Meetings are a crucial part of all our lives, but too often they go nowhere and waste valuable time. In Six Thinking Hats, Edward de Bono shows how meetings can be transformed to produce quick, decisive results every time. The Six Hats method is a devastatingly simple technique based on the brain\''s ...
Love''s Executioner offers us the humane and extraordinary insight of renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom into the lives of ten of his patients - and through them into the minds of us all Why was Saul tormented by three unopened letters from Stockholm? What made Thelma spend her whole life raking over ...
Nominated for the Business Book Awards ''Embracing Change'' category.-----A ground-breaking exploration of how the digital era is revolutionising human trustIf you can''t trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. ...
Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this crisis. It shows that once we ...
He says that''s his best offer. Is it? She says she agrees. Does she? The interview went great-or did it? He said he''d never do it again. But he did.Read this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring. Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal ...
The physicist transforming how we see the universe'' (Financial Times)''An utter joy'' (Adam Rutherford)''A hugely engaging book. Rovelli is a charming, thought-provoking tour guide'' (Manjit Kumar Prospect)Do space and time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its deep texture?Scientist ...
Why do we do what we do? Behave achieves what no other book has previously attempted: it brings together a whole host of sciences – the study of our brains, genes and hormones, the investigations of psychology, anthropology and evolutionary history – and by gathering them together offers the richest ...
We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, with questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party of the right or left is providing us with answers. Rutger Bregman, a bestselling Dutch historian, explains that it needn\''t be this way. Bregman shows ...
Inferior is more than just a book. It''s a battle cry - and right now, it''s having a galvanising effect on its core fanbase'' Observer Are women more nurturing than men? Are men more promiscuous than women? Are males the naturally dominant sex? And can science give us an impartial answer to these questions? ...
THE BESTSELLING TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES FBI Special Agent and expert in criminal profiling and behavioural science, John Douglas, is a man who has looked evil in the eye and made a vocation of understanding it. Now retired, Douglas can let us inside the FBI elite serial crime ...
A timely and important new book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection.�True belonging doesn''t require us to change who ...
In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately in China, India and Ancient Greece at more or less the same ...
Young men are failing as never before - academically, socially and sexually. But why is this so? What are the implications? And what needs to be done about it before it''s too late? Philip Zimbardo and co-writer Nikita Coulombe examine the modern meltdown of manhood and how this is manifest in the lives ...
An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir, and biography on the subject of loneliness told through the lives of six iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring. You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, ...
Internationally acclaimed as a novelist, Siri Hustvedt is also highly regarded as a writer of non-fiction whose insights are drawn from her broad knowledge in the arts, humanities, and sciences. In this trilogy of works collected in a single volume, Hustvedt brings a feminist, interdisciplinary perspective ...
Kniha obsahuje nový překlad Freudovy Analýzy fobie pětiletého chlapce s komentářem pod čarou, dále kondenzaci Lacanova semináře o Hansovi opět s komentářem, a nakonec alternativní, vlastní autorský pohled na Hansovu fobii, opřený o jiné než Lacanovo interpretační schéma. V lednu 1908 pošle Freudovi jeden ...
Koncept vývojových stadií Erika Eriksona je dnes nedílnou součástí vývojové psychologie. Erikson vychází z Freudova pojetí, ale obohacuje jeho myšlenky o sociální rozměr a prodlužuje popis stadií na celý život. Každý věk se vyznačuje určitým vývojovým úkolem, který je třeba splnit, aby člověk získal ...
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR.Previously published as The Little Book of Lykke."A wonderful guide to happy living. It''s based on hard evidence and written with a wonderful sense of fun" Richard Layard, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE and author of Happiness.Happiness is just around ...
