You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Power of Persuasion, and Why It Matters (Bohns Vanessa)(Pevná vazba)

You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Power of Persuasion, and Why It Matters (Bohns Vanessa)(Pevná vazba)

Whether attending a meeting, sharing a post online, or mustering the nerve to ask for a favor, we often assume our actions, input, and requests will be overlooked or rejected. As behavioral psychologist Vanessa K. Bohns reveals, however, people see us, listen to us, and agree to do things for us

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

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

Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It (Kross Ethan)(Pevná vazba)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An award-winning psychologist reveals the hidden power of our inner voice and shows how to harness it to live a healthier, more satisfying, and more productive life. 'A masterpiece.'--Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit - Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (Nichols Tom)(Pevná vazba)

Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone

Britain by Numbers: A Visual Exploration of People and Place (Newman Stuart)(Pevná vazba)

How much more do we drink than we should? Why do immigrants come here? How have house prices changed in the past decade? What do we spend our money on? Britain by Numbers answers all these questions and more, vividly bringing our nation to life in new and unexpected ways by showing who lives here,

Art of Gathering - How We Meet and Why It Matters (Parker Priya)(Paperback / softback)

We spend our lives gathering - first in classrooms and then in meetings, weddings, conferences and away days. Yet so many of us spend this time in underwhelming moments that fail to engage us, inspire us, or connect us. We've all sat in meetings where people talk past each other or go through the

One Last Talk: Why Your Truth Matters and How to Speak It (McKernan Philip)(Pevná vazba)

'If you were about to leave this planet, what would you say, and who would you say it to?'This shocking and provocative question is at the core of the remarkable and inspiring book, One Last Talk: Why Your Truth Matters and How to Speak It.This book emerged from the speaking series designed to help

Jerome Bruner, Meaning-Making and Education for Conflict Resolution: Why How We Think Matters (Myers Sally)(Pevná vazba)

The way we think about things matters just as much as what we think about things.This timely text investigates the work of educational philosopher and psychologist Jerome Bruner through the areas of knowledge representation, meaning-making, education and dispute. What people represent to others

The Power of Purpose: How to Create the Life You Always Wanted (Brown Les)(Pevná vazba)

All of us have what it takes to make it in today's competitive and changing world. You may have doubted your ability to get the job done in the past, but something else may have been in the way of your success. The key to achievement has little to do with your education or skill level. The secret

It's Not What You Say, It's The Way You Say It! - How to sell yourself when it really matters (Parker Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Helps you ensure you perform with passion, power and persuasion; at your very best. Whether you are chasing a job, planning a pitch, giving a speech at a wedding, presenting to one or one thousand people, this book helps you discover how to: use the rule of three to win any audience over; and

Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel (Pert Candace B.)(Paperback)

Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system? In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert provides startling and decisive

168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think (VanderKam Laura)(Paperback)

It's an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are starved for time. We tell ourselves we'd like to read more, get to the gym regularly, try new hobbies, and accomplish all kinds of goals. But then we give up because there just aren't enough hours to do it all. Or if we don't make excuses, we make

Beautiful Oops! (Saltzberg Barney)(Pevná vazba)

A spill. A smear. A smudge. A tear. When you think you have made a mistake, think of it as an opportunity to make something beautiful! A life lesson that all parents want their children to embrace: It's okay to make a mistake. In fact, hooray for mistakes! A mistake is an adventure in creativity,

Money in One Lesson: How it Works and Why - Gavin Jackson

You Spend It. You Save It. You Never Have Enough of It. But how does it actually work?Understanding cash, currencies and the financial system is vital for making sense of what is going on in our world, especially now. Since the 2008 financial crisis, money has rarely been out of the headlines

Ouch!: Why Pain Hurts, and Why It Doesn't Have to (Kerr Margee)(Pevná vazba)

Pain seems like a fairly straightforward experience -- you get hurt and it, well, hurts. But how would you describe it? By the number of broken bones or stitches? The cause -- the crowning baby, the sharp knife, the straying lover? What does a 7 on a pain scale of 1 to 10 even mean? Pain is

We Need to Talk about Africa: The Harm We Have Done, and How We Should Help (Young Tom)(Paperback)

If you boil a kettle twice today, you will have used five times more electricity than a person in Mali uses in a whole year. How can that be possible? Decades after the colonial powers withdrew Africa is still struggling to catch up with the rest of the world. When the same colonists withdrew from

Uplifting Leadership: How Organizations, Teams, and Communities Raise Performance (Hargreaves Andy)(Pevná vazba)

What does it take to do more with less? How can you do better than before, or better than others? How do you turn losses into wins, or near-bankruptcy into strong profitability, or abject failure into stellar success? The power of uplift enables any organization to do more with less, beat the

That's Not How We Do It Here!: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall--And Can Rise Again (Kotter John)(Pevná vazba)

What's the worst thing you can hear when you have a good idea at work?'That's not how we do it here ' In their iconic bestseller Our Iceberg Is Melting, John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber used a simple fable about penguins to explain the process of lead-ing people through major changes. Now, ten

Why Do We Eat? (Turnbull Stephanie)(Pevná vazba)

Why do you need food and what happens to it inside your body? Which foods give you energy and which ones make you fit and strong? In this book you can explore your amazing insides and discover all kinds of fantastic food facts. Usborne Beginners are colourful information books for children

The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success (Hardy Darren)(Pevná vazba)

Do you want success? More success than you have now? And even more success than you ever imagined possible? That is what this book is about. Achieving it.No gimmicks. No hyperbole. Finally, just the truth on what it takes to earn successAs the central curator of the success media industry for over

Factfulness - Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Rosling Hans)(Pevná vazba)

Truth to Power - How to Call Time on Bullsh*t, Speak Up & Make A Difference (The Sunday Times Bestseller) (Phillips Jess)(Paperback / softback)

YOU HAVE MORE POWER THAN YOU THINK. At a time when many of us feel the world isn't listening, Jess Phillips offers inspiration to those of us who want to speak out and make a difference. No stranger to speaking truth to power herself, she will help you dig deep and get organised, finding the

How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do--And What It Says about You (Kinzler Katherine D.)(Pevná vazba)

From 'one of the most brilliant young psychologists of her generation' (Paul Bloom), a groundbreaking examination of how speech causes some of our deepest social divides--and how it can help us overcome them. We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender shape our