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Visual Thinking : The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
Grandin, TemplePenguin Publishing Group 2022INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NAUTILUS GOLD AWARD“A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenge...
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Think Again : The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Grant, AdamPenguin Publishing Group 2021#1 New York Times Bestseller “THIS. This is the right book for right now. Yes, learning requires focus. But, unlearning and relearning requires much more—it requires choosing co...
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The Source of Self-Regard : Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
Morrison, ToniKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2019Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades. These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9...
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Practical SQL : A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling with Data
DeBarros, AnthonyNo Starch Press 2018Practical SQL is an approachable and fast-paced guide to SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard programming language for defining, organizing, and exploring data in relation...
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Can Your Smartphone Change the World?
Paisley, ErinneOrca Book Publishers 2017Can Your Smartphone Change the World? is a twenty-first-century guide for anyone who has access to a smartphone. This how-to manual looks at specific ways you can create social cha...
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Every Last Drop : Bringing Clean Water Home
Mulder, MichelleOrca Book Publishers 2015In the developed world, if you want a drink of water you just turn on a tap or open a bottle. But for millions of families worldwide, finding clean water is a daily challenge, and...
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The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus
Thomashow, MitchellMIT Press 2014A former college president offers a framework for sustainability on campus, describing initiatives that range from renewable energy to a revamped curriculum to sustainable investme...
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Keep It Pithy : Useful Observations in a Tough World
O'Reilly, BillCrown 2013From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and...
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Antifragile : Things That Gain from Disorder
Taleb, Nassim NicholasRandom House Publishing Group 2012Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-ma...
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The Value of Science : Essential Writings of Henri Poincare
Poincare, HenriRandom House Publishing Group 2012More than any other writer of the twentieth century, Henri Poincaré brought the elegant, but often complicated, ideas about science and mathematics to the general reader. A genius...
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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior
Lilienfeld, Scott O.; Lynn, Steven Jay; Ruscio, John; Beyerstein, Barry L.John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2011 1. edition50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience. Uses common myths as a vehicle f...
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The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark
Sagan, CarlRandom House Publishing Group 2011A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace “A glorious book . . . A spirited d...