Strange But True!

Strange But True!
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2015-09-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1465449078

The bizarre beasts, incredible places, and peculiar phenomenons featured in this mind-blowing compendium are not just really weird - they're really real! With more than 125,000 copies sold worldwide, this wacky encyclopedia explores our world's most exciting oddities. Did you know there's a plant that eats mice? Or that you can dip your toe in a rainbow-colored river? From fiery tornadoes flying across the sky to huge sinkholes eating up the earth, each example is illustrated with jaw-dropping images and handy fast facts that provide the explanations behind the stories. Whether it's geography, people, places, animals, plants, or weather, Strange But True! is the ideal book for curious young minds who are fascinated by our weird and wonderful world.

7 Rules of Power

7 Rules of Power
Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer
Publisher: BenBella Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-09-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1637746474

If you want to "change lives, change organizations, change the world," the Stanford business school’s motto, you need power. Is power the last dirty secret or the secret to success? Both. While power carries some negative connotations, power is a tool that can be used for good or evil. Don’t blame the tool for how some people used it. If fully understood and harnessed effectively, power skills and understanding become the keys to increasing salaries, job satisfaction, career advancement, organizational change, and, happiness. In 7 Rules of Power, Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, provides the insights that have made both his online and on-campus classes incredibly popular—with life-changing results often achieved in 8 or 10 weeks. Rooted firmly in social science research, Pfeffer’s 7 rules provide a manual for increasing your ability to get things done, including increasing the positive effects of your job performance. The 7 rules are: 1) Get out of your own way. 2) Break the rules. 3) Show up in powerful fashion. 4) Create a powerful brand. 5) Network relentlessly. 6) Use your power. 7) Understand that once you have acquired power, what you did to get it will be forgiven, forgotten, or both. With 7 Rules of Power, you’ll learn, through both numerous examples as well as research evidence, how to accomplish change in your organization, your life, the lives of others, and the world.

Weird But True 1: Expanded Edition

Weird But True 1: Expanded Edition
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2018
Genre: Curiosities and wonders
ISBN: 1426331045

Offers a collection of true facts about animals, food, science, pop culture, outer space, geography, and weather.

Weird But True 9

Weird But True 9
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1426328931

Offers a collection of true facts about animals, food, science, pop culture, outer space, geography, and weather.

Strange But True, America

Strange But True, America
Author: John Hafnor
Publisher: John Hafnor
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780964817555

Contains 101 curious tales and oddball facts about events and people from the fifty states.

Drive

Drive
Author: Daniel H. Pink
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2011-04-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101524383

The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.

Weird But True! 5

Weird But True! 5
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013
Genre: Children's questions and answers
ISBN: 1426311249

A collection of fun and surprising facts about our world.

It Can't Be True! 2

It Can't Be True! 2
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1465459014

All the amazing facts in this book are strange but true. With clever, yet easy-to-understand visual comparisons, you will make sense of things that seem too bizarre to be real. In It Can't Be True! 2, you can see a hippo's mouth large enough to swallow a car, a truck strong enough to carry 90 elephants, and a jellyfish longer than three blue whales. Plus, did you know that all the world's continents could fit into the Pacific Ocean? Or that all the world's trees could fill North and South America combined? These concepts are brought to life with fascinating CGI artworks. Find out how much paper you'd need to print out the World Wide Web (hint: it's a stack taller than the height of Earth's globe), how much sweat your feet produce in a day (it could fill a glass), and much more in this collection of weird facts and world records from planet Earth and space, animals and plants, people, and technology. If you think it can't be true, It Can't Be True! 2 will prove that it is!

Weird But True 2: Expanded Edition

Weird But True 2: Expanded Edition
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2018
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1426331061

Offers a collection of true facts about such topics as animals, food, science, outer space, geography, and weather.

Life: Strange But True

Life: Strange But True
Author: The Editors of LIFE
Publisher: Life
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-10-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781603200318

Here are wonders of the animal kingdom, bizarre social practices of the past and present, remarkable and compelling human achievements, and breath-taking tales of nature at its most unpredictable. The photographs do not lie, and this book proves the adage: Seeing is believing.The true details of the famous stories are here: What's really going on at Loch Ness; what does Roswell, New Mexico, tell us; and, what about that cloud that looked like Jesus during the Korean War? The surprising, little-known tales are here as well: the window washer who fell 47 floors and walked away; and, the Christmas burglar who got stuck in a chimney .As P.T.Barnum might say: Strange but True is a colossal compendium of crazy coincidences, peculiar people and astounding animals. Step right up!