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Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
Joshua Wolf Shenk · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory synthesis of cultural history and social psychology that shows how one-to-one collaboration drives creative success Weaving the lives of scores of creative duos—from John Lennon and Paul McCartney to Marie and Pierre Curie to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak—Joshua Wolf... |
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The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life
ANYA KAMENETZ · PublicAffairs
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Blending scholarly evidence and the experiences of numerous families, The Art of Screen Time is a well-researched and reassuring guide to raising kids in a world where technology is everywhere." -danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked TeensFinally... |
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The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention
Meredith Maran · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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For readers of Anne Lamott, Abigail Thomas, and Ayelet Waldman, a "lusty, kickass*" post-divorce memoir, one woman's story of starting over at 60 - in youth-obsessed, beauty-obsessed Hollywood.After the death of her best friend, the loss of her life's savings, and the collapse... |
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Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations
Dan Ariely · Ted
Pages: 128
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author Dan Ariely reveals fascinating new insights into motivation - showing that the subject is far more complex than we ever imagined.Every day we work hard to motivate ourselves, the people we live with, the people who work for and do business with us. In this way, much of what... |
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Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex, and Business
Eden Collinsworth · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex - and ethically flexible - age. To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders... |
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The Art of Reading
DAMON YOUNG · Scribe US
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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'What you are doing right now is, cosmically speaking, against the odds.' As young children, we are taught to read, but soon go on to forget just how miraculous a process it is, this turning of scratches and dots into understanding, unease and inspiration. Perhaps we need to stop... |
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Preschool Clues: Raising Smart, Inspired, and Engaged Kids in a Screen-Filled World
Angela C. Santomero · Touchstone
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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The award-winning creator of Blue's Clues, Super Why!, and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood shares the secret sauce behind her shows' powerful, transformative results in the form of eleven research-based, foundational "clues" to ensure that preschoolers flourish academically, socially,... |
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No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
Ron Powers · Hachette Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam... |
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What You Don't Know about Leadership, But Probably Should: Applications to Daily Life
JEFFREY KOTTLER · Oxford University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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Leadership is not just for CEOs--we all find ourselves in leadership positions at one time or another, whether in meetings and classes or at social events and family gatherings. And yet, even though leadership is the single most studied aspect of all human behavior, there remains a scarcity... |
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Tuesday's Promise: One Veteran, One Dog, and Their Bold Quest to Change Lives
Luis Carlos Montalvan · Hachette Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Following the success of his New York Times bestseller, Until Tuesday, Iraq War veteran Luis Carlos Montalván takes to the road with his beloved Golden Retriever service dog, Tuesday, advocating for America's wounded warriors and for each other. Luis's first book sparked a national... |
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Bullying Scars: The Impact on Adult Life and Relationships
Ellen DeLara · Oxford University Press
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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An explosion of research on bullying has raised our collective awareness of the serious impacts it can have on children. No longer do we accept it as an innocuous rite of passage, just a part of growing up that we grin and bear and grow out of later. But do we grow out of it, or are there... |
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One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life
Mitch Horowitz · Crown Publishers
Pages: 338
Format: Hardcover
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From the millions-strong audiences of Oprah and The Secret to the mass-media ministries of evangelical figures like Joel Osteen and T. D. Jakes, to the motivational bestsellers and New Age seminars to the twelve-step programs and support groups of the recovery movement and to the rise of positive... |
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