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A teenage girl has been murdered in the sand dunes just outside the house of Dr. Peter Hamilton. The victim is his daughter. Among those looking on as the police investigate is 17-year-old neighbor Amy Lund, a gifted, home-schooled student almost certain of admission to Harvard. Yet she has a secret - and is torn between keeping quiet about what she knows and divulging information that would destroy her own reputation.

To glimpse America’s future, one needs to look no further than its college campuses. Of those institutions, none holds more clout than Yale University, the hallowed “cradle of presidents”. In Sex and God at Yale, recent graduate Nathan Harden undresses perversity among the Ivy and ideology gone wild as the upper echelon of academia is mired in nothing less than a full-fledged moral crisis.

How Lincoln Learned to Read tells the American story from a fresh and unique perspective: how do we learn what we need to know? Beginning with Benjamin Franklin and ending with Elvis Presley, author Daniel Wolff creates a series of intimate, interlocking profiles of notable Americans that track the nations developing notion of what it means to get a good education.

2012 Fabulousity Now! Shar has updated and newly pizzazed her classic with even more information for today's femmes (or those that love us). Part Cosmo, part On Our Backs, part Girl Scout Handbook, this hilarious, practical, and comprehensive guide is for Femme Dykes, Baby Divas, Experience Queens, Outrageous Goddesses, Queer Femmes, Lipstick Lesbians, Vixens, and Vamps of every stripe - and those who want to date us!

In a reporting tour de force, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children and points the way to reversing that failure. Brill not only takes us inside their roller-coaster battles, he also concludes with a surprising prescription for what it will take from both sides to put the American dream back in America’s schools.

In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad.

This book is an account of how Dr. Kalam visualizes Information and Communication Technology mining the rural talent. Here, Dr. Kalam presents his dream of schools in India in 2020 as symbiotic nerve centres connecting teachers, students and community; personifying knowledge that exists in the world. He also makes a clarion call to accelerate the process of societal transformation. This would involve raising the standards of governance and safeguarding the sanctity of public institutions.

Excuse Me, College Is Now is an invaluable, up-beat guide for college students, and their parents, on how to navigate the stresses of college life to enjoy it. Filled with real-life stories and practical tips, this is a user-friendly book that deals with the major issues college kids face today.

The Well-Trained Mind will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school - one that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning.

Raus aus dem digitalen Hamsterrad! Das Leben entschleunigen, Stress reduzieren, Handyhörigkeit ablegen, ständige Erreichbarkeit unterbinden und endlich wieder die Kussbilanz verbessern - dieses Hörbuch zeigt, wie's geht! Es eröffnet Ihnen einfache Wege aus der digitalen Leibeigenschaft und hält über 100 Digital-Detox-Tipps für einen Alltag ohne E-Mail-Flut und Digitalisierungswahnsinn bereit. Schonungslos ehrlich, gnadenlos charmant, ausnahmslos effektiv.

"Achtsam leben": Die erfolgreiche Reihe! Die Erkenntnisse der Neurowissenschaft belegen, dass positive Emotionen das Immunsystem stärken, stressresistenter machen und soziale Beziehungen verbessern. Dankbarkeit ist dabei ein besonders kraftvoller Weg zu Glück, innerer Zufriedenheit und Gesundheit. Durch eine Fülle von Anregungen und praktischen Übungen wird es möglich, Dankbarkeit im eigenen Leben als Kraftquelle zu erfahren.

Wie kann man Alltagsängsten, Phobien und selbst schweren Panikattacken achtsam begegnen? Eingängige, rasch umsetzbare Achtsamkeitsübungen und Meditationen weisen behutsam den Weg zu einem Leben ohne Angst. Susanne Seethaler, erfolgreiche Ratgeber- und Kochbuch-Autorin, litt selbst lange unter Panikattacken und ist, neben einem therapeutischen Weg, mithilfe dieser einfachen Übungen seit Jahren vollkommen beschwerdefrei.

Far too often, public discussion of science is carried out by journalists, voters, and politicians who have received their science secondhand. The Story of Western Science shows us the joy and importance of reading groundbreaking science writing for ourselves and guides us back to the masterpieces that have changed the way we think about our world, our cosmos, and ourselves.

Um gesund und zufrieden zu leben, greifen wir häufig zu teuren und anstrengenden Methoden. Wir quälen uns mit Diäten oder im Fitnessstudio, versagen uns Genüsse oder hoffen auf das nächste Superfood. Dabei gibt es viel natürlichere und erheblich wirksamere Möglichkeiten, um ein langes und erfülltes Leben zu führen. Dr. Michael Handel, Experte in Sachen Ernährung, Motivation und Psychologie, lüftet in diesem Gesundheitsratgeber seine Erfolgsformel: leicht umsetzbare Anleitungen und überraschende Erkenntnisse, mit denen wir das Wechselspiel von mentalem Wohlbefinden und körperlicher Gesundheit auf die angenehmste Art stärken können.

Posiblemente no sepas cómo cuidar tu órgano más preciado; tu cerebro. En una sociedad que se mueve a un ritmo frenético y en la que la esperanza de vida aumenta vertiginosamente, la mejor póliza de seguros para combatir el estrés, la ansiedad, y las enfermedades como el Alzheimer es tener una buena salud cerebral.

In the fall of 1999, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg was given an unprecedented opportunity to observe the admissions process at prestigious Wesleyan University. Over the course of nearly a year, Steinberg accompanied admissions officer Ralph Figueroa on a tour to assess and recruit the most promising students in the country. The Gatekeepers follows a diverse group of prospective students as they compete for places in the nation's most elite colleges.

Cyber Wars gives you the dramatic inside stories of some of the world's biggest cyber attacks. These are the game-changing hacks that make organisations around the world tremble and leaders stop and consider just how safe they really are. Charles Arthur provides a gripping account of why each hack happened, what techniques were used, what the consequences were and how they could have been prevented. Cyber attacks are some of the most frightening threats currently facing business leaders, and this book provides a deep insight into understanding how they work.

Kränkungen und seelische Verletzungen führen oft zu Groll und Rachegefühlen. Darunter leiden in erster Linie wir selbst. Dieses Buch ermutigt, eigene Ressourcen zu entdecken und den Opfer-Status zu verlassen: So kann Vergebung aus der Bitterkeit zu innerem Frieden führen.

En este audiolibro innovador y práctico, Daniel J. Siegel y Tina Payne Bryson desmitifican las crisis y los conflictos, explicando los nuevos conocimientos científicos sobre cómo está constituido el cerebro y cómo madura. Incluyendo claras explicaciones, estrategias correspondientes a las distintas edades para enfrentarse a las luchas cotidianas e ilustraciones que ayudan a explicar estos conceptos a los niños, El cerebro del niño enseña a cultivar un desarrollo emocional e intelectual sano para que los niños puedan tener una vida equilibrada, significativa, y conectada.

A veteran clinical psychologist exposes why doctors, teachers, and parents incorrectly diagnose healthy American children with serious psychiatric conditions. In recent years there has been an alarming rise in the number of American children and youth assigned a mental health diagnosis. Current data from the Centers for Disease Control reveal a 41 percent increase in rates of ADHD diagnoses over the past decade and a forty-fold spike in bipolar disorder diagnoses. Similarly, diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder has increased by 78 percent since 2002.