Ryan's bookshelf: all en-US Tue, 22 Apr 2025 06:18:25 -0700 60 Ryan's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Intermezzo 208931300 An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]> 454 Sally Rooney 0374602638 Ryan 0 currently-reading 3.86 2024 Intermezzo
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]]> <![CDATA[Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World]]> 25744928 One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results.

Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way.

In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill.

A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.]]> 296 Cal Newport 1455586692 Ryan 0 4.16 2016 Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
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]]> Orwell's Roses 56557019
Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit's account of this understudied aspect of Orwell's life journeys though his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism.

Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her Stalinism, Stalin’s obsession with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s critique of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes her portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as a reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.]]> 320 Rebecca Solnit Ryan 0 4.18 2021 Orwell's Roses
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]]> <![CDATA[The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness]]> 171681821
A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

“With tenacity and candor, Haidt lays out the consequences that have come with allowing kids to drift further into the virtual world . . . While also offering suggestions and solutions that could help protect a new generation of kids.� —Shannon Carlin, ,i>TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?

In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood� began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood� in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood� has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.

Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems� that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.

Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.]]> 400 Jonathan Haidt 0593655036 Ryan 0 4.36 2024 The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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]]> Abundance 176444106 Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to rethink big, entrenched problems that seem mired in systemic from climate change to housing, education to healthcare.

To trace the global history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of growing unaffordability and shortage. After years of refusing to build sufficient housing, the entire country has a national housing crisis. After years of slashing immigration, we don’t have enough workers. After decades of off-shoring manufacturing, we have a shortage of chips for cars and computers. Despite decades of being warned about the consequences of climate change, we haven’t built anything close to the clean energy infrastructure we need. The crisis that’s clicking into focus now has been building for decades—because we haven’t been building enough.

Abundance explains that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear’s villains. Rather, one generation’s solutions have become the next generation’s problems. Rules and regulations designed to solve the environmental problems of the 1970s often prevent urban density and green energy projects that would help solve the environmental problems of the 2020s. Laws meant to ensure that government considers the consequences of its actions in matters of education and healthcare have made it too difficult for government to act consequentially. In the last few decades, our capacity to see problems has sharpened while our ability to solve them has diminished.

Progress requires the ability to see promise rather than just peril in the creation of new ideas and projects, and an instinct to design systems and institutions that make building possible. In a book exploring how can move from a liberalism that not only protects and preserves but also builds, Klein and Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and how we can adopt a mindset directed toward abundance, and not scarcity, to overcome them.]]> 304 Ezra Klein 1668023482 Ryan 0 4.11 2025 Abundance
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]]> <![CDATA[Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me]]> 59577177 A staggering memoir from New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet

When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier.

As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not just O'Hara's past, but also her father's, and her own.

The result is a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves compelling literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond. Also a Poet explores what happens when we want to do better than our parents, yet fear what that might cost us; when we seek their approval, yet mistrust it.

In reckoning with her unique heritage, as well as providing new insights into the life of one of our most important poets, Calhoun offers a brave and hopeful meditation on parents and children, artistic ambition, and the complexities of what we leave behind.]]> 272 Ada Calhoun 0802159788 Ryan 5 3.97 2022 Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
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]]> Death of the Author 214329001 The future of storytelling is here.

Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of her sister's wedding, her life is upended. Disabled, unemployed and from a nosy, high-achieving, judgmental family, she's not sure what comes next.

In her hotel room that night, she takes the risk that will define her life - she decides to write a book VERY unlike her others. A science fiction drama about androids and AI after the extinction of humanity. And everything changes.

What follows is a tale of love and loss, fame and infamy, of extraordinary events in one world, and another. And as Zelu's life evolves, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.

Because sometimes a story really does have the power to reshape the world.]]> 448 Nnedi Okorafor 0063391155 Ryan 0 4.04 2025 Death of the Author
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]]> <![CDATA[Frog & Toad The Complete Collection (Frog and Toad, #1-4)]]> 33627742 256 Arnold Lobel 000813622X Ryan 0 4.84 1987 Frog & Toad The Complete Collection (Frog and Toad, #1-4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mih??ly Cs?-kszentmih??lyi (2015-10-06)]]> 135993867 Mihaly Cshikszentmihalyi Ryan 0 currently-reading 4.03 Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mih??ly Cs?-kszentmih??lyi (2015-10-06)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Learner's Apprentice: AI and the Amplification of Human Creativity]]> 228211706 From the publishers of Invent to Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom�

In The Learner’s AI and the Amplification of Human Creativity, Ken Kahn introduces a fresh perspective of using generative Artificial Intelligence, known as chatbots, to co-create educationally rich experiences and interactive software. Kahn shows how teachers can guide students—from elementary school to college—through the process of creating powerful software applications (apps), illustrated stories, conversations with notable figures, interactive games and adventures, and more.

In The Learner’s Apprentice, you’ll learn how to use AI Create history, science, and literature adventures: Build historically accurate interactive adventures, debate with notable figures, or create immersive science fiction stories in any language.Make software � without learning to code: Learn to make playable interactive games, scientific simulations, augmented reality games, and mobile apps. Make AI-enhanced software apps and train your own machine learning tasks.Design mathematically rich representations: Create charts, graphs, and apps that explore mathematics from proofs to data science.Enhance creativity and storytelling: Write and illustrate stories across different styles, time periods, and subjects, and connect creative writing to various disciplines.Learning by co-creating with a chatbot
The book’s ideas democratize and reimagine a variety of disciplines. There is something here for everyone—affording learners of all ages opportunities to be historians, mathematicians, scientists, and authors, rather than being taught math, science, language, or history.

Making the case for creative AI in education
This is not a book of administrative shortcuts or fantasies about replacing teachers with machines. Rather, The Learner’s Apprentice models generative AI as an apprentice, colleague, co-thinker, proofreader, pair coder, brainstorming buddy, and illustrator—an intellectual ally that amplifies human potential.

The book's hundreds of examples will challenge you to rethink everything you thought you knew about AI in education while demonstrating that AI can be used creatively and constructively.

A novel approach to programming
The Learner’s Apprentice advocates that everyone can co-create software applications that can run in a browser (known as web apps). Students may partner with a chatbot to create remarkable web apps without spending months or years learning to code. The book shares hundreds of detailed examples of how to make interactive web apps that are useful, fun, school-friendly, and support learning across the curriculum.

A real AI expert
Ken Kahn, Ph.D. brings a wealth of experience and expertise to this revolutionary book. In the 1970s, Ken was a student in the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and has been a computer scientist, researcher at Xerox PARC, software developer, and professor of learning and computing. The book's examples document a thoughtful exploration of the untapped potential of chatbots and are shared with lively anecdotes and practical lessons for readers to try themselves.]]> 463 Ken Kahn Ryan 5 5.00 The Learner's Apprentice: AI and the Amplification of Human Creativity
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]]> <![CDATA[Boys and Girls: Superheroes in the Doll Corner]]> 40083
"I will admit my biases up having a three-year old daughter of my own made it impossible for this book to be anything but fun to read. I dare anyone who enjoys children not to enjoy this story about stories, this narrative about narratives."—Jerry Powell, Winterthur Portfolio]]> 128 Vivian Gussin Paley 0226644928 Ryan 0 4.03 1984 Boys and Girls: Superheroes in the Doll Corner
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]]> <![CDATA[Once Upon an Alphabet: Short Stories for all the Letters]]> 20821124 THE alphabet book to top all others, from the illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestsellingĚýThe Day the Crayons Quit!
Ěý
If words make up the stories and letters make up the words, then stories are made up of letters. In this menagerie we have stories made of words, made FOR all the letters.

