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Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Daniel Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the...
4) My busy day
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Introduces the concept of time while following a young girl's day, from the moment she wakes up until bedtime.
5) My busy week
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Introduces the concept of time while following a boy's week, from his Monday visit to the library right through to Sunday lunch.
7) My busy year
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Introduces the concept of time while following a girl's year, from her birthday right through to her end-of-year play.
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Julie and her sister have been suffering strange and terrible ailments ever since a day on the beach when time seemed to stop. When Julie's boss has a heart attack, but recovers with an astonishingly fast and peculiar recovery, Julie begins to think something isn't quite right - and finds her suspicions confirmed when she discovers the link between her day at the beach and her boss.
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Explores some of the most amazing features of our very own solar system, how the forces of nature carved out beauty and order from the chaos of space, how our home planet doesn't sit in magnificent isolation but is intimately connected with the rest of the solar system, and how these connections have created the haven we call Earth.