Books

18 results found
Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Rocket The Rocket Benoît Melançon 304 pages : 24 cm OL16684055W
Factfulness Factfulness Hans Rosling,Anna Rosling Rönnlund,Ola Rosling Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends―what percentage of the world’s populati… OL17877260W
No one understands you and what to do about it No one understands you and what to do about it Heidi Grant- Halvorson "Have you ever had the feeling that you're just not getting through to the person you're talking with, or coming across the way you intend to? You're not alone. Our usual approach is to just talk lou… OL19665579W
Successful social stories for school and college students with autism Successful social stories for school and college students with autism Siobhan Timmins 334 pages : 23 cm OL19747649W
Blind to sameness Blind to sameness Asia Friedman "What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this q… OL19968506W
Fish out of water Fish out of water Kikanza Nuri Robins xxv, 227 pages ; 23 cm OL20027271W
The year we fell apart The year we fell apart Emily Martin Few things come as naturally to Harper as epic mistakes. In the past year she was kicked off the swim team, earned a reputation as Carson High's easiest hook-up, and officially became the black sheep… OL20144063W
Inside the Antisemitic Mind Inside the Antisemitic Mind Monika Schwarz-Friesel Antisemitism is on the rise in Europe, sometimes manifest in violent acts against Jews, but more commonly noticeable in everyday discourse. This innovative empirical study examines written examples o… OL20931683W
Communication & social understanding Communication & social understanding Margaret K. Dick The overall framework of this book is shaped by three fundamental questions: what is the relationship between communication and metatheoretical assumptions; what is the relationship between communica… OL24256154W
Reality quest Reality quest Donna Koren Wells Presents ideas and information to help teens better understand themselves and their place in society. Each chapter includes self-tests. OL2942210W
Reputation in artificial societies Reputation in artificial societies Mario Paolucci,Rosaria Conte "Reputation in artificial societies discusses the role of reputation in the achievement of social order. The book proposes that reputation is an agent property that results from transmission of belie… OL3526984W
The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability Mark Rapley Intellectual disability is usually thought of as a form of internal, individual affliction, little different from diabetes, paralysis or chronic illness. This study, the first book-length application… OL5965750W
I love my grandma I love my grandma Steven Palay A young child describes her relationship with her grandmother. OL6915928W
Beyond Relativism Beyond Relativism Cynthia Hamlin This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the so… OL8097557W
Knowledge Goes Pop Knowledge Goes Pop Clare Birchall A voice on late night radio tells you that a fast food joint injects its food with drugs that make men impotent. A colleague asks if you think the FBI was in on 9/11. An alien abductee on the Interne… OL8461450W
Image Image Kat Mototsune 32 pages : 29 cm OL8817187W
Snoop Snoop Sam Gosling Do the things on your desk betray the thoughts on your mind? Does your dining room decor carry clues to your character? Award-winning psychologist Sam Gosling has dispatched teams of scientific inves… OL9367135W
Children's emotional lives Children's emotional lives Sandra Leanne Bosacki xv, 224 p. ; 23 cm OL9622252W