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. ,

The problem of not having enough time is as old as timeitself, and so are most of the proposed cures. The trouble is, theydon't seem to work. The Mind Gym: Give me time proposes a radicallydifferent approach to time and how we use it. Combining extensivepsychological research with five years of testing amongst The MindGym's 100,000 members, this book offers practical solutions thatwill make you feel great about how your time is spent. The book ispacked with techniques including *how to achieve more by slowingdown * tiny time investments that deliver massive returns * how tosay 'no' and be loved for it * simple ways to get other people towant to do your work for you * how to get time with people whohaven't got time for you And there's no need to read this book fromcover to cover. The questionnaire at the start guides you directlyto the chapters that will help you most.

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

The Angry LittleGirls are back, spreading their signature brand of fun,sarcastic, and quirky feminism. It may make the world go ’round,but love can also make us angry, disenchanted, crazy,gloomy—sometimes all at once. Author/artist Lela Lee makes theseaggravating emotions a million laughs. Join these edgy little damesas they grapple with that infuriating but oh so necessaryfour-letter word: Love!

In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Spinoza examinedthe role emotion played in human survival and culture. Yet hundredsof years and many significant scientific advances later, theneurobiological roots of joy and sorrow remain a mystery. Today, wespend countless resources doctoring our feelings with alcohol,pre*ion drugs, health clubs, therapy, vacation retreats, andother sorts of consumption; still, the inner workings of ourminds-what feelings are, how they work, and what they mean-arelargely an unexplored frontier.With scientific expertise andliterary facility, bestselling author and world famousneuroscientist Antonio Damasio concludes his groundbreaking trilogyin Looking for Spinoza, exploring the cerebral processes that keepus alive and make life worth living.

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 Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificenttreasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman—frominterviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. Asweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate andfascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other. Fromhis ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prizeacceptance speech, this book will fascinate anyone interested inthe world of ideas.

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

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.

Karma is generally understood as personal, and clearing karmais often considered an individual effort, with individual rewards.In Opening Our Spiritual Eyes, spiritual teacher Sri’ama QalaPhoenix shows how karmic clearing can also be used in collectivehealing. Karma is shared within families and communities, andclearing karma releases it from the etheric body of our childrenand future generations. The book was inspired by the ongoing“Celestial Project,” a four-year global endeavor of Australia’sDivine University that began in 2009. The project involves peoplegathering worldwide on specific dates to focus on the karmiccleaning of the etheric body of a major city. Opening Our Spiritual Eyes draws on the author’s experiences ofmeeting the Enlightened Masters, those wise spirit guides who,through her, present new understandings of the collective karmaheld within the world’s primary cities and our etheric bodies—andhow to free ourselves, our families, and our world from it withgrace. Rev

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.

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

When an individual has not resolved a negative experience,the stored trauma may lead to such physical problems as high bloodpressure, asthma, headaches, gastritis, addictive behavior, andlearning disabilities. This book adds form and substance tohomeopathic healing, aligning older theories in the Organon withmodern psychological theory about how disease takes hold in ourbody.

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