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The real work : on the mystery of mastery / by Gopnik, Adam,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In The Real Work--the term magicians use for the accumulated craft that makes for a great trick--Gopnik becomes a dedicated student of several masters of their craft: a classical painter, a boxer, a dancing instructor, a driving instructor, and others. Rejecting self-help bromides and bullet points, he nevertheless shows that the top people in any field share a set of common qualities and methods. For one, their mastery is always a process of breaking down and building up--of identifying and perfecting the small constituent parts of a skill and the combining them for an overall effect greater than the sum of those parts. For another, mastery almost always involves intentional imperfection--as in music, where vibrato, a way of not quite landing on the right note, carries maximum expressiveness. Gopnik's simplest and most invigorating lesson, however, is that we are surrounded by mastery. Far from rare, mastery is commonplace, if we only know where to look: from the parent who can whip up a professional strudel to the social worker who--in one of the most personally revealing passages Gopnik has ever written--helps him master his own demons. Spirited and profound, The Real Work will help you understand how mastery can happen in your own life--and, significantly, why each of us relentlessly seeks to better ourselves in the first place"--
Subjects: Ability.; Creative ability.; Excellence.; Expertise.; Learning.; Performance; Training.;

Master of change : how to excel when everything is changing--including you / by Stulberg, Brad,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Brad Stulberg presents a new model that describes change as an ongoing cycle of order, disorder, and reorder--yes, we return to stability, but that stability is somewhere new. Drawing on modern science, ancient wisdom, and daily practice, Stulberg offers concrete principles for developing a mindset called rugged flexibility, along with habits and practices to implement it.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Change (Psychology); Success.;

"I did it because..." : how a poem happens / by Lesynski, Loris.; Martchenko, Michael,1942-;
Contains excellent tips for writing your own poems.
Subjects: Children's poetry, Canadian (English); Poetry;
© c2006., Annick Press,

Jules vs. the ocean / by Sima, Jessie.;
Determined to build "the biggest, fanciest, most excellent sandcastle" to impress her sister, Jules is foiled again and again by the ocean.Ages 4-8.LSC
Subjects: Sea stories.; Sandcastles; Beaches; Seashore; Sisters;

The Serengeti rules [videorecording] / by Brown, Nicolas Roether,television director.; Carroll, Sean B.Serengeti rules.; Carroll, Sean B.,screenwriter.; Estes, J. A.(James A.),1945-commentator.; Excell, Jaime,commentator.; Kriek, Greg,commentator.; Lopez, Ashlyn,commentator.; McCrae, M.,commentator.; Newport, Jonathan,commentator.; Nugent, Samantha,commentator.; Paine, Robert T.,1933-2016,commentator.; Power, Mary E.,commentator.; Scott, Campbell,narrator.; Sinclair, A. R. E.(Anthony Ronald Entrican),commentator.; Terborgh, John,1936-commentator.; Unwin, Ty,composer.; Howard Hughes Medical Institute,production company.; Passion Planet (Firm),production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),film distributor.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),publisher.; Sandbox Films,production company.; Tangled Bank Studios, LLC,production company.; Thirteen Productions,production company.; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.),production company.;
Music composer, Ty Unwin.Narrator, Campbell Scott ; commentator, Bob Paine, Matthiesen McCrae, Jim Estes, Jaime Excell, John Terborgh, Jonathan Newport, Mary Power, Ashlyn Lopez, Samantha Nugent, Tony Sinclair, Greg Kriek.Travel back in time, from the Arctic Ocean to Pacific tide pools, with a pioneering group of scientists who make surprising discoveries that transform human understanding of nature and ecology.E.DVD; NTSC, Region 1; widescreen presentation; 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Nonfiction television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Nature television programs.; Science television programs.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Biological control systems.; Biology; Biotic communities.; Ecology; Life (Biology); Nature;
For private home use only.

Cam Jansen and the millionaire mystery / by Adler, David A.; Allen, Joy.;
Using her excellent memory, Cam Jansen, aided by her friend Eric, investigates the disappearance of Mrs. Scott's valuable pearl necklace during a charity brunch."Ages 7 up"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Detective and mystery stories.; Lost articles; Theft; Memory;
© 2013, c2012., Puffin Books,

If you met the Easter Bunny / by Hatam, Holly.;
"The Easter Bunny introduces himself to little ones as he prepares for the big day by going through his excellent bow tie collection and coloring eggs"--
Subjects: Board books.; Easter Bunny; Easter;

Zenobia July / by Bunker, Lisa.;
Zenobia July, an excellent coder and hacker, investigates a mystery while wrestling with the challenges of a new school, a new family, and presenting her true gender for the first time.Ages 10 up.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Transgender people; Aunts; Lesbians; Identity (Psychology); Friendship; Hacking; Moving, Household;

Rickshaw girl : [Book Club Set] / by Perkins, Mitali.; Hogan, Jamie.;
In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy--or disguise herself as one.
© c2007., Charlesbridge,

A killer among us : a novel / by Eason, Lynette.;
Kit Kenyon is a first-rate hostage negotiator. Noah Lambert is a good detective with excellent instincts. The new partners have hardly had time to get used to each other when they are thrown into a grisly murder case.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Detective and mystery stories.; Christian fiction.; Romantic suspense fiction.; Women detectives; Police; Serial murder investigation;
© c2011., Revell,

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