The Great Mental Models, Volume 1


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Discover the essential thinking tools you’ve been missing with The Great Mental Models series by Shane Parrish, New York Times bestselling author and the mind behind the acclaimed Farnam Street blog and “The Knowledge Project” podcast. This first book in the series is your guide to learning the crucial thinking tools nobody ever taught you. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields. Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back. The Great Mental Models: Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts shows you how making a few tiny changes in the way you think can deliver big results. Drawing on examples from history, business, art, and science, this book details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making and productivity. This book will teach you how to: Avoid blind spots when looking at problems. Find non-obvious solutions. Anticipate and achieve desired outcomes. Play to your strengths, avoid your weaknesses, … and more. The Great Mental Models series demystifies once elusive concepts and illuminates rich knowledge that traditional education overlooks. This series is the most comprehensive and accessible guide on using mental models to better understand our world, solve problems, and gain an advantage.




Basic Time Telling


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Gift your child endlessly rewarding skills they can cherish lifelong. This book has hundreds of problems with increasing level of difficulty for daily practice by students. It is recommended for students to attempt at least one page daily for consistent practice. Book starts with time telling techniques to help students grasp basic concepts and get started. Once students start gaining confidence in telling time to the whole hour, they can enhance their skills by solving half-hour problems. Book can be used to track practice time for each set. Date and time can be recorded at top of each page. Answer to each problem is given at the end of the book. With the advent of electronic gadgets, we increasingly see time displayed everywhere in digital format. But learning to tell time using an analog clock is an essential skill for kids that can help build their cognitive abilities and sensory motor skills. Being able to tell time requires basic calculations and counting skills that not only helps kids with math but also helps them being organized and being able to track progress on their day to day activities. This workbook is written keeping in mind that teaching kids to be able to read analog clocks and tell time is a challenging task and with regular and consistent practice they would gain a skill that would be endlessly rewarding. Being able to read clocks can help kids make informed decisions whether they are late or if they have plenty of time. It's widely observed that kids who can read clocks can get ready for school in time. It also tells them when it's time for lunch and alert them when their favorite TV show is about to come on. Learning how to tell time can also be great fun when you use games, activities, and exercises to practice reading, writing, and setting clock times. Once you've learned how to read a clock, you can put your skills to many good uses. Above all, being able to read clocks and tell time makes kids feel more confident and smart.




By the Time You Read This


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A gathering of luminescent stories that illustrates how fraught and contingent the simplest of lives can be, and the often unexpected means available to each of us for our own salvation










Journal


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Bat and Sloth Solve a Mystery (Bat and Sloth: Time to Read, Level 2)


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Bath and Sloth are trying to sleep when they hear a noise. A LOUD noise. Can Bat and Sloth figure out where it's coming from and how to make it stop?




100 Days of Telling the Time Practice Reading Clocks


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Reading clocks is especially hard for some children.Completing practice promblems on a regular basis can help students learn this important skill.This practice book will build basic abilities through action stuffed fun. The activities are intended to give children a genuine feeling of accomplishment .It is recommended for students to attempt at least one page daily for consistent practice .This workbook is composed remembering that encouraging children to have the option to peruse simple timekeepers and read a clock is a difficult errand and with ordinary and steady practice they would increase an aptitude that would be perpetually rewarding . Answer to each problem is given at the end of the book.




By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead


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A significant book about one girl's struggle with suicide, from National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters. Daelyn is fifteen years old, and in her mind she is a failure. She tried slitting her wrists, and she was rescued. She tried swallowing chemicals, and after burning through her esophagus enough to lose the ability to speak, she was rescued. But this time will be different. As readers see Daelyn's touching friendship with a quirky seventeen-year-old boy develop and her newfound willingness to share all of the pain she has held inside of her, they may just see a glimmer of hope. Will Daelyn see it though? Raw and heartfelt, this is an inside look into the mind of a teen who has lost the will to fight and the parents that will do anything they can to help her survive. Still, there are some things that even loving parents can't protect you from—yourself. Please note that due to the sensitive nature of the material in this book, we will be providing back matter from key experts. We hope that this book will help to open a dialogue about this increasingly prevalent issue.