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On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the passengers disappear into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs--the painter--and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of a wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the tragedy and the...
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The wife of a town doctor dreams of initiating social reforms and introducing art and literature to the community.
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2020
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Children come into the world biologically designed to educate themselves. Their natural curiosity, playfulness, sociability, willfulness, adventurousness, tendency to look ahead, and desire to do well in the world were all shaped, by natural selection, to serve the function of education. In this collection of essays, developmental psychologist Peter Gray describes, with research evidence, how these natural tendencies play themselves out in children...
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In a Distinctly familiar world darkened by wildfires, floods, and deliberate human cruelty, what makes apparently good people condone and even commit evil? Is human nature merely capricious or are other forces at work? They're in Your Mind is the second in a series of suspenseful novels that expose diverse characters to danger, love, and hate. Are the suggested rationales for their behavior fictive metaphors or real? Should readers be entertained?...
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