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41) Science of cats
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
More than 600 million cats claim residence in households across six continents. The latest in scientific evidence reveals how the cat set off on a journey to conquer the world.
42) Crankenstein
Author
Series
Crankenstein volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A boy who looks ordinary transforms into grumbling Crankenstein when faced with a rainy day, a melting popsicle, or bedtime but everything changes when he meets a fellow Crankenstein.
43) Please, Papa
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alice learns the importance of saying "please" as well as that this magical word will not lead to everything she wants.
45) Because
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A little boy argues that "because" is a perfectly acceptable response to a question, in spite of what his mother says.
46) Hattie the bad
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A little girl tries to be good but soon discovers that being bad is ever so much more fun.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and galvanized conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unintended effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. To understand girls and sex, we also need to talk about boys and sex. Today's young men are subject to the same cultural forces as their female peers. They are steeped...
49) Ungifted
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Draws on the examples of insect colonies and fish schools to demonstrate how ancient animal instincts surpass modern human developments in speed and productivity, revealing how numerous technological breakthroughs were inspired by natural organizations.
Author
Publisher
The Guilford Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Subject Areas/Keywords: behavioral change, borderline personality disorder, BPD, CBT, chain analysis, cognitive-behavioral therapy, DBT, dialectical behavior therapy, emotion regulation, emotional dysregulation, Marsha M. Linehan, problem-solving strategies, psychotherapy, skills training, solution analysis, substance abuse, suicidal behavior, suicide DESCRIPTION This book delves into problem solving, one of the core components of dialectical behavior...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: All science classrooms discuss animals that hibernate during winter months, but few know about animals that estivate--a prolonged sleep during hot or dry periods. Dual layers of text awaken readers to the reasons estivating animals become dormant--whether it's because warm weather threatens food supply or to avoid increased body temperatures. From the ladybug to the salamander, from the lungfish to the desert hedgehog, twelve...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
How is Animals in Translation different from every other animal book ever published?Animals in Translation is like no other animal book because of Temple Grandin. As an animal scientist and a person with autism, her professional training and personal history have created a perspective like no other thinker in the field, and this is her exciting, groundbreaking view of the intersection of autism and animal.
Unlike other well-known writers in the
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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1995, c1994
Language
English
Description
"Is monogamy natural for men? For women? Where does sibling rivalry come from? Why do parents favor some children over others? What evolutionary advantages might come from having low self-esteem? What are the biological roots of self-deception? These are among the questions presented in The moral animal. As he presents the latest findings in the emerging field of evolutionary psychology - which views human behavior in light of Darwinian theory - Robert...
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