable amateur astronomer, listeners will see how ideas developed during Galileo’s time evolved or were discarded in Newtonian conceptions of the cosmos and recast in Einstein’s theories. The result is a book about the history of science but also a poetic meditation on literature, science, and the evolution of ideas.
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The First Three Minutes
- By: Steven Weinberg
- Narrator: Raymond Todd
- Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.1(11400 ratings)
4.1(11400 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDA Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and how we know, in this popular science classic. Our universe has been growing for nearly 14 billion years. But almost everything about it, from theA Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and how we know, in this popular science classic.
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Our universe has been growing for nearly 14 billion years. But almost everything about it, from the elements that forged stars, planets, and lifeforms, to the fundamental forces of physics, can be traced back to what happened in just the first three minutes of its existence.
In this book, Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg describes in wonderful detail what happened in these first three minutes. It is an exhilarating journey that begins with the Planck Epoch – the earliest period of time in the history of the universe – and goes through Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, the Hubble Red Shift, and the detection of the Cosmic Microwave Background. These incredible discoveries all form the foundation for what we now understand as the “standard model” of the origin of the universe. The First Three Minutes examines not only what this model looks like, but also tells the exciting story of the bold thinkers who put it together.
Clearly and accessibly written, The First Three Minutes is a modern-day classic, an unsurpassed explanation of where it is that everything really comes from. -
Good Authority
- By: Jonathan Raymond
- Narrator: Jonathan Raymond
- Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.04(516 ratings)
4.04(516 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDImagine a world where personal and professional growth are combined, where improving your relationships and owning your strengths at work translate directly into the rest of your life. Creating a company culture like that is not a dream. ThroughImagine a world where personal and professional growth are combined, where improving your relationships and owning your strengths at work translate directly into the rest of your life.
Creating a company culture like that is not a dream. Through personal stories and real-life conversations, Jonathan Raymond takes you into the room with managers and employees where real culture change happens, and shows you a new kind of employee mentoring where each person gets the real-time feedback, support, and clear boundaries we all need to get beyond the patterns that hold us back.
In this provocative and timely new book, Jonathan brings together what he has learned over a twenty-year journey as an executive, entrepreneur, team leader, and leadership trainer. Combining his experience as the CEO and CBO of EMyth where he led the transformation of a global coaching brand with the lessons learned along his own personal growth journey, Jonathan walks us through a step-by-step approach that integrates the leading edges of both. You’ll discover a way to lead your team that is both profoundly human and results-oriented at the same time.
Whether you’re a CEO or business owner, executive, team leader, consultant, or coach, Good Authority will give you new ideas and inspiration you can put into practice. Most importantly, it will give you permission to be more of who you are at work than you ever thought possible.
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Smart Skills: Working with Others
- By: Frances Kay
- Narrator: Phil Paonessa
- Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 24, 2019
- Language: English
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3.8(5 ratings)
3.8(5 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDThis guide offers all you need to know in order to work successfully with colleagues and business associates, no matter what title you hold within the company. Many of the most successful business ideas and projects spring from collaboration betweenThis guide offers all you need to know in order to work successfully with colleagues and business associates, no matter what title you hold within the company. Many of the most successful business ideas and projects spring from collaboration between people, so making sure you work effectively with others can make or break a business.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
- By: Leah Price
- Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 20, 2019
- Language: English
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3.4(938 ratings)
3.4(938 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDReports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you’ve lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you’re not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the... Read moreReports of the death of reading are greatly exaggeratedDo you worry that you’ve lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you’re not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day’s news, the willingness to be alone.The shelves of the world’s great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the wear and tear on the books that they contain, English professor Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed. From the dawn of mass literacy to the invention of the paperback, most readers already skimmed and multitasked. Print-era doctors even forbade the very same silent absorption now recommended as a cure for electronic addictions.The evidence that books are dying proves even scarcer. In encounters with librarians, booksellers and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, Price offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature lovers alike.
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Uncover Exciting History
- By: Amy Puetz
- Narrator: Jim Hodges
- Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.5(3 ratings)
4.5(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDBring history back to life through Jim Hodges’ historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings. What is history anyway? It is the story of real people who did real things. For history to be fun for everyone (even those whoBring history back to life through Jim Hodges’ historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.
What is history anyway? It is the story of real people who did real things. For history to be fun for everyone (even those who think they hate history), it must go beyond hard facts and meaningless dates to the real people who made the significant events happen. People like George Washington, who bravely crossed the partly frozen Delaware River to attack the British at Trenton. Stories like that of the bold Americans who bravely fought against the Barbary pirates during the little-known Barbary War show how interesting history is.
