Gladwell, Malcolm.
Summary: In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2008
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Gladwell, Malcolm.
Summary: In OUTILERS, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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Gladwell, Malcolm
Summary: The best-selling author of Blink identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance, and why the Beatles earned their fame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. Large Print 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 302 GLAGladwell, Malcolm
Summary: The best-selling author of Blink identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance, and why the Beatles earned their fame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 GLACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Math GladwellGladwell, Malcolm
Summary: The best-selling author of Blink identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance, and why the Beatles earned their fame.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 302 GLABird, Kai
Summary: "Four decades after Ronald Reagan's landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter political odyssey is a rich and human story, marked by both formidable accomplishments and painful political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARTER, JIMMY CARSummary: In this program, grumpy old men and competitive statistics students serve as samples for working with two more types of numerical representation: variability and relative standing. Section one wrestles with range, deviation, variance, and standard deviation in detail and tackles the Empirical Rule, while section two dives into Z-scores, outliers, and percentiles.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Langer, Ellen J.
Summary: When it comes to our health, too many of us think that a medical diagnosis describes a static or worsening condition. We then live our lives as though our ailments can only change in one direction: for the worse. Langer has spent years testing the limiting effects of our negative assumptions as well as the healing power of being mindful-- present in the moment and not distracted by memories or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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Summary: An acclaimed poet, Rachel Rose never expected to spend her nights careening along the roads in high-speed chases or searching the woods for armed suspects. Yet once she decided to meet the people who devoted their lives to police K9 units, she found herself signing up for the ride-alongs, training runs, and other challenges that these courageous people-and canines-face on a daily basis. In The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 ROSWells, Lisa
Summary: "Poet and essayist Lisa Wells takes us on a pilgrimage to the margins, where trailblazers and outliers imagine new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth in the face of climate change"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 WELSummary: Songs that see the mystical beyond the material MOJO it is the second record by feral pop outliers Modern Studies. Elegiac and haunted, life-giving and triumphant, this beguiling return digs deep into landscapes both real and imagined, internal and external, in a work that might perhaps best be described as kosmiche choral or, if we're pushing it arts-und-crafts-werk. Or, put simply, glorious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fire 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MODAppleman, J. Reuben
Summary: Enthralling. Gripping. Cinematic. Raw. A cold case murder investigation paced like a podcast, as visually stunning as a film, and as brave and personal as our darkest memoirs. J. Reuben Appelman cracks open one of America's most notorious murder sprees while simultaneously banging the gavel on his own history with violence. A deftly-crafted true crime story with grit, set amid the decaying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 APPSummary: Emma's band wants to post a music video on YouTube, but they aren't sure which of their songs should be featured. Emma's best friend helps them choose by using Facebook contacts to conduct a survey, exploring the concepts of qualitative and quantitative data along the way. Viewers learn how to sample, present, and analyze data, generate histograms, frequency tables, stem and leaf plots,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Baldacci, David
Summary: Vega Jane has never left the village of Wormwood. But this isn't unusual, nobody has ever left the village of Wormwood. At least not until Quentin Herms vanishes into the unknown. Vega knows Quentin didn't just leave, but that he was chased. And he's left behind a very dangerous trail of clues that only she can decode. The Quag is a dark forest filled with terrifying beasts and bloodthirsty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BALMorris, Adam
Summary: Mania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent anticapitalist Cyrus Teed, to the dapper and overlooked civil rights pioneer Father Divine, to the megalomaniacal Jim Jones, these figures have routinely been dismissed as dangerous and hysterical outliers. After years of studying these emblematic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2019