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Mathematical Mindsets provides practical strategies and activities to help teachers and parents show all children, even those who are convinced that they are bad at math, that they can enjoy and succeed in math. Jo Boaler - Stanford researcher, professor of math education, and expert on math learning - has studied why students don't like math and often fail in math classes. She's followed thousands of students through middle and high schools to study how they learn and to find the most effective ways to unleash the math potential in all students.

In The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children, Harvard economist Ronald Ferguson, named in a New York Times profile as the foremost expert on the US educational "achievement gap," along with award-winning journalist Tatsha Robertson, reveal an intriguing blueprint for helping children from all types of backgrounds become successful adults.

""She Comes First is quite simply the best guide to oral sex out there."" —AskMen.com The essential guidebook to oral sex, She Comes First offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring women As women everywhere will attest, men are ""ill-cliterate."" But in the pages of She Comes First, the...

Manifest Now provides a step-by-step guide with tools, techniques, and proven strategies to raise your frequency and create the reality you want. This audiobook is designed to guide you through the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of manifesting and creating all that your heart desires. You'll learn how to start removing mental and emotional blocks so you can rediscover that manifesting is your natural birthright. You'll feel more confident, reconnected, and powerful as you listen.

An audiobook for learners of all ages containing the best and most updated advice on learning from neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Do you spend too much time learning with disappointing results? Do you find it difficult to remember what you read? Do you put off studying because it’s...

From evoking a scene to charting a plot to revising your drafts, Writing Great Fiction: Storytelling Tips and Techniques offers a master class in storytelling. Taught by award-winning novelist James Hynes, a former visiting professor at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop, these 24 insightful lectures show you the ins and outs of the fiction writer's craft.

सोचने-विचारने से अपनी समस्याएं हल हो जाएंगी ऐसा मनुष्य का विश्वास रहा है, परंतु वास्तविकता यह है कि विचार पहले तो स्वयं समस्याएं पैदा करता है, और फिर अपनी ही पैदा की गई समस्याओं को हल करने में उलझ जाता है। एक बात और, विचार करना एक भौतिक प्रक्रिया है। कृष्णमूर्ति स्पष्ट करते हैं कि स्वतंत्रता का, मुक्ति का तात्पर्य है व्यक्ति के मस्तिष्क पर आरोपित इस 'नियोजन' से, इस 'प्रोग्राम' से मुक्त

Counsels and Maxims is a classic work by noted German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. His work has influenced some of the modern world's greatest thinkers, including Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Erwin Schrödinger. This piece was originally translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders.

Award-winning Silva trainer Robert B. Stone teaches you how to enter the Alpha State - an inner conscious level of brain wave frequency. At the Alpha state, you'll activate deep states of accelerated mental activity, intuition, learning, memory, ESP, tranquility, rest, and relaxation.

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These days, strong critical thinking skills provide a vital foundation for academic success, and Critical Thinking Skills for Dummies offers a clear and unintimidating introduction to what can otherwise be a pretty complex topic. Inside, you'll get hands-on, lively, and fun exercises that you can put to work today to improve your arguments and pin down key issues. With this accessible and friendly guide, you'll get plain-English instruction on how to identify other people's assumptions, methodology, and conclusions; evaluate evidence; and interpret texts effectively.

Uttara Rao, Janaki Paranjape, Arvind Shah, K. Subba Rao and Sumitra Iyer first cross each other’s paths at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1999. Coming from vividly different backgrounds, the five soon became friends. As they navigate relationships, careers and life, they vow to...

Management consulting is seen as a glamorous profession. Behind the mystique are the consultants who put in extraordinary effort, synthesize great problem-solving skills and display fine personal attributes that enable them to capture the attention and respect of their clients. This book...

जिसे हम प्रेम कहते-समझते हैं, क्या वह सच में प्रेम है? क्या अकेलेपन की वास्तविकता प्रकृति वही है जिसका अनुमान हमें डराता है और हम उससे दूर भागते रहते हैं, और इस कारण जीवन में कभी भी उस एहसास से हमारी सीधे-सीधे मुलाकात नहीं हो पाती? दैनिक जीवन के निकर्ष पर इन दो सर्वाधिक आवृत प्रतीतियों के अनावरण का सफर है: ‘प्रेम क्या है? अकेलापन क्या है?’ जे. कृष्णमूर्ति के शब्दों में अधिष्ठित निःशब्द से रहस्यों के धुँधलके सहज ही छँटते चलते हैं, और जीवन की उजास में उसकी स्पष्टता सुव्यक्त होती जाती है।

Despite our best efforts, we're all vulnerable to believing things without using logic or having proper evidence—and it doesn't matter how educated or well read we are.

With growing academic responsibilities, family commitments, and inboxes, scholars are struggling to fulfill their writing goals. A finished book - or even steady journal articles - may seem like an impossible dream. But, as Joli Jensen proves, it really is possible to write happily and productively in academe. Jensen begins by busting the myth that universities are supportive writing environments. She points out that academia, an arena dedicated to scholarship, offers pressures that actually prevent scholarly writing.

‘शिक्षा क्या है’ में जीवन से संबंधित युवा मन के पूछे-अनपूछे प्रश्न हैं और जे. कृष्णमूर्ति की दूरदर्शी दृष्टि इन प्रश्नों को मानो भीतर से आलोकित कर देती है पूरा समाधान कर देती है। ये प्रश्न शिक्षा के बारे में हैं, मन के बारे में हैं, जीवन के बारे में हैं, विविध हैं किंतु सब एक दूसरे से जुड़े हैं।

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a well-tested collection of practical techniques for managing moods and modifying undesirable behaviors through self-awareness, critical analysis, and goal-oriented change. CBT illuminates the links between thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and physical health and uses those connections to develop concrete plans for self-improvement. In 24 engaging half-hour lectures, you'll build a robust and effective self-improvement toolkit with the expert guidance of Professor Satterfield of the University of California, San Francisco.

Machine learning audio course, teaching the fundamentals of machine learning and artificial intelligence. It covers intuition, models (shallow and deep), math, languages, frameworks, etc. Where your other ML resources provide the trees, I provide the forest. Consider MLG your syllabus, with highly-curated resources for each episode's details at ocdevel.com. Audio is a great supplement during exercise, commute, chores, etc.

"A lightning bolt of a book" makes the case for why self-directed learning — "unschooling" — is the best way to get kids to learn (Lenore Skenazy) In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today’s constantly changing...