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  • Insightful Quality

    Beyond Continuous Improvement

    by Frank Fair, Victor Sower ...
    In order to survive and attain market leadership, organizations must engage in longer-term strategic quality activities to address radical, paradigm-shifting improvements that affect the organization and its competitive position. This requires a different way of thinking and acting by leaders and managers that is known as insightful thinking.This book can show you how to achieve this kind of ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $6.29 USD

  • The Personality of Math

    A Key to Learning and Teaching Math

    by Paul A. Wagner, Frank Fair ...
    If our goal is to broaden and deepen students’ awareness and understanding of mathematics, we advance the idea that engaging students with what we metaphorically call the personality of math. That is, we think that students who engage with the math’s (1) human champions, (2) with its history and philosophy, and (3) with the nature of its problems and inferential challenges, are more likely to have ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Thinking Beyond the Test

    Strategies for Re-Introducing Higher-Level Thinking Skills

    by Paul A. Wagner, Daphne Johnson, Daniel Fasko Jr., Frank Fair ...
    In the wake of initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and the use of high-stakes testing, the emphasis in schools has been on drill and practice for the test. Genuine understanding and critical thinking have been increasingly shortchanged. As a result, students have fewer opportunities to advance their insight into cognitive and emotional challenges, even though both teachers and parents ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Thinking Ahead

    Engaging All Teachers in Critical Thinking

    by Paul A. Wagner, Daphne Johnson, Daniel Fasko Jr., Frank Fair ...
    This book addresses a very important aspect of teacher training, as well as the training of educational administrators, school counselors and other educational allied professionals, an aspect that is too often overlooked. That aspect is role modeling a deliberative mind. A deliberative mind is one filled with wonderment and eagerness to learn. We introduce educational professionals to systematic ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Focus on Thinking

    Engaging Educators in Higher-Order Thinking

    by Paul A. Wagner, Daphne Johnson, Daniel Fasko Jr., Frank Fair ...
    In the wake of initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and the use of high-stakes testing, the emphasis in schools has been on drill and practice for the test. Genuine understanding and critical thinking have been increasingly shortchanged. As a result, students have fewer opportunities to advance their insight into cognitive and emotional challenges, even though both teachers and parents ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Choreographing a House

    Dan Phillips, Apostle for Sustainable Housing

    by Dan Phillips ...
    Series series Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
    Anyone who has ever driven into Huntsville, Texas, from the west on US Highway 190 has glimpsed the now-famous “Cowboy Boot House”: a fully functional 700-square-foot, two-bedroom home that features a spiral staircase up to the top of the “boot,” offering a panoramic view of the community. It’s hard to forget, as is its builder, Dan Phillips.Competitive bull rider, military intelligence specialist ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Education for Knowing

    Theories of Knowledge for Effective Student Building

    by Paul A. Wagner, Frank K. Fair ...
    If our goal is Education for Knowing, as the title says, then we need to be guided by a conception of what knowing is. For example, we can all agree that there are “math facts” that students need to learn, and we can agree that there are general concepts and laws that students should be acquainted with. But is there more involved, perhaps something like nurturing in students a desire to probe ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand Value

    by Thomas Lockwood ...
    This thought-provoking and inspirational book covers such topics as: developing a solid creative process through Visual Reflection Notebooks” and Bring Play to Work”; understanding the artist’s unique identity in relation to the larger culture; building systems of support and collaboration; explaining how an artist’s needs and passions can lead to innovation and authenticity; using language to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Thinkertoys

    A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques

    by Michael Michalko ...
    Rethink the Way You ThinkIn hindsight, every great idea seems obvious. But how can you be the person who comes up with those ideas?In this revised and expanded edition of his groundbreaking Thinkertoys, creativity expert Michael Michalko reveals life-changing tools that will help you think like a genius. From the linear to the intuitive, this comprehensive handbook details ingenious creative ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Brand Gap, Revised Edition

    by Marty Neumeier ...
    Series series AIGA Design Press
    THE BRAND GAP is the first book to present a unified theory of brand-building. Whereas most books on branding are weighted toward either a strategic or creative approach, this book shows how both ways of thinking can unite to produce a “charismatic brand”—a brand that customers feel is essential to their lives. In an entertaining two-hour read you’ll learn:• the new definition of brand• the five ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Mezzanine

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    “A seriously funny book.”—Salman Rushdie“It pulverized me.”—Hernan DiazAn elegant, refreshed edition of Nicholson Baker’s stunning and highly influential first novel, a witty and boundlessly inventive homage to the profound, neglected details of everyday working lifeThe Mezzanine is a novel told through one man’s ride up an escalator in the office building where he works. In the hands of Nicholson ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • A Walk

    Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day (And Know Nothing About)

    by Spike Carlsen ...
    "Carlsen sees a world of wonder hiding in plain sight and may just change how you look at the world around you." —TODAY ShowA simple walk around the block set journalist Spike Carlsen, bestselling author of A Splintered History of Wood, off to investigate everything he could about everything we take for granted in our normal life—from manhole covers and recycling bins to bike lanes and stoplights ... Read more

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