The End of Average draws upon the very latest findings in the fields of psychology and sociology to show how, when we focus on individual findings rather than group averages, we are empowered to rethink the world and our place in it. Why don\''t Meyers-Briggs personality tests really work? Why are HR ...
We all play games. The nature of these games depends on both the situation and on who we meet. This book is about the games we play: those patterns of behaviour that reveal hidden feelings and emotions. It shows the underlying motivations behind our relationships and gives you the keys to unlock the ...
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 ...
Proč jsou někteří lidé nespokojeni se svým životem? Proč stále opakují stejně nešťastné a nefunkční vztahy, proč se jim nedaří v zaměstnání, ačkoliv mají zdánlivě všechny předpoklady k úspěchu? Proč jsou někteří lidé stále bez prostředků a jiným se vše daří? Často své opakující se neúspěchy svádíme na ...
