Kahliel Barlowe's Library
West Creek High
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780316010665 | Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking | Gladwell, Malcolm | How Do We Think Without Thinking, Seem To Make Choices In An Instant--in The Blink Of An Eye--that Actually Aren't As Simple As They Seem? Why Are Some People Brilliant Decision Makers, While Others Are Consistently Inept? Why Do Some People Follow Their Instincts And Win, While Others End Up Stumbling Into Error? And Why Are The Best Decisions Often Those That Are Impossible To Explain To Others? Drawing On Cutting-edge Neuroscience And Psychology, The Author Reveals That Great Decision Makers Aren't Those Who Process The Most Information Or Spend The Most Time Deliberating, But Those Who Have Perfected The Art Of Filtering The Very Few Factors That Matter From An Overwhelming Number Of Variables. The Statue That Didn't Look Right -- The Theory Of Thin Slices : How A Little Bit Of Knowledge Goes A Long Way -- The Locked Door : The Secret Life Of Snap Decisions -- The Warren Harding Error : Why We Fall For Tall, Dark, And Handsome Men -- Paul Van Riper's Big Victory : Creating Structure For Spontaneity -- Kenna's Dilemma : The Right-and Wrong-way To Ask People What They Want -- Seven Seconds In The Bronx : The Delicate Art Of Mind-reading -- Conclusion: Listening With Your Eyes : The Lessons Of Blink. Malcolm Gladwell ; [with A New Afterword By The Author]. Originally Published: 1st Ed. New York : Little, Brown And Co., 2005. With New Afterword. Includes 'reading Group Guide'. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [277]- 283) And Index. | Back Bay Books |
| 9780316204378 | David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants | Malcolm Gladwell | Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia.Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won.Or should he have?In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwellchallenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks.Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland's Troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, and the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms—all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity.In the tradition of Gladwell's previous bestsellers—The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw—David and Goliath draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us. | Back Bay Books |
| 9780316262262 | Ghost Boys | Jewell Parker Rhodes | A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes.Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better.Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing.Soon Jerome meets another ghost: Emmett Till, a boy from a very different time but similar circumstances. Emmett helps Jerome process what has happened, on a journey towards recognizing how historical racism may have led to the events that ended his life. Jerome also meets Sarah, the daughter of the police officer, who grapples with her father's actions.Once again Jewell Parker Rhodes deftly weaves historical and socio-political layers into a gripping and poignant story about how children and families face the complexities of today's world, and how one boy grows to understand American blackness in the aftermath of his own death. | Little, Brown |
| 9780316453691 | Le Président De Brosses En Italie: Lettres Familières Écrites D'italie En 1739 Et 1740... (French Edition) | Charles de Brosses | This crucial, empowering, #1 New York Times bestselling exploration of racism—and antiracism—in America makes critical ideas accessible for teen readers, adapted from Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning.This is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now.A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.A book about race.The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited.Through a gripping, fast-paced, and energizing narrative written by beloved award-winner Jason Reynolds with research from renowned author Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped shines a light on the many insidious forms of racist ideas—and on ways you can identify and stamp out racist thoughts, leading to a better future.Download the free educator guide here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Stamped-Educator-Guide.pdfNow available for younger readers: Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You | Wentworth Press |
| 9780684836690 | Losing The Race: Self-Sabotage In Black America | John H. Mcwhorter | A professor of linguistics paints a controversial portrait of defeatism and pessimism in black America that threatens to hold young African Americans back. | Free Press |
| 9780762447039 | Mankind: The Story Of All Of Us | Pamela D. Toler PhD | It takes more than 10 billion years to create just the right conditions on one planet for life to begin. It takes another three billion years of evolving life forms until it finally happens, a primate super species emerges: mankind.In conjunction with History Channel's hit television series by the same name, Mankind is a sweeping history of humans from the birth of the Earth and hunting antelope in Africa's Rift Valley to the present day with the completion of the Genome project and the birth of the seven billionth human. Like a Hollywood action movie, Mankind is a fast-moving, adventurous history of key events from each major historical epoch that directly affect us today such as the invention of iron, the beginning of Buddhism, the crucifixion of Jesus, the fall of Rome, the invention of the printing press, the Industrial Revolution, and the invention of the computer.With more than 300 color photographs and maps, Mankind is not only a visual overview of the broad story of civilization, but it also includes illustrated pop-out sidebars explaining distinctions between science and history, such as why there is 700 times more iron than bronze buried in the earth, why pepper is the only food we can taste with our skin, and how a wobble in the earth's axis helped bring down the Egyptian Empire. This is the most exciting and entertaining history of mankind ever produced. | Running Press Adult |
| 9780316017930 | Outliers: The Story Of Success | Gladwell, Malcolm | Identifies The Qualities Of Successful People, Maintaining That Culture, Family, And Idiosyncratic Factors Can Have A Decisive Impact On Shaping High Achievers, Introduction : The Roseto Mystery -- Part One : Opportunity -- The Matthew Effect (matthew 25:29) -- The 10,000 Hour Rule -- The Trouble With Geniuses, Part 1 -- The Trouble With Geniuses, Part 2 -- The Three Lessons Of Joe Flom -- Part Two : Legacy -- Harlan, Kentucky -- The Ethnic Theory Of Plane Crashes -- Rice Paddies And Math Tests -- Marita's Bargain -- Epilogue : A Jamaican Story -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Reading Group Guide -- Excerpt From David And Goliath. Malcolm Gladwell. Originally Published: New York : Little, Brown, 2008. Reading Group Guide ©2010. Excerpt From David And Goliath ©2013. First Back Bay Paperback Edition, June 2011. Includes Discussion Questions And An Excerpt From David And Goliath. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 287-296) And Index. | Back Bay Books |
