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"A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that readers love about her novels: the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop. In this brilliant volume, nothing is quite as it seems. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over...
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295 pages ; 23 cm
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"En la vida hay momentos en los que toca decidir tu próximo paso: aceptar un nuevo trabajo, comprar una casa o comenzar una relación, ¿Cómo saber qué dirección tomar? Trey Gowdy ha descubierto que la mayoría de las decisiones más importantes se reducen a tres opciones simples: empezar, seguir o dejarlo. Gowdy desarrolló esta herramienta de toma de decisiones en el tribunal, durante un juicio federal por asesinato, y desde entonces ha guiado...
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259 pages ; 24 cm
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"For most of our lives, we are encouraged to trudge along the well-worn paths of those who have come before us. We learn the rules -- in our families, in our schools, in our workplaces, in our churches -- and most of the messages we receive tell us that following the rules will allow us to arrive at the lives we desire. But when change becomes not only desirable but also urgently necessary, this way of being no longer serves us. Bishop T.D. Jakes...
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1 Launchpad tablet : digital ; 20 x 13 cm + 1 power charging cord.
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"Launchpad Pre-K Academy gives preschool-aged children 5 different paths to explore on their way to kindergarten. Using this Academy can help little learners develop the skills needed to enter their first year of school and inspire them to try new things with confidence. - Support critical thought processes - Aid in fine motor skill development - Explore large muscle movements through play - Build hand-eye coordination"
Touch and Patch: Shapes Puzzle...
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xx, 261 pages ; 25 cm
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"From the critically acclaimed author of Think Like a Rocket Scientist comes a simple process for discarding obsolete beliefs and cultivating independent thought A rare handful of leaders, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs seem to have Teflon in their heads. They think and act with genuine independence, offering up ideas and insights direct from the subtle workings of their own minds. No matter how far that might take them from their social or...
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xx, 257 pages : charts ; 22 cm
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"When it comes to our health, too many of us think that a medical diagnosis describes a static or worsening condition. We then live our lives as though our ailments -- our stiff knees or frayed nerves or failing eyesight -- can only change in one direction: for the worse. Ellen J. Langer's life's work proves the fault in that logic. She has spent more than forty years testing the limiting effects of our negative assumptions as well as the healing...
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xii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Examining such disciplines as education, journalism, encyclopedia creation, museum curation, photography and broadcasting, an award-winning writer explores how humans have attained, stored, and disseminated knowledge.
"From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes -- this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and...
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232 pages : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 24 cm.
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"Do you like puzzles, coding, and taking things apart? Do you write stories, act in plays, slay at Wordle? The things you are good at are clues to how your brain works. Are you good at math? Working with your hands? Are you a neat freak or a big mess? With her knack for making science easy to understand, Temple Grandin explains different types of thinkers: verbal thinkers who are good with language, and visual thinkers who think in pictures and patterns....
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xxv, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"A memoir by one of the greatest minds of our age, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett."--Amazon.
Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness and how did it come about? What distinguishes human minds from the minds of animals? Dennett's answers have profoundly shaped...
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219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"You may have heard a lot about manifestation, but I think we're at the point where so much information is out there that it's hard to know the right 'path' for magically obtaining what you want and living the life you've been dreaming of. My goal is to help you learn to manifest without all the fuss. For you to understand that it's easy, fun, and real. You CAN get everything you want by bearing in mind the things I talk about in this book."
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