Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future (Eisler Riane)(Pevná vazba)

Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future (Eisler Riane)(Pevná vazba)

Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It brings together findings--largely overlooked--from the natural and social

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--And How We Must Adapt (Aral Sinan)(Pevná vazba)

A landmark insider's tour of how social media affects our decision-making and shapes our world in ways both useful and dangerous, with critical insights into the social media trends of the 2020 election and beyond 'The book might be described as prophetic. . . . At least two of Aral's three

All Kinds of: Families (Ganeri Anita)(Pevná vazba)

A friendly and inclusive look at how we live our lives, celebrating our differences and

Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives (Steel Carolyn)(Paperback)

A passionate, important and visionary book about how our cities are fed, and how this affects our lives and our planet.Cities cover just 2% of the world's surface, but consume 75% of the world's resources. Global food production increased by 145% in the last 4 decades of the 20th century -- yet an

Science of Fate - The New Science of Who We Are - And How to Shape our Best Future (Critchlow Hannah)(Pevná vazba)

Are we really the masters of our own destiny? Neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow shows how far our future is already hardwired in our brains. Like Sapiens and Thinking Fast and Slow, The Science of Fate revolutionises the way we understand our species and

Transformative Experience (Paul L. A.)(Paperback)

As we live our lives, we repeatedly make decisions that shape our future circumstances and affect the sort of person we will be. When choosing whether to start a family, or deciding on a career, we often think we can assess the options by imagining what different experiences would be like for us

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Sheldrake Merlin)(Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A 'brilliant [and] entrancing' (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi--the great connectors of the living world--and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most

The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives (Yates Kit)(Pevná vazba)

A brilliant and entertaining mathematician illuminates seven mathematical principles that shape our lives. 'Kit Yates shows how our private and social lives are suffused by mathematics. Ignorance may bring tragedy or farce. This is an exquisitely interesting book. It's a deeply serious one too and,

Scary Smart - The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World (Gawdat Mo)(Pevná vazba)

Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it. - Mo GawdatArtificial intelligence

Asteroids: How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space (Elvis Martin)(Pevná vazba)

A unique, wide-ranging examination of asteroid exploration and our future in space Human travel into space is an enormously expensive and unforgiving endeavor. So why go? In this accessible and authoritative book, astrophysicist Martin Elvis argues that the answer is asteroid exploration, for the

No Time Like the Future - An Optimist Considers Mortality (Fox Michael J)(Pevná vazba)

A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J

No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality (Fox Michael J.)(Pevná vazba)

A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike

The Human Advantage: How Our Brains Became Remarkable (Herculano-Houzel Suzana)(Paperback)

Why our human brains are awesome, and how we left our cousins, the great apes, behind: a tale of neurons and calories, and cooking.Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body

Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives (Christakis Nicholas A.)(Pevná vazba)

Your colleague's husband's sister can make you fat, even if you don't know her. A happy neighbor has more impact on your happiness than a happy spouse. These startling revelations of how much we truly influence one another are revealed in the studies of Drs. Christakis and Fowler, which have

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

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

On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Badre David)(Pevná vazba)

A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions--and how this shapes our everyday livesWhy is it hard to text and drive at the same time? How do you resist eating that extra piece of cake? Why does staring at a tax form feel mentally exhausting? Why can your child expertly

The Future of Geography - Tim Marshall

AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A fascinating and crucial insight into how, even as humanity moves upwards into the final frontier, we'll be influenced by the geographies of space. Marshall has done it again!' Professor Lewis Dartnell, author of Being Human Space: the biggest geopolitical

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Winfrey Oprah)(Pevná vazba)

ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand. 'Through this lens we can build a renewed

Power of Showing Up - how parental presence shapes who our kids become and how their brains get wired (Siegel Daniel J. MD)(Paperback / softback)

The Fear Paradox: How Our Obsession with Feeling Secure Imprisons Our Minds and Shapes Our Lives (Learning to Take Risks, Overcoming Anx (Faranda Frank)(Paperback)

Fear in Contemporary Society and its Consequences'A delightfully fearless and deeply sensitive examination of that most primal and formative human experience.' ―Alan Burdick, author of Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation#1 New Release in Evolutionary Psychology and BuddhismFor

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--And How We Must Adapt (Aral Sinan)(Paperback)

A landmark insider's tour of how social media affects our decision-making and shapes our world in ways both useful and dangerous, with critical insights into the social media trends of the 2020 election and beyond 'The book might be described as prophetic. . . . At least two of Aral's three

Super Science - How Science Shapes Our World (DK)(Pevná vazba)

To Live From The Heart - Mindful Paths To The Sacred (Kennedy Stanislaus)(Pevná vazba)

Reveals how prayer can play an important part in all our lives, lifting our spirits and offering us hope and support in good times and bad. This book includes mindful meditations, prayers, proverbs and essays has helped to sustain Sister Stan through the

Practicing Forgiveness: A Path Toward Healing (Balkin Richard S.)(Pevná vazba)

Our relationships enrich our lives. Strong bonds with family, friends, and colleagues make our lives full and vibrant, but they can also be a source of distress or even trauma. Few relationships are perfect, and we often find ourselves let down by even the people we count on most; learning to