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English
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At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who invent and create but prefer not to pitch their own ideas; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts we owe many of the great contributions to society--from Van Gogh's sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer. Passionately argued,...
Author
Publisher
Bala Kids, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Although many people think Emile is shy, he is simply quiet on the outside while on the inside, his imagination is loud and wild.
3) Crow boy
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Series
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English
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Concern and understanding on the part of his teacher result in bringing to young Chibi, shunned for years by his classmates as an outsider, a respect and popularity he had never known.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Pub
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xvi, 255 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Extroverts have all the fun. Or so Jessica Pan thought. When she found herself jobless and friendless, sitting in the familiar Jess-shaped crease on her sofa, she couldn't help but wonder what life might have looked like if she had been a little more open to new experiences and new people, a little less attached to going home instead of going to the pub. So, she made a vow: to push herself to live the life of an extrovert for a year. She wrote a list:...
Author
Publisher
Marlowe & Co
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
xxx, 286 p. ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In Party of One, Anneli Rufus has crafted an argument in defense of the loner, then and now. Marshalling a polymath's easy erudition to make her case, assembling evidence from every conceivable arena of culture as well as interviews with experts and loners worldwide and her own analysis, Rufus rebuts the prevailing notion that aloneness is indistinguishable from loneliness, the fallacy that all of those who are alone don't want to be, and wouldn't...
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