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Small Teaching

Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning

by James M. Lang ...

A freshly updated edition featuring research-based teaching techniques that faculty in any discipline can easily implementResearch into how we learn can help facilitate better student learning—if we know how to apply it. Small Teaching fills the gap in higher education literature between the primary research in cognitive theory and the classroom environment. In this book, James Lang presents a ... Read more

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A freshly updated edition featuring research-based teaching techniques that faculty in any discipline can easily implementResearch into how we learn can help facilitate better student learning—if we know how to apply it. Small Teaching fills the gap in higher education literature between the primary research in cognitive theory and the classroom environment. In this book, James Lang presents a
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Small Teaching

Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning

by James M. Lang ...

Narrated by Daniel Thomas May ...

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7 hours 27 min

Research into how we learn has opened the door for utilizing cognitive theory to facilitate better student learning. But that's easier said than done. Many books about cognitive theory introduce radical but impractical theories, failing to make the connection to the classroom. In Small Teaching, James Lang presents a strategy for improving student learning with a series of modest but powerful ... Read more

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Research into how we learn has opened the door for utilizing cognitive theory to facilitate better student learning. But that's easier said than done. Many books about cognitive theory introduce radical but impractical theories, failing to make the connection to the classroom. In Small Teaching, James Lang presents a strategy for improving student learning with a series of modest but powerful
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Distracted

Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It

by James M. Lang ...

Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions—which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher's biggest problems.Why is it so hard to get students to pay attention? Conventional wisdom blames iPhones, insisting that access to technology has ruined students' ability to focus. The logical response is to ban electronics in class ... Read more

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Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions—which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher's biggest problems.Why is it so hard to get students to pay attention? Conventional wisdom blames iPhones, insisting that access to technology has ruined students' ability to focus. The logical response is to ban electronics in class
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Cheating Lessons

Learning from Academic Dishonesty

by James M. Lang ...

Nearly three-quarters of college students cheat during their undergraduate careers, a startling number attributed variously to the laziness of today’s students, their lack of a moral compass, or the demands of a hypercompetitive society. For James Lang, cultural or sociological explanations like these are red herrings. His provocative new research indicates that students often cheat because their ... Read more

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Nearly three-quarters of college students cheat during their undergraduate careers, a startling number attributed variously to the laziness of today’s students, their lack of a moral compass, or the demands of a hypercompetitive society. For James Lang, cultural or sociological explanations like these are red herrings. His provocative new research indicates that students often cheat because their
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Write Like You Teach

Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Bigger Audience

by James M. Lang ...

Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
This engaging guide offers practical advice to teachers on how to utilize their existing classroom skills to become more effective public writers.After years spent cultivating their expertise and passion for a subject, scholars are uniquely positioned to write great books. Yet, accustomed to writing for an audience of their peers, many scholars find it challenging to adapt their writing to a style ... Read more

$14.39 USD

This engaging guide offers practical advice to teachers on how to utilize their existing classroom skills to become more effective public writers.After years spent cultivating their expertise and passion for a subject, scholars are uniquely positioned to write great books. Yet, accustomed to writing for an audience of their peers, many scholars find it challenging to adapt their writing to a style
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Life on the Tenure Track

Lessons from the First Year

by James M. Lang ...

In this fast-paced and lively account, Jim Lang asks—and mostly answers—the questions that confront every new faculty member as well as those who dream of becoming new faculty members: Will my students like me? Will my teaching schedule allow me time to do research and write? Do I really want to spend the rest of my life in this profession? Is anyone awake in the backrow?Lang narrates the story of ... Read more

$21.29 USD

In this fast-paced and lively account, Jim Lang asks—and mostly answers—the questions that confront every new faculty member as well as those who dream of becoming new faculty members: Will my students like me? Will my teaching schedule allow me time to do research and write? Do I really want to spend the rest of my life in this profession? Is anyone awake in the backrow?Lang narrates the story of
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On Course

A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching

by James M. Lang ...

You go into teaching with high hopes: to inspire students, to motivate them to learn, to help them love your subject. Then you find yourself facing a crowd of expectant faces on the first day of the first semester, and you think “Now what do I do?”Practical and lively, On Course is full of experience-tested, research-based advice for graduate students and new teaching faculty. It provides a range ... Read more

$23.79 USD

You go into teaching with high hopes: to inspire students, to motivate them to learn, to help them love your subject. Then you find yourself facing a crowd of expectant faces on the first day of the first semester, and you think “Now what do I do?”Practical and lively, On Course is full of experience-tested, research-based advice for graduate students and new teaching faculty. It provides a range
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Distracted

Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It

by James M. Lang ...

