Why we think the things we think
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Why We Think the Things We Think
In Why We Think the Things We Think, author Alain Stephen attempts to demystify some of the key philosophical questions by tracing their origins and
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Think!
According to Edward de Bono, world thinking cannot solve world problems because world thinking is itself the problem. De Bono examines why we think th
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Factfulness, Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think Hodder & Stoughton
Essential reading in the time of coronavirus: the international bestseller that will make you realise things are better than you thought...
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Why We Love
A deep dive into the science of love, from polyamory to our love of pets, this book will change the way we think about ourselves, our relationships an
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Why We Took the Car
Mike doesn't get why people think he's boring. (OK, zero friends.) And everyone laughs at him when he reads his essays out loud in class.'You will see
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How to Think About Exercise
A look at how and why exercise affects the way we think and feel
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The Things We Leave Unfinished - Rebecca Yarros
Prepare to fall in love with this heart-stoppingly romantic TikTok sensation that everyone's talking about:'A true timeless masterpiece. A book that will resonate in your soul and be long remembered''I'm all cried out. Rebecca Yarros shook me with that twist I didn't see coming''I've never read anything like this and I don't think I ever will again.This is a love story fo...
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Make, Think, Imagine : The Future of Civilisation - John Browne
<p>Today's unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media robbed us of our privacy and fed us with false information? Are robots going to take our jobs? Will better healthcare lead to an ageing population that cannot be cared for? And has our demand for energy driven the Earth's climate to the...
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How to Think Like an Economist : The Great Economists Who Shaped the World and What We Can Learn From Them Today
An entertaining collection of biographical portraits of history's most influential and inspiring economists from Aristotle to Keynes, and Karl Marx to Friedrich Hayek and what they can teach us about the world today. We all live in the economy, whether we know it or not. The current cost-of-living crisis is an economic problem. Brexit might be a political project, but it ...
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Beyond Words : What Animals Think and Feel - Safina Carl
Anotace: I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you?Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina`s landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to ...
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Beyond Words : What Animals Think and Feel - Carl Safina
<p>I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to...
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Mindset - Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential - Dweck Carol
Anotace: World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset.Dweck explains why it`s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence a...
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Mindset: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential, 1. vydání - Carol Dweck
<p>World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset.Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence an...
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The Book of Humans : The Story of How We Became Us - Adam Rutherford
<p>"Rutherford describes Humanimal as being about the paradox of how our evolutionary journey turned ‘an otherwise average ape' into one capable of creating complex tools, art, music, science, and engineering. It's an intriguing question, one his book sets against descriptions of the infinitely amusing strategies and antics of a dizzying array of animals.”-The ...
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Breaking Things at Work
A manifesto for the neo-luddite revolution: an exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the
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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things - Adam Grant
Anotace: #1 New York Times bestseller "This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would`ve helped me find a more joyful path to progress."-Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis championThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again il...
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Before We Were Strangers: A Love Story - Renée Carlino
<p>From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist "missed connection" post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm r...
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Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter (0062872729)
Kniha - 288 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Why is paying for things painful? Why are we comfortable overpaying for something in the present just because we've overpaid for it in the past? Why is it easy to pay $4 for a soda on vacation, when we wouldn't spend more than $1 on that same soda at our local grocery store? We think of money as numbers, value...
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The Dawn of Language: Axes, lies, midwifery and how we came to talk (1529411408)
Kniha - autor Frank Perry, 400 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná An entertaining and stimulating deep dive for anyone who has ever contemplated not just why we speak the way we do, but why we speak at all. The book is divided into three parts - language, origin and origin of language - and is packed with colourful examples. Part 1 - Language as an isolated p...
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic - Simon Winchester
<p>'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times 'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and sprightly'Sunday Times From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kinderg...
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Start With Why - Simon Sinek
<p>Why are some people and organisations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others?And why are they able to repeat their success again and again? </p> <p>Why are some people and organisations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others? And why are they able to repeat their success again and again?</p> <p>In business,...
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Why Empires Fall - Peter Heather
What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their field, investigateOver the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found it...
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (0099505576)
Kniha - autor Guy Deutscher, 310 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A provocative exploration of how the cultures we live in affect the languages we speak and how we think of the world around us. Asks the questions 'Does language reflect the culture of a society, is a mother-tongue a lens through which a world is perceived, and can different languages lead the...
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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things - Adam Grant
<p>#1 New York Times bestseller "This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would've helped me find a more joyful path to progress."-Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis championThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think...
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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things - Adam Grant
<p>#1 New York Times bestseller "This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would've helped me find a more joyful path to progress."-Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis championThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think...
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Rationality : What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters - Steven Pinker
<p>In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that discovered vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, quack cures and conspiracy theorizing? In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliche that humans are simply an ir...
