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  • Smart Girls in the 21st Century

    Understanding Talented Girls and Women

    by Barbara Kerr, McKay Robyn ...
    Drs. Barbara Kerr and Robyn McKay tackle what it means to live with, work with, and be a modern smart girl. Through their keen insights and academic research of real girls and women, they offer valuable information and advice on giftedness, achievement, self-actualization, and more. They examine bright girls' development, types of intelligence, differences in generations, eminent women, barriers ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Smart Girls in the 21st Century

    Understanding Talented Girls and Women

    by Barbara Kerr, Robyn McKay ...
    Drs. Barbara Kerr and Robyn McKay tackle what it means to live with, work with, and be a modern smart girl. Through their keen insights and academic research of real girls and women, they offer valuable information and advice on giftedness, achievement, self-actualization, and more. They examine bright girls' development, types of intelligence, differences in generations, eminent women, barriers ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Smart Girls in the 21st Century

    by Barbara Kerr, Ph.D., Robyn McKay, Ph.D. ...
    Drs. Barbara Kerr and Robyn McKay tackle what it means to live with, work with, and be a modern smart girl. Through their keen insights and academic research of real girls and women, they offer valuable information and advice on giftedness, achievement, self-actualization, and more. They examine bright girls' development, types of intelligence, differences in generations, eminent women, barriers ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Free to Learn

    Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

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    "A lightning bolt of a book" makes the case for why self-directed learning — "unschooling" — is the best way to get kids to learn (Lenore Skenazy)In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today’s constantly changing world, we must entrust them to steer their own learning and development. Drawing on evidence from anthropology, ... Read more

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  • The Myths of Happiness

    What Should Make You Happy, but Doesn't, What Shouldn't Make You Happy, but Does

    by Sonja Lyubomirsky ...
    The bestselling author of The How of Happiness reveals how to find opportunity in life’s thorniest momentsFocusing on life’s biggest, messiest moments, Sonja Lyubomirsky provides readers with the clear-eyed vision they need to build the healthiest, most satisfying life. Lyubomirsky argues that we have been given false promises—myths that assure us that lifelong happiness will be attained once we ... Read more

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  • Generation Me - Revised and Updated

    Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before

    by Jean M. Twenge, PhD ...
    The Associated Press calls them "The Entitlement Generation," and they are storming into schools, colleges, and businesses all over the country. They are today's young people, a new generation with sky-high expectations and a need for constant praise and fulfillment. In this provocative new book, headline-making psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge documents the self-focus of what ... Read more

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  • Beyond Intelligence

    Secrets for Raising Happily Productive Kids

    by Dr. Dona Matthews, Dr. Joanne Foster ...
    From two internationally recognized experts in the field of gifted education comes this timely exploration of how best to nurture a child’s unique gifts, and set them on a path to a happily productive life — in school and beyond.What is intelligence? Is it really a have or have not proposition, as we’ve been led to believe? Are some children just destined to fall behind? Dona Matthews and Joanne ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Myth of the Spoiled Child

    Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Children and Parenting

    by Alfie Kohn ...
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  • The Upside of Your Dark Side

    Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment

    by Robert Biswas-Diener, Todd B. Kashdan ...
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  • Me, Myself, and Us

    The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being

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    How does your personality shape your life and what, if anything, can you do about it?Are you hardwired for happiness, or born to brood? Do you think you're in charge of your future, or do you surf the waves of unknowable fate? Would you be happier, or just less socially adept, if you were less concerned about what other people thought of you? And what about your "Type A" spouse: is he or she ... Read more

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  • The Importance of Being Little

    What Young Children Really Need from Grownups

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    **“Christakis . . . expertly weaves academic research, personal experience and anecdotal evidence into her book . . . a bracing and convincing case that early education has reached a point of crisis . . . her book is a rare thing: a serious work of research that also happens to be well-written and personal . . . engaging and important.”--Washington Post"What kids need from grown-ups (but aren't ... Read more

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