Author: Mark Gungor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416558799
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
By using his unique blend of humor and tell-it-like-it-is honesty, he helps couples get along and have fun doing it.
Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage
Author: Mark Gungor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416558799
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
By using his unique blend of humor and tell-it-like-it-is honesty, he helps couples get along and have fun doing it.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416558799
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
By using his unique blend of humor and tell-it-like-it-is honesty, he helps couples get along and have fun doing it.
A Tale of Two Minds
Author: Saurabh Dhere
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1482859440
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The story revolves around two of the biggest gangsters of Chicago. Jerry Neuer and Roberto Francisco. Jerry, being a sassy German while Roberto being an elegant Italian. Despite belonging to different nationalities, their friendship dates back to their childhood and is known throughout the globe. Gloria is Jerry's girlfriend. They are supposed to get married within a few months. Unfortunately, Jerrys mysterious death brings a whole new twist in the story. Roberto being a doting best friend, along with Gloria sets out on a quest to seek out the killers and bring justice to Jerrys death. However, things dont go as planned and gives rise to a tale of two minds battling for vengeance.. P.S : Revenge will be served cold.
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1482859440
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The story revolves around two of the biggest gangsters of Chicago. Jerry Neuer and Roberto Francisco. Jerry, being a sassy German while Roberto being an elegant Italian. Despite belonging to different nationalities, their friendship dates back to their childhood and is known throughout the globe. Gloria is Jerry's girlfriend. They are supposed to get married within a few months. Unfortunately, Jerrys mysterious death brings a whole new twist in the story. Roberto being a doting best friend, along with Gloria sets out on a quest to seek out the killers and bring justice to Jerrys death. However, things dont go as planned and gives rise to a tale of two minds battling for vengeance.. P.S : Revenge will be served cold.
The Tale of Two Minds
Author: Chong Chen
Publisher: Brain & Life Publishing
ISBN: 9781912533039
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Do you wonder how to make effective decisions in everyday life?Are you fatigued with thousands of choices every day?Have you spent lots of time struggling with whether you should follow your heart or mind? Our brain has two modes of thinking: intuitive and reflective. Intuitive thinking or intuition is fast, emotional, efficient, but error-prone; reflective thinking or reflection is more logical and precise, but slow and effortful. Now, in The Tale of Two Minds: The Art and Science of Decision Making in Everyday Life, Dr. Chong Chen introduces groundbreaking studies that help you achieve a balanced, scientific view of the two minds. Distinguishing when and where each mind is correct and when we can trust them, and when and where they are incorrect and how to avoid the risks is of crucial importance to our daily lives. In this book, Dr. Chong Chen offers practical and enlightening insight into how to become smarter about decision-making, through examples on: Forming first impressions of strangers Deciding your favorite goods Choosing your romantic partner Renting apartments Buying houses and cars Job hunting Deciding what to eat And much more
Publisher: Brain & Life Publishing
ISBN: 9781912533039
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Do you wonder how to make effective decisions in everyday life?Are you fatigued with thousands of choices every day?Have you spent lots of time struggling with whether you should follow your heart or mind? Our brain has two modes of thinking: intuitive and reflective. Intuitive thinking or intuition is fast, emotional, efficient, but error-prone; reflective thinking or reflection is more logical and precise, but slow and effortful. Now, in The Tale of Two Minds: The Art and Science of Decision Making in Everyday Life, Dr. Chong Chen introduces groundbreaking studies that help you achieve a balanced, scientific view of the two minds. Distinguishing when and where each mind is correct and when we can trust them, and when and where they are incorrect and how to avoid the risks is of crucial importance to our daily lives. In this book, Dr. Chong Chen offers practical and enlightening insight into how to become smarter about decision-making, through examples on: Forming first impressions of strangers Deciding your favorite goods Choosing your romantic partner Renting apartments Buying houses and cars Job hunting Deciding what to eat And much more
In Two Minds
Author: Paul Valent
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459604423
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Paul Valent, retired medical doctor, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and traumatologist, describes the struggles and discoveries in his varied four-decade career. Each chapter offers a glimpse into the psychotherapeutic encounter, from the author's field work with survivors of the Ash Wednesday bushfires, to the private challenges of unearthing ch...
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459604423
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Paul Valent, retired medical doctor, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and traumatologist, describes the struggles and discoveries in his varied four-decade career. Each chapter offers a glimpse into the psychotherapeutic encounter, from the author's field work with survivors of the Ash Wednesday bushfires, to the private challenges of unearthing ch...
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Author: Julian Jaynes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547527543
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547527543
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Mind and Cosmos
Author: Thomas Nagel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199919755
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199919755
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.
