Washoe County Library System

Introduces differences like hot/cold, sweet/sour, left/right, and many more.

While exploring basic concepts such as size, shape, color, numbers, professions and communtiy, this lively picture book features page after page of trucks hauling trucks.--

In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks while foraging for fish, we find clear examples of the transmission of information among cetaceans. Just as human cultures pass on languages and turns of phrase, tastes in food (and in how it is acquired),...

Goleman documents an astonishing fact: in determining star performance in every field, emotional intelligence matters twice as much as IQ or technical expertise. Readers also discover how emotional competence can be learned. Goleman analyzes five key sets of skills and vividly shows how they determine who is hired and who is fired in the top corporations in the world. He also provides guidelines for training in the "emotionally intelligent organization,"...

"Marcia Tate's Preparing Children for Success in School and Life: 20 Ways to Enhance Your Child's Brain Power is an authoritative and practical guide for parents who are interested in creating a brain-compatible home environment conducive to the optimal growth and development of their children. In this collection of recommended best practices, Tate draws on what we know about how our brains behave and learn, the latest research in human growth and...

Describes seventeen ways in which some people are unlike everyone else because of differerences in their bodies or their brains, and interviews people with these conditions, many of whom did not know there was anyone else like them.

Distilling insights from dozens of interviews and hundreds of research studies from around the world, an MIT and Harvard-trained brain researcher turned Silicon Valley technologist, introduces the cutting-edge world of neuroscience and biohacking to help transform your cognition in just 15 minutes a day.

Based on recent language acquistion research and infant visual preferences. Features visually stimulating toys, kinetic art and photographs set to spoken passages, music and natural sounds. The Language Nursery CD was created to extend and enhance the video. It features music and verse recitals, and vocabulry-guilding exercises in seven languages.