The most inventive and irresistible book of the year spans a mere 26 letters (don't they all!) and 112 pages. From an Astronaut who's afraid of heights, to a Bridge that ends up burned between friends, to a Cup stuck in a cupboard and longing for freedom, Once Upon an Alphabet is a creative tour de force from A through Z. Slyly funny in a way kids can't resist, and gorgeously illustrated in a way readers of all ages will pour over, this series of interconnected stories and characters explores the alphabet in a way that will forever raise the bar.
Ěý
In Once Upon an Alphabet, #1 New York Times bestseller Oliver Jeffers has created a stunning collection of words and artwork that is a story book, alphabet book, and gorgeously designed art book all in one.

Praise for ONCE UPON AN ALPHABET:

* "The silly, spare, slightly surreal text occasionally rhymes and endlessly surprises.ĚýAn utterly delightful alphabet book."â€�Kirkus Review, starred review
*Ěý"An altogether stimulating, surprising, and satisfying reading experience."â€�School Library Journal, starred review

"Jeffers knows how to catch the attention of his young audience while challenging their imagination, intellect and vocabulary. This whimsical exploration of letters and language begs to be read over and over again."–Book Page Ěý]]> 112 Oliver Jeffers 0399167919 Ryan 0 4.26 2014 Once Upon an Alphabet: Short Stories for all the Letters
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]]> The Great Big Mystery Book 13337194 64 Richard Scarry 0007277989 Ryan 0 3.33 1969 The Great Big Mystery Book
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]]> James 173754979 A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780385550369.]]> 303 Percival Everett Ryan 0 4.46 2024 James
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]]> You Cant Say You Can't Play 56789
In this book Vivian Paley employs a unique strategy to probe the moral dimensions of the classroom. She departs from her previous work by extending her analysis to children through the fifth grade, all the while weaving remarkable fairy tale into her narrative description. Paley introduces a new rule--"You can't say you can't play"--to her kindergarten classroom and solicits the opinions of older children regarding the fairness of such a rule. We hear from those who are rejected as well as those who do the rejecting. One child, objecting to the rule, says, "It will be fairer, but how are we going to have any fun?" Another child defends the principle of classroom bosses as a more benign way of excluding the unwanted.

In a brilliant twist, Paley mixes fantasy and reality, and introduces a new voice into the debate: Magpie, a magical bird, who brings lonely people to a place where a full share of the sun is rightfully theirs. Myth and morality begin to proclaim the same message and the schoolhouse will be the crucible in which the new order is tried. A struggle ensues and even the Magpie stories cannot avoid the scrutiny of this merciless pack of social philosophers who will not be easily caught in a morality tale.

You Can't Say You Can't Play speaks to some of our most deeply held beliefs. Is exclusivity part of human nature? Can we legislate fairness and still nurture creativity and individuality? Can children be freed from the habit of rejection? These are some of the questions. The answers are to be found in the words of Paley's schoolchildren and in the wisdom of their teacher who respectfully listens to them.]]> 144 Vivian Gussin Paley 0674965906 Ryan 0 3.85 1992 You Cant Say You Can't Play
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]]> Il libro dei perché 9702846 Gianni Rodari Ryan 0 4.12 1984 Il libro dei perché
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]]> The Breaks of the Game 75406
David Halberstam, best-selling author of THE FIFTIES and THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST, turns his keen reporter's eye on the sport of basketball -- the players and the coaches, the long road trips, what happens on court, in front of television cameras, and off-court, where no eyes have followed -- until now.]]> 362 David Halberstam 0345296257 Ryan 0 4.21 1981 The Breaks of the Game
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]]> Norbert Goes On Safari 223729073 54 Jason Quail 1839348984 Ryan 5
Now, I'm really excited to read about the continuing adventures of Norbert as he charmingly explores the wonderful world around him!]]> 5.00 Norbert Goes On Safari
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Author and maker Jason Quail combines elements of art, science, technology, storytelling and imagination in his work. Several years ago I got the chance to see the "real life" animatronic Norbert tricycling around the Amazeum science center, delighting young and old alike.

Now, I'm really excited to read about the continuing adventures of Norbert as he charmingly explores the wonderful world around him!
]]> Why I Cook 207567776 Get an unprecedented look inside the mind and kitchen of America’s top chef in this memoir and cookbook by Tom Colicchio, the multiple-James Beard and Emmy Award-winning chef, restaurateur, and television personality. Tom Colicchio cooked his first recipe at 13 years old—a stuffed eggplant from an issue ofĚýCuisineĚýmagazine that he picked up out of boredom—and it changed his life. Now for the first time ever, Tom recounts the extraordinary personal journey that brought him from his working-class Italian background in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to the award-winning kitchens of New York City’s best restaurants, to the set ofĚýTop ChefĚýand the stage of the Emmy Awards. Through 12 memoir chapters and 50 recipes,ĚýWhy I CookĚýshares Tom’s personal reflections of more than 40 years behind the stove. From pre-dawn fishing excursions with his grandfather to running the flat-top at the snack shack of the local swim club, to finding his way as a young chef in New York City, Tom chronicles the dishes and memories that make up the course of his extraordinary life. Along the way Tom reveals his struggle growing up with undiagnosed ADHD, his earliest mistakes in professional kitchens, stories from his time onĚýTop Chef, and so much more. The recipes, which reconnect Tom to home cooking—his first love—are a combination of current Colicchio family favorites, such as Warm Eggplant Salad with Ginger, Chilis, and Fresh Herbs, and heirloom recipes passed down from Tom’s parents and grandparents, like his mother’s Crab Rice and his grandfather’s Beet Salad. Through these meaningful dishes, gorgeous recipe shots, and images from Tom’s childhood,ĚýWhy I CookĚýis the most personal look into Tom’s life yet. Ěý]]> 320 Tom Colicchio 1648291287 Ryan 0 3.83 Why I Cook
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]]> God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater 33290408
Trout, modeled according to Vonnegut on the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon (with whom Vonnegut had an occasional relationship) is a desperate, impoverished but visionary hack writer who functions for Eliot Rosewater as both conscience and horrid example. Rosewater, seeking to put his inheritance to some meaningful use (his father was an entrepreneur), tries to do good within the context of almost illimitable cynicism and corruption.

It is in this novel that Rosewater wanders into a science fiction conference--an actual annual event in Milford, Pennsylvania--and at the motel delivers his famous monologue evoked by science fiction writers and critics for almost half a century: "None of you can write for sour apples... but you're the only people trying to come to terms with the really terrific things which are happening today." Money does not drive Mr. Rosewater (or the corrupt lawyer who tries to shape the Rosewater fortune) so much as outrage at the human condition.

The novel was adapted for a 1979 Alan Menken musical. The novel is told mostly thru a collection of short stories dealing with Eliot's interactions with the citizens of Rosewater County, usually with the last sentence serving as a punch line. The antagonist's tale, Mushari's, is told in a similar short essay fashion. The stories reveal different hypocrisies of humankind in a darkly humorous fashion.]]> 290 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Ryan 0 4.02 1965 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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]]> <![CDATA[Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century]]> 40594328
In Our Man, drawn from Holbrooke’s diaries and papers, we are given a nonfiction narrative that is both intimate and epic in its revelatory portrait of this extraordinary and deeply flawed man and the elite spheres of society and government he inhabited.]]> 608 George Packer 0307958027 Ryan 0 4.37 2019 Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tinkering Workshop: Explore, Invent & Build with Everyday Materials; 100 Hands-On STEAM Projects]]> 220336546 Encourage youngsters to get creative with this activity book that illustrates the principles of science–full of fun projects!

