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322 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
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English
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. Steven Johnson argues that, throughout history, the cutting edge of innovation...
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xvi, 155 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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Provides information on how to be funny, including ideas about comedic styles and routines, how to use props, developing a distinctive character, using music, improvisational techniques, as well as the history of comedy and some well-known people in the field.
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English
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A companion workbook to the best-selling Mysterious Benedict Society series features write-in and page-folding puzzles, riddles and brain teasers compiled by Mr. Benedict and his students to help fans determine if they are eligible society members, in a volume complemented by a preview of The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict.
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iv, 390 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
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English
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It's time to put down the phone and: visit a botanical garden, create a palindrome, solve a brainteaser. Phone addiction is a modern epidemic. With social media, texting, games, and other apps, it's far too easy to get sucked into an endless spiral of scrolling, wasting hours while missing out on life. So why not: play a board game, try a breakfast burrito, focus a day on hearing every sound you can.
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1 volume : illustrations (colour) ; 28 cm
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English
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"Create a spooky memory for visitors coming to party or trick-or-treat with more than twenty DIY projects for haunting your house. With a bit of theatrics and light, you can create your own flying phantasms, giant jointed-leg spider, coffin, and other spooky displays. Now you can create an extreme cinematic experience with touch, sound, smells, and spooktacular sights that bring on the chills and screams at every turn. This second volume includes...
11) Rainy day play!
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142 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
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English
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198 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"This second Big Nate themed paper-over-board activity book is bursting with awesome NEW activities for Nate fans, including trivia quizzes (How well do you know Nate?), Timber Scout badges, super sudoku puzzles, crackable codes, create your own comix, amazing mazes, poetry slams, ridiculous rhymes, marvelous Mad Libs, and much more. Nate's world pops off the pages with more than 500 black-and-white illustrations . . . that YOU get to help create!"...
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201 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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This activity book is filled to the brim with exciting activities for Nate fans of all ages. There is plenty of space for kids to get creative, and all the favorite characters from Nate's world are included--the know-it-all Gina, Nate's best buddies, Francis and Teddy, his rival, Artur, and his least favorite teacher, Mrs. Godfrey, aka Godzilla. With personality pop quizzes (which Big Nate character are you most like?), the fabulous fun 'o' meter,...
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336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"In our always-on, productivity-addicted lifestyles, we tend to think of the pursuit of fun as being indulgent, even immature and childish. When we do find the time to relax or care for ourselves, we tend to turn to activities that are not actually restorative: binging Netflix, scrolling through Twitter, or indulging our FOMO on Instagram. Through years of research, journalist Catherine Price has learned the truth: far from being frivolous or a distraction,...
16) Play
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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All children love to play. How does playtime differ for children from different countries? How is it the same? Readers are exposed to a wide range of interesting sports and games played in various countries around the world. Learning about these activities enhances knowledge of other cultures and encourages readers to appreciate differences but also look for common ground. This relevant critical-thinking exercise also complements elementary curricula...
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352 pages : color illustrations, map ; 26 cm
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English
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"Unbored is the most original, entertaining, and instructive all-in-one book for kids ever published--jam-packed with information, ideas, and activities for children and their parents to share together. Vibrantly designed and illustrated, it's crammed with activities that are not only fun and doable, but get kids engaged in the wider world--and provides information to expand their worldviews, too, inspiring them to learn more. Right at the age where...
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xxviii, 852 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Includes articles, many of which originally appeared in Scientific American, on memes, innumeracy, William Safire, Frederic Chopin, Rubik's Cube, strange attractors, Lisp, Heisenburg's uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics, Alan Turing, sphexishness, Prisoner's dilemma, and other topics.
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