Why Therapy Works: Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains (Cozolino Louis)(Pevná vazba)

Why Therapy Works: Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains (Cozolino Louis)(Pevná vazba)

That psychotherapy works is a basic assumption of anyone who sees a therapist. But why does it work? And why does it matter that we understand how it works? In Why Therapy Works, Louis Cozolino explains the mechanisms of psychotherapeutic change from the bottom up, beginning with the brain, and how

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Heath Chip)(Pevná vazba)

Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds

Neuropolis - A Brain Science Survival Guide (Newman Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Are we our brains? How can you map the mind? Can brain scans read our minds? Based on Rob Newman's live stand-up show and new BBC Radio 4 series, his thought-provoking new book explores the scientific breakthroughs that have turned received ideas of brain science upside

Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind (Gamble Clive)(Paperback)

When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language, art, music and dance evolve? This pathbreaking book proposes that it was the need for early humans to live in ever-larger social groups over greater distances--the ability to 'think

Changeable: How Collaborative Problem Solving Changes Lives at Home, at School, and at Work (Ablon J. Stuart)(Pevná vazba)

A bold new way to help anyone change Why is it so hard to change problem behavior--in our kids, our colleagues, and even ourselves? Conventional methods often backfire, creating a downward spiral of resentment and frustration, and a missed opportunity for growth. What if the thinking behind

The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain (Cozolino Louis)(Pevná vazba)

As human beings, we cherish our individuality yet we know that we live in constant relationship to others, and that other people play a significant part in regulating our emotional and social behavior. Although this interdependence is a reality of our existence, we are just beginning to understand

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 Social Neuroscience of Education: Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom (Cozolino Louis)(Pevná vazba)

This book explains how the brain, as a social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling through late life. Positioning the brain as distinctly social, Louis Cozolino helps teachers make connections to neurobiological principles, with the goal of creating classrooms

Don't Even Think about It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change (Marshall George)(Paperback)

An Esquire Essential Book on Climate Change From the founder of the Climate Outreach and Information Network, a groundbreaking take on the most urgent question of our time: Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still ignore climate change? 'Please read this book, and think about it.'

Out of Our Minds: The Power of Being Creative (Robinson Ken)(Pevná vazba)

Creativity is critical. Out of Our Minds explores creativity: its value in business, its ubiquity in children, its perceived absence in many adults and the phenomenon through which it disappears -- and offers a groundbreaking approach for getting it back. Author Sir Ken Robinson is an

Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject (Vidal Fernando)(Pevná vazba)

Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that 'we are our brains,' which became widespread in the 1990s. Encouraged by advances in neuroimaging, the humanities and social sciences have taken a 'neural turn,' in the form of neuro-subspecialties in fields such as

Shattered Minds: How the Pentagon Fails Our Troops with Faulty Helmets (Bauman Robert H.)(Pevná vazba)

Shattered Minds is the first book to investigate how American military bureaucracies have let our troops down by failing to upgrade one of the most important pieces of personal safety equipment: the combat helmet. Two longtime employees of North Dakota defense contractor Sioux Manufacturing

Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are (Mitchell Kevin J.)(Pevná vazba)

A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you thinkWhat makes you the way you are--and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual

I Ching: The Book of Changes (Schilling Dennis)(Pevná vazba)

FLAME TREE's Great Works That Shape Our World is a new series of definitive books drawing on ancient, medieval and modern writing. Offering a fund of essential knowledge, and spell-binding stories it satisfies every facet of human interest: scientific, philosophical, sociological, romantic,

Our Little Adventures: Stories Featuring Foundational Language Concepts for Growing Minds (Paige Tabitha)(Pevná vazba)

Jump-start your young child's education with vocabulary and early language concepts using this beautiful book set created by a speech therapist to help build your child's language skills and encourage them to explore nature. Created by licensed speech pathologist and artist, Tabitha Paige, CCC-SLP,

Deviced!: Balancing Life and Technology in a Digital World (Dodgen-Magee Doreen)(Pevná vazba)

Americans engage with screens for more than ten hours a day, changing our brains, our relationships, and our personal lives. Here, Dodgen-Magee illuminates the effects of device overuse, and offers wisdom gleaned from personal stories, research, and anecdotes from youth, parents and professionals

Copycats and Contrarians: Why We Follow Others... and When We Don't (Baddeley Michelle)(Pevná vazba)

A multidisciplinary exploration of our human inclination to herd and why our instinct to copy others can be dangerous in today's interlinked world Rioting teenagers, tumbling stock markets, and the spread of religious terrorism appear to have little in common, but all are driven by the same basic

Let's Save Antarctica: Why we must protect our planet (Barr Catherine)(Pevná vazba)

Creativity Takes Courage: Dare to Think Differently (Smit Irene)(Pevná vazba)

It's not always easy to be creative--to give our minds space to roam while ignoring our inner critic, to stare down a blank page and make the leap from nothing to anything. It takes courage. Finding the courage to create is something the editors of Flow know a lot about. Creativity is a central

Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success (Grant Adam)(Pevná vazba)

A groundbreaking look at why our interactions with others hold the key to success, from the New York Times bestselling author of Think Again, Originals, and the forthcoming Hidden PotentialFor generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck

Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World (Noveck Beth Simone)(Pevná vazba)

The challenges societies face today, from inequality to climate change to systemic racism, cannot be solved with yesterday's toolkit. Solving Public Problems shows how readers can take advantage of digital technology, data, and the collective wisdom of our communities to design and deliver powerful

Climate Change - An Archaeological Study: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Responded to Global Warming (Grainger John D.)(Pevná vazba)

How did our ancestors face climate change? Their response to the problem was not to attempt to stop climate change but was experimental and technological in finding ways to cope with it.Global warming is among the most urgent problems facing the world today. Yet many commentators, and even some

Drugs That Changed Our Minds - The history of psychiatry in ten treatments (Slater Lauren)(Pevná vazba)

A fascinating narrative history of our major psychotropic drugs and the way in which they have shaped us from the author of Opening Skinner's

Our Daily Walk: Daily Readings (Meyer F. B.)(Pevná vazba)

What better way to start each day than with the Word of God in our minds. F. B. Meyer brings us short readings on a variety of themes to encourage, challenge and remind us of our obligations. Our Daily Walk is a treasury of wisdom distilled into brief and memorable readings, which can be enjoyed by