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How to Build Impossible Things - Mark Ellison
‘Gorgeous . . .contains fascinating insights about working with your hands, the nature of talent, and how to create a meaningful life’ A. J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Puzzler‘Exquisite, purposeful, absorbing .. . a book with much to teach us all’ Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Homeland Elegies‘People think I’m a genius because I remember my high sch...
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Heartbreak - School of Life Press The
<p>Almost no one gets through life without, at some point, having their heart broken. Advice at such a dark moment tends to focus on letting time do the healing. But there is also a vital role for understanding and perspective. We sometimes make our situation far worse than it needs to be through certain ideas we develop about why we've been left. We start to tell o...
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Natural Pain Management: Learn How to Achieve Pain Relief Naturally and Without Drugs so That You Can Live a Carefree Life Which We All Deserve - Russlan Jim
Anotace: ?? Buy the Paperback version of this book and get the eBook version included for FREE ??Do you suffer from chronic pain? Are you starting to think that you might be stuck with taking painkillers for life? Are you trapped in a rat race of rising pain tolerance which poses a danger of painkillers not being effective anymore? Are you taking painkillers that come wi...
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The Pattern Seekers : A New Theory of Human Invention - Baron Cohen Simon
Anotace: Why can humans alone invent? In this book, psychologist and world renowned autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen puts forward a bold new theory: because we can identify patterns, specifically if-and-then patterns. Baron-Cohen argues that the genes for this unique ability overlap with the genes for autism and have driven human progress for 70,000 years.From the first m...
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Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control - Russell Stuart
Anotace: FROM THE BBC REITH LECTURER 2021`The most important book I have read in quite some time` Daniel Kahneman; `A must-read` Max Tegmark; `The book we`ve all been waiting for` Sam HarrisHumans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed?Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, accordin...
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Heartbreak
Almost no one gets through life without, at some point, having their heart broken. Advice at such a dark moment tends to focus on letting time do the healing. But there is also a vital role for understanding and perspective. We sometimes make our situation far worse than it needs to be through certain ideas we develop about why we've been left. We start to tell ourselves ...
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Stolen Focus : Why You Can´t Pay Attention - Hari Johann
Anotace: Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back?For Stolen Focus, internationally bestselling author Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to uncover the reasons behind our shortening attention spans. He interviewed the leading experts in the world on attention, and learned that everything we think abou...
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Stolen Focus : Why You Can´t Pay Attention, 1. vydání - Johann Hari
<p>Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back? For Stolen Focus, internationally bestselling author Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to uncover the reasons behind our shortening attention spans. He interviewed the leading experts in the world on attention, and learned that everything we think abo...
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life I (0062063375)
Kniha - autor Steven D. Levitt, 298 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Steven D. Levitt, 298 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná In 2005, Freakonomics exploded like a bomb on the culture, forever changing the way we understand the way the world works, how we really make decisions, and... how we name our children. After more than two years on t...
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Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action (0241958229)
Kniha - 256 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Why are some people and organisations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others? And why are they able to repeat their success again and again?In business, it doesn't matter what you do, it matters WHY you do it.Start with Why analyses leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Steve Jobs and discovers tha...
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Oh William! - Stroutová Elizabeth
Anotace: The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in lifeLucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughte...
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Tiny Habits : Why Starting Small Makes Lasting Change Easy - Fogg Brian Jeffrey
Anotace: Improving your life is much easier than you think. Whether it`s losing weight, sleeping more, or restoring your work/life balance - the secret is to start small.For years, we`ve been told that being more healthy and productive is a matter of willpower: that we should follow the latest fad and make constant changes to our lifestyles. But whether in our diets, fit...
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Tiny Habits : Why Starting Small Makes Lasting Change Easy - Brian Jeffrey Fogg
<p>Improving your life is much easier than you think. Whether it’s losing weight, sleeping more, or restoring your work/life balance – the secret is to start small.For years, we’ve been told that being more healthy and productive is a matter of willpower: that we should follow the latest fad and make constant changes to our lifestyles. But whether in our diets, fitn...
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More. Numbers. Every. Day.: How Figures Are Taking Over Our Lives - And Why It´s Time to Set Ourselves Free - Dahle Micael
Anotace: How many steps have you done today?How many emails answered?How much money have you spent this week And how many hours have you slept?Welcome to the numberdemic, where a deluge of figures, stats and data manipulate your every move. From the way you work, date and exercise to the products you buy and the news you read, numbers have worked their way into every par...
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More. Numbers. Every. Day.: How Figures Are Taking Over Our Lives - And Why It´s Time to Set Ourselves Free - Micael Dahle
<p>How many steps have you done today?How many emails answered?How much money have you spent this week And how many hours have you slept?Welcome to the numberdemic, where a deluge of figures, stats and data manipulate your every move. From the way you work, date and exercise to the products you buy and the news you read, numbers have worked their way into every part...
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Putin vs. the People
A fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary Russian politics that sheds new light on why Putin's grip on power is more fragile than we think "Putin v. the People wrestles with perhaps the central conundrum of contemporary Russia: the endurance of support for Putin amid deepening disillusionment with the present and pessimism about the future."-Daniel Beer, The Gu...
