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Think Like a Genius

By: Todd Siler

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Think Like a Genius

By: Todd Siler

Explains how to ignite innate creativity and free thought processes through the discovery of hidden connections among familiar things

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0553379283

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Breaking the Mind Barrier

By: Todd Siler

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Siler's provocative and highly accessible work is designed to help readers gain a fuller understanding of this artist/visionary's latest tome, casting a fresh light on the unrealized symmetry of the mind and the universe. Illustrations.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684849208

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9780684849201

Think Like a Genius

The Ultimate User's Manual for Your Brain

By: Todd Siler

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Think Like a Genius

The Ultimate User's Manual for Your Brain

By: Todd Siler

Learn the easy steps to harnessing the incredible creative power of your mind that can enable anyone to Think Like A Genius. How you already think like a genius without even knowing it--page 6 The secret formula for genius: C.R.E.A.T.E.--page 22 Ways to overcome the fear that inhibits the genius within you--page 58 How to transform the cynicism of I can't do it to the confidence of I can do anything--page 66 Breaking out of mental ruts and daily routines that block your road to genius--page 77 How to turn the obvious into a work of art, a new insight, or a multimillion-dollar creation--page 92 Getting unstuck from the quicksand of indecision and procrastination--page 106 The secret essence of every stroke of genius--page 165 And much more!

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0307756904

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Think Like a Genius

The Ultimate User's Manual for Your Brain

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The Ultimate User's Manual for Your Brain

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Three Kings

Race, Class, and the Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Launched the Modern Olympic Age

By: Todd Balf

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Three Kings

Race, Class, and the Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Launched the Modern Olympic Age

By: Todd Balf

For fans of The Boys in the Boat, and marking the 100th anniversary of the Paris Olympics, the never-before-told story of three athletes who defied the odds to usher in a golden age of sports Even today, it’s considered one of the most thrilling races in Olympic history. The hundred-meter sprint final at the 1924 Paris Games, featuring three of the world’s fastest swimmers—American legends Duke Kahanamoku and Johnny Weissmuller, and Japanese upstart Katsuo Takaishi—had the cultural impact of other milestone moments in Olympic history: Jesse Owens’s podiums in Berlin and John Carlos’s raised, black-gloved fist in Mexico City. Never before had an Olympic swimming final prominently featured athletes of different races, and never had it been broadcast live. Across the globe, fans held their breath. In less than a minute, an Olympic record would be shattered, and the three men would be scrutinized like few athletes before them. For the millions worldwide for whom swimming was a complete unknown, the trio did something few could imagine: moving faster through water than many could on land. As sportsmen, they were godlike heroes, embodying the hopes of those who called them their own, in the US and abroad. They personified strength and speed, and the glamour and innovation of the Roaring Twenties. But they also represented fraught assumptions about race and human performance. It was not only “East vs. West”—as newspapers in the 1920s described the competition with Japan—it was also brown versus white. Rich versus poor. New versus old. The race was about far more than swimming. Each man was a trailblazer and a bona fide celebrity in an age when athletes typically weren’t famous. Kahanamoku was Hawaii’s first superstar, largely responsible for making the state the popular travel destination it is today. Weissmuller, a poor immigrant, put Chicago on the sports map and would make it big as Hollywood’s first Tarzan. Takaishi inspired Japan to compete on the world stage and helped turn its swimmers into Olympic powerhouses. He and Kahanamoku in particular shattered the myth of white superiority when it came to sports, putting the lie to the decade’s burgeoning eugenics movement. Three Kings traces the careers and rivalries of these men and the epochal times they lived in. The 1920s were transformative, not just socially but for sports as well. For the first time, athletes of color were given a fair (though still not equal) chance, and competition wasn’t limited to the wealthy and privileged. Our modern-day conception of athleticism and competition—especially as it relates to the Olympics—traces back to this era and athletes like Kahanamoku, Weissmuller, and Takaishi, whose hard-won victories paved the way for all who followed.