| 9781681191072 | Piecing Me Together | Renée Watson | Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award WinnerNew York Times bestseller"Timely and timeless." --Jacqueline Woodson"Important and deeply moving." --John GreenAcclaimed author Renee Watson offers a powerful story about a girl striving for success in a world that too often seems like it's trying to break her.Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way. And Jade has: every day she rides the bus away from her friends and to the private school where she feels like an outsider, but where she has plenty of opportunities. But some opportunities she doesn't really welcome, like an invitation to join Women to Women, a mentorship program for "at-risk" girls. Just because her mentor is black and graduated from the same high school doesn't mean she understands where Jade is coming from. She's tired of being singled out as someone who needs help, someone people want to fix. Jade wants to speak, to create, to express her joys and sorrows, her pain and her hope. Maybe there are some things she could show other women about understanding the world and finding ways to be real, to make a difference.NPR’s Best Books of 2017A 2017 New York Public Library Best Teen Book of the YearChicago Public Library’s Best Books of 2017A School Library Journal Best Book of 2017Kirkus Reviews’ Best Teen Books of 20172018 Josette Frank Award Winner | Bloomsbury YA |
| 9780671708634 | Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People: Restoring The Character Ethic | Stephen R. Covey | Presents A Step-by-step Approach To Dealing With Personal And Professional Problems In A Manner Which Not Only Has Integrity But Also Is Fair, Honest And Dignified. Paradigms And Principles -- Private Victory -- Public Victory -- Renewal. Stephen R. Covey. | Simon & Schuster |
| 9780316478526 | Talking To Strangers: What We Should Know About The People We Don't Know | Malcolm Gladwell | Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers—and why they often go wrong.A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free PressHow did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true?Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt.Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times. | Little, Brown and Company |
| 9780836218053 | The Essential Calvin And Hobbes: A Calvin And Hobbes Treasury | Bill Watterson | Beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin's tuna fish trap, the first two Calvin and Hobbes collections, Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, are brought together in this treasury. Including black-and-white dailies and color Sundays, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes also features an original full-color 16-page story.Perhaps the most brilliant comic strip ever created, Calvin and Hobbes continues to entertain with dazzling cartooning and tremendous humor.Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes has been a worldwide favorite since its introduction in 1985. The strip follows the richly imaginative adventures of Calvin and his trusty tiger, Hobbes. Whether a poignant look at serious family issues or a round of time-travel (with the aid of a well-labeled cardboard box), Calvin and Hobbes will astound and delight you. | Andrews McMeel Publishing |
| 9781645172420 | The Prophet: A Graphic Novel (Graphic Classics) | Kahlil Gibran | A moving and thought-provoking adaptation of Kahlil Gibran’s classic poem.An enduring and moving commentary on the human condition since its publication in 1923, Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet has been adapted as a graphic novel by award-winning illustrator Pete Katz. In this elegant thread-bound edition, Gibran’s classic poem is transformed into a narrative that shows how the words of the prophet Al Mustafa can help modern readers overcome personal struggles. Gibran's original poems are incorporated into full-color scenes so that readers can gain a deeper appreciation for one of the most popular books of the twentieth century. | Canterbury Classics |
| 9780316346627 | Tipping Point, The | Malcolm Gladwell | Uncover the captivating science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior in the breakthrough debut — named one of the best books of the decade by The A.V. Club and The Guardian — by Malcolm Gladwell, the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia.The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.“A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person looks at the world.” —Michael Lewis | Back Bay Books |
| 9780316076203 | What The Dog Saw: And Other Adventures | Gladwell, Malcolm | what Is The Difference Between Choking And Panicking? Why Are There Dozens Of Varieties Of Mustard-but Only One Variety Of Ketchup? What Do Football Players Teach Us About How To Hire Teachers? What Does Hair Dye Tell Us About The History Of The 20th Century?in The Past Decade, Malcolm Gladwell Has Written Three Books That Have Radically Changed How We Understand Our World And Ourselves: The Tipping Point; blink; And outliers. Now, In what The Dog Saw, He Brings Together, For The First Time, The Best Of His Writing From thenew Yorker Over The Same Period.here Is The Bittersweet Tale Of The Inventor Of The Birth Control Pill, And The Dazzling Inventions Of The Pasta Sauce Pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell Sits With Ron Popeil, The King Of The American Kitchen, As He Sells Rotisserie Ovens, And Divines The Secrets Of Cesar Millan, The Dog Whisperer Who Can Calm Savage Animals With The Touch Of His Hand. He Explores Intelligence Tests And Ethnic Profiling And Hindsight Bias And Why It Was That Everyone In Silicon Valley Once Tripped Over Themselves To Hire The Same College Graduate.good Writing, Gladwell Says In His Preface, Does Not Succeed Or Fail On The Strength Of Its Ability To Persuade. It Succeeds Or Fails On The Strength Of Its Ability To Engage You, To Make You Think, To Give You A Glimpse Into Someone Else's Head.what The Dog Saw is Yet Another Example Of The Buoyant Spirit And Unflagging Curiosity That Have Made Malcolm Gladwell Our Most Brilliant Investigator Of The Hidden Extraordinary. the New York Times - Janet Maslin this Book Full Of Short Conversation Pieces Is A Collection That Plays To The Author's Strengths. It Underscores His Way Of Finding Suitably Quirky Subjects (the History Of Women's Hair-dye Advertisements; The Secret Of Heinz's Unbeatable Ketchup; Even The Effects Of Women's Changing Career Patterns On The Number Of Menstrual Periods They Experience In Their Lifetimes) And Using Each As Gateway To Some Larger Meaning. It Illustrates How Often He Sets Up One Premise (i.e. That Crime Profiling Helps Track Down Serial Killers) Only To Destroy It. | Back Bay Books |
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