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Higher Education

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    The Coddling of the American Mind

    How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

    by Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Haidt ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 6 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Coddling of the America Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, read by Jonathan Haidt.What doesn't kill you makes you weakerAlways trust your feelingsLife is a battle between good people and evil peopleThese three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being, as well as ancient wisdom from many cu... ... Read more

    $22.72 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Small Teaching

    Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning

    by James M. Lang ...
    Narrated by Daniel Thomas May ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 27 min

    Research into how we learn has opened the door for utilizing cognitive theory to facilitate better student learning. But that's easier said than done. Many books about cognitive theory introduce radical but impractical theories, failing to make the connection to the classroom. In Small Teaching, James Lang presents a strategy for improving student learning with a series of modest but powerful ... Read more

    $29.94 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How to Take Smart Notes

    One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers

    by Sönke Ahrens ...
    Narrated by Nigel Fyfe ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 52 min

    The key to good and efficient writing lies in the intelligent organisation of ideas and notes. This book helps students, academics and nonfiction writers to get more done, write intelligent texts and learn for the long run. It teaches you how to take smart notes and ensure they bring you and your projects forward.The Take Smart Notes principle is based on established psychological insight and ... Read more

    $29.94 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Academia Next

    The Futures of Higher Education

    by Bryan Alexander ...
    Narrated by William Sarris ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    The outlook for the future of colleges and universities is uncertain. Financial stresses, changing student populations, and rapidly developing technologies all pose significant challenges to the nation's colleges and universities. In Academia Next, futurist and higher education expert Bryan Alexander addresses these evolving trends to better understand higher education's next generation. Alexander ... Read more

    $37.43 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions

    Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education

    Narrated by Mia Ellis ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours

    Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions provides a multidisciplinary exploration of the contemporary university's entanglement with the history of slavery and settler colonialism in the United States. Inspired by more than a hundred student-led protests during the Movement for Black Lives, contributors examine how campus rebellions-and university responses to them-expose the racialized ... Read more

    $29.94 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Craft of University Teaching

    by Peter Lindsay ...
    Narrated by Jeremy Arthur ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 9 min

    What does university teaching as a craft look like? What changes does a craft perspective suggest for higher education? The Craft of University Teaching addresses these questions in both a general sense What does the act of teaching become when treated as a craft? What changes to a professor’s educational philosophy does it require? and with respect to the practical, everyday tasks of university ... Read more

    $29.94 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Admission Matters

    What Students and Parents Need to Know About Getting into College

    by Sally P. Springer, Jon Reider, Joyce Vining Morgan ...
    Narrated by Janet Metzger ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 58 min

    Admission Matters offers comprehensive, expert, and practical advice for parents and students to guide them through the college admissions process. From building a college list, to understanding standardized tests, to obtaining financial aid, to crafting personal statements, to making a final decision, this book guides you every step of the way with clear, sensible advice and practical tips. This ... Read more

    $37.43 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Higher Expectations

    Can Colleges Teach Students What They Need to Know in the 21st Century?

    by Derek Bok ...
    Narrated by William Sarris ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 59 min

    In recent decades, cognitive psychologists have cast new light on human development and given colleges new possibilities for helping students acquire skills and qualities that will enhance their lives and increase their contributions to society. In this landmark book, Derek Bok explores how colleges can reap the benefits of these discoveries and create a more robust undergraduate curriculum for ... Read more

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    Scholarship Cannot be Subordinated to Department Politics

    by J.-M. Kuczynski ...
    Narrated by J.-M. Kuczynski ...

    Unabridged

    1 min

    One is either a bureaucrat or a scholar; one cannot be both. ... Read more

    $0.37 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education

    by Nathan D. Grawe ...
    Narrated by BJ Harrison ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 6 min

    Higher education faces a looming demographic storm. Decades-long patterns in fertility, migration, and immigration persistently nudge the country toward the Hispanic Southwest. As a result, the Northeast and Midwest-traditional higher education strongholds-expect to lose five percent of their college-aged populations between now and the mid-2020s. In Demographics and the Demand for Higher ... Read more

    $23.95 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Beyond Education

    Radical Studying for Another World

    by Eli Meyerhoff ...
    Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 47 min

    A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-makingHigher education is at an impasse. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo show that racism and sexism remain pervasive on campus, while student and faculty movements fight to reverse increased tuition, student debt, corporatization, and adjunctification. Commentators ... Read more

    $29.88 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    What's the Point of College?

    Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform

    by Johann N. Neem ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 36 min

    In What's the Point of College?, historian Johann N. Neem offers a new way to think about the major questions facing higher education today, from online education to disruptive innovation to how students really learn. As commentators, reformers, and policymakers call for dramatic change and new educational models, this collection of lucid essays asks us to pause and take stock. What is a college ... Read more

    $19.45 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Teaching By Heart

    One Professor's Journey to Inspire

    by Thomas J. DeLong ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 39 min

    Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes that the best teachers are also leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers. In examining how to lead and teach, renowned Harvard Business School professor Thomas J. DeLong takes the listener inside ... Read more

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    College Admission Hacks

    by Life 'n' Hack ...
    Narrated by Life 'n' Hack ...

