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"Today it seems we have the world at our fingertips. Thanks to smartphones and tools such as Google and Wikipedia, we're able feed any aspect of our curiosity instantly. But does this mean we are actually becoming more curious? Absolutely not. In Curious, Ian Leslie argues that true curiosity-the sustained quest for understanding that begets insight and innovation-is becoming increasingly difficult to harness in our wired world. We confuse ease of...
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2023.
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English
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"Not all questions have answers. Some have more than one answer. And others have endless answers, unfolding out to the edges of the world. In this spare yet expansive narrative, acclaimed author Mac Barnett poses twenty questions both playful and profound. Some make us giggle. Others challenge our assumptions. The result is a quirky, wandering exploration of where the best questions lead--to stories. Intriguing, richly interactive, and brought to...
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Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics—curiosity—in this "lively, expert, and definitely not dumbed-down account" (Kirkus Reviews) as he explores our innate desire to know why.
Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation—where they can know only one side of the dialogue—than when they overhear...
Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation—where they can know only one side of the dialogue—than when they overhear...
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"When you think you have the answers, you need to be asking a lot more questions-and embracing fearless curiosity. In this timely, personal guide, journalist Mónica Guzmán shows why curiosity is our best policy and how you can put it to work for you immediately, sharing practical tips from the trenches of the social, political, and cultural divides"--
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Each of King Neptunes 50 mermaid daughters boasts a special talent, except for little Minnow, who seems to be good only at asking questions. When she finds a strange object, Minnow follows her questions to a wondrous place and finds answers, including the answer to the most important question of all: Who am I? A gorgeously illustrated story about finding one's purpose.
8) I wonder
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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In this unusual text, young listeners and readers follow a group of diverse kids trying to make sense of the world as they see it.
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William Morrow
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[2009]
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English
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Far from killing cats, curiosity breathes new life into almost everything it touches. Here, Dr. Todd Kashdan offers a profound new message missing from so many books on happiness: the greatest opportunities for joy, purpose, and personal growth don't, in fact, happen when we're searching for happiness. They happen when we are mindful, when we explore what's novel, and when we live in the moment and embrace uncertainty. Positive events last longer...
10) Little Why
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Tiger Tales
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2016.
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English
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"Little Why just cannot seem to stay in line with the other elephants. There's just too much to see; Giraffe's long-lofty leggy legs, Wildebeest's spiny-spiky horns, and even Crocodile's snippy-snappy teeth! Look out, Little Why!"--Amazon.com.
11) Just because
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Candlewick Press
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2019.
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English
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When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.
12) The curious why
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Little, Brown and Company
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2024.
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English
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A magical friend called the Curious Why encourages children's imaginations to fly, as they consider "how, what, where and when?" in relation to the world around them.
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Bruño
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2015.
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Español
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El grúfalo advirtió a su hija de que no debía adentrarse jamás en el bosque, porque, si lo hacía, Gran Ratón Malvado la perseguiría. Pero una noche de nieve y viento, la hija del grúfalo no hizo caso de la advertencia de su padre y salió de la cueva. Después de todo, Gran Ratón Malvado no existe ..., ¿o sí?
The Gruffalo's Child goes out to find the Big Bad Mouse she has heard so much about.
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"National Geographic and science journalist Marc Kaufman combine inside stories, fascinating facts, and eye-popping pictures, some never before seen, of the red planet and NASA's groundbreaking Curiosity mission. Renowned author Kaufman spent two years embedded with the engineers and scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, cheering on the rover's spine-tingling landing, learning the backstory of anticipated findings, and witnessing the inescapable...
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Hallim Ch'ulp'ansa
Pub. Date
2020.
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Korean
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"An adventure story about baby frogs who go into a cave. The mother frog tells her baby frogs that caves are dangerous places where scary monsters might live. Hearing that, the baby frogs become more curious and decide to go into the cave... What's in the cave?"--from Goodreads.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Since the beginning, humans have created stories about the universe. From early mythology to modern-day science is a long journey, yet 95 percent of the world "out there" remains a mystery. What will we believe tomorrow? Marion Dane Bauer's glowing poetry combines with Hari & Deepti's intricate cut-paper illustrations, dazzling with light and shadow, to celebrate an active, vital, changing, and growing universe. They also show how we humans--the...
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Questioneers volume 3
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English
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Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.
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