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  • 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

    $17.99 USD

  • The World of Magic: 13 Classic Books on Tricks and Illusions

    The Practical Magician and Ventriloquist's Guide, Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography, etc.

    by Albert A. Hopkins, Henry Ridgely Evans, A. Anderson, H. Boaz, Professor Hoffmann, L. H. Branson, Arthur Ainslie, Herbert De Caston, George Arnold, Frank Cahill, William K. David, Henry Perkins, Chung Ling Soo ...
    In "The World of Magic: 13 Classic Books on Tricks and Illusions," readers are treated to a rich tapestry of the magical arts, showcasing the myriad styles and traditions that have characterized this fascinating realm of entertainment. This anthology journeys through the nuanced expressions of illusion, sleight of hand, and the artistry of deception, offering a unique glimpse into the evolution of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Magic Tricks Collection: 16 Fascinating Books

    The Old and the New Magic, How to Do Mechanical Tricks, The Juggler's Oracle, etc.

    by Albert A. Hopkins, Henry Ridgely Evans, A. Anderson, H. Boaz, Professor Hoffmann, L. H. Branson, Arthur Ainslie, Herbert De Caston, George Arnold, Frank Cahill, William K. David, Henry Perkins, Chung Ling Soo, Hercat, Hereward Carrington, Harry Houdini ...
    The 'Magic Tricks Collection: 16 Fascinating Books' delves into the captivating world of stage magic and illusion, showcasing a rich diversity of performances and sleights of hand that have enthralled audiences for generations. This anthology embraces a wide array of styles, from intricate card tricks and mind-bending illusions to the art of escape, reflecting the multifaceted nature of the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    25+ The World's Greatest Short Stories. Vol. 1

    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Gold Bug, Daisy Miller, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Call of Cthulhu and other

    by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Bret Harte, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rudyard Kipling, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anton Chekhov, David Herbert Lawrence, James Joyce, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Bunin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, O. Henry, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, Herbert George Wells, William Wymark Jacobs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Alexander Pushkin, Gilbert Keith Chesterton ...
    Narrated by Paul Gibson, David Miles, Michael Goodrick, Frank Bailey, Sharon Plummer, Jeremy Albret, John Lingua, Mark Bowen, Richard Williams, Joe Phoenix, Mike Hogan, Peter Coates, Martina Mercer-Hall, Jim Girard, Joanne Thompson, David McCord, Judy Kriz, Jason Dettrey ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 8 min

    Contents:Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy HollowEdgar Allan Poe. The Gold BugHerman Melville. Bartleby, the ScrivenerBret Harte. The Luck of Roaring CampLeo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan IlyichFyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous ManRudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-TaviCharlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow WallpaperAnton Chekhov. The Lady with the DogD.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Of... ... Read more

    Was $24.99 USD Now $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $17.00 USD

  • 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

    $14.00 USD

  • 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

    $13.99 USD

  • 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

    $3.99 USD

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    Civil Wars

    A History in Ideas

    by David Armitage ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 19 min

    A highly original history, tracing the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression from ancient Rome through the centuries to the present day.We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn’t, have a long and contested history, from its fraught origins in republican Rome to debates in early modern Europe down to the present day. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • 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

    $11.59 USD

  • 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

    $19.00 USD