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

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 Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You Into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do about It (Carbonell David A.)(Paperback)

Are you truly in danger or has your brain simply 'tricked' you into thinking you are? In The Worry Trick, psychologist and anxiety expert David Carbonell shows how anxiety hijacks the brain and offers effective techniques to help you break the cycle of worry, once and for all.Anxiety is a powerful

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

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 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

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

The Leader's Brain: Enhance Your Leadership, Build Stronger Teams, Make Better Decisions, and Inspire Greater Innovation with Neuroscience (Platt Michael)(Paperback)

A pioneering neuroscientist reveals how brain science can transform how we think about leadership, team-building, decision-making, innovation, marketing, and more. Leadership is a set of abilities with which a lucky few are born. They're the natural relationship builders, master negotiators and

Discomfortable: What Is Shame and How Can We Break Its Hold? (Bond A. J.)(Paperback)

The go-to guide to understand and unpack shame: what it is, why we feel it, and how to undo the lies it tells us about ourselves. Are you ready to get Discomfortable? This is a book about shame: what it is, why we have it, and how we can break its hold on our happiness. We all know shame: it's that

You Can Beat Your Brain - How to Turn Your Enemies Into Friends, How to Make Better Decisions, and Other Ways to Be Less Dumb (McRaney David)(Paperback / softback)

You can beat your brain... but first you need to know your

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

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

The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language (Costa Albert)(Paperback)

'Fascinating. . . This engaging book explores just how multiple languages are acquired and sorted out by the brain. . . Costa's work derives from a great fund of knowledge, considerable curiosity and solidly scientific spirit' Philip Hensher Spectator The definitive study of bilingualism and the

Influence - What it really means and how to make it work for you (Nabben Jenny)(Paperback / softback)

The honest truth about influence: what it is, how it works and how you can do it better. Your ability to influence can spell the difference between success and failure in business: with it you can get things done, spark change and transform results as you gently persuade, convince and

Rough - How violence has found its way into the bedroom and what we can do about it (Thompson Rachel)(Paperback / softback)

**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S WOMEN'S HOUR** Rough is a revolutionary non-fiction work exploring the narratives of sexual violence that we don't talk about. A bad sexual experience. A grey area. Not rape but... A violation . These are the terms we use to describe the experiences we don't have words

New Urban Crisis - Gentrification, Housing Bubbles, Growing Inequality, and What We Can Do About It (Florida Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Cities are both the engines of innovation and the seedbeds of inequality - how can we keep what's good and break free of the

Disordered Mind - What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves (Kandel Eric R.)(Paperback / softback)

The Disordered Mind is the definitive statement on all we know about the brain and its associated disorders by the eminent Nobel Prize-winning scientist and professor Eric R

The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit (Pearce Joseph Chilton)(Paperback)

Uses new research about the brain to explore how we can transcend our current physical and cultural limitations - Reveals that transcendence of current modes of existence requires the dynamic interaction of our fourth and fifth brains (intellect and intelligence) - Explores the idea that Jesus,

Sex Matters - How male-centric medicine endangers women's health and what we can do about it (McGregor Dr Alyson J.)(Paperback / softback)

A clarion call about the dangers of medicine for women, as well as a manual for how women can get the right care for their

Whitehall Effect - How Whitehall Became the Enemy of Great Public Services and What We Can Do about It (Seddon John)(Paperback / softback)

In The WHITEHALL Effect, John Seddon explains how and why it is that governments repeatedly fail to deliver what our public services need and exposes the devastation that three decades of political fads, fashions and bad theory have caused. Although his examples come from the UK, he and his

Drastic Plastic and Troublesome Trash - What's the big deal with rubbish, and how can YOU recycle? (Wilson Hannah)(Paperback / softback)

This book discovers how materials are made and recycled. It also looks at the many ways we can help to reduce the amount of waste we throw out, and includes suggestions and

The Antianxiety Food Solution: How the Foods You Eat Can Help You Calm Your Anxious Mind, Improve Your Mood, and End Cravings (Scott Trudy)(Paperback)

It's remarkable how much the foods we eat can impact our brain chemistry and emotions. What and when we eat can make the difference between feeling anxious and staying calm and in control. But most of us don't realize how much our diets influence our moods, thoughts, and feelings until we make a

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

The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds (Humphries Mark)(Pevná vazba)

The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains work We see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach a hand out. In the 2.1 seconds that this impulse travels through our brain, billions of neurons communicate with one another, sending blips of voltage