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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Discusses why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones by reducing the influence of "noise"--variables that can cause bias in decision making--and draws on examples in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, strategy, and personnel selection.
Author
Publisher
North Star Way
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Judgment, being judged and judging others, is at its core a separation from others. That separation, often a reflection of our own insecurities projected onto others, keeps us feeling alienated and alone. The Judgment Detox is a clear, proactive, step-by-step program to rid the reader of tendancies to judge and allow them to find their way back to oneness"--
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes making the right decision is harder than it looks! This guidebook teaches readers how to consider different sides of a situation before making a decision. Readers will gain a deep understanding of the social and emotional learning skill of analyzing situations, which plays a key part in the core concept of responsible decision making. This book combines colorful photographs with accessible text to help readers discover useful tools for...
Author
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 840L
Language
English
Description
Illustrates the concept of big, bigger, and biggest by comparing the physical measurements of such large things as a blue whale, a mountain, a star, and the universe.
Author
Publisher
Icon
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A wonderful collection of oddly brilliant questions and answers taken from the infamously challenging Oxbridge interviews.'What happens if I drop an ant?' 'What books are bad for you?' 'What percentage of the world's water icontained in a cow?'The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their unique ways of assessing candidates, and from these peculiar enquiries, professors can tell just how smart you really are. Cambridge-educated John...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
BR 50L
Language
English
Description
Photographs and text describe sizes of things in a garden, such as tall and short shovels, large melons and small tomatoes, and narrow and wide leaves.
13) What size is it?
Author
Series
Publisher
Sea to Sea Publications
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
14) Measuring size
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over our other concerns and values? In this book, T.M. Scanlon offers new answers to these questions, as they apply to the central part of morality that concerns what we owe to each other. According to his contractualist view, thinking about right and wrong is thinking about what we...
16) Mythologies
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this lively journey through human psychology, bestselling author and creator of the You Are Not So Smart podcast David McRaney investigates how minds change-and how to change minds. What made a prominent conspiracy-theorist YouTuber finally see that 9/11 was not a hoax? How do voter opinions shift from neutral to resolute? Can widespread social change only take place when a generation dies out? From one of our greatest thinkers on reasoning, HOW...