Gather some basic tools and supplies from a hardware store, garage, basement, woodshop, or recycling bin. Now get ready to tinker, explore, and engineer with screws, bendy wire, metal washers, plastic pipes, dowels, electronics, LED lights, and more!ĚýMakerspace educator Ryan JenkinsĚýinspires kids aged 8 to 12 to look at familiar supplies in new and unexpected ways, to think with their hands, troubleshoot tricky constructions, and sharpen their problem-solving skills. Kids are invited to imagine how to use the supplies on hand with projects, such as building Flexible Forts with cardboard and screws, making Art Robots with hobby motors, constructing a Water Factory with plastic pipes, balancing Sky Trams on strings, and engineering Surprising Switches with wire and foil. As they build, they'll learn about balance, center of gravity, comparative measuring, electricity, and more. Engaging photography jump-starts hours of curiosity and creativity. Start with a string, PVC pipe, cardboard ramp, or flexible tube—and see where it leads!]]> Ryan Jenkins 1635869099 Ryan 0 tinkering-project-ideas 0.0 The Tinkering Workshop: Explore, Invent & Build with Everyday Materials; 100 Hands-On STEAM Projects
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]]> <![CDATA[Mastering Digitally Controlled Machines: Laser Cutters, 3D Printers, CNC Mills, and Vinyl Cutters to Make Almost Anything (Maker Innovations Series)]]> 197831874 You'll begin by learning the history of digitally controlled tools, as well as how they work and what materials you can use with them. With this knowledge, you won’t just learn how to make common machines work, you’ll go to the next level and build your own machine―whether that be a plasma cutter or a CNC milling machine.
Between chapters, a profile of an inspiring maker will show you how they use these tools to create amazing products, art, and even new machines! You’ll also find handy overviews of tools, software, and materials to use in a reference appendix. After reading Mastering Digitally Controlled Machines you’ll be able to create something for yourself, your community, or your company.
What You'll Learn
Who This Book Is For
People who want to understand how accessible computer-controlled tools work and build any kind of product themselves. Makerspaces, Fab Labs, and similar spaces will benefit. And people who want to create prototypes and products for themselves or their company/ startup, or to start creating prototypes without much prior knowledge.]]> 348 Jean-Michel Molenaar 1484298489 Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 0.0 Mastering Digitally Controlled Machines: Laser Cutters, 3D Printers, CNC Mills, and Vinyl Cutters to Make Almost Anything (Maker Innovations Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[All Around Bustletown: Winter (All Around Bustletown Series)]]> 43223377 14 Rotraut Susanne Berner 379137415X Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 4.58 2003 All Around Bustletown: Winter (All Around Bustletown Series)
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]]> Can I Build Another Me? 31440461 Can I Build Another Me 32 Shinsuke Yoshitake 0500650780 Ryan 5 tinkering-recs-2025 4.50 2014 Can I Build Another Me?
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]]> Invisible Things 61729220 This creatively wacky exploration of the invisible things that make up the human experience encourages readers to look past the visible and connect with the things that are not seen.

If we could put on a pair of magical invisible glasses and see all the feelings, ideas, and other invisible things that populate our world, what would they look like?ĚýCould you see an itch?ĚýCould you describe hope?ĚýFrom the sound of a dog barking to the rainbow-MAGIC taste of a lollipop, from gratitude to grit, this book will help you meet the many interesting sensations that follow you every day, even if you can't see them.

Explore the way a sad song can sometimes make you happy and discover that laughs—even fake ones—can multiply faster than you'd imagine. As readers give these unknown forces a name, they'll also find a gentle invitation to pause, take a deep breath, and reflect on the invisible things at work in their own lives.Ěý
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NAME THE INVISIBLE THING: There are hidden forces that impact our everyday, particularly for kids. Giving those forces a name, and even a face, helps kids to feel empowered.

PROMPT FOR CONVERSATION: Educators, therapists, and caregivers looking to have nuanced or challenging conversations with kids about their own experiences can use this as a jumping off point for conversation: What invisible things can you name in your life?Ěý

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING: One common exercise teachers use is to ask kids to point to their emotion on a chart and then name it, for which this book will be a powerful tool.Ěý

REVIEWED BY MENTAL HEALTH EXPERT: This book was vettedĚýby a licensed independent clinical social worker specializing in mental health for kids!
]]> 52 Andy J. Pizza 1797223127 Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 4.33 Invisible Things
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]]> The Snowy Day (Peter, #1) 310258 Winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal!

No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than The Snowy Day. Universal in its appeal, the story has become a favorite of millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever.

The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.

"Keats's sparse collage illustrations capture the wonder and beauty a snowy day can bring to a small child."�Barnes & Noble

"Ezra Jack Keats's classic The Snowy Day, winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal, pays homage to the wonder and pure pleasure a child experiences when the world is blanketed in snow."�Publisher's Weekly

"The book is notable not only for its lovely artwork and tone, but also for its importance as a trailblazer. According toĚýHorn BookĚýmagazine,ĚýThe Snowy DayĚýwas "the very first full-color picture book to feature a small black hero"—yet another reason to add this classic to your shelves. It's as unique and special as a snowflake."—Amazon.com]]> 32 Ezra Jack Keats 0140501827 Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 4.20 1962 The Snowy Day (Peter, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[I viaggi di Giovannino Perdigiorno]]> 196599 96 Gianni Rodari 8879261835 Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 4.25 1973 I viaggi di Giovannino Perdigiorno
author: Gianni Rodari
name: Ryan
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1973
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]]> <![CDATA[Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)]]> 40591677
In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work! , both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple rules for how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself—for life.

The creative life is not a linear journey to a finish line, it’s a loop—so find a daily routine, because today is the only day that matters. Disconnect from the world to connect with yourself—sometimes you just have to switch into airplane mode. Keep Going celebrates getting outdoors and taking a walk (as director Ingmar Bergman told his daughter, ”The demons hate fresh air�). Pay attention, and especially pay attention to what you pay attention to. Worry less about getting things done, and more about the worth of what you’re doing. Instead of focusing on making your mark, work to leave things better than you found them.

Keep Going and its timeless, practical, and ethical principles are for anyone trying to sustain a meaningful and productive life.
Ěý]]> 224 Austin Kleon 1523506644 Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 4.26 2019 Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of Play: Designing the world's greatest playscapes]]> 211199621 208 Emmy Watts 1914314697 Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 5.00 The Art of Play: Designing the world's greatest playscapes
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]]> <![CDATA[When You Wonder, You're Learning: Mister Rogers' Enduring Lessons for Raising Creative, Curious, Caring Kids]]> 54816403 Ěý
Playful and practical,Ěý When You Wonder, You're LearningĚý introduces a new generation of families to the lessons ofĚý Mister Rogers' Neighborhood . By exploring the science behind the iconic television program, the book reveals what Fred Rogers called the “tools for learningâ€�: skills and mindsets that scientists now consider essential. These tools—curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and more—have been shown to boost everything from academic learning to children’s well-being, and they benefit kids of every background and age. They cost next to nothing to develop, and they hinge on the very things that make life worthwhile: self-acceptance; close, loving relationships; and a deep regard for one’s neighbor.
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When You Wonder, You're LearningĚý shows parents and educators the many ways they might follow in Rogersâ€� footsteps, sharing his “tools for learningâ€� with digital-age kids. With insights from thinkers, scientists, and teachers—many of whom worked with Rogers himself—the book is an essential exploration into how kids and their parents can excel at what Rogers taught best: being human.]]> 272 Gregg Behr 0306874733 Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 4.34 When You Wonder, You're Learning: Mister Rogers' Enduring Lessons for Raising Creative, Curious, Caring Kids
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]]> Shadowology 34697455 •The perfect gift book

A humorous play of shadows that evokes a world of imagination. In Vincent Bal's world, a tea cup becomes an elephant, a wineglass, a prisoner, and a fork staff-lines. By using the shadows of everyday objects, Bal creates highly original and quirky images.

