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Universities, Professors, and Students in the Intelligent Age

Intelligent Age Series, #4

by Klaus Schwab ...

Series Book 4 - Intelligent Age Series
What will universities look like in the age of artificial intelligence?As AI, automation, and digital transformation reshape economies and societies, the future of higher education is being rewritten. Universities are no longer competing only on prestige or research output. They are competing on their ability to help societies learn faster, adapt more effectively, and innovate continuously.In this ... Read more

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What will universities look like in the age of artificial intelligence?As AI, automation, and digital transformation reshape economies and societies, the future of higher education is being rewritten. Universities are no longer competing only on prestige or research output. They are competing on their ability to help societies learn faster, adapt more effectively, and innovate continuously.In this
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Academic Vocabulary for Middle School Students

Research-Based Lists and Strategies for Key Content Areas

by Jennifer Wells Greene, Ph.D., Averil Jean Coxhead, Ph.D. ...

Vocabulary knowledge plays a huge role in the academic success of middle school students. But which words do students need to know to master the content in their textbooks, and how can they be learned? This book has the practical answers educators need. Middle school teachers will get five extensive, research-based lists of academic vocabulary words most frequently used in student textbooks—the ... Read more

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Vocabulary knowledge plays a huge role in the academic success of middle school students. But which words do students need to know to master the content in their textbooks, and how can they be learned? This book has the practical answers educators need. Middle school teachers will get five extensive, research-based lists of academic vocabulary words most frequently used in student textbooks—the
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Infini comme le ciel

Sur le bonheur, la compassion et l'amour

by Sa Sainteté Le Dalaï-Lama ...

Series series DOCUMENTS
Stop aux idées reçues, aux tableaux les plus sombres d'un monde en crise, sans avenir, en quête de sens ! Rien n'est figé, ni l'individualisme ni la violence ne sont inscrits en l'homme, ils ne sont en aucun cas une fatalité : nous avons en nous le pouvoir de faire changer les choses, nous avons en nous le pouvoir d'être heureux. Comment ? Il suffit d'oser aimer, d'oser l'altérité, l'ouverture d ... Read more

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Stop aux idées reçues, aux tableaux les plus sombres d'un monde en crise, sans avenir, en quête de sens ! Rien n'est figé, ni l'individualisme ni la violence ne sont inscrits en l'homme, ils ne sont en aucun cas une fatalité : nous avons en nous le pouvoir de faire changer les choses, nous avons en nous le pouvoir d'être heureux. Comment ? Il suffit d'oser aimer, d'oser l'altérité, l'ouverture d
... Read more
Teaching English in Swaziland

Essays on the Life of Gordon James Thomas

by Sarah Mkhonza ...

The book, Teaching English in Swaziland: The Life and Days of Gordon Thomas is about Gordon the teacher and mentor.His life at Manzini Nazarene is one that all his students remember as filled with great moments of teaching and learning. In this book his ideas on teaching are written about in a semi-fictional manner that enables readers to think about their own teaching.The dedication he brought to ... Read more

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The book, Teaching English in Swaziland: The Life and Days of Gordon Thomas is about Gordon the teacher and mentor.His life at Manzini Nazarene is one that all his students remember as filled with great moments of teaching and learning. In this book his ideas on teaching are written about in a semi-fictional manner that enables readers to think about their own teaching.The dedication he brought to
... Read more
Introduction to the New Statistics

Estimation, Open Science, and Beyond

by Geoff Cumming, Robert Calin-Jageman ...

This fully revised and updated second edition is an essential introduction to inferential statistics. It is the first introductory statistics text to use an estimation approach from the start and also to explain the new and exciting Open Science practices, which encourage replication and enhance the trustworthiness of research. The estimation approach, with meta-analysis (“the new statistics”), is ... Read more

$139.99 CAD

This fully revised and updated second edition is an essential introduction to inferential statistics. It is the first introductory statistics text to use an estimation approach from the start and also to explain the new and exciting Open Science practices, which encourage replication and enhance the trustworthiness of research. The estimation approach, with meta-analysis (“the new statistics”), is
... Read more
Second Grade Math With Confidence Instructor Guide

by Kate Snow, Shane Klink ...

Illustrated by Itamar Katz ...