In this audiobook, you will discover how the US created the Constitution, experience the miraculous victory at the Battle of New Orleans, explore America’s expansion west, and uncover one of America’s best weapons used during World War II.
This audiobook is great for history buffs, those who want the story behind the event, adults who want a snapshot view of American history, and homeschool families for students twelve and up.
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The Europeans
- By: Henry James
- Narrator: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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3.6(3430 ratings)
3.6(3430 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDEugenia, an American expatriate brought up in Europe, arrives in rural New England with her charming brother Felix, hoping to find a wealthy second husband after the collapse of her marriage to a German prince. Their exotic, sophisticated airs causeEugenia, an American expatriate brought up in Europe, arrives in rural New England with her charming brother Felix, hoping to find a wealthy second husband after the collapse of her marriage to a German prince.
Their exotic, sophisticated airs cause quite a stir with their affluent, God-fearing American cousins, the Wentworths–and provoke the disapproval of their uncle, suspicious of foreign influences. To Gertrude Wentworth, struggling against her somber puritan upbringing, the arrival of the handsome Felix is especially enchanting.
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What Makes You Happy: Audio Bible Studies
- By: Andy Stanley
- Narrator: Andy Stanley
- Length: 1 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: HarperChristian Resources
- Publish date: May 10, 2022
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDEverybody wants to be happy. Everybody is on a happiness quest. For many, happiness is measured in moments. Experiences. It’s elusive. Unsustainable. What about you? What makes you happy? Something comes to mind for each of us. In thisEverybody wants to be happy. Everybody is on a happiness quest. For many, happiness is measured in moments. Experiences. It’s elusive. Unsustainable. What about you? What makes you happy? Something comes to mind for each of us.
In this six-session audio Bible study, pastor Andy Stanley examines the ways in which we tend to define happiness and explains how that definition influences the way we pursue it. He reveals that happiness is about who, not what, and that happy people are at peace with God, with others, and with themselves. He also shows how sin undermines peace because it separates us from God, others, and ourselves by substituting pleasure for fulfillment, things for people, images for intimacy, and self-expression for self-control.
We are often tempted to believe that happiness comes from acquiring things, but happiness is actually an outcome of what we sow in our lives. We can’t acquire, consume, or exercise our way to happiness, but we may be able to serve and volunteer our way there. In the end, we find that if we live as if it’s all about us, we will never be happy.
Sessions include:
- Nothing (17:00)
- Plan for It (18:00)
- Peace with God (16:00)
- Happy Money (16:30)
- Shoes (13:00)
- You’re Not Enough (18:00)
Designed for use with the What Makes You Happy Participant’s Guide (sold separately).
The Audio Bible Study series provides a unique learning experience. Instead of sitting down to watch a video teaching for Bible study, listen to the same quality Bible study content on the go! Whether you listen on your commute, while walking outside, or over a lunch break, you can access high-quality audio Bible studies wherever you are. Get the most out of the teaching by diving into the accompanying study guide (sold separately) to walk through reflection questions and individual Bible study to go deeper.
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The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy
- By: Austin Kleon
- Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 24, 2020
- Language: English
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4.17(776 ratings)
4.17(776 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.95 USDAn audio compilation ofSteal Like an Artist, Show Your Workand Keep Going. Read by the author, it’s the bestselling and transformative series on how to unlock your creativity, find community and an audience in the digital age, and stayAn audio compilation ofSteal Like an Artist, Show Your Workand Keep Going.
Read by the author, it’s the bestselling and transformative series on how to unlock your creativity, find community and an audience in the digital age, and stay focused, creative and true to yourself–for life. Includes full text from:
Steal Like an Artist: The New York Times bestselling book on the ten things nobody ever told you about being creative. Including nothing is original, so embrace influence. School yourself through the work of others. Remix and reimagine to discover your own path. And forget the old cliche about writing what you know: Instead, write the book you want to read, make the movie you want to watch.
Show Your Work: How to take that critical next step on a creative journey–getting known and finding your people. A user’s manual for embracing the communal nature of creativity, this inspiring manifesto is a blueprint for succeeding as any kind of artist or entrepreneur in the digital age.
Keep Going: Timeless, practical, and ethical principles for anyone trying to sustain a meaningful and productive life. Worry less about getting things done, and more about the worth of what you’re doing. Instead of focusing on making your mark, work to leave things better than you found them. Above all, keep working, keep playing, keep creating–keep going.