Text in English and Dutch.

]]> 160 Vincent Bal 9401444889 Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 4.00 Shadowology
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]]> Shadow 9066002
Internationally acclaimed artist Suzy Lee uses these simple elements to create a visual tour de force that perfectly captures the joy of creative play and celebrates the power of imagination. Stunning in their simplicity, Lee's illustrations, in just two shades of color, present an adventure that begins and ends with the click of a light bulb.]]> 44 Suzy Lee 0811872807 Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 4.09 2010 Shadow
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]]> Hirameki: Draw What You See 29533257 In Japanese, it means a flash of inspiration, which is just what artists Peng & Hu had when they saw a cow with a splotch that looked just like a famous filmstar � and realized that even the splodgiest blot could be easily turned into something amazing. Since then, their passion for collecting blots and dots has taken over their lives.

� Highly creative and a little bit anarchic, this is the perfect outlet for all those who are bored by drawing inside the lines
� It's for everybody: even the most inexperienced doodlers can produce hundreds of sensational scribbles.
� Readers hone their Hirameki skills in seven sections, allowing them to progress from single drawings to complete blot-to-blot scenes.
� Artists Peng & Hu guide the reader with prompts and hints.]]> 192 Peng 0500292485 Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 4.48 2016 Hirameki: Draw What You See
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]]> <![CDATA[Block Print: Everything You Need to Know for Printing with Lino Blocks, Rubber Blocks, Foam Sheets, and Stamp Sets]]> 29657730 144 Andrea Lauren 1631591819 Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 4.10 2016 Block Print: Everything You Need to Know for Printing with Lino Blocks, Rubber Blocks, Foam Sheets, and Stamp Sets
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average rating: 4.10
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]]> <![CDATA[The Maker Magician's Handbook: A Beginner's Guide to Magic + Making]]> 56429754 120 Mario Marchese 168045658X Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 5.00 The Maker Magician's Handbook: A Beginner's Guide to Magic + Making
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]]> <![CDATA[Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines]]> 136342721 Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls.

“Dr. Joy Buolamwini has been an essential figure in bringing irresponsible, profit-hungry tech giants to their knees. If you’re going to read only one book about AI, this should be it.”—Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation
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To most of us, it seems like recent developments in artificial intelligence emerged out of nowhere to pose unprecedented threats to humankind. But to Dr. Joy Buolamwini, who has been at the forefront of AI research, this moment has been a long time in the making.

After tinkering with robotics as a high school student in Memphis and then developing mobile apps in Zambia as a Fulbright fellow, Buolamwini followed her lifelong passion for computer science, engineering, and art to MIT in 2015. As a graduate student at the “Future Factory,� she did groundbreaking research that exposed widespread racial and gender bias in AI services from tech giants across the world.

Unmasking AI goes beyond the headlines about existential risks produced by Big Tech. It is the remarkable story of how Buolamwini uncovered what she calls “the coded gaze”—the evidence of encoded discrimination and exclusion in tech products—and how she galvanized the movement to prevent AI harms by founding the Algorithmic Justice League. Applying an intersectional lens to both the tech industry and the research sector, she shows how racism, sexism, colorism, and ableism can overlap and render broad swaths of humanity “excoded� and therefore vulnerable in a world rapidly adopting AI tools. Computers, she reminds us, are reflections of both the aspirations and the limitations of the people who create them.

Encouraging experts and non-experts alike to join this fight, Buolamwini writes, “The rising frontier for civil rights will require algorithmic justice. AI should be for the people and by the people, not just the privileged few.�]]> 336 Joy Buolamwini 0593241835 Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 4.13 Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
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]]> The Nature of Code 16123828 520 Daniel Shiffman 0985930802 Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 4.60 2012 The Nature of Code
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]]> <![CDATA[The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry]]> 207568356 The Universe in VerseĚýis an ode to wonder and an exploration of the human search for truth and meaning.Ěý Poetry and science, as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply."ĚýIn 15 short essays on subjects ranging from the mystery of dark matter and the infinity of pi to the resilience of trees and the intelligence of octopuses, Popova tells the stories of scientific searching and discovery. These stories are interwoven with details from the very real and human lives of scientists—many of them women, many underrecognized—and poets inspired by the same questions and the beauty they reveal.ĚýEach essay is paired with a poem reflecting its subject by poets ranging fromĚýEmily Dickinson,ĚýW. H. Auden,Ěýand Edna St. Vincent Millay to Maya Angelou, Diane Ackerman, and Tracy K. Smith,Ěýand is stunningly illustrated by celebrated artist Ofra Amit. Together, they wake us to a "reality aglow with wonder."Ěý]]> 112 Maria Popova 1635868831 Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 4.24 2024 The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry
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]]> <![CDATA[World of Rot: Learn All about the Wriggly, Slimy, Super-Cool Decomposers We Couldn’t Live Without]]> 204593626 World of Rot takes readers on a deep dive into the process of decay, from the science behind it to an up-close and personal look at the organisms that do the dirty work to make our planet livable. With a touch of humor and quirky full-color illustrations, kids will learn about the life-recycling system happening all around us—in the sea, in the soil, and even inside our own bodies. Profiles of decomposers such as hungry fungi and familiar worms, poop-slurping butterflies, and slimy banana slugs offer something to pique the curiosity of every kid. Readers will also learn the heroic role decomposers might play in fighting climate change and eating plastic.Ěý]]> 80 Britt Crow-Miller 1635866693 Ryan 0 tinkering-recs-2025 4.51 World of Rot: Learn All about the Wriggly, Slimy, Super-Cool Decomposers We Couldn’t Live Without
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]]> <![CDATA[Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman]]> 203579088 A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece.


Wit’s End isn’t just a state of mind. It’s the name of a gravel road, the address of a run-down off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Patrick Hutchison purchased on a whim in the mossy woods of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state.


To say Hutchison didn’t know what he was getting into is no more an exaggeration than to say he’s a man with nearly zero carpentry skills. Well, used to be. You can learn a lot over six years or renovations.


CABIN is the story of those renovations, but it's also a love story; of a place, of possibilities, and of the process of renovation, of seeing what could be instead of what is. It is a book for those who know what it’s like to bite off more than you can chew, or who desperately wish to.

]]> 304 Patrick Hutchison 1250285704 Ryan 5 4.04 2024 Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
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]]> <![CDATA[The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia]]> 34713325
Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen’s understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own–as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings.

Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today’s terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.]]> 515 Masha Gessen 159463453X Ryan 0 4.18 2017 The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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]]> <![CDATA[50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)]]> 56520420 Gever Tulley Ryan 0 tinkering-project-ideas 4.00 2009 50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> A Man Without a Country 4979 A Man Without a Country is intimate, tender, and brimming with the scope of Kurt Vonnegut’s passions.]]> 145 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 081297736X Ryan 0 4.10 2005 A Man Without a Country
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]]> <![CDATA[Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)]]> 60850767
Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive, eking out a hardy existence. Yet life is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost.

Then strangers appear. They possess unparalleled knowledge and thrilling technology � and they've arrived from another world to help humanity’s colonies. But not all is as it seems, and the price of the strangers' help may be the colony itself.

