Education & Learning

From bestselling author Sean Covey, a revolutionary operating system that helps educators achieve their most wildly important goals by focusing on what matters most, even amid the daily whirlwind of urgent demands—based on the groundbreaking 4 Disciplines of Execution framework. In education...

Speak Spanish Like Crazy: The 60-Day Spanish Fluency Challenge is a powerful daily audio training program designed to help English speakers start thinking and speaking in Spanish more naturally. Narrated by Juan Pablo—known as “The Voice of Real Latin American Spanish”—along with other native Spanish speakers, this audiobook immerses you in authentic conversational Spanish through structured listening and speaking practice.

Finally finish the first draft of your novel with a method that maximizes efficiency, speed, and joy—from the author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel. After months (or years) of writing, are you left with nothing but a folder full of false starts? Do you have a novel you were once excited to...

Just Enough Spanish is a practical, confidence-building guide designed for travelers, beginners, and curious learners who want to understand and speak real Spanish—without memorizing endless vocabulary lists or complicated grammar rules.

Are you a newly licensed driver? You passed the test and earned your license. But now what? Whether you are a young driver or someone who learned later in life, there is a big difference between driving with an instructor and driving on your own for the first time. Many real world situations simply are not covered in traditional lessons. What do you do when another driver makes a poor decision that affects you? How do you plan a trip to a new place or choose a safe place to park at night?

Davidsons Audiobooks presents: Series 65 - The Complete Audio Study Guide. Turn your commute, workout, or daily routine into focused preparation for the Uniform Investment Adviser Law Examination. Step into the world of investment advice, fiduciary responsibility, and financial judgment with an audiobook designed for real life. Whether you are commuting, exercising, or doing chores, this comprehensive Series 65 study guide transforms ordinary moments into structured learning time. Built around the current NASAA and FINRA exam framework, it covers the real shape of the exam.

What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? This sweeping history of the United States told through fifteen speeches relives the battle over American identity, from a New York Times bestselling author and one of President Barack Obama’s former speechwriters. “At a time of moral and...

Compreender e memorizar informações importantes pode ser um grande desafio, mas Sönke Ahrens afirma que a escrita é uma técnica poderosa para ajudar nesses processos. Para o autor, todo esforço intelectual começa com uma nota. Nesta obra, que já inspirou estudiosos e escritores no mundo inteiro, o pesquisador alemão, cuja experiência e conhecimento o tornaram um líder na sua área, revela de que modo a simples atividade de elaboração de notas pode ser usada como uma ferramenta para aprimorar a compreensão de informações, o processo de aprendizagem e acelerar o raciocínio.

We were promised a global village; we got a gladiatorial arena. No longer just a tool for connection, social media has spawned an entire outrage industry harvesting and monetising our worst impulses. Welcome to the era of Angertainment. Angertainment shows how our emotions are being hijacked to...

A poetic treasury of spiritual insight, The Language of the Soul uncovers the original meanings of words to help us remember what it means to be fully alive This program is read by the author. For poet and spiritual teacher Mark Nepo, words have always been more than tools for...

O crítico ensina o ouvinte a ler como crítico. Ora, ler como crítico não é um prazer ou, ao menos, é um prazer muito particular, entremeado de muita aridez. Mas o que você quer é ler bem, de forma útil, proveitosa e agradável? Este é outro objetivo, é outro ponto de vista, e é somente a essa arte que se dedica este pequena obra que escrevi.

Focados em ensinar a maior quantidade possível de alunos, os cursinhos vão pelo caminho do decoreba, os estudantes são instruídos a decorar tópicos e fórmulas e não a aprender de verdade. Mas será que dá para virar o jogo? A forma de se preparar para um exame vai contra o funcionamento natural do cérebro humano, a vantagem de aprender sobre a parte fisiológica do corpo pode ajudar o aluno a trabalhar em seu próprio favor e atingir sua capacidade máxima. Basta aprender a estudar.

