12 must-read nonfiction books like What Does This Look Like in the Classroom?: Bridging the gap between research and practice by Carl Hendrick

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What Does This Look Like in the Classroom?: Bridging the gap between research and practice

By: Carl Hendrick

4.29

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Educators around the world are uniting behind the need for the profession to have access to more hi…

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1. Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy

By: Joanna Macy , Chris Johnstone

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, … read more

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"By strengthening our compassion, we give fuel to our courage and determination."

-Joanna Macy, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy

"By refreshing our sense of belonging in the world, we widen the web of relationships that nourishes us and protects us from burnout."

-Joanna Macy, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy

"In the past, changing the self and changing the world were often regarded as separate endeavors and viewed in either-or terms. But in the story of the Great Turning, they are recognized as mutually r…"

-Joanna Macy, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy

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2. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder

4.38

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more

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"Now we will live!"

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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3. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

By: Marshall B. Rosenberg , Arun Gandhi

4.34

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of pers… read more

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"At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing an…"

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"All criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. The more we practice in this way, the more we realize a simple truth: …"

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

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4. Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1)

By: Michelle Paver , Geoff Taylor

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Six thousand years ago. Evil stalks the land. Only twelve-year-old Torak and his wolf-cub companion… read more

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5. The War of the Worlds

By: H.G. Wells , Arthur C. Clarke

3.83

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the a… read more

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"We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one"

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"That's what we are now—just ants. Only——" "Yes," I said. "We're eatable ants."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

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6. Journey to the River Sea

By: Kevin Hawkes , Eva Ibbotson

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Sent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, En… read more

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"They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good."

-Kevin Hawkes, Journey to the River Sea

7. Cockroaches (Harry Hole, #2)

By: Jo Nesbø , Don Bartlett

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole … read more

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8. We Had to Remove This Post

By: Hanna Bervoets

2.93

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chill… read more

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"Yena's insecurities were soap bubbles that I had to keep popping, like in that game you play on your phone, but new ones kept appearing and I didn't want to lose, I didn't want to lose her,..."

-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

"They want me to give them something new, things they'd never dare look at, things that are far beyond their imagination, which is why Gregory asks, "But whats the worst thing you ever saw?" rather th…"

-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

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9. Everything Sad Is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more

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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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10. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

By: Hans Rosling

4.36

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporti… read more

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"Free access to data doesn’t turn into knowledge without effort"

-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

"Something frightening poses a perceived risk. Something dangerous poses a real risk."

-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

"We like to believe that things happen because someone wanted them to, that individuals have power and agency: otherwise, the world feels unpredictable, confusing, and frightening."

-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

"Does saying "things are improving" imply that everything is fine, and we should all relax and not worry? No, not at all. Is it helpful to have to choose between bad and improving? Definitely not. It'…"

-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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11. A Heart That Works

By: Rob Delaney

4.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New York Times  Bestseller *  The New Yorker   Best Books of 2022 *  Entertainment Weekly  Best Boo… read more

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"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

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12. 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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"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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13. Byli jsme tu vždycky

By: Filip Titlbach

4.59

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Třináct výjimečně důvěrných a otevřených rozhovorů o queer současnosti „Jednou jsem se zeptal má… read more

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14. Slepé skvrny

By: Daniel Prokop

4.52

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

O chudobě, vzdělávání, populismu a dalších výzvách české společnosti Debaty o politice se v Česk… read more

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  • education
"A stejně tak když žijete ve stresu, zda zaplatit nájem, nebo dítěti školní obědy, ztrácíte schopnost číst složité smlouvy a racionálně vyhodnotit riziko."

-Daniel Prokop, Slepé skvrny

"„V systému, kde třídění podle talentu a aspirací rodičů probíhá již v raném věku, spolu doktor a zedník naposledy studují v páté třídě. Je to nadsázka, ale zase ne taková."

-Daniel Prokop, Slepé skvrny

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15. Seven Myths About Education

By: Daisy Christodoulou

4.16

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

In this controversial new book, Daisy Christodoulou offers a thought-provoking critique of educatio… read more

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  • teaching
  • education
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16. Feministkou snadno a rychle

By: Lucie Jarkovská

4.28

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Feministky řeší nesmysly jako je pouštění žen do dveří. Ženy by měly mít děti. Mělas prostě říct ne… read more

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17. What Does This Look Like in the Classroom?: Bridging the gap between research and practice

By: Carl Hendrick

4.29

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Educators around the world are uniting behind the need for the profession to have access to more hi… read more

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  • teaching
  • education
Cover of Dunlosky's Strengthening the Student Toolbox in Action by Amarbeer Singh Gill

18. 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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