Children of Memory by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky is a far-reaching space opera spanning generations, species and galaxies.]]> 486 Adrian Tchaikovsky 1529087201 Ryan 0 3.97 2022 Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
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average rating: 3.97
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]]> The Wind in the Willows 49944
Kenneth Grahame's classic children's story tells the adventures of the amiable Mole, the dapper Water Rat and the marvellous Badger as they endeavour to keep the wayward Toad out of trouble. Sensitively abridged and beautifully illustrated with great charm and detail by Inga Moore.]]> 184 Kenneth Grahame 0763622427 Ryan 5 4.25 1908 The Wind in the Willows
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average rating: 4.25
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]]> <![CDATA[The Adventures of Pinocchio (Creative Editions)]]> 245748 192 Carlo Collodi 1568461909 Ryan 0 currently-reading 4.13 1883 The Adventures of Pinocchio (Creative Editions)
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]]> Razorblade Tears 54860585 A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance.

Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.

The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss.

Derek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.

Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781250252708]]> 336 S.A. Cosby Ryan 0 4.08 2021 Razorblade Tears
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]]> Pastoralia 14295
The stories in Pastoralia are set in a slightly skewed version of America, where elements of contemporary life have been merged, twisted, and amplified, casting their absurdity—and our humanity—in a startling new light. Whether he writes a gothic morality tale in which a male exotic dancer is haunted by his maiden aunt from beyond the grave, or about a self-help guru who tells his followers his mission is to discover who's been "crapping in your oatmeal," Saunders's stories are both indelibly strange and vividly real.]]> 188 George Saunders 0747553866 Ryan 0 4.10 2000 Pastoralia
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]]> <![CDATA[Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes that Dot Our Planet]]> 199455332 From TikTok sensation and educator Geo Rutherford, creator of the hit series “Spooky Lake Month,� comes a thrilling nonfiction book that plumbs the depths of unusual lakes around the world.

Some of Earth’s strangest—and creepiest—wonders lie deep below the surface. There’s Lake Natron, a Tanzanian lake so briny that its waters can mummify any creature that touches its surface; Lake Maracaibo, a Venezuelan tidal bay where a constantly brewing storm sends an average of 28 lightning bolts per second into the water; and at the bottom of Lake Superior, the crew of the USS Kamloops—which mysteriously disappeared in 1921—remains somehow almost perfectly preserved.

Middle-grade readers will learn not only about the science of hydrology, but why understanding the natural world is crucial to protecting it from pollution and climate change. Backed by extensive research and packed with all-new content—including eerie and eye-catching watercolor illustrations�Spooky Lakes takes readers on an adventure through weird and wild waters.]]> 91 Geo Rutherford 1419770535 Ryan 0 to-read 4.65 Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes that Dot Our Planet
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]]> Conclave 29397486
Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election.

They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals.

Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.]]> 288 Robert Harris Ryan 0 4.02 2016 Conclave
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> <![CDATA[The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between]]> 30285063 From the author of In the Country of Men, a Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, comes a beautifully written, uplifting memoir of his journey home to his native Libya in search of the truth behind his father’s disappearance.
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When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime’s most prominent opponents in exile, he was held in a secret prison in Libya. Hisham would never see him again. But he never gave up hope that his father might still be alive. “Hope,� as he writes, “is cunning and persistent.�
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Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Qaddafi, the prison cells are empty and there is no sign of Jaballa Matar. Hisham returns with his mother and wife to the homeland he never thought he’d go back to again. The Return is the story of what he found there. It is at once an exquisite meditation on history, politics, and art, a brilliant portrait of a nation and a people on the cusp of change, and a disquieting depiction of the brutal legacy of absolute power. Above all, it is a universal tale of loss and love and of one family’s life. Hisham Matar asks the harrowing question: How does one go on living in the face of a loved one’s uncertain fate?

Advance praise for The Return
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“What a brilliant book. Hisham Matar has the quality all historians—of the world and the self—most need: He knows how to stand back and let the past speak. In chronicling his quest for his father, his manner is fastidious, even detached, but his anger is raw and unreconciled; through his narrative art he bodies out the shape of loss and gives a universality to his very particular experience of desolation. The Return reads as easily as a thriller, but is a story that will stick: A person is lost, but gravity and resonance remain.�—Hilary Mantel
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�The Return is a riveting book about love and hope, but it is also a moving meditation on grief and loss. It draws a memorable portrait of a family in exile and manages also to explore the politics of Libya with subtlety and steely intelligence. It is a quest for the truth in a dark time, constructed with a novelist's skill, written in tones that are both precise and passionate. It is likely to become a classic.�—Colm Tóibín
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“A triumph of art over tyranny, structurally thrilling, intensely moving, The Return is a treasure for the ages.�—Peter Carey
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�The Return is tremendously powerful. Although it filled me with rage again and again, I never lost sight of Matar’s beautiful intelligence as he tried to get to the heart of the mystery. I am so very grateful he has written this book.�—Nadeem Aslam


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 238 Hisham Matar 0812994833 Ryan 0 4.21 2016 The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
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]]> <![CDATA[Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World � and Why Things Are Better Than You Think]]> 34890015 Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.

When asked simple questions about global trends�what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.

In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).

Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.

It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.

Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. ]]> 342 Hans Rosling 1473637465 Ryan 0 4.34 2018 Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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]]> What Do People Do All Day? 313375
With plenty to spot on every page, this book is a timeless classic, written and illustrated by the author.]]> 64 Richard Scarry 0394818237 Ryan 0 4.26 1968 What Do People Do All Day?
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]]> Kairos 58877223 379 Jenny Erpenbeck 332860085X Ryan 0 3.35 2021 Kairos
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average rating: 3.35
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]]> Bel Canto 5826 318 Ann Patchett Ryan 0 3.93 2001 Bel Canto
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average rating: 3.93
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]]> To Paradise 57739876 From the author of the classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.

In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances.

These three sections are joined in an enthralling and ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can’t exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness.

To Paradise is a fin de siècle novel of marvellous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love � partners, lovers, children, friends, family and even our fellow citizens � and the pain that ensues when we cannot.]]> 720 Hanya Yanagihara 0385547935 Ryan 0 3.74 2022 To Paradise
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]]> <![CDATA[The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions]]> 61724281
“Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.� � Wall Street Journal

Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand—and fail to understand—mental illness.

When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable.ĚýBoth children of college professors, the boys were best friends and keen competitors, and, when they both got into Yale University, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite.

Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. But all wasn’t as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital.

Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Michael was still in the hospital when he learned he'd been accepted to Yale Law School, and still battling delusions when he decided to trade his halfway house for the top law school in the country. He not only managed to graduate, but after his extraordinary story was featured in The New York Times , soldĚýa memoir for a large sum. Ron Howard bought film rights, completing the dream for Michael and his tirelessly supportive girlfriend Carrie. But then Michael, in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy, stabbed Carrie to death with a kitchen knife and became a front-page story of an entirely different sort.

The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen's brilliant and heartbreaking account of an American tragedy. It is a story about the bonds of family, friendship, and community; the promise of intellectual achievement; and the lure of utopian solutions. Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, at times almost unbearably sad, The Best Minds is an extreme version of a story that is tragically familiar to all too many.ĚýIn the hands of a writer of Jonathan Rosen's gifts and dedication, its significance will echo widely.]]> 576 Jonathan Rosen 1594206570 Ryan 0 3.99 2023 The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
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]]> <![CDATA[Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane]]> 56347224 A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021

Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane.

With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight.

Auster’s probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville’s most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death.

In Burning Boy, Auster not only puts forth an immersive read about an unforgettable life but also, casting a dazzled eye on Crane’s astonishing originality and productivity, provides uniquely knowing insight into Crane’s creative processes to produce the rarest of reading experiences―the dramatic biography of a brilliant writer as only another literary master could tell it.]]> 800 Paul Auster 1250235839 Ryan 0 4.09 2021 Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
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]]> <![CDATA[More Tinkering: How Kids in the Tropics Learn by Making Stuff]]> 42250363 Tinkering: Kids Learn by Making Stuff with this all-new volume that features more than three dozen fun and educational tinkering projects based on his years of working with kids in the tropical island nation of Timor-Leste. Step-by-step instructions accompanied by full-color photos take you through a range of enjoyable projects that explore life sciences, physics, chemistry, earth sciences, and mathematics. You'll discover how math is used to make baskets, how fungi create fermentation, how electricity can make a magnet, how the greenhouse effect creates warming, and much more. The author also enlivens his latest batch of tinkering projects with colorful tales of his experiences in the tropic and the lives of the people he' s met there.

