Education

More than 2,000 years ago, a Greek philosopher named Aristotle found himself preoccupied with some profound questions: What is reality? What does it mean to exist? What makes something the thing that it is? Although much of what Aristotle wrote about the sciences has been supplanted by modern knowledge, the questions he asked in Metaphysics about the nature of reality still drive philosophical thought 2,000 years later.

Nobody hands you the actual terms before you sign up for a PhD. You get the pitch instead: the campus tour, the flattering conversation about your "potential," the acceptance email with its exclamation point. What you don't get is the document—what it actually costs, what it pays, what happens even when everything goes right. The Fine Print of the PhD is that missing document. This isn't a book by someone who didn't make it.

Stop wasting hours on frustrating, repetitive practice. Learn how to unlock real musical progress in less time. Whether you play guitar, piano, drums, or sing, hitting a plateau rarely comes from a lack of talent. It comes from not knowing how to practice. Playing the same mistake twenty times isn't learning; it's reinforcing bad habits. In Learn Music Faster, James Coleman reveals a practical, step-by-step system grounded in how your brain actually absorbs musical skills.

Bloomsbury presents California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California, by Miriam Pawel read by Christina Delaine. "Essential reading."— KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR "A must read."—KAI BIRD "In a time of terminal cynicism, Pawel gives us hope."—JERRY BROWN Pulitzer Prize...

A fully revised fourth edition of the definitive guide to law school, featuring new interviews with practicing lawyers and a whole new set of student mentors. This edition covers updates to financial aid, hiring practices, and clerkships introduced by our current administration. Written by...

Make sure your tech initiatives put students first with this robust guide for teachers and school leaders. With new artificial intelligence tools sweeping into districts and schools, educators must be able to assess the tools' benefits and limitations and determine if and how they might serve...

An emerita professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies delivers a searing account of how the modern university lost its way. A decades-long insider in the academy, she argues that the progressive disciplines she once devoted her life to helped erode intellectual freedom and open inquiry. From the classroom to the dean’s office, she shows how faculty and administrators fostered a culture of grievance, elevated activism over scholarship, and enforced ideological conformity in the name of social justice.

Bloomsbury presents Take Action on Distraction: The definitive guide to improving attention and focus in the Early Years and Key Stage One by Professor Sam Wass and Dr Gemma Goldenberg, read by Professor Sam Wass *ERA Early Years Resource Winner, 2026 and Nursery World Awards Professional Book...

Originally published in 1978, Aggression in the Schools: Bullies and Whipping Boys is widely considered to be the first scientific study of bullying. This was an investigation of a largely hidden and neglected problem in schools at the time—some children, whipping boys, were exposed over long...

Unlock the full reading potential of every student with Reading Assessment Done Right. Authored by the dynamic duo of Stephanie Stollar and Kate Winn, this book informs and empowers frontline teachers to use effective, evidence-based assessments to screen, diagnose, and monitor their students. It demystifies assessment to help teachers improve reading outcomes for all students.

In Helping Kids Take Ownership of Their Lives, educator, author, former diplomat, and Board-Certified Educational Therapist Dr. Dianne Olvera presents a practical communication framework to help young people become active participants in their growth and development by addressing pain points expressed by many of her clients. Am I Doing Too Much of My Child's Thinking? I remind. Correct. Explain. Solve. And tomorrow, I have to do it all over again. But what if we're doing too much of the thinking we want our children to learn to do for themselves?

Based in the riches of Christian worship and tradition, this brief, eloquently written introduction to Christian thinking and worldview helps readers put back together again faith and reason, truth and beauty, and the fragmented academic disciplines. By reclaiming the classic liberal arts and...

The inside story of how Big Tech catalyzed, co-opted, and ultimately came to capture computer science and AI education in America. Fourth graders doing Google-branded coding lessons. Amazon schooling seventh graders on its warehouse robots. Advanced Placement computing courses from Microsoft and...

A celebration of the joys and vital importance of children's literature for adult readers, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Impossible Creatures. Katherine Rundell, one of the most accomplished modern children’s writers, offers an extended essay about the pleasures and benefits...

Has it ever happened to you that you suddenly couldn't keep up with an interesting conversation? That's not a nice feeling and can lead to embarrassing situations in which you appear uninformed and clueless. If you hardly know anything about the world, you are quickly left behind in conversations and find it difficult to form an opinion on socially relevant topics. In a fast-paced and increasingly hectic world, it is often difficult to distinguish between important and unimportant knowledge and to find the right words.

The remarkable story of Swiss aid worker Kathi Zellweger, whose history of engagement with a secretive, isolated North Korea over nearly three decades is unprecedented in its scope, access, and humanitarian impact. One of the first book-length accounts in English by an aid worker operating on...

Bloomsbury presents Seven Steps to College Success by Elizabeth C. Hamblet, read by Laurel Lefkow “Just when I’ve mastered the IEP process, here comes college.” If you’re a parent of a student with a disability who has an IEP or 504 or you’re a professional who works with them, you...

How can we unlock every child's potential? What would it take for every student to learn successfully at school and be well prepared for their future? How does schooling itself leave some students behind? Internationally recognized education adviser Geoff Masters AO challenges what most of us...

A must-listen book for every leader—and every American—who insists that their government deliver better results Broken. Ineffective. Dysfunctional. Those are the words Americans often use to describe the government they pay for and depend upon to meet some of their most basic needs. But what if governments routinely delivered better results? What if government leaders invested in more effective solutions that improved lives and saved taxpayer dollars? Do What Works shares stories of progress and impact from communities across the country where that's happening right now.

An essential, research-driven guide that reimagines what it means to support the well-being of today's college students With concerns about student mental health on the rise, Alexis Redding and contributors draw on expertise across disciplines to offer practical strategies and deep insight for...

The Farrier’s Mindset: How to Understand, Apply and Explain Farriery Knowledge Farriery is more than knowing what to do beneath a horse’s foot. It is about understanding why you are doing it, applying knowledge to the individual horse and being able to explain your decisions clearly. The...

Classroom management can make or break your teaching. But as educators know, there is no one-fits-all solution for every classroom. That is why bestselling authors Todd Whitaker, Madeline Whitaker Good, and Katherine Whitaker came together to write this book. They created a guide combining sound...

Julia Lindsey's new audiobook answers teachers' persistent questions about how to teach effectively in small groups, showing teachers how to identify specific "sticking points," or needs, that students typically have—and then respond with routines and methods based on empirical research. This targeted, purpose-driven approach—sometimes requiring as little as five minutes of daily instructional time—moves the needle for readers at every point on the developmental spectrum.

Why does everything feel meaningful —even when nothing important is happening? In Meaning Saturation: Why Nothing Fully Clears Anymore, author Elias Rowan explores a subtle shift in modern experience: how everyday life has become saturated with interpretation, context, and lingering significance. Tasks finish, messages sent, conversations end —yet the mind rarely returns to neutrality. Instead, moments remain active in the background, continuing to generate associations, interpretations, and quiet psychological residue.

In Education, scholar and reformer Robert Morss Lovett delivers a provocative critique of the American school system in the early twentieth century. Lovett argues that education has become a kind of national “superstition”—an institution assumed to produce social progress merely because...