8 Top teaching books like Instructional Story Design: Develop Stories That Train by Rance Greene

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Instructional Story Design: Develop Stories That Train

By: Rance Greene

4.33

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Once Upon a Time, Storytelling Met Instructional Design From children to adults, everybody likes a…

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1. The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

By: Michael Bungay Stanier

4.02

Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition

In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your d… read more

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2. Britt-Marie Was Here

By: Fredrik Backman , Henning Koch

4.09

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Britt-Marie can’t stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable … read more

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"If you can be heard then you exist."

-Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

"They forgot what made them successful."

-Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

"It takes years to know a human being. An entire lifetime. It's what makes a home a home."

-Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

"A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that."

-Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

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3. Design for How People Learn

By: Julie Dirksen

4.26

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Products, technologies, and workplaces change so quickly today that everyone is continually learnin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
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4. Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation

By: Tim Brown

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The re… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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5. The Accidental Instructional Designer

By: Cammy Bean

2.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Don t create boring e-learning! Cammy Bean presents a fresh, modern take on instructional design fo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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6. Telling Ain't Training

By: Harold D. Stolovitch

4.82

Format: 174 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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7. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

By: Peter C. Brown , Henry L. Roediger III , Mark A. McDaniel

4.30

Format: None pages, Hardcover

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education

8. How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody

By: Abby Covert

4.28

Format: 364 pages,

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9. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

By: Dan Ariely

3.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent a… read more

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10. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

By: Adam M. Grant

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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11. Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

By: Annie Duke

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting… read more

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12. The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1)

By: Luanne G. Smith

4.06

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

In Victorian England a witch and a detective are on the hunt for a serial killer in an enthralling … read more

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"Never ask a question you don't want to know the answer to."

-Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1)

"[S]ometimes it's necessary to put one foot on each side of the law to walk a straight line."

-Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1)

"[W]hat made them contrary was their apathy towards other people's opinions about them. Well, outward appearances were one thing. Inside, with only each other to confide in, they felt the cold shoulde…"

-Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1)

"The finality of a person's life confounded the ego. How could a body and mind that walked, talked, and had brilliant, witty thoughts suddenly cease to be? How could a body shrug off its mortal coil a…"

-Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1)

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13. All Boys Aren’t Blue

By: George M. Johnson

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explor… read more

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  • nonfiction
"History has an interesting way of painting."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"We are not as different as you think, and all our stories deserve to be celebrated and told."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

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14. The Jane Austen Society

By: Natalie Jenner

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

2020 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction and for Debut Novel! Just after the S… read more

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"Saved by Jane Austen"

-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

"But one can always read Austen."

-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

"You read too much. You read her to much."

-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

"Reading, she now understood, had been her own choice of rebellion."

-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

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15. How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job

By: Sally Helgesen

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Since the publication of his international bestseller What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, busine… read more

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  • nonfiction
"High-profile women who seek to rise are routinely criticised as being "too ambitious". What does "too ambitious even mean? It seems to mean that any woman who is ambitious is unseemly, over-the-top, …"

-Sally Helgesen, How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job

"Belief that Women should always be role models for others: The idea that high-profile women do not get to make their own life choices without first considering the potential impact upon all other wom…"

-Sally Helgesen, How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job

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16. Unwinding Anxiety

By: Judson Brewer

3.91

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and … read more

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17. What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies

By: Tim Urban

4.28

Format: 746 pages, Kindle Edition

From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what… read more

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"The Scientist’s clear mind sees a foggy world, full of complexity and nuance and messiness, the Zealot’s foggy mind shows them a clear, simple world, full of crisp lines and black-and-white distincti…"

-Tim Urban, What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies

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18. The Shape of Water

By: Guillermo del Toro

3.88

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

It is 1962, and Elisa Esposito—mute her whole life, orphaned as a child—is struggling with her humd… read more

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"Feet are what connect you to the ground, and when you are poor, none of that ground belongs to you."

-Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

"What would feeling like somebody feel like? To suddenly exist not only in your world, but someone else’s as well?"

-Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

"She holds him, he holds her, they hold each other, and all is dark, all is light, all is ugliness, all is beauty, all is pain, all is grief, all is never, all is forever."

-Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

"But what is intelligence? Is intelligence calculations and computations? Or must true intelligence contain a moral component? Each passing minute, I believe more that this is the case."

-Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

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19. Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers

By: Chip Heath

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

A clear, practical guide to turning cold, clinical data into a story - from bestselling business au… read more

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20. Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning

By: Pooja K. Agarwal

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Unleash powerful teaching and the science of learning in your classroom Powerful Unleash the Scien… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
"When we think about learning, we typically focus on getting information into students’ heads. What if, instead, we focus on getting information out of students’ heads?"

-Pooja K. Agarwal, Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning

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21. Map It: The hands-on guide to strategic training design

By: Cathy Moore

4.46

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

No more information dumps!Map It helps you turn training requests into projects that make a real di… read more

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  • education
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22. Instructional Story Design: Develop Stories That Train

By: Rance Greene

4.33

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Once Upon a Time, Storytelling Met Instructional Design From children to adults, everybody likes a… read more

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  • teaching
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23. Scenario-based e-Learning: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Online Workforce Learning

By: Ruth Colvin Clark

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Scenario-Based e - Learning Scenario-Based e-Learning offers a new instructional design approach th… read more

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24. The Art and Science of Training

By: Elaine Biech

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

There are more similarities than differences between how artists and scientists work. Both ask … read more

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  • teaching
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25. Michael Allen's Guide to E-Learning: Building Interactive, Fun, and Effective Learning Programs for Any Company

By: Michael W. Allen

3.91

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

An industry leader speaks out against boring, ineffective, costly e-learning and provides practical… read more

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  • teaching
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Cover of Training Ain't Performance by Harold D. Stolovitch

26. Training Ain't Performance

By: Harold D. Stolovitch

4.34

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Despite the explicit emphasis on bottom-line results in the workplace, a great deal of confusion ex… read more

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27. Measuring Instructional Results

By: Robert F. Mager

3.92

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

How do you know if your students have truly learned what you set out to teach? This text is designe… read more

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Michael Bungay Stanier

4.02

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Julie Dirksen

4.26

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Tim Brown

3.89

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2.70

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Ethan Kross

3.97

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