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"Curious? is one of those rare books that can make you rethink how you see the world."
—Arianna Huffington
"This is the perfect book to read when you are having second thoughts about challenging yourself to explore that next step in life!"
—Stephen Post, Ph.D., coauthor of Why Good Things Happen to Good People
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Español
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El principito es la maravillosa historia de un pequeño niño que viene de un planeta apenas mas grande que una casa, hace preguntas y busca respuestas a cosas que para los adultos pueden ser poco importantes.
The little prince is the marvellous story of a small boy who comes from a planet barely larger than a house, and who asks questions and seeks answers to things that for adults might be of little importance.
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English
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Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics—curiosity—in this "lively, expert, and definitely not dumbed-down account" (Kirkus Reviews) as he explores our innate desire to know why.
Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation—where they can know only one side of the dialogue—than when they overhear...
Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation—where they can know only one side of the dialogue—than when they overhear...
Author
Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that curiosity is your superpower? Though we often think of being curious as a personality trait, it's actually the foundation of our capacity for connection, growth, and healing. And at a moment when tensions over race, religion, age, gender identity, rights, economic status, and more have fractured our lives and relationships, curiosity is our most potent antidote. In this practical manifesto, Shigeoka takes readers on a four-phase...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Not all questions have answers. Some have more than one answer. And others have endless answers, unfolding out to the edges of the world. In this spare yet expansive narrative, acclaimed author Mac Barnett poses twenty questions both playful and profound. Some make us giggle. Others challenge our assumptions. The result is a quirky, wandering exploration of where the best questions lead--to stories. Intriguing, richly interactive, and brought to...
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Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Leslie argues that true curiosity--the sustained quest for understanding that begets insight and innovation--is becoming increasingly difficult to harness in our wired world. We confuse ease of access to information with curiosity, and risk losing our ability to ask questions that extend our knowledge gap rather than merely filling it. Worst of all, this decline in curiosity has led to a decline in empathy and our ability to care about those around...
8) Just because
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.
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Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Without curiosity, we may never have known the world's greatest inventions or discovered its most amazing places. This empowering title offers helpful ideas, practical tips, and inspiring stories about how being curious about the world around you can help you reach your goals. Inspirational stories of individuals show how their curiosity led them to regularly ask questions and seek answers leading them to uncover new and exciting things. Learn how...
11) The power of wonder: the extraordinary emotion that will change the way you live, learn, and lead
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Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Power of Wonder takes readers on a multidisciplinary journey through psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, literature, and business to share some of the surprising secrets behind the mechanics of wonder and guides readers in bringing more of it into their lives. Readers will learn about the components and elicitors of wonder, and how it can transform our bodies and brains. From taking a daily "awe walk" to discovering a new and all-consuming...
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Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"The #1 bestselling author of On Fire shows us how to recapture and harness our childlike sense of wonder in order to become more engaged, successful, and fulfilled. There once was a time when we joyfully raised our hands to answer questions, connected easily with others, believed that anything was possible, and fearlessly jumped into new experiences. A time when we viewed each day not as something to endure, but as a marvelous gift to explore and...
13) Tracking wonder: reclaiming a life of meaning and possibility in a world obsessed with productivity
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Publisher
Sounds True, a trademark of Sounds True, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Here, this acclaimed teacher, consultant, and speaker invites us to discover how wonder dissolves our rigid ways of seeing and thinking, allowing us to glimpse anew what is true, beautiful, and possible--and how to then bring our insights to fruition"--
Author
Series
Questioneers volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A philosophy and practice of asking the deeper, more essential questions required to address the complex problems we face as individuals, businesses, and a society. The rational mind prefers answers over questions. But we live in irrational times. Albert Einstein once said: "If I had sixty minutes to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I'd spend fifty-five minutes determining the right question to ask." At a time when our problems are too...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In Curious Minds: The Power of Connection, the authors explore what curiosity is and what it can do. Traipsing across the fields of philosophy and neuroscience, literature and network science, they discover that current definitions of curiosity are remarkably limited. Rather than think of curiosity as a drive to acquire new bits of information, they argue that curiosity is a practice of connection"--
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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"National Geographic and science journalist Marc Kaufman combine inside stories, fascinating facts, and eye-popping pictures, some never before seen, of the red planet and NASA's groundbreaking Curiosity mission. Renowned author Kaufman spent two years embedded with the engineers and scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, cheering on the rover's spine-tingling landing, learning the backstory of anticipated findings, and witnessing the inescapable...
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Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Each of King Neptunes 50 mermaid daughters boasts a special talent, except for little Minnow, who seems to be good only at asking questions. When she finds a strange object, Minnow follows her questions to a wondrous place and finds answers, including the answer to the most important question of all: Who am I? A gorgeously illustrated story about finding one's purpose.
Author
Series
Ginny Goblin volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ginny tries to reach and open a box using a chair, then a grappling hook, then a catapult, while the narrator suggests ways to keep her away from it.
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