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Education and training

Books on teaching and learning: classrooms, colleges, training at work, coaching, parenting for learning, and the business of education. Authors include teachers, school leaders, professors, trainers and founders of education companies.

This shelf is useful for teachers looking for ideas from other teachers, and for managers who train people and want a better way to do it.

This shelf holds 152 books. Publication years run from 2016 to 2026. 12 of them have an audiobook edition. The most-rated on Amazon are Never Finished, When Violence is the Answer, The Alter Ego Effect. The list below is sorted by how many ratings each book has on Amazon, so the most-read titles come first.

Books on this shelf

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Never Finished

Leadership Lessons Learned While Turning around a 150-Year-Old Company

David Goggins · 2022

This is not a self-help book. It’s a wake-up call! Can’t Hurt Me, David Goggins’ smash hit memoir, demonstrated how much untapped ability we all have but was merely an introduction to the power of the mind. In Never Finished, Goggins takes you inside his…

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When Violence is the Answer

Tim Larkin · 2016

In a civilized society, violence is rarely the answer. But when it is-it's the only answer. The sound of breaking glass downstairs in the middle of the night. The words, "Move and you die." The hands on your child, or the knife to your throat. In this…

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The Alter Ego Effect

Todd Herman

An award-winning performance expert reveals the secret behind many top athletes and executives: creating a heroic alter ego to activate when the chips are down. There's only one person in the way of you untapping your capabilities: You. There's also one…

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The Only Skill that Matters

Jonathan A. Levi · 2019

In the next ten years, every knowledge worker on earth will become one of two things: invaluable or obsolete. No matter the industry, the pace of progress and new information is faster today than ever before in human history, and it’s accelerating…

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Unafraid

Staring Down Terror as a Navy SEAL and Single Dad

Eddie Penney · 2022

Hot Wash | noun: The review held after military training and real-world operations facilitating growth and improvement; an honest evaluation of strengths and weaknesses As a special operator in the US Navy’s most elite unit and actively engaged in the Global…

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Rising Above

Sean Rogers

A simple car accident changed the path of six-year-old Sean Rogers’s life forever. His single mother checked into the hospital as a vibrant young woman and checked out as a full-blown opioid addict. From that day forward, Sean’s life became a silent nightmare…

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Cover of The Freelance Manifesto by Joey Korenman

The Freelance Manifesto

Joey Korenman

Designing beautiful boards and making smooth animation come naturally to us Motion Designers. It’s what we’re good at. However, designing the career we want, with the freedom, flexibility, and pay we crave, that’s more difficult. All of the above is within…

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22 Talk SHIFTs

Krister Ungerböck

Tools to Build Better Bosses, and Become OneStrained and estranged relationships are everywhere in business. Salespeople are frustrated by the finance people, customer service and operations people are frustrated by salespeople, and everyone is frustrated by…

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Average Sucks

Michael Bernoff · 2020

You’ve tried everything they told you to do. You pushed, you hustled. Nothing is really wrong, and yet, you’re unsatisfied with where you are. You’re painfully aware that there’s another level you can reach, and think you know what you need to do to get…

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Learn, Improve, Master

How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It

Nicolas Velasquez · 2020

Develop the power to learn and master any skill. Do you dream of excelling at a sport, music, art, cooking, writing, public speaking, or anything else? Learn, Improve, Master will help you make that dream a reality. Through a combination of learning science…

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Responsibility Rebellion

Kain Ramsay

The self-improvement industry, sadly, can often be one of the most deceptive. Bombarded by an endless stream of so-called influencers peddling quick-fix success tips, productivity hacks, and secrets to self-confidence, it’s no wonder so many people feel…

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The Scribe Method

Tucker Max · 2019

You're ready to write your book. You've accumulated hardwon knowledge and mastered the solution to a difficult problem. Now you want to put it out into the world and be recognized for your expertise, like those you've watched reap the benefits of a published…

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Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The book investigates the misapplication of conventional statistical techniques to fat tailed distributions and looks for remedies, when possible. Switching from thin tailed to fat tailed distributions requires more than changing the color of the dress.…

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The Sovereign Child

Aaron Stupple · 2025

Could it really be okay to let kids eat whatever they want? Sleep whenever they want? Watch whatever they want? If kids are completely free to make their own choices, they’ll develop damaging habits that will haunt them into adulthood. Surely parents have a…

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Change Your Life in 3 Minutes

