Virginia Postrel

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Nevada

The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress

Today we have greater wealth, health, opportunity, and choice than at any time in history. Yet a chorus of intellectuals and politicians laments our current condition -- as slaves to technology, coarsened by popular culture, and insecure in the face of economic change. The future, they tell us, is dangerously out of control, and unless we precisely govern the forces of change, we risk disaster. In The Future and Its Enemies, Virginia Postrel explodes the myths behind these claims. Using examples that range from medicine to fashion, she explores how progress truly occurs and demonstrates that human betterment depends not on conformity to one central vision but on creativity and decentralized, open-ended trial and error. She argues that these two opposing world-views -- "stasis" vs. "dynamism" -- are replacing "left" and "right" to define our cultural and political debate as we enter the next century. In this bold exploration of how civilizations learn, Postrel heralds a fundamental shift in the way we view politics, culture, technology, and society as we face an unknown -- and invigorating -- future.

The Future and Its Enemies

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Roger B. Yepen

strike you: You're born either smart or not so smart, and once you reach adulthood there's not much you can do about it. Common foods have psychoactive powers only for certain highly susceptible people. Growing forgetful is as inevitable as growing old. Exercise is great for the body, but the benefits don't really extend above the neck. Alcohol fuels creativity. The human brain ceases physical growth early in life, just as the body does. Emotional fatigue is relieved by rest and relaxation. If you disagree with these commonly believed statements, you are well informed. But if you find yourself going along with one or several, open this book and become better acquainted with your mind. Most of us appreciate that the brain is marvelously complex. But How to Boost Your Brainpower describes another remarkable property of the human mind: its flexibility. Throughout life, your brain retains the ability to grow to meet the

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

How to Boost Your Brainpower

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New York

One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

Chronicles the efforts of an NPR contributor to read the "Encyclopedia Britannica" from A to Z, sharing the humorous mishaps that occurred as a result of the endeavor, from changed family relationships to his efforts to join Mensa.

The Know-It-All

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John Piper

Mark A. Noll

Looks brand new. Pages are clean. No marks of any kind. Dust jacket is in excellent condition.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Indiana

The Life of the Mind and the Love of God

A pastor challenges the church to think hard for the glory of God. Piper demonstrates from Scripture that Christians don't need to choose between glorifying God with their hearts or with their minds.

Think

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Revive your mind. Complete your education and roam confidently with the cultural class

Georgia

The Intelectual devotional 

Harriet Rubin

DANTE IN LOVE

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Vantage Press, New York, NY.1994. First Edition.  Hardcover with dust jacket.  41 pp.   Light indentation marks on dj.

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The Encyclical Centesimus Annus and Freemasonry

Howard E. Gardner

Excellent condition with some markings inside as shown in pictures

Virginia

New Horizons in Theory and Practice

The most complete account of the theory and application of Multiple Intelligences available anywhere.

Howard Gardner's brilliant conception of individual competence, known as Multiple Intelligences theory, has changed the face of education. Tens of thousands of educators, parents, and researchers have explored the practical implications and applications of this powerful notion, that there is not one type of intelligence but several, ranging from musical intelligence to the intelligence involved in self-understanding.

Multiple Intelligences distills nearly three decades of research on Multiple Intelligences theory and practice, covering its central arguments and numerous developments since its introduction in 1983. Gardner includes discussions of global applications, Multiple Intelligences in the workplace, an assessment of Multiple Intelligences practice in the current conservative educational climate, new evidence about brain functioning, and much more.

Multiple Intelligences

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P. Carter

25 Self-Scoring Quizzes To Sharpen Your Mind

Tests a person's intelligence with a self-scoring collection of twenty-five challenging IQ quizzes that include diagrams, numerical challenges, wordplay, and other entertaining elements.

Book of IQ Tests

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Anthony Lane

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

California

Writings from the New Yorker

In an aside that reads like a declaration of intent, Anthony Lane writes that he “never quite thrilled to the battle pitched between mainstream and art cinema”—which is to say that he glories in highbrow and lowbrow alike, and respectfully suggests that “the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics . . . books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all.” In almost ten years as a critic for The New Yorker, Lane has not only written an indispensable column on the latest movie releases, great and small. He has also turned his gaze upon subjects as various as Evelyn Waugh, Shakespeare, the glory of cookbooks, and the fine art of the obituary. Whether he is examining Alfred Hitchcock or astronauts, to read him is to be carried along on a current of urgent inquiry (“What is the point of Demi Moore?”), wry reflection, and penetrating wit. An essay on The Sound of Music leads him to consider not only singing nuns but the comedy of our cultural memories (“For all our searchings and suppressings, the past comes unbidden or not at all”); his now infamous pieces on the best-seller lists both celebrate the exultantly bad prose of Judith Krantz and deride the “marshes of the middlebrow, where serious novelists lumber around with too many ideas on their back.” His writings on the poetry of Matthew Arnold, A. E. Housman, and especially T. S. Eliot showcase his erudition, dispensed with a piercing insight into human folly. In his survey of events as disparate as Oscar night, a Walker Evans retrospective, and the craziness of a Chanel show in Paris, the acuity of Lane’s intellect is matched by a quality of heart that is his alone, and by a willingness to be carried away. His writings remind us of what criticism can achieve at its best. Arguably the most gifted reviewer at work today, Anthony Lane sets the standard—as a reader, as a critic, and as an observer of life. Nobody's Perfect is a must for fans old and new.

Nobody's Perfect

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Lyman Tower Sargent

•Used Book. 
•In good condition.
•Was bought in college campus. 
•Has a few writing and highlighted color on textual pages from past rental users.  
•Overall great book for researches and quoted passages. 

English

One of the leading scholars in the field of utopian studies examines utopianism and its history.-publisher description.

Utopianism: a Very Short Introduction

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Publication date 1926
Topics RMSC
Language English

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Colorado

Science

Volume II: the Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred

Genetic Studies of Genius

Eric Salem

Please see the pictures. There are markings throughout the book.

Oregon

Intellect and Action in Aristotle's Ethics

In Pursuit of the Good

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Prentice-Hall Staff

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• Educational for all graded levels 
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The Future and Its Enemies

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John Piper; Mark A. Noll

Think

David S Kidder & Noah D Openheim

The Intelectual devotional

HARRIET RUBIN

DANTE IN LOVE

Benito Taruffi

The Encyclical Centesimus Annus and Freemasonry

Howard E. Gardner

Multiple Intelligences

P. Carter, Kenneth A. Russell

Book of IQ Tests

Anthony Lane

Nobody's Perfect

Lyman Tower Sargent

Utopianism: a Very Short Introduction

Catherine Morris Cox

Genetic Studies of Genius

Eric Salem

In Pursuit of the Good

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Prentice Hall Biology, 2002