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  My Lobotomy - A Memoir

  Howard Dully, Charles Fleming

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  A gut-wrenching memoir by a man who was lobotomized at the age of twelve. 
  Assisted by journalist/novelist Charles Fleming, Howard Dully recounts a family tragedy whose Sophoclean proportions he could only sketch in his powerful 2005 broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered. 
  "In 1960," he writes, "I was given a transorbital, or 'ice pick' lobotomy. My stepmother arranged it. My father agreed to it. Dr. Walter Freeman, the father of the American lobotomy, told me he was going to do some 'tests.' It took ten minutes and cost two hundred dollars." Fellow doctors called Freeman's technique barbaric: an ice pick-like instrument was inserted about three inches into each eye socket and twirled to sever connections from the frontal lobe to the rest of the brain. The procedure was intended to help curb a variety of psychoses by muting emotional responses, but sometimes it irreversibly reduced patients to a childlike state or (in 15 percent of the operations Freeman performed) killed them outright. Dully's ten-minute "test" did neither, but in some ways it had a far crueler result, since it didn't end the unruly behavior that had set his stepmother against him to begin with. 
  "I spent the next forty years in and out of insane asylums, jails, and halfway houses," he tells us. "I was homeless, alcoholic, and drug-addicted. I was lost." From all accounts, there was no excuse for the lobotomy. Dully had never been "crazy," and his (not very) bad behavior sounds like the typical acting-up of a child in desperate need of affection. His stepmother responded with unrelenting abuse and neglect, and his father allowed her to demonize his son and never admitted his complicity in the lobotomy; Freeman capitalized on their monumental dysfunction. It's a tale of epic horror, and while Dully's courage in telling it inspires awe, listeners are left to speculate about what drove supposedly responsible adults to such unconscionable acts.

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  The Great Dissent - How Oliver...

  Thomas Healy

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  No right seems more fundamental to American public life than freedom of speech. Yet well into the twentieth century, that freedom was still an unfulfilled promise, with Americans regularly imprisoned merely for speaking out against government policies. Indeed, free speech as we know it comes less from the First Amendment than from a most unexpected source: Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. A lifelong skeptic, he disdained all individual rights, including the right to express one's political views. But in 1919, it was Holmes who wrote a dissenting opinion that would become the canonical affirmation of free speech in the United States.Why did Holmes change his mind? That question has puzzled historians for almost a century. Now, with the aid of newly discovered letters and confidential memos, law professor Thomas Healy reconstructs in vivid detail Holmes's journey from free-speech opponent to First Amendment hero. It is the story of a remarkable behind-the-scenes campaign by a group of progressives to bring a legal icon around to their way of thinking-and a deeply touching human narrative of an old man saved from loneliness and despair by a few unlikely young friends.Beautifully written and exhaustively researched, The Great Dissent is intellectual history at its best, revealing how free debate can alter the life of a man and the legal landscape of an entire nation.

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  Learn Afrikaans While Sleeping

  Innovative Language Learning

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  Can you learn while sleeping?  Studies say that yes you can. Listening to a language while asleep can help supercharge your vocabulary.Learn Easily with the Power of Pleasant RepetitionWith the Learn Afrikaans While Sleeping Audiobook, youll absorb over 430 Afrikaans words and phrases effortlessly. You can use this Beginner-Level Audiobook toRelax while listening to Afrikaans phrases and translationsRelieve stress. Just listen in   No confusing grammar rules Wind down before bed to help you fall asleepAnd of course learn words passively in your sleep.How does it work? Just press play... and listen to the gentle voice of a native teacher. Our teacher repeats each word and phrase multiple times...  so you'll retain them better whether you're awake or in bed. For best results, listen while awake first. Then, listen while falling asleep.What Will You Learn? You'll Master 430+ Beginner Words & Phrases IncludingBasic GreetingsNumbers in AfrikaansCommon Questions and AnswersWords for Introducing YourselfBasic Verbs & AdjectivesAnd much moreThe Learn Afrikaans While Sleeping Audiobook includes13 Beginner-Level Audio Lessons 6.5+ Hours of Lessons in TotalAccompanying PDF eBook with all of the words, phrases and translationsMark Alain et al. "Implicit Vocabulary Learning during Sleep is Bound to Slow-Wave Peaks. Current Biology. October 21, 2019."

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  Managing ADHD in School - The...

  Russell A. Barkley PhD

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  Dr. Russell Barkley, internationally respected expert on ADHD, draws on his forty years of clinical work with thousands of students, teachers, and schools to create a definitive resource for the most effective methods in overcoming impairments for children and teens with ADHD.Managing ADHD in School details more than 100 evidence-based recommendations to help teachers and clinicians increase the success of children and teens with ADHD. This manual goes beyond the "what" to explain "why" the problems are likely occurring, followed up with the most effective interventions.● Classroom strategies for managing ADHD● Reward systems for good behavior● Proven discipline methods● Medications and how they work● Tips for teen management

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  Faith 101

  Good Head Group Audiobooks,...

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  Faith 101: The Basics is the first of a four-book series explaining the basics of increasing your faith, understanding yourself, what you believe and how to manifest results. Starting with getting to know yourself by Setting Your Intentions, Defining Faith, Understanding Prayer, Hearing from God, Sacrifice, and many other topics. When purchased with the Faith: 101 Workbook, you have a self-paced course on The Basics of faith based on your personal understanding. No matter what your religious preference is, Faith 101 is sure to help you develop your faith and reap the results of soul growth.

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  The Skillful Teacher - On...

  Stephen D. Brookfield

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  Energize your classrooms with these key techniques for college teaching.  
   
  Students say the best teachers get them excited about learning, stretch their thinking, and keep them actively involved in class. But with increasingly diverse classrooms and constantly changing technology, each semester throws up new challenges for engaging students.  
   
  Discover how to keep your teaching, and your students, energized with The Skillful Teacher, a practical guide to effective techniques, approaches, and methods for today's college classrooms. Providing insights, reflections, and advice from his four decades of college teaching, Stephen Brookfield now adapts his successful methods to teaching online, working with diverse student populations, and making classrooms truly inclusive. As well as being completely revised, updated, and rewritten, this edition adds six brand new chapters on teaching critical thinking, using play and creativity in the classroom, teaching in teams, helping students take responsibility for learning, teaching about racism, and exercising teacher power responsibly.

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