The New York Times Bestseller, acclaimed by author such as Freakonomics co-author Steven D. Levitt, Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Nudge co-author Richard Thaler, Thinking Fast and Slow offers a whole new look at the way our minds work, and how we make decisions. Why is there more chance we'll believe something if it's in a bold type face? Why are judges more likely to deny parole before lunch? Why do we assume a good-looking person will be more competent? The answer lies in the two ways we make choices: fast, intuitive thinking, and slow, rational thinking. This book reveals how our minds are tripped up by error and prejudice (even when we think we are being logical), and gives you practical techniques for slower, smarter thinking. It will enable to you make better decisions at work, at home, and in everything you do. ,

From an award-winning journalist comes this real-lifecloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britain’s premieresecret agents during World War II. As the head of the French Section of the British SpecialOperations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentoredspecial operatives whose job was to organize and arm the resistancein Nazi-occupied France. After the war, Atkins courageouslycommitted herself to a dangerous search for twelve of her mostcherished women spies who had gone missing in action. Drawing onpreviously unavailable sources, Sarah Helm chronicles Atkins’sextraordinary life and her singular journey through the chaos ofpost-war Europe. Brimming with intrigue, heroics, honor, and thehorrors of war, A Life in Secrets is the story of a grand,elusive woman and a tour de force of investigativejournalism.

Are you worried about protecting your career in this toughmarket? Are you ready to get your dream job or that covetedpromotion? Are you eager to show the world everything you have to offer? If you answered yes, to any of those questions, this book is foryou! Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio see it all the time:women derailing their careers because they believe that if theyjust sit quietly and work hard, someone upstairs will recognizetheir contribution and deliver big rewards. However, intoday’s ultra-competitive workplace and tough economic climate ifyou want your dream job with your dream salary, and all theopportunities and fulfillment that come with it, you have to bearmed with the right strategies and big, bold moves. The Girls Guide to The Big Bold Moves For Career Success gives you everything you need to decide what you want out of yourwork life and create a plan to make it happen. Fromnegotiating a raise or a promotion to starting a new profession,finding your footing after a layoff, Fri

Have you, as a parent, ever found yourself treating yourchildren in a way you would never tolerate from someone else? Theauthors of Emotionally Intelligent Parenting call for a new GoldenRule: Do unto your children as you would have other people do untoyour children. And most important, they show us how to live by it.Based upon extensive research, firsthand experience, and casestudies, Emotionally Intelligent Parenting breaks the mold oftraditional parenting books by taking into account the strong roleof emotions -- those of parents and children -- in psychologicaldevelopment. With this book, parents will learn how to communicatewith children on a deeper, more gratifying level and how to helpthem successfully navigate the intricacies of relating to others.The authors take the five basic principles of Daniel Goleman'sbest-seller, Emotional Intelligence, and explain how they can beapplied to successful parenting. To this end, the book offerssuggestions, stories, dialogues, activities, and a special secti

First developed as a short manual for students in a yearlongmeditation course, Presence Meditation offers a step-by-stepprogram for increasing self-awareness through simple but revelatoryexercises. The practice of presence meditation involves becomingpresent to whatever is going on and letting things be just as theyare. This awareness is characterized by open attention and neutralobservation, which increases the capacity to observe withoutjudging, enables transformation without forcing, and opens the wayto a more immediate sense of meaning and joy in life. AuthorJens-Erik Risom begins by describing the purpose of meditation andthe “four introductions” (rootedness, attention to breathing,fullness of feeling, and witness awareness), and then presents thegradual steps for achieving presence, deepening neutrality, openingto trust, sensing spaciousness, and more. There are many books about meditation on the market, from Westernauthors like Eckhart Tolle to Tibetan Buddhist teachers. But manypeople