Narrated by Caitlin Davies ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions -- which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher's biggest problems.Why is it so hard to get students to pay attention? Conventional wisdom blames iPhones, insisting that access to technology has ruined students' ability to focus. The logical response is to ban electronics in ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions -- which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher's biggest problems.Why is it so hard to get students to pay attention? Conventional wisdom blames iPhones, insisting that access to technology has ruined students' ability to focus. The logical response is to ban electronics in
... Read more

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Discovering the Past: 14 History Books Adapted for Children

Classic Tales of Ancient Heroes, Royal Drama, Exploration, and Courage for Young Readers

by Andrew Lang, Jennie Hall, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs. Beesly, Plutarch, John S. White, Agnes Strickland, Henry Gilbert, Elbridge S. Brooks, Henrietta Christian Wright, Mary Stoyell Stimpson, James Otis, James H. Shaw, Lydia Hoyt Farmer ...

Discovering the Past: 14 History Books Adapted for Children gathers biographical narrative, classical history, historical romance, and instructive popular scholarship into a capacious introduction to the past. Moving from antiquity and heroic legend to monarchy, exploration, and civic life, the volume demonstrates how history has been made accessible to young readers through vivid storytelling, ... Read more

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Discovering the Past: 14 History Books Adapted for Children gathers biographical narrative, classical history, historical romance, and instructive popular scholarship into a capacious introduction to the past. Moving from antiquity and heroic legend to monarchy, exploration, and civic life, the volume demonstrates how history has been made accessible to young readers through vivid storytelling,
... Read more
Evidence of the Supernatural: 20+ Studies of the Occult

Witch Trials, Apparitions, Demonology, Second Sight, and the History of Occult Belief

by Andrew Lang, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Arthur Conan Doyle, J. Maxwell Wood, Montague Summers, Viktor Rydberg, M. V. B. Perley, Joseph Taylor, John Gregorson Campbell, Walter Scott, James Thacher, Frank Podmore, Gordon Hall Gerould, Ludwig Lavater, King of England James I, Henry Ridgely Evans, Samuel B. Emmons, Thomas Potts, Alexander Roberts, James Grant, Cotton Mather ...

Evidence of the Supernatural: 20+ Studies of the Occult assembles a capacious archive of ghostly encounter, witchcraft accusation, demonological speculation, folklore, and psychical inquiry. Its materials move between learned treatise, antiquarian report, case history, sermon, travel-inflected recollection, and imaginative prose, revealing how the supernatural has been recorded as both cultural ... Read more

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Evidence of the Supernatural: 20+ Studies of the Occult assembles a capacious archive of ghostly encounter, witchcraft accusation, demonological speculation, folklore, and psychical inquiry. Its materials move between learned treatise, antiquarian report, case history, sermon, travel-inflected recollection, and imaginative prose, revealing how the supernatural has been recorded as both cultural
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The Armageddon Letters

Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis

by James G. Blight, janet M. Lang ...

In October, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought human civilization to the brink of destruction. On the 50th anniversary of the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear era, two of the leading experts on the crisis recreate the drama of those tumultuous days as experienced by the leaders of the three countries directly involved: U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ... Read more

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In October, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought human civilization to the brink of destruction. On the 50th anniversary of the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear era, two of the leading experts on the crisis recreate the drama of those tumultuous days as experienced by the leaders of the three countries directly involved: U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
... Read more
The Progress of the Century

Exploring the Century's Transformative Vision

by Andrew Lang, Alfred Russel Wallace, Goldwin Smith, William Osler, James Gibbons, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, William Ramsay, Sir Norman Lockyer, Thomas Curtis Clarke, A. T. Mahan, W. M. Flinders Petrie, Edward Caird, Thomas C. Mendenhall, Alexander V. G. Allen, Richard J. H. Gottheil, William W. Keen, Elihu Thomson ...

The anthology, *The Progress of the Century*, offers a sweeping exploration of intellectual and cultural advancement at the dawn of the 20th century. It compiles works that reflect the period's burgeoning curiosity and innovation across scientific, philosophical, and historical domains. Readers will encounter an impressive range of literary styles, from incisive essays and thought-provoking ... Read more

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The anthology, *The Progress of the Century*, offers a sweeping exploration of intellectual and cultural advancement at the dawn of the 20th century. It compiles works that reflect the period's burgeoning curiosity and innovation across scientific, philosophical, and historical domains. Readers will encounter an impressive range of literary styles, from incisive essays and thought-provoking
... Read more

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