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  1. Visual Thinking : The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

    Grandin, Temple
    Penguin Publishing Group 2022

    INSTANT 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...

  2. Think Again : The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

    Grant, Adam
    Penguin 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...

  3. The Source of Self-Regard : Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

    Morrison, Toni
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2019

    Here 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...

  4. Practical SQL : A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling with Data

    DeBarros, Anthony
    No Starch Press 2018

    Practical 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...

  5. Can Your Smartphone Change the World?

    Paisley, Erinne
    Orca Book Publishers 2017

    Can 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...

  6. Every Last Drop : Bringing Clean Water Home

    Mulder, Michelle
    Orca Book Publishers 2015

    In 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...

  7. The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus

    Thomashow, Mitchell
    MIT Press 2014

    A former college president offers a framework for sustainability on campus, describing initiatives that range from renewable energy to a revamped curriculum to sustainable investme...

  8. Keep It Pithy : Useful Observations in a Tough World

    O'Reilly, Bill
    Crown 2013

    From 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...

  9. Antifragile : Things That Gain from Disorder

    Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
    Random House Publishing Group 2012

    Antifragile 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...

  10. The Value of Science : Essential Writings of Henri Poincare

    Poincare, Henri
    Random House Publishing Group 2012

    More 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...

  11. 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. edition

    50 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...

  12. The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark

    Sagan, Carl
    Random House Publishing Group 2011

    A 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...