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Blackstone Publishing

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9798874712464

Us Plus Them

Tapping the Positive Power of Difference

By: Todd L. Pittinsky

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Us Plus Them

Tapping the Positive Power of Difference

By: Todd L. Pittinsky

Moving beyond mere tolerance Us-versus-them is the costly mind-set in which organizations, communities, and whole nations too often find themselves trapped. In fact, recognizing difference as a positive force can bring astonishing value to even the most diverse organizations. In Us Plus Them, leadership scholar Todd Pittinsky introduces a groundbreaking new science of diversity that: • Debunks the assumption that wherever there is difference there will be inherent tension and animosity • Challenges the effectiveness of our standard attempts to fight prejudice and combat hate in our schools and workplaces, our civic and religious lives • Reveals how we benefit from the mixing of different ethnic, racial, national, social, and religious groups in a globalized world Through a wide range of examples—from Maine and Michigan to Rwanda and Bhutan, and from small-town classrooms to corporate boardrooms—Pittinsky opens our eyes to misunderstood yet useful aspects of us-and-them relations, including many of the neglected positive dimensions of difference. He provides a bold new assessment of the popular and scientific approaches to the issue, proving that it’s time to move beyond mere tolerance to build communities in which the two sides of the us-and-them equation engage each other because they both want to. Much as Martin Seligman and positive psychology have shifted the focus from mental illness to mental healthiness, this book shifts our mind-set to diversity as a positive force. Understanding the science and practical use of that energy will help us build the schools, neighborhoods, companies, and nations we want, and not simply avoid the ugliest problems of the past. Pittinsky shows us that our great diversity experiment hasn’t failed—it hasn’t even begun.

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Harvard Business Press

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1422142418

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9781422142417

Common Bond

By: Todd Braschler,Jill Laffoon

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Common Bond

By: Todd Braschler,Jill Laffoon

Read the true stories from people such as Gracia Burnham whose husband, Martin, was killed while serving as a missionary, and Kone Manzi, who was abandoned by her birth mother in Seoul, Korea and adopted by a couple in the United States. These and other inspirational vignettes are reflected in the powerful and faith strengthening-songs included in the full-length musical CD within the book. This free CD by popular worship leader Todd Braschler includes songs like Worthy After All, God is a Dreamer, and more. The unique book and CD celebrate the importance of serving God and our usefulness within the family of believers.

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New Leaf Publishing Group

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0892216794

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9780892216796

Mountain Rebels

East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870

By: W. Todd Groce

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Mountain Rebels

East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870

By: W. Todd Groce

Groce offers a gracefully written, impressively researched narrative account of the experience of East Tennessee Confederates during the Civil War era. His analysis raises provocative questions about the socioeconomic foundations of Civil War sympathies in the Mountain South."--Robert Tracy McKenzie, University of Washington "Scholars of Appalachia's Civil War have long awaited Todd Groce's study of East Tennessee secessionists. I am pleased to report that this ground-breaking study of Southern Mountain Confederates was worth the wait."--Kenneth Noe, State University of West Georgia A bastion of Union support during the Civil War, East Tennessee was also home to Confederate sympathizers who took up the Southern cause until the bitter end. Yet historians have viewed these mountain rebels as scarcely different from other Confederates or as an aberration in the region's Unionism. Often they are simply ignored. W. Todd Groce corrects this distorted view of East Tennessee's antebellum development and wartime struggle. He paints a clearer picture of the region's Confederates than has previously been available, examining why they chose secession over union and revealing why they have become so invisible to us today. Drawing extensively on primary sources--newspapers, diaries, government reports--Groce allows the voices of these mountain rebels finally to be heard. Groce explains the economic forces and the family and political ties to the Deep South that motivated the East Tennessee Confederates reluctantly to join the fight for Southern independence. Caught in a war they neither sought nor started, they were trapped between an unfriendly administration in Richmond and a hostile Union majority in their midst. When the fighting was over and they returned home to face their vengeful Unionist neighbors, many were forced to flee, contributing to the postwar economic decline of the region. Placing the story in a broad context, Groce provides an overview of the region's economy and explains the social origins of secessionist sympathies. He also presents a collective profile of one hundred high-ranking Confederate officers from East Tennessee to show how they were representative of the rising commercial and financial leadership in the region. Mountain Rebels intertwines economic, political, military, and social history to present a poignant tale of defeat, suffering, and banishment. By piecing together this previously untold story, it fills a void in Southern history, Civil War history, and Appalachian studies. The Author: W. Todd Groce is executive director of the Georgia Historical Society.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572330937

