Amanda Ripley
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English
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How do other countries create 'smarter' kids? In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they've never seen before. They are learning to think, in other words, and to thrive in the modern economy. What is it like to be a child in the world's new education superpowers? In a global quest to find answers for our own children, author and Time magazine journalist Amanda Ripley follows three...
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Random House
Pub. Date
p2008
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English
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Combining participatory journalism, exciting storytelling, and science/psychology reporting, prize-winning Time magazine journalist Amanda Ripley sheds new light on how human beings react to danger, and what makes the difference between death and sur
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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In the tradition of bestselling explainers like The Tipping Point, the first popular book based on cutting edge science that breaks down the idea of extreme conflict, the kind that paralyzes people and places, and then shows how to escape it--