Regan Hillyer · 2019

Do you desire to know the secrets on how to align your life with your personal purpose so you can achieve true peace and happiness? If so, get ready to take control of your life one step at a time, in just a few minutes a day. Regan Hillyer’s new book Change…

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Prep Expert Digital SAT Playbook

Shaan Patel · 2024 · Audiobook

Get ready to crush the SAT!The SAT may be the most important test of your life. Your SAT performance impacts your college acceptances. It affects your scholarship opportunities. Your SAT score even influences consideration from "test-optional" universities.…

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Risk Up Front

Adam Josephs

The ability to relentlessly identify and mitigate risk. That is the key to high-performance project teams. Successful projects depend more on your team's behavior than on their project tools. This book focuses on the fundamentals: simple structures and…

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When Are We Going to Teach Health?

Duncan Van Dusen

Fact: Health improves learning. Yet nationwide, elementary school students spend twelve times more classroom hours studying history than health. Worse, most kids don’t get enough physical activity and over 5 million underage youth vape. In When Are We Going…

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Into the Impossible

Brian Keating · Audiobook

How can you unlock creativity and imagination to inspire, teach, and lead? What mental models do the world’s most accomplished scientists use to supercharge their creativity and strengthen their most precious collaborations? In this mesmerizing collection of…

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The World at 10 MPH

Jacky Budweg

When Ward and Jacky Budweg decided to get married, Jacky put together a prenuptial agreement on a bar napkin, and included a unique stipulation. For better or worse, Ward agreed to a 3-year bike trip around the world. As the two embarked on a journey spanning…

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Read Write Code

Jeremy Keeshin · 2021

Code is the new literacy. Six hundred years ago, most people couldn’t read. In 1440, the invention of the printing press laid the groundwork for massive increases in literacy and ushered in the modern era. Today, computers and the internet are causing a…

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Own Your Power

Jayson Waller · 2021

What’s your underdog story? Did you grow up poor? Don’t have the right connections? The right education? The right trauma-free childhood? Any other excuses? Jayson Waller grew up poor, with an abusive childhood. He had no education and was a father in his…

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Ignite Your Career!

Strategies and Tactics to Unleash Your Potential

Kris Holmes · 2020

Taking the first steps into your career should be one of the most exciting times in any young person’s life. Yet for many students and recent graduates, identifying the right direction and figuring out how to get there can be overwhelming, even paralyzing.…

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Cover of Rethinking Math Learning by Aditya Nagrath

Rethinking Math Learning

Teach Your Kids 1 Year of Mathematics in 3 Months

Aditya Nagrath · 2020

Low mathematics scores are a good predictor of high school dropout rates. Even when students do graduate, only 1 out of 4 are proficient at high-school level mathematics. In college, 69% of STEM majors switch to fields with fewer mathematics requirements.…

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Cover of I Call Bullshit by Joshua Miller

I Call Bullshit

Confronting Betrayals and Reclaiming My Self-Worth

Joshua Miller

Love never means losing yourself. Becca Christensen worked for years to create an idyllic home far different from the one in which she grew up. She had what she thought was the perfect relationship with the perfect man: romantic serenades, Christmas at…

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Immersion

Paul Zak · 2022

No one raves about boring movies, bland customer service experiences, or sleep-inducing classes. The world is rapidly transforming into an experience economy as people increasingly crave extraordinary experiences. Experience designers, marketers…

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Validation Is For Parking

Nicole Kalil · 2022

Confidence noun con·fi·dence : when you know who you are, own who you’re not, and choose to embrace all of it If you had more confidence, what decisions would you make? What risks would you take? What dreams would you chase? For women, confidence is often…

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Cover of The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche by Dave Jilk

The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche

A Book for Disruptors

Dave Jilk · 2021 · Audiobook

"I would not know how to live, if I were not a seer of what is to come. A seer, a purposer, a creator, a future itself, and a bridge to the future..." FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, PATRON PHILOSOPHER OF TODAY’S DISRUPTIVE ENTREPRENEURS His favorite personality was a…

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Superbold

Fred Joyal · 2021

Boldness is a superpower. Bold individuals seize life in remarkable, almost unbelievable ways. They succeed in business, in careers, and in love, and they have a great time doing it. Bold people walk up to supermodels and ask them to dance. They stand in…

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Cover of You End Up Where You're Heading by Cameron Carling

