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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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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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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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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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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Alaska

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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Napoleon Hill

Louisiana

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

Think and Grow Rich

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California

And other mathematical diversions, puzzles and brainteasers

How do you survive a duel

Malcolm Gladwell

Maryland

The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Blink

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How to Read its Signals for Better Health 

Listen to Your Body 

Anne Bogel

Florida

Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life

We've all been there: stuck in a cycle of what-ifs, plagued by indecision, paralyzed by the fear of getting it wrong. Nobody wants to live a life of constant overthinking, but it doesn't feel like something we can choose to stop doing. It feels like something we're wired to do, something we just can't escape. But is it? Anne Bogel's answer is no. Not only can you overcome negative thought patterns that are repetitive, unhealthy, and unhelpful, you can replace them with positive thought patterns that will bring more peace, joy, and love into your life. In Don't Overthink It, you'll find actionable strategies that can make an immediate and lasting difference in how you deal with questions both small--Should I buy these flowers?--and large--What am I doing with my life? More than a book about making good decisions, Don't Overthink It offers you a framework for making choices you'll be comfortable with, using an appropriate amount of energy, freeing you to focus on all the other stuff that matters in life.

Don't Overthink It

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Nikki Katz

South Carolina

Hundreds of Puzzles to Help You Think Outside the Box

- Everything puzzle books continue to be category leaders - Perfect for Games promotions! Puzzle: A doctor mixed a batch of medicine for his client and then drank it down himself. Why? Clues: 1. It tasted good! 2. It worked better with a straw. Solution: Coca-Cola was invented when a doctor was mixing headache medication to taste good. The approval board found that the medicine tasted better than it worked, so they carbonated the liquid and then marketed it! With puzzles organized by subject matter, helpful clues for the beginner, and new challenges for the expert, The Everything Lateral Thinking Puzzles Book is sure to be a hit with every puzzler.

The Everything Lateral Thinking Puzzles Book

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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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Todd Henry

How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice

Many of us assume that our creative process is beyond our ability to influence, and pay attention to it only when it isn't working properly. For the most part, we go about our daily tasks and everything just works. Until it doesn't. Adding to this lack of understanding is the rapidly accelerating pace of work. Each day we are face escalating expectations and a continual squeeze to do more with less. We are asked to produce an ever-increasing amount of brilliance in an ever-shrinking amount of time. There is an unspoken (or spoken!) expectation that we'll be accessible 24/7, and as a result we frequently feel like we're always on. Now business creativity expert Todd Henry explains how to unleash your creative potential. Whether you're a creative by trade or an accidental creative, this book will help you quickly and effectively integrate new ideas into your daily life.

The Accidental Creative

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How to have a good day every day 

Burton Watson

Basic Writings

The basic writings of Chuang Tzu have been savored by Chinese readers for over two thousand years. And Burton Watson's lucid and beautiful translation has been loved by generations of readers.

Chuang Tzu (369?-286? B.C.) was a leading philosopher representing the Taoist strain in Chinese thought. Using parable and anecdote, allegory and paradox, he set forth, in the book that bears his name, the early ideas of what was to become the Taoist school. Central to these is the belief that only by understanding Tao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can man achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death.

Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings includes the seven "inner chapters," which form the heart of the book, three of the "outer chapters," and one of the "miscellaneous chapters." Watson also provides an introduction, placing the philosopher in relation to Chinese history and thought.

Witty and imaginative, enriched by brilliant imagery, and making sportive use of both mythological and historical personages (including even Confucius), this timeless classic is sure to appeal to anyone interested in Chinese religion and culture.

Chuang Tzu

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Richard Maurice Bucke

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind

2010 Reprint of 1905 edition.This work is the magnum opus of Bucke's career, a project that he researched and wrote over many years. In it, Bucke described his own experience, that of contemporaries (most notably Whitman, but also unknown figures like "C.P."), and the experiences and outlook of historical figures including Buddha, Jesus, Paul, Plotinus, Muhammad, Dante, Francis Bacon, and William Blake. Bucke developed a theory involving three stages in the development of consciousness: the simple consciousness of animals; the self-consciousness of the mass of humanity (encompassing reason, imagination, etc.); and cosmic consciousness - an emerging faculty and the next stage of human development. Among the effects of this progression, he believed he detected a lengthy historical trend in which religious conceptions and theologies had become less and less fearful. A classic work.

Cosmic Consciousness

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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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Third Edition 

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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Jamie Rasmussen

Larry Crabb

8 Ways of Thinking That Lead to a Better Life

Two people can face the same type of adversity and have two vastly different reactions, even when they have the same background and worldview. What makes the difference when one person responds with joy and the other responds with bitterness? Perspective--the way they think about things. Right thinking matters and, thankfully, it's something we can all learn to employ.

In this insightful unpacking of Philippians 4:8, pastor Jamie Rasmussen shows readers how to focus their thoughts and attention on the things in life that God has declared will make a meaningful impact on both a person's outlook and experience. It's the kind of thinking that has the power to change us, pointing us away from self-pity, anger, and resentment and toward contentment and personal peace, which helps us get the most out of life.

Anyone who yearns to live a life characterized by joy no matter what the circumstance will benefit from this thoughtful, practical, and inspiring book.

How Joyful People Think

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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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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.

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The worlds best puzzles

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

Brain-Boosting Lateral Thinking Puzzles

John Maeda

How to Speak Machine

Caralyn Buehner; Mark Buehner (Illustrator)

Snowmen All Year

Mariano Sigman

The Secret Life of the Mind

Salman Khan

The One World Schoolhouse

Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich

Erwin Brecher

How do you survive a duel

Malcolm Gladwell

Blink

Rodale Press

Listen to Your Body

Anne Bogel

Don't Overthink It

Nikki Katz

The Everything Lateral Thinking Puzzles Book

J. Bronowski; Hermann Bondi (Foreword by)

The Common Sense of Science

Todd Henry

The Accidental Creative

Norman Vincent Peale

How to have a good day every day

Burton Watson

Chuang Tzu

Todd Henry

The Accidental Creative

Richard Maurice Bucke

Cosmic Consciousness

Flash Kids Editors (Editor)

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

Thomas S. Kuhn

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Jamie Rasmussen; Larry Crabb

How Joyful People Think

Brad Hams

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

Caroline W. Ruesnick

Daily Analogies and Antonyms

Edward de Bono

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