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Stories in the sky [board book] : constellations / by Brach, Kyle,author.(CARDINAL)857484; Doyle, Elizabeth(Graphic designer),illustrator.(CARDINAL)622881;
"For thousands of years, the stars have filled humankind with wonder. They have pointed the way, helped us tell time, and best of all, told us stories. Now, curious kids can explore the night sky with Stories in the Sky: Constellations. From Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, Leo the Lion, Orion the Hunter, and more, ten of the most popular and easiest-to-find constellations in the night sky are featured with beautiful illustrations that show the stars in the constellation as well as a cute rendering of the animal or person it represents."--
Subjects: Board books.; Constellations; Pattern perception; Stars; Étoiles; Constellations; Perception des structures;
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Vinson Massif / by Leavitt, Amie Jane,author.(CARDINAL)484057;
A peak of distinction -- Where in the world? -- A trip back in time -- Cold weather plants -- Snow-loving animals -- Early explorers -- Massifs around the world -- Studying the southern continent -- Vinson Massif timeline -- Key issue: Protecting Vinson Massif -- Taking an Antarctic vacation -- Modern-day mountaineering -- What have you learned? -- Activity: Modeling a crustal block mountain -- Key words/index.Seven Summits leads young readers on a captivating tour of each continents highest mountain. Each book in the series teaches geography skills and reveals fascinating facts. Readers will learn how human activity modifies the physical environment and how culture influences peoples perceptions of places and regions. Colorful photographs, detailed maps, informative charts, and classroom activities highlight the features of each summit. Seven Summits is a series of AV2 media enhanced books. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. These books come alive with video, audio, weblinks, slideshows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more.Grades 4-6.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Natural history; Mountain ecology;
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The optimism bias : a tour of the irrationally positive brain / by Sharot, Tali.(CARDINAL)346486;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: a glass forever half full? -- Which way is up?: illusions of the human brain -- Are animals stuck in time?: the evolution of prospection -- Is optimism a self-fulfilling prophecy?: how the mind transforms predictions into reality -- What do Barak Obama and Shirley Temple have in common?: when private optimism meets public despair -- Can you predict what will make you happy?: The unexpected ingredient for well-being -- Crocuses popping up through the snow?: when things go wrong: depression, interpretation, and genes -- Why is Friday better than Sunday?: the value of anticipation and the cost of dread -- Why do things seem better after we choose them?: the mind's journey from expectation to choice and back -- Are memories of 9/11 as accurate as they seem?: how emotion changes our past -- Why is being a cancer survivor better than winning the tour de France?: how the brain turns lead into gold -- A dark side to optimism?: from World War II to the credit crunch, underestimating risk is like drinking red wine -- Epilogue: a beautiful mademoiselle or a sad old lady?: from prediction to perception to action.
Subjects: Neuropsychology.; Optimism;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Zigzag zooborns! : zoo baby colors and patterns / by Bleiman, Andrew,author.(CARDINAL)500775; Eastland, Chris,author.(CARDINAL)500777;
"Get to know a whole new herd of zoo babies in this darling picture book about colors and patterns from the creators of ZooBorns.com. Calling all animal enthusiasts! It's time to learn about colors and patterns with a crew of irresistible zoo babies. Featuring adorable animal photos, a zippy text, and a fact-filled glossary, this just might be the cutest concept book ever to hit the shelves!"--Age 0-5.Pre-K.
Subjects: Picture books.; Colors; Pattern perception; Zoo animals;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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The star whale / by Davies, Nicola,1958-author.(CARDINAL)272508; Horáček, Petr,illustrator.(CARDINAL)318882;
Last Night I Visited a Lion -- Once -- The Star Whale -- The Five-Legged Dog and the Three Legged Cat -- Mama Tree -- Inside the Wolf -- The Queen of the Fishes -- Moose Moon -- Moth Alphabet Tongue-Twister -- On the Bat's Back -- Morning Raven -- Song of the Melted Tiger -- Kingfisher -- Seal for Dinner -- Titanosaurus -- Minding Their Own Business -- Southern Ocean -- I Love a Garden -- The Names of a Butterfly -- The Earth is Dancing -- Conversation with a Honeyguide -- Way Back in the Old Cretaceous -- The Ostrich and the Kiwi -- Bumblebee -- A Night Out in Tasmania -- Mandrill In the Mirror -- Toucan In the Square -- Look, Dragonfly -- Walking the Hippo -- My Granny has a Blackbird on her Shoulder -- Turkey -- The Zebras' Dream -- Hedgehog -- Spider and Wind -- The Witch's Cat -- Maybe There's A Planet -- Wild Night -- The Old Apple Tree -- Carry Me Over the Sea -- Goldfinch.Two superlative talents combine in a feast of verbal and visual imagery: forty brilliant poems celebrating the living world with love and laughter. Always inventive, with surprises and fresh perceptions on every page, these poems and pictures will captivate young readers. The range is astonishing, from the cosmic qualities of the Star Whale to the tiny but intense identities of a butterfly or a moth. The boundaries of time and space retreat in poems like 'Way back in the Old Cretaceous'. Raw realities are faced in the "tazzies" feast and fighting in 'A Night out in Tasmania'. There is magical vision in 'The Song of the Melting Tiger' and rude hilarity in 'Walking the Hippo'. From the Titanosaurus to the bat, the butterfly and the moth, trees and bees, toucans and turkeys, the tone move effortlessly from comic to lyrical or reflective.
