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"Psychologists and neuroscientists struggle with how best to interpret human motivation and decision making. The assumption is that below a mental "surface" of conscious awareness lies a deep and complex set of inner beliefs, values, and desires that govern our thoughts, ideas, and actions, and that to know this depth is to know ourselves. In this profoundly original book, behavioral scientist Nick Chater contends just the opposite: rather than being...
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"Horrid Henry invents a time machine and promises to send his brother, Perfect Peter, to the future (as soon as Peter puts on one of Mom's dresses). But when Peter gets there, it isn't exactly what he had in mind. IN fact, everything kind of looks the same-- plus three more out-of-this-world funny stories"--P. [4] of cover.
85) Hattie the bad
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A little girl tries to be good but soon discovers that being bad is ever so much more fun.
87) Peace, baby!
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Simple rhyming text encourages children to set aside anger and irritation and find peace within themselves, and with the world.
88) Mr. Mischief
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Mr. Men series volume 36
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Mr. Mischief's pulling naughty pranks until he meets up with a wise old Wizard and gets a taste of his own medicine.
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"Humans are moral creatures. Among all life on Earth, we alone experience rich moral emotions, follow complex rules governing how we treat one another, and engage in moral dialogue. But how did human morality evolve? And can humans become morally evolved? In A Better Ape, Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell draw on the latest research in the biological and social sciences to explain the key role that morality has played in human evolution. They explore...
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"This book dives into humanity's preconceived notions of our superiority over animals with whom we share so many common ancestors"--
"How different from animals are we really? Are humans the only creatures who love, laugh, cry, possess morals, and wage war? In The Beast Within, scientific researcher and ethologist Jessica Serra upends the assumptions that underpin our very human hypothesis that we possess a superior place in the hierarchy of organisms...
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Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 1
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Supremely confident middle-school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.
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The future is now. Here come the hubots! Using increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) and embodied intelligence (EI), a new generation of robots is being designed to look, act and even think just like humans! Hubots, or human-inspired robots, are expanding the boundaries of what robots can do. For example, they can fight fires on the high seas, set up colonies on other planets and provide humans with companionship. This book introduces...
93) The Twits
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Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Mr Twit is a foul and smelly man with bits of cornflake and sardine in his beard. Mrs Twit is a horrible old hag with a glass eye. Together they make the nastiest couple you could ever hope not to meet. Down in their garden, the Twits keep Muggle-Wump the monkey and his family locked in a cage....
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You won't believe what HORRID Henry will do next!
Henry will do anything to win the grand prize at this year's talent show...even wake the dead! Plus three other stories that will leave you screaming for more.
If you read this book, you'll laugh so hard MILK MIGHT COME OUT OF YOUR NOSE!
(Find out why tens of millions of kids around the world love Horrid Henry.)
"A loveable bad boy."
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"As artist Harry Dodge initiates a research project about machine intelligence, he abruptly finds himself contending with the decline and death of his father from dementia, the renovation of a bewildering but powerful connection to his birth-mother, and the vicissitudes of artistic practice--its strange solitude and sociality. Under these pressures, the quotidian begins to tear, which allows a portal--perhaps activated by an iron meteorite Dodge orders...
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Five Little Monkeys volume 8
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Mama has said it is time for "Lights out! Sweet dreams! No more reading in bed, " but her five little monkeys cannot resist reading just a few more books to one another.
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