Education Development

In Polish: Jerzy Bralczyk presents remarkable and important words that we use everyday, and on special occasions. He trails the changing meaning of words, as well as surprising comebacks of the words that were seemingly forgotten. Bralczyk's book about words is a thrilling story about the metamorphoses of the Polish language, but also about the changes in Polish customs, culture, and politics.

What does Elon Musk know that you don’t? Would you like to achieve even a fraction of his success? Now you can. Serial entrepreneur and best-selling author, Randy Kirk, exposes 16 secret principles that guide Elon Musk in his entrepreneurial decisions.

How do you get rid of unwanted guests? What do you do if there's a racket in the quiet carriage? How should you eat peas, and behave in queues? How to behave, like how to punctuate, is an aspect of life that many are no longer taught. Thankfully, Sandi Toksvig has come to the rescue with her entertaining guide to modern manners, with characteristic wit and perceptiveness.

If you are raising a child with Asperger's Syndrome, it can be a real challenge to find answers to your questions and make decisions while trying to keep pace with the latest developments in research and changes in the growth and behavior of your child. This book comes to the rescue by combining the latest medical information and interventions with clear-cut strategies to help your child thrive at home and at school.

In a genre with so much imaginative potential, creating well-rounded and unique characters that speak to the personality and individuality of the creator can be tricky. This guide is an excellent resource, perfect for anyone interested in elevating their fantasy content on social media, preparing for a LARP event, or even writing characters for novels or screenplays.

From Body Language: Learn How to Analyze People and Use Non Verbal Communication Secrets for Flirting, Romance and Effectively Influence People, you will learn everything you need to start noticing the nonverbal signals every single person is giving off every single day, as well as the easiest ways to alter the signals you are putting out into the world to guarantee you are perceived as the most confident and successful version of yourself imaginable.

Wouldn’t it be marvelous to finish an entire Odyssey-sized book in a day? Wouldn’t you love to just breeze through academic papers and technical documentation like it’s nobody’s business? Speed reading can be applied to just about any type of text – from a corporate email to a technical whitepaper. It doesn’t matter what language you speak or what your end goal is. With practice, you can boost your reading speed by as much as 100 or even 200%.

“I can’t write.” How often do we hear this every day from students at all different skill levels? What is it about writing that causes such self-doubt, disabling procrastination, and fear of failure? “So many students do not identify writing as a positive experience or identify themselves as writers,” Liz Prather says. “We rarely talk about the social-emotional resilience needed around the act of writing.” In The Confidence to Write, Liz argues that we can help students reset their writerly self-regard by naming and examining their writing identity through practical activities.

Homeschooling isn't always easy. There are hiccups and bumps, and there will be plenty of times that we doubt if we are really capable of teaching our kids well. In More than Enough, unexpected homeschooler of 12 years Kara Stephenson Anderson shares with warmth and honesty about real-life homeschooling. Written for any parent - those brand new to homeschooling and those who have been at this for years, More than Enough is a guide for putting connection ahead of perfection, letting go of standards and expectations, and living a life of learning and love together.

Using examples from literature, poetry, and spiritual texts, Michael Lipson, Ph.D, articulately describes how to turn one's life into an art form. By following Emerson's description of harmonious living, Lipson shows us through simple and thoughtful exercises how to achieve peace and realization of one's life's purpose.

Your own behaviour is the only behaviour over which you have absolute control. To change your children's behaviour, you first need to change your own. Your behaviour as a parent is the difference between chaos and calm. It is the gap between strategies falling or succeeding. It is so important that it puts every other factor into a firm second place. In When the Parents Change, Everything Changes, Britain's leading behaviour expert introduces parents to a revolutionary method for changing your behaviour and so changing your children's - tried and tested in over 100,000 schools.

You're on vacation in the Caribbean when you find yourself caught up in a web of intrigue and adventure. Suddenly, it's up to you to save the island from an eccentric local industrialist, and success will depend on your ability to learn enough French to complete your mission....

Tras las lecciones de crianza y pedagogía expuestas en padres brillantes, maestros fascinantes, el reconocido psiquiatra Augusto Cury centra ahora su mirada en los jóvenes, que hoy enfrentan los desafíos combinados de la falta de educación emocional y las exigencias académicas y sociales.

Earning a master’s degree every year for the rest of your life may seem like a tall order. However, it’s much simpler than you might think. Through the power of reading, Woodall shows listeners how to obtain a master’s degree-level of education on topics such as marketing, astronomy, British literature, or bird-watching. The topics are only limited by your imagination.

In a world with an endless hunger for innovation, why is it so hard to create audacious change? According to thought leader Seth Goldenberg, the answer to this question stems from how we, as a society, view questions themselves. In Radical Curiosity, Goldenberg argues that because we value knowing above learning and prioritize doing over thinking, curiosity has become an endangered species.

Author of the international best seller I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Pamela Des Barres shares with women the art of memoir writing. For the last 14 years, Pamela Des Barres has been teaching an eight-week women's "femoir" writing workshop. She found that the music-loving ladies who showed up at her door had pent-up stories to tell. Many of them had read her two memoirs, which were wildly personal and deeply confessional, and felt comfortable opening up and experiencing that same freedom of expression.

Add some kick to your characters with some quick and simple dialect training. Paul Meier has been training actors for over 25 years and now offers his experience to the casual pretender in these entertaining presentations.

Growing up, Reid was confused and disturbed by the different opportunities his best friend received. The gap widened as Reid's classes enabled him to pursue an elite college degree across the country studying educational opportunity and teaching. Then, Reid became a teacher at an under-resourced South Carolina high school where efforts to serve the incredible students were stymied by internal segregation and administrative ambivalence. After Reid assigned students a project to create a positive change, they pushed him to figure out how he, too, could make a bigger difference.

This incredible audiobook contains powerful psychological techniques to influence people at will. Be warned; you're buying this audiobook at your own risk. Three audiobooks in one. Dark psychology consists of techniques developed by powerful politicians, self-made businessmen, and other masters of their own universe, and when applied, it can help you to analyze anyone around you or in your life. These three audiobooks will delve deep into dark psychology and the tools you can use to become incredibly successful in your own life.

Expert speech trainer and veteran voiceover artist Peter Baker teams up with presenter and trainer Katy Brody and offer interactive audio exercises to help you speak English clearer. Whether it's moving to English-speaking countries like the USA, the UK, or Australia, or working in international settings where English is widely spoken, such as in business or tourism, mastering English communication can significantly improve personal and professional success.