Download or read book Square Pegs Can t Fit In Round Holes written by Janet Reckard, LCSW and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Otto is a square peg in a world of round pegs. He often doesn't fit into the world of rounds on the bus, in school, and in public. While he enjoys his squareness, he dreams of fitting in with his peers. A special teacher who is much like him helps him understand how to round out his edges just enough to fit in when he wants to, without losing his individuality. He learns skills such as making eye contact and practicing some of the subtleties of conversation that help him find success in navigating the world of rounds, while still appreciating his unique squareness. Children on the spectrum will relate to Otto's dilemma and appreciate his journey of self-discovery and growth.
Download or read book Square Peg written by Todd Rose and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventh grade, Todd Rose was suspended-not for the first time-for throwing six stink bombs at the blackboard, where his art teacher stood with his back to the class. At eighteen, he was a high school dropout, stocking shelves at a department store for $4.25 an hour. Today, Rose is a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Square Peg illuminates the struggles of millions of bright young children -- and their frustrated parents and teachers--who are stuck in a one-size-fits-all school system that fails to approach the student as an individual. Rose shares his own incredible journey from troubled childhood to Harvard, seamlessly integrating cutting-edge research in neuroscience and psychology along with advances in the field of education, to ultimately provide a roadmap for parents and teachers of kids who are the casualties of America's antiquated school system. With a distinguished blend of humor, humility, and practical advice for nurturing children who are a poor fit in conventional schools, Square Peg is a game-changing manifesto that provides groundbreaking insight into how we can get the most out of all the students in our classrooms, and why today's dropouts could be tomorrow's innovators.
Download or read book Saints and Cynics written by Chris Bonici and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping conspiracy thriller that takes archaeologist Tom Kettering on a journey of discovery from his home on the sweltering island of Malta to the dreaming spires of Oxford and the burning sands of the Egyptian desert. Tom has unearthed a bizarre shaped skull, similar to those previously exhibited in Valletta’s Archaeological museum, until 1985, when suddenly and without explanation, they were removed from public display and never seen again. Tom is determined his skull will not face the same fate and seeks advice from Alessandro Tiepolo, a renowned expert and a Jesuit priest with a private agenda and a mysterious past of his own. Guided by Tiepolo, Tom delves into Malta’s megalithic past and uncovers a surprising connection with the ancient pharaohs. The mystery is compounded by startling revelations found in the Ethiopian Book of Enoch and Tom is convinced there is a connection. A connection someone does not want him to make. Around him people are dying in suspicious circumstances and Tom fears he could be next but why? Who is behind the plot to silence him before his research is published? Does Father Alessandro Tiepolo hold the answers?
Download or read book Rules of People written by Richard Templar and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal code to think yourself smarter, wiser and happier We all envy the natural thinkers of this world. They have the best ideas, make the smartest decisions, are open minded and never indecisive. Is there something they know that the rest of us don't? Is it something we can all learn? The answer is a resounding yes. They know The Rules of Thinking. These Rules are the guiding principles that show you how to make wiser decisions, stop procrastinating, know when to compromise, avoid mistakes, find other options, think well with others, stop obsessing about things, keep your brain active, be more creative, and have happy, healthy thoughts.
Download or read book The Rules of People written by Richard Templar and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Autism written by Debra Hosseini and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Framing Decisions written by J. Davidson Frame and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic crisis of 2008–2009 was a transformational event: it demonstrated that smart people aren't as smart as they and the public think. The crisis arose because a lot of highly educated people in high-impact positions— political power brokers, business leaders, and large segments of the general public—made a lot of bad decisions despite unprecedented access to data, highly sophisticated decision support systems, methodological advances in the decision sciences, and guidance from highly experienced experts. How could we get things so wrong? The answer, says J. Davidson Frame in Framing Decisions: Decision Making That Accounts for Irrationality, People, and Constraints, is that traditional processes do not account for the three critical immeasurable elements highlighted in the book's subtitle— irrationality, people, and constraints. Frame argues that decision-makers need to move beyond their single-minded focus on rational and optimal solutions as preached by the traditional paradigm. They must accommodate a decision's social space and address the realities of dissimulation, incompetence, legacy, greed, peer pressure, and conflict. In the final analysis, when making decisions of consequence, they should focus on people – both as individuals and in groups. Framing Decisions offers a new approach to decision making that gets decision-makers to put people and social context at the heart of the decision process. It offers guidance on how to make decisions in a real world filled with real people seeking real solutions to their problems.
Download or read book Neuromatic written by John Lardas Modern and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story Modern tells ranges from eighteenth-century brain anatomies to the MRI; from the spread of phrenological cabinets and mental pieties in the nineteenth century to the discovery of the motor cortex and the emergence of the brain wave as a measurable manifestation of cognition; from cybernetic research into neural networks and artificial intelligence to the founding of brain-centric religious organizations such as Scientology; from the deployments of cognitive paradigms in electric shock treatment to the work of Barbara Brown, a neurofeedback pioneer who promoted the practice of controlling one's own brainwaves in the 1970s. What Modern reveals via this grand tour is that our ostensibly secular turn to the brain is bound up at every turn with the 'religion' it discounts, ignores, or actively dismisses. Nowhere are science and religion closer than when they try to exclude each other, at their own peril"--
Download or read book Thinking in Bets written by Annie Duke and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wall Street Journal bestseller, now in paperback. Poker champion turned decision strategist Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions. Even the best decision doesn't yield the best outcome every time. There's always an element of luck that you can't control, and there's always information hidden from view. So the key to long-term success (and avoiding worrying yourself to death) is to think in bets: How sure am I? What are the possible ways things could turn out? What decision has the highest odds of success? Did I land in the unlucky 10% on the strategy that works 90% of the time? Or is my success attributable to dumb luck rather than great decision making? Annie Duke, a former World Series of Poker champion turned consultant, draws on examples from business, sports, politics, and (of course) poker to share tools anyone can use to embrace uncertainty and make better decisions. For most people, it's difficult to say "I'm not sure" in a world that values and, even, rewards the appearance of certainty. But professional poker players are comfortable with the fact that great decisions don't always lead to great outcomes, and bad decisions don't always lead to bad outcomes. By shifting your thinking from a need for certainty to a goal of accurately assessing what you know and what you don't, you'll be less vulnerable to reactive emotions, knee-jerk biases, and destructive habits in your decision making. You'll become more confident, calm, compassionate, and successful in the long run.
