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Author: Thomas Gilovich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-12-20
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1451677553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Two prominent social psychologists, specializing in the study of human behavior, provide insight into why we trust the people we do and how to use that knowledge in understanding and influencing people in our own lives,"--NoveList.
Author: Thomas Gilovich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-06-30
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1439106746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Gilovich offers a wise and readable guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. When can we trust what we believe—that "teams and players have winning streaks," that "flattery works," or that "the more people who agree, the more likely they are to be right"—and when are such beliefs suspect? Thomas Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. Illustrating his points with examples, and supporting them with the latest research findings, he documents the cognitive, social, and motivational processes that distort our thoughts, beliefs, judgments and decisions. In a rapidly changing world, the biases and stereotypes that help us process an overload of complex information inevitably distort what we would like to believe is reality. Awareness of our propensity to make these systematic errors, Gilovich argues, is the first step to more effective analysis and action.
Author: Thomas Gilovich
Publisher:
Published: 2017-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781786070555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn how to understand, predict and influence the way people act
Author: Mark DeMoss
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Published: 2011-06-14
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1595553541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeMoss gathers insights for living wisely from history, Scripture, and a lifetime of listening. The result is a handy, accessible book that gives readers a new way to enjoy lasting success in the work world and beyond.
Author: Louis Profeta
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 184694354X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA young Jewish doctor prays to a coma patient's Blessed Mother on Christmas Eve, only to have the woman suddenly awakened; there is the voice that tells a too-busy ER doctor to stop a patient walking out, discovering an embolus that would have killed him. The late-night passing of a beloved aunt summons a childhood bully who shows up minutes later, after twenty-five years, to be forgiven and to heal a broken doctor. This ER doctor finds God's opposite in: a battered child's bruises covered over by make-up, a dying patient whose son finally shows up at the end to reclaim the man's high-top sneakers, the rich or celebrity patients loaded with prescription drugs from doctor friends who end up addicted. But, his real outrage is directed at our cavalier treatment of the elderly, If you put a G-tube in your 80-year-old mother with Alzheimer's because she's no longer eating, you will probably have a fast track to hell.
Author: Lee Ross
Publisher: Pinter & Martin Publishers
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 1905177445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow does the situation we're in influence the way we behave and think? Professors Ross and Nisbett eloquently argue that the context we find ourselves in substantially affects our behavior in this timely reissue of one of social psychology's classic textbooks. With a new foreword by Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point.
Author: Stephen S. Hall
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-03-09
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0307593096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe all recognize wisdom, but defining it is more elusive. In this fascinating journey from philosophy to science, Stephen S. Hall gives us a penetrating history of wisdom, from its sudden emergence in the fifth century B.C. to its modern manifestations in education, politics, and the workplace. Hall’s bracing exploration of the science of wisdom allows us to see this ancient virtue with fresh eyes, yet also makes clear that despite modern science’s most powerful efforts, wisdom continues to elude easy understanding.
Author: David Weinberger
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2014-01-07
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0465038727
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger. . . . Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of the information explosion." -- Steven Rosenbaum, Forbes With the advent of the Internet and the limitless information it contains, we're less sure about what we know, who knows what, or even what it means to know at all. And yet, human knowledge has recently grown in previously unimaginable ways and in inconceivable directions. In Too Big to Know, David Weinberger explains that, rather than a systemic collapse, the Internet era represents a fundamental change in the methods we have for understanding the world around us. With examples from history, politics, business, philosophy, and science, Too Big to Know describes how the very foundations of knowledge have been overturned, and what this revolution means for our future.
Author: Jennifer Kunst
Publisher: Central Recovery Press, LLC
Published: 2014-06-10
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1937612619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA simple yet sophisticated model of personal growth that can lead to lasting change, drawn from the truths of psychoanalysis.
Author: Elspeth Cooper
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2012-02-28
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 1429997257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Book of Eador, Abjurations 12:14, is very clear: Suffer ye not the life of a witch. For a thousand years, the Church Knights have obeyed that commandment, sending to the stake anyone who can hear the songs of the earth. There are no exceptions, not even for one of their own. Novice Knight Gair can hear music no one else can, beautiful, terrible music: music with power. In the Holy City, that can mean only one thing: death by fire—until an unlikely intervention gives him a chance to flee the city and escape the flames. With the Church Knights and their witchfinder hot on his heels, Gair hasn't time to learn how to use the power growing inside him, but if he doesn't master it, that power will tear him apart. His only hope is the secretive Guardians of the Veil, though centuries of persecution have almost destroyed their Order, and the few Guardians left have troubles of their own. For the Veil between worlds is weakening, and behind it, the Hidden Kingdom, ever-hungry for dominion over the daylight realm, is stirring. Though he is far from ready, Gair will find himself fighting for his own life, for everyone within the Order of the Veil, and for the woman he has come to love. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
