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The Good Behavior Builders songs deal with all of the behavioral issues that cause conflict between parents, their children, and others. The songs speak directly to children about familiar behavioral experiences they actually encounter in their everyday lives. Little ones will learn concepts such as: being selfish, being careless, being lazy, breaking promises, disobeying parents, interrupting and whining, and other negative behaviors. Learning that...
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How are animals trained in a zoo for the most endangered species of all?
Join Marian and Ana as they travel through a zoo full of magical, mythical creatures, where good training allows for better care of the animals as well as safety for the trainers and public education. Learn about positive reinforcement with some of the most fantastic beasts ever seen-and then try the same techniques with your pets at home!
Laura VanArendonk Baugh is known internationally...
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Everybody cries! In this picture book, children learn how crying can help them and ways to cope with challenging feelings.
Everyone cries. Sometimes the tears are happy ones; often, though, they come from sadness or frustration. "If you're sad or upset, the tears may come. Crying has a purpose: it lets your feelings out and shows others you might need help."
Sadness and disappointment are common, recurring emotions that children can learn to...
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Children learn boundaries and safety when using screens, and fun things to do when screens are off.
As important as screens are in our lives, we all need to unplug, especially children. This reassuring English-Spanish bilingual picture book offers children and families a starting point for limiting screen time and making the most of the time you have with your screens and without.
While screens are needed for learning and can be helpful and...
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"Flamingo is scared of many things, such as spiders, the dark, and getting lost, but his grandfather shows him how to be brave, and Flamingo explains his fears to his friends so they can all be brave together."--
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Nicholas Carnes is the Creed C. Black Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy. He is the author of White-Collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.
Why working-class Americans almost never become politicians, what that means for democracy, and what reformers can do about it
Why are Americans governed by the rich?...
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"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Government and Politics, Association of American Publishers" Daniel Q. Gillion is the Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt Presidential Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Political Power of Protest and Governing with Words.
How political protests and activism influence voters and candidates
The "silent majority"-a phrase coined by Richard Nixon in 1969 in response...
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Consciousness matters. Arguably it matters more than anything. The purpose of this book is to build towards an explanation of just what the matter is. Nicholas Humphrey begins this compelling exploration of the biggest of big questions with a challenge to the reader, and himself. What's involved in "seeing red"? What is it like for us to see someone else seeing something red?
Seeing a red screen tells us a fact about something in the world. But it...
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Grigore Pop-Eleches is professor of politics and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He is the author of From Economic Crisis to Reform. Joshua A. Tucker is professor of politics and (by courtesy) Russian and Slavic studies and data science at New York University. He is the author of Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990–1999.
It has long been assumed that...
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"Winner of the William H. Riker Book Award, Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association" "Best Book of the Year by one of Politico's Top 50 Thinkers (Sean McElwee)" Avidit Acharya is assistant professor of political science at Stanford University. Matthew Blackwell is assistant professor of government at Harvard University. Maya Sen is associate professor of public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard...
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"Honorable Mention for the Luebbert Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" "Winner of the Robert A. Dahl Award, American Political Science Association" Elizabeth R. Nugent is assistant professor of political science at Yale University. Twitter @ernugent
How differing forms of repression shape the outcomes of democratic transitions
In the wake of the Arab Spring, newly empowered factions in Tunisia...
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"A Foreign Affairs Best of Books" Larry M. Bartels is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law and May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science at Vanderbilt University. His books include Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age and (with Christopher H. Achen) Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (both Princeton).
Why leaders, not citizens, are the...
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"Winner of the Ed A Hewett Book Prize, Association for Slavic, Eastern European, & Eurasian Studies" Bryn Rosenfeld is assistant professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University.
How middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilience
Conventional wisdom holds that the rising middle classes are a force for democracy. Yet in post-Soviet countries like Russia, where the...