Series series Math with Confidence
A scripted, open-and-go program that will have you teaching math confidently--even if you’ve never taught math before.From popular math educator Kate Snow, this easy-to-use program will give parents the tools they need to teach Math with Confidence—even if they’ve never taught math before. Short, engaging, and hands-on lessons will help children develop a strong understanding of Second Grade math, ... Read more

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A scripted, open-and-go program that will have you teaching math confidently--even if you’ve never taught math before.From popular math educator Kate Snow, this easy-to-use program will give parents the tools they need to teach Math with Confidence—even if they’ve never taught math before. Short, engaging, and hands-on lessons will help children develop a strong understanding of Second Grade math,
... Read more
Down Around Midnight

A Memoir of Crash and Survival

by Robert Sabbag ...

Around midnight on June 17, 1979, Air New England Flight 248, en route from New York, crashed into the woods on Cape Cod. The pilot was killed, and the survivors struggled to escape the wreckage and wait for rescue. They survived with trauma both physical and emotional. Robert Sabbag was among them. This is his gripping account of the crash and his candid attempts, and those of the other survivors ... Read more

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Around midnight on June 17, 1979, Air New England Flight 248, en route from New York, crashed into the woods on Cape Cod. The pilot was killed, and the survivors struggled to escape the wreckage and wait for rescue. They survived with trauma both physical and emotional. Robert Sabbag was among them. This is his gripping account of the crash and his candid attempts, and those of the other survivors
... Read more
Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology

The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America

by Allan Collins, Richard Halverson ...

Series series Technology, Education—Connections (The TEC Series)
The digital revolution in education is well under way, with more and more learners plugged into the online world. How can schools make the most of both the technology and the learning potential of today’s “born digital” students? In this new edition of their groundbreaking book, Collins and Halverson argue that new technologies have transformed our workplaces, our lives, and our culture and it is ... Read more

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The digital revolution in education is well under way, with more and more learners plugged into the online world. How can schools make the most of both the technology and the learning potential of today’s “born digital” students? In this new edition of their groundbreaking book, Collins and Halverson argue that new technologies have transformed our workplaces, our lives, and our culture and it is
... Read more
IF YOU LOVE THEM LEAVE THEM LISTS

by Catherine Rahal, Wendy Moenig ...

A guide to preparing the essential information your representatives will need when you cannot act for yourself. They are the people who hold your power of attorney, your healthcare and financial proxies, and, upon your death, will be your executor. ... Read more

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A guide to preparing the essential information your representatives will need when you cannot act for yourself. They are the people who hold your power of attorney, your healthcare and financial proxies, and, upon your death, will be your executor.
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Descent Into Hell, A

The True Story of an Altar Boy, a Cheerleader, and a Twisted Texas Murder

by Kathryn Casey ...

Bright, attractive, and both from good families, University of Texas college student Colton Pitonyak and vibrant redhead Jennifer Cave had the world at their beckoning. Cave, an ex-cheerleader, had just landed an exciting new job, while a big-money scholarship to UT's prestigious business school lured Pitonyak to Austin. Yet the former altar boy had a dark, unpredictable streak, one that ensnared ... Read more

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Bright, attractive, and both from good families, University of Texas college student Colton Pitonyak and vibrant redhead Jennifer Cave had the world at their beckoning. Cave, an ex-cheerleader, had just landed an exciting new job, while a big-money scholarship to UT's prestigious business school lured Pitonyak to Austin. Yet the former altar boy had a dark, unpredictable streak, one that ensnared
... Read more
Enablers

Normalizing the Unimaginable

by Amos Guiora ...

Enablers: Normalizing the Unimaginable calls for holding Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s enablers accountable for two great harms: his campaign to destroy the rule of law in Israel, and October 7th and its aftermath, particularly the calculated failure to negotiate the immediate release of all hostages.On October 8, 2025, an agreement was reached to end the Gaza War, which began October 7, 2023 ... Read more

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Enablers: Normalizing the Unimaginable calls for holding Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s enablers accountable for two great harms: his campaign to destroy the rule of law in Israel, and October 7th and its aftermath, particularly the calculated failure to negotiate the immediate release of all hostages.On October 8, 2025, an agreement was reached to end the Gaza War, which began October 7, 2023
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Fred & Rose

The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors, from the Senior Producer of 'Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story' - now on NETFLIX

by Howard Sounes ...

