15 Best nonfiction books like Sweller's Cognitive Load Theory in Action by Oliver Lovell

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Sweller's Cognitive Load Theory in Action

By: Oliver Lovell

4.51

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

What is it that enables students to learn from some classroom activities, yet leaves them totally c…

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1. Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.08

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

The song. That’s what apprentice wizard and London Metropolitan Police Constable Peter Grant fi… read more

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"He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

" Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards , I thought. For they are soggy and hard to light. "

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

"First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

"It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

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2. Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom

By: Daniel T. Willingham

4.04

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Kids are naturally curious, but when it comes to school it seems like their minds are turned off. W… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • school
  • education
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3. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

By: Philip Pullman

3.62

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This is a story. In this ingenious and spell-binding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman… read more

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4. The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need

By: Scott Pape

4.47

Format: 310 pages,

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  • nonfiction

5. How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching

By: Richard E. Mayer , None , Marsha C. Lovett , None , None , None

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Praise for How Learning Works"How Learning Worksis the perfect title for this excellent book. Drawi… read more

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6. A History of Loneliness

By: John Boyne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When h… read more

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7. The Long Utopia (The Long Earth #4)

By: Terry Pratchett , Stephen Baxter

3.86

Format: None pages, ebook

It is the middle of the twenty-first century. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Y… read more

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8. The Long Cosmos (The Long Earth, #5)

By: Terry Pratchett , Stephen Baxter

3.82

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the new Next post-human society c… read more

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9. When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic shifts in school behaviour

By: Paul Dix

4.31

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

You can buy in the best behaviour tracking software, introduce 24/7 detentions or scream 'NO EXCUSE… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • school
  • education
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10. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

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"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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11. How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers

By: Tim Harford

4.12

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whet… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.24

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Join Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, for a brand new case . . . Martin Chorley, ak… read more

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"A sense of powerlessness can seriously exacerbate stress,"

-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

"Or as my dad always says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

"The kitchen was the kind of brushed steel monstrosity that looks more like it's designed to weaponise viruses than cook dinner."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

"Here's a comforting thought for you, Peter,' he said. 'However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

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13. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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14. The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life

By: Steven Bartlett

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A galvanizing playbook for success from Steven Bartlett, one of the world’s most exciting entrepren… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

By: Patty McCord

4.08

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

When it comes to recruiting, motivating, and creating great teams, Patty McCord says most companies… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Fry's Ties

By: Stephen Fry

3.80

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Discover the tales behind the ties in Stephen Fry's witty companion to our most distinguished acces… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Power

By: Kemi Nekvapil

4.20

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Shift your thinking about what power is and who gets to have it. Live and lead fully, without apolo… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Running the Room: The Teacher's Guide to Behaviour by Tom Bennett

18. Running the Room: The Teacher's Guide to Behaviour

By: Tom Bennett

4.27

Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition

Good behaviour is the beginning of great learning. All children deserve classrooms that are calm, s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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19. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

By: Stanislas Dehaene

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
"Yann LeCun's strategy provides a good example of a much more general notion: the exploitation of innate knowledge. Convolutional neural networks learn better and faster than other types of neural net…"

-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

"Our brain is therefore not simply passively subjected to sensory inputs. From the get-go, it already possesses a set of abstract hypotheses, an accumulated wisdom that emerged through the sift of Dar…"

-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

"The moral here is that nature and nurture should not be opposed. Pure learning, in the absence of any innate constraints, simply does not exist. Any learning algorithm contains, in one way or another…"

-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

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20. Right Story, Wrong Story

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta’s bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on contemporary society. I… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Making Kids Cleverer

By: Didau

4.23

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

In Making Kids Cleverer David Didau reignites the nature vs nurture debate around intelligence read more

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  • education
  • teaching
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22. Sweller's Cognitive Load Theory in Action

By: Oliver Lovell

4.51

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

What is it that enables students to learn from some classroom activities, yet leaves them totally c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • school
  • education
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23. The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading

By: Christopher Such

4.44

Format: None pages, ebook

The essential guide to the science behind reading and its practical implications for classroom teac… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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24. Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques

By: Tom Sherrington

4.27

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli team up to present 50 essential teaching techniques, each wit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • school
  • education
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25. Motivated Teaching: Harnessing the science of motivation to boost attention and effort in the classroom (High Impact Teaching Book 3)

By: Peps Mccrea

4.36

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

"It's not easy to write a book that is simultaneously brief, packed with ideas, and clear, but Peps… read more

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  • education
  • teaching
Cover of A Little Guide for Teachers: Cognitive Load Theory by Greg Ashman

26. A Little Guide for Teachers: Cognitive Load Theory

By: Greg Ashman

4.61

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

Cognitive load theory is a vital model for understanding how school students learn, but it’s often … read more

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  • education
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27. Virtuous Educational Leadership: Doing the Right Work the Right Way

By: Viviane M J Robinson

4.40

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Excellent leadership matters Without excellent leadership, school improvement is impossible, or at… read more

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28. Bjork & Bjork’s Desirable Difficulties in Action

By: Moore

4.25

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

None read more

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29. Tips for Teachers: 400+ Ideas to Improve Your Teaching

By: Craig Barton

4.73

Format: 588 pages, Paperback

Teaching is complex. But there are simple ideas we can enact to help our teaching be more effective… read more

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  • education
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30. Lean lesson planning: A practical approach to doing less and achieving more in the classroom (High Impact Teaching series)

By: Peps Mccrea

3.80

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This book is for any teacher who's interested in improving their lesson planning and practice. It o… read more

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31. Teaching & Learning Illuminated: The Big Ideas, Illustrated

By: Bradley Busch

3.69

Format: 150 pages, ebook

This exciting new book from the bestselling authors of The Science of Learning takes complex ideas … read more

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Daniel T. Willingham

4.04

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4.31

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4.27

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