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9781572330931

The Dispensational-Covenantal Rift

The Fissuring of American Evangelical Theology from 1936 to 1944

By: R. Todd Mangum

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The Dispensational-Covenantal Rift

The Fissuring of American Evangelical Theology from 1936 to 1944

By: R. Todd Mangum

This groundbreaking study explores how the fight between dispensationalists and covenant theologians started and how a unique dynamic of personalities and sociological factors enflamed it. Readers may be surprised to discover that even the terminology of "dispensationalists" and "covenant theologians" originated in the 1930s' disputes; that the majority of the original protagonists on both sides were Presbyterians; and that soteriology, rather than eschatology, was the original bone of contention between them. This study examines how two respective strands of fundamentalism came to identify one another as theological rivals as they each vied for position in their recently formed separatist bodies. The significance of disagreements over "dispensationalism" is explored in the founding of the Orthodox Presbyterian and Bible Presbyterian churches. And then, as the debate traveled southward, the response of the PCUS is examined, with special attention given to the consummative reports of an ad hoc committee that found "dispensationalism" to be out of harmony with the Westminster doctrinal standards. Significant misunderstandings that impeded fruitful dialogue from the beginning are clarified, particularly those that have persisted most stubbornly to the present day. Perhaps most surprising of all, the reader will discover that nearly all of the original points of debate between dispensationalists and covenant theologians have since been resolved, as each side has honed its position in light of pertinent critiques. Why has this development gone almost unnoticed? This study suggests an answer, and proposes that understanding how the feud began may hold the key to rapprochement today.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1556354827

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9781556354823

Square Peg

My Story and What It Means for Raising Innovators, Visionaries, and Out-of-the-Box Thinkers

By: Todd Rose

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Square Peg

My Story and What It Means for Raising Innovators, Visionaries, and Out-of-the-Box Thinkers

By: Todd Rose

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.

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Hachette Books

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1401304966

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9781401304966

American Corrections

By: Todd R. Clear,George F. Cole

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American Corrections

By: Todd R. Clear,George F. Cole

In the second edition of this introductory text, the authors offer the idea of the corrections system to enhance understanding of the complexity of corrections. Students become aware that there are not just prisons, but a wide variety of programs and methods to deal with offenders.

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Thomson Brooks/Cole

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0534120180

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9780534120184

Breaking the Mind Barrier

The Artscience of Neurocosmology

By: Todd Siler

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Breaking the Mind Barrier

The Artscience of Neurocosmology

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Argues that in decoding the brain, we decode the universe, and that all world models reveal something of the brain's own structure

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Simon & Schuster

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0671690973

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9780671690977

Welcome to Toddworld

By: Todd Parr

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Welcome to Toddworld

By: Todd Parr

Join Todd on an exciting adventure through ToddWorld. Readers will meet his friends, visit their favorite places and see for themselves why ToddWorld is such a special place!

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Little Brown & Company

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0316057053

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Welcome to Toddworld

A Sticker Storybook

By: Todd Parr

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Welcome to Toddworld

A Sticker Storybook

By: Todd Parr

Join Todd on an exciting adventure through ToddWorld, as seen on ABC TV!

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Think Like a Genius

Think Like a Genius

Breaking the Mind Barrier

Breaking the Mind Barrier

Think Like a Genius

Think Like a Genius

Think Like a Genius

Think Like a Genius

Breaking the Mind Barrier

Breaking the Mind Barrier

Three Kings

Three Kings

Us Plus Them

Us Plus Them

Common Bond

Common Bond

Mountain Rebels

Mountain Rebels

The Dispensational-Covenantal Rift

The Dispensational-Covenantal Rift

Square Peg

Square Peg

American Corrections

American Corrections

Breaking the Mind Barrier

Breaking the Mind Barrier

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