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Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling authors of Freakonomics offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms.
Levitt and Dubner take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally-- to think, that is, like a Freak. Whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms, you'll learn to put...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Do you ever wonder why you keep making the same bad choices, even though you tell yourself it will be different next time? In Think Ahead, pastor Craig Groeschel draws on biblical truth and scientific research to help us learn the power of "pre-deciding" big and small choices so we can discover new joy, freedom, and contentment"--
"Why do we keep making choices we later regret--sometimes even the same bad choices over and over? Drawing on Scripture,...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A rival group of adults that calls itself Weird Team arrives with a gadget that fixes any odd problem. As a result, Odd Squad is run out of business and all the agents are forced to disband and go back to their lives as regular kids. Using math skills and teamwork, the kids discover Weird Team isn't actually solving problems, but just covering them up.
5) Mudshark
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and locator of lost items, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, aka Mudshark.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rabbit has a problem! Her room is a mess. Luckily, Pete the Problem-Solving Porcupine shows up just in time. He can save the day! Except...things don't go quite to plan, and Rabbit realizes that Pete may actually be a problem-causer! Can Rabbit find a way to solve this unexpected new dilemma before chaos ensues?" --
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It's lunchtime at Peg's Pizza Place! Peg and Cat are excited to take their first order -- from the Teens! -- only to learn that some of their customers want a whole pizza while one of them wants half a pie. How can Peg and Cat make half a pie when they don't know what half is? Luckily, Ramone and Mac are there to help, with a slice up the middle of the pizza. As more customers come in, things get entertaining, with Peg singing a jazzy song and Cat...
Author
Series
Mister Max volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"When Max's parents leave the country without him, he must rely on his wits to get by, and before long he is running his own--rather unusual--business"--
13) Toy story
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An astonishing world where toys play while their owners are away. Woody is a pull-string cowboy doll and is the leader of the toys until the latest, greatest action figure, Buzz Lightyear, enters the picture. When the toy rivals are separated from their owner, they learn to put aside their differences and work as a team to get back home to the boy they love.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A. de C.V
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
A lo largo de nuestra vida las personas experimentamos innumerables situaciones: miedos y pensamientos catastróficos,pérdidas dolorosas, falta de motivación, conflictos de pareja, dificultad para tomar decisiones, incapacidad para poner límites o baja autoestima. En este libro hallarás treintallaves maestras para los distintos problemas que debes enfrentar en tu vida diaria. Cada ejercicio es una solución práctica altamente eficaz, tienes...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Blue's school: Blue and Steve are playing school. Something to do: Blue and Steve are looking for something to do and Mr. Salt has just the right recipe. Rhyme time: Steve's playing poet, but what does Blue want to rhyme about? Puppets: Blue wants to tell a story with puppets. Promotes: beginning reading and comprehension; color-mixing skills; preschool rituals; creative problem solving; construction and combination.
Series
Publisher
PBS Kids
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Follow the adorable, spirited Peg and her sidekick Cat as they embark on adventures, solve problems together, and learn foundational math concepts and skills. In each episode, Peg and Cat face an issue, a messy funny crisis they must somehow solve without totally freaking out!
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The father of one of the most successful businessmen in history conveys the values and principles he has learned in life, has instilled in his children, and which he now practices on a world stage as the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A government analyst and secret intelligence commentator draws on his personal expertise in the area of high-stakes decision making to outline a groundbreaking approach to effective problem solving. --Publsiher's description.
Publisher
Creek Mill Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Join the lovable max, lily and goo as they use their monster math skills to help solve any obstacle they face! Mad for all things mathy, the monster math squad use their skills of counting, measuring, sizing, sorting and exploring to help other monsters in trouble and make new friends along the way.Oozing with heart and fun filled adventures, the series mission is to promote the love of numbers by showing young viewers that math is all around use...
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