You End Up Where You're Heading

The Hidden Dangers of Living a Safe Life

Cameron Carling · 2020 · Audiobook

You settled for the first job that came along, the okay apartment, and the steady, but unfulfilling partner. You thought you were playing it safe. But with each passing day, the simmering frustration with your mediocre choices feels like it might swallow you…

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West of Wheeling

Jeffrey Tanenhaus · 2021

If your office building were on fire, would you lock the door and keep working? If you were unhappy with your career, would you pedal a rental commuter bike cross-country to see what else was out there? What if a bloodthirsty axe murderer punched you in the…

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Cover of Understanding How the Future Unfolds by Terence C. M. Tse

Understanding How the Future Unfolds

Terence C. M. Tse

Your business’s success depends on how you prepare for the future. While business leaders of the past looked in the sideview mirror to predict the road ahead, we must now look at the greater forces affecting the social, business and economic world today…

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Hookup without Heartbreak

How to Feel Empowered after Casual Sex

Lia Paulina Holmgren · 2021

Most women want sex. Not just love. Sex. But the same desire that our culture celebrates in men can leave women feeling anxious, insecure, emotionally attached, or even ashamed. Enough. In Hookup Without Heartbreak, world-renowned intimacy and relationship…

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Becoming a Leader of Impact

How Your Influence Can Change the World

Braden Douglas · 2020

Making an impact is essential for leaders who want to create positive change and leave a legacy, a trendy thing to say, but a hard tenet to live by. LeaderImpact, a movement of professionals dedicated to inspiring one another in this quest, has worked with…

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Boundless Brothers

Two Warriors from the Heartland, One Mission for the Homeland

Ron Lambrecht · 2023

Fans of Top Gun, The Hunt for Red October, and Forrest Gump will love this epic tale of struggle, tenacity, and heroism. Separated in age by eighteen years, Ron and Steve Lambrecht lived under the same farmhouse roof for only six months, yet both left the…

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Life. Camera. Action.

David Basulto

Producing high-quality video used to be a difficult enterprise--restricted by costly equipment and hard-to-come-by technology. But, today, aspiring filmmakers, journalists, vloggers, live-streamers, coaches, educators, and editors have the tools for creating…

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Breaking Into College

Jeb White

The college gates swing open for the privileged few. Preferential treatment is given to donors, children of alumni, athletes, international students, and affirmative action applicants. Others slide past the gatekeepers with the help of exorbitantly priced…

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The Least Likely Millionaire

Jonathan Beskin · 2023 · Audiobook

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER - From mental hospital to millionaire. Everyone told Jonathan Beskin that his ideas would never work, his business would never succeed, and he would be a failure. He endured bullying and abuse from family, peers, teachers, and…

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Cover of An Extraordinarily Ordinary Life by Tim Carlin

An Extraordinarily Ordinary Life

Lessons Learned

Tim Carlin · 2020

Can an ordinary person achieve extraordinary results? If you ask Tim Carlin, the answer is a resounding “yes!” Tim is living proof that you can be “extraordinarily ordinary” and still achieve success through constant self-reinvention. When you embrace your…

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Cover of Five Pillars of the Freedom Lifestyle by Curt Mercadante

Five Pillars of the Freedom Lifestyle

Curt Mercadante · 2019

Do you go through life experiencing a permanent case of the blahs, or struggle with the constant feeling you’re destined for more, only you don’t know what that “more” is? Or perhaps you feel stuck in a job that is less than fulfilling and doesn’t allow you…

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Rise

Michael Erath · 2017

When the housing market crashed in 2009, Michael Erath lost everything. Due to a combination of declining sales, betrayals from key staff, and personal blind-spots, Michael went from owning two businesses generating $45 million in annual revenue to seeing…

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The Evolved Executive

Heather Hanson Wickman · 2018 · Audiobook

An essential blueprint for designing a vibrant, cutting-edge organization, leading from love, not fear. Today’s forward thinking leaders know that the future of work is human; it’s about catalyzing people in pursuit of a meaningful mission. By leading…

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Frictionless

Tim Kintz · 2020

No matter how you entered the car business, you know the frustrations that come with the job. Customers are savvier than ever, so without knowing how to negotiate and close deals, you'll find yourself selling out of desperation instead of inspiration. You…

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Breakthrough Leadership Team

Mike Goldman Goldman

This is NOT a leadership book. If you want to be the leader of a growing, profitable business that positively impacts the lives of employees and clients, it’ll take more than leveling up your capacity and capabilities as leader. It will require a leadership…

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Blue Is the New White

Josh Zolin · 2019

Becoming successful in today's America is simple: graduate high school, go to a good college, and get a white-collar job. That path is going to lead you to the biggest paycheck and the best opportunities. Right? The truth is, some of the most lucrative jobs…

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Not Okay? Okay.

