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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior later in life? The world's leading expert on self-control, Walter Mischel has proven that the ability to delay gratification is critical for a successful...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Key topics explored in this video series include: Value analysis, Product life cycle, Product portfolio, Boston matrix, Product differentiation, Brand extension/product extension. An exploration of what most marketers would regard as the most important element of the Marketing mix: Product.
Author
Series
Publisher
Watkins
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Lulu the lion cub hasn't learned how to roar yet -- this makes her feel really frustrated and angry. With the help of Mindy the chimp, Ernie the elephant, George the giraffe and her other friends, Lulu learns how to deal with her anger and she finally finds that roar... just when danger threatens them all!"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Data Set volume 7
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Bunsen builds a remote control that can fast-forward and rewind through real time, the DATA Set find themselves lost in different time periods and must reset time before the universe is broken forever.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How is a car manufactured? Alison Hammond, of "Big Brother" fame, goes inside BMW's factory in Oxford to provide a lively guide to the production process for its new mini. Production planning: First comes production planning. Customers' orders are analysed by a program called "Kiss" - this is vital to meet buyers' special requirements. Stage two is "Body in White" - 228 robots weld the basic framework together. Quality control: Quality control is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Readers learn about the #NeverAgain movement, from the history of the right to bear arms to later efforts at gun control, legislation such as the Brady handgun Violence Protection Act and the implementation of background checks, to the school shootings atColumbine, Sandy Hook and Parkland and the creation of #neveragain.
28) Watership Down
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren so that they can live in peace.
29) The death trade
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can't stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. He would run if he could, but if he does, his family dies. He is desperate; he doesn't know what to do. It is up to Sean Dillon and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Minister's private army to think of a plan. Most particularly, it is up to their newest member, an intelligence captain...
30) Good different
Author
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be "normal" she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok. Told in verse.
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For years, Holly Whitaker wore her workaholic-party-girl persona as a badge of honor, while privately feeling increasingly miserable. She believed that if she could just eat cleaner, save more money, and be more perfect, her life would finally snap intoplace. Yet all of her attempts to fix herself just added up to more chaos and the chaos added up to more pain and so she added more wine. When she finally had enough and started looking around for...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, A member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most overlooked forces. For the past three years, Jon Ronson has been immersing himself in the world of modern-day public shaming-meeting famous shamees, shamers, and bystanders who have been impacted. This is the perfect time for a modern-day Scarlet Letter-a radically empathetic book about public shaming, and about...
Author
Publisher
Reader's Digest
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Learn to understand weeds through 300 color photographs and profiles of over 75 common garden weeds. This book has the definitive answers and practical guidance on determining if weeds are friend or foe.--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Burmese pythons are native to Southeast Asia, so when one showed up dead along the side of a Florida highway in 1979, scientists wondered where it came from. No one knew the snakes had launched a full-scale invasion. Pet pythons that escaped or were released by their owners started breeding in the wild, and these enormous predators began eating every animal in their path. Today a group of scientists at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida is tracking...
37) Edie
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Following the death of her husband, Edie breaks free from years of his control and rebels against her daughter's wish for her to move into assisted living by embarking on an adventure she and her father had always longed for: a trip to the Scottish Highlands to climb the world-famous Mt. Suilven. Along the way, she hires young camping shop owner Jonny to be her guide. Despite the generational differences, Jonny encourages Edie to fulfill her dream....
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Esmeralda, a ballerina mouse, must save her company's production of "The Nutcracker" in time for the holidays at the same time a human girl struggles to protect the tiny mouse dancers her custodian father has been ordered to exterminate.
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