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Annual E. F. Schumacher lectures volume 9th
Publisher
E.F. Schumacher society
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
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Twelve
Language
English
Description
Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science of child development have been overlooked. The authors discuss the inverse power of praise, why insufficient sleep adversely affects kids' capacity to learn, why white parents don't talk about race, why kids lie, why evaluation methods for "giftedness"...
56) Butterfly
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Series
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
"Photographs and text show the development of a caterpillar into a butterfly." --
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Language
English
Description
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests
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