Inside you'll find:



Clear directions for making simple projects and doing activities that teach science, mathematics and engineeringProjects rooted in day to day life and experience in a small, developing nation in the Asian tropicsFull-color photographs throughoutExplicit connections to standard STEAM concepts, K-12Activities doable with less than $5 worth of common materials

This book is perfect for parents, teachers, and students with an interest in hands-on, tinkering-based science and mathematics education, whether in traditional schools or in home-schooling situations. It will also be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about developing nations, the culture and unique history of Timor-Leste, tropical nations or Asian cultures, with specific links to Indonesia, Portugal, or Australia.]]> 288 Curt Gabrielson 1680454358 Ryan 0 tinkering-inspiration 5.00 More Tinkering: How Kids in the Tropics Learn by Making Stuff
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]]> Newspaper Blackout 6612726 Poet and cartoonist Austin Kleon has discovered a new way to read between the lines. Armed with a daily newspaper and a permanent marker, he constructs through deconstruction--eliminating the words he doesn't need to create a new art form: Newspaper Blackout poetry.

Highly original, Kleon's verse ranges from provocative to lighthearted, and from moving to hysterically funny, and undoubtedly entertaining. The latest creations in a long history of "found art," "Newspaper Blackout" will challenge you to find new meaning in the familiar and inspiration from the mundane.

"Newspaper Blackout" contains original poems by Austin Kleon, as well as submissions from readers of Kleon's popular online blog and a handy appendix on how to create your own blackout poetry.

]]> 173 Austin Kleon 0061732974 Ryan 0 tinkering-inspiration 3.92 2010 Newspaper Blackout
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]]> <![CDATA[Growing Without Schooling: A Record of a Grassroots Movement, Vol. 1: August 1977 - December 1979]]> 786808 262 John C. Holt 0913677108 Ryan 0 4.25 1997 Growing Without Schooling: A Record of a Grassroots Movement, Vol. 1: August 1977 - December 1979
author: John C. Holt
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average rating: 4.25
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]]> <![CDATA[The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer]]> 906120 256 Seymour Papert 0465010636 Ryan 0 4.09 1993 The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer
author: Seymour Papert
name: Ryan
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1993
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]]> <![CDATA[Wood Shop: Handy Skills and Creative Building Projects for Kids]]> 38746174 Wood Shop is an exciting introduction for today’s kids to an ages-old tradition: building with wood.

With step-by-step photographs and clear instructions, aspiring woodworkers learn essential skills such as how to drive a nail, use a power drill, “measure twice, cut once,� and saw correctly. Then the fun begins as they put these skills to work building 18 cool and creative projects to furnish the wood shop, decorate their bedrooms and homes, and create their own play equipment. Favorite projects include the Sky High Stilts, Suspended Shelves, an Easy-Up Tent, and a Mighty Message Board. Wood Shop is the perfect gift for tinkerers, young makers, fans of Lego toys, and want-to-be carpenters and engineers.]]> 216 Margaret Larson 1612129420 Ryan 0 tinkering-project-ideas 4.20 Wood Shop: Handy Skills and Creative Building Projects for Kids
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]]> <![CDATA[Cardboard Box Engineering: Cool, Inventive Projects for Tinkerers, Makers & Future Scientists]]> 49150965 176 Jonathan Adolph 1635862140 Ryan 0 tinkering-project-ideas 4.30 Cardboard Box Engineering: Cool, Inventive Projects for Tinkerers, Makers & Future Scientists
author: Jonathan Adolph
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]]> <![CDATA[Making Makers: kids, tools, and the future of innovation]]> 21483533 160 AnnMarie Thomas 1457183749 Ryan 0 3.83 2014 Making Makers: kids, tools, and the future of innovation
author: AnnMarie Thomas
name: Ryan
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2014
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]]> <![CDATA[How Children Learn (Classics in Child Development)]]> 573003 320 John C. Holt 0201484048 Ryan 0 4.17 1967 How Children Learn (Classics in Child Development)
author: John C. Holt
name: Ryan
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1967
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)]]> 55457493
Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to his life.

As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn't that be a bonus?

But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn't bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can The Thursday Murder Club find the killer (and the diamonds) before the killer finds them?]]> 422 Richard Osman Ryan 0 4.36 2021 The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
author: Richard Osman
name: Ryan
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2021
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]]> <![CDATA[Joe Kaufman's What Makes It Go? What Makes It Work? What Makes It Fly? What Makes It Float?]]> 1745378 93 Joe Kaufman 0307157679 Ryan 0 to-read, favorite-kids-books 4.47 1971 Joe Kaufman's What Makes It Go? What Makes It Work? What Makes It Fly? What Makes It Float?
author: Joe Kaufman
name: Ryan
average rating: 4.47
book published: 1971
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Exploratorium Cookbook I: A Construction Manual for Exploratorium Exhibits]]> 3099089 254 Raymond Bruman 0943451000 Ryan 0 tinkering-inspiration 3.00 1987 Exploratorium Cookbook I: A Construction Manual for Exploratorium Exhibits
author: Raymond Bruman
name: Ryan
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1987
rating: 0
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]]> Great Circle 54976986 An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780525656975 can be found here.

Spanning Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles, Great Circle tells the unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost.

After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There—after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes—Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles.

A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two women's fates—and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times—collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead.]]> 608 Maggie Shipstead Ryan 0 4.06 2021 Great Circle
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)]]> 6437061 427 N.K. Jemisin 0316043915 Ryan 0 3.88 2010 The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)
author: N.K. Jemisin
name: Ryan
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> King Bidgood's in the Bathtub 176626 32 Audrey Wood 0152055789 Ryan 0 to-read, favorite-kids-books 4.21 1985 King Bidgood's in the Bathtub
author: Audrey Wood
name: Ryan
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1985
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]]> <![CDATA[Sylvester and the Magic Pebble]]> 457762 32 William Steig 067166154X Ryan 0 to-read, favorite-kids-books 4.16 1969 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
author: William Steig
name: Ryan
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1969
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]]> Where the Sidewalk Ends 30119 Come in... for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins.

Shel Silverstein, theĚýNew York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound.

You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.

Shel Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings stretches the bounds of imagination and will be cherished by readers of all ages.]]> 176 Shel Silverstein 0060513039 Ryan 0 to-read, favorite-kids-books 4.34 1974 Where the Sidewalk Ends
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name: Ryan
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1974
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]]> <![CDATA[Jon Klassen's Hat Box (The Hat Trilogy)]]> 43671840 Hold on to all of your hats at once for this special collection of Jon Klassen's celebrated hat trilogy.

The bear's hat is gone, and he wants it back. A fish has stolen a hat; will he get away with it? Two turtles have found one hat, but the hat looks good on both of them. . . . Jon Klassen's deliciously deadpan hat tales continue to surprise and delight readers of all ages, and they are all now available in one impeccably designed boxed set along with a free frameable print. Included are:

I Want My Hat Back
This Is Not My Hat
We Found a Hat]]> 136 Jon Klassen 0763666971 Ryan 0 to-read, favorite-kids-books 4.81 Jon Klassen's Hat Box (The Hat Trilogy)
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]]> Lift 52889468
That is, until the sudden appearance of a mysterious new button opens up entire realms of possibility, places where she can escape and explore on her own.

