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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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...
2) Places to be
Author
Publisher
Balzar + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"We have so many places to be! Places to be loud and lovely and scared and jubilant. With an elegant simplicity, this picture book celebrates all our wide-ranging emotions—and the adventures that await us each day."--
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl and her father have a wonderful time in the grocery store until she nearly knocks over a display, then while trying her best to be good she lets out a big sneeze that results in chaos.
Author
Series
Great courses volume no. 1573
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
(THIS IS A SET. Book and DVDs must be checkout together)
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
What happens when humanity's infatuation with itself and an untethered free market meet 45 billion cameras? Filmmakers Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck once again turn their cameras directly on society, this time to explore, explain, and expose how our unchecked obsession with image has grown to change our human behavior. From Camera Obscura and the Lumiere Brothers to YouTube and the world of social media, the film chronicles how we went...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Horrid Henry builds a big, mean monster snowman hoping to win the snowman competition against Moody Margaret's ballerina snowgirl; the prize is a year's supply of ice cream.
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lucia Lacorte's gaming club meets on Fridays, but the truth is the other members are not having fun because, win or lose, Lucia is a very poor sport; a fact that is finally made clear to her when the others stop showing up, and her grandfather mimics her behavior when he wins--and loses.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An irreverent, provocative, and visually fascinating look at what our online lives reveal about who we really are--and how this deluge of data will transform the science of human behavior. Big Data is used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us things we don't need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder puts this flood of information to an entirely different use: understanding human nature. Drawing on terabytes of data from Twitter, Facebook, Reddit,...
15) Bedtime monster
Author
Publisher
Raven Tree Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little boy does not want to go to bed and sprouts a tail and growls, turning into a bedtime monster.
18) Trail trouble
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Keys family is vacationing at Shenandoah National Park intending to do some serious hiking, but twelve-year-old Marlon would much rather be on his phone talking with his friends at home in Chicago, and is further annoyed because the girl his own age,Nadia, turns out to be an experienced hiker; but when on the first day his complaining and resistance separates him from his parents his "boring" vacation becomes an exercise in survival as he and...
19) The Terranauts
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Sealed inside a glass enclosure designed as a prototype for a possible off-Earth colony, eight Terranauts in the 1990s Arizona desert test their skills in five biome environments that they must protect from skeptics who would sabotage the mission.
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