Western-based astrology has a provocative counterpart in theNative American medicine wheel, with a spirit animal equivalent foreach sign of the zodiac. In this thoughtful book, Lucy Harmer showsreaders how to find the spirit animal that corresponds to theirbirth sign. She provides detailed de*ions of the strengths andweaknesses of each of the twelve spirit animals—for example, falconis enthusiastic and adventurous but can be impulsive and impatient,while deer is sociable and eloquent but can be lazy andsuperficial. Once readers determine their spirit animal, they canbetter understand their relationships with family, friends, andassociates. Readers can also discover those people who are part oftheir animal clan and the various compatibilities andincompatibilities between all the spirit animals. They will be ableto uncover the hidden treasures of their personalities and theirsecret talents, as well as the color, plant, and totem stonecorresponding to each spirit animal. For readers who want to takesham

Kay Redfield Jamison, award-winning professor and writer,changed the way we think about moods and madness. Now Jamison usesher characteristic honesty, wit and eloquence to look back at herrelationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientistwho died of cancer. Nothing was the Same is a penetratingpsychological study of grief viewed from deep inside the experienceitself.

In 1991, when her daughter’s rare, hand-carved harp wasstolen, Lisby Mayer’s familiar world of science and rationalthinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up anyleads, a friend suggested she call a dowser—a man who specializedin finding lost objects. With nothing to lose—and almost as ajoke—Dr. Mayer agreed. Within two days, and without leaving hisArkansas home, the dowser located the exact California streetcoordinates where the harp was found. Deeply shaken, yet driven to understand what had happened, Mayerbegan the fourteen-year journey of discovery that she recounts inthis mind-opening, brilliantly readable book. Her first surprise:the dozens of colleagues who’d been keeping similar experiencessecret for years, fearful of being labeled credulous orcrazy. Extraordinary Knowing is an attempt to break through the silenceimposed by fear and to explore what science has to say about theseand countless other “inexplicable” phenomena. From Sigmund Freud’swr

The Passionate Mind Revisited takes readers on aliberating inner journey into the workings of their mind that cantransform the way people look at themselves and the world. Thisexpanded inquiry reflects the authors’ own and the world’sevolution since The Passionate Mind came out in 1974.The original book focusing on the individual is now extended tosocial and philosophical spheres and global challenges, exploringhow the world’s life-threatening dramas are largely a function ofpeople’s genetic and cultural conditioning, worldviews, beliefs,and values. Kramer and Alstad assert that humanity is on an evolutionarycusp requiring further awareness and conscious social evolution.Worldviews can create rigid beliefs and narrow identities that aredestructive in a world of global impact. While acknowledging thefallibility of any mental construction, the book offers anevolutionary worldview deemed more likely than traditionalworldviews or scientific materialism. In exploring what it is to be a human so

Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks are two of today's foremostrelationship experts. Their bestselling book ConsciousLoving has already become essential reading for tens ofthousands of couples. Now, in The Conscious Heart , theyidentify the seven commitments that can transform from the insideout. These seven simple--but powerful--choices enable couples to: Use conflict to create greater understanding Overcome the fears and defenses that block intimacy Resolve struggles for control Increase generosity and appreciation Deepen passion, commitment, and aliveness Release the creativity of each partner Filled with numerous true-life stories--including how the authorssurvived and grew from their own midlife marital crisis-- TheConscious Heart is an inspiring and instructive affirmation ofthe ultimate power of love.

Book De*ion The Beginner Books -- "Their cartoon format and irreverent witmake difficult ideas accessible and entertaining." -- Newsday Everything you need to know about neurosis, libido, ego, and id-- but somehow it slipped your mind. Freud for Beginners is a perfect introduction to the life andthought of the man whose discovery of psychoanalysis revolutionizedour attitudes towards mental illness, religion, sex, and culture.This documentary cartoon book plunges us into the world oflate-nineteenth-century Vienna in which Freud grew up. We explorehis early background in science, his work as a therapist, hisencounter with cocaine, and his theories on the unconscious,dreams, the Oedipus Complex, and sexuality. We meet his family, his friend and enemies, and his patients --The Rat Man, Anna O., Little Hans -- and we get an insider's viewas the psychoanalytic movement is launched. The zany art andprobing text do an extraordinary job of simplifying Freud withouttrivializing him.