McGuire hits it out of the park with this book written for students. She easily connects to them through her conversational style, empathy, case studies and a strong belief in their power to succeed. …
Shelve Teach Yourself How to Learn: Strategies You Can Use to Ace Any Course at Any Level
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 st…
Shelve Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
From a founding member of the coaching movement comes a detailed guide to mastering one of a coach's toughest thoughtfully reflecting clients' words and expressions back to them so they see themselves…
Shelve Coach the Person, Not the Problem: A Guide to Using Reflective Inquiry
Position yourself for success. Get more of the management ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (Vol. 2) . We've combed through hundreds of Harvard …
Shelve HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself, Vol. 2 (with bonus article "Be Your Own Best Advocate" by Deborah M. Kolb)
THE REVOLUTIONARY PRODUCTIVITY SYSTEM TRUSTED BY OVER 25,000+ PROFESSIONALS. Get more done and get your life back. Many professionals work as much as 70 hours a week, leaving little time for rest, exer…
Shelve Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less
For adults with ADHD, problems with attention, planning, problem solving, and controlling emotions can make daily life an uphill battle. Fortunately, effective help is out there. No one is a better gu…
Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children), Drs. Hallowell and Ratey show the varied forms ADD takes -- from the hyperactive search for high stimulation to t…
Shelve Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood
"The author makes a compelling case that we often start solving a problem before thinking deeply about whether we are solving the right problem. If you want the superpower of solving better problems, …
Shelve What's Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve
“With his style of questioning alone, Jim Pyle can get more information than most other interrogators using multiple techniques.” —Gregory Hartley, coauthor of the best-seller How to Spot a Liar
The sec…
Shelve Find Out Anything From Anyone, Anytime: Secrets of Calculated Questioning From a Veteran Interrogator
From the bestselling authors who taught the world how to have Crucial Conversations comes Influencer, a thought-provoking book that combines the remarkable insights of behavioral scientists and busine…
Named one of the best strategy books of 2021 by strategy+business Get to better, more effective strategy. In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companie…
Shelve Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance
Every parent and teacher wants to give their children the best education possible. Everyone would like education to be a joyous adventure and celebration of life, as well as a solid preparation for li…
For those days when you feel like you just can’t take it anymore… Everybody struggles. Whether you’re breaking down in tears at the grocery store, on the verge of cussing out your toxic family member …
Shelve I'm Not Okay and That's Okay: Mental Health Microskills to Deal with Life's Inevitable Struggles
It is one of the great mysteries of human nature. Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why are some people so easy-going and laid-back, while others are always looking for a fight?
Writ…
Shelve Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are
Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 of his best short stories with a…
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer
For any tas…
Shelve How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-dec…
Shelve The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
Cutting ties with a toxic family member is a crucial step away from a legacy of dysfunction and toward healing and happiness. This compassionate guide will help you embrace your decision with a sense …
Shelve Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut
What happens when an adventure travel expert-who's never actually done anything adventurous-tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?
July 24, 1911, was a day for the history books.…
Shelve Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a higher level of math competency, A Mind for Numbers offers the to…
Shelve A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
Sarah Denning is a military journalist with the Army in the Middle East when her convoy is attacked and she's taken hostage. When former Army Ranger Gavin Black is asked by his old unit commander--Sar…
Wield your power for greater influence and impact. With formal authority comes power. But few people realize that informal power--the kind that doesn't come with a title--can have just as much impact.…
Shelve Power and Impact (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. For centuries, the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it be…
How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn from America's history of using the Bible in politics? How can we converse with people whose views diffe…
Shelve The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
An insightful guide to the practice, teaching, and history of critical thinking—from Aristotle and Plato to Thomas Dewey—for teachers, students, and anyone looking to hone their critical thinking skil…
The moment is right for critical reflection on what has been assumed to be a core part of schooling. In Ungrading , fifteen educators write about their diverse experiences going gradeless. Some contri…
Shelve Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)
The Essentials Explained Master storyteller and essayist C. S. Lewis here tackles the central questions of the Christian Who was Jesus? What did he accomplish? What does it mean for me? In these class…
Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the co-founder of Motley Crue offers an unflinching and gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction. It follows him during the year…
Shelve The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
