Author: David Goff Publisher: ISBN: 9781482688481 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 80
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Chains On The Brain is an exploration into the discovery of the self-imposed limitations that exist in our lives. D.Goff provides methods to identify and release the chains so that you may live the life you were born to live.
Author: Dr Theo Compernolle MD Phd Publisher: Compublications ISBN: 9789082205800 Category : Languages : en Pages : 522
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In this book "BRAINCHAINS" you discover your brain, to unleash its full potential in a hyperconnected, multitasking world Prof Dr Theo Compernolle studied over 600 publications, surveyed 1200 professionals and wrote another easy readable and practical book.As a medical doctor, neuropsychiatrist and scholar with decades of experience in medical schools and business schools in many countries, he integrates science from many domains. What is your most important tool to be successful as a professional? Your brain! What do you know about your thinking brain? Nothing. The sad result: a majority of knowledge workers ruin the performance of their magnificent brain, and obstruct the matchless potential of their brain-ICT collaboration (Information and Communication Technologies). Taking into account the strengths and weaknesses of your brain you will also get the best results from your brain-ICT synergy. -Part 1: How your reflecting brain, your archiving brain and your reflex brain influence your thinking -Part 2: The BrainChains: how always being connected, multitasking, stress and lack of sleep ruin your performance -Part 3: Practical tools and tips to unchain your brain -The fifth BrainChain; "Badly Designed Offices" about disastrous open offices is a FREE BOOKLET at www.brainchains.org "Eye-opener! A great read for all of us who are "juggling-it-all," work and family, are interested in increasing productivity and to get the most of our brains AND our smart phones.Marjan Inbar, Senior Communications Consultant, NY. USA ..".quite a feat to integrate research from so many domains and turn them in a very readable, inspiring, useful often surprising and even stirring book... not only the problems... but also the solutions..."Daniel Blumberg, Principal and Investor, NY ..". a compelling, meticulously researched, and cleverly illustrated case against the twin tyrannies of hyperconnectivity and multitasking... also shows how to free ourselves from them" Nelida and Jorge Colapinto (Psychologists). Wynnewood. PA. USA "Read this book if you'd like to learn how to master information technology, rather than have it master you and letting it get in the way of doing your best work." Prof Peter Cappelli.G.W. Taylor Professor of Management. The Wharton School. Philadelphia. USA ..".Multitasking is impossible! Understanding and accepting this, helped me to refocus on tasks which matters and to rediscover my creativity. I used the short MULTITASKING test in my meetings in our global organization. It's exciting to see everywhere the "aha"-epiphany!"Dr. Peter zum Hebel, Vice President, Manufacturing, Kemira Germany ..". a revelation for me and helped me better understand why people do what they do in a health & safety context. An essential and easy read for practical people, who want to know how people work and what can be practically done to maximize their efficiency and reduce human error"Malc Staves, Global Health & Safety Director, L'Oreal .Paris France ..". an easy to read "page turner..". which I feel everyone in the "connected" world should read"Dave Scott President Barco, Inc. USA ..".everybody is complaining about a continuous input overload. Yet the real quandary is: while we are continuously flooded by the breakers of redundant signals we do suffer from a lack of relevant information. Theo Compernolle describes and analyzes this state of affairs and its impact on our daily life and our habitual and creative performance."Gottlieb GUNTERN, President of CREANDO - International Foundation for Creativity & Leadership, Switzerland ..".This book shows me a so powerful human brain ... Looking inside into my brain, I get my idea to have my life back under my own control... and recapture time to love and be loved..."Wei TAO, Business Information Manager of DSM China
Author: Paul W. Glimcher Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262572279 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 404
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In this provocative book, Paul Glimcher argues that economic theory may provide an alternative to the classical Cartesian model of the brain and behavior. Glimcher argues that Cartesian dualism operates from the false premise that the reflex is able to describe behavior in the real world that animals inhabit. A mathematically rich cognitive theory, he claims, could solve the most difficult problems that any environment could present, eliminating the need for dualism by eliminating the need for a reflex theory. Such a mathematically rigorous description of the neural processes that connect sensation and action, he explains, will have its roots in microeconomic theory. Economic theory allows physiologists to define both the optimal course of action that an animal might select and a mathematical route by which that optimal solution can be derived. Glimcher outlines what an economics-based cognitive model might look like and how one would begin to test it empirically. Along the way, he presents a fascinating history of neuroscience. He also discusses related questions about determinism, free will, and the stochastic nature of complex behavior.
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416905863 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
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If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom. From acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling, impeccably researched novel that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both physical and spiritual.
Author: Lisa Margonelli Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0767916972 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 351
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Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry—the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day. Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought. Where does all this gas come from? Lisa Margonelli’s desire to learn took her on a one-hundred thousand mile journey from her local gas station to oil fields half a world away. In search of the truth behind the myths, she wriggled her way into some of the most off-limits places on earth: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the New York Mercantile Exchange’s crude oil market, oil fields from Venezuela, to Texas, to Chad, and even an Iranian oil platform where the United States fought a forgotten one-day battle. In a story by turns surreal and alarming, Margonelli meets lonely workers on a Texas drilling rig, an oil analyst who almost gave birth on the NYMEX trading floor, Chadian villagers who are said to wander the oil fields in the guise of lions, a Nigerian warlord who changed the world price of oil with a single cell phone call, and Shanghai bureaucrats who dream of creating a new Detroit. Deftly piecing together the mammoth economy of oil, Margonelli finds a series of stark warning signs for American drivers.
Author: Stephan J. Guyenet, Ph.D. Publisher: Flatiron Books ISBN: 1250081238 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 304
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about it? No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end up with a high risk of diabetes or heart disease--yet two thirds of Americans do precisely that. Even though we know better, we often eat too much. Why does our behavior betray our own intentions to be lean and healthy? The problem, argues obesity and neuroscience researcher Stephan J. Guyenet, is not necessarily a lack of willpower or an incorrect understanding of what to eat. Rather, our appetites and food choices are led astray by ancient, instinctive brain circuits that play by the rules of a survival game that no longer exists. And these circuits don’t care about how you look in a bathing suit next summer. To make the case, The Hungry Brain takes readers on an eye-opening journey through cutting-edge neuroscience that has never before been available to a general audience. The Hungry Brain delivers profound insights into why the brain undermines our weight goals and transforms these insights into practical guidelines for eating well and staying slim. Along the way, it explores how the human brain works, revealing how this mysterious organ makes us who we are.
Author: Joseph Knoll Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3540274340 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 182
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The main message of this monograph is that the appearance of the mammalian brain with the ability to acquire drives ensured the development of social life, and eventually led to the evolution of the human society. This most sophisticated form of organized life on earth is still in the trial and error phase of its development. It seeks to outgrow the myth-directed era of its history and come to its final state, the ration-directed human society.
Author: David Goff
Author: Dr Theo Compernolle MD Phd
Author: Paul W. Glimcher
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Author: Lisa Margonelli
Author: Stephan J. Guyenet, Ph.D.
Author: David M. Williams
Author: Johannes Boltze
Author: Joseph Knoll
Author: Caroline Leaf