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Transform intimidating research methods into powerful everyday tools for social work and evidence-based practice. Perfect for your daily commute or a focused study session, this supportive guide empowers you to tackle real-world community challenges. Say goodbye to confusing academic jargon and...

Any conversation about effective teaching must begin with a consideration of how students learn. However, instructors may find a gap between resources that focus on the technical research on learning and those that provide practical classroom strategies. How Learning Works provides the bridge for such a gap. Distilling the research literature and translating the scientific approach into language relevant to a college or university teacher, this book introduces seven general principles of how students learn. 

Built on a rigorous research base of hundreds of studies conducted in a wide array of classrooms, The New Classroom Instruction That Works offers a streamlined focus on the 14 instructional strategies proven to promote deep, meaningful, and lasting learning.

A provocative exploration of the forces that keep us from getting things done, and how we can restore confidence in government “Dunkelman summarizes the history perfectly.” —David Brooks, The New York Times Named a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times The Economist America was once...

Discover how attachment styles, family dynamics, and cultural frameworks intersect to shape human development. Are you a student, practitioner, or curious reader seeking a deeper, holistic understanding of human behavior within the family unit? Family Systems and Development bridges the gap between classic developmental psychology and modern cross-cultural practice. It provides an integrative, evidence-based exploration of how our earliest relationships—and the cultural contexts surrounding themfundamentally direct our emotional, social, and psychological growth. What You Will Discover ...

This book gives you the specific scripts to improve even the most difficult personalities!

Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller A Financial Times Business Book of the Month Named by The Washington Post as One of the 11 Leadership Books to Read in 2018 From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Great by Choice comes an authoritative, practical guide to individual...

Claude isn't a search engine. Almost everyone uses it like one anyway: type a question, take the first answer, move on. Used properly, it drafts the email in your voice, reads the 40-page document you didn't, and works through the decision that's been sitting in a browser tab for two weeks. This book teaches you to use it properly. The method is called DRAFT: a simple five-step way to write prompts that actually work. You learn it once and use it on the tasks you already do, writing, research, email, and analysis, with every prompt shown on the page. Who this book is for: If you're new to ...

""CHANGE OR DIE. What if you were given that choice? We're talking actual life and death now. Your own life and death. What if a well-informed, trusted authority figure said you had to make difficult and enduring changes in the way you think, feel, and act? If you didn't, your time would end...

AI can be a useful creative assistant when it is used thoughtfully. AI for Writers and Creators is a plain-English guide for writers, bloggers, creators, authors, students, and idea-driven people who want practical ways to use AI without losing their own voice. This book explains how AI can help with brainstorming, outlining, drafting, editing, research organization, title ideas, content planning, and creative problem-solving. It also explains the limits of AI, including originality concerns, fact-checking, privacy, overreliance, and the importance of human judgment. Inside, readers will ...

Wondering how to use ChatGPT to actually get work done, not just produce impressive demos nobody saves? Most people treat the most capable AI tool ever released like a slightly smarter Google. They type something vague, skim the response, and move on. The output is fine. Nothing changes. They tell themselves the technology is overhyped and go back to doing things the slow way. The problem is never the tool. It is always the approach. ChatGPT 2026 for Beginners is the step-by-step artificial intelligence guide written for working adults who want real results, not a computer science degree. ...

Unlock the potential of AI in your legal and compliance roles with 'AI for Legal & Compliance Professionals.' This comprehensive guide is designed for managers, executives, and knowledge workers seeking to integrate AI into their daily operations without needing any coding skills. Explore how AI can streamline processes, enhance decision-making, and ensure compliance. Discover practical, jargon-free insights tailored for legal and compliance sectors, with real-world examples and actionable strategies. Whether you're in HR, finance, or any other sector, this book provides the tools to ...

An authoritative guide to global migration that corrects decades of misunderstanding and misguided policy, "defying orthodoxy on all sides of the debate" (Yascha Mounk, author of The Identity Trap​). As debates on immigration have reached fever pitch, so has political and media fearmongering...

This completely revised second edition pulls from years of research, practice, and results to reanalyze and reevaluate the nine instructional strategies that have the most positive effects on teaching and learning. A new framework organizes the nine instructional strategies that have the most positive effects on teaching and learning in preparation for instructional planning, and it highlights the point that all of the strategies are effective and should be used to complement one another. 

An informative and entertaining account of how actions send signals that shape behaviors and how to design better incentives for better results in our life, our work, and our world.

You didn't go to law school to spend 4 hours reviewing a 50-page contract. Yet here you are—billable hour pressure, document-heavy work, and the growing suspicion that larger firms are leveraging technology to undercut your rates and outpace your output. "The Solo Lawyer's AI Toolkit" gives you the exact, step-by-step systems that tech-forward solo attorneys are using to review documents 50-70% faster, complete comprehensive legal research in 90 minutes, and scale their practice without adding overhead staff. Written specifically for solo practitioners, small firm attorneys (2-10 lawyers)...

Your brain is essential to every facet of your life: how you think, feel, act, and relate with others. In his groundbreaking book Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Dr. Daniel Amen shared his clinically demonstrated model for healing multiple types of depression, anxiety, attention deficit and...

Have you recently been told you have a fatty liver and left wondering what to actually do next? Trying to figure out what to eat and how to change your habits can feel overwhelming—especially when the internet is full of conflicting advice, extreme diets, and unproven quick fixes. "What Actually Works for Fatty Liver" cuts through the confusion to offer a calm, practical, and clear roadmap for taking care of your liver health using simple, everyday changes. Inside this straightforward guide, you will discover: • Understanding Your Diagnosis: What having a fatty liver actually means for ...

Use AI to make small-business marketing faster, clearer, and easier to repeat. Marketing can feel overwhelming when you are running a small business. You need content ideas, social media posts, emails, customer follow-ups, offers, ads, research, and reports — but you may not have a big team, a large budget, or hours to waste staring at a blank page. AI Marketing Workflows for Small Business is a plain-English guide to using AI as a practical marketing assistant. Instead of chasing random prompts or complicated marketing theory, this book shows you how to build simple repeatable workflows ...

With peptides dominating conversations around weight loss, metabolism, and appetite control, many people are searching for real answers—without hype, fear, or misinformation. The Peptides Book for Weight Loss is an educational, research-based guide that explains how peptides interact with the body and why they’ve become a growing topic in modern weight management discussions. In this book, you’ll learn: The basics of peptides and why they matter in the body How weight loss is regulated by hormones, signals, and metabolism Why peptides are often discussed in appetite control and fat ...