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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Electives

The worlds best puzzles

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New York

Each of the clever conundrums found in the book has been rated according to its level of difficulty. If the reader can beat the clock to crack them within 60 seconds, they score the allocated number of points. The more lateral puzzles the reader tries, the better they will do.

Brain-Boosting Lateral Thinking Puzzles

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

In this lighthearted, funny follow-up to the previous Snowmen bestsellers, our young narrator dreams of a non-melting snowman friend who joins him for all of the year's events. They ride a roller coaster together, dive into a swimming pool in the summer, watch the Fourth of July fireworks, and trick-or-treat on Halloween.

It's hilarious, happy wish fulfillment that kids will adore. As Kirkus said of the first book, "It would be difficult not to fall in love with this rollicking flight of imagination."



Snowmen All Year

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Washington

Computational Thinking for the Rest of Us

Visionary designer and technologist John Maeda defines the fundamental laws of how computers think, and why you should care even if you aren't a programmer. "Maeda is to design what Warren Buffett is to finance." --Wired John Maeda is one of the world's preeminent interdisciplinary thinkers on technology and design. In How to Speak Machine, he offers a set of simple laws that govern not only the computers of today, but the unimaginable machines of the future. Technology is already more powerful than we can comprehend, and getting more powerful at an exponential pace. Once set in motion, algorithms never tire. And when a program's size, speed, and tirelessness combine with its ability to learn and transform itself, the outcome can be unpredictable and dangerous. Take the seemingly instant transformation of Microsoft's chatbot Tay into a hate-spewing racist, or how crime-predicting algorithms reinforce racial bias. How to Speak Machine provides a coherent framework for today's product designers, business leaders, and policymakers to grasp this brave new world. Drawing on his wide-ranging experience from engineering to computer science to design, Maeda shows how businesses and individuals can identify opportunities afforded by technology to make world-changing and inclusive products--while avoiding the pitfalls inherent to the medium.

How to Speak Machine

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Colorado

Originally published: Meriden, Conn.: Ralston Society, 1937.

Think and Grow Rich

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Proverbs for Graduates

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California

And other mathematical diversions, puzzles and brainteasers

How do you survive a duel

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Illinois

How Our Brain Thinks, Feels and Decides

* Where do our thoughts come from?

* How can we manipulate our dreams?

* What is the role of the unconscious?

* How do we make choices and trust the judgement of both others and ourselves?



These are some of the questions answered in this groundbreaking, personal and comprehensive guide about our thoughts.

In this provocative, mind-bending international bestseller, prize-winning neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reveals his life's work exploring the inner workings of the human brain.



Sigman's ambition is to explain the mind so that we can understand ourselves and others more deeply. He shows how we form ideas during our first days of life, how we give shape to our fundamental decisions, how we dream and imagine, why we feel certain emotions, how the brain transforms and how who we are changes with it. Sigman looks at the development of language, how bilingualism helps us to think and our notions of what is good and fair develop far earlier than we think.



Building on his awe-inspiring TED talk and spanning biology, physics, philosophy and medicine as well as gastronomy, magic, music, chess, literature and art, The Secret Life of the Mind revolutionizes how neuroscience serves us in our lives, revealing how the infinity of neurons inside our brains manufacture how we perceive, reason, feel, dream and communicate.

The Secret Life of the Mind

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Strategic Dimension of Tennis

A Davis Cup winner and Pepperdine coach has written the first book on the strategy and mental dimension of the game since the bestselling The Inner Game of Tennis.

Think to Win

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A Final Warning

Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called "green" products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting worse. In The Vanishing Face of Gaia, the eminent scientist James Lovelock argues that the earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent "hot state" - and much more quickly than most specialists think. There is nothing humans can do to reverse the process; the planet is simply too overpopulated to halt its own destruction by greenhouse gases.

In order to survive, mankind must start preparing now for life on a radically changed planet. The meliorist approach outlined in the Kyoto Treaty must be abandoned in favor of nuclear energy and aggressive agricultural development on the small areas of earth that will remain arable.

A reluctant jeremiad from one of the environmental movement's elder statesmen, The Vanishing Face of Gaia offers an essential wake-up call for the human race.
 

