Human Learning

Are you ready to take your first step toward a successful career in Human Resources? Do you want to enhance your HR knowledge, boost your confidence, and ace the aPHR exam? Whether you're a new HR professional or looking to solidify your understanding of the core concepts, this study guide is the perfect tool to help you succeed. This comprehensive resource dives deep into all the critical areas of HR that you need to master for the aPHR exam, including HR operations, recruitment and selection, compensation and benefits, employee relations, health and safety, and compliance with laws.

This unique three-book bundle will help you learn how to increase your charisma, improve your persuasive communication skills, and to lower your stress and anxiety - even if you’re a total introvert. Unlock your full potential by learning how your brain works. These books will show you how not to change your behavior, and how to influence the behavior of those around you. Once you understand the psychology of human behavior, nothing will stand between you and the success you deserve.

Decades of research demonstrate the transformative potential and the lasting legacies of a relationship-rich college experience. Critics suggest that to build connections with peers, faculty, staff, and other mentors is expensive and only an option at elite institutions where instructors have the luxury of time with students. But in this revelatory book brimming with the voices of students, faculty, and staff from across the country, Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert argue that relationship-rich environments can and should exist for all students at all types of institutions.

Hi, I'm Lionel, a body language expert with a career spent researching, examining, and analyzing the human behavior and psychology. As you can understand, I've been studying body language for a very long time, and I can literally tell with a glance exactly what's going on in her mind.

In this teen mental health book for parents, teachers, and youth leaders, international speaker Joe Beckman takes the popular presentations he’s shared with more than 1,500 schools, to create truly empowered mentors—and reconnected kids.

In this visionary book, Leslie Valiant argues that understanding the nature of our own educability is crucial to safeguarding our future. After breaking down how we process information to learn and apply knowledge, and drawing comparisons with other animals and AI systems, he explains why education should be humankind's central preoccupation. Will the unique capability that has been so foundational to our achievements and civilization continue to drive our progress, or will we fall victim to our vulnerabilities?

How do we model abundance and generosity — in teaching, in learning, in leading organizations, particularly non-profits — when dealing with fiscal austerity and other forms of scarcity thinking? Hope Circuits explores this question, presenting sophisticated ideas that support democratizing higher education for everybody.

Are you interested in the history of one of the most isolated kingdoms on Earth? Then this audiobook is for you! When most people hear the phrase “ancient Hawaii”, it brings up a certain air of mystery and intrigue. Some might think of tattooed tribesmen sailing across the vast emptiness of the Pacific Ocean under the moonlight, dancing around campfires to connect with their gods, or living on the sides of volcanos. But is this an accurate depiction? Or is there more to the early people of Hawaii?

At 15, Victor Rios found himself a human target - flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a teacher, who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course of his whole life - putting him on the road to college and eventually a PhD.

Our ability to remake our world is unique among all living things. But where does our creativity come from, how does it work, and how can we harness it to improve our lives, schools, businesses, and institutions? The Runaway Species is a deep-dive into the creative mind, a celebration of the human spirit, and a vision of how we can improve our future by understanding and embracing our ability to innovate. Composer Anthony Brandt and neurologist David Eagleman seek to discover what lies at the heart of humanity's ability - and drive - to create.

How to Become Extremely Intelligent will... - Explode the myth that your intelligence is unchangeable - Challenge the belief that you are stupid if you got bad grades in school - Show you why you can't rely on the school system to make you smart - Define ‘intelligence’ as the ability to make finer distinctions - Teach you how to increase your academic, practical, spiritual, or emotional intelligence Levi Johnson has challenged and changed the way thousands of people around the world think about learning. With perspectives that often contradict conventional wisdom, Levi has earned a ...

Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions, and shape our politics and beliefs. We use them to construct our relationships, to keep order in our law courts, to interpret events in our newspapers and social media. Storytelling is an essential part of what makes us human.

Phobias, those irrational fears that so many possess, but why do we have them, what makes them so intense? What about manic depression, what causes that disorder? Also, what about Tourette’s syndrome? What’s going on in its corner of neurological disorders?

A new sexual revolution is sweeping the country, and college students are on the front lines. Women use fresh, smart methods to fight entrenched sexism and sexual assault even as they celebrate their own sexuality as never before. Many "woke" male students are more sensitive to women's concerns than previous generations ever were, while other men perpetuate the most cruel misogyny. Amid such apparent contradictions, it's no surprise that intense confusion shrouds the topic of sex on campus.

What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? draws on the voices of individual working people to tell the stories left out of standard histories of that era, and helps us imagine how to address our own failed economy, and how to imagine and build movements challenging it that do not themselves replicate racism and patriarchy.

Experts have actually proven that most of what we communicate is through our actual body language, with about 60 to 90 percent of the way we communicate being nonverbal. But in How to Analyze People 101, not only will you become an expert at recognizing the different types of body language, but also how to master human behavior and emotions so you can build the ultimate relationships you want in life.

Reimagine Online Training: Transform Employee Engagement with Gamification Tired of boring PowerPoint, uninspired PDFs, and outdated e-Learning methods? It’s time to revolutionize your approach to training. Office Arcade is your playbook for leveraging gamification to create fun, engaging, and impactful learning experiences that drive results. Designed for HR leaders, instructional designers, marketers, and product managers, this step-by-step guide will empower you to rethink how you deliver training and motivate your teams. Inside, you’ll discover: • The Four Pillars of Gamification:...

This all-inclusive guide will help you ace the PHR exam on your first try and establish a solid foundation for your HR career! The PHR exam has a notoriously low pass rate, with only 65 percent of test takers successfully passing in 2021. Fortunately for you, this study guide was thoughtfully crafted to provide a thorough review for the test's many functional areas.

The hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing, Lisa Wade offers the definitive account of this new sexual culture and demonstrates that the truth is both more heartening and more harrowing than we thought. Offering invaluable insights for parents, educators, and students, Wade situates hookup culture within the history of sexuality, the evolution of higher education, and the unfinished feminist revolution.

O Pai-Nosso é uma das orações mais recitadas em todo o mundo, mas poucas pessoas compreendem a profundidade das mensagens que ela traz. Com a intenção de desvendar os segredos ocultos nas palavras de Jesus e de revelar o poder transformador dessa prece, Augusto Cury escreveu a coleção Os segredos do Pai-Nosso. Embora os dois audiolivros se complementem, eles podem ser ouvidos de forma independente, pois abordam temas distintos: o primeiro estuda as características de Deus e o segundo, A sabedoria nossa de cada dia, trata da personalidade humana, seus dilemas e conflitos.