In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today's scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention. Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed and under-rated mental asset....

Why do our headaches persist after we take a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a fifty-cent aspirin? Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on a can of soup? When it comes to making decisions in our lives, we think we're making smart, rational choices. But are we? In this newly revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that...

Within the innermost part of Little Ms. Monda's well-being, feelings of doubt and failure set in. But the stakes are raised when Little Ms. Monda is forced to choose between self-love and loyalty to her family and friends, and pursuing her life with self-worth and value, and recognizing the hurts and issues of other people's opinions.

If you want to discover powerful Photographic Memory strategies today to help you develop Photographic Memory skills to help you read more and remember important details for academic or career success, keep reading... Have you ever asked - - what is photographic memory? - can photographic memory be learned? - can photographic memory be acquired? … but finding it difficult to get the information you seek in order to understand photographic memory...

There is only one known planet Earth with many living and nonliving communities depending on it for their existence. Humans are just a small fraction in a big network we call the web of life. This is home to amazingly diverse and mixed forms of life, shaping an ecological community we understand as the planet Earth. Like other members of this web of life, humans have certain responsibilities to contribute to the sustainable working conditions of these...

The children learn about the history of roads and railroads, what can be a problem, and what may not be serious. They learn about engines and traction. They learn about moving people and things around with less work and cost. They run tests of their own to see how traction and friction work. They learn about improvising and going with what they have. 8

Problem-based learning (PBL) represents a widely recommended best practice that facilitates both student engagement with challenging content and students' ability to utilize that content in a more flexible manner to support problem-solving. This edited volume includes research that focuses on examples of successful models and strategies for facilitating preservice and practicing teachers in implementing PBL practices in their current and future classrooms...

In my job as substitute teacher and teacher of after-school, I help the children with their homework's. One of the most difficult homeworks for first, second, and third graders is to write short stories using high-frequency words. The teachers give them the words, and they must write the stories using that words. This book is a collection of some of these short stories. It will also a pleasure to read of benefit for the young students and teachers....

Si quiere mejorar sus habilidades de pensamiento crítico y resolución de problemas y convertirse en un maestro de la toma de decisiones, siga leyendo Las habilidades de pensamiento crítico son esenciales en la nueva economía del conocimiento. Los empleos requieren cada vez más de habilidades intelectuales flexibles y la capacidad de analizar información y combinar diversas fuentes de conocimiento para resolver problemas. Pero la verdad es...

The author's purpose in writing this book is to give physicians, ,physical therapists, parents, and caregivers of young infants who are showing characteristics of Cerebral Palsy a protocol that can prevent Cerebral Palsy, in many cases, as the infant gets older. This protocol has been used effectively for over twenty years in the author's Pediatric Physical Therapy practice. The protocol is called Normalization Through Neuroplastic Manipulation...