Sheridan Taylor · 2022

This is a challenging book. In Not Okay? Okay. combat veteran and suicide survivor Sheridan Taylor chronicles the anguish and rage he experienced in the darkest depths of despair, and he shares the process and triumph of fighting his way out. After a…

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Vital Connections

Lou Bergholz · 2018

Young people the world over face challenges that prevent them from reaching their fullest potential. Lou Bergholz has spent decades working for children and adolescents from Boston to Zimbabwe, and he found that the caring adult relationship holds the key to…

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No Locked Doors!

Gregory Smith · 2023

Imagine every problem in your life as a locked door. Wouldn’t it be amazing if you had a master key to unlock all of them? While there is no such key, there are locksmiths, and you can become one. Gregory Smith is known as a fixer. His broad experiences…

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Beyond Barriers

Nikki Barua · 2018

Leveling up in life isn't easy. Despite working harder, constantly striving, and always doing more, it can seem like you're trapped by fear and uncertainty, unable to make progress towards your dreams. But, no matter how lost you feel, no matter how painful…

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How to Become a World-Class Investigator

Julie Clegg

The era of the lone wolf private eye is over. Julie Clegg's essential guide to twenty-first century investigations illuminates a bold new path to success in this exciting and rewarding field while effectively debunking the culture of secrecy that has always…

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The Five Lost Superpowers

Why We Lose Them and How to Get Them Back

John Reid · 2021 · Audiobook

There is a well of untapped potential inside you, just waiting to be unleashed. Everyone has superpowers when they are a child. We tend to lose them as we grow up, but they’re always there, right below the surface, ready for us to reactivate them and fully…

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Give to Get

Vishal Agarwal

Why do some people succeed in corporate careers, while others crash and burn? What if you had a guidebook for navigating corporate life? An executive career can bring wealth, prestige, and fame. But it also comes with unique challenges. Vishal Agarwal has…

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Discernment

The Business Athlete's Regimen for a Great Life through Better Decisions

Jeff Dudan · 2020

Given the opportunities at our fingertips, there has never been a better time to establish yourself in the world. There’s only one problem: there are so many opportunities out there, it can feel like an impossible task to decide which ones are worth pursuing.…

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Pull Don’t Push

Julie Newman · 2023

You need to hear the bad news first: the results of STEM outreach to girls haven’t improved in twenty years. The good news? This book will tell you why, and how to fix it. Currently, dated narratives push girls away in fear, and blind spots result in missed…

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I Can't Read

A Guide to Success Through Failure

William Manzanares IV · 2019

If not being able to read was a disease, it would be an epidemic. Millions of Americans can't read but illiteracy often goes unacknowledged or unnoticed. If you are the parent or teacher of a child who struggles with reading, you know the painful way that…

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Winning Tools

Matthew Mitchell · 2023 · Audiobook

If passion and personality were all it took to make it big, you'd have it made. Don't let procrastination, lack of focus, and uncertainty derail your dreams of living like a champion. In clear, straightforward style, Matthew Mitchell reveals the tools that…

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Between the Lines

Jay Lind · 2022

For years, Jay Lind lived between the lines of society’s moral and legal boundaries. But his smooth, privileged life was interrupted when his dad died and his drug addiction snowballed out of control. Between the Lines is the moving saga of Jay’s descent…

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Align

Four Simple Steps For Leaders to Create Employee Fulfillment Through Alignment Leadership

Chris Meroff · 2019

USA Today and Wall Street Journal BestSellerAlign, part 1 of a 3-part series, shares four simple steps that transforms the way leaders lead and renew their self-confidence. Through the process Align offers, leaders develop the courage to connect with their…

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On Guard and On Point

Jamie Douraghy · 2019

At some point life begins to change, and not always for the better. Despite being successful, you can begin to grow tired of playing split roles that pull you away from your authentic self. The life you’ve built might appear to others like a dream life, yet…

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Can You Hear Me Now?

Suzanne DeMallie

The public education system is failing our children. Almost two-thirds of our eighth graders aren’t proficient in reading or math. And in a single school year, US public schools see almost a million incidents of violence, a number that continues to grow. In…

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