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Great Short Books
- By: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrator: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.95(102 ratings)
3.95(102 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDThis entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time, from a bestselling historian, is the “perfect gift for busy bibliophiles” (BookPage).Experience the joys of literature with this this “exciting guide to all thatThis entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time, from a bestselling historian, is the “perfect gift for busy bibliophiles” (BookPage).
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Experience the joys of literature with this this “exciting guide to all that the world of fiction has to offer” (The New York Times Book Review): a compulsively readable, deeply engaging discussion of great short novels. A journey into fiction designed with our contemporary attention spans in mind, Great Short Books suggests fifty-eight excellent short novels, all under 200 pages–easily readable in a week or less–a fresh approach to a fun, fascinating year of reading.
From hard-boiled fiction to magical realism, the 18th century to the present day, Great Short Books spans genres, cultures, countries, and time to present an enchanting and diverse selection of acclaimed and canonical novels. From works in translation like Yu Miri’s Tokyo Ueno Station and Marguerite Duras’s The Lover to popular, acclaimed authors like Toni Morrison and James Baldwin, this compilation is a celebration of classics from the historic to contemporary–plus a few bestsellers, including Stephen King and Colson Whitehead. Each entry includes the novel’s opening lines, a spoiler-free plot summary, a “why you should read it” section, and suggestions for what to read next.
“An entertaining journey with a fun, knowledgeable guide” (Booklist), this eclectic collection is a fun and practical book for any passionate reader hoping to broaden their literary IQ–or anyone who wants to find an effortless reentry into reading. -
The Listening Path
- By: Julia Cameron
- Narrator: Eliza Foss
- Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 12, 2021
- Language: English
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3.27(714 ratings)
3.27(714 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD**An AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award-winning production** A 6-week Artist’s Way Program from legendary author Julia Cameron “A book on better listening seems particularly suited for audio, and careful listeners will be**An AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award-winning production**
A 6-week Artist’s Way Program from legendary author Julia Cameron
“A book on better listening seems particularly suited for audio, and careful listeners will be rewarded.” — Booklist
The newest audiobook from beloved author Julia Cameron, The Listening Path is a transformational journey to deeper, more profound listening and creativity. Over six weeks, listeners will be given the tools to become better listeners–to their environment, the people around them, and themselves. The reward for learning to truly listen is immense. As we learn to listen, our attention is heightened and we gain healing, insight, clarity. But above all, listening creates connections and ignites a creativity that will resonate through every aspect of our lives.
Julia Cameron is the author of the explosively successful book The Artist’s Way, which has transformed the creative lives of millions of readers and listeners since it was first published. Incorporating tools from The Artist’s Way, The Listening Path offers a new method of creative and personal transformation.
Each week, listeners will be challenged to expand their ability to listen in a new way, beginning by listening to their environment and culminating in learning to listen to silence. These weekly practices open up a new world of connection and fulfillment. In a culture of bustle and constant sound, The Listening Path is a deeply necessary reminder of the power of truly hearing.
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I Wish for Change
- By: Kyle Schwartz
- Narrator: Caitlin Davies
- Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 16, 2019
- Language: English
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3.96(1343 ratings)
3.96(1343 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDFrom the author of I Wish My Teacher Knew, how grownups can empower children to stand up for what they believe in Third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz often tells her students: “You are not here so you can make money in a decade. You are here soFrom the author of I Wish My Teacher Knew, how grownups can empower children to stand up for what they believe in... Read moreThird-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz often tells her students: “You are not here so you can make money in a decade. You are here so you can make a difference now.”
Young people are up for the task. In the face of school shootings, cyber bullying, and other challenges students face at school, there are students who are changing the world right now.
In I Wish for Change, teacher and author Kyle Schwartz equips both teachers and parents to help children stand up for what they believe is right and make value-driven decisions. She shows how children’s adaptability, vulnerability, and empathy make them excellent agents for change, as well as how to teach children about the mechanics and structures of power so they can effectively change them.
Filled with inspiring stories from Kyle’s students and educators around the nation, as well as practical, replicable strategies for the classroom, I Wish for Change is the guide for every teacher, educator, and parent to show kids that their voice matters.