Na Instrução dos principiantes, Hugo apresenta o treinamento em que eram conduzidos, sob a guia do mestre de noviços, os recém-chegados à escola, cujo objetivo era aprender “o bom termo e a medida adequada em todas as palavras e ações”, isto é, a disciplina: como se comportar e governar o corpo — no caminhar, nos gestos, na fala, no tratamento dos outros e nos modos à mesa. Esse aprendizado de autodomínio corporal era anterior ao estudo das letras descrito no Didascalicon, pois, segundo o mestre, “os movimentos desordenados do corpo refletem a corrupção e a dissolução da mente”.

Do you understand Spanish but struggle to speak it fluently in real conversations? Can you follow grammar explanations and recognize vocabulary, yet hesitate when it's time to respond naturally? This book helps you move from intermediate knowledge to confident, real-world communication. Conversational Spanish for Intermediate Learners Made Easy is a structured Spanish practice book built around everyday situations you're likely to encounter in Spanish-speaking environments.

Why do we believe in the views of a political party or leader? How can we better understand vaccine hesitancy or denial of climate change science? What drives extremist or conspiracist beliefs? This vital and timely new text provides a compelling survey of the science behind how people form...

First published in 1987, this book brings together two renowned educators, Paulo Freire and Ira Shor, who describe their own experiences in liberating the classroom from its traditional constraints, including discussion of Freire's work in Guinea-Bissau and Shor's work in the USA. They...

Davidsons Audiobooks presents: Journeyman Electrician-The Complete Audio Study GuideMaster the code, calculations, and craft-Perfect for Commuting, Exercising, and Doing Chores! Step into the trade with a study guide built for the way you actually live. Whether you’re driving to the jobsite, training at the gym, or working through the rhythm of daily chores, this audiobook turns ordinary time into focused preparation for the Journeyman Electrician licensing exam.

Improve your French while solving intriguing short mysteries. These detective stories have been specially designed for language learners using the parallel text method. First you will hear the narrative in fluid, authentic French, then the complete English translation, and after that you will hear the French a second time with greater comprehension. This structure allows for continuous study without needing to constantly pause and consult a dictionary.

Slow Looking provides a robust argument for the importance of slow looking in learning environments both general and specialized, formal and informal, and its connection to major concepts in teaching, learning, and knowledge. A museum-originated practice increasingly seen as holding wide...

Muitos de nós cultivamos habilidades aparentemente desconexas – advogados que tocam piano, médicos amantes de culinária, designers fascinados por tecnologia. Essa multiplicidade não é apenas uma peculiaridade pessoal, mas uma característica compartilhada por muitos. Leonardo Da Vinci é um exemplo famoso, mas poucos sabem que Einstein tocava violino, Shakespeare era fascinado pela ciência e Samuel Morse, o engenheiro que inventou o aparelho precursor do telefone, também era pintor e professor de belas artes.

“Conversational essays on wonder . . . A meditation on what gives life meaning. . . . A loving sermon on the rewards of children’s books.” ―Kirkus Reviews Make Believe is bestselling children’s author Mac Barnett’s rallying cry for art and imagination, and a celebration of the power...

‘I loved it’ KIT DE WAAL, author of The Best of Everything ‘Generous, intelligent, full of wisdom and insight’ LILY DUNN, author of Sins of My Father * A transformative guide to creative writing and the power of paying attention. The way we use language to tell stories reveals a lot...

Bloomsbury presents The Ultimates by Ted Adams, read by Mack Sanderson. Explore the Stories Behind the Legends The 1990s and early 2000s were a time of intense change and experimentation for Marvel Comics. Out of this emerged The Ultimates—a comic that would have an explosive impact on Marvel...

Part spiritual formation and part reflection on craft, Sacred Margins: On the Spiritual Life of a Writer draws from Scripture, vast reading, and decades of experience in publishing to explore the interior life of the writer—the hidden places where words are formed long before they reach the page. Steve Laube journeys into profound facets of the writing life: the yearning to create, the alchemy of memory, the wonder of imagination, and the transparency of broken places.

The extensively updated second edition of Suicide in Schools provides school-based professionals with practical, easy-to-use guidance on developing and implementing effective suicide prevention, assessment, intervention, and postvention strategies.