    Unabridged

    40 min

    Unlock The Keys To Increase Chances Of Getting Into College With Low GPACollege admission has become a cutthroat process. Top schools seemingly become more and more difficult to gain entry to with the ever-increasing applicant pool of the best and brightest. For the ambitious student, it can seem like a jungle of insurmountable obstacles and questions.How much does GPA matter? Do I have to have a ... Read more

    $7.44 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A History of American Higher Education

    Third Edition

    by John R. Thelin ...
    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 34 min

    The definitive history of American higher education-now up to date. Exploring American higher education from its founding in the seventeenth century to its struggle to innovate and adapt in the first decades of the twenty-first century, Thelin demonstrates that the experience of going to college has been central to American life for generations of students and their families. Drawing from archival ... Read more

    $44.91 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Dear Parents

    A Field Guide for College Preparation

    by Jon McGee ...
    Narrated by Graham Rowat ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 1 min

    Written for parents and families of college-bound students, Jon McGee's Dear Parents is an essential tool you'll need to navigate the complex and often emotional challenge of getting your daughter or son prepared for-and through-college. Organized chronologically, the book takes listeners through the stages of childhood leading up to college, as well as the process of searching for and selecting a ... Read more

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    Learning from Lectures

    Learning from lectures, listening & notetaking skills, reading and summarising skills. Focusing effectively.

    by Aidan Moran ...
    Narrated by Aidan Moran ...
    series For Success at College and University

    Unabridged

    31 min

    Aimed at students in college and university, this new audio single “Learning from Lectures” is taken from the bestselling album: “Learn to Study” by Professor Aidan Moran which teaches students the most important study skills for success at college and university. This audio will cover the areas of: Learning from Lectures, listening and note-taking skills, reading and summarizing skills, and ... Read more

    $7.47 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Rise of a First Gen

    by Irnande Altema ...
    Narrated by Irnande Altema ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour

    The Rise of a First Gen is the story of a Caribbean woman determined to rise to professional success, despite being unsure how to accomplish it. She was raised with the “typical” mindset and expectations of a first-generation American: excel in school, eliminate leisure activities, and work tirelessly until a supervisor acknowledges superior performance. However, along her journey to obtain the ... Read more

    $13.46 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    U Thrive

    How to Succeed in College (and Life)

    by Dan Lerner, Alan Schlechter ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 49 min

    From the professors who teach NYU's most popular elective class, "Science of Happiness," a fun, comprehensive guide to surviving and thriving in college and beyond.Every year, almost 4,000,000 students begin their freshman year at colleges and universities nationwide. Most of them will sleep less and stress out a whole lot more. By the end of the year, 30% of those freshmen will have dropped out. ... Read more

    $29.92 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Taking Up Space

    The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change

    by Chelsea Kwakye, Ore Ogunbiyi ...
    Narrated by Chelsea Kwakye, Ore Ogunbiyi ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 31 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Taking Up Space written and read by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi.THE FLAGSHIP 2019 RELEASE OF #MERKY BOOKS____________________________‘Brilliant’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS‘Hugely important’ PAULA AKPAN‘Essential’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO____________________________</st... ... Read more

    $17.04 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Intensidad de inteligencia

    Aprenda 8 consejos sobre cómo aumentar drásticamente su inteligencia al instante

    by Santos Omar Medrano Chura ...
    Narrated by Alvaro M. ...

    Unabridged

    40 min

    Es su actitud lo que debe verificar si va a mantener su cerebro en sintonía. La clave es darnos cuenta de que algunas de nuestras habilidades cambian a medida que envejecemos, pero otras mejoran especialmente si nos mantenemos activos. Úselo o piérdalo, como dice el refrán. Darse cuenta de que está atravesando cambios cognitivos y luego intentar maximizar su rendimiento le ayudará a mantener sus ... Read more

    $7.49 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How to Succeed at a Two-Year College

    An Easy-to-Follow Guide

    by Neil S. Plakcy, Neil ...
    Narrated by Neil S. Plakcy, Plakcy ...

    Unabridged

    27 min

    Do you have questions about college? What kind of college to attend, how to pay for it, what to study and how to prepare for a career?How to Succeed at a Two-Year College answers those questions, and more. If you are a high school student (or the parent of one), a veteran, a returning student, or just curious about what a two-year college can offer, this is the book for you.Too many college ... Read more

    $7.41 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Heart of Higher Education

    A Call to Renewal

    by Mark Nepo, Parker J. Palmer, Megan Scribner, Arthur Zajonc ...
    Narrated by Scott Woodside ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 6 min

    A call to advance integrative teaching and learning in higher education. From Parker Palmer, best-selling author of The Courage to Teach, and Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics at Amherst College and director of the academic program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, comes this call to revisit the roots and reclaim the vision of higher education. The Heart of Higher Education ... Read more

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    Writing Essays & Papers

    Planning & writing essays and papers, evaluating what you learn and thinking critically

    by Aidan Moran ...
    Narrated by Aidan Moran ...

    Unabridged

    19 min

    Aimed at students in college and university, this new audio single “Writing Essays and Papers” is taken from the bestselling album: “Learn to Study” by Professor Aidan Moran which teaches students the most important study skills for success at college and university.No matter what subjects you are studying in university, you will be expected to write essays and academic papers as part of the ... Read more

    $7.47 AUD or free with audiobook trial