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How to Self-Promote without Being a Jerk
Bruce Kasanoff - 2014
Thanks to Bruce Kasanoff’s engaging writing and sage advice, this is an enjoyable book that’s full of new ideas to put into action immediately." -- Adam Grant, Wharton professor and bestselling author of Give and Take Do you feel uncomfortable blowing your own horn? Do you struggle to get your fair share of attention? If either is true, this little gem of a book is for you. It provides you with quick and effective tips on the most appropriate ways to make a name for yourself in our hyper-connected world. The book is organized around the author's "Simplify Your Future" framework for managing your career and life: Be generous and expert, trustworthy and clear, open-minded and adaptable, persistent and present.
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
Susan Wise Bauer - 2003
In her previous book, The Well-Trained Mind, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children, and that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers. In this new book, Bauer takes the same elements and techniques and adapts them to the use of adult readers who want both enjoyment and self-improvement from the time they spend reading.The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of five literary genres—fiction, autobiography, history, drama, and poetry—accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. The annotated lists at the end of each chapter—ranging from Cervantes to A. S. Byatt, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich—preview recommended reading and encourage readers to make vital connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing.The Well-Educated Mind reassures those readers who worry that they read too slowly or with below-average comprehension. If you can understand a daily newspaper, there's no reason you can't read and enjoy Shakespeare's Sonnets or Jane Eyre. But no one should attempt to read the "Great Books" without a guide and a plan. Susan Wise Bauer will show you how to allocate time to your reading on a regular basis; how to master a difficult argument; how to make personal and literary judgments about what you read; how to appreciate the resonant links among texts within a genre—what does Anna Karenina owe to Madame Bovary?—and also between genres. Followed carefully, the advice in The Well-Educated Mind will restore and expand the pleasure of the written word.
No Bake Recipes: 21 Fuss-Free Easy Desserts
Prime Publishing - 2014
Perfect any time of year, these toothsome treats will become your family’s favorite with each savory bite. From decadent dessert bars, to luscious pies, there are a variety of no bake easy desserts in this cookbook that will be considered blue ribbon winners.If you don't have time to make an elegant dessert recipe for a potluck or just for a quiet night at home with the kids our no bake recipes, will provide you with some great treats that you will not be able to resist. So, if you can't imagine a night without a dessert following a hearty meal, check out one of these wonderful no bake recipes and indulge in something delicious.Our collection of no bake recipes has a little bit of everything. We've got you covered so your dessert table will be full from corner to corner with each recipe being as good as the last. We have no bake recipes for chocolate lovers that will make your mouth water and recipes for people that just want a small helping, a little nibble, of dessert. Or if you are dreaming of a creamy slice of no bake pie with whipped cream on top, we have just the recipe for you. With little to no time to prepare, these easy no bake desserts are some of our favorite dessert recipes, and we're sure they will become some of your favorites too!
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Philip G. Zimbardo - 2007
Here, for the first time and in detail, Zimbardo tells the full story of the Stanford Prison Experiment, the landmark study in which a group of college-student volunteers was randomly divided into “guards” and “inmates” and then placed in a mock prison environment. Within a week, the study was abandoned, as ordinary college students were transformed into either brutal, sadistic guards or emotionally broken prisoners. By illuminating the psychological causes behind such disturbing metamorphoses, Zimbardo enables us to better understand a variety of harrowing phenomena, from corporate malfeasance to organized genocide to how once upstanding American soldiers came to abuse and torture Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib. He replaces the long-held notion of the “bad apple” with that of the “bad barrel”—the idea that the social setting and the system contaminate the individual, rather than the other way around.
Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis, First Edition: Responding to the Challenge of DSM-5
Allen Frances - 2013
Covering every disorder routinely encountered in clinical practice, Frances provides the appropriate ICD-9-CM code for each one (the same code utilized in the DSM), a useful screening question, a colorful descriptive prototype, lucid diagnostic tips, and a discussion of other disorders that must be ruled out. The book closes with an index of the most common presenting symptoms, listing possible diagnoses that must be considered for each. Frances was instrumental in the development of past editions of the DSM and provides helpful cautions on questionable aspects of DSM-5.
How to Analyze People: Analyze & Read People with Human Psychology, Body Language, and the 6 Human Needs (How to Analyze People 101)
Michael Draper - 2015
You will also learn the 3 elements of practical psychology, what someone's music taste says about them, and will be provided practical exercises at the end of each chapter to follow through on.Furthermore,
How to Analyze & Read People with Human Psychology, Body Language, and the 6 Human Needs
will teach you about: Transactional Analysis and How it Can Benefit You The 5 Rules That WILL Make Your Life Miserable The Stroke Economy Bottom Lines and How They Dictate Your Life Even Though You Had No Say in Them - Until Now! What The Four Primal and Two Spiritual Needs are in Your Life Gaining a Deeper Understanding of Yourself to Analyze Others Accurately Macro versus Micro Facial Expressions Cold Reading People at First Glance The Winner's Triangle and The Drama Triangle And more... What are you waiting for? Stop overthinking and start ANALYZING! Scroll up and 'Buy with 1-Click' NOW!
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: A Renowned Neurologist Explains the Mystery and Drama of Brain Disease
Allan H. Ropper - 2014
What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this book, Dr. Allan Ropper and Brian Burrell take the reader behind the scenes at Harvard Medical School's neurology unit to show how a seasoned diagnostician faces down bizarre, life-altering afflictions. Like Alice in Wonderland, Dr. Ropper inhabits a world where absurdities abound:• A figure skater whose body has become a ticking time-bomb • A salesman who drives around and around a traffic rotary, unable to get off • A college quarterback who can't stop calling the same play • A child molester who, after falling on the ice, is left with a brain that is very much dead inside a body that is very much alive • A mother of two young girls, diagnosed with ALS, who has to decide whether a life locked inside her own head is worth livingHow does one begin to treat such cases, to counsel people whose lives may be changed forever? How does one train the next generation of clinicians to deal with the moral and medical aspects of brain disease? Dr. Ropper and his colleague answer these questions by taking the reader into a rarified world where lives and minds hang in the balance.
