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The Twentieth Mental Measurements Yearbook
Janet F Carlson - Buros Center for Testing
Format: Hardcover
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The most widely acclaimed reference series in education and psychology, the Mental Measurements Yearbooks are designed to assist professionals in selecting and using standardized tests. The series, initiated in 1938, provides factual information and critical reviews on the construction,... |
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways... |
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The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap
Gish Jen - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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A provocative and important study of the different ideas Easterners and Westerners have about the self and society and what this means for current debates in art, education, geopolitics, and business. Never have East and West come as close as they are today, yet we are still baffled by one another.... |
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Radio Benjamin
Walter Benjamin - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to ’33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers the surviving... |
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The Delusions Of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups
William J. Bernstein - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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"We are the apes who tell stories," writes William Bernstein. "And no matter how misleading the narrative, if it is compelling enough it will nearly always trump the facts." As Bernstein shows in his eloquent and persuasive new book, The Delusions of Crowds, throughout... |
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The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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"Without The Artist's Way, there would have been no Eat, Pray, Love." - Elizabeth GilbertSince it was first published twenty-five years ago, The Artist's Way has inspired millions to overcome the limiting beliefs and fears that inhibit the creative process. The Artist's... |
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Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine
Michele Borba Ed D.
Format: Hardcover
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Michele Borba has been a teacher, educational consultant, and parent for 40 years -- and she's never been more worried than she is about this current generation of kids. The high-achieving students she talks with every day are more accomplished, better educated, and more privileged... |
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The Prime of Life: A History of Modern Adulthood
Steven Mintz - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Adulthood today is undergoing profound transformations. Men and women wait until their thirties to marry, have children, and establish full-time careers, occupying a prolonged period in which they are no longer adolescents but still lack the traditional emblems of adult identity. People... |
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I Hate You--Don't Leave Me: Third Edition: Understanding the Borderline Personality
Jerold J. Kreisman - TarcherPerigee; 3rd edition
Format: Paperback
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After more than three decades as the essential guide to borderline personality disorder (BPD) , the third edition of I Hate You - Don't Leave Me now reflects the most up-to-date research that has opened doors to the neurobiological, genetic, and developmental roots of the disorder,... |
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