The Parents We Mean To Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development
10 best books like The Parents We Mean To Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development (Richard Weissbourd): Déjà Dead, The View from Saturday, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World, Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Dark Disciple, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
| Author | Kathy Reichs |
| ISBN | 0671011367 |
Her life is devoted to justice; for those she never even knew. In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance...
| Author | E.L. Konigsburg |
| ISBN | 0689862210 |
How has Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But were any of them true? How had she really chosen Noah and Nadia and Ethan and Julian? And why did they make such a good team? It was a surprise to a lot of people when Mrs. Olinski's team won the sixth-grade Academic...
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
| Author | William Styron |
| ISBN | 0679736395 |
This very small volume was not an easy read. Mr. Styron eases us into his own story by relating stories of other writers and artists who experienced deep depression. Some made it through but most did not. His stories are liberally laced with a depth of understanding that he acknowledged could only come...
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
| Author | Marshall B. Rosenberg |
| ISBN | 1892005034 |
Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of personal empowerment or to simply communicate more effectively? Unfortunately, for centuries our culture has taught us to think and speak in ways that can actually perpetuate conflict, internal pain and...
UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World
| Author | Michele Borba |
| ISBN | 1501110039 |
Bestselling author Michele Borba offers a 9-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood—and explains why developing a healthy sense of empathy is a key predictor of which kids will thrive and succeed in the future.
Is the Selfie Syndrome Undermining...
| Author | Gerald G. Jampolsky |
| ISBN | 1587611961 |
This book is not the usual type of selection for a religion blog, is it? I’m not sure God is even mentioned in the book. But Love is, and God is Love, right? For all you Bible scholars out there, we shouldn’t get so wrapped up in our fascinating scholarly pursuits that we forget the reason for our religion...
| Author | Anthony Reynolds |
| ISBN | 1844166074 |
Ever driven by his lust for power, Marduk, aspiring Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers Chaos Space Marine Legion, strives to unlock the secrets of an ancient and deadly artefact. This quest throws him and the Word Bearers into a deadly warzone and a desperate battle between their Imperial enemies, the...
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
| Author | Salman Khan |
| ISBN | 1619697777 |
A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents,...
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
| Author | Christopher Emdin |
| ISBN | 0807006408 |
Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education.
Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color and merging his...
It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
| Author | Paul Arden |
| ISBN | 0714843377 |
It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be is a handbook of how to succeed in the world: a pocket bible for the talented and timid alike to help make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible.
The world’s top advertising guru, Paul Arden, offers up his wisdom on issues...
The Good News About Bad Behavior: Why Kids Are Less Disciplined Than Ever-And What to Do About It
| Author | Katherine Reynolds Lewis |
| ISBN | 1549168363 |
The current model of parental discipline is as outdated as a rotary phone.
Why don't our kids do what we want them to do? Parents often take the blame for misbehavior, but this obscures a broader trend: in our modern, highly connected age, children have less self-control than ever. About half of the...
The Girl Behind the Red Rope
| Author | Ted Dekker |
| ISBN | 0800736532 |
Ten years ago, Grace saw something that would forever change the course of history. When evil in its purest form is unleashed on the world, she and others from their religious community are already hidden deep in the hills of Tennessee, abiding by every rule that will keep them safe, pure--and alive....
The Global Achievement Gap: Why Our Kids Don't Have the Skills They Need for College, Careers, and Citizenship—and What We Can Do About It
| Author | Tony Wagner |
| ISBN | 0465002293 |
Despite the best efforts of educators, our nation’s schools are dangerously obsolete. Instead of teaching students to be critical thinkers and problem-solvers, we are asking them to memorize facts for multiple choice tests. This problem isn’t limited to low-income school districts: even...
| Author | Anthony Reynolds |
| ISBN | 1844165078 |
Seems like a nice, pulpy read; the building of a tower seems to give it a bit of Biblical breadth, and the...well, the apocalypse is right there, isn't it? I mean, 40K into the future and Bob's your uncle as far as eschatological scope, innit?
Here's how Martin Amis would start it, perhaps:
My...
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
| Author | Daniel Markovits |
| ISBN | 0735221995 |
A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy
It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal...
Breakfast at Sally's: One Homeless Man's Inspirational Journey
| Author | Richard LeMieux |
| ISBN | 1602392935 |
One day, Richard LeMieux had a happy marriage, a palatial home, and took $40,000 Greek vacations. The next, he was living out of a van with only his dog, Willow, for company. This astonishingly frank memoir tells the story of one man's resilience in the face of economic disaster. Penniless, a failed suicide,...
| Author | Graham McNeill |
| ISBN | 1844163709 |
Still not sure if this book is better or worse than first one but it's still a bloody good fun.
Writing in this book is notch bellow first one. So far I got the impression that Abnett is better writer than McNeil, his dialogs and characters where more enjoyable. On the other hand story in this book...
| Author | Anthony Reynolds |
| ISBN | 1844167879 |
This was my second time reading this book, though I remembered nothing from the first time as it had been a number of years.
Reynolds does a good job finishing off this trilogy. Everything that had been set up in the previous two novels comes to a wonderfully done conclusion in this book, which...
