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Pub. Date
[2023]
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Based on a career of making high-stakes, split-second decisions as a U.S. fighter pilot, The Art of Clear Thinking teaches readers to apply Hasard Lee's combat-tested techniques in everyday life. The training to become a fighter pilot is among the most competitive and difficult in the world with fewer than one in a thousand succeeding. Pushing a cutting-edge jet to its limits at over 1,000 mph means that every split-second decision can have catastrophic...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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Overview: The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do -- the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Lily loved recess. Then along came Rosie Ross, Recess Boss. Will Lily ever enjoy recess again? In this book, beginning readers in prekindergarten to grade 1 can join Lily as she learns positive ways to solve a problem on her own.This illustrated picture book series features social/emotional issues as plot drivers. Youngsters are introduced to a variety of experiences, while caregivers are given a jumping off point for discussing and guiding their...
6) Wild ideas
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Pub. Date
2015.
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A new book that celebrates the 'nature' of creative problem solving.
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Series
Encyclopedia Brown volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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The town's ten-year-old walking encyclopedia again solves ten neighborhood mysteries. The final solutions to the cases are at the back of the book, giving the reader a chance to compare his skill to that of Encyclopedia Brown.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
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The first part of the book provides the essential foundation for spiritual problem solving [featuring the words of Patanjali]. ... The second half, organized around the prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi, contains specific suggestions to help readers put spiritual problem solving into practice.
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Do you ever wonder why you keep making the same bad choices, even though you tell yourself it will be different next time? In Think Ahead, pastor Craig Groeschel draws on biblical truth and scientific research to help us learn the power of "pre-deciding" big and small choices so we can discover new joy, freedom, and contentment.
Why do we keep making choices we later regret--sometimes even the same bad choices over and over? Drawing on Scripture,...
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Pub. Date
c2024
Description
Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, how to use scientists’ tricks of the trade to make the best decisions and solve the hardest problems in age of uncertainty and overwhelming information. In our deluge of information, it’s getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions in the face of conflicting medical advice? Does the research cited in that article even show what the...
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What does math have to do with Minecraft? Everything! Minecraft fans will learn how they can use math principles and problem-solving skills to help them build and survive in the game world. From constructing an amazing base or trading with villagers for useful items to even fighting monsters, gamers will realize how math, geometry, and other related skills will help them both in the real world and in world of Minecraft.
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In the real world, gravity isn't just a suggestion-it's the law! In Minecraft worlds, however, gravity can affect things on a case-by-case basis. In this book, young gamers will learn more about both the real-world laws of physics and their implication in Minecraft. The ways that objects, mobs, and fluids such as lava and water move are all part of this field. Tips and illustrations will help readers understand the differences and similarities and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Young readers will have a hopping good time in this hilarious story about a witch who is having a hard time wrangling a bunch of frogs into her frog soup until she comes up with a surprising solution.
The host of cooking show Bewitching Kitchen!--a green-skinned, pink-nosed witch, complete with pointy hat--demonstrates how to make frog soup in this humorous picture book tutorial. But after tossing in various veggies, the key ingredient--the titular...
18) Doctor Mouse
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Doctor Mouse practices his unique methods on his animal patients.
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