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No one takes the time to look past Libby Strout's weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom's death she picks up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now she's ready for high school, for new friends, for love-- for everything life has to offer. Jack Masselin's got swagger, he's mastered the impossible art of fitting in, and he has a newly acquired secret: he can't recognize...
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"A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mind. Emotions feel automatic, like uncontrollable reactions to things we think and experience. Scientists have long supported this assumption by claiming that emotions are hardwired in the body or the brain. Today, however, the science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery...
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Colorado Department of Education
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Many people do not realize how common it is for children to suffer a brain injury. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability among children ages 1 to 19 years in the United States. Each year, approximately 40 percent of TBIs in the United States occur in the pediatric population (ages 0-19 years). It is estimated that nearly 145,000 children aged 0-19 years are currently living with long lasting, significant alterations...
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Colorado Brain Injury Program
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2017.
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English
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The Colorado Brain Injury Program Hard to Serve Study was initiated by the Colorado Brain Injury Program (CBIP) within the Colorado Department of Human Services in partnership with the Colorado Brain Injury Collaborative (CBIC) to analyze whether and how individuals with brain injury experience difficulties accessing supports, specifically when the individual has complex needs such as medical, mental health, and/or substance use disorder co-occurring...
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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
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c2005
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English
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When the first edition of Teaching with the Brain in Mind was published in 1998, it quickly became an ASCD best-seller, and it has gone on to inspire thousands of educators to apply brain research in their classroom teaching. Now, author Eric Jensen is back with a completely revised and updated edition of his classic work, featuring new research and practical strategies to enhance student comprehension and improve student achievement. In easy to understand,...
15) The Boatbuilder
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McSweeney's
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At 28 years old, Eli "Berg" Koenigsberg has never encountered a challenge he couldn't push through, until a head injury leaves him with lingering headaches and a weakness for opiates. Berg moves to a remote Northern California town, seeking space and time to recover, but soon finds himself breaking into homes in search of pills. Addled by addiction and chronic pain, Berg meets Alejandro, a reclusive, master boatbuilder, and begins to see a path forward....
16) THE GERMAN WIFE
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Berlin, 1934. Ilse Meyer is the aristocratic wife of a scientist whose post-WWI fortunes change for the better when Ilse's husband, Jurgen, is recruited for Hitler's new rocket program. Although Ilse and Jurgen do not share the popular political views rising in Germany, Jurgen's new job forces them to consider what they must sacrifice morally for their financial security. But too late they realize the Nazi's plans to weaponize Jurgen's technology...
19) Immortality
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Prometheus Books
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c1997, c.1992
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English
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A collection of writings on life after death by such philosophers as John Locke, Plato, Thomas Reid, Voltaire, H.H. Price, Tertullian, and Joseph Butler. Touches upon the ideas of an afterlife, transmigration of the soul, reincarnation, disembodied existence of the soul, the nature of the consciousness, and more.
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