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3) Team human
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"A provocative, exciting, and important rallying cry to reassert our human spirit of community and teamwork."?
Walter Isaacson Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Douglas Rushkoff, digital theorist and host of the NPR-One podcast Team Human, reveals the dynamics of this antihuman machinery and invites us to remake these aspects of society in ways that foster our humanity. In 100...
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What does it mean to be human? How do we live our best lives? While some elements of the human experience are qualities inherent in all human beings, the skills and tools used to create a prosperous life are something that we must learn. For some, they are lucky and can absorb these skills through osmosis. For others, they must seek out and learn the necessary knowledge, wisdom, tools, and skills needed to create a healthy, happy, and thriving human...
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Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Two prominent social psychologists, specializing in the study of human behavior, provide insight into why we trust the people we do and how to use that knowledge in understanding and influencing people in our own lives,"--NoveList.
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Psychologists and allied social scientists have become leading thinkers of our time. But what if much of the science underlying their blockbuster ideas is dubious or fallacious? What if Americans' long-standing preference for simplistic self-help platitudes is exerting a pernicious influence on the way behavioral science is communicated and even funded, leading respected academics and the media astray? In The Quick Fix, Jesse Singal examines the most...
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English
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"All kids have bad habits. But do we ever stop to think that there's a bit of science behind these habits? Each spread in Pick, Spit & Scratch! describes a specific bad habit, and provides multilayered reading opportunities in the form of weird, disgusting facts, and jokes that ratchet up the gross factor by relating bad habits to relatable concepts for kids."--
10) Mr. Mischief
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Mr. Men series volume 36
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Price/Stern/Sloan
Pub. Date
2000, ©1972
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English
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Mr. Mischief's pulling naughty pranks until he meets up with a wise old Wizard and gets a taste of his own medicine.
13) Mr. Forgetful
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Mr. Men series volume 14
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Price Stern Sloan
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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Mr. Forgetful has a very amusing day, but when he sits down to think about it, he cannot remember anything that happened.
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G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
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[2014]
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English
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Sally McCabe is a very little girl, and nobody notices her, although she notices everything that goes on around her--but when she speaks out about the unkindness she sees, people start to pay attention.
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Dell
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[1999]
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English
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Healthful sleep has been empirically proven to be the single most important factor in predicting longevity, more influential than diet, exercise, or heredity. And yet we are a sleep-sick society, ignorant of the facts of sleep--and the price of sleep deprivation. In this groundbreaking book, based on decades of study on the frontiers of sleep science, the author, founder and director of the Stanford University Sleep Research Center, explains what...
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English
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Your job is at risk-if not now, then soon. We are on the leading edge of a Smart Machine Age led by artificial intelligence that will be as transformative for us as the Industrial Revolution was for our ancestors. Smart machines will take over millions of jobs in manufacturing, office work, the service sector, the professions, you name it. Not only can they know more data and analyze it faster than any mere human, say Edward Hess and Katherine Ludwig,...
18) I can share!
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Grosset & Dunlap
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English
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Children find ways to share things they don't want to give up.
20) Places to be
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"We have so many places to be! Places to be loud and lovely and scared and jubilant. With an elegant simplicity, this picture book celebrates all our wide-ranging emotions--and the adventures that await us each day." --
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