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‘A directory of wonders.’ – The Guardian
‘Jaw-dropping.’ – The Times
‘Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson…an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book.’ – The Sunday Times
‘It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts into an entertaining and nutritious book.‘– The Daily Telegraph
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‘We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.’
Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.
A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this new book is an instant classic. It will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again.
‘What I learned is that we are infinitely more complex and wondrous, and often more mysterious, than I had ever suspected. There really is no story more amazing than the story of us.’ Bill Bryson
Why are we obsessed with the things we want only to be bored when we get them?
Why is addiction perfectly logical to an addict?
Why does love change so quickly from passion to indifference?
Why are some people die-hard liberals and others hardcore conservatives?
Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times―and so good at figuring them out?
The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain: dopamine. Dopamine ensured the survival of early man. Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas―and progress itself.
Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more―more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises. In pursuit of these things, it is undeterred by emotion, fear, or morality. Dopamine is the source of our every urge, that little bit of biology that makes an ambitious business professional sacrifice everything in pursuit of success, or that drives a satisfied spouse to risk it all for the thrill of someone new. Simply put, it is why we seek and succeed; it is why we discover and prosper. Yet, at the same time, it’s why we gamble and squander.
From dopamine’s point of view, it’s not the having that matters. It’s getting something―anything―that’s new. From this understanding―the difference between possessing something versus anticipating it―we can understand in a revolutionary new way why we behave as we do in love, business, addiction, politics, religion―and we can even predict those behaviors in ourselves and others.
In The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity―and will Determine the Fate of the Human Race, George Washington University professor and psychiatrist Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, and Georgetown University lecturer Michael E. Long present a potentially life-changing proposal: Much of human life has an unconsidered component that explains an array of behaviors previously thought to be unrelated, including why winners cheat, why geniuses often suffer with mental illness, why nearly all diets fail, and why the brains of liberals and conservatives really are different.
Le thème de ce livre est de montrer la difficulté actuelle à déterminer ce qui fait sens pour nos communautés. Son originalité est d’utiliser le textile comme une « matière à penser », ainsi que de petits contes qui font écho à l’analyse développée. La pensée humaine a toujours eu une certaine « plasticité » qui a permis à l’être humain d’évoluer, avec le concours de l’imagination. Et la société s’est structurée par la matérialisation d’un treillis de significations (symboles). Aujourd’hui, le cyberespace, et bientôt le métavers, nous immerge dans un réseau global de la connaissance intuitive. Il s’avère nécessaire de redéterminer ensemble un nouvel « ancrage symbolique » pour construire un monde signifiant, non pas malgré, mais avec le virtuel. Pour ce faire, il faut d’abord que chaque individu soit autonome, libre d’élaborer ses propres images. En lisant ce livre, vous vous questionnerez sur comment être « humain » à notre époque de transition numérique et écologique.
What’s your ONE thing?
People are using this simple, powerful concept to focus on what matters most in their personal and work lives. Companies are helping their employees be more productive with study groups, training, and coaching. Sales teams are boosting sales. Churches are conducting classes and recommending for their members.
By focusing their energy on one thing at a time people are living more rewarding lives by building their careers, strengthening their finances, losing weight and getting in shape, deepening their faith, and nurturing stronger marriages and personal relationships.
YOU WANT LESS. You want fewer distractions and less on your plate. The daily barrage of e-mails, texts, tweets, messages, and meetings distract you and stress you out. The simultaneous demands of work and family are taking a toll. And what’s the cost? Second-rate work, missed deadlines, smaller paychecks, fewer promotions–and lots of stress.
AND YOU WANT MORE. You want more productivity from your work. More income for a better lifestyle. You want more satisfaction from life, and more time for yourself, your family, and your friends.
NOW YOU CAN HAVE BOTH ― LESS AND MORE. In The ONE Thing, you’ll learn to:
The book has:
The ONE Thing delivers extraordinary results in every area of your life–work, personal, family, and spiritual. WHAT’S YOUR ONE THING
Worry affects everyone and descends with ease upon work, money, family life and relationships. This book offers practical strategies for breaking out of this destructive habit, before it breaks you.
Dale Carnegie shows how worry has been conquered by thousands, some famous, but most just ordinary people, and offers practical suggestions for leading a more positive and enjoyable life. Worry-free tips include:
– Fundamental facts you should know about worry
– A magic formula for solving worry situations
– How to eliminate fifty per cent of your business worries
– Seven ways to cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness
– How to keep from worrying about criticism
– Six ways to prevent fatigue and worry
– Personal tips from those who have conquered worry
Try his methods today and this book could change the way of your future.
