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Our era is one of significant and substantial loss, of unraveling hopes and expectations, of dreams curtailed, of aspirations desiccated. At the same time, we are denied the means of mourning the futures that are being so brutally curtailed. At such a moment, taking the time to grieve is a radical act. Through in-depth reporting intertwined with memoir, Sarah Jaffe shows how public memorialization has become more than a refusal or a protest: it is a path to imagining a better world.

A new book from the award-winning teacher and best-selling author, Ron Clark, providing rules for parents and teachers to help kids succeed in school.

How will I raise my son to be different? This question gripped Washington Post investigative reporter Emma Brown, who was at home nursing her six-week-old son when the #MeToo movement erupted. In search of an answer, Brown traveled around the country, through towns urban and rural, affluent and distressed. In the course of her reporting, she interviewed hundreds of people — educators, parents, coaches, researchers, men, and boys — to understand the challenges boys face and how to address them.

Along the path to any goal - completing a marathon or a thesis paper, winning a medal or a contract - familiar mental hurdles arise: We may fixate on the odds of failure or find our interest flags two-thirds of the way through. That’s when elite endurance athletes - top performers in running, cycling, and swimming - turn to their rich arsenal of cognitive strategies to overcome self-doubt and unlock peak performance.

Though fashions may change, certain things never go out of style - like your favorite little black dress that can take you from a business meeting to a dinner party to a night on the town. But what makes it work is not the dress; it's how you present yourself while wearing it. A woman who is polite, well spoken, gracious, charming, and thoughtful is always welcome - though such women appear to be in short supply these days!

Bob Bowman, best known as the coach for the record-breaking run of Michael Phelps, is one of the most successful coaches in Olympic history. He is lauded for his intense personality, his incredible dedication to his athletes, and his ability to nurture talent in athletes who have the heart and drive to win. This is his motivational book about winning in all walks of life and what you have to do to get there. He presents 10 key concepts that all people should live by.

The Awakening Master Class is Joe Vitale's most recent breakthrough program explaining the four stages of awakening. This thought-provoking book builds on everything Vitale has produced to date, taking you to a whole new level of personal and professional transcendence. This course offers a proven step-by-step approach for finding and achieving your goals and desires through a complete mind, body, and spiritual transformation.

Between school events and teaching spin classes, Jen finds herself fully immersed in sports mom competitiveness. These parents seem perfectly unassuming, until their kids start to wrestle, and they become raging pubescent monsters. Learning to navigate this new world while fielding calls from the principal because of Max’s newfound misogynistic behavior, Jen steels herself for the indignities of middle-school life—with her loyal spin class attendees and her bossy four-year-old granddaughter giving her the strength she needs to press on.

In seven selected writings, Murphy reveals the powers of your mind waiting to be refined, honed, and used, so that you can knowingly shape your world, rather than be shaped by chronic, rambling, and runaway thoughts.

To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream, named one of Folio's Top Women in US Media and accruing further awards for the magazines she was editing. In reality, she was rapidly skidding towards a mental health crisis that would land her in a locked psychiatric ward as her past caught up with her. As well as growing up in a household in poverty, Terri endured sexual and physical abuse at the hands of a number of her mother's partners.

『CEO 아빠의 부모수업』은 ㈜웅진씽크빅과 ㈜능률교육의 대표였던 저자 김준희가 김포 농가주택에서 네 아이를 사교육 없이 수재로 키운 교육 비결을 담은 책이다. 그는 교육출판기업에서 오랫동안 경영자로 일하면서 '책 많이 읽으면 좋은 대학 갈 수 있다'는 평소 소신을 아이들 교육에 적용했고, 왕성한 독서로 '지식 소화 능력'을 기른 네 아이는 사교육의 도움 없이 모두 자신이 원하는 대학에 들어가게 되었다. 저자의 자녀 교육 원칙을 세 가지로 정리하면 첫째, 아이의 의견을 존중하되 한 말에 대해서는 스스로 책임을 지게 했고, 둘째 책을 많이 읽혔으며, 셋째 세상에 공짜는 없다는 것이다. 이런 교육 원칙 덕분에 아이들은 우수한 학습 능력은 물론 주관이 분명하고 강한 책임감을 가진 주체적인 어른으로 성장했다.

It's hard not to feel weary and stressed when life is a frenzy of work, social pressures and obligations. Mindfulness is the art of living in the moment, and it is the key to transforming your feelings towards a brighter, better future. Mindful meditation has been around for thousands of years, and is used by top therapists as a highly effective way of overcoming anxiety, depression and a number of other emotional difficulties. If you are suffering from low moods, feeling anxious, or just want to learn an amazing technique for gaining control of your mind and feelings, the power of mindfulness will transform your life.

Rhonda Byrne, autora do fenômeno mundial O Segredo, demonstra como aplicar a lei da atração nas três áreas mais importantes da vida: relacionamentos, saúde e finanças. Você pode alcançar felicidade, relacionamentos gratificantes, saúde, riqueza e sucesso. Este audiolivro vai mostrar como.

Explore questions that stimulate your mental fitness and teach you how to direct your internal narrative to work for you. Personal Socrates contains 100+ life-changing questions across 40+ profiles of Legends (Kobe Bryant, Maya Angelou, Robin Williams, etc.) and Top Performers (Ryan Holiday, Shantell Martin, James Clear, etc.).

The Audio Masterclass series will give you everything you need to get up to speed on the big topics that matter in self-help, psychology, business and the humanities. In life and business, sometimes a bit of guidance is required. From executive mentoring to life coaching, more and more people are turning to coaching to create lasting strategies to help them set achievable goals and targets. The Coaching Audio Masterclass will help you identify your own life-coaching needs and create achievable plans for change.

Andy Bramante left his successful career as a corporate scientist to teach public high school - and now helms one of the most remarkable classrooms in America. Bramante’s unconventional class at Connecticut’s prestigious yet diverse Greenwich High School has no curriculum, tests, textbooks, or lectures, and is equal parts elite research lab, student counseling office, and teenage hangout spot. United by a passion to learn, Mr. B.’s band of whiz kids set out every year to conquer the brutally competitive science fair circuit.

Discover the simple three-part self-care system that will help you stay calm in class, enjoy a good work–life balance and keep doing the job you love. Drawing on both her own 20+ years in the profession and the experiences of her many teacher friends, Michelle has developed a three-part system to help you not just survive but thrive in teaching.

Filled with the wit and observational prowess that shaped Stanley Fish's acclaimed best seller, How to Write a Sentence, Winning Arguments guides listeners through the "greatest hits" of rhetoric. In this clever and engaging guide, Fish offers insight and outlines the crucial keys you need to win any debate, anywhere, anytime - drawn from landmark legal cases, politics, his own career, and even popular film and television.

You should listen to this book if you are a new teacher who is frustrated by your ever-chaotic classroom and desperately needs things to change.

The best students, the top performers, the quickest learners - it's not by luck. They know what they're doing, and you can be like them too. We've never been taught how to learn. Yet learning is the keystone to any goal you want to achieve. Let's start changing your life with this very book. A learning structure and framework that takes you from A-Z, in what to do and how to approach it.