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• ISBN: 0316204366
• ISBN: 031625178X
• ISBN: 9780316204361
• ISBN: 9780316251785
• Physical Description: ix, 305 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1 Advantages of Disadvantages (And the Disadvantages of Advantages) -- 1 "It was really random. I mean, my father had never played basketball before." / Vivek Ranadivé Ranadivé, Vivek 27 -- 2 "My largest class was twenty-nine kids. Oh, it was fun." / Teresa DeBrito DeBrito, Teresa 61 -- 3 "If I'd gone to the University of Maryland, I'd still be in science." / Caroline Sacks Sacks, Caroline 102 -- Part 2 Theory of Desirable Difficulty -- 4 You wouldn't wish dyslexia on your child. Or would you? / David Boies Boies, David 165 -- 5 "How Jay did it, I don't know." / Emil "Jay" Freireich Freireich, Emil "Jay" 209 -- 6 "De rabbit is de slickest o' all de animals de Lawd ever made." / Wyatt Walker Walker, Wyatt 281 -- Part 3 Limits of Power -- 7 "I wasn't born that way. This was forced upon me." / Rosemary Lawlor Lawlor, Rosemary 335 -- 8 "We have all done something dreadful in our lives, or have felt the urge to." / Wilma Derksen Derksen, Wilma 395 -- 9 "We feel obliged to tell you that there are among us a certain number of Jews." / André Trocmé Trocmé, André 449.

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Motivation (Psychology)
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