Subjects: Nature poetry.; Animals; Nature; Children's poetry, English.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 3
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Free to be-- you and me [videorecording] by Alda, Alan,1936-(CARDINAL)273282; Belafonte, Harry,1927-2023(CARDINAL)176042; Brooks, Mel,1926-(CARDINAL)724321; Coolidge, Rita.(CARDINAL)365072; Davis, Bill.(CARDINAL)734260; De Wolfe, Billy,1907-1974.; Flack, Roberta.(CARDINAL)203949; Grier, Rosey.(CARDINAL)720682; Hart, Carole.(CARDINAL)520454; Jackson, Michael,1958-2009.(CARDINAL)351022; Kristofferson, Kris.(CARDINAL)346639; McKayle, Donald,1930-; Ressner, Phil.Dudley Pippin.; Smothers, Tom,1937-; Thomas, Marlo.(CARDINAL)522862; Tyson, Cicely.(CARDINAL)842444; Warwick, Dionne.(CARDINAL)745200; Zolotow, Charlotte,1915-William's doll.; Free To Be Productions.; Hen's Tooth Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)847839; Ms. Foundation for Women (U.S.)(CARDINAL)735159; Murakami-Wolf Productions (Firm); New Seekers (Musical group); Voices of East Harlem.;
Animators, David Brain ... [et al.] ; editors, Craig McKay ... [et al.] ; music director, Stephen Lawrence ; costume designer, Frank Thomspon ; production designer, Tony Walton ; choreographer, Donald McKayle.Marlo Thomas, Alan Alda, Harry Belafonte, Mel Brooks, Rita Coolidge, Billy Dewolfe, Roberta Flack, Rosey Grier, Michael Jackson, Kris Kristofferson, Bobby Morse, The New Seekers, Tom Smothers, Cicely Tyson, Dionne Warwicke, Voices of East Harlem.A journey into the endless possibilities of life. Rich with positive, life-enhancing messages that focus on growth and change. Positive messages of self-esteem are illustrated through a series of live action and animations shorts through songs, stories and laughter. Explores children's dreams and concerns, as well as their fears and fantasies.DVD, Dolby digital 2.0 mono.Emmy Award, prime time special for children, 1974.Peabody Award, 1975.
Subjects: Children's films.; Feature films.; Interpersonal relations.; Self-esteem in children; Self-perception in children.; Self-reliance.;
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Rough animals : a novel / by DelBianco, Rae,author.(CARDINAL)417881;
"Ever since their father's untimely death five years before, Wyatt Smith and his inseparably close twin sister, Lucy, have scraped by alone on their family's isolated ranch in Box Elder County, Utah. That is until one morning when, just after spotting one of their bulls lying dead in the field, Wyatt is hit in the arm by a hail of gunfire that takes four more cattle with it. The shooter: a fever-eyed, fearsome girl-child with an outdated TEC-9 in her left hand and a worn shotgun in her right. They hold the girl captive, but she breaks loose overnight and heads south into the desert. With the dawning realization that the loss of cattle will mean the certain loss of the ranch, Wyatt feels he has no choice but to go after her and somehow find restitution for what's been lost. Wyatt's decision sets him on an epic twelve-day odyssey through a nightmarish underworld he only half understands; a world that pitches him not only against the primordial ways of men and the beautiful yet brutally unforgiving landscape, but also against himself. As he winds his way down from the mountains of Box Elder to the mesas of Monument Valley and back, Wyatt is forced to look for the first time at who he is and what he's capable of, and how those hard truths set him irrevocably apart from the one person he's ever really known and loved. Steeped in a mythic, wildly alive language of its own, and gripping from the first gunshot to the last, Rough Animals is a tour de force from a powerful new voice"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Twins; Siblings; Ranch life; Violence; Self-perception; Siblings.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Walking in light : the everyday empowerment of a shamanic life / by Ingerman, Sandra.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Introduction -- Being a shaman -- Ceremony and doorways to access the hidden realms -- Gathering your tools for ceremony -- Compassionate, helping spirits and spiritual allies -- Power animals, teachers, and ancestral helping spirits -- Nature is our greatest healer and is a spiritual ally -- Your invisible and visible shamanic community -- Evoking transformation -- Healing for body, mind, and soul -- Initiations of death and rebirth -- Cultivating your inner garden -- The destiny of your soul arises from your earthly dream -- Dreaming into being the life you desire -- Overcoming obstacles -- Empowering inner expression -- The unseen power of your thoughts and emotions -- Everyday empowerment through words, forgiveness, and gratitude -- Protection, perception, and projection -- Living in the light of the sacred -- The light within -- Listening for guidance beyond form, time, and space -- Sharing the light -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Resources -- Further reading -- Index -- About the author.