The Vanishing Face of Gaia

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

J. Bronowski was both a distinguished mathematician and a poet, a philosopher of science and a literary critic who wrote a well-known study of William Blake. Dr. Bronowski's very career was founded on the premise of an intimate connection between science and the humanities, disciplines which are still generally thought to be worlds apart.

The Common Sense of Science, a book which remains as topical today as it was when it first appeared twenty-five years ago, articulates and develops Bronowski's provocative idea that the sciences and the arts fundamentally share the same imaginative vision.

The Common Sense of Science

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Arkansas

Third Edition 

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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Michigan

Reading & Language Arts

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A gifted child's reading level, critical-thinking ability, and interests can range far beyond his or her current grade level. This workbook caters to that unique capacity. It contains almost two hundred pages of reading material carefully calibrated for your advanced student. Challenging reading passages present new vocabulary and offer a depth and range of information on fascinating nonfiction. These passages are followed by true or false, multiple choice, cause and effect, ordering, and even creative writing questions to test analytical thinking skills and reinforce your student's understanding of the readings. The varied activities encourage your gifted learner to experience learning at an accelerated level.
Each Reading for the Gifted Student workbook features:

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 * Inviting readings that favor nonfiction such as science, social studies, and the arts
 * Comprehension questions and activities in various short- and long-answer formats
 * Full-color illustrations and diagrams that bring concepts to life

 * Perforated pages for on-the-go practice

Reading for the Gifted Student Grade 5 (for the Gifted Student)

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High School

Daily Analogies and Antonyms

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Revised edition

Argues that thinking is a skill that can be developed, offers advice on perception, lateral thinking, and decision making, and tells how to start a thinking club.

De Bono's Thinking Course

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Idaho

The Everyday Practice of Finding Stillness amid Rushing Thoughts

We typically have little control over our thoughts, but we often invest them with a lot of authority--even when they contradict what our experiences tell us to be true. Take a moment right now and think There's a hungry grizzly bear sitting next to me. Chances are you didn't take that thought literally and run screaming from the room. But what if instead you had thought, I'll never get a better job, I'm boring, or No one loves me? Just like that terrifying grizzly, these more garden-variety thoughts are just words and pictures that pop into our minds. But often we take thoughts like these literally and let them trick us into avoiding the lives we really want to live.

Leave Your Mind Behind offers a collection of light-hearted practices readers can use to learn to observe their thoughts without getting caught up in them. Each practice is grounded in a component of the new acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) called cognitive defusion: the process of de-fusing or not identifying or becoming one with your thoughts. Sometimes downright strange--imagine yourself hearing your thoughts in the voice of a headless monster!--these activities don't seek to stop or control problematic thinking. Instead, they work to show readers how to observe thoughts without judgment and learn to live with the confounding and marvellous word-making, story-telling machine that is the human mind.

Leave Your Mind Behind

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Issues and Options

Using an issues-and-options approach, in a handbook format, this text deals with each major topic in philosophy by using a succinct, relevant, and readable presentation and critique of the representative options within each topic.

Invitation to Philosophy

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Iowa

It's an insidious disease that is crippling companies, destroying our economy, and crushing potential. It's infecting the very roots of business performance, and it's spreading fast. It isn't the recession, market volatility, scandal, or greed.

It's entitlement.
And it may be killing your business.

In myriad ways, entitlement has been cultivated for decades. As a result, too many employees today believe that they are entitled to a paycheck simply because they show up. Brad Hams has proven that we are not doomed to a path of entitlement and dependence. After more than 15 years working with hundreds of companies, he knows that the vast majority of employees addicted to entitlement actually want to engage, want to contribute, and feel much better about themselves when they are in an environment that requires them to do so.

Now, with Ownership Thinking, Hams shares his strategy that will increase your company's productivity, employee retention, and profitability:

 * The Right Education: Teach employees the fundamentals of business and finance, how their company makes money, and how they add--or take away--value.
 * The Right Measures: Identify the organization's Key Performance Indicators and teach employees to forecast results in an environment of high visibility and accountability.
 * The Right Incentives: Create incentive plans that are self-funding and clearly align employees' behavior to the organization's business and financial objectives.

