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• Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy (Cambridge, UK et al: Cambridge University Press, c2018), by James Williams (PDF and HTML with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Interest, in its relation to pedagogy (E. L. Kellogg & co., 1899), by Wilhelm Ostermann and Edward R. Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interest and effort in education (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by John Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Avocational interest patterns; a study in the psychology of avocations (Stanford university press, 1940), by Donald E. Super (page images at HathiTrust)
• Attention and interest; a study in psychology and education (The Macmillan company, 1910), by Felix Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's interests and what they suggest for education (Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia Univ., 1949), by Arthur T. Jersild and Ruth J. Tasch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Application of multidimensional and scale analysis to interest measurement. (University of California, 1963), by Royce R. Ronning (page images at HathiTrust)
• The general relations of changes in personality and interest to changes in school performance (Laboratory of Personality Assessment and Group Behavior; Dept. of Psychology, University of Illinois, 1965), by Raymond B. Cattell, A. Philip Sealy, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) Laboratory of Personality Assessment and Group Behavior, and United States Office of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prediction and understanding of the effect of children's interest upon school performance (Urbana, 1962), by University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) Laboratory of Personality Assessment and Group Behavior and Raymond B. Cattell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of the interests of children and youth; a co-operative research project performed in accord with a contract between Northwestern University and the Office of Education, U.S. Dept. of Health Education, and Welfare. ([Evanston, 1959), by Ill.) Northwestern University (Evanston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adult interests (The Macmillan Company, 1935), by Edward L. Thorndike and Columbia University Teachers College Institute of Psychological Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Science interests (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1936), by Frederick L. Fitzpatrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's interests in pictures (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1932), by Bonnie Eugenie Mellinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The educational and occupational preferences of college seniors (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1932), by Marlin Ray Chauncey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A technique for appraising certain observable behavior of children in science in elementary schools (Teachers college, Columbia University, 1937), by Joe Young West (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Interests and culture; a comparative study of interests, concerns, wishes, likes, dislikes, and happiest days of Egyptian and American children. (Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1950), by El-Demerdash Abdel-Meguid Sarhan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outdoor recreation preferences; a nationwide study of user desires. ([East Lansing? Mich.], 1963), by Leslie Merle Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interest in relation to training of the will (University of Chicago Press, 1903), by John Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constancy of interest factor patterns within the specific vocation of foreign missioner. (Catholic University of America Press, 1954), by Paul F. D'Arcy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das interesse. Sein Wesen und seine bedeutung für den Unterricht. Eine Ziller-studie (C. Meyer (G. Prior), 1884), by A. Walsemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interest and education; the doctrine of interest and its concrete application (The Macmillan company;, 1908), by Charles De Garmo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tests and interest questionnaires in the guidance of high school boys (Teachers College, Columbia University, 1930), by Percival Mallon Symonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Skolbarns intressen ; en psykologisk-pedagogisk undersökning ... (Nya tryckeri-aktiebolaget, 1913), by Georg Albert Brandell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Herbarts Lehre vom Interesse und ihre Bedeutung für den Unterricht, insbesondere für den naturwissenschaftlichen. (Buchdruckerei R. Noske, 1909), by Friedrich Meyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The child and his picture book; a discussion of the preferences of the nursery child (Northwestern university press, 1933), by Larry Freeman and Ruth S. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Case-study instrument in evaluation. The case of Mickey Murphy (The University of Nebraska, 1943), by Warren R. Baller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The relationships of interest and attention to retention and attitude change. (University of Iowa, 1963), by Samuel L. Becker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stability of interest measures and their validation for selection and classification (Lackland Air Force Base, Texas : Personnel Laboratory, Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force, 1959., 1959), by Robert Francis Schweiker, Wright Air Development Center, Aero Medical Laboratory (United States. Army Air Forces), and United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interest and education; the doctrine of interest and its concrete application (The Macmillan company;, 1902), by Charles De Garmo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How motives are educated : a simplified statement of the laws of mental life which control the development of interests and attitudes and the integration of personality, with concrete examples from practical life situations (Edwards Brothers Inc., Lithoprinters, 1941), by Harold Saxe Tuttle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of the interests of children and youth : a co-operative research project. ([Evanston, Ill., 1960), by Paul Witty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The educational theories of Quintilian discussed with reference to the doctrine of interest (1910), by Anna Mabel Ballans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über John Dewey's Theorie des Interesses und seine Anwendung in der Pädagogik ... (Hofbuchdr. C.A. Kaemmerer & co., 1901), by Lucinda Pearl Boggs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Herbarts Lehre vom Interesse und ihre Bedeutung fur den Unterricht insbesondere fur den naturwissenschaftlichen. (Buchrukerei R. Noske, 1909), by Friedrich Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interest as related to will (University of Chicago Press, 1903), by John Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of children's interests. (State department of public instruction, 1926), by W. J. Osburn and Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vocational interests of white and Negro pupils at the secondary level (University of California, Library Photographic Service, 1950), by Willie Lenox Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interest as related to will (The University of Chicago Press, 1899), by John Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's contributions in elementary school general discussion (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1942), by Harold Vernon Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reading interests and informational needs of children in grades four to eight ([Urbana, Ill., 1954), by J. Harlan Shores and Herbert C. Rudman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Achievement and interest of high school seniors in Michigan (School of Education, University of Michigan, 1930), by Clifford Woody and Walter G. Bergman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herbart's doctrine of interest. (s.n., 1895), by William Torrey Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interessen som normativ idé. En filosofisk og sociologisk undersøokelse. (Dybwad, 1913), by Herman Johan Regnor Harris Aall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das interesse; eine psychologische untersuchung mit pädagogischen mitzanwendungen. (R. Schwartz, 1912), by Wilhelm Ostermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• A factor-analytic study of the USAF officer activity inventory (Lackland Air Force Base, Texas : Personnel Laboratory, Wright Air Development Division, Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force, 1960., 1960), by Lonnie D. Jr Valentine, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command, United States. Wright Air Development Division, and Personnel Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief metacognitive intervention and interest as predictors of memory for text (National Reading Research Center, 1995), by Martha Carr and Heidi Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Needs and interests study of 11-12-13-year-old Boys' Club members. (Boys' Clubs of America, 1963), by Boys' Clubs of America (page images at HathiTrust)

• The wonders of the little world; or, A general history of man, displaying the various faculties, capacities, powers and defects of the human body and mind. (Printed for W. J. and J. Richardson [etc.], 1806), by Nathaniel Wanley, William Johnston, and McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The green song (D. McKay Co., 1954), by Doris Troutman Plenn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psicolgía de la curiosidad. ([Imp.de J. Pueyo,], 1917), by José Ingenieros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Personality and interest measurement. (University of Michigan Evaluation and Examinations Division, 1963), by Benno G. Fricke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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