Download or read book Bet You Can t written by Vicki Cobb and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1983-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this collection of irresistible bets, you can team up with science and be a winner every time. Stump your family, friends, or favorite enemy with these deceptively simple dares. They're all impossible to perform thanks to principles of gravity, mechanics, fluids, logic, energy and perception. For every trick -- whether it be blowing up a balloon in a bottle or kissing your elbow -- the authors reveal the natural cause at work that guarantees human defeat. Here's an entertaining and enticing introduction to basic scientific principles that proves yet another: science can be fun! WINNER OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCE'S CHILDREN'S SCIENCE BOOK AWARD

Download or read book Bet You Can written by Vicki Cobb and published by Lothrop Lee & Shepard. This book was released on 1990 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes more than sixty tricks based on scientific experiments featured in the text.

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Download or read book I Bet I Can I Bet You Can t written by Elmer Richard Churchill and published by Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seventy tricks and stunts which will stump even your sharpest friends.

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Download or read book Bet on You written by Angie Morgan and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build the risk-taking skills that will lead you to a life of fulfillment: Discover the formula for success that will supercharge your decision-making confidence and transform even the most risk-averse mindset. In Bet on You, Angie Morgan and Courtney Lynch reveal hard-earned, real-world insights that will help you realize your potential by enacting risk in ways most meaningful to you. The author’s risk-taking guidance has been embraced by the world’s best businesses – Google, Boston Scientific, FedEx, and Oracle. Their insights are the secret sauce behind any transformative journey to a success-filled life. With clear, actionable steps, this book: Enlightens readers with a new perspective on how risk really works and clears up common misconceptions about risk, such as it being the opposite of reward. Empowers professionals of all types with guidance on how to start practicing new habits right away to build their risk-taking muscle. Shows how to weave a safety net to mitigate the downside of risks. Offers effective strategies for managing risk-killing emotions: fear and failure.

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