Tales from Both Sides of the Brain (Enhanced Edition)
Author: Michael S. Gazzaniga
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062390368
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
With extensive video footage of his trailblazing cognitive experiments, Michael Gazzaniga—the “father of cognitive neuroscience”—illuminates the discoveries behind his groundbreaking work in this enhanced digital edition of Tales from Both Sides of the Brain. Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker. In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, “the father of cognitive neuroscience,” was part of a team of pioneering neuroscientists who developed the now foundational split-brain brain theory: the notion that the right and left hemispheres of the brain can act independently from one another and have different strengths. In Tales from Both Sides of the Brain, Gazzaniga tells the impassioned story of his life in science and his decades-long journey to understand how the separate spheres of our brains communicate and miscommunicate with their separate agendas. By turns humorous and moving, Tales from Both Sides of the Brain interweaves Gazzaniga’s scientific achievements with his reflections on the challenges and thrills of working as a scientist. In his engaging and accessible style, he paints a vivid portrait not only of his discovery of split-brain theory, but also of his comrades in arms—the many patients, friends, and family who have accompanied him on this wild ride of intellectual discovery.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062390368
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
With extensive video footage of his trailblazing cognitive experiments, Michael Gazzaniga—the “father of cognitive neuroscience”—illuminates the discoveries behind his groundbreaking work in this enhanced digital edition of Tales from Both Sides of the Brain. Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker. In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, “the father of cognitive neuroscience,” was part of a team of pioneering neuroscientists who developed the now foundational split-brain brain theory: the notion that the right and left hemispheres of the brain can act independently from one another and have different strengths. In Tales from Both Sides of the Brain, Gazzaniga tells the impassioned story of his life in science and his decades-long journey to understand how the separate spheres of our brains communicate and miscommunicate with their separate agendas. By turns humorous and moving, Tales from Both Sides of the Brain interweaves Gazzaniga’s scientific achievements with his reflections on the challenges and thrills of working as a scientist. In his engaging and accessible style, he paints a vivid portrait not only of his discovery of split-brain theory, but also of his comrades in arms—the many patients, friends, and family who have accompanied him on this wild ride of intellectual discovery.
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Author: Cordelia Fine
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340244
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles defend inequalities by citing immutable biological differences between the male and female brain. Why are there so few women in science and engineering, so few men in the laundry room? Well, they say, it's our brains.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340244
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles defend inequalities by citing immutable biological differences between the male and female brain. Why are there so few women in science and engineering, so few men in the laundry room? Well, they say, it's our brains.
A Tale of Two Beasts
Author: Fiona Roberton
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1444927361
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
There are two sides to every story. A little girl finds a strange beast in the woods and takes it home as a pet. She feeds it, shows it off to her friends and gives it a hat. But that night it escapes. Then the beast tells the story of being kidnapped by the girl, who forcefed it squirrel food, scared it with a group of beasts and wrapped it in wool. Can the two beasts resolve their differences? An eye-opening story that makes you look at things from a different perspective. 'Roberton's premise is as sublime as it is simple, with a subtle message. [...] Totally delightful.' - Kirkus Reviews
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1444927361
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
There are two sides to every story. A little girl finds a strange beast in the woods and takes it home as a pet. She feeds it, shows it off to her friends and gives it a hat. But that night it escapes. Then the beast tells the story of being kidnapped by the girl, who forcefed it squirrel food, scared it with a group of beasts and wrapped it in wool. Can the two beasts resolve their differences? An eye-opening story that makes you look at things from a different perspective. 'Roberton's premise is as sublime as it is simple, with a subtle message. [...] Totally delightful.' - Kirkus Reviews
Gender and Our Brains
Author: Gina Rippon
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525435379
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A breakthrough work in neuroscience—and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience—that finally debunks the myth that there is a hardwired distinction between male and female brains We live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis, we face deeply ingrained beliefs that sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colors to career choice and salaries. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behavior? And what does it mean for our brains? Drawing on her work as a professor of cognitive neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that surround us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mold our ideas of ourselved and even shape our brains. By exploring new, cutting-edge neuroscience, Rippon urges us to move beyond a binary view of the brain and to see instead this complex organ as highly individualized, profoundly adaptable and full of unbounded potential. Rigorous, timely and liberating, Gender and Our Brains has huge implications for women and men, for parents and children, and for how we identify ourselves.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525435379
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A breakthrough work in neuroscience—and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience—that finally debunks the myth that there is a hardwired distinction between male and female brains We live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis, we face deeply ingrained beliefs that sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colors to career choice and salaries. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behavior? And what does it mean for our brains? Drawing on her work as a professor of cognitive neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that surround us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mold our ideas of ourselved and even shape our brains. By exploring new, cutting-edge neuroscience, Rippon urges us to move beyond a binary view of the brain and to see instead this complex organ as highly individualized, profoundly adaptable and full of unbounded potential. Rigorous, timely and liberating, Gender and Our Brains has huge implications for women and men, for parents and children, and for how we identify ourselves.