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Author | : H. A. Rey |
Publisher | : HMH Books For Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2021-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0358344816 |
Curious George knows that with a little curiosity, you can do anything! A perfect gift for preschool graduates or any kid who loves asking questions, this rhyming picture book has surprise die-cut reveals on every page. Curiosity is taking a whole different view. So go and explore all the things you can do! Who better to explore all the wonderful things curiosity can be than Curious George? Curious George and curious kids know that meeting someone new, trying something different, and learning from mistakes make each day more exciting and offer opportunities to grow. This gift book with a sweet rhyming text and surprising reveals on every sturdy page is a perfect gift for graduation, starting a new school, or any new adventure!
Author | : Ian Leslie |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2014-08-26 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 0465056946 |
A fun yet provocative look at the importance of staying curious in an increasingly indifferent world Everyone is born curious. But only some retain the habits of exploring, learning, and discovering as they grow older. Those who do so tend to be smarter, more creative, and more successful. But at the very moment when the rewards of curiosity have never been higher, it is misunderstood and undervalued, and increasingly monopolized by the cognitive elite. A "curiosity divide" is opening up. In Curious, Ian Leslie makes a passionate case for the cultivation of our "desire to know." Drawing on fascinating research from psychology, economics, education, and business, Leslie looks at what feeds curiosity and what starves it, and finds surprising answers. Curiosity is a mental muscle that atrophies without regular exercise and a habit that parents, schools, and workplaces need to nurture. Filled with inspiring stories, case studies, and practical advice, Curious will change the way you think about your own mental life, and that of those around you.
Author | : Melanie Cossey |
Publisher | : Fitzroy Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781947548008 |
An anthropology professor, Duncan Clarke, stumbles upon the travel journal of a Victorian curiosity dealer that describes a victim of a Haitian witch doctor. Clarke's holiday pastime becomes an all-consuming obsession as he seeks to understand the chilling implications of the journal and the horrifying way in which his own life is tied to the past
Author | : Emily Lakdawalla |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2018-03-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 331968146X |
This book describes the most complex machine ever sent to another planet: Curiosity. It is a one-ton robot with two brains, seventeen cameras, six wheels, nuclear power, and a laser beam on its head. No one human understands how all of its systems and instruments work. This essential reference to the Curiosity mission explains the engineering behind every system on the rover, from its rocket-powered jetpack to its radioisotope thermoelectric generator to its fiendishly complex sample handling system. Its lavishly illustrated text explains how all the instruments work -- its cameras, spectrometers, sample-cooking oven, and weather station -- and describes the instruments' abilities and limitations. It tells you how the systems have functioned on Mars, and how scientists and engineers have worked around problems developed on a faraway planet: holey wheels and broken focus lasers. And it explains the grueling mission operations schedule that keeps the rover working day in and day out.
Author | : Jonathan Simcoe |
Publisher | : Dorling Kindersley Ltd |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2025-03-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0241748143 |
Curiosity is the path to endless discovery. This little book is just the first step to unlocking the magic of wonder and give kids the courage to ask—what's on the other side of the door?
Author | : Perry Zurn |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2020-04-14 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1452963622 |
The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique field From science and technology to business and education, curiosity is often taken for granted as an unquestioned good. And yet, few people can define curiosity. Curiosity Studies marshals scholars from more than a dozen fields not only to define curiosity but also to grapple with its ethics as well as its role in technological advancement and global citizenship. While intriguing research on curiosity has occurred in numerous disciplines for decades, no rigorously cross-disciplinary study has existed—until now. Curiosity Studies stages an interdisciplinary conversation about what curiosity is and what resources it holds for human and ecological flourishing. These engaging essays are integrated into four clusters: scientific inquiry, educational practice, social relations, and transformative power. By exploring curiosity through the practice of scientific inquiry, the contours of human learning, the stakes of social difference, and the potential of radical imagination, these clusters focus and reinvigorate the study of this universal but slippery phenomenon: the desire to know. Against the assumption that curiosity is neutral, this volume insists that curiosity has a history and a political import and requires precision to define and operationalize. As various fields deepen its analysis, a new ecosystem for knowledge production can flourish, driven by real-world problems and a commitment to solve them in collaboration. By paying particular attention to pedagogy throughout, Curiosity Studies equips us to live critically and creatively in what might be called our new Age of Curiosity. Contributors: Danielle S. Bassett, U of Pennsylvania; Barbara M. Benedict, Trinity College; Susan Engel, Williams College; Ellen K. Feder, American U; Kristina T. Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Narendra Keval; Christina León, Princeton U; Tyson Lewis, U of North Texas; Amy Marvin, U of Oregon; Hilary M. Schor, U of Southern California; Seeta Sistla, Hampshire College; Heather Anne Swanson, Aarhus U.
Author | : Philip Ball |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2013-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022604579X |
Originally published by Bodley Head, 2012.
Author | : Markus Motum |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 57 |
Release | : 2023-10-24 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1536233250 |
In his debut picture book, Motum brings the story of NASA's beloved Mars rover Curiosity to life in vivid color. Full of eye-catching retro illustrations, this book is sure to fascinate budding space explorers and set inquisitive minds soaring. Full color.
Author | : Alberto Manguel |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300184786 |
An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the world? In Alberto Manguel's most personal book to date, the author tracks his own life of curiosity through the reading that has mapped his way. Manguel chooses as his guides a selection of writers who sparked his imagination. He dedicates each chapter to a single thinker, scientist, artist, or other figure who demonstrated in a fresh way how to ask "Why?" Leading us through a full gallery of inquisitives, among them Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, Lewis Carroll, Rachel Carson, Socrates, and, most importantly, Dante, Manguel affirms how deeply connected our curiosity is to the readings that most astonish us, and how essential to the soaring of our own imaginations.
Author | : Exploratorium |
Publisher | : WeldonOwn+ORM |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2019-10-29 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1681885964 |
Fifty of the world’s most creative people share their stories and inspirations in this volume created by the Exploratorium science museum. What do music visionary Brian Eno, kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen, science writer Mary Roach, Mythbuster Adam Savage, and Pulitzer-winning journalist Thomas Friedman have in common? They are all game-changers: scientists, artists, entertainers, and activists who revolutionized their fields with bold new perspectives and approaches—and they all had transformative, course-setting experiences at the Exploratorium science museum, the San Francisco landmark visited by a million people a year in person and by millions more online. Join them and forty-five more brilliant thinkers and doers in a wonderfully playful, insightful, and sometimes incredibly moving journey to see how you, too, can harness your powers of observation, inquiry, and engagement to be the change you want to see in the world—regardless of who you are or what you do. Interviewees and subjects include: Oscar-Winning Sound Designer Walter Murch on observation Laurie Anderson on art as a way of knowing Memory Expert Elizabeth Loftus on how we learn Oliver Sacks on perception Mary Roach on how she learned to ask the right questions Adam Savage on the fun of finding things out Mickey Hart on the art of playing to learn, and learning to play California Governor Gavin Newsom on the importance of science Community activist Randy Carter on finding joy in the worst of places . . . and dozens more interviews, insights, and activities suggested by artists, scientists, poets, and politicians, in a book that can help you become more creative—and maybe just change the world.