Po Bronson
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Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science of child development have been overlooked. The authors discuss the inverse power of praise, why insufficient sleep adversely affects kids' capacity to learn, why white parents don't talk about race, why kids lie, why evaluation methods for "giftedness"...
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2013
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Studying competitive arenas from the workplace, the stock market, sport, politics, the military, and schools and using the latest findings in genetics, neuroscience and behavioral psychology, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman describe how we compete and the ingredients that sometimes stand between winning and losing.
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[2005]
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Calling upon his gift for nonfiction narrative and philosophical insight, Bronson explores the complicated feelings that we have for our families. Each chapter introduces us to two people--a father and his son, a daughter and her mother, a wife and her husband--and we come to know them as intimately as characters in a novel, following the story of their relationship as they struggle resiliently through the kinds of hardships all families endure. Some...