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Yoga for Pregnancy: Ninety-Two Safe, Gentle Stretches Appropriate for Pregnant Women and New Mothersby Sandra Jordan List Price: $15.95 Available from Amazon $10.37 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Product Review "This book provides an easy-to-follow guide to the posturse of lyengar yoga, with careful attention to their appropriateness for pregnancy. The photographs, along with concise description, are elegant in their simplicity. It will be a welcomed companion for quiet self-expression." --Sandra F. Penn, M.D.
Product Review "This book provides an easy-to-follow guide to the posturse of lyengar yoga, with careful attention to their appropriateness for pregnancy. The photographs, along with concise description, are elegant in their simplicity. It will be a welcomed companion for quiet self-expression." --Sandra F. Penn, M.D. |
How to Prepare for the AP Psychology (Barron's How to Prepare for the Ap Psychology Advanced Placement Examination)by Robert McEntarffer and Allyson Weseley List Price: $16.95 Available from Amazon $11.02 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description Updated to reflect the most recent tests, this manual presents a detailed subject Review covering all AP Psychology test topics plus a diagnostic test and two full-length practice exams. All test questions are answered and explained. The authors also provide a valuable overview of the test with explanations of how it is scored. Added test preparation material includes extra multiple-choice questions, test-taking tips, and an analysis of the essay question with a sample essay. Back Cover Copy back cover Choose Barron’s Method for Success on the AP Psychology Exam It’s Your Path To a Higher AP Test Score |
How the Mind Worksby Steven Pinker List Price: $17.95 Available from Amazon $11.67 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Product Review Why do fools fall in love? Why does a man's annual salary, on average, increase $600 with each inch of his height? When a crack dealer guns down a rival, how is he just like Alexander Hamilton, whose face is on the ten-dollar bill? How do optical illusions function as windows on the human soul? Cheerful, cheeky, occasionally outrageous MIT psychologist Steven Pinker answers all of the above and more in his marvelously fun, awesomely informative survey of modern brain science. Pinker argues that Darwin plus canny computer programs are the key to understanding ourselves--but he also throws in apt references to Star Trek, Star Wars, The Far Side, history, literature, W. C. Fields, Mozart, Marilyn Monroe, surrealism, experimental psychology, and Moulay Ismail the Bloodthirsty and his 888 children. If How the Mind Works were a rock show, tickets would be scalped for $100. This book deserved its spot as Number One on bestseller lists. It belongs on a short shelf alongside such classics as Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, by Daniel C. Dennett, and The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, by Robert Wright. Pinker's startling ideas pop out as dramatically as those hidden pictures in a Magic Eye 3D stereogram poster, which he also explains in brilliantly lucid prose. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Amazon.com Author Profile Read about the author. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwartsby David Baggett, Shawn Klein, and William Irwin List Price: $17.95 Available from Amazon $11.67 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Book Description Harry Potter has put a spell on millions of readers, and they all want to find out more about the deeper meaning of his adventures. In Harry Potter and Philosophy, 17 experts in the field of philosophy unlock some of Hogwarts' secret panels, uncovering surprising insights that are enlightening both for wizards and for the most discerning muggles. Individual chapters look at such topics as life revealed in the Mirror of Erised; the ethics of magic; Moaning Myrtle, Nearly Headless Nick, and the relation of the mind to the brain; and the character of Hermione as a case of "sublimated feminism." Also examined in this witty collection are how Aristotle would have run a school for wizards; whether the Potter stories undermine religion and morality; how to tell good people from evil ones through the characters in these novels; and what dementors and boggarts can teach readers about happiness, fear, and the soul. |
Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools You Should Know About Even If You're Not a Straight-A Studentby Loren Pope List Price: $15.00 Available from Amazon $9.75 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page From School Library Journal YA-Pope discusses 40 colleges, mostly in the Northeast, South, and Midwest. What makes this book different from other guides is that it highlights schools that select students who have a wide range of abilities, not necessarily the cream of the crop academically, but who exhibit a desire to learn. The atmosphere at these institutions is collaborative rather than competitive and they feature close interaction between students and faculty. Antioch University, Grinnell College, Whitman College, and Goucher College are among the schools included. Overviews of academic standings, admission requirements, quotes by faculty and students, points of geographic interest, and strengths in relation to other schools are given for each selection.-Rebecca C. Burgee, Langley High School, McLean, VA Copyright 1996 Cahners business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.The New York Times Smart and credible, this book might sway an 'A' student, too. |
A History of Western Philosophy (A Touchstone Book)by Bertrand Russell List Price: $25.00 Available from Amazon $15.75 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Ray Monk "A history of Western Philosophy remains unchallenged as the perfect introduction to its subject. Russellwrites with the kind of verve, freshness and personal engagement that lesser spirits would never have permitted themselves. This boldness, together with the astonishing breadth of his general historical knowledge, allows him to put philosophers into their social and cultural context The result is exactly the kind of philosophy that most people would like to read, but which only Russell could possibly have written." Book Description Since its first publication in 1945? Lord Russell's A history of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject -- unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. Among the philosophers considered are: Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the Atomists, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Cynics, the Sceptics, the Epicureans, the Stoics, Plotinus, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Benedict, Gregory the Great, John the Scot, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Occam, Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, the Utilitarians, Marx, Bergson, James, Dewey, and lastly the philosophers with whom Lord Russell himself is most closely associated -- Cantor, Frege, and Whitehead, co-author with Russell of the monumental Principia Mathematica. |
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