Your employees will learn to think and act like owners and will become active participants in the financial performance of the business. They will gain the self-esteem that is only possible through achievement and will reap rewards that are in alignment with the success of their organization. Meanwhile, you will enjoy your role more, sleep better at night, and leave a legacy that is far more inspiring and significant than you dreamed possible.

Praise for Ownership Thinking

"You would have to read a dozen other books to even come close to Ownership Thinking--a systematic and practical process for getting your employees to give that extra effort and brain power we know they possess."
--Verne Harnish, CEO, Gazelles; author, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits

"Brad Hams tells it like it truly is: transparency creates trust; trust creates engagement; engagement creates a healthy enterprise. This thoughtful and practical book shows you how to achieve all of these things and more."
--Chip Conley, founder and executive chair, Joie de Vivre; author, Peak

"Comprehensive and marvelously clear, Ownership Thinking's techniques for creating change are focused, direct, and motivating. This is a wise book, unusually useful, and I recommend it most highly."
--Judith M. Bardwick, Ph.D., author, Danger in the Comfort Zone and The Psychological Recession

"Brad Hams is one of the most persuasive and creative thinkers I know. His book is a specific guide you can (and should) implement now."
--Corey Rosen, founder, National Center for Employee Ownership

"Hams is masterful at outlining the engagement practices that inspire people to care and to be deeply vested in business results."
--Jim Haudan, CEO, Root Learning; author, The Art of Engagement

"Hams' book is like a candid conversation with a wise friend. . . . A 'must read' for any business leader wanting to create a culture of ownership."
--Dean Schroeder, author, Ideas Are Free

Ownership Thinking: How to End Entitlement and Create a Culture of Accountability, Purpose, and Profit

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Beyond Brainstorming (renowned Designer Ellen Lupton Provides New Techniques for Creative Thinking about Design Process with Examples and Case Studies)

"A 'must have' in the design arsenal."--Cat Normoyle, Professor of Graphic Design, East Carolina University

"Provides enough thinking techniques to break out of even the worst creative rut."--Creative Woman's Circle

Legendary designer Ellen Lupton demystifies the creative process in another essential graphic design book.Graphic Design Thinking explores a variety of techniques to stimulate fresh thinking to arrive at compelling and viable solutions. Each approach is explained with a brief narrative text followed by a variety of visual demonstrations and case studies. Lupton's hands-on, close-up approach, made famous with Thinking with Type, makes the creative process accessible to anyone and removes the myth that creativity is an in-born talent.

Presents a wide range of methods applicable to any brainstorming scenario.
* Techniques are grouped around the three basic phases of the design process: defining the problem, inventing ideas, and creating form
* From informal strategies that are ideal for quick, seat-of-the-pants thinking, to formal research methods
* Learn to approach problems through focus groups, interviewing, brand mapping, and co-design

Includes discussions with leading professional designers. Art Chantry, Ivan Chermayeff, Jessica Helfand, Steven Heller, Abbott Miller, Christoph Niemann, Paula Scher, and Martin Venezk reveal how they get ideas and overcome blocks to creativity.

Graphic Design Thinking is directed at working designers, design students, and anyone who wants to apply inventive thought patterns to everyday creative challenges in the design process.

Graphic Design Thinking

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Alabama

A game-changing playbook for disruptive Thinking

Think Sideways

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Education Reimagined

A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents, and teachers use the Khan Academy's free videos and software, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject; and Academy techniques are being employed with exciting results in a growing number of classrooms around the globe.

Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and imagines what education could be if freed from them. And his core idea-liberating teachers from lecturing and state-mandated calendars and opening up class time for truly human interaction-has become his life's passion. Schools seek his advice about connecting to students in a digital age, and people of all ages and backgrounds flock to the site to utilize this fresh approach to learning.

In The One World Schoolhouse, Khan presents his radical vision for the future of education, as well as his own remarkable story, for the first time. In these pages, you will discover, among other things:


 * How both students and teachers are being bound by a broken top-down model invented in Prussia two centuries ago
 * Why technology will make classrooms more human and teachers more important
 * How and why we can afford to pay educators the same as other professionals
 * How we can bring creativity and true human interactivity back to learning
 * Why we should be very optimistic about the future of learning.

