What is our species' greatest invention? Medicine, computers, space travel? Not even close. The innovation that underlies each of our past achievements and those we still aspire to is language. Language is the ultimate invention of...
Thought and thinking
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Author:Kelly, Spencer D.Summary: - Author:Gaddam, Sai, Ogas, OgiSummary:
Why do minds exist? How did mud and stone develop into beings that can experience longing, regret, love, and compassion-beings that are aware of their own experience? Until recently, science offered few answers to these existential...
- Author:Hamilton, RyanSummary:
People have always been fascinated by how the mind works. Thousands of times each day, we are presented with choices that require decisions: from what to wear each day to where to live. Over millennia philosophers, theologians, and...
- Author:Allen, JennieSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! You can choose hope in the midst of chaos. The visionary behind the million-strong IF:Gathering challenges you to exercise your God-given power to shift negative thinking...
- Author:Gardner, HowardSummary:
Modern people face many challenges in the new world, with science and technology becoming more and more important to our day to day lives. A pioneer in the field of multiple intelligences, psychologist Howard Gardner offers this...
- Author:Morrison, GeoffreySummary:
It's a hot summer night, and Hugh Dalgarno, a 31-year-old clerical worker, thinks his brain is broken. Over the course of a day and night in an uncannily depopulated public park, waiting to meet someone who never shows, he will sift...
- Author:Osteen, JoelSummary:
It's easy to go through life holding on to things that are weighing you down. Guilt. Resentment. Doubt. Worry. The problem is when you allow these things in, they're taking up space for the good things that should be there....
- Author:Bogel, AnneSummary:
We've all been there: stuck in a cycle of what-ifs, plagued by indecision, paralyzed by the fear of getting it wrong. Nobody wants to live a life of constant overthinking, but it doesn't feel like something we can choose to...
- Author:Marchant, Jo.Summary:
Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident' Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon' Felt turned on just from hearing your partner's voice' If so, then you've...
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Author:Finn, PatrickSummary:"Should we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, Critical Condition questions the assumption that every student should be turned into a "critical thinker." The book starts with the pre-...
- Author:Park, KeithSummary:
Acquérez une plus grande conscience de soi, apprenez à résoudre les problèmes et à obtenir les conditions de vie que vous désirez. En vous enseignant comment employer le regard serein — un état d’esprit optimal, à la fois alerte et...
- Author:Kross, EthanSummary:
An award-winning psychologist reveals the hidden power of our inner voice and shows how we can harness it to live healthier, more satisfying, and productive lives. Tell a stranger that you talk to yourself, and you're likely to get...
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Author:Tencer, Ken, Cardoso, John PauloSummary:If you can slice a melon or make a right-hand turn, you can be a breakthrough innovator. The title of this book, Cause a Disturbance, says it all, and it most assuredly will cause a disturbance in the way you think about business: your...
- Author:Lipton, Bruce, Ollivier, Annie J., Letia, Frédérick, Lemyre, CarlSummary:
Cette édition 10e anniversaire du livre à succès de Bruce Lipton, Biologie des croyances, est une version mise à jour afin de renforcer la prémisse centrale du livre en y intégrant les plus récentes découvertes scientifiques, et l’on...
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Author:Lawson, RobertSummary:Benjamin Franklin's companion, Amos the mouse, recounts how he was responsible for Franklin's inventions and discoveries.
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Author:Allen, JamesSummary:James Allen's literary essay and book As a Man Thinketh was originally published in 1903. The novel is written in terms of responsibility assumption, which is a doctrine that any person has complete responsibility for the events that...
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Author:Milner, MarionSummary:Marion Milner’s 1934 A Life of One’s Own illustrates a modern woman’s “crossing,” both disciplinarily and generically. Written before Milner trained as a psychoanalyst but delving into the Unconscious, and with a title that apparently...
- Author:Wiest, BriannaSummary:
Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writing. This new compilation of her published work features pieces on why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking,...
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