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Series
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 2
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Description
From her upside-down house, the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues to parents her marvelous cures for such common children's diseases as Won't-Put-Away-Toys-itis, Answerbackism, and Fighter-Quarrelitis.
Author
Description
"Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth."--Amazon.com.
3) The wisest one in the room: how you can benefit from social psychology's five most powerful insights
Author
Publisher
Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
307 pages : charts, photographs ; 22 cm.
Description
Authors Gilovich and Ross describe the most useful insights from social psychology that may help you understand why people behave the way they do, and use that knowledge to understand and influence the people in your life.
4) Crankenstein
Author
Series
Crankenstein volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Description
A boy who looks ordinary transforms into grumbling Crankenstein when faced with a rainy day, a melting popsicle, or bedtime but everything changes when he meets a fellow Crankenstein.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
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Description
"In this ... volume, nothing is quite as it seems. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a lost man who bets on a horse that may--or may not--have spoken to him. Everything that readers love about the novels of Kate Atkinson is here: the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop. Witty and wise, with...
Author
Series
Kindergators volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Traces the experiences of Miss Harmony's alligator kindergarteners, whose classmate throws disruptive temper tantrums.
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Series
Betty Bunny books volume 2
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Description
Betty Bunny's mother takes her and her siblings to a toy store where each is allowed to pick out one item, but Betty refuses to choose just one and throws a tantrum when she learns the alternative is to get nothing.
Author
Series
Elinor and Violet volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
While Violet, a really naughty chicken, is visiting her grandmother again for the summer, she convinces Elinor to do things that upset Elinor's mother and sisters, but Elinor does prove to have a mind of her own.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
343 pages
Description
"Telling personal anecdotes with infectious enthusiasm and disclosing startling and delightful discoveries, Dr. Bargh takes the reader into his labs at New York University and Yale where he and his colleagues have discovered how the unconscious guides our behavior, goals, and motivations in areas like race relations, parenting, business, consumer behavior, and addiction. He reveals what science now knows about the pervasive influence of the unconscious...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xviii, 461 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Challenges popular conceptions of an innately selfish human race to offer new historical and evolutionary perspectives that argue humans are more hardwired for kindness, cooperation and trust.
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Using increasingly sophisticated levels of artificial intelligence (AI) and embodied intelligence (EI), a new generation of robots is being designed to look, act and even think like humans. Hubots, or human-inspired robots, are expanding the boundaries of what robots can do. Here, ten different real-life hubots are described, highlighting each one's appearance, unique skills and purpose --- from fighting fires on the high seas, to acting as setup...
14) Bad dog
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
"Sometimes, Tom is a bad dog. But he can be good, too! His family loves him no matter what"--Provided by publisher.
18) No fits, Nilson!
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
Amelia must continually remind her gorilla friend, Nilson, not to have fits, especially when they are running errands with her mother, but sometimes Amelia stomps and growls, too.
19) El ping?ino Taky
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Tacky the penguin does not fit in with his sleek and graceful companions, but his odd behavior comes in handy when hunters come with maps and traps.
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