Heading back to uni and have a textbook list as long as your arm? Pop the ISBN into Booko and load up your cart the clever way.
Today’s clever pick is Planning Melbourne: Lessons for a Sustainable City.
It’s raining here in Melbourne and will be for the next few days which means we can all snuggle up with a great book for the whole weekend with no guilt! Yippee! Enjoy a safe and cosy weekend.
The late Sir Ken Robinson made the case for a radical shift from standardised schools to personalised learning where kids’ natural talents can flourish. His famous Ted Talk is worth the watch.
Reading and writing can be acts of courage that bring us closer to others and ourselves. In this Ted Talk author Michelle Kuo shares how teaching reading skills to her students in the Mississippi Delta revealed the bridging power of the written word as well as the limitations of its power.
Heading back to uni and have a textbook list as long as your arm? Pop the ISBN into Booko and load up your cart the clever way.
Today’s clever pick is Urban Economics.
Everyone experiences loss, but how do you cope with the tough moments that follow? Resilience researcher Lucy Hone shares three hard-won strategies for developing the capacity to brave adversity, overcome struggle and face whatever may come head-on with fortitude and grace.
Happy New Year! We wish you all a year of health and happiness full of great friends, great fun and great books.
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story, Before The Coffee Gets Cold, explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time?
Our culture is obsessed with happiness, but what if there’s a more fulfilling path? Happiness comes and goes, says writer Emily Esfahani Smith, but having meaning in life – serving something beyond yourself and developing the best within you – gives you something to hold onto. Learn more about the difference between being happy and having meaning as Smith offers four pillars of a meaningful life.
It’s an olde but a goodie…this Ted Talk with Jamie Oliver is one of our favs as it really challenges the world’s ignorance surrounding food.