Science Education

Written by experts and authorities in the field and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you're simply interested in behavioral sciences. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school behavioral sciences course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to master behavioral sciences.

"L’homme ne peut devenir homme que par l’éducation. (...) L’éducation doit donc discipliner les hommes. La discipliner, c’est chercher à empêcher que ce qu’il y a d’animal en eux n’étouffe ce qu’il y a d’humain, aussi bien dans l’homme individuel que dans l’homme social. La discipline consiste donc simplement à les dépouiller de leur sauvagerie" E. Kant

Summary: 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson: An Antidote to Chaos (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.) Called “one of the most important thinkers to emerge on the world stage for many years,” by The Spectator, Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life is a truly thought-provoking read. How should we live in the modern world? Peterson aims to answer this question using his unique blend of ancient traditions, religion and scientific research.

You've heard of the "Great Books"? These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors' bad ideas are still popular and pervasive. Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker.

Why do we get cancer? Is it all just carcinogens and unlucky genetics? The answer is no. This audiobook delves into the underlying reasons why some of us get cancer while others do not, and explains many of the mysteries of why we get sick. Why is a cancer diagnosis a death sentence for some and a life-changing opportunity for others? What allows some people, when given weeks to live, to be happy and healthy for decades to come? Most importantly, what lessons can we learn from those who have beaten illness, so that we can live happily and healthily without ever having to get sick?

This exciting book helps educators translate the concept of equity into the context of pedagogy in the K-12 classroom. Providing a practice-oriented framework for understanding what equity entails for both teachers and learners, this book clarifies the theoretical context for equity and shares rich teaching strategies across a range of content areas and age groups.

"Master Legal Vocabulary & Terminology" provides a structured framework under which law students, lawyers and other law professionals can significantly improve their knowledge of legal vocabulary and terminology. You will be taken through the main vocabulary and grammar structures in commercial contracts and allowed to practice them through highly targeted vocabulary and grammar activities, which aim to develop, not only your lexical and grammatical skills, but also your confidence and overall competence within international legal settings.

Jack has caused an earthquake. He was trying to save his sister, Lucy, from being thrown down a well, but he is, after all, only a 13-year-old bard in training. Sometimes the magic doesn't quite work out. Not only does Jack demolish a monastery, but Lucy is carried off by the Lady of the Lake. Jack has to follow her through the Hollow Road that lies underground. It leads to all sorts of unexpected places: caves full of dragon poop, knucker holes (you do not want to know what knuckers are), and Elfland.

Short on time? Or maybe you’ve already read or listened to the book, but need a refresh on the most important takeaways. In a quick, easy listen, you can take the main principles from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century! This is a summary of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, in which Timothy Snyder provides a stark warning for the future of American democracy.

Hidden in the basement of the Los Angeles Times, there Melvin will learn wonderful things like interdimensional astronomy, mana fencing, and how to get a girlfriend. Dragons, Gods, and bullies thrive in the Magical World hidden right beneath our eyes. Does Melvin have what it takes to pass?

On the Wrong Side provides the first comprehensive account of the inner workings of the secretive Title IX system. Drawing on a yearlong study of survivors, perpetrators, and the administrators who oversaw their cases, sociologist Nicole Bedera exposes the structures that predictably punish survivors who come forward in the service of protecting—or even rewarding—their perpetrators. She reveals that the system tasked with ending gender inequality on campus only intensifies it, upending survivors’ lives and threatening their degrees.

In their first adventure as Master Librarians, Jack and In their first adventure as Master Librarians, Jack and Annie go to the city of Pompeii to bring back an ancient story that is in danger of being lost forever. Little do they know they are saving the myth of Hercules! But before they can find it, the town's volcano erupts in a mighty explosion. Just when things look hopeless, Jack and Annie get some unexpected help from a certain mythic hero...and the rest, as they say, is history.

What’s Your Aspiration? is about the Dharma path identified by Shinran (1173-1263), a teacher of Japan’s Kamakura period. He would have us ask: “Can I know whether my spiritual aspiration is true-and-real? Have I realized the right starting point?” If I have not, then the subsequent steps will all be misdirected. If, however, the aspiration is true-and-real, then, according to Shinran, everything else follows necessarily. Such an aspiration contains all that is needed as far as practice and attainment.

In this moving account, Peter Korn explores the nature and rewards of creative practice. We follow his search for meaning as an Ivy-educated child of the middle class who finds employment as a novice carpenter on Nantucket, transitions to self-employment as a designer and maker of fine furniture, takes a turn at teaching and administration at Colorado's Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and then founds a school in Maine: the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, an internationally respected nonprofit institution.

Diesen Monat ist das Spezialthema das Essengehen: Wie reservieren Sie einen Tisch, und wie formulieren Sie Ihre Bestellung? Und wie bezahlt man in Deutschland typischerweise? Außerdem sind Sie zu Besuch in Trier: In der historischen Stadt machte ein Hobby-Archäologe eine große Entdeckung. Der Fund von mehr als 2500 antiken Geldstücken aus Gold war eine Weltsensation.

Diesen Monat heißt das Spezialthema "Auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt": In den Wochen vor Weihnachten gibt es in vielen Orten diese schöne Tradition. Sie hören Dialoge und Wortschatz zum Thema und können Ihr Hörverständnis trainieren. Außerdem sind Sie zu Besuch bei Mathilde Moser-Pühringer in Salzburg: Ihr Musikgeschäft in der Nähe von Mozarts Geburtshaus ist eines der Traditionsgeschäfte der Stadt.

Diesen Monat geht es um Filme: Wie sagen Sie, dass Ihnen ein Film gefallen hat? Wie heißen die verschiedenen Filmgenres auf Deutsch? Und welche Wörter sind noch wichtig, wenn Sie über Filme sprechen? Außerdem sind Sie zu Besuch in Berlin: Dort finden im Oktober wieder gleichzeitig zwei Festivals statt, bei denen die schönsten Gebäude in vielen Farben illuminiert werden. Die Hörtexte finden Sie in dem Begleitheft. So können Sie mitlesen, wenn Sie möchten.

Diesen Monat heißt das Spezialthema "Der menschliche Körper von Kopf bis Fuß": Sie hören zum Beispiel, wie einzelne Körperteile heißen, welche gesundheitlichen Probleme man damit haben kann, und Sie lernen Wortschatz rund um die Körperpflege.

Das Spezialthema heißt diesen Monat Sport und Fitness: Wie heißen verschiedene sportliche Aktivitäten auf Deutsch und die Bereiche, die man damit trainiert? Es werden auch einige Adjektive vorgestellt, die den körperlichen Zustand beschreiben. Außerdem geht es diesen Monat auf Besuch in die bekannte Hamburger Sankt Michaeliskirche, auf deren Turm ein Mann mit einem sehr speziellen Beruf zu treffen ist: einen Turmbläser.

Diesen Monat geht es in dem Spezialthema rund um den Garten im Frühling: Welche Dinge gibt es im Garten, und welche Arbeiten gibt es dort zu tun? Außerdem sind Sie diesen Monat zu Besuch im Naturpark Westhavelland in Brandenburg, in der dunkelsten Region Deutschlands: Der Naturpark ist der erste deutsche Sternenpark. Die Hörtexte finden Sie in dem Begleitheft. So können Sie mitlesen, wenn Sie möchten.