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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 28 min., 21 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From raging tantrums to fits of giggles, it's no secret that toddlers are skilled at expressing their emotions. One minute they anger a friend, the next they comfort the same child. Learn about theory of the mind and how toddlers come to understand how their actions can affect others. Examine how gender and temperament play a role in development. Observe toddlers interacting with family and peers as they develop attachments and social bonds.
Author
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A Professor of International Health and popular global TED speaker and his son and daughter-in-law who co-founded the Gapminder Foundation, explain how the best guesses, thoughts and concepts we accept as fact are actually tempered and informed by unconscious and predictable biases."--Publisher.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 40 min., 22 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Whilst the process of aging may reflect a time of great achievement, satisfaction and excitement for many, it is not uncommon for some older people to feel isolated and concerned about some aspects of their lives - past, present and future. For some, experiences of family isolation, social withdrawal, decline in health, role and status, death of partner, family members and friends creates a great sense of loss and grief. This Speaking from experience...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on evolutionary science to offer new perspectives on human psychology, revealing how major challenges from our past have shaped some of the most fundamental aspects of our being.
6) The culture code: an ingenious way to understand why people around the world buy and live as they do
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 208 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An anthropologist and marketing expert reveals techniques that can help companies decode the most powerful symbols within a culture, understand why each culture behaves the way it does, and use this information to devise their own business strategy.
7) Star
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
94 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention--they would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells "action"; Rikio, for a moment, transforms into another being, a hardened young yakuza, but as soon as the shot is finished, he slumps back into his own anxieties and obsessions. Being a star,...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu-which kills tens of thousands each year-is dismissed with a yawn? Why is an unarmed young black woman who knocks on a stranger's front door to ask for help after her car breaks down perceived to be so threatening that the stranger shoots her dead? In Jumping at Shadows, Sasha Abramsky sets his sights on America's most dangerous epidemic: irrational fear....
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