Parents and politicians routinely bemoan the state of our education system. Statistics suggest we've fallen behind the rest of the world in literacy, math, and sciences. With a shrewd reading of history, Khan explains how this crisis presented itself, and why a return to "mastery learning," abandoned in the twentieth century and ingeniously revived by tools like the Khan Academy, could offer the best opportunity to level the playing field, and to give all of our children a world-class education now.

More than just a solution, The One World Schoolhouse serves as a call for free, universal, global education, and an explanation of how Khan's simple yet revolutionary thinking can help achieve this inspiring goal.

The One World Schoolhouse

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Virginia

Hundreds of great puzzles to get you thinking

Mega Puzzles

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A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence

Amy Alkon presentsUnf*ckology, a "science-help" book that knocks the self-help genre on its unscientific ass. You can finally stop fear from being your boss and put an end to your lifelong social suckage.

Have you spent your life shrinking from opportunities you were dying to seize but feel "that's just who I am"? Well, screw that! You actually can change, and it doesn't take exceptional intelligence or a therapist who's looking forward to finally buying Aruba after decades of listening to you yammer on.

Transforming yourself takes revolutionary science-help from Amy Alkon, who has spent the past 20 years translating cutting-edge behavioral science into highly practical advice in her award-winning syndicated column. InUnf*ckology, Alkon pulls together findings from neuroscience, behavioral science, evolutionary psychology, and clinical psychology. She explains everything in language you won't need a psych prof on speed-dial to understand--and with the biting dark humor that madeGood Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck such a great read. She debunks widely-accepted but scientifically unsupported notions about self-esteem, shame, willpower, and more and demonstrates that:

- Thinking your way into changing (as so many therapists and self-help books advise) is the most inefficient way to go about it.

- The mind is bigger than the brain, meaning that your body and your behavior are your gym for turning yourself into the new, confident you.

- Fear is not just the problem; it's also the solution.

- By targeting your fears with behavior, you make changes in your brain that reshape your habitual ways of behaving and the emotions that go with them.

Follow Amy Alkon's groundbreaking advice inUnf*ckology, and eventually, you'll no longer need to act like the new you; you'llbecome the new you. And how totally f*cking cool is that?

Unf*ckology

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Twelfth edition 

THE RIVER READER, 12th Edition (formerly THE RIVERSIDE READER), is a collection of expository essays arranged by rhetorical modes: narration and description, process and analysis, comparison and contrast, division and classification, definition, cause and effect, and persuasion and argument. A final thematic unit, "Food: A Casebook," illustrates all of these modes. The readings, which include short stories, represent diverse voices and views from some of the most respected professional essayists working in the English language. Essays in this edition serve as structural models for students to emulate in their writing and as sources of content for classroom discussion and paper topics. Headnotes and post-reading material analyze each reading in context, helping students better understand the craft of writing and apply what they learn to their own work. The 12th Edition is available with MindTap.

Charles Berry Townsend

The worlds best puzzles

Joanna Hooper; Roya Ireland; Lagoon Books Staff (Editor)

Brain-Boosting Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Caralyn Buehner; Mark Buehner (Illustrator)

Snowmen All Year

John Maeda

How to Speak Machine

Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich

Brent D. Earles

Proverbs for Graduates

Erwin Brecher

How do you survive a duel

Mariano Sigman

The Secret Life of the Mind

Allen Fox

Think to Win

James Lovelock

The Vanishing Face of Gaia

J. Bronowski; Hermann Bondi (Foreword by)

The Common Sense of Science

Thomas S. Kuhn

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Flash Kids Editors (Editor)

Reading for the Gifted Student Grade 5 (for the Gifted Student)

Caroline W. Ruesnick

Daily Analogies and Antonyms

Edward de Bono

De Bono's Thinking Course

Matthew McKay; Catharine Sutker

Leave Your Mind Behind

Stanley M. Honer; Thomas C. Hunt; Dennis Okholm

Invitation to Philosophy

Brad Hams

Ownership Thinking: How to End Entitlement and Create a Culture of Accountability, Purpose, and Profit

Ellen Lupton

Graphic Design Thinking

Tamarra Kleinberg (Original Author)

Think Sideways

Salman Khan

The One World Schoolhouse

Peter Tovey

Mega Puzzles

Amy Alkon

Unf*ckology

Joseph F. Trimmer

The River Reader