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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
The best-selling author of Blink identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance, and why the Beatles earned their fame.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fitness, money, and wisdom--here are the tools. Over the last two years, #1 New York Times best-selling author Tim Ferriss has collected the routines and tools of world-class performers around the globe. Now, the distilled notebook of tips and tricks that helped him double his income, flexibility, happiness, and more is available as Tools of titans"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Students will learn more about America's thriving Black communities, from Tulsa's Black Wall Street to Allensworth, California. These towns and neighborhoods are often ignored in discussions on Black America and their success was often met with resistance--often violent resistance. This book illuminates the achievement and culture of these communities, while exploring racism in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 310 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda's Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the place that bred the influencers in just about every field of endeavor.
Author
Language
English
Description
Donald J. Trump is an icon: the very definition of the American success story. The star of The Apprentice and developer of some of the planet's most prestigious real estate, he's been on the bottom and risen to become one of the world's wealthiest men. Bill Zanker started The Learning Annex with $5,000 of his own money. After meeting Donald Trump, Zanker learned to Think BIG himself and grew The Learning Annex from a $5 million a year company into...
9) Mastery
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xvi, 336 p. ;hardcover 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Robert Greene, the "modern Machiavelli" debunks the prevailing mythology of success and presents a radical new way to greatness.What did Charles Darwin, middling schoolboy and underachieving second son, do to become one of the earliest and greatest naturalists the world has known? What were the similar choices made by Mozart and by Caesar Rodriguez, the U.S. Air Force's last ace fighter pilot? In Mastery, Robert Greene's fifth book, he mines the biographies...
Author
Publisher
Nhà Xuất Bản Thế Giới
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
416 pages : 21 cm
Language
Vietnamese
Description
Cuốn sách NHỮNG KẺ XUẤT CHÚNG sẽ giúp bạn tìm ra câu trả lời thông qua các phân tích về xã hội, văn hóa và thế hệ của những nhân vật kiệt xuất như Bill Gates, Beatles và Mozart, bên cạnh những thất bại đáng kinh ngạc của một số người khác (ví dụ: Christopher Langan, người có chỉ số IQ cao hơn Einstein nhưng rốt cuộc lại quay về làm việc trong một trại...
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this full-color, nonfiction resource, profiles of twenty-five diverse individuals share how each person got interested in their field, how they studied or trained for it, how others typically study or train for it, and their experience in their career. Informative sidebars share spin-off jobs, fun facts, pro tips about how readers can try out the field, and spotlight features about children who are doing just that. The book includes a table of...
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This non-fiction career resource features twenty-five diverse jobs and people. Using full-color photos, these profiles explore how each individual was able to achieve their dream job, and what their dream job entails. This includes their areas of study, relevant job experience, and more. Spin-off jobs, fun facts, pro tips round out this career guide, as well as spotlight features on children currently working toward their dream jobs. Also included...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2014
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A stunning debut novel of two girls raised in hardship, separated by fortune, and reunited through tragedy. Fourteen-year-old Audrey Martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she€ll never get out of Kentucky€but when her fingers touch the piano keys, the whole church trembles. Her best friend, Caroline, daydreams about Hollywood stardom, but both girls feel destined to languish in a slow-moving...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 311 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the 2017 People's Choice Award winner for Favorite YouTube Star comes the definitive guide to being a bawse: a person who exudes confidence, hustles relentlessly, and smiles genuinely because he or she has fought through it all and made it out the other side. Lilly Singh isn't just a superstar. She's Superwoman--which is also the name of her wildly popular YouTube channel. Funny, smart, and insightful, the actress and comedian covers topics...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Updated and revised.
Physical Desc
xviii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"'The passing on of information and history from one person to another to another has always served us well. Ours is an oral tradition.' So begins Take a Lesson, a groundbreaking book of oral history. Twenty years later, every word in this book holds up as relevant, resonant and, in some ways, prophetic. Here we are, in a profoundly different world that, in its relationship with Black people, has barely changed at all. Powerful first-person accounts...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"'Standing on the stage, I felt exposed and like an intruder. In these professional settings, my personal experiences with hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness, often go undetected. I had worked hard to learn the rules and disguise my beginning in life ... ' So begins C. Nicole Mason's powerful memoir, a story of reconciliation, constrained choices and life on the other side of the tracks. Born in the 1970s in Los Angeles, California, Mason...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Physical Desc
x, 242 p. :hardcover ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story of a group of young men whose lives were changed by a visionary mentor.On April 4, 1968, the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., shocked the nation. Later that month, the Reverend John Brooks, a professor of theology at the College of the Holy Cross who shared Dr. King's dream of an integrated society, drove up and down the East Coast searching for African American high school students to recruit to the school, young men he...
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