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by Bernie Trilling & Charles Fadel Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. The new building blocks for learning in a complex world
This important resource introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. 21st Century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic-but also emphasizes global awareness, financial/economic literacy, and health issues. The skills fall into three categories: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills. |
by Tosca Reno Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Bestselling author, magazine columnist, and 50-year-old swimsuit and fitness model, Tosca Reno, has spent the past decade putting her principles of eating clean, health, fitness, and mind/body/spirit wellness in motion in her own life, as
well as those of her devotees. |
by Rachel Simmons Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Rachel Simmons argues that in idealizing the "good girl" -- unerringly nice, polite, modest, and selfless -- we teach girls to embrace a version of selfhood that curtails their power and potential. |
by Mark Lachs, MD Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Too often our culture defines the aging process negatively instead of embracing it as a natural part of life. Nowhere is this problem more pronounced than in our health-care system, where "ageist" medicine often serves to worsen our medical issues instead of helping us figure out how to address or avoid them. Whether we're forty or eighty, what we need is an insider's guide to staying healthy despite the system. |
by Saul Austerlitz Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Running the gamut of film history from City Lights to Knocked Up, Another Fine Mess retells the story of American film from the perspective of its unwanted stepbrother -- the comedy. |
by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. A miraculous lesson in courage and recovery, Bending Toward the Sun tells the story of a unique family bond forged in the wake of brutal terror. Weaving together the voices of three generations of women, Leslie Gilbert-Lurie and her mother, Rita Lurie, provide powerful -- and inspiring -- evidence of the resilience of the human spirit, relevant to every culture in every corner of the world. By turns unimaginably devastating and incredibly uplifting, this firsthand account of survival and psychological healing offers a strong, poignant message of hope in our own uncertain times. |
by Carmine Gallo Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Author Carmine Gallo gets into the mind of one of today's more innovative leaders in business to reveal his 7 wonders for innovation and creativity. Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple, is the CEO of the decade and now reveals the operating system behind all his great thinking. |
by Linda Byler Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Lizzie Glick longs to fit into her quiet Amish community. Her sisters, Emma and Mandy, are ready to get married and settle into the traditional rhythm of having children and keeping house. But Lizzie isn't sure that's what she wants for her future. It isn't that Lizzie doesn't want to stay Amish. It's just that there's so much to figure out! |
by Phil and Lauren Rubin Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. The idea for The Comfort of Apples came to chefs Philip and Lauren Rubin when, after an afternoon spent picking apples at a local orchard, they looked at each other and wondered, "What do we do with them?" With the abundance of apples filling farmer's markets, supermarket produce sections, and orchards every fall, it is a rare soul who doesn't wind up with a veritable bounty of apple varieties filling their larder for at least several months out of the year. |
by Jodee Blanco Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. While other children were daydreaming about dances, first kisses, and college, Jodee Blanco was trying to figure out how to go from homeroom to study hall without being taunted or spit upon as she walked through the halls. |
by Rebecca Costa Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Why does it feel as if our most challenging problems today -- worldwide recession, global warming, fast-spreading viruses, water and food shortages, poverty -- aren’t being solved? What if our brain has limits that prevent it from solving such complex problems? If ancient civilizations collapsed because they, too, hit a cognitive limitation, are we headed for a similar collapse? Can it be prevented? These are the questions Rebecca Costa confronts -- and offers a solution to -- in her intriguing and game-changing book, The Watchman’s Rattle. |
by Silvana Nardone Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Cooking for Isaiah is a love story of Silvana Nardone's journey to develop great-tasting meals for her son, Isaiah, after he was diagnosed with food intolerances to gluten and dairy. The results of her efforts are found in the pages of this book, through 135 recipes that are not only easy to make, but taste and look delicious. |
by Kristen Schaal and Rich Blomquist Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Comedy team and real-life couple Kristen Schaal and Rich Blomquist went to the mattress (literally) to bring a whole new brand of sex advice to the masses. |
by Jilliane Hoffman Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Thirteen-year-old Lainey Emerson is the middle child in a home police
are already familiar with: her mother works too much and her stepfather
favors his own blood over another man's problems -- namely Lainey and
her wild older sister, Liza. So when Lainey does not come home from a
Friday night out with her friends, it is dismissed by the Coral Springs
P.D. as just another disillusioned South Florida teen running away from
suburban drama and an unhappy home life. |
by Peter Miller Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarms. A fascinating new take on the concept of collective intelligence and its colorful manifestations in some of our most complex problems, The Smart Swarm introduces a compelling new understanding of the real experts on solving our own complex problems relating to such topics as business, politics, and technology. |
by Caroline Taggart Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. It's no myth: The legacy of the ancient
Greeks and Romans touches each of us in some way every day. In fact,
the great thinkers from this period laid the foundation for much of our
language, art, architecture, and science. Unfortunately, learning about
such things can often be oh, so boring. But nil desperandum (do
not despair). It's really no Herculean task. With The Classics,
author Caroline Taggart presents a lively refresher course of the most
important "stuff" you need to know. |
by Evan Marshall and Martha Jewett Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. The 16 steps outlined in this best-selling book will have you thinking about writing in an entirely new way. Rather than attempting to dive straight into writing, haphazardly trying to connect plot, characterization and other narrative elements as you go, you’ll realize that successful novel writing is actually a linear, calculated process anyone can follow. |
by Kristan Higgins Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. For Callie Grey, turning thirty means coming to grips with the fact that her boss (and five-week fling) is way overdue in his marriage proposal. And way off track because Mark has suddenly announced his engagement to the company’s new Miss Perfect.
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by Dora Calott Wang, M.D. Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Part memoir and part rallying cry, The Kitchen Shrink is an
unflinchingly honest, passionate, and humane inside look at the
realities of free-market medicine in today's America. |
by Landy Chase Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Competitive Selling has what you need to out-maneuver, out-negotiate, and out-sell everyone who stands between you and a closed sale. It reveals exactly how today's highest achievers win every battle and provides a blueprint for replicating this success |
by Jeff Stewart Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Packed with amusing examples and experiments that readers can try for themselves, E=MC2 covers all of the most important discoveries of physics. Travel down the highway, through the beach, and to the pub and learn how physics affects everything in your surroundings-without the use of mind- bending math or the need for a particle accelerator. |


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