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Health and Education in the Modern World

Health

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain
Sandra M. LeFort, Ph.D. et al.
Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions: Self-Management of Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Depression, Asthma, Bronchitis, Emphysema and Other Physical and Mental Health Conditions
Kate Lorig et al.
The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Sonja Lyubomirsky
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The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity
Michael Marmot
The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.
The Healing Brain: Breakthrough Discoveries About How the Brain Keeps Us Healthy
Robert Ornstein & David Sobel
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Healthy Pleasures
Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. and David Sobel, M.D.
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Mind & Body Health Handbook: How to Use Your Mind & Body to Relieve Stress, Overcome Illness, and Enjoy Healthy Pleasures
David S. Sobel, M.D., & Robert Ornstein, Ph.D.
Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook
David Werner et al.

Education

The Most Important Year: Pre-Kindergarten and the Future of Our Children
Suzanne Bouffard
Parkland
Dave Cullen
“Multiplication Is for White People:“ Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children
Lisa Delpit
“Why We Drop Out“
Deborah L. Feldman et al.
Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell
What We See and Don’t See
Robert Guarino
Me and My Feelings: What Emotions Are and How We Can Manage Them
Robert Guarino
Me and My Memory: Why We Forget Some Things and Remember Others
Robert Guarino
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Emotions, Learning, and the Brain: Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective Neuroscience
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
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One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
Salman Khan
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Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America’s Schools
David L. Kirp
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Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Matthew D. Lieberman
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Beyond the Hole in the Wall: Discover the Power of Self-Organized Learning
Sugata Mitra
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Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project
Robert P. Moses & Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools
Theresa Perry et al.
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Diane Ravitch
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education
Ken Robinson, Ph.D. and Lou Aronica
The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools?
Dale Russakoff
Hard Questions on Global Educational Change: Policies, Practices, and the Future of Education
Pasi Sahlberg et al.
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What’s the Catch?: How to Avoid Getting Hooked and Manipulated
David Sobel, MD
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Age of Opportunity: Lessons from The New Science of Adolescence
Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D.
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover
Counting What Counts: Reframing Education Outcomes
Yong Zhao
Reach for Greatness: Personalizable Education for All Children
Yong Zhao
What Works May Hurt―Side Effects in Education
Yong Zhao