Diaz, Cameron
Summary: Actress Cameron Diaz opens a conversation with her peers on a topic that that for too long has been taboo in our society: the aging female body. She shares the latest scientific research on how and why we age, synthesizing insights from top medical experts with her own thoughts, opinions, and experiences. The Longevity Book explores what history, biology, neuroscience, and the women’s health...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperWave 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this classic program, Sally L. Smith explains how to teach students with learning disabilities and ADHD. The techniques include challenging the intellect and tapping the imagination; using concrete objects, the body, and pictures to communicate abstract ideas; using object-centered learning by attracting the attention visually; limiting the amount of words used; using stimulation, choices,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Mahoney, Judy.
Summary: Presents a musical journey through the day with Marie and her family to learn Hebrew with songs, common expressions, colors, numbers, the alphabet, and more.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teach Me Tapes 2008
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J GREEN TEAPelayo, Rafael
Summary: "Sleep difficulties affect millions of people-and the problem is getting worse. The deluge of sleep advice out there, referred to collectively as "sleep hygiene" rules, consists mostly of isolated recommendations for things not to do, such as: Don't drinkcoffee close to bedtime. Don't watch TV in bed. Despite the popularity of these old rules, Dr. Rafael Pelayo tells us, sleep hygiene alone is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 PELMahoney, Judy.
Summary: Presents a musical journey through the day with Marie and her family to learn German with songs, common expressions, colors, numbers, the alphabet, and more.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teach Me Tapes 2008
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J GREEN TEAMahoney, Judy.
Summary: Children's songs and dialogues in Russian and English, designed to help youngsters learn simple Spanish words and phrases.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teach Me Tapes 2009
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2 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J GREEN TEAMahoney, Judy.
Summary: Children's songs and dialogues in Russian and English, designed to help youngsters learn simple Russian words and phrases.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teach Me Tapes 2009
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J GREEN TEAClynes, Tom
Summary: How an American teenager became the youngest person ever to build a working nuclear fusion reactor. By the age of nine, Taylor Wilson had mastered the science of rocket propulsion. At eleven, his grandmother's cancer diagnosis drove him to investigate new ways to produce medical isotopes. And by fourteen, Wilson had built a 500-million-degree reactor and become the youngest person in history to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILSON, TAYLOR CLYSummary: Sensing the thoughts and feelings of others may be a natural talent for most people, but how do we do it? Rebecca Saxe studies the way we think about the inner lives of our fellow humans. In her laboratory at MIT, she uses fMRI scans to identify what happens in our brains when we consider the motives, passions, and beliefs of others. In this TEDTalk, Saxe shares some of her fascinating findings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: To fully prize diversity, a school must embrace differences in students' abilities and learning approaches as well as in race, gender, ethnicity, and so forth. And to reach special needs children, teaching styles themselves must also be diverse. This classic program with Sally L. Smith stresses the importance of individualized instruction for students with learning disabilities and ADHD and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Mahoney, Judy.
Summary: Presents a musical journey through the day with Marie and her family to learn French with songs, common expressions, colors, numbers, the alphabet, and more.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teach Me Tapes 2008
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J GREEN TEAStixrud, William R.
Summary: A few years ago, Bill Stixrud and Ned Johnson started noticing the same problem from different angles: Even high-performing kids were coming to them acutely stressed and lacking motivation. Many complained they had no control over their lives. Some stumbled in high school or hit college and unraveled. Bill is a clinical neuropsychologist who helps kids gripped by anxiety or struggling to learn....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 STI1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 155.4 STI
Eboch, M. M.
Summary: This essential volume explores the invisible world behind wireless computer technology. From our homes and workplaces to public coffee shops, Wi-Fi has changed how we connect to the internet and how we send and receive information. The Wi-Fi story spans from the discovery of radio waves to high-speed wireless connectivity. This book covers it all in a relatable and fun way that kids will enjoy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 004.6 EBOSummary: This classic program featuring Sally L. Smith provides a detailed composite description of children with learning disabilities. Strengths typically include originality, imagination, talent in the arts, and a love of nature, technology, color, movement, and building things. Weaknesses tend to include neurological immaturity, disorganization, distractibility, short attention span, poor motor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Summary: As an educator, working with a learning-disabled student requires being adept at problem-solving, analyzing tasks, figuring out different ways to teach the same thing, and tailoring the method to fit the child. In addition, the teacher must be able to communicate to the student how he or she learns most effectively and what techniques and methods best enhance that learning process. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Buckingham, Lindsey.
Contents: Seeds we sow -- In our own time -- Illumination -- That's the way that love goes -- Stars are crazy -- When she comes down -- Rock away blind -- One take -- Gone too far -- End of time -- She smiled sweetly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mind Kit Records 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BUCSmil, Vaclav
Summary: "An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible--a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 SMICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 SMIColson, Charles W.
Summary: "Christianity is more than a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It is also a worldview that answers life's basic questions and shows us how we should live as a result of those answers. How now shall we live? equips Christians to confront false worldviews and live redemptively in contemporary culture."--Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261 COLChan, Claudia
Summary: From an inspiring voice in the movement for gender equality, a practical guide to achieving success through a new kind of leadership--rooted in purpose and activism for social change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Life Long 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 CHAKluger, Jeffrey.
Summary: Explores what scientists and researchers are discovering about sibling bonds, the longest-lasting relationships we have in our lives. Nobody affects us as deeply as our brothers and sisters--not parents, not children, not friends. From the time we--and they--are born, our siblings are our collaborators and co-conspirators, our role models and cautionary tales. They teach us how to resolve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Gardner, Robert
Summary: Presents a number of simple science experiments that illustrate basic facts about the Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 550.078 GARFiorani, Francesca
Summary: A new biography of the artist behind the Mona Lisa distinguishes between his life as an artist and as an inventor and discusses how he used his understanding of optical science to perfect his painting techniques.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.5 FIOGrafton, Scott T.
Summary: An examination of the intricate, mutually responsive relationship between the mind and the body as they engage (or don't engage) in all manner of physical action.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 GRALehmiller, Justin J.
Summary: "Using insights from the most comprehensive scientific survey of Americans' sexual fantasies, Justin Lehmiller offers an unprecedented look into our most intimate thoughts and what they reveal about us. Tell Me What You Want validates your sexual desires and gives you the tools you need to communicate with your partner about integrating them into your relationship. Plus, it answers all your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020