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Todd Rose

Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it.The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings—reveal something meaningful about our potential is so ingrained in our consciousness that we don’t even question it. Th...

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Todd Rose

**Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and social psychology research, an acclaimed author demonstrates how so much of our thinking is informed by false assumptions—making us dangerously mistrustful as a society and needlessly unhappy as individuals.“Move over, truthiness: Todd Rose is here with science and stories to help us rethink our questionable assumptions and abandon our inaccurate beliefs.” ―Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again a...

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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 ...

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Todd Rose, Ogi Ogas

For generations, we've been stuck with a cookie-cutter mold for success that requires us to be the same as everyone else, only better. This "standard formula" works for some people but leaves most of us feeling disengaged and frustrated. As much as we might dislike the standard formula, it seems like there's no other practical path to financial security and a fulfilling life. But what if there is?In the Dark Horse Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, bestselling aut...

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Todd Rose

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Fred Sanders

Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it.The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings—reveal something meaningful about our potential is so ingrained in our consciousness that we don’t even question it. Th...

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Allan Cochrane, Amro Yaghi, Antonios Ktenidis, Catherine Malpass, Claire Rodgerson, Gabriel Silvestre, Hang Kei Ho, Helen Traill, Jess Steele, Joe Kearsey, Kamau Wairuri, Karen Laing, Kathleen Stokes, Liz Todd, Mary Lawhon, Morag Rose, Nick Clare, Owain Hanmer, Philippe Koch, Rex McKenzie, Ross Beveridge, Sharda Rozena, Shaun French, SJ Cooper-Knock, Zakiya McKenzie

How do we find new ways of urban being and doing? This edited collection explores how global capitalism has shaped cities into sites of inequality, precarity and alienation—spaces designed to serve profit rather than people. Drawing on diverse examples, the book analyses how urban life is failing under current economic systems and offers real-world alternatives that promote human flourishing.From rethinking urban governance to exploring community-led initiatives, the collection off...

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Todd Rose

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Jay Ben Markson

**Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and social psychology research, an acclaimed author demonstrates how so much of our thinking is informed by false assumptions—making us dangerously mistrustful as a society and needlessly unhappy as individuals.“Move over, truthiness: Todd Rose is here with science and stories to help us rethink our questionable assumptions and abandon our inaccurate beliefs.” ―Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again a...

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Todd Rose, Ogi Ogas

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Roger Wayne

For generations, we've been stuck with a cookie-cutter mold for success that requires us to be the same as everyone else, only better. This ""standard formula"" works for some people but leaves most of us feeling disengaged and frustrated. As much as we might dislike the standard formula, it seems like there's no other practical path to financial security and a fulfilling life. But what if there is?In the Dark Horse Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, bestselling a...

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William Todd Rose

“I kept imagining The Dude (from THE BIG LEBOWSKI) telling a drugged out version of H.G. Wells’ THE TIME MACHINE… This is a book that is really worth reading…”--BuyZombie.comBosley Coughlin can travel through time. And the future does not look good.Through a heady cocktail of drugs and the occult, Bosley slips through time and space and glimpses The End. Cities lay in ruins, and those who still cling to life hide in the rubble like frightened animals. Walki...

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William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone

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A Full Cast, Ken Jackson, Tony Nam, David Harris, Matthew McGee, Laura C. Harris, Jonathan Watkins, Chris Genebach, Evan Casey, Yesenia Iglesias, Dylan Lynch, Todd Scofield, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Alejandro Ruiz, Chris Davenport, Nick DePinto, Michael John Casey, Jonathan Feuer, Christopher Graybill, Catherine Aselford, Terence Aselford, Marty Lodge, Bradley Smith, Richard Rohan, Bruce Alan Rauscher, Nanette Savard, Colleen Delany, Mort Shelby

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Buckhorn

From the masters of American frontier storytelling, another chapter in the Buckhorn saga—a blood-pounding tale of one man's sacred mission to bring justice to the American west, the only way he knows how...In all the horrific corners of the Civil War, there was no hell worse than Andersonville, the Confederate prison camp. Less infamous but equally inhumane was a Yankee prison camp run by General Thomas Wainwright. In the war's aftermath, a survivor of Wainwright's cruelty summons ...

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William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone

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A Full Cast, Ken Jackson, Jonathan Lee Taylor, Matthew Ward, Elizabeth Jernigan, Michael Glenn, Elliot Dash, Tim Carlin, James Konicek, Bruce Alan Rauscher, Tim Getman, Thomas Keegan, Dylan Lynch, Bradley Smith, Eleanor Todd, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Terence Aselford, Richard Rohan, Matthew Bassett, Andy Brownstein, David Jourdan, Eric Messner, Lolita Horne, Michael John Casey, J.W. Rone, Katy Carkuff, Scott McCormick, Nora Achrati, Dead Giveaways

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Frontiersman

The first in a magnificent new series by America's bestselling Western writer: here is the towering saga of Breckenridge Wallace, a new breed of intrepid pioneer who helped forge a path through the wild American frontier…In Tennessee, 17-year-old Breckinridge Wallace knew the laws of nature. When his life was in danger, he showed a fearless instinct to fight back. Killing a thug who was sent to kill him got Breckinridge exiled from his Smoky Mountain home. Brutally wounding an Indi...

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G.S. Denning

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A Full Cast, Scott McCormick, Eric Messner, Patrick Bussink, David Jourdan, Matthew Keenan, Yasmin Tuazon, Jonathan Feuer, Bradley Smith, David Coyne, Steven Carpenter, Chris Davenport, Dani Stoller, Richard Rohan, Matthew Schleigh, Michael Glenn, Peter Holdway, Eva Wilhelm, Michael John Casey, Lolita Horne, Laura C. Harris, Andy Clemence, Colleen Delany, Eleanor Todd, Jillian Levine-Sisson, Ken Jackson, Nanna Ingvarsson, Terence Aselford, Todd Scofield, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Mort Shelby

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Warlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius. Warlock Holmes is an idiot.A font of arcane power, certainly. But he's brilliantly dim. Frankly, he couldn't deduce his way out of a paper bag. The only thing he has really got going for him are the might of a thousand demons and his stalwart companion.Thankfully, Dr. Watson is always there to aid him through the treacherous shoals of Victorian propriety… and save him from a gruesome death every now and again.