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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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...
12) 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.
16) 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.
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"Rock breaks scissors is based on a simple principle: people are unable to act randomly. Instead they display unconscious patterns that the savvy person can outguess. The principle applies to friends playing rock, paper, scissors for a bar tab as well as to the crowds that create markets for homes and stocks. With a gift for distilling psychology and behavioral economics into accessible advice, Poundstone proves that outguessing is easy, fun, and...
Author
Publisher
WoEB, What On Earth Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"So you think you're special? Just because people have built cities, invented pop-up toasters, and put people on the Moon, that they are somehow different from (or better than) other living things? Well, it's time to think again! Humanimal explores the interconnections of the human and natural worlds in ways you never before imagined... Inside you will discover how slime molds learn how to navigate through a maze; how rats are ticklish and how it...
20) Grow up, David!
Author
Series
David (David Shannon) volume 5
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Description
David follows his older brother around, annoying him and doing everything he can to make sure his brother notices him--but when David gets hurt playing, his brother is there to make sure he is okay.
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