This is a story that will lift your spirits and expand your imagination, by the award-winning creators of Drawn Together.]]> 56 Minh LĂŞ 1368036929 Ryan 0 to-read, favorite-kids-books 4.36 2020 Lift
author: Minh LĂŞ
name: Ryan
average rating: 4.36
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]]> <![CDATA[Harold and the Purple Crayon (Harold, #1)]]> 98573 64 Crockett Johnson 0747532036 Ryan 0 to-read, favorite-kids-books 4.27 1955 Harold and the Purple Crayon (Harold, #1)
author: Crockett Johnson
name: Ryan
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1955
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]]> <![CDATA[[ SHADOWVILLE ] By Bartalos, Michael ( Author) 2013 [ Hardcover ]]]> 124113279 0 unknown author Ryan 0 to-read 4.50 [ SHADOWVILLE ] By Bartalos, Michael ( Author) 2013 [ Hardcover ]
author: unknown author
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections]]> 291404 This new Second Edition reflects the growing interest and deepening reflection upon the Reggio approach, as well as increasing sophistication in adaptation to the American context. Included are many entirely new chapters and an updated list of resources, along with original chapters revised and extended. The book represents a dialogue between Italian educators who founded and developed the system and North Americans who have considered its implications for their own settings and issues. The book is a comprehensive introduction covering history and philosophy, the parent perspective, curriculum and methods of teaching, school and system organization, the use of space and physical environments, and adult professional roles including special education. The final section describes implications for American policy and professional development and adaptations in United States primary, preschool, and child care classrooms.]]> 520 Carolyn P. Edwards 156750311X Ryan 0 4.29 1993 The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections
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average rating: 4.29
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]]> New Art/Science Affinities 22212341 192 Andrea Grover 0977205347 Ryan 0 5.00 2011 New Art/Science Affinities
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]]> Art as Experience 75291 Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature.]]> 371 John Dewey 0399531971 Ryan 0 3.94 1934 Art as Experience
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name: Ryan
average rating: 3.94
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]]> <![CDATA[Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up]]> 6321411 416 K.C. Cole 0151008221 Ryan 0 4.20 2009 Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up
author: K.C. Cole
name: Ryan
average rating: 4.20
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]]> <![CDATA[Machine Project: A Field Guide to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art]]> 7757594 172 Machine Project 0975314041 Ryan 0 4.67 2010 Machine Project: A Field Guide to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
author: Machine Project
name: Ryan
average rating: 4.67
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]]> <![CDATA[Twenty Things to Do with a Computer Forward 50: Future Visions of Education Inspired by Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon’s Seminal Work]]> 60382360 Twenty Things to Do with a Computer, a revolutionary document that would set the course of education for the next fifty years and beyond. This book, Twenty Things to Do with a Computer Forward 50, is a celebration of the vision set forth by Papert and Solomon a half-century ago. Four dozen experts from around the world invite us to consider the original provocations, reflect on their implementation, and chart a course for the future through personal recollections, learning stories, and imaginative scenarios.

Twenty Things to Do with a Computer Forward 50 can inspire parents, educators, and aspiring teachers to make the world a better place for learning.

The impact of Twenty Things is all around us. In 1971, Solomon and Papert predicted 1:1 personal computing, the maker movement, the rise of computational thinking, children programming computers, robotic construction kits, computer science for all, and integrating computing across the curriculum. All of this, years, or even decades, before such notions became more commonplace.

In fewer than thirty pages, Twenty Things to Do with a Computer introduced readers to an exciting world in which children use computers they own to create, solve problems, control their world, and bring powerful ideas to life across subject areas. More importantly, Twenty Things situates the ideals of progressive education in a modern context. Papert and Solomon demonstrated how computing could be creative, humane, whimsical, childlike, and a way to learn “everything else,� even ideas at the frontiers of mathematics and science.

Contributors to this book include scholars and tech pioneers who worked with Papert and Solomon in the 1970s, phenomenal classroom teachers, inventors, researchers, school administrators, university professors, and educational technology leaders. Essays in this collection offer multiple pathways for school reform. Authors include Cynthia Solomon, Sugata Mitra, Conrad Wolfram, Audrey Watters, David Thornburg, Yasmin Kafai, Dale Dougherty, Nettrice Gaskins, Dan Lynn Watt, Molly Lynn Watt, Gary Stager, Artemis Papert, Stephen Heppell, along with forty other brilliant thinkers and legendary educators.

Twenty Things to Do with a Computer Forward 50 is an effort to preserve a historical document and share it with future of generations seeking a more creative, personal, empowering, and meaningful educational experience for young people.

This book is a must-read leadersPreservice teachersPolicymakersLibrariansTechnology developersParents]]> 737 Gary S Stager Ryan 0 4.00 Twenty Things to Do with a Computer Forward 50: Future Visions of Education Inspired by Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon’s Seminal Work
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]]> <![CDATA[Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom]]> 27091 Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.

Bell hooks speaks to the heart of education today: how can we rethink teaching practices in the age of multiculturalism? What do we do about teachers who do not want to teach, and students who do not want to learn? How should we deal with racism and sexism in the classroom?

Full of passion and politics, Teaching to Transgress combines practical knowledge of the classroom with a deeply felt connection to the world of emotions and feelings. This is the rare book about teachers and students that dares to raise critical questions about eros and rage, grief and reconciliation, and the future of teaching itself.

"To educate as the practice of freedom," writes bell hooks, "is a way of teaching that any one can learn." Teaching to Transgress is the record of one gifted teacher's struggle to make classrooms work.

–from the back of the book]]> 216 bell hooks 0415908086 Ryan 0 4.46 1994 Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
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]]> Inventing Kindergarten 1515172 Kindergarten - a coinage of Froebel's combining the German words for children and garden - involved not only nature study, singing, dancing, and storytelling, but also play with the so-called Froebel gifts - a series of twenty educational toys, including building blocks, parquetry tiles, origami papers, modeling clay, sewing kits, and other design projects, that became wildly popular in the nineteenth century.
Architect and artist Norman Brosterman tells the story of Froebel's life, explains his goals and educational philosophy, and - most remarkably - describes each of the gifts, illustrating them all, as well as many examples of art by nineteenth-century kindergarten teachers and children, and diagrams from long-forgotten kindergarten textbooks.
In a section of the book devoted to the origin of abstract art and modern architecture, Brosterman shows how this vast educational program may have influenced the course of art history. Using examples from the work of important artists who attended kindergarten - including Georges Braque, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier, among others - he demonstrates that the design ideas of kindergarten prefigured modern conceptions of the aesthetic power of geometric abstraction.]]> 160 Norman Brosterman 0810935260 Ryan 0 4.17 1997 Inventing Kindergarten
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]]> <![CDATA[Things Come Apart: A Teardown Manual for Modern Living]]> 16283931 128 Todd McLellan 0500516766 Ryan 0 4.23 2013 Things Come Apart: A Teardown Manual for Modern Living
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name: Ryan
average rating: 4.23
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]]> <![CDATA[Seeing Science: An Illustrated Guide to the Wonders of the Universe]]> 38530953
Art and science come together to help readers explore the wonders of the universe.

� Colorful, hand-drawn illustrations in a fun, quirky style
� Covers a variety of scientific topics--from biology and astronomy to chemistry
� Features metaphors and facts to give readers a range of scientific information

Those who like Wonders of the Universe (Wonders Series) and Atlas of Human Anatomy (Netter Basic Science) will love this book.