FRED & ROSE IS THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THIS INFAMOUS TRUE CRIME CASE - NOW UPDATED WITH A POSTSCRIPT FROM THE AUTHOR. FROM THE MIND BEHIND 'FRED AND ROSE WEST: A BRITISH HORROR STORY' - NOW ON NETFLIX.Fred and Rose West are virtually unique in British criminal history: a husband and wife who loved and killed together.During their long relationship, the Wests murd... ... Read more

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FRED & ROSE IS THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THIS INFAMOUS TRUE CRIME CASE - NOW UPDATED WITH A POSTSCRIPT FROM THE AUTHOR. FROM THE MIND BEHIND 'FRED AND ROSE WEST: A BRITISH HORROR STORY' - NOW ON NETFLIX.Fred and Rose West are virtually unique in British criminal history: a husband and wife who loved and killed together.During their long relationship, the Wests murd...
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About A Son

A Murder and A Father’s Search for Truth

by David Whitehouse ...

'A book that reaches so deeply into the human experience that to read it is to be forever changed'ELIZABETH DAYOne night in October 2015, twenty-year-old Morgan Hehir went out with friends and never came home.In the aftermath of his funny, talented son's murder, Morgan's father Colin began to keep an extraordinary diary. It became a record of his family's grief, the ensuing trial, and his ... Read more

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'A book that reaches so deeply into the human experience that to read it is to be forever changed'ELIZABETH DAYOne night in October 2015, twenty-year-old Morgan Hehir went out with friends and never came home.In the aftermath of his funny, talented son's murder, Morgan's father Colin began to keep an extraordinary diary. It became a record of his family's grief, the ensuing trial, and his
... Read more
The Plantagenets

The Kings Who Made England

by Dan Jones ...

Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen – from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt – this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today – great history to appeal to readers of Ken Follet, Bernard Cornwell, Tom HollandEngland’s greatest royal dynasty, the Plantagenets, ruled over ... Read more

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Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen – from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt – this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today – great history to appeal to readers of Ken Follet, Bernard Cornwell, Tom HollandEngland’s greatest royal dynasty, the Plantagenets, ruled over
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Debating Euthanasia

by Professor Emily Jackson, Professor John Keown ...

Series series Debating Law
In this new addition to the 'Debating Law' series, Emily Jackson and John Keown re-examine the legal and ethical aspects of the euthanasia debate.Emily Jackson argues that we owe it to everyone in society to do all that we can to ensure that they experience a 'good death'. For a small minority of patients who experience intolerable and unrelievable suffering, this may mean helping them to have an ... Read more

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In this new addition to the 'Debating Law' series, Emily Jackson and John Keown re-examine the legal and ethical aspects of the euthanasia debate.Emily Jackson argues that we owe it to everyone in society to do all that we can to ensure that they experience a 'good death'. For a small minority of patients who experience intolerable and unrelievable suffering, this may mean helping them to have an
... Read more
Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe 2022–2023

by Wayne C. Thompson ...

Series series World Today
The World Today Series: Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country and presents a complete and authoritative overview of each region’s geography, people, history, political system, constitution, parliament, parties, ... Read more

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The World Today Series: Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country and presents a complete and authoritative overview of each region’s geography, people, history, political system, constitution, parliament, parties,
... Read more
The Times

How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism

by Adam Nagourney ...

A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” The New York Times, as it confronted world-changing events, internal scandals, and faced the existential threat of the internet“An often enthralling chronicle [that] delivers the gossipy goods . . . Like Robert Caro’s biographies, [The Times] should appeal to anyone interested in power.”—Los Angeles ... Read more

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A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” The New York Times, as it confronted world-changing events, internal scandals, and faced the existential threat of the internet“An often enthralling chronicle [that] delivers the gossipy goods . . . Like Robert Caro’s biographies, [The Times] should appeal to anyone interested in power.”—Los Angeles
... Read more
Little Big Minds

Sharing Philosophy with Kids

by Marietta McCarty ...

A guide for parents and educators to sharing the enduring ideas of the biggest minds throughout the centuries—from Plato to Jane Addams—with the "littlest" minds.Children are no strangers to cruelty and courage, to love and to loss, and in this unique book teacher and educational consultant Marietta McCarty reveals that they are, in fact, natural philosophers. Drawing on a program she has honed in ... Read more

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A guide for parents and educators to sharing the enduring ideas of the biggest minds throughout the centuries—from Plato to Jane Addams—with the "littlest" minds.Children are no strangers to cruelty and courage, to love and to loss, and in this unique book teacher and educational consultant Marietta McCarty reveals that they are, in fact, natural philosophers. Drawing on a program she has honed in
... Read more
Cha-No-Yu

The Japanese Tea Ceremony

by A. L. Sadler ...