Astronomy For Amateurs (Illustrated Edition)
Camille Flammarion - 2008
He was usually credited as Camille Flammarion. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and several works about Spiritualism and related topics. He also published the magazine L'Astronomie, starting in 1882. He maintained a private observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France. He was a founder and the first president of the Socit Astronomique de France, which originally had its own independent journal, BSAF (Bulletin de la Socit Astronomique de France), first published in 1887. He was the first to suggest the names Triton and Amalthea for moons of Neptune and Jupiter, respectively, although these names were not officially adopted until many decades later. His spiritualism studies influenced also some of his science fiction. Other than that his writing about other worlds adhered fairly closely to then current ideas in evolutionary theory and astronomy. Amongst his other works are: The Atmosphere (1873), Popular Astronomy (1907), Astronomy for Amateurs (1904), Omega: The Last Days of the World and Death and its Mystery.
Get Unstuck Now: How Smart People Gain Clarity and Solve a Problem Fast, And How You Can Too
Laura van den Berg Sekac - 2016
She asks helpful questions throughout to help the reader explore the next steps they need to take. And provides practical action steps. If you really want to get unstuck you've got to engage with the material, not just read it.” ~ Beth Ellen Nash, Amazon reader Have you been spinning your wheels, feeling like you’re drowning in the molasses of monotony, discouragement and frustration? Do you, like many of us, struggle with achieving your goals and dreams, or solving a problem? Has something fundamental to your work, or relationship stopped and would you like to put the spark back into your life? Life coach Laura has helped thousands of people identify where the root of the problem lies and pave their path to personal fulfillment. And now she does the same for you in her practical and gimmick-free book Get Unstuck Now This guide shows you what your real underlying problem is and where to focus on so you can move on with more joy, clarity, and peace of mind. You’ll master easy-to-use tools, strategies and specific steps to bring about deep and meaningful transformation, so you can get unstuck... NOW! With this encouraging and easy-to-implement book, you’ll master: The 5 hidden, underlying principles and rules that affect our life. How your inner child may keep you stuck, who this inner child actually is, and how to deal with it. The ONE crucial thing that you MUST do, without which you’ll lack the will and motivation, to truly change something. …and many more tested and path-breaking ideas and practical tools to move forward fast with unstoppable confidence.
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Also if your focus is right, then I give you my word that it will broaden your vision changing you into a better person in life. Great work by Laura, highly recommended for those who are lost finding themselves in this fast moving world!!” ~Ilma Salman, Amazon reader
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Psychology Through the Eyes of Faith
David G. Myers - 1987
Identifies the major ideas that college and university students will encounter in a basic psychology course and explores connections with Christian belief.
You Become What You Think About: How Your Mind Creates The World You Live In
Vic Johnson - 2014
What you think you become.” “You become what you think about all day long” is how Ralph Waldo Emerson expressed it. In The Strangest Secret, the only personal development recording ever to receive a Gold Record, Earl Nightingale reveals that the secret is “You become what you think about." Using that principle, you can create an entirely different world than you live in today. Bruce Lee returned to the United States at the age of 18 with $100 in his pocket and the idea he often quoted that "As you think, you become." By the time of his early death a scant 14 years later, he had become a major motion picture icon and the father of mixed martial arts. Your subconscious mind is responsible for just about every major thing in your life. You don’t have to consciously think about breathing, your heart beating, walking, or how to properly digest and metabolize the food you eat. Without the cooperation of your subconscious -- the deep recesses of your inner self -- change can be difficult to impossible. You might consciously have tried to lose weight. But if your subconscious mind was fixated on fattening food and how difficult exercise was, the experience was probably a challenge or a dismal failure. Therefore, changing one or more aspects of your life can’t occur until you affect change on your subconscious. In You Become What You Think About: How Your Mind Creates The World You Live In, Vic Johnson will take you step-by-step as he shows you how to harness and use the power of directed thought in your life.
The Rules of Work: The Unspoken Truth about Getting Ahead in Business
Richard Templar - 2002
Arm yourself with these 50 secret rules, and get to the top without breaking a sweat. * Hot book -- 55,000 copies sold in the UK, and 20,000 copies in Canada. * The complete success primer for today's manager: fun, irreverent, and real. * Why some people glide effortlessly past office politics, backstabbing, and unpleasant bosses...and how you can, too.
Schizophrenic God?: Finding Reality in Conflict, Confusion, and Contradiction
Steve C. Shank - 2012
Schizophrenic God? is a close look at fate and free will. Has God predetermined everything that happens in your life, or do your own free-will decisions help determine your destiny? You will be challenged to rethink the assumptions you have made about God, which brings comfort and empowerment in the truths of a good God, human choice, and the prayer of faith that changes things. Rest assured—you do not serve a schizophrenic Father.
The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North
L. Winifred Faraday - 2009
Mindfulness and Acceptance: Expanding the Cognitive-Behavioral Tradition
Steven C. Hayes - 2004
Leading scientist-practitioners describe how their respective modalities incorporate such nontraditional themes as mindfulness, acceptance, values, spirituality, being in relationship, focusing on the present moment, and emotional deepening. Coverage includes acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, integrative behavioral couple therapy, behavioral activation, and functional analytic psychotherapy. Contributors describe their clinical methods and goals, articulate their theoretical models, and examine similarities to and differences from other approaches.