An essential lifeline for educators offering tools to break free from burnout and reclaim their passion for the classroomToday’s teachers face unprecedented pressure and exhaustion—and they deserve more than just survival mode. This isn’t another generic teaching manual. It’s a comprehensive, research-backed toolkit designed to help you build unshakable resilience, quiet the mental noise of stress, and reignite the joy that first drew you to teaching.Renown...

"Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to 'civilize' us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure, and muffled deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. Without Wild Woman, we become overdomesticated, fearful, uncreative, trapped."In her n...

The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for the science of influence and persuasion—a renowned international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold—now revised adding: new research, new insights, new examples, and online applications.In the new edition of this highly acclaimed bestseller, Robert Cialdini—New York Times bestselling author of Pre-Suasion and the seminal expert in the fields of influence and persuasion—explains the psychology of why people say yes and ...

This controversial e-book phenomenon became a best-seller and landed its author, a certified marriage and family therapist, on The O'Reilly Factor and the Rush Limbaugh radio show. Dr. Robert Glover has devoted his career as a psychotherapist to freeing men from what he was dubbed the "Nice Guy Syndrome"-trying too hard to please others while neglecting their own needs, thus causing unhappiness and resentfulness. It's no wonder that unfulfilled Nice Guys lash out in frustration at their lo...

What if your treatment plan fit you**, and not a one-size-fits-all protocol?**No two people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are the same. Your history, symptoms, and goals are uniquely yours. Shouldn’t your path to healing be as well? This groundbreaking workbook offers a personalized, research-based program to help you target the specific patterns that keep you stuck, so you can quickly build the skills you need to mov...

What if the key to easing your anxiety isn’t more control, but learning to let go**?**When you live with anxiety, it can feel like your mind is always on high alert. You’re constantly planning for every outcome, scanning for danger, and trying to control the uncontrollable. You might feel stuck in a constant cycle of worry, self-doubt, and emotional exhaustion. And while this instinct to control m...

Our brains are doing our best to help us out, but they can be real assholes sometimes. Sometimes it seems like your own brain is out to get you—melting down in the middle of the grocery store, picking fights with your date, getting you addicted to something, or shutting down completely at the worst possible moments. You already told your brain firmly that it isn't good to do these things. But your brain has a mind of its own. That's where this book comes in. With humor, patience, and lots ...

This manual provides instructions about how to administer and interpret the three rating subscales of the Assessing Classroom Sociocultural Equity Scale (ACSES). The ultimate goal of ACSES is to increase and improve classroom quality through careful analysis of teaching behaviors, student-teacher relationships, and student engagement. It can be used in schools and early childhood programs that are racial, ethnically, or culturally diverse across pre-K to 5th grade.

The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked her way thro...

A USA Today BestsellerHigh-performance psychologist Michael Gervais presents a groundbreaking guide for overcoming what may be the single greatest constrictor of human potential: our fear of people’s opinions (FOPO).FOPO shows up almost everywhere in our lives—and the consequences are great. When we let FOPO take control, we play it safe and small because we're afraid of what will happen on the other side of critique. When challeng...

The Catholic Church in Nigeria faces a critical challenge concerning the safeguarding of children and the scandal of clerical sexual abuse. This book, an essential and critical reflection, delves into the current child protection policies and regulations within the Roman Catholic Church in Nigeria, exploring their profound pastoral and missiological implications. The widespread exposure of clerical sexual abuse globally has led to a decline in membership and trust, a trend that is also thr...

The essential guide to how drugs affect the body and behavior.This fully updated, no–judgment book includes the up–to–the–moment discoveries about drugs and drug use, including new information on the opioid crisis, vaping, psychedelic therapy, cannabinoids, and the science of addiction. “Lively, highly informative, unbiased, [and] thorough” (Addiction Research & Theory), Buzzed surveys drugs from caffeine to ketamine to reveal how they impact the ...