Po Bronson
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Language
English
Description
Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science of child development have been overlooked. The authors discuss the inverse power of praise, why insufficient sleep adversely affects kids' capacity to learn, why white parents don't talk about race, why kids lie, why evaluation methods for "giftedness"...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
"Top Dog" exposes the hidden factors behind every sort of win and loss--from bringing home a gold medal in Olympic swimming to bombing the SAT. Exploring the psychology of rankings, the neuroscience of mistakes, and the DNA of fearlessness, "Top Dog"'s filled with cutting-edge science.
Author
Series
Convergence trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Twelve, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Decoding the World, Po Bronson and Arvind Gupta--two renegade venture capitalists from Silicon Valley--take everyday news headlines and decode them, leading us on a journey through their twisted and highly entertaining view of the world. Each chapter is prefaced with a real-world headline ripped from today's chaotic news cycle: Trump's trade war. Dying bees. Rogue planets. Beyond Meat. Glaciers melting. Bronson and Gupta then decipher what's really...
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