Mismatch: How Our Stone Age Brain Deceives Us Every Day (and What We Can Do about It) (Giphart Ronald)(Paperback)

Mismatch: How Our Stone Age Brain Deceives Us Every Day (and What We Can Do about It) (Giphart Ronald)(Paperback)

Our brains evolved to solve the survival problems of our Stone Age ancestors, so when faced with modern day situations that are less extreme, they often encounter a mismatch. Our primitive brains put us on the wrong foot by responding to stimuli that - in prehistoric times - would have prompted

The Simple Guide to Collective Trauma: What It Is, How It Affects Us and How to Help (De Thierry Betsy)(Paperback)

- What is collective trauma?- How can it impact children and communities?- What can we do about it? Providing accessible answers to these complex questions and more, this guide explores the key characteristics of collective trauma and provides practical advice on how to help children, young people

Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong: And What We Can Do about It (Kilpatrick William)(Paperback)

In Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong: And What We Can Do About It, Kilpatrick shows how we can correct this problem by providing our youngsters with the stories, models, and inspirations they need in order to lead good lives. Kilpatrick shows how we can correct this problem by providing our

The End of Bias : How We Change Our Minds - Nordell Jessica

Implicit bias affects us all, every day of our lives. But it can be overcome.Here's how we begin to change our minds.Implicit bias leads us to discriminate on the basis of race, gender, age, body type anda host of other factors. It robs organizations of talent, science of breakthroughs, art

Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do about It (Davis Garth)(Paperback)

An acclaimed surgeon specializing in weight loss delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the diet and health industry's focus on protein, explaining why it is detrimental to our health, and can prevent us from losing weight.Whether you are seeing a doctor, nutritionist, or a trainer, all of

The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals about Our Power to Change Others (Sharot Tali)(Paperback)

A cutting-edge, research-based inquiry into how we influence those around us, and how understanding the brain can help us change minds for the better.In The Influential Mind, neuroscientist Tali Sharot takes us on a thrilling exploration of the nature of influence. We all have a duty to affect

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do about It (Taubes Gary)(Paperback)

What's making us fat? And how can we change? Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, bestselling author Gary Taubes revisits these urgent questions. Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century--none more damaging

Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do about It (Participant Media)(Paperback)

Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as 'more than a terrific movie--it's an important movie.' Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and

Guidance from the Greatest: What the World War Two Generation Can Teach Us about How We Live Our Lives (Mortimer Gavin)(Paperback)

'We will overcome it [and] I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge, and those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any' Her Majesty The Queen The Coronavirus pandemic forced the great British

Fragile - Why we feel more anxious, stressed and overwhelmed than ever, and what we can do about it (O'Malley Stella)(Paperback / softback)

Am I Just My Brain? (Dirckx Sharon)(Paperback)

Modern research is uncovering more and more detail of what our brain is and how it works. We are living, thinking creatures who carry around with us an amazing organic supercomputer in our heads.But what is the relationship between our brains and our minds--and ultimately our sense of identity as a

We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves (Cheney-Lippold John)(Paperback)

What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist itAlgorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we

Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It's Not What You Say, But How You Say It (Setter Jane)(Paperback)

Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we speak? Jane Setter explores these and other fascinating questions in this engaging introduction to the power and the science of the voice. The book first takes us on a

The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk about Hip Hop--And Why It Matters (Rose Tricia)(Paperback)

How hip hop shapes our conversations about race--and how race influences our consideration of hip hop Hip hop is a distinctive form of black art in America-from Tupac to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Kendrick Lamar, hip hop has long given voice to the African American experience. As scholar and

Pure, White and Deadly - How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It (Yudkin John)(Paperback / softback)

Sugar. It is killing us. Why do we eat so much of it? What are its hidden dangers? Using everyday language and a range of scientific evidence, the author explores the ins and out of sugar, from the different types - is brown sugar really better than white? - to how it is hidden inside our everyday

World Wide Waste: How Digital Is Killing Our Planet-and What We Can Do About It (McGovern Gerry)(Paperback)

Speaking out when it's unpopular. Back in the day, Henry David Thoreau raged at the robber barons-the big shots of their age, despoiling the environment in the name of progress. Deep in the throes of the seemingly unstoppable growth of tech, a modern-day Thoreau has emerged in the guise of Gerry

Feel the Wind (Dorros Arthur)(Paperback)

Read and find out about the wind--what causes it, how it can be used to help us, and how it affects the weather--in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.Air is always moving. We can't see air moving, though we can watch it push clouds across the sky, or shake the leaves of a tree. We

Secret Life of the Mind - How Our Brain Thinks, Feels and Decides (Sigman Mariano)(Paperback / softback)

* Where do our thoughts come from?* How can we manipulate our dreams?* What is the role of the unconscious?* How do we make decisions and trust the judgement of both others and

Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics (Shenkman Rick)(Pevná vazba)

Can a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as bestselling historian Rick Shenkman explains in Political Animals, our world is anything but rational. Drawing on science, politics, and

How Democracies Die - The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future (Levitsky Steven)(Paperback / softback)

How does a democracy die? What can we do to save our own? What lessons does history teach us? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from across history - from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling in Turkey - Levitsky

Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food Is Killing Us and What We Can Do about It (Fuhrman Joel)(Paperback)

Revered nutrition and health expert, PBS personality, and bestselling author of Eat to Live, Super Immunity, and The End of Diabetes, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, delivers a hard-hitting, culture-shifting examination of the role fast and processed food plays in our nation's health crisis and offers a

Hallucinations (Sacks Oliver)(Paperback / softback)

Oliver Sacks takes us through the world of hallucinations and explains how our brains can deceive

Pink Brain, Blue Brain - How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps - And What We Can Do About It (Eliot Lise Ph.D.)(Paperback / softback)

Drawing on years of research and the author's own work in the field of neuroplasticity, this title argues that infant brains are so malleable that small differences at birth become amplified over time as parents, teachers, and the culture at large unwittingly reinforce gender

The Psychology of Art (Mather George)(Paperback)

Why do we enjoy art? What inspires us to create artistic works? How can brain science help us understand our taste in art? The Psychology of Art provides an eclectic introduction to the myriad ways in which psychology can help us understand and appreciate creative activities. Exploring how we