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  • The Martin Heidegger Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Martin Heidegger

    by David Perkins ...
    This book is your ultimate Martin Heidegger resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Martin Heidegger's whole picture right away. Get countless Martin Heidegger facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Martin Heidegger ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Outsmarting IQ

    The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence

    by David Perkins ...
    Since the turn of the century, the idea that intellectual capacity is fixed has been generally accepted. But increasingly, psychologists, educators, and others have come to challenge this premise. Outsmarting IQ reveals how earlier discoveries about IQ, together with recent research, show that intelligence is not genetically fixed. Intelligence can be taught.David Perkins, renowned for his ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Making Learning Whole

    How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education

    by David Perkins ...
    New in Paperback! Make learning more meaningful by teaching the "whole game"David Perkins, a noted authority on teaching and learning and co-director of Harvard's Project Zero, introduces a practical and research-based framework for teaching. He describes how teaching any subject at any level can be made more effective if students are introduced to the "whole game," rather than isolated pieces of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Future Wise

    Educating Our Children for a Changing World

    by David Perkins ...
    How to teach big understandings and the ideas that matter mostEveryone has an opinion about education, and teachers face pressures from Common Core content standards, high-stakes testing, and countless other directions. But how do we know what today's learners will really need to know in the future? Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World is a toolkit for approaching that question ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Smart Schools

    From Training Memories to Educating Minds

    by David Perkins ...
    Perkins reveals the common misguided strategies students use and offers teachers and parents advice on how they can help their children.Although there has been a great deal of impassioned debate over the sad state of American education today, surprisingly little attention has been paid to how children actually learn to think. But, as David Perkins demonstrates, we cannot solve our problems in this ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Coal Miner’S Son

    by David Perkins ...
    The author relates about growing up on a farm and his life in the army while being deployed to Europe. He tells about some of the experiences during his teaching career. The experience of his daughters divorce in another state is described in some detail. More importantly, he recounts his passion in witnessing for the Lord as a volunteer Chaplin in prison. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Making Thinking Visible

    How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners

    by Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison ...
    A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilitiesVisible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • When Helping Hurts

    How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself

    by Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert ...
    With more than 450,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation.Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it. When Helping Hurts shows how some alleviation efforts, failing to consider the complexities of poverty, have actually (and ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Knowledge As Design

    by David N. Perkins ...
    First published in 1986. We all play the roles of teacher or learner many times in life, in school and home, on the job and even at play. How can we strengthen those roles, striving for deep understanding and sound thinking? Knowledge As Design demonstrates the strong but neglected unity between learning and critical and creative thinking. Author David Perkins discloses how the concept of design ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • The Greatest Sci-Fi Classics

    Classic Time Travel, Victorian Futures, and Pre-Modern Alien Encounters

    by Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edwin A. Abbott, Jack London, Edward Bellamy, Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, H. Rider Haggard, William Hope Hodgson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Hugh Benson, David Lindsay, Abraham Merritt ...
    Translated by Lewis Page Mercier, Agnes D. Kingston ...
    This meticulously edited Sci-Fi Collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea H. G. Wells: The Time Machine The War of The Worlds Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World Edgar Allan Poe: A Descent into the Maelstrom The Conversation of Eiros and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Neurospora Compendium

    Chromosomal Loci

    by David D. Perkins, Alan Radford, Matthew S. Sachs ...
    The fungi have been major players in the molecular revolution that has transformed biology. Because they can be manipulated as microorganisms, yeast and Neurospora provide information that is difficult to acquire with plants and animals, and experimental findings with fungi often throw light on corresponding processes in plants and animals. The filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa has become a ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Decline and Rise of Democracy

    A Global History from Antiquity to Today

    by David Stastavage ...
    Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 34 min

    Historical accounts of democracy's rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and pre-Renaissance Europe. The Decline and Rise of Democracy draws from global evidence to show that the story is much richer—democratic practices were present in many places, at many other times. David Stasavage makes the case that understanding how and where these democracies flourished—and when and why they declined—can ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD