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Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World

By David N. Perkins

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Hardcover:

9781118844083 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, August 4, 2014, cover price $27.95

Stalking the Herd: Unraveling the Cattle Mutilation Mystery

By Greg Bishop (foreword by), Christopher O'Brien and David Perkins (introduced by)

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9781939149060 | Adventures Unlimited Pr, March 15, 2014, cover price $19.95

Calculus and Its Origins

Product Description: Calculus & Its Origins is an overview of calculus as an intellectual pursuit having a 2,000-year history. Author David Perkins examines the extent to which mathematicians and scholars from Egypt, Persia, and India absorbed and nourished Greek geometry, and details how the scholars wove their inquiries into a unified theory...read more

By David Perkins

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9780883855751 | Mathematical Assn of Amer, March 23, 2012, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Calculus & Its Origins is an overview of calculus as an intellectual pursuit having a 2,000-year history.

The Ethical Discourse of Chinese Children: A Narrative Approach to the Social and Moral Intricacy of Lying About Good Deeds

By Minghui Gao and David Perkins (foreword by)

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9780773436329 | Edwin Mellen Pr, July 15, 2010, cover price $119.95

Romanticism and Animal Rights

Product Description: Demonstrating how English Romantic writing took up issues of what we now call animal rights, this study joins the growing number of studies that seek precedents or affinities in English Romanticism for ecological concerns. An unprecedented amount of writing advocated kindness to animals in England during the second half of the eighteenth century...read more

By David Perkins

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9780521829410 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $124.99 | About this edition: Demonstrating how English Romantic writing took up issues of what we now call animal rights, this study joins the growing number of studies that seek precedents or affinities in English Romanticism for ecological concerns.

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9780521045988 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 5, 2007), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Demonstrating how English Romantic writing took up issues of what we now call animal rights, this study joins the growing number of studies that seek precedents or affinities in English Romanticism for ecological concerns.

Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince

By Caroline Dooley (compiler) and David Perkins (composer)

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9780573662379 | Samuel French Inc Plays, May 30, 2008, cover price $9.95

La Banera De Arquimides Y Otras Historias Del Descubrimiento Cientifico: El Arte Del Pensamiento Creativo

Product Description: Desde que ArquÃmedes descubriÃ³ el principio del desplazamiento del agua mientras se baÃ±aba hasta la teorÃa de la relatividad de Einstein, desde el desarrollo de la perspectiva por parte de Brunelleschi a la revoluciÃ³n del impresionismo, del dominio del fuego a la creaciÃ³n del lÃ¡ser, el progreso de las ideas ï¾un repentino rapto de inspiraciÃ³n, en apariencia inexplicableï¾ ha dado forma y ha hecho avanzar a la civilizaciÃ³n...read more

By David Perkins

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9788449314636, titled "La banera de Arquimides y otras historias del descubrimiento cientifico / The Bathtub of Archimedes and OTher Stories of Scientific Discovery: El Arte Del Pensamiento Creativo" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, October 1, 2003, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Desde que ArquÃmedes descubriÃ³ el principio del desplazamiento del agua mientras se baÃ±aba hasta la teorÃa de la relatividad de Einstein, desde el desarrollo de la perspectiva por parte de Brunelleschi a la revoluciÃ³n del impresionismo, del dominio del fuego a la creaciÃ³n del lÃ¡ser, el progreso de las ideas ï¾un repentino rapto de inspiraciÃ³n, en apariencia inexplicableï¾ ha dado forma y ha hecho avanzar a la civilizaciÃ³n.

La escuela inteligente/ Smart Schools: Del Adiestramiento De La Memoria a La Educacion De La Mente/ from Training Memories to Educating Minds

By David Perkins

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9788474325607 | Gedisa Editorial S A, February 28, 2003, cover price $38.95

Intellectual Character: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Get It

By David Perkins (foreword by) and Ron Ritchhart

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9780787956837 | 1 edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, April 29, 2002), cover price $24.95

Paperback:

9780787972783 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, August 25, 2004, cover price $19.95

Miscellaneous:

9780787966126 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, October 24, 2002, cover price $24.95

The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking

Product Description: "Perkins' style is engagingânot for eggheads onlyâand the brainteasers are entertaining and surprisingly fresh."âChicago Tribune From Archimedes' discovery of the principle of water displacement while taking a bath to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, from Brunelleschi's development of perspective drawing to the Impressionist revolution, from the taming of fire to the creation of the laser, "breakthrough thinking"âthat is, a sudden, seemingly unaccountable moment of inspirationâhas shaped and advanced civilization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Perkins

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9780393322552 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 2001, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: "Perkins' style is engagingânot for eggheads onlyâand the brainteasers are entertaining and surprisingly fresh.

Integrating & Sustaining Habits of Mind

Explains how communities, departments, teams, school districts, and school faculties can integrate the sixteen habits of mind into school culture and sustain them.

By Arthur L. Costa (editor), Bena Kallick (editor) and David Perkins (foreword by)

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9780871203717 | Assn for Supervision & Curriculum, December 1, 2000, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Explains how communities, departments, teams, school districts, and school faculties can integrate the sixteen habits of mind into school culture and sustain them.

