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. ,

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain As David Brooks observes, There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood. And yet we humans don t do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us do better, posing questions that are essential for all of us: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person s story should you pay attention to? Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and his determination to grow as a per

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.

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

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

In Discovering Your Spirit Animal, shamanic healer Lucy Harmerpresents a practical approach to understanding spirit animals andapplying their power to specific situations in daily life. Writtenin clear, simple language and featuring compelling stories andanecdotes, the book explains what a spirit animal is, describes itspurpose, and shows that understanding the “medicine” of one’sspirit animal—assimilating its qualities and characteristics—allowsone to apply the lessons and messages they convey and use them forpersonal transformation. Lucy Harmer notes that particular animalsthat cross one’s path or appear repeatedly nearby probably want usto share in their medicine, their teaching, their energy, and theirspirit. Discovering Your Spirit Animal provides guidance for meeting andgetting to know one’s spirit animal through easy exercises andshamanic techniques. Lucy Harmer explains how to discover thestrengths, qualities, and skills one shares with one’s personalspirit animal, enablin

In an attractive, oversized format, enlivened withillustrations, sidebar quotes, personal accounts, techniques totry, and profiles of leaders in the field, Discovering The Body'sWisdom is a basic resource for well-being and natural health. Body disciplines and therapies have enjoyed phenomenal growth inthe past decade, becoming a major alternative to mainstreammedicine and traditional psychotherapy. But with more than 100,000practitioners and dozens of methods available in the United Statesalone, how can consumers choose the right one for themselves? Mirka Knaster's richly informative guide provides an overview ofthe principles and theories underlying the major Eastern andWestern body therapies, or "bodyways." It shows readers how tobefriend their own bodies, getting back in touch with theirinternal sources of health and wisdom. It also describes more than75 individual approaches, answering such questions as: How doeseach therapy work? What can we expect from one session or a series?What ar

An educational system of neuromuscular re-education known forits gentle approach, the Feldenkrais Method has been shown todramatically improve individual functioning by increasingself-awareness and facilitating new patterns of thinking, moving,and feeling. Intended for those who need to improve their movementrepertoire for professional reasons–dancers, musicians, martialartists, gymnasts, and athletes–as well as those wishing to reducepain or limitations in movement, Feldenkrais is based on the ideathat learning to move better can improve anyone s overallhealth on many levels.Using Moshe Feldenkrais s ownwords, Embodied Wisdom clearly explains the basic principlesunderpinning his techniques, Awareness Through Movement (ATM) andFunctional Integration (FI). These thoughtful articles and lively,sometimes humorous interviews explore a diverse range of subjects:the importance of bodily expression, the primacy of hearing, themind-body connection, martial arts, sleep and consciousness,movement and its eff

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.

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.

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

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.

In Simple Spells for Love, Barrie Dolnick helps us harness thepower of our wishes and the universe to ensure fulfillment andsatisfaction in our relationships. This modern-day guidebook forbenevolent charms and easy-to-cast spells offers ways to: - Heighten your allure with glamours - Attract romantic prospects with fresh lavender and water - Increase your personal magnetism by bathing with orangepeel - Enhance your lover’s devotion by cooking with cumin seeds - Ease heartache with sea salt and amethyst Basic ingredients that are easy to find, like candles and herbs,turn ancient spells into effective modern rituals. With SimpleSpells for Love you’ll also learn how to invite passion into yourlife with scent and color. If you’re seeking love, connection, or greater understanding withyour partner, these spells will help you strengthen commitment andenhance romance.

Practiced by millions in China to release stress and maintainrobust health, Dragon and Tiger qigong is also used to help preventand heal cancer and to mitigate the effects of radiation andchemotherapy. Frantzis chose Dragon and Tiger from among severalhundred sets he researched because its seven simple movements areeasy to learn and offer about 80 percent of the health benefitsfound in the more complex sets of 50–100 movements. Dragon and Tiger qigong uses simple body movements to accomplishthe same chi balancing as acupuncture. Each movement is designed tostimulate not just a single meridian but groups of meridians. InChinese medicine, the tiger is a metaphor for a strong, healthyliver and powerful muscles, and the dragon is a metaphor forhealthy and strong lungs. The Dragon and Tiger form accomplishesthree major changes in the body necessary for healing: it releasesstagnant chi energy; increases the speed, strength, and evenness ofthe circulation of chi, blood, and other fluids; and quickly r

Using the occasion of her eightieth-birthday party toreflect on the past, Doris Grumbach delivers an enchanting memoirof the writers, friends, and loves who have accompanied her in mindand body through an extraordinary life of letters.