18 best-selling nonfiction books like Tools for Teachers by Oliver Lovell

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Tools for Teachers

By: Oliver Lovell

4.48

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

If the sky was the limit, what would you do to become the best educator that you can be? In 2016 Ol…

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1. 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
  • education
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2. Queen Kat, Carmel and St. Jude Get a Life

By: Maureen McCarthy

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Re-released to coincide with the TV mini-series Queen Kat, Carmel and St. Jude to commence in Febru… read more

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3. Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)

By: Jane Harper

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of Th… read more

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4. Trivium 21c: Preparing Young People for the Future with Lessons From the Past

By: Martin Robinson , Ian Gilbert

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Universities in the Middle Ages focused on three skills to develop the intellectual abilities of st… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education

5. Tin Man

By: Sarah Winman

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is almost a love story. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a… read more

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6. The Thing Around Your Neck

By: None

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Yo… read more

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7. The Hate Race

By: Maxine Beneba Clarke

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin… read more

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8. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

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9. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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10. Before You Knew My Name

By: Jacqueline Bublitz

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This is not just another novel about a dead girl. Two women—one alive, one dead—are brought togethe… read more

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"I know what it's like for the horror to follow you home."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"What happened to her makes me so mad. The entitlement of these fucking men who destroy lives, just because they can."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"The thing is. When the dead speak back, we are seldom loud enough to be heard over the clamour of all that living going on."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"For the first time, I understand it's not only the dead who have lives they don't get to live out. The people left behind have as many versions of themselves unexplored, as many possible paths that c…"

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

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11. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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12. Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)

By: Stephen Fry

4.35

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty,… read more

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  • nonfiction
"His reward is the eternal fame that is both priceless and worthless"

-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)

"Bij onze geboorte ligt ons lot al vast, en niemand heeft ooit het zijne kunnen ontlopen (Hektor)"

-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)

"Forget him. What is treasure? Or Briseis, or honor, or anything? Next to the life of the one I loved best and dearest? My beloved, my only Patroclus."

-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)

"Zelfs de onsterfelijke goden waren niet bij machte zich te verhouden tot, mee te leven met, nakomelingen te verwekken bij en het lot te bepalen van zo'n aanzwellende schare eerzuchtige, vernuftige en…"

-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)

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13. Flames

By: Robbie Arnott

4.07

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, C… read more

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14. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

4.36

Format: 256 pages, ebook

This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity."

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Guilt is like any other energy: you can't accumulate it or keep it because it makes you sick and disrupts the system you live in - you have to let it go. Face the truth, make amends and let it go."

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Engaging with them (malignant narcissists) alone is futile - never wrestle a pig, as the old saying goes; you both end up covered in shit, and the pig likes it. The fundamental rules of human interac…"

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Understanding your own culture and the ways it interacts with others, particularly the power dynamics of it, is far more appreciated. My reading of Germane Greer when I was a young lad was a lot more…"

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

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15. Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music

By: Archie Roach

4.63

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07S8QVZR5 A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Rosenshine's Principles in Action

By: Tom Sherrington

4.28

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Bridging research and classroom practice, Barack Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction are widely … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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17. 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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18. Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time

By: Susan Scott

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Wall Street Journal bestseller, now with new material. The master teacher of positive change t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. 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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20. The Wonder of Little Things

By: Vince Copley

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A First Nations Elder shares his extraordinary story of finding kindness in the midst of prejudice,… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. 10 Things Schools Get Wrong: (And How We Can Get Them Right)

By: Jared Cooney Horvath

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

What counterintuitive lessons can we learn from the meteoric rise of Mindset Theory in education? W… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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22. Better Boys, Better Men: The New Masculinity That Creates Greater Courage and Emotional Resiliency

By: Andrew Reiner

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking and much-needed look at how modern masculinity is harming and holding back men—… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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23. Tools for Teachers

By: Oliver Lovell

4.48

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

If the sky was the limit, what would you do to become the best educator that you can be? In 2016 Ol… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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24. Transform Teaching and Learning through Talk: The Oracy Imperative

By: Amy Gaunt

4.30

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

“Reading and writing float on a sea of talk” declared James Britton – and yet in our current educat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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25. 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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26. Developing Expert Teaching: A practical guide to designing effective professional development, for others and ourselves (High Impact Teaching)

By: Peps Mccrea

4.33

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

This book is for teachers, school leaders and teacher educators interested in understanding what te… read more

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  • education
  • teaching
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27. The Power of Teams: How to create and lead thriving school teams

By: Samuel Crome

4.55

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

None read more

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28. Teaching Math With Examples

By: Michael Pershan

4.64

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Rammed full of practical ideas – all of which are beautifully articulated and backed by research – … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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29. Dunlosky's Strengthening the Student Toolbox in Action

By: Amarbeer Singh Gill

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine having to draw dots each time we wanted to do a sum like 3+4. Or having to sound out every … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Building Culture: A handbook to harnessing human nature to create strong school teams by Lekha Sharma

30. Building Culture: A handbook to harnessing human nature to create strong school teams

By: Lekha Sharma

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Building Culture navigates the complex educational landscape and provides a look at school culture,… read more

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31. Making Room for Impact: A De-implementation Guide for Educators

By: Arran Hamilton

3.67

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

Dial back and make room for impact With teacher and leader workloads and burnout at an all-time hi… read more

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3.95

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4.46

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