2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology
2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist
When we think of African American popular music, our first thought is probably not of double-dutch: girls bouncing between two twirling ropes, keeping time to the tick-tat under their toes. But this book argues that the games black girls play –handclapping songs, cheers, and double-dutch jump rope–both reflect and inspire the principles of black popular musicmaking.
The Games Black Girls Play illustrates how black musical styles are incorporated into the earliest games African American girls learn–how, in effect, these games contain the DNA of black music. Drawing on interviews, recordings of handclapping games and cheers, and her own observation and memories of gameplaying, Kyra D. Gaunt argues that black girls’ games are connected to long traditions of African and African American musicmaking, and that they teach vital musical and social lessons that are carried into adulthood. In this celebration of playground poetry and childhood choreography, she uncovers the surprisingly rich contributions of girls’ play to black popular culture.
Why do human beings behave as they do?
‘Awe-inspiring… You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of’ Henry Marsh, bestselling author of And Finally.
We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other?
Every act of human behaviour has multiple layers of causation, spiralling back seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, even centuries, right back to the dawn of time and the origins of our species.
In the epic sweep of history, how does our biology affect the arc of war and peace, justice and persecution? How have our brains evolved alongside our cultures?
This is the exhilarating story of human morality and the science underpinning the biggest question of all: what makes us human?
‘One of the best scientist-writers of our time’ Oliver Sacks
Biomimicry for Materials, Design and Habitats: Innovations and Applications and is a survey of the recent work of recognized experts in a variety of fields who employ biomimicry and related paradigms to solve key problems of interest within design, science, technology, and society. Topics covered include innovations from biomimicry in materials, product design, architecture, and biological sciences. The book is a useful resource for educators, designers, researchers, engineers, and materials scientists, taking them from the theory behind biomimicry to real world applications.
Living systems have evolved innovative solutions to challenges that humans face on a daily basis. Nonlinear multifunctional systems that have a symbiotic relationship with their environment are the domain of nature. Morphological solutions for buildings inspired by nature can be used for skins, surfaces, and structures to facilitate environmental adaptation of buildings to increase occupant comfort and reduce energy demands. Birds can teach us to produce novel structures, 3D printing can be informed by oysters and mussels, and mycelium may show us the way to fabricate new biocomposites in architecture. Therefore, it is in nature that we seek inspiration for the solutions to tomorrow’s challenges.
Dans un environnement industriel où la course au progrès est une question de survie, comment accéder les processus de développement et de production ?
Cette problématique est au coeur de la mission de trois jeunes cadres d’une entreprise de technologie : réduire les délais de mise sur le marché de leurs nouvelles machines. En cas de succès, c’est la fortune. De son côté, un brillant chargé de cours doit trouver le moyen d’attirer de nouveaux managers dans son université pour être enfin titularisé. En se retrouvant dans le cadre d’un prestigieux Executive MBA, nos personnages vont développer une nouvelle méthode de gestion de projet toujours gagnante, fondée sur des expériences de terrain. Comment vont-ils y parvenir ?
Eliyahu M. Goldratt signe ici un roman de management aussi captivant que Le But et Réussir n’est pas une question de chance. Non conventionnel, stimulant, il encourage ses lecteurs à revoir leurs pratiques avec un oeil neuf et une approche novatrice.
Comment s’inspirer du vivant pour repenser les stratégies et le fonctionnement des entreprises ?
Comment présenter et organiser vos idées avec le mind mapping ? Comment construire une carte mentale ? Comment prendre des notes graphiques à partir d’un écrit ou d’un exposé oral ? Quels sont les outils visuels pour faciliter la résolution de problèmes et prendre des décisions éclairées ? Quelles représentations sont adaptées à la gestion de vos activités quotidiennes ? Quels outils utiliser pour développer votre créativité ?
Découvrez 72 outils de mind mapping à mettre en oeuvre au quotidien. Chacun est traité de façon synthétique et pratique, en 2 ou 4 pages, avec un schéma de synthèse, l’essentiel, les objectifs spécifiques, le contexte d’utilisation, les étapes de mise en oeuvre, des conseils méthodologiques, les avantages et les limites. Un cas d’application complète certains outils.
Dans cette 3e édition, les auteurs ont remplacé certains outils afin qu’ils soient à jour et les plus à la pointe possible sur les pratiques actuelles en matière de mind mapping.