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  • The Hungry Mind

    The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood

    by Susan Engel ...
    Despite American education’s recent mania for standardized tests, testing misses what really matters about learning: the desire to learn in the first place. Curiosity is vital, but it remains a surprisingly understudied characteristic. The Hungry Mind is a deeply researched, highly readable exploration of what curiosity is, how it can be measured, how it develops in childhood, and how it can be ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • American Kindergarten

    Dispatches from the First Year of School

    by Susan Engel ...
    An unexpected portrait of the first year of school for America’s youngest learners.When we think of kindergarten, many might imagine joyous free play, and a tangle of trucks, dress-up clothes, and blocks, as five-year-olds explore their vivid imaginations and budding social skills. Others might envision a quiet group sitting cross-legged in a circle during story time. Neither of these scenes would ... Read more

    Was $27.49 CAD Now $4.11 CAD

  • The End of the Rainbow

    How Educating for Happiness (Not Money) Would Transform Our Schools

    by Susan Engel ...
    "In this startlingly timely book on education in the United States, Susan Engel critiques the current monetized version of 'return on investment.'" ―Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of EducationAmid the hype of Race to the Top, online experiments such as Khan Academy, and bestselling books like The Sandbox Investment, we seem to have drawn a line ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of the Rainbow

    How Educating for HappinessNot MoneyWould Transform Our Schools

    by Susan Engel ...
    Amid the hype of Race to the Top, online experiments such as Khan Academy, and bestselling books like The Sandbox Investment, we seem to have drawn a line that leads from nursery school along a purely economic route, with money as the final stop. But what price do we all pay for the increasingly singular focus on wage as the outcome of education? Susan Engel, a leading psychologist and educator, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Intellectual Lives of Children

    by Susan Engel ...
    “A remarkable book. Whether you are an educator, parent, or simply a curious reader, you will come to see, hear, and understand children in new ways.”—Howard Gardner, author of Multiple IntelligencesAdults easily recognize children’s imagination at work as they play. Yet most of us know little about what really goes on inside their heads as they encounter the problems and complexities of the world ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Doctor Who: The Earth Adventures Collection

    Five classic novelisations of exciting TV adventures set on the planet Earth!

    by Victor Pemberton, Terrance Dicks, David Fisher, Eric Pringle, Marc Platt ...
    Narrated by David Troughton, Tom Baker, Susan Engel, Nerys Hughes, Ian Hogg ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 54 min

    Five classic novelisations of exciting TV adventures set on the planet Earth!In Fury from the Deep, the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria discover sentient seaweed threatening a gas refinery on the South Coast of England. In Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars, the Fourth Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1920s England, where plans are being laid to free Sutekh the Destroyer from his prison on Mars. In ... Read more

    $29.51 CAD

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    Anne Of Green Gables

    by L.M. Montgomery ...
    Narrated by Barbara Barnes, Full Cast, Sean Baker, Susan Engel ...
    Series series BBC Children's Classics

    Unabridged

    2 hours 23 min

    Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert have sent to the orphanage for a boy. So when a skinny, red-haired girl turns up, she is not quite what they had in mind. Anne Shirley soon sets the quiet island community of Avonlea talking of little else. With her incessant chatter and intense imagination, things are never dull with Anne - in fact, they are frequently fiery. But slowly the islanders realise that ... Read more

    $11.07 CAD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Audiobook

    Hamlet

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Narrated by Anton Lesser, Edward de Souza, Susan Engel, Emma Fielding, Peter Jeffrey, Sean Baker, Jamie Glover, Geoffrey Whitehead, Gavin Muir, Peter Yapp, Benjamin Soames, David Timson, Richard Pearce, Paul Panting ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 22 min

    Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare’s great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively reinvented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years we have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth-century Athens to find anything of comparable depth ... Read more

    $20.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Your Child's Path

    Unlocking the Mysteries of Who Your Child Will Become

    by Susan Engel ...
    Take the worry out of parenting…These days, parenthood and anxiety seem to go hand in hand, especially given that it’s harder than ever to raise happy, well-adjusted kids in our complicated world. And all parents long to figure out just who their child will become when he or she grows up. But with websites, media, and other parents providing an endless stream of advice about how to raise a perfect ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The World Bank and the post-Washington Consensus in Vietnam and Indonesia

    Inheritance of Loss

    by Susan Engel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
    This book explores the history, structure and current operations of the World Bank, which despite being the largest development organisation and the largest development research body in the world with tremendous direct and indirect influence on developing economies, has rarely received the critical attention its importance merits. The book’s unique contribution is twofold: it provides an original ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Christmas Collection

    by Christina Hardyment ...
    Narrated by Peter Jeffrey, John Moffatt, David Timson, Susan Engel, Simon Harris, Liza Ross, Benjamin Soames ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 31 min

    Christmas brings out the best and the worst in us, as can be seen in this evocative anthology. Among what Thomas Love Peacock calls the ‘many poetical charms in the heraldings of Christmas’ there are eulogies by saints and diatribes from curmudgeons. Here, Christmas is expounded by divines, sung by rustics, deplored by philosophers and made mystical in stories. This collection includes complete ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Doctor Who: The Stones Of Blood

    by David Fisher ...
    Narrated by John Leeson, Susan Engel ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 20 min

    Susan Engel reads this novelisation of a classic Doctor Who serial featuring the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K9.When the Doctor, Romana and K9 arrive on Bodcombe Moor, they meet the elderly Professor Rumford and her friend Vivien Fay. From them they learn the chequered history of the stones, and of the inhabitants of the nearby manor house - currently one Leonard de Vries, leader of a druidic sect. ... Read more

    $16.60 CAD