Surowiecki, James
Summary: In this book, New Yorker columnist Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant--better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. With seemingly boundless erudition and in clear, entertaining prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.3 SURLevitt, Steven D.
Summary: Think Like A Freak takes listeners further inside this special thought process, revealing a new way of approaching the decisions people make, the plans they create, and the morals they choose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 153.43 LEVO'Malley, Ed
Summary: "Leadership is not about position, or authority. It's not about big speeches or grand visions. Leadership is engaging others to solve daunting challenges. Those challenges appear in our professional lives, in our communities, our families--and they seem unsolvable, beyond our ability to see what needs to be done or outside our capacity to make the changes needed. They are not. Because,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bard Press 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 658.409 O'MALTani, Masumi
Summary: "Learn to facilitate productive meetings and build high-performing teams with manga for success! Shigeo, an employee of a building material manufacturing company, is sent to a regional office to improve sales. Along the way, he encounters challenges engaging with the local team but, with advice from a helpful facilitation specialist, Mayumi, he eventually learns to build the skills of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 TANSawyer, R. Keith (Robert Keith)
Summary: "Keith Sawyer, a psychologist at Washington University, tears down some of the most popular myths about creativity and erects new principles in their place. He reveals that creativity is always collaborative - even when you're alone. Sawyer's book is filled with compelling stories about the inventions that changed our world: the ATM, the mountain bike, and open source operating systems, among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4036 SAWRushkoff, Douglas
Summary: Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Douglas Rushkoff, digital theorist and host of the NPR-One podcast Team Human, reveals the dynamics of this antihuman machinery and invites us to remake these aspects of society in ways that foster our humanity. In 100 aphoristic statements, his manifesto exposes how forces for human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303.48 RUSJacobs, A. J.
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.73 JACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 793.73 JACGroeschel, Craig
Summary: "Why do we keep making choices we later regret--sometimes even the same bad choices over and over? Drawing on Scripture, story, and cutting-edge research into human behavior, pastor Craig Groeschel reveals the key to making the choices we want to make and experiencing the joy and freedom God has for us. We all want to make great decisions. So what happens between our good intentions and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan Books 2024
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Summary: Presents 24 lectures (each about 30 minutes long) by Paul Zeitz, Professor of Mathematics at the University of San Francisco and author of The art and craft of problem solving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
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Summary: "Help the STEM Detectives find one of their team members. Robot iGumbo has gone missing. Bring your skills in mapping, finding bugs in instructions, and turning back time. Grab your notepad and start investigating!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2020
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Summary: "When I was little, my imagination was filled with creativity and possibility. I always figured out how to build play spaces, forts in the woods, ramps - it never ended! My new children's book A Big Problem teaches the tried-and-true problem solving process - the same process I've been using since I was young - but here it's wrapped around a super outrageous story. This stimulates both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tinker & Scrap 0000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE OOSJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "Founded in 1866, the Frontier Overland Company was no ordinary stagecoach operation. Two kindred souls with the same fighting spirit, Tucker Cobb and former Texas Ranger Butch Keeling agreed to launch a business together: a brand-new stagecoach line through the wilds of Wyoming . . . They called it the Frontier Overland Company. And a legend was born. Cobb and Keeling knew it wouldn't be easy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: "Every organization is plagued by destructive friction-the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get anything done. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful, and leaders who attempt to improve workplace efficiency often make things even worse. Drawing from seven years of hands-on research, The Friction Project by bestselling authors Robert I. Sutton...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Documents how former drug-trafficker, Anderson Sá and the Grupo Cultural AfroReggae are working to unite a Rio slum, or favela, against a violent drug industry and police oppression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FAVSummary: Martin Scorsese's pseudo-documentary film, composed of both fictional and non-fictional material, about Bob Dylan's legendary 1975 tour, which featured a band of troubadours including Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell, and blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROLJohnson, Steven
Summary: "The hardest choices are also the most consequential. So why do we know so little about how to get them right? Big, life-altering decisions matter so much more than the decisions we make every day, and they're also the most difficult: where to live, whom to marry, what to believe, whether to start a company, how to end a war. There's no one-size-fits-all approach for addressing these kinds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.8 JOHKeppeler, Jill
Summary: What does math have to do with Minecraft? Everything! Minecraft fans will learn how they can use math principles and problem-solving skills to help them build and survive in the game world. From constructing an amazing base or trading with villagers for useful items to even fighting monsters, gamers will realize how math, geometry, and other related skills will help them both in the real world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J STEM KeppelerNewman, Robin
Summary: In this interactive picture book that provides breathing exercises and important emotional vocabulary, young children can follow along as the lovable furry red monster faces common problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2021
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Summary: If your life goals require sharing creating or decision making with another person you need to increase your power as a negotiator. These actions require give and take the jockeying of power and influence. Most business people spend the majority of their time allocating resourcesboth human and financial. When you find this equilibrium you achieve clair-buoyanceTM. When operating from the place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acanthus Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 WALSummary: Physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking poses enduring scientific questions to teams of non-scientists to test their problem solving skills and summon their inner-genius, covering topics such as time travel, the existence of life on other planets, how the universe came to be, and the origins of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Distribution 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GENSeip, Roger
Summary: "Every businessperson wants better results; faster growth, more revenue, greater efficiency, less wasted energy. Top level performance is the holy grail at all levels of business, but in order to achieve these results, people must learn to strategically slow down to a snail's pace to achieve results at rocket speed. Master Your Mind will teach readers to slow down their brain, to create the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Son, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 650.101 SEIWood, Kevin
Summary: "An unlocked door to a secret science lab would be hard for any student to ignore. But what if you snuck in--and the door locked behind you? In this book, readers need to solve puzzles and find codes throughout the pictures and text in order to escape Science terms and concepts, such as animal classification, the human body, and the pH scale, are described as part of the story."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.73 WOOArons, Ron
Summary: This book(let) provides an introduction to the concepts of mind maps, a tool which can take your research skills to new levels you never imagined were possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1 AronsDu Sautoy, Marcus
Summary: "Do you know where you should always move first in Tic Tac Toe? Understand the betting cube in backgammon? Want to know the best property in Monopoly? Did you know that the African game Mancala might have led one of its players to make an early approximation of the number pi? Or that the nigh-magical Golden Ratio can help you win at Rock Paper Scissors? Around the World in Eighty Games is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023