This classic of Japanese cultural studies explains the famous Japanese tea ceremony or cha-no-yu with great scholarship and clarity.In 1933, when A. L. Sadler's imposing book on the Japanese tea ceremony first appeared, there was no other work on the subject in English that even remotely approached it in comprehensiveness or detail. Having attained something of the stature of a classic among ... Read more

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This classic of Japanese cultural studies explains the famous Japanese tea ceremony or cha-no-yu with great scholarship and clarity.In 1933, when A. L. Sadler's imposing book on the Japanese tea ceremony first appeared, there was no other work on the subject in English that even remotely approached it in comprehensiveness or detail. Having attained something of the stature of a classic among
... Read more
Till Death Us Do Part

A True Murder Mystery

by Vincent Bugliosi ...

**Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime"Bugliosi, the quintessential prosecutor, has written a crime book that should be read by every lawyer and judge in America." —F. Lee Bailey**On December 11, 1966, a mysterious assassin shot Henry Stockton to death, set his house on fire, and left the scene without a trace. A year later, when a woman was found brutally killed, shreds of evidence ... Read more

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**Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime"Bugliosi, the quintessential prosecutor, has written a crime book that should be read by every lawyer and judge in America." —F. Lee Bailey**On December 11, 1966, a mysterious assassin shot Henry Stockton to death, set his house on fire, and left the scene without a trace. A year later, when a woman was found brutally killed, shreds of evidence
... Read more
Deadly Encounters

True Crime Stories of Alberta

by Barbara Smith ...

Quiet pleasant communties, sparkling under the clear blue skies of Alberta, have witnessed bloody murders and violent mayhem.From a wide variety of accounts, Babara Smith has selected eight intriguing stories that will astound and amaze you.Mystery still surrounds the fate of pro golfer Frank Willey who disappeared in 1962. Two men were convicted of his murder, but his body has never been found. ... Read more

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Quiet pleasant communties, sparkling under the clear blue skies of Alberta, have witnessed bloody murders and violent mayhem.From a wide variety of accounts, Babara Smith has selected eight intriguing stories that will astound and amaze you.Mystery still surrounds the fate of pro golfer Frank Willey who disappeared in 1962. Two men were convicted of his murder, but his body has never been found.
... Read more
Laideronnie

by Kareen Martel, Safia Nolin ...

À la fois récit personnel et réflexion sur la laidophobie ambiante, Laideronnie jette la lumière sur la culture laideronne En Laideronnie, on évite la lumière des néons, comme tout le monde, mais aussi celle du soleil, des lampadaires et du plafonnier dans la chambre à coucher. On tolère à peine les chandelles. On est les ami·es des coins de murs, des recoins sombres, on craint les rassemblements, ... Read more

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À la fois récit personnel et réflexion sur la laidophobie ambiante, Laideronnie jette la lumière sur la culture laideronne En Laideronnie, on évite la lumière des néons, comme tout le monde, mais aussi celle du soleil, des lampadaires et du plafonnier dans la chambre à coucher. On tolère à peine les chandelles. On est les ami·es des coins de murs, des recoins sombres, on craint les rassemblements,
... Read more
Online Teaching at Its Best

Merging Instructional Design with Teaching and Learning Research

by Linda B. Nilson, Ludwika A. Goodson ...

Bring pedagogy and cognitive science to online learning environmentsOnline Teaching at Its Best: Merging Instructional Design with Teaching and Learning Research, 2nd Edition, is the scholarly resource for online learning that faculty, instructional designers, and administrators have raved about. This book addresses course design, teaching, and student motivation across the continuum of online ... Read more

$37.99 CAD

Bring pedagogy and cognitive science to online learning environmentsOnline Teaching at Its Best: Merging Instructional Design with Teaching and Learning Research, 2nd Edition, is the scholarly resource for online learning that faculty, instructional designers, and administrators have raved about. This book addresses course design, teaching, and student motivation across the continuum of online
... Read more
Perpetrators of International Crimes

Theories, Methods, and Evidence

Edited by Alette Smeulers, Maartje Weerdesteijn, Barbora Holá ...

Why would anyone commit a mass atrocity such as genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, or terrorism? This question is at the core of the multi- and interdisciplinary field of perpetrator studies, a developing field which this book assesses in its full breadth for the first time. Perpetrators of International Crimes analyses the most prominent theories, methods, and evidence to determine ... Read more

$77.99 CAD

Why would anyone commit a mass atrocity such as genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, or terrorism? This question is at the core of the multi- and interdisciplinary field of perpetrator studies, a developing field which this book assesses in its full breadth for the first time. Perpetrators of International Crimes analyses the most prominent theories, methods, and evidence to determine
... Read more

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