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Unravel the secrets of sharp thinking in a Wiki-style adventure that delves into reasoning and wonky thinking. Navigate your path through a labyrinth of ideas and examples, where every click offers insight. Whether you're a curious explorer or a seasoned thinker, Clearly equips you with the tools to strengthen your decision-making skills and develop the art of clear, coherent thought. Join the fun, challenge your brain, and pick a path in this journey...
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"Mental Models" is a comprehensive exploration of the powerful cognitive frameworks that shape our understanding of the world and influence our decision-making processes. Delve into an illuminating journey through various mental models, and uncover how they can be applied to improve critical thinking, problem-solving, and strategic planning. This book serves as a roadmap, equipping you with the tools to enhance your cognitive performance and make...
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Rainforests are some of the most biodiverse places on the planet, which means they're home to an incredible number of living things. One of the ways we can understand how those living things are connected is by mapping out food chains and food webs. As readers build a rainforest food web, they also learn fun facts about important producers, consumers, and apex predators in the rainforest. The informative text is presented alongside vivid photographs,...
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Readers get a detailed look at some of the producers, consumers, and apex predators that make up mountain food webs in this guide to a common science curriculum topic. By combining basic information about the parts of food webs with fun animal facts and photographs, this volume captivates not just budding biologists, but even reluctant readers. They delight in exploring the fact boxes that break down predator-prey relationships and the critical-thinking...
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Mindfulness is all the rage in the business world today. The question is: Does Mindfulness really make a difference, or is it just over-hyped B.S.? American Author, Intellectual, and Social Theorist, Donna R. Wood, takes a look at Mindfulness - where did it come from? what do the researchers say? and, is it worth the financial cost to a company to implement? Butterfly Phoenix Business Shorts are designed to be read in thirty minutes or less, to inspire...
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It may seem like there's very little life in the desert. However, many living things call this biome home! Readers meet them as they explore the food chains that connect to form a detailed desert food web. Examples of producers, consumers, and apex predators are presented through at-level text and vivid photographs. In addition, fact boxes highlight the relationships between living things in the desert-including what eats what! Clearly labeled food...
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What kinds of living things make up a forest food web? Readers find out with the help of this handy guide. Essential life science curriculum topics such as photosynthesis, food chains, and predator-prey relationships are explained in a creative way as readers meet unique examples of forest producers, consumers, and apex predators. Fact boxes and full-color photographs are paired with simple, clear text, and basic food chains and food webs are presented...
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For the well-rounded Christian looking to improve their critical thinking skills, here is an accessible introduction to the study of logic (parts 1 & 2) as well as an in-depth treatment of the discipline (parts 3 & 4) from a professor with 6 academic degrees and over 30 years experience teaching. Questions for further reflection are included at the end of each chapter as well as helpful diagrams and charts that are appropriate for use in high school,...
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"We need a real Adam and Eve if we are to make sense of the Bible and of life," argues C. John Collins. Examining the biblical storyline as the worldview story of the people of God, Collins shows how that story presupposes a real Adam and Eve and how the modern experience of life points to the same conclusion.
Applying well-informed critical thinking to common theological and scientific questions, Collins asserts the importance of a real man at...
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Misinformation is one of the twenty-first century's greatest challenges, a peril to democracy, peace, science, and public health. Yet we lack a clear understanding of what makes misinformation so potent and why it can spread so rapidly. In Falsehoods Fly, a leading cognitive scientist and philosopher offers a new framework for recognizing and countering misleading claims by exploring the ways that information works-and breaks down.
Paul Thagard examines...
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In this groundbreaking and practical guide, teachers will discover how to harness and manage AI as a powerful teaching tool. Jose Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson present emerging and powerful research on the seismic changes AI is already creating in schools and the workplace, providing invaluable insights into what AI can accomplish in the classroom and beyond.
By learning how to use new AI tools and resources, educators will gain the confidence...
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Are you ready to embark on a laughter-filled adventure? Introducing "Gigglesaurus Rex: Roaring Laughter for Dino Fans" – the ultimate read for anyone who loves dinosaurs and giggles! Join Rex, the laughter-loving dino, and his hilarious friends on a journey through the prehistoric jungle, where every page is packed with uproarious fun! From side-splitting jokes to rib-tickling adventures, this book is guaranteed to have you roaring with laughter!...
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Life Skills Made Easy- Handbook for Young People and Trainers is a Timeless handbook for learners and trainers in life skills. The book is designed as one of the tools that provide frameworks for learning and training in life skills. It provide guideline on fundamental life skills issues. The book articulates the concept of life skills, knowing and living with self, knowing and living with others, making decisions, choices and solving problems and...
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This is the sixth book for Anthony W. Brown. The first book, "Rebirth from Darkness to Light", was written under the pseudonym, Just Anthony, which is the authors stage name as a poet. The second book, " Hope Peace, Love & Joy, An Inquiry into their Philosophical Nature and the Endless Pursuit of Attaining Them" is a book written Christmas of 2022 and rebranded under the current title in 2023. This book is an intersection between Counseling Psychology...
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CyberCity is a calm city-state where people are in slow mo. It's recovered from the Great Crash of 2023 and once more technology runs the city, until the event that humans have long dreaded changes everything. Ariel and friends fight technology with technology, and Ms President creates havoc in CyberCity with Operation Red. Traffic lights operate in reverse; teachers turn up to school; and students solve the mystery of the solar plant that produces...
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"Recovering From Recovery" is the story of Adam Fitzgerald's experience during and after 12 years of sobriety and in the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.When we talk about recovery from substance abuse, we speak only in extremes. A person is either 100 percent substance free, or they have slipped and failed. Complete abstinence is the only celebrated and therefore the only acceptable measure of success. Recovering from Recovery is an exploration of...
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Bullshit Comparisons will challenge the way you think about rankings, charts, and other marketing and political tools designed to create odious and dangerous comparisons.
Is Boris Johnson really like Winston Churchill? Are electric cars actually greener than petrol ones? Which is the world's most successful university? Is Lisbon the new Barcelona? Should we compare the achievements of younger and older siblings even when we know it damages their...