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Soluciones en sexualidad infantil y adolescente (Solutions in child and adolescent sexuality)
- By: Fernando Alvarez Vazquez
- Length: 6 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: September 27, 2022
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.99 USD?!Shhhh! Para hablar de sexualidad hay que bajar la voz….y mas si se trata de sexualidad infantil y adolescente…Fernando Alvarez y Maria Elena Balsa rompen esta consigna y nos regalan en este libro respuestas con informacion veraz a?!Shhhh! Para hablar de sexualidad hay que bajar la voz….y mas si se trata de sexualidad infantil y adolescente…Fernando Alvarez y Maria Elena Balsa rompen esta consigna y nos regalan en este libro respuestas con informacion veraz a estas dudas y a muchas otras mas. Tambien se dan a la tarea de explicar paso a paso, con casos reales, herramientas para lidiar con situaciones cotidianas y problematicas relacionadas con la sexualidad de ninos, ninas y adolescentes. Ademas, los autores resumen en esta guia conceptos basicos, mitos, miedos, verdades, explicaciones y problemas, a partir de su vasta experiencia quitando piedritas y grandes rocas del camino de madres, padres y profesionales valientes que intentan educar en sexualidad a las generaciones futuras. Fernando y Maria Elena nos recuerdan que aunque no se quiera hablar sobre ello, los ninos y ninas son seres sexuales, y que al igual que los adultos, tienen un cuerpo que da placer, un corazon que los mueve y un cerebro que los hara elegir, con o sin nuestra orientacion.
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Strings Attached
- By: Joanne Lipman
- Narrator: Kathleen McInerney
- Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4.32(471 ratings)
4.32(471 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDTHE FINE ART OF TOUGH LOVE. If you’re lucky, somewhere in your past is that one person who changed your life forever. The one who pushed you to dream bigger and to reach higher, and who set you straight on what matters in life. Perhaps it wasTHE FINE ART OF TOUGH LOVE.
If you’re lucky, somewhere in your past is that one person who changed your life forever. The one who pushed you to dream bigger and to reach higher, and who set you straight on what matters in life. Perhaps it was a coach, or a professor, or a family friend.
For Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, that person was a public-school music teacher, Jerry Kupchynsky, known as Mr. K–a Ukrainian-born taskmaster who yelled and stomped and screamed, and who drove his students harder than anyone had ever driven them before. Through sheer force of will, he made them better than they had any right to be.
Strings Attached tells the inspiring, poignant, and powerful story of this remarkable man, whose life seemed to conspire against him at every turn and yet who was able to transform his own heartache into triumph for his students.
Lyrically recounted by two former students — acclaimed journalist Joanne Lipman and Mr. K’s daughter, Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Melanie Kupchynsky — Strings Attached takes you on a journey that spans from his days as a forced Nazi laborer and his later home life as a husband to an invalid wife, to his heart-breaking search for his missing daughter, Melanie’s sister.
This is an unforgettable tale — a captivating narrative that is as absorbing as fiction — about the power of a great teacher, but also about the legacy that remains long after the last note has faded into silence: lessons in resilience, excellence, and tough love.
Strings Attached is for anyone indebted to a mentor and for those devoted to igniting excellence in others.
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Make It Stick
- By: Peter C. Brown
- Narrator: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: July 22, 2014
- Language: English
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4.17(14147 ratings)
4.17(14147 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDTo most of us, learning something ‘the hard way’ implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier.To most of us, learning something ‘the hard way’ implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Many common study habits and practice routines turn out to be counterproductive. Underlining and highlighting, rereading, cramming, and single-minded repetition of new skills create the illusion of mastery, but gains fade quickly. More complex and learning come from self-testing, introducing certain difficulties in practice, waiting to re-study new material until a little forgetting has set in, and interleaving the practice of one skill or topic with another. Speaking most urgently to students, teachers, trainers, and atheletes, Make It Stick will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement.
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SAT Words to Go
- Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.95 USDSAT Words To Go on CD allows busy students to study anytime, anywhere! Guaranteed to make learning SAT vocabulary words quick, easy, and fun, SAT Words To Go is conveniently designed to allow you to master words found on the New SAT whileSAT Words To Go on CD allows busy students to study anytime, anywhere!
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Guaranteed to make learning SAT vocabulary words quick, easy, and fun, SAT Words To Go is conveniently designed to allow you to master words found on the New SAT while you’re on the run.
• Strengthen your vocabulary by learning and using word families
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• Maximize your SAT performance with practice sessions
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Smart Skills: Working with Others
- By: Frances Kay
- Narrator: Phil Paonessa
- Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 24, 2019
- Language: English
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3.8(5 ratings)
3.8(5 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDThis guide offers all you need to know in order to work successfully with colleagues and business associates, no matter what title you hold within the company. Many of the most successful business ideas and projects spring from collaboration betweenThis guide offers all you need to know in order to work successfully with colleagues and business associates, no matter what title you hold within the company. Many of the most successful business ideas and projects spring from collaboration between people, so making sure you work effectively with others can make or break a business.
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