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The Mosquito - Winegardner Mark
Anotace: A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity`s fate. Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to tha...
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The Mosquito - Winegardner Mark
A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity's fate. Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its...
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The Mosquito - Mark Winegardner
<p>A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity's fate. Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to than...
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The Good, The Bad and The History - Taylor Jodi
Anotace: BOOK 14 IN THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY`S SERIES, FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JODI TAYLOR. `Brilliant, hilarious, keeps you on your toes` Reader review `The characters make me come back time and time again` Reader review `I have not found another author who can tell a story involving time travel as well` Reader review St Mary`s is under investiga...
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The Good, The Bad and The History - Jodi Taylor
<p>BOOK 14 IN THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIES, FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JODI TAYLOR. 'Brilliant, hilarious, keeps you on your toes' Reader review 'The characters make me come back time and time again' Reader review 'I have not found another author who can tell a story involving time travel as well' Reader review St Mary's is under investigat...
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The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage into the World of the Weird - Schreiber Dan
Anotace: This is not a book of facts; it`s a book of `facts`. Should you finish it believing we became the planet`s dominant species because predators found us too smelly to eat; or that the living bloodline of Christ is a family of Japanese garlic farmers - well, that`s on you. Why are we here? Do ghosts exist? Did life on Earth begin after a badly tidied-up pi...
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Child Development with the D-score Taylor & Francis Ltd
Children learn to walk, speak, and think at an astonishing pace. The D-score presents a unified framework that places children and their developmental milestones from different tools onto the same scale, enabling comparisons in child development across populations, groups and individuals. This pioneering text explains why we need the D-score, how we construct it, and how ...
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Child Development with the D-score Taylor & Francis Ltd
Children learn to walk, speak, and think at an astonishing pace. The D-score presents a unified framework that places children and their developmental milestones from different tools onto the same scale, enabling comparisons in child development across populations, groups and individuals. This pioneering text explains why we need the D-score, how we construct it, and how ...
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Heartbreak - The School of Life Press
Anotace: Almost no one gets through life without, at some point, having their heart broken. Advice at such a dark moment tends to focus on letting time do the healing. But there is also a vital role for understanding and perspective. We sometimes make our situation far worse than it needs to be through certain ideas we develop about why we`ve been left. We start to tell ...
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The Worst Princess - Kemp Anna
Anotace: Forget about all the things you think a princess is SUPPOSED to do - Princess Sue is not that kind of royalty! Princess Sue sits in a tower, waiting for her prince to come. But then she realises . . . she doesn`t need a prince at all! Find out how this feisty princess escapes the clutches of her twit of a prince in this funny, feminist twist on the traditional p...
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The Worst Princess - Anna Kemp
<p>Forget about all the things you think a princess is SUPPOSED to do - Princess Sue is not that kind of royalty! Princess Sue sits in a tower, waiting for her prince to come. But then she realises . . . she doesn't need a prince at all! Find out how this feisty princess escapes the clutches of her twit of a prince in this funny, feminist twist on the traditional pr...
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The Bill Gates Problem - Tim Schwab
<p>You know him as the founder of Microsoft; the philanthropic, kind-hearted billionaire who has donated endless funds to good causes around the world. But there's another side to Bill Gates.We might like to think of the Gates Foundation as an innocent charity giving away money, collaborating with stakeholders, and listening to the desires of the populations it hope...
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Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control - Stuart Russell
<p>FROM THE BBC REITH LECTURER 2021'The most important book I have read in quite some time' Daniel Kahneman; 'A must-read' Max Tegmark; 'The book we've all been waiting for' Sam HarrisHumans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed?Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according...
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The Future of Geography - Tim Marshall
Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century - new from the multi-million-copy international bestselling author of Prisoners of GeographySpy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries' GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years. This isn't science fiction. It's astropolitics. Humans are heading up and out, and we're taking ...
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The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention (014198239X)
Kniha - autor Simon Baron-Cohen, 256 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Why can humans alone invent? In this book, psychologist and world renowned autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen puts forward a bold new theory: because we can identify patterns, specifically if-and-then patterns. And he argues that the genes for this unique ability overlap with the genes for au...
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The Rest is History - Tom Holland
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys – there’s a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past – from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation’s favourite historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take on the most curious moments in history, answe...
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Simply The Brain - Štipl Zdeněk, kolektiv autorů
Anotace: The human brain is a most remarkable organ, but how well do we really understand the way it works? Discover more about what goes on in your head with this guide to the brain and the mind, based on the latest neuroscience research. What is a brain and what is the mind? Do you only use 10% of your brain? Why do some people hear colour? Simply The Brain explores ev...
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The Dream of Enlightenment : The Rise of Modern Philosophy - Anthony Gottlieb
<p>The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of mode...
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