Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of “mindsight,” the potent skill that allows you to make positive changes in your brain–and in your life.
Deep Diversity: A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Achieving Racial Justice
In Deep Diversity, award-winning racial justice educator Shakil Choudhury explores the emotionally loaded topic of racism using a compassionate, scientific approach that everyone can understand.
College students’ sense of belonging: A key to educational success for all students
This book offers readers practical guidelines for belonging, underpinned by theory and research, on students’ social identities, such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or the conditions they encounter on campus.
Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs: 20 Skills to Build Resilience
Provides detailed descriptions of techniques, ample case studies, fascinating and easy to understand explanations of research, and rich stories of how social workers, psychologists, counselors, child and youth care workers, and other mental health professionals can help young people become more resilient.
Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? And other conversations about race
Author: Beverly Daniel Tatum Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? How can we get past our reluctance to discuss racial issues? View Book
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Author: Peter Levine Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? View Book
Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
Author: Barbara Oakley Neuroscientists have made enormous strides in understanding the brain and how we learn, but little of that insight has filtered down to the way teachers teach. Uncommon Sense Teaching applies this research to the classroom for teachers, parents, and anyone interested in improving education. View Book
The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
Author: Amy C. Edmondson Both are well-researched, practical and accessible and address how to shift foundations to allow more inclusive, empowering practices that we didn’t necessarily learn how to navigate. View Book
The Effective Manager
Author: Mark Horstman The Effective Manager is a hands-on practical guide to great management at every level. Written by the man behind Manager Tools, the world’s number-one business podcast, this book distills the author’s 25 years of management training expertise into clear, actionable steps to start taking today. View Book
The boy who was raised as a dog: What traumatized children can teach us about loss, love, and healing
Author: Bruce Perry, Maia Szalavitz In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children—and outlines the path to recovery. View Book
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at work, at school, at home and beyond. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive–which they don’t have to be.
Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America
Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America — it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.