Subjects: Light; Shamanism.; Spiritual life.;
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Tusk / by Trucks, Rob,1961-author.(CARDINAL)668446;
Warning shot -- Chapter one -- What we talk about when we talk about Tusk / Jonathan Segel of Camper Van Beethoven -- Chapter three -- What we talk about when we talk about Tusk / Walter Egan -- Chapter five -- What we talk about when we talk about Tusk / Kaki King -- Chapter seven -- What we talk about when we talk about Tusk / A.C. Newman of the New Pornographers -- Chapter nine -- What we talk about when we talk about Tusk / Gretchen Heffler of the USC Spirit of Troy marching band -- Chapter eleven -- What we talk about when we talk about Tusk / Dan Boeckner and Hadji Bakara of Wolf Parade -- Chapter thirteen -- What we talk about when we talk about Tusk / Dave Portner, aka Avey Tare, of Animal Collective -- Chapter fifteen -- What we talk about when we talk about Tusk / Michael G of Tusk, a Fleetwood Mac tribute band -- Chapter seventeenAfter Rumours became the best-selling single album of all-time, Fleetwood Mac asked Warner Brothers Records to buy them a studio (the label refused, costing both Warner Brothers and the band significant cash in the long run) and then handed the reins to their guitarist and resident perfectionist Lindsey Buckingham, a fusion of factors that led Tusk to become the first record in history to cross the million dollar threshold in production costs. "You know," Buckingham told me, "we had this ridiculous success with Rumours. And at some point, at least in my perception, the success of that detached from the music, and it was more about the phenomenon. We were poised to do another album, and I guess because the axiom Ìf it works, run it into the ground' was prevalent then, we were probably poised to do Rumours II. I don't know how you do that, but somehow my light bulb that went off was, Let's just not do that. Let's very pointedly not do that.'"Here, Rob Trucks talks to Lindsey Buckingham, as well as members of Animal Collective, Camper Van Beethoven, the New Pornographers, Wolf Parade, the Fleetwood Mac tribute band Tusk, and the USC Trojan marching band in order to chart both the story and the impact of an album born of personal obsession and a stubborn unwillingness to compromise. --Book Jacket
Subjects: Fleetwood Mac (Musical group).;
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From here to there : the art and science of finding and losing our way / by Bond, Michael Shaw,author.(CARDINAL)830740;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-270) and index.The first wayfinders -- Right to roam -- Maps in the mind -- Thinking space -- From A to B and back again -- You go your way, I'll go mine -- Natural navigators -- The psychology of lost -- City sense -- Am I here? -- Epilogue: The end of the road."How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? Come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places we've never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken for granted, but it's also critical to our species evolutionary success. In From Here to There Michael Bond tells stories of the lost and found- Polynesian sailors, orienteering champions, early aviators- and surveys the science of human navigation. Navigation skills are deeply embedded in our biology. The ability to find our way over large distances in prehistoric times gave Homo sapiens an advantage, allowing us to explore the farthest regions of the planet. Wayfinding also shaped vital cognitive functions outside the realm of navigation, including abstract thinking, imagination, and memory. Bond brings a reporter's curiosity and nose for narrative to the latest research from psychologists, neuroscientists, animal behaviorists, and anthropologists. He also turns to the people who design and expertly maneuver the world we navigate: search-and-rescue volunteers, cartographers, ordnance mappers, urban planners, and more. The result is a global expedition that furthers our understanding of human orienting in the natural and built environments"--
Subjects: Geographical perception.; Orientation (Psychology); Space perception.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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