Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative---and dazzling---book yet. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won. Or should he have? In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland's Troubles, the mind

The nine months of pregnancy are a special time for all women,a time of wonder, dreams, hopes, and, above all, awesome physicalchange. Your Pregnancy Journal is the perfect place for women torecord thoughts and also to keep a record of their physicalprogress as they march toward delivery. In addition to ample spacefor the mom-to-be to write weekly musings and keep track of doctorappointments, test results, and changes in weight, blood pressure,and belly measurements, this elegantly designed journal includes awealth of helpful and interesting medical, nutritional, andexercise information and tips. The perfect gift, Your PregnancyJournal is also a wonderfully wise and reassuring resource for amother-to-be.

This book features schedules of daily push ups for 6 weeks tobuild the strength needed for 100 consecutive push ups - and in sodoing transform one's whole body strength. Breaking it down muscleby muscle from neck to toes, this book explains why the push up isthe best strength exercise ever. Next, it teaches the reader how todo a perfect push up that maximizes its benefit. Then it presents acarefully developed training program which guides the reader day byday, week by week until the reader can do 100 consecutive push ups.Along the way, the author offers further tips and insights intofull body strength and fitness. By the end, the read will reach thevery real goal of doing 100 consecutive push ups while reshapingand transforming his body.

Bestselling psychologist Richard Wiseman unravels the science behind our beliefs in telepathy, clairvoyants, mediums, ghosts, and more...

Sri T. Krishnamacharya (18881989) was the most influentialfigure in the last 100 years in the field of yoga. Many of today'sbest-known yoga teachersincluding his brother-in-law B. K. S.Iyengar, his son T. K. V. Desikachar, and Pattabhi Jois, founder ofAshtanga yogastudied with him and modeled their own yoga stylesafter his practice and teaching. Yet, despite his renowned status,Krishnamacharya's wisdom has never before been made completelyavailable, just as he taught it. Now, in The Complete Book ofVinyasa Yoga, Srivatsa RamaswamiKrishnamacharya's longest-standingstudent outside his own familypresents his master's teachings ofyogasanas in unprecedented detail. Drawing upon his 33 years ofdirect study, beginning in 1955 and continuing nearly until histeacher's death, Ramaswami presents more than nine hundred posesand variations in logically structured sequences, preciselydescribing Krishnamacharya's complete Vinyasakrama system. Alongwith every movement of each yoga posture, he covers the properbreathin

The final and conclusive book in the groundbreaking series onboys and their development In this climax to his series of landmark books about boys,Michael Gurian offers a powerful new program to help us give oursons a core purpose–a program based on building morality,character, career goals, the ability to form intimaterelationships, selflessness, personal and community responsibility,and an accelerated process of developmental maturity. Gurianreveals how important purpose is for the success and happiness ofboys and explains how a boy's core personality, nature, and geneticpredisposition functions to create both strengths and weaknesses intheir journey towards maturity. Includes an innovative program for support and interventionsaccording to the unique needs, weaknesses, and strengths of eachindividual young man. This book is the follow-up to Gurian's bestselling The Mindsof Boys Draws on the latest science and field research on how boysdevelop neurologically Guri

Negativity in the workplace costs businesses billions of dollars and impacts the morale, productivity and health of individuals and teams. "In The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work, Jon Gordon, a bestselling author, consultant and speaker, shares an enlightening story that demonstrates how you can conquer negativity and inspire others to adopt a positive attitude." Based on one company’s successful No Complaining Rule, the powerful principles and actionable plan are practical and easy–to–follow, making this book an ideal read for managers, team leaders and anyone interested in generating positive energy.

The widely acclaimed "father of cognitive psychotherapy" adds anew introduction to the gold-standard book on anxiety disorders andphobias At the forefront of the cognitive revolution, renownedpsychiatrist Aaron T Beck turned to information processing in orderto understand the sources, consequences and cures of anxietydisorders and phobias. In the first half of this classic text, Beckelaborates on the clinical picture of anxiety disorders and phobiasand presents an explanatory model to account for the richcomplexity of these phenomena. Cognitive psychologist Gary Emerythen details the therapeutic principles, strategies and tacticsdeveloped on the basis of the cognitive model of anxiety disordersand phobias. This fifteenth anniversary edition of the foundationalwork on cognitive therapy features a new introduction by Beck, inwhich he offers an up-to-date appraisal of the current state ofcognitive therapy and its application to the treatment of phobiasand anxiety.