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  • Unconditional Parenting

    Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

    by Alfie Kohn ...
    A groundbreaking approach to parenting by nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn that gives parents “powerful alternatives to help children become their most caring, responsible selves” (Adele Faber, New York Times bestselling author) by switching the dynamic from doing things to children to working with them.Most parenting guides begin with the question “How can we get kids to do what they're ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Punished By Rewards: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

    The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

    by Alfie Kohn ...
    Revised for the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication, Alfie Kohn's landmark challenge to carrot-and-stick psychology features updated reflections and research in a major new afterword by the author.Our basic strategy for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summed up in six words: Do this and you’ll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • No Contest

    The Case Against Competition

    by Alfie Kohn ...
    No Contest stands as the definitive critique of competition. Contrary to accepted wisdom, competition is not basic to human nature; it poisons our relationships and holds us back from doing our best. In this new edition, Alfie Kohn argues that the race to win turns all of us into losers. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?

    And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies

    by Alfie Kohn ...
    Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. Time magazine has called him'perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores.' And the Washington Post says he is 'the most energetic and charismatic figure standing in the way of a major federal effort to make standardized curriculums and tests ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ungrading

    Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)

    Edited by Susan D. Blum ...
    Series series Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
    The moment is right for critical reflection on what has been assumed to be a core part of schooling. In Ungrading, fifteen educators write about their diverse experiences going gradeless. Some contributors are new to the practice and some have been engaging in it for decades. Some are in humanities and social sciences, some in STEM fields. Some are in higher education, but some are the K–12 ... Read more

    Was $19.99 USD Now $10.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Feel-Bad Education

    And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling

    by Alfie Kohn ...
    Mind-opening writing on what kids need from school, from one of education’s most outspoken voicesAlmost no writer on schools asks us to question our fundamental assumptions about education and motivation as boldly as Alfie Kohn. The Washington Post says that “teachers and parents who encounter Kohn and his thoughts come away transfixed, ready to change their schools.” And Time magazine has called ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Warden's Forbidden Mate

    An Enemies-to-Lovers Fated-Mates Lycan Shifter Prison Romance

    by Alfie Brennan ...
    He's sworn to guard the realm's most dangerous prisoners. She's the one the bond chose for him anyway.Kael Drummond is the Lycan Warden—the iron hand that keeps the pack's worst offenders behind silver bars. Duty is the only thing he's ever trusted. Until she walks through his gates in chains.Senna was convicted for a crime she swears she didn't commit, sentenced to the one fortress no wolf has ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Discipline

    From Compliance to Community, 10th Anniversary Edition

    by Alfie Kohn ...
    What is most remarkable about the assortment of discipline programs on the market today is the number of fundamental assumptions they seem to share. Some may advocate the use of carrots rather than sticks; some may refer to punishments as "logical consequences." But virtually all take for granted that the teacher must be in control of the classroom, and that what we need are strategies to get ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Dream Lovers

    The Gamification of Relationships

    by Alfie Bown ...
    Series series Digital Barricades
    We are in the middle of a 'desirevolution' - a fundamental and political transformation of the way we desire as human beings. Perhaps as always, new technologies - with their associated and inherited political biases - are organising and mapping the future. What we don’t seem to notice is that the primary way in which our lives are being transformed is through the manipulation and control of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Face the Music

    My Story

    by Alfie Boe ...
    The intimate and uplifting memoir from one of Britain's most loved singers - this is Alfie, off stage.Bringing his characteristic sense of cheeky humour to the page, in this heartfelt book Alfie describes for the first time the highs and lows of over a decade singing and performing across the world. From personal dinners with Queen Elizabeth II and following in the steps of King of Rock 'n' Roll ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Matriarch

    by Alfie and Annabelle ...
    Life is a dream for Ruth Wescott, grande dame of early 1900s Philadelphia society—until her husband uproots the family to a ramshackleCalifornia lumber town.Scarred by a childhood encounter with an otherworldly presence while lost in the woods, she's seen beyond the veil. To her, the forest is no sanctuary. It's a murderous No Man's Land, minus the barbed wire.Caught between shadowy conspiracies ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Cup of Gloom

    by Alfie and Annabelle ...
    What happens when secrets just won't stay buried? After a lifetime of heartaches, things are finally looking up for Jenny Boyd. Daughter of a World War II hero, she's now the mayor of her small coastal Oregon hamlet and preparing for a weekend of celebration in honor of her father and his men. But when she discovers a mysterious corpse on the beach below her cliffside cottage, nothing is as it ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus