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| Preface | |
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| The Newest Endangered Species | |
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| Fairly Odd Parents and Teachers | |
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| And Now for Something Completely Different | |
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| Raising Brain | |
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| Who Do I Think I Am? | |
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| Old Brain, New World | |
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| Well, I�ll Be a Chimpanzee�s Uncle | |
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| Cloudy with a Chance of Brain | |
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| Brains for Brawn | |
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| The Beasts Within | |
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| I�ll Have the Primordial Soup | |
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| A Look under the Hood | |
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| Jellyfish iPad | |
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| More Is Sometimes Other | |
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| Humans, Gorillas, Bananas, Oh My! | |
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| What to Expect When You�re Expecting a Human | |
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| Expect the Unexpected | |
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| Supersized Childhood | |
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| Some Assembly Required | |
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| This Brain Ain�t Big Enough for the Two Billion of Us | |
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| Gaining from Losing | |
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| Use It or Lose It | |
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| If a Little Is Good, More Must Be Better | |
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| Too Much of a Good Thing | |
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| When the Brain Still Has That New-Car Smell | |
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| You Know What They Say about Big Hands … Big Brains | |
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| Is This Any Way to Build a Brain? | |
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| Unfinished on Purpose | |
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| Rabble Rousers, Roadrunners, and Rumpus Rooms | |
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| A Very Fine Whine | |
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| It�s All in the Timing | |
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| The Twenty-Year Science Project | |
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| Like Learning for Chocolate | |
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| Fantastic Scientists | |
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| Mind-Reading Teachers | |
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| Gold Stars, Chocolate Chip Cookies, and As | |
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| Why You Don�t Need Smart Children | |
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| Stop Saying They�re Smart | |
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| For the Dogs | |
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| Try and Try Again | |
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| What Does �Smart� Mean? | |
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| Dogging the Central Dogma | |
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| Genius Recipe | |
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| Not Enough Tortoise, Too Much Hare | |
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| Building Blocks and Building R�sum�s | |
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| Brain Shams | |
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| The Myth of the Mozart Effect | |
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| Your Baby Can memorize | |
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| Naturally Speaking | |
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| Kindercramming | |
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| The Tutor Dynasty | |
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| The American Question | |
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| The American Question on Steroids | |
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| Hidden Mickeys | |
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| Less Is More | |
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| The Tortoise and the Hare | |
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| The Butterfly Effect | |
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| The Worst Seat in the House | |
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| Blooming, Buzzing Confusion | |
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| Why There�s a Hole in Your Refrigerator | |
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| Deep Blue Babies | |
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| Seeing Eye to Eye | |
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| Stroll Patrol | |
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| Babywearing | |
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| Tummy to Play | |
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| Playtime Prisons | |
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| The Eyes Have It | |
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| Why Apes Don�t Have Facebook Pages | |
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| Joint Attention-Getting Device | |
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| A Little More Conversation, A Little More Action | |
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| Moving Condition | |
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| Toying With Children | |
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| Toy Stories | |
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| These Toys Are Made for Playing | |
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| Risky, and Costly, Business | |
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| All Play and No Work | |
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| Flavored Play | |
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| Change in Play, Change in Children | |
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| Play It Forward | |
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| Wii Little Children | |
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| Ooh, Baby, Baby, It�s a Wired World | |
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| Brain Change | |
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| Antisocial Networking | |
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| The Great Electronic Babysitter | |
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| Beyond the BoobTube | |
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| Game Boys and Girls | |
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| Digital Overload | |
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| Technology in the Classroom | |
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| Bringing Up Blackberry | |
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| Organized Crime | |
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| Doing Nothing Is Doing Something | |
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| Unorganized Sports | |
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| Secret Sauce | |
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| Everyone�s a Winner | |
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| Can�t Teach That | |
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| Lightly Scaffolded | |
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| An Inside Job | |
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| The Changing Habitat of Childhood | |
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| Nature-Deficit Disorder | |
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| Green Space and Gray Matter | |
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| Natural Environments | |
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| No Jungle in the Gym | |
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| Tonic of Wilderness | |
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| Take Two Walks and You�ll Feel Better in the Morning | |
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| Thinking outside the House | |
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| Old School | |
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| The Fourth R | |
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| Vowel Movements | |
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| Drill, Baby, Drill | |
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| Teaching Thinking | |
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| Boxed Learning | |
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| All Brains Are Not the Same | |
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| Packing the Neural Suitcase | |
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| Hemorrhoids and Homework | |
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| Orangutans on Ritalin | |
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| Juggling Chickens | |
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| Evolutionary Baggage | |
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| How the Modern World Can Make You Hand Over Your Brain | |
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| With a Side of Irrationality | |
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| Decidedly Seeking Nonscience | |
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| Rational Parenting | |
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| The Swing Set Is out to Get You | |
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| We Fear Strangers and Not Minivans | |
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| We Fear Strangers and Not Obesity | |
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| We Feel Safer If We (Think We) Are in Control | |
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| The Mother of All Biases | |
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| But I�m Smart | |
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| Special Brain Education | |
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| Thinking Outside the Sandbox | |
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| Science-y Parenting | |
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| More Learning, Less Schooling | |
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| Masters of Their Own Play | |
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| Take It Outside | |
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| Tonic of Childhood | |
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| Notes | |