Activating & Engaging Habits of Mind

Explores classroom-tested strategies for teaching sixteen habits of mind that are essential to lifelong learning. (view table of contents)

By Arthur L. Costa (editor), Bena Kallick (editor) and David Perkins (foreword by)

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9780871203694 | Assn for Supervision & Curriculum, September 1, 2000, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Explores classroom-tested strategies for teaching sixteen habits of mind that are essential to lifelong learning.

Economics for Health Care Management

Product Description: The authors have tackled the subject from the point of view of the profession rather than that of the economist. International concern about health care costs has resulted in widespread policy reforms, most notable has been the introduction of market mechanisms for the provision of public health care services...read more

By Ann Clewer and David Perkins

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9780132094610 | Prentice Hall, January 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The authors have tackled the subject from the point of view of the profession rather than that of the economist.

Books of Passage: 27 North Carolina Writers on the Books That Changed Their Lives

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By David Perkins (editor) and David Terry (illustrator)

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9781878086532 | Down Home Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: We sell Rare, out-of-print, uncommon, & used BOOKS, PRINTS, MAPS, DOCUMENTS, AND EPHEMERA.

Pete & Shirley: The Great Tar Heel Novel

Product Description: Book by Smith, Lee, Chappell, Fred

By David Perkins (editor)

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9781878086495 | Down Home Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Book by Smith, Lee, Chappell, Fred

Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence

By David Perkins

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Miscellaneous:

9781439105610 | Free Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $17.99

Raleigh: A Living History of North Carolina's Capital

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By David Perkins

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9780895871213 | John F Blair Pub, October 1, 1994, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Book by

New Conceptions of Thinking: A Special Issue of Educational Psychologist

Product Description: What makes thinking good? Although both the general processes and the expertise views point to important dimensions of cognition, neither seems to present a full picture. This special issue explores new conceptions of effective thinking that push beyond both...read more

By Eileen Jay, David Perkins and Shari Tishman

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9780805899924 | Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc, November 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: What makes thinking good?

Is Literary History Possible?

Product Description: "Profoundly searching, yet written with grace and lucidity. A distinguished historian and critic illuminates and answers one of the major problems of literary study in a work that will become and remain a classic."-W. Jackson Bate...read more

By David Perkins

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9780801842740 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: "Profoundly searching, yet written with grace and lucidity.

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9780801847158 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 1, 1993), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: "Profoundly searching, yet written with grace and lucidity.

Theoretical Issues in Literary History

Product Description: Literary history, the dominant form of literary scholarship throughout the 19th century, is currently recapturing the imaginations of a new generation of scholars eager to focus on the context of literature after a half-century or more of "close" readings of isolated texts...read more

By David Perkins (editor)

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9780674879126 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $44.50 | About this edition: Literary history, the dominant form of literary scholarship throughout the 19th century, is currently recapturing the imaginations of a new generation of scholars eager to focus on the context of literature after a half-century or more of "close" readings of isolated texts.

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9780674879133 | Harvard Univ Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Literary history, the dominant form of literary scholarship throughout the nineteenth century, is currently recapturing the imaginations of a new generation of scholars eager to focus on the context of literature after a half-century or more of âcloseâ readings of isolated texts.

Block: Getting Out of Your Own Way : The New Psychology of Counterintentional Behavior in Everyday Life

Product Description: Book by Lipson, Abigail, Perkins, David

By Abigail Lipson and David Perkins

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9780818405167 | Lyle Stuart, May 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Book by Lipson, Abigail, Perkins, David

A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After

This study of British and American poetry from the mid-1920s to the recent past, clarifies the complex interrelations of individuals, groups, and movements, and the contexts in which the poets worked

By David Perkins

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9780674399464 | Belknap Pr, February 1, 1987, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: This study of British and American poetry from the mid-1920s to the recent past, clarifies the complex interrelations of individuals, groups, and movements, and the contexts in which the poets worked

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9780674399471, titled "History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After" | Reissue edition (Belknap Pr, October 15, 1989), cover price $39.00 | About this edition: This study of British and American poetry from the mid-1920s to the recent past, clarifies the complex interrelations of individuals, groups, and movements, and the contexts in which the poets worked

Art, Mind & Education

By Howard Gardner and David Perkins

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9780252060809 | Univ of Illinois Pr, January 1, 1989, cover price $9.95

Teaching Literature: What Is Needed Now

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By James Engell and David Perkins (editor)

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9780674869707 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $20.00

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9780674869714 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $10.50 | About this edition: Book by

A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode

Product Description: The first comprehensive history of modern poetry in English from the 1890s to the 1920s, this book embraces an era of enormous creative variety--the formative period during which the Romantic traditions of the past were abandoned or transformed and a major new literature created...read more

By David Perkins

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9780674399419 | Belknap Pr, January 1, 1976, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: This study of British and American poetry from the mid-1920s to the recent past, clarifies the complex interrelations of individuals, groups, and movements, and the contexts in which the poets worked

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9780674399457 | Belknap Pr, May 16, 1979, cover price $62.50 | About this edition: The first comprehensive history of modern poetry in English from the 1890s to the 1920s, this book embraces an era of enormous creative variety--the formative period during which the Romantic traditions of the past were abandoned or transformed and a major new literature created.

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