Download or read book A Random Book about the Power of ANYone written by Talia Leman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the author's efforts with other activist youths to provide relief in countries throughout the world, revealing the methods that enabled her successes and discussing how to network for effective philanthropic results.
Download or read book Goals No Goals and Own Goals written by Alan Montefiore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989, Goals, No-Goals and Own Goals presents a stimulating debate between three scientists and three philosophers about the significance and nature of goal-directed and intentional behaviour. At one extreme David McFarland brings into radical question the need for either of these concepts, at least in the scientific study of animal behaviour. At the other extreme, Alan Montefiore argues that such concepts are indispensable to any explication of the meaningful use of language and that we must therefore acknowledge their importance in understanding the nature of human behaviour. Denis Noble uses arguments drawn from computer science and physiology to show that it is incorrect to regard intentions as causes of neural events, even though it is correct to regard intentionality as responsible for our actions. Shawn Lockery outlines how intentional behaviour might be subjected to physiological study. Kathy Wilkes widens the debate by asking some basic questions about the nature of explanation and finally, Daniel Dennett argues how the study of animal behaviour might inform research in Artificial Intelligence. This book will be a useful resource for scholars and researchers of cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, linguistics and physiology.
Download or read book Of Minds and Language written by Noam Chomsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading researchers in linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, cognitive neuroscience, comparative cognitive psychology, and evolutionary biology, this book presents an account of what we know and would like to know about language, mind, and brain.
Download or read book Solar System Blues written by Andrew J. Patrick and published by Andrew J. Patrick. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fugitive of Old Earth, captain of a stolen, self-aware ship, Burton is a man on a personal mission of the highest importance: to find the human race a new home amid the stars. He's got the tools, he's got the genetic material, and he's got a teenage first mate, who may or may not be his daughter. As the planets roll past and the secrets roll out, Burton will confront the very past he hoped to leave behind. But in the meantime, he has the music of the ages to kick back to.
Download or read book Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology Volume 2 written by David Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-13 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is devoted to Lewis's work in metaphysics and epistemology. Topics covered include properties, ontology, possibility, truthmaking, probability, the mind-body problem, vision, belief, and knowledge. The purpose of this collection, and the volumes that precede and follow it, is to disseminate more widely the work of an eminent and influential contemporary philosopher. The volume will serve as a useful work of reference for teachers and students of philosophy.
Download or read book Eye to Eye written by Grace Carol and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doris Gig: newly minted lit prof transplanted to Atlanta. Currently: butting heads with Southern-fried brownshirts, resisting the faculty's sonnet-writing Mick Jagger figure and—God help her—braving the shark-infested waters of online dating. Ronnie Gig: aspiring novelist returned to L.A. Currently: back home, but not at home; tutoring an obnoxious Beverly Hills "homeboy" and hating the bartending bimbo hitting on her good-ol'-boy boyfriend (who's fitting in better than she is). Turns out that coasting through life after grad school can feel a lot like just spinning your wheels—but Doris and Ronnie are determined to find their true paths. It's going to take heavy doses of IM, Chardonnay and one mantra: true friends can head in opposite directions and still see eye to eye.
Download or read book A Beau for Katie and An Amish Harvest written by Emma Miller and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opposites attract in these two Amish tales A Beau for Katie by Emma Miller Agreeing to work as a housekeeper for a family in need seems like a good idea to Katie Byler. But young—and single—Freeman Kemp is not who she expected. Though they’re constantly at odds, when they decide to play matchmaker for Freeman’s elderly uncle, their spark is undeniable. Can Katie and Freeman reach common ground to find their happily-ever-after? An Amish Harvest by Patricia Davids After Amish carpenter Samuel Bowman is injured in an accident, young Amish widow Rebecca Miller becomes his nurse. Samuel expects her to make his life easier—but his caregiver is bossy and challenges his beliefs. Though Samuel’s sight is in question, soon he sees the woman he’s come to care for won’t let herself love again. Now it’s Samuel’s turn to heal her heart.
Download or read book Love Inspired July 2015 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Patricia Davids and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Inspired brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. AN AMISH HARVEST The Amish Bachelors by Patricia Davids When Samuel Bowman is injured in an accident, local nurse Rebecca Miller is charged with his care. Can the beautiful Amish widow also help heal the scars he's carrying in his heart? THE DOCTOR'S PERFECT MATCH Chatam House by Arlene James After Eva Russell faints at his feet, Dr. Brooks Leland insists she stay at Chatam House to recover. Soon he can't seem to keep his distance from the mysterious woman—despite the secrets she's hiding. THE SINGLE DAD NEXT DOOR Goose Harbor by Jessica Keller. Maggie West can't believe she's losing her inn to reformed bad boy Kellen Ashby. As renovations start, she begins to see the single dad's caring ways and the possibility of a new position—that of mother and wife.
