Great Students

Some great teachers are born, but most are self-made. And the way to make yourself a great teacher is to learn to think and act like one. In this updated second edition of the bestselling Never Work Harder Than Your Students, Robyn R. Jackson reaffirms that every teacher can become a master teacher. The secret is not a specific strategy or technique, nor it is endless hours of prep time. It's developing a master teacher mindset.

A clear, reader-friendly edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for modern readers. This Lumos Books edition gently clarifies difficult wording and formatting while preserving the plot, voice, character relationships, and literary force of the original classic. Best for readers who want an accessible path into a classic work while still staying close to the original.

In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since...

A book based on the conversations of a professor with his students, questioning the timeless dilemmas we all ultimately face. The dialog expresses doubts, fears, and the insights provided by history into 12 fundamental questions of human existence. We fill up our days with “getting by,” and making it “day-by-day,” while neglecting the deeper meaning that lies before us unseen. The 12 questions discussed (What is truth, good and evil, justice, liberty, equality, law, punishment, honor, friendship, relationships, happiness, and fate?) form the basis for much of what we know about ...

In Hacking Leadership, award-winning school administrators Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis demonstrate how to increase learning by leaving the office and engaging directly with all teachers and learners. They identify 10 problems with school leadership and provide dynamic, right-now solutions. 

Something Is Missing. Something Enormous. You are made of almost nothing. Not in a philosophical sense. In a literal, measurable, scientific one. Every atom in your body, every star you have ever seen, every planet, moon, and galaxy that astronomers have ever cataloged in the entire history of human observation. All of it, every single piece of matter in the known universe, amounts to less than five percent of what exists. The rest is dark. Silent. Invisible. Unknown. Stop for a moment and let that land. Ninety-five percent of the universe is missing, and no one knows what it is. This is ...

Your institution has an attention problem. It's not a quality problem. Your faculty are excellent. Your programs deliver outcomes. Your campus transforms lives. But fewer people know about you than should. Prospective students scroll through hundreds of posts every day. They give new content three seconds before deciding to engage or move on. Three seconds. That's your window and most institutions are missing it. Attention Gap shows you how to close it. What you'll learn: Why the three-second window changes everything about how you communicate How authenticity beats polish in capturing ...

“Like the druidic life force Jack taps, this hearty adventure, as personal as it is epic, will cradle readers in the ‘hollow of its hand’ (Booklist, starred review). Jack has caused an earthquake. He was trying to save his sister Lucy from being thrown down a well, but sometimes the magic...

If you are fascinated by business innovation, curious about how markets evolve, or inspired by the people who reshape entire industries, this book is for you. You may know the names: Rockefeller, Ford, Jobs, Bezos. But do you understand the worlds they entered, the risks they took, the systems they built, and the controversies they ignited? Most business books either simplify history into motivational slogans or bury readers in technical jargon. This book does neither. The Greatest Entrepreneurs of All Time is written for educated general readers, students, aspiring founders, investors, and...

What if the greatest era of prosperity in American history was actually a glittering house of cards waiting to collapse? Most traditional history books present the interwar period as a confusing jumble of financial jargon or bury the raw human drama of the decade under thousands of pages of dense academic prose. For the modern reader seeking to understand the roots of today's macroeconomic structures and the dangers of unchecked speculation, finding the unvarnished truth is a daunting, time-consuming task. THE HISTORY OF THE ROARING TWENTIES & GREAT DEPRESSION Summarized is your shortcut to...

Discover a powerful and positive mindset each day of the year with uplifting insights and motivational Bible verses provided by #1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer.Find new mercies and blessings each day when you spend time with God: reading His Word, listening, and praying for His...

Knights, Spies, and a City of Gold. Welcome to the wildest Crusade in history. In the year 1198, thousands of knights set out on a holy mission to Egypt. But they never made it. Instead, they ended up pulling off the biggest robbery the world has ever seen. In How a Holy Mission Became the Greatest Heist in History, young historians will sail with the Fourth Crusade to the legendary city of Constantinople—the jewel of the Byzantine Empire. This isn't just a story about swords and shields. It is a journey into the medieval history for kids that explains how things happened. Discover the ...

What do great teachers do differently? As an educator, you may ask yourself this question all the time. Or you may know the answer but are struggling in an environment that just doesn't appreciate great teaching. Whatever the case, educators - and American society in general - have long worried about the lack of great teaching. That is why, for decades, Gallup has directed the leading thinkers in education and psychology to uncover what makes a teacher truly great.

In this thrilling chapter in Faye Kellerman’s bestselling series, Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods of her upstate New York community that leads her husband, police detective Peter Decker, through a series of gruesome, decades old, unsolved murders, pointing to a diabolical...

“So often people ask me if there’s a book on story I can recommend. This is the one. I can’t recommend it highly enough.”––Alexa Junge, writer/producer, Friends, Sex and the City, The West Wing A master class of 27 lessons, drawn from 27 diverse narratives, for novelists...

Ancient images can feel distant—formal, silent, as if speaking an unknown language. And yet, they were designed to communicate with absolute clarity. Why is the pharaoh always larger? Why do figures appear flat, shown in strict profile? Why do certain symbols repeat with such insistence? Why do temples, tombs, and palaces take the shapes they do? These aren't accidents. They're choices—visual strategies born from what these cultures valued most: power, order, memory, the divine.

Russian literature has produced more than its share of great novels, but it has rarely produced a reading list. This book offers one: twenty-five novels, spanning a century and a half, from Pushkin's restless aristocrats to Solzhenitsyn's imprisoned scientists, arranged so that two weeks with each book carries the reader through an entire year. Along the way you will meet a bored young nobleman who fails to recognise love until it is too late, a mother transformed from fearful bystander to revolutionary, a devil who arrives in Stalinist Moscow to expose the city's hypocrisies, and a ...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The foundational book on how to live well, what happiness actually is, why character is built by habit, and how a good life is assembled choice by choice. Aristotle's masterwork, complete and fresh from the Greek in clear modern English...

Stop sending generic applications and start landing the interviews you deserve. Transitioning from nursing student to Registered Nurse is more than just a graduation ceremony—it’s a high-stakes shift into a complex professional landscape. In a sea of hundreds of new grad applications, a standard resume is a one-way ticket to the "reject" pile. You need a document that functions like a clinical hand-off report: clear, data-driven, and focused on patient safety. Great Resumes for Nursing Jobs is the definitive, "No-BS" guide for new graduates eager to make their mark in healthcare. ...

WINNER OF THE TENNESSEE BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history—and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, justice can be...