Gardner: 1155 books
The Intelligent Universe
AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
What is the ultimate destiny of our universe? That is the striking question addressed by James Gardner in The Intelligent Universe. Traditionally, scientists (and Robert Frost) have offered two bleak answers to this profound issue: fire or ice. In The Intelligent Universe, James Gardner envisions...
The 4th Man
An FBI Profiler / Detective D. D. Warren Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
FBI Profiler Pierce Quincy and Officer Rainie Conner return in a baffling cold case in this short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner.
A young woman is found strangled in the stairwell of a college library, only her sneakers missing. With no physical evidence, no signs...
When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish
And Other Speculations About This and That
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Best known as the longtime writer of the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American—which introduced generations of readers to the joys of recreational mathematics—Martin Gardner has for decades pursued a parallel career as a devastatingly effective debunker of what he once famously dubbed...
Shot All to Hell
Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Shot All to Hell by Mark Lee Gardner recounts the thrilling life of Jesse James, Frank James, the Younger brothers, and the most famous bank robbery of all time.
Follow the Wild West’s most celebrated gang of outlaws as they step inside Northfield’s First National Bank and back out on the streets...
by Mathew B. Brady, Alexander Gardner, Francis Trevelyan Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields During the Civil War of the United States by Mathew B. Brady and Alexander Gardner
Who operated under the Authority of the War Department and the Protection of the Secret Service Rare Reproductions from Photographs Selected from Seven Thousand Original...
by Martin Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Since the publication of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity in 1905, the discovery of such astronomical phenomena as quasars, pulsars, and black holes — all intimately connected to relativity — has provoked a tremendous upsurge of interest in the subject.
This volume, a revised version...
Making Chastity Sexy
The Rhetoric of Evangelical Abstinence Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Even though they are immersed in sex-saturated society, millions of teens are pledging to remain virgins until their wedding night. How are evangelical Christians persuading young people to wait until marriage? Christine J. Gardner looks closely at the language of the chastity movement and discovers...
The Motley Fool Investment Guide
How The Fool Beats Wall Street's Wise Men And How You Can Too
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2001
For Making Sense of Investing Today...the Fully Revised and Expanded Edition of the Bestselling The Motley Fool Investment Guide
Today, with the Internet, anyone can be an informed investor. Once you learn to tune out the hype and focus on meaningful factors, you can beat the Street.
The Motley Fool...
Good Work
Aligning Skills and Values
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Many of us seek Good Work – work which is excellent, personally meaningful, and ethical. Our challenge is to forge these elements into a rewarding, profitable career. In this spirited dialogue, Daniel Goleman and Howard Gardner give us the tools to do just that. Dr. Gardner’s research, insight,...
Future Babble
Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe Them Anyway
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would have one of the fastest-growing economies in the year 2000; in 2000, the USSR did not exist. In 1911, it was pronounced that there would...
by Howard Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
We live in a time of relentless change. The only thing that?s certain is that new challenges and opportunities will emerge that are virtually unimaginable today. How can we know which skills will be required to succeed?
In Five Minds for the Future, bestselling author Howard Gardner shows how...
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed
Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Since the dawn of civilization, humans have struggled to describe the defining virtues of civilization-and, in the process, have confronted some of mankind's most difficult and enduring questions. In Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed, renowned scholar Howard Gardner traces the astonishing transformations...
Multiple Intelligences
New Horizons in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
The most complete account of the theory and application of Multiple Intelligences available anywhere
Howard Gardner's brilliant conception of individual competence, known as Multiple Intelligences theory, has changed the face of education. Tens of thousands of educators, parents, and researchers...
Future Babble
Why Pundits Are Hedgehogs and Foxes Know Best
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
An award-winning journalist uses landmark research to debunk the whole expert prediction industry, and explores the psychology of our obsession with future history.
In 2008, experts predicted gas would hit $20 a gallon; it peaked at $4.10. In 1967, they said the USSR would be the world's fastest-growing...