� Fun gift for fans of Pop culture and pop science
� Trivia buffs will love this book
� Great for kids and adults alike]]> 152 Iris Gottlieb 1452167133 Ryan 0 tinkering-inspiration 3.65 2018 Seeing Science: An Illustrated Guide to the Wonders of the Universe
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average rating: 3.65
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]]> <![CDATA[The Best of Instructables Volume I: Do-It-Yourself Projects from the World's Biggest Show & Tell]]> 4438148
Now, with more than 10,000 articles, the Instructables staff and editors of magazine -- with help from the Instructables community -- have put together a collection of solid, time- and user-tested technology and craft projects from the site. The Best of Instructables Volume 1 includes plenty of clear, full-color photographs, complete step-by-step instructions, as well as tips, tricks, and new build techniques you won't find anywhere else -- even material never seen before on Instructables.

Some of the more popular how-to articles



While the book focuses on technology, it also includes such projects as creating cool furniture from cheap components, ways of making your own toys, and killer sci-fi and fantasy costumes and props. Anything but a reference book, The Best of Instructables Volume I embodies the inspirational fun, creativity, and sense of community that has attracted more than 200,000 registered members in just three years. Many of the articles include sidebars that show how other builders have realized or improved upon the same project.

Making things is cool everyone wants to be a creator, not just a consumer. This is the spirit of the "new handy heyday", fostered by Instructables.com, magazine , and others, and celebrated by this incredible book -- The Best of Instructables Volume 1 .]]> 327 0596519524 Ryan 0 tinkering-project-ideas 3.99 2008 The Best of Instructables Volume I: Do-It-Yourself Projects from the World's Biggest Show & Tell
author: The editors at MAKE magazine and Instructables. com
name: Ryan
average rating: 3.99
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]]> <![CDATA[Raceways: Having Fun With Balls and Tracks (Boston Children's Museum Activity Book)]]> 1439663 Bernie Zubrowski 0688041604 Ryan 0 tinkering-project-ideas 0.0 1985 Raceways: Having Fun With Balls and Tracks (Boston Children's Museum Activity Book)
author: Bernie Zubrowski
name: Ryan
average rating: 0.0
book published: 1985
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]]> <![CDATA[Meaningful Making: Projects and Inspirations for Fab Labs and Makerspaces]]> 30212873
In this book, the 2014-2015 FabLearn Fellows share inspirational ideas from their learning spaces, assessment strategies and recommended projects across a broad range of age levels. Illustrated with color photos of real student work, the Fellows take you on a tour of the future of learning, where children make sense of the world by making things that matter to them and their communities. To read this book is to rediscover learning as it could be and should be-a joyous, mindful exploration of the world, where the ultimate discovery is the potential of every child.]]> 157 Paulo Blikstein 0989151190 Ryan 0 4.00 Meaningful Making: Projects and Inspirations for Fab Labs and Makerspaces
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]]> <![CDATA[Everything has a Shadow, Except Ants]]> 3303690 89 Reggio Children 8887960194 Ryan 0 4.89 1999 Everything has a Shadow, Except Ants
author: Reggio Children
name: Ryan
average rating: 4.89
book published: 1999
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]]> <![CDATA[20 Makey Makey Projects for the Evil Genius]]> 32080825 20 fun and inventive Makey Makey projects for Makers from beginner to expert This hands-on guide is filled with DIY projects that show readers, step-by-step, how to start creating and making cool inventions with the Makey Makey invention kit. Each project features easy-to-follow, fully-illustrated instructions and detailed photographs of the finished gadget. Readers will see how to apply these skills and start building their own Makey Makey projects. 20 Makey Makey Projects for the Evil Genius starts off with very approachable introductory projects, making it a great starting point for beginners. It then builds to more challenging projects, allowing more experienced users to go further by incorporating technologies like Raspberry Pi, Processing and Scratch programming, 3D Printing, and creating wearable electronics with Makey Makey. Projects are divided into four “Fun and Games,� Interactive,� Hacks and Pranks,� and “Makey Makey Go.� � No prior programming or technical experience is required
� Basic enough for beginners, but challenging enough for advanced makers
� Written by two educators who believe in fostering creative innovation for all]]> 224 Aaron Graves 1259860469 Ryan 0 4.14 20 Makey Makey Projects for the Evil Genius
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]]> <![CDATA[Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See]]> 44601186 320 Emily Pilloton 1452166277 Ryan 0 tinkering-inspiration 4.51 Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of Tinkering: Meet 150+ Makers Working at the Intersection of Art, Science & Technology]]> 17571825
Brought to you by the Exploratorium’s Tinkering Studio.]]> 224 Karen Wilkinson 1616286091 Ryan 0 4.13 2013 The Art of Tinkering: Meet 150+ Makers Working at the Intersection of Art, Science & Technology
author: Karen Wilkinson
name: Ryan
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2013
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum]]> 3090109 From the author of Wreck This Journal, an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life.

Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. In this captivating guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists and scientists.

The mission Smith proposes? To document and observe the world around you. As if you've never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to.

With a series of interactive prompts and a beautifully hand-illustrated two-color package, readers will enjoy exploring and discovering the world through this gorgeous book.]]> 208 Keri Smith 0399534601 Ryan 0 4.15 2008 How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum
author: Keri Smith
name: Ryan
average rating: 4.15
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]]> <![CDATA[The Annotated Build-It-Yourself Science Laboratory: Build Over 200 Pieces of Science Equipment! (Make: Technology on Your Time)]]> 25513643 649 Windell Oskay 1457186861 Ryan 0 4.07 2015 The Annotated Build-It-Yourself Science Laboratory: Build Over 200 Pieces of Science Equipment! (Make: Technology on Your Time)
author: Windell Oskay
name: Ryan
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2015
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]]> <![CDATA[Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components (Packaging may vary)]]> 60704816
Our phones, computers, and appliances are made of hundreds of internal components, each precisely engineered to perform a certain function, but none intended to actually be seen. Through painstakingly executed, vividly detailed cross-section photography, Open Circuits reveals the surprising—and often accidental—beauty hiding inside the electronic components that drive our everyday devices.

From resistors to LEDs, USB cables to headphone jacks, stepper motors to nixie tubes, the book’s arresting imagery transforms more than 130 components into delightful works of art. As you visually dissect the components� insides, you’ll learn about how they work and how they were made. Open Circuits has something for everyone to appreciate, whether you’re a seasoned electrical engineer, an amateur tinkerer, or simply a lover of art and photography.]]> 304 Eric Schlaepfer 1718502346 Ryan 0 4.63 2022 Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components (Packaging may vary)
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name: Ryan
average rating: 4.63
book published: 2022
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]]> <![CDATA[Build Your Own Chain Reaction Machines: How to Make Crazy Contraptions Using Everyday Stuff--Creative Kid-Powered Projects!]]> 38509472
Build Your Own Chain Reaction Machines invites you into the wonderful world of crazy contraptions inspired by the amazing artwork of renowned cartoonist, engineer, and inventor Rube Goldberg , whose wacky, imaginary machines accomplished a simple task by taking a hilariously complicated route.

In this entertaining and instructive book, mechanical engineer and educator Paul Long gives step-by-step instructions for making low-tech devices using everyday objects in inspired and ingenious ways. Each of the 13 projects demonstrates how to build the machine's various elements and explains how they work together to make a mind-boggling mechanism that delivers hours of fun and fascination. You'll also find interesting sidebars on the science behind each gadget , plus tips and tricks for success.

Build Your Own Chain Reaction Machines gives you the know-how to create your own incredible chain reactions!]]> 160 Paul Long 1631595261 Ryan 0 tinkering-project-ideas 4.12 Build Your Own Chain Reaction Machines: How to Make Crazy Contraptions Using Everyday Stuff--Creative Kid-Powered Projects!
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