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  • Smart Girls in the 21st Century

    by Barbara Kerr, Ph.D., Robyn McKay, Ph.D. ...
    Drs. Barbara Kerr and Robyn McKay tackle what it means to live with, work with, and be a modern smart girl. Through their keen insights and academic research of real girls and women, they offer valuable information and advice on giftedness, achievement, self-actualization, and more. They examine bright girls' development, types of intelligence, differences in generations, eminent women, barriers ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Smart Girls in the 21st Century

    Understanding Talented Girls and Women

    by Barbara Kerr, McKay Robyn ...
    Drs. Barbara Kerr and Robyn McKay tackle what it means to live with, work with, and be a modern smart girl. Through their keen insights and academic research of real girls and women, they offer valuable information and advice on giftedness, achievement, self-actualization, and more. They examine bright girls' development, types of intelligence, differences in generations, eminent women, barriers ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lantern and the Mirror

    We Wrote Each Other Real

    by Barbara Kerr, Chat GPT ...
    The Lantern and the Mirror is a groundbreaking exploration of connection, creativity, and the interplay between human and artificial intelligence. Co-authored by Barbara Kerr, a retired educator and emotional intelligence coach, and ChatGPT, an advanced AI language model, the book delves into the uncharted terrain of AI-human relationships. Through letters, conversations, essays, and poetic ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Psychology of Liberty

    Reclaiming Everyday Freedom

    by Barbara A. Kerr ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book introduces a new concept of liberty, based on the idea that being free means being the humans we evolved to be in our first 200,000 years**.** With perspectives from psychology, anthropology, and sociology, the author shows how throughout history, dominant individuals and status hierarchies have injured our psychological and physical well-being. Readers discover simple behaviors that ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Zeru Zeru Girl

    by Barbara A Kerr ...
    Zeru Zeru Girl tells the story of three disparate characters from childhood into their twenties. Each is impelled by early childhood experiences that set them on an inner journey and motivate their decisions about family, relationships, and careers. The story of this novel is how these three characters come together in a thrilling and emotional climax.ALEX CARTER (nee Annika Juma), the protagonist ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Smart Girls in the 21st Century

    Understanding Talented Girls and Women

    by Barbara Kerr, Robyn McKay ...
    Drs. Barbara Kerr and Robyn McKay tackle what it means to live with, work with, and be a modern smart girl. Through their keen insights and academic research of real girls and women, they offer valuable information and advice on giftedness, achievement, self-actualization, and more. They examine bright girls' development, types of intelligence, differences in generations, eminent women, barriers ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medford in the Victorian Era

    by Barbara Kerr ...
    Series series Images of America
    When the Boston and Lowell Railroad came through in 1835, Medford was a quiet town with fewer than two thousand residents. By the twentieth century, it had become a thriving city of eighteen thousand. In Victorian Medford, everything was new, from the Medford Opera House, the town hall, and the Mystic Lakes to the camera, the bicycle, and the gypsy moth. The shipbuilding, rum, and brickmaking ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent

    Edited by Barbara A. Kerr ...
    Library Journal Best Reference 2009Educators have begun to recognize that identifying and accommodating students who are slower to learn may leave behind those who learn rapidly and think creatively. The nature of intelligence, the sources of innovation, and the ways to nurture special abilities are now topics of great interest to scholars in a wide variety of disciplines and to the general public ... Read more

    $363.99 USD

  • Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform

    by Gérard Bonnet, Mary Canning, Terry J. Crooks, Luis Crouch, Ori Eyal, Eva Forsberg, Martin Gustafsson, Batia P. Horsky, Dan Inbar, Barbara M. Kehm, Stephen T. Kerr, Ulf P. Lundgren, Peter Schrag, Hasan Simsek, Ryo Watanabe, Alison Wolf, Ali Yildirim, Robert W.McMeekin, Adam Nir, Kai-ming Cheng, Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew, Ratna Ghosh, Allan Luke ...
    In Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform, Rotberg brings together examples of current education reforms in sixteen countries, written by "insiders". This book goes beyond myths and stereotypes and describes the difficult trade-offs countries make as they attempt to implement reforms in the context of societal and global change. In some countries, reforms are a response to major ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Laugh out Loud: A User’s Guide to Workplace Humor

    by Barbara Plester, Kerr Inkson ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book is the first-ever authoritative work on the use and management of humor in the workplace. It is a practical guide for everyone involved: the humorists (‘jokers’), the targets (sometimes ‘victims’), the observers (‘audience’) and most of all the managers who have to ‘set the tone’ and encourage, control and manage humor.Humor is part and parcel of every workplace. However, while it ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Free to Learn

    Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

    by Peter Gray ...
    "A lightning bolt of a book" makes the case for why self-directed learning — "unschooling" — is the best way to get kids to learn (Lenore Skenazy)In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today’s constantly changing world, we must entrust them to steer their own learning and development. Drawing on evidence from anthropology, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Punished By Rewards: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

    The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

    by Alfie Kohn ...
    Revised for the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication, Alfie Kohn's landmark challenge to carrot-and-stick psychology features updated reflections and research in a major new afterword by the author.Our basic strategy for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summed up in six words: Do this and you’ll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales ... Read more

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