Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning. As an instructor, I am always looking for ways to improve my teaching and ensure that people are retaining the information I am sharing. This book, brings numerous tips backed by science, research, and the author practicing them to the reader. I really appreciated the way he presented […]
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Holy jumping up and down Martha!! This book scared the crap out of me. The Russians were so worried about looking bad in the world’s eyes they covered up this nuclear disaster for years. Their incompetence in building the reactors was where it began, but it […]
The Treasure Hunt of Your Life
Seeking Your Calling, Encountering God, Finding Yourself. By Rebecca Schlatter Liberty Rebecca is a discernment coach who is taking my Facilitating Career Development (FCD) class. Her background is ministry where she practiced a lot of discernment coaching and workshops. Her book is about how we have to look for things in our life to discover […]
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
By Mark Kurlansky who also wrote Cod which was a great book about how the cod is what brought the early Europeans to America in the 1400’s and how much an impact the cod has made. Salmon is a book I will keep forever on my bookshelf (much to the dismay of my wife who […]
Life’s Great Question by Tom Rath
Discover How YOU Contribute To The World Tom Rath has written StrengthsFinder 2.0 and How Full is Your Bucket and Eat Move Sleep. He is best known for StrengthsFinder 2.0 and this book builds on strengths in a slightly different way. As the title says, it really looks at how you want to contribute to […]
America’s Game by Michael MacCambridge
The epic story of how pro football captured a nation. I know football is huge in America. The NFL is king both on tv, in person, and in gambling. But I never understood why it over took baseball as our nations game. Baseball was king for years and then football took over. Why? Well, there […]