Lost Connections
Lost Connections

Author: Johann Hari

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-11-12

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1526634082

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: A radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety 'A book that could actually make us happy' SIMON AMSTELL 'This amazing book will change your life' ELTON JOHN 'One of the most important texts of recent years' BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE 'Brilliant, stimulating, radical' MATT HAIG 'The more people read this book, the better off the world will be' NAOMI KLEIN 'Wonderful' HILLARY CLINTON 'Eye-opening' GUARDIAN 'Brilliant for anyone wanting a better understanding of mental health' ZOE BALL 'A game-changer' DAVINA MCCALL 'Extraordinary' DR MAX PEMBERTON Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this crisis. It shows that once we understand the real causes, we can begin to turn to pioneering new solutions – ones that offer real hope.

The Sustainability Scorecard
The Sustainability Scorecard

Author: Urvashi Bhatnagar

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2022-07-12

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1523093803

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Using a rigorous, straightforward scorecard as a guide, this book shows business leaders and innovators how to create breakthrough sustainable products and processes that are good for the planet, human health, and profits. Natural resource inputs to business operations are getting scarcer and more expensive, while climate-change-related economic shocks pose a risk to seamless operations and, more importantly, threaten business continuity. How can organizations integrate sustainable design in their overarching operations and align it with profitability and corporate strategy? Based on Paul Anastas's foundational Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry, the Sustainability Scorecard is the first scientifically rooted, data-driven methodology for creating inherently sustainable and profitable products and processes. By redesigning with sustainability as a key design element, firms open themselves to unexpected solutions, leapfrog innovations, and sources of value that simply don't occur when sustainability is leveraged purely as a risk-avoidance and compliance measure. Urvashi Bhatnagar and Anastas offer dozens of examples of how sustainable operations can yield benefits such as expanding market share, creating new service lines, and transforming supply-chain and sourcing models to drive the most consistent and highest long-term value. With this comprehensive framework, your firm will be able to identify truly innovative, inherently sustainable products as opposed to less bad products and processes that don't provide the exponential value that only breakthrough products can.

The Caregiving Trap
The Caregiving Trap

Author: Pamela D. Wilson

Publisher:

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781630475352

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"The Caregiving Trap" combines the authentic life and professional experience of Pamela D. Wilson, who provides recommendations for overwhelmed and frustrated caregivers who themselves may one day need care. "The Caregiving Trap" includes stories about Pamela's actual personal and professional experience along with end of chapter exercises to support caregivers. Common caregiving issues include: A sense of duty and obligation to provide care that damages family relationships Emotional and financial challenges resulting in denial of care needs Ignorance of predictive events that result in situations of crises or harm Delayed decision making and lack of planning resulting in limited choices Minimum standards of care supporting the need for advocacy

The 4 Season Solution
The 4 Season Solution

Author: Dallas Hartwig

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-03-10

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1982115173

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“A revolutionary new paradigm for better health, and a brilliant practical remedy for our current epidemics of stress, fatigue, and poor health” (Dr. Ranjan Chatterjee, bestselling author of How to Make Disease Disappear). From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Whole30 and It Starts With Food comes a groundbreaking model for living in sync with the natural world. By making small but meaningful changes to the four keys of wellness—how you sleep, eat, move, and connect—over the course of the year, you will reclaim your health, regain your vitality, and let go of excess weight. But it doesn’t take 365 days to feel results—better sleep, more energy, and a brighter outlook come within just a few days of living seasonally. It is time to reconnect with the natural rhythms that make our bodies healthy. At once a bold new philosophy and an accessible plan to live well all year long, The 4 Season Solution is “the answer to our stressful, unbalanced lives” (Robb Wolf, New York Times bestselling author) and a new health paradigm for an increasingly unhealthy world.

Creativity
Creativity

Author: Robert W. Weisberg

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 1119239346

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How cognitive psychology explains human creativity Conventional wisdom holds that creativity is a mysterious quality present in a select few individuals. The rest of us, the common view goes, can only stand in awe of great creative achievements: we could never paint Guernica or devise the structure of the DNA molecule because we lack access to the rarified thoughts and inspirations that bless geniuses like Picasso or Watson and Crick. Presented with this view, today's cognitive psychologists largely differ finding instead that "ordinary" people employ the same creative thought processes as the greats. Though used and developed differently by different people, creativity can and should be studied as a positive psychological feature shared by all humans. Creativity: Understanding Innovation in Problem Solving, Science, Invention, and the Arts presents the major psychological theories of creativity and illustrates important concepts with vibrant and detailed case studies that exemplify how to study creative acts with scientific rigor. Creativity includes: * Two in-depth case studies--Watson and Crick's modeling of the DNA structure and Picasso's painting of Guernica-- serve as examples throughout the text * Methods used by psychologists to study the multiple facets of creativity * The "ordinary thinking" or cognitive view of creativity and its challengers * How problem-solving and experience relate to creative thinking * Genius and madness and the relationship between creativity and psychopathology * The possible role of the unconscious in creativity * Psychometrics--testing for creativity and how personality factors affect creativity * Confluence theories that use cognitive, personality, environmental, and other components to describe creativity Clearly and engagingly written by noted creativity expert Robert Weisberg, Creativity: Understanding Innovation in Problem Solving, Science, Invention, and the Arts takes both students and lay readers on an in-depth journey through contemporary cognitive psychology, showing how the discipline understands one of the most fundamental and fascinating human abilities. "This book will be a hit. It fills a large gap in the literature. It is a well-written, scholarly, balanced, and engaging book that will be enjoyed by students and faculty alike." --David Goldstein, University of Toronto

Workbook for Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - And the Unexpected Solutions (Max-Help Books)
Workbook for Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - And the Unexpected Solutions (Max-Help Books)

Author: Maxhelp Workbooks

Publisher: Blurb

Published: 2018-10-18

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9780464692539

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Complete beginners can use this workbook for Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari and find immediate help in applying its major lessons. Lost Connections, Johann Hari's newest book, reveals many of the truths about depression and its treatments. The author recounts his own experiences with depression and includes testimonies from various experts that serve as a basis for his ideas and theories. This book has been acclaimed by such well-known people as Elton John and Russell Brand. Even Hillary Clinton referred to this as wonderful. Lost Connections is an extraordinary book that provides a tremendous amount of information and evidence to help us understand the true nature of depression and anxiety. In addition, the author includes several examples and practical solutions that are immensely helpful for people suffering from these diseases. Do you want to apply the major lessons to your daily life? The goal of this workbook is to help even the newest readers apply what may be the most critical lessons found in Workbook for Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari. Results have shown that learning is retained best through repeated hands-on applications. With Max Help Workbooks, readers will be able to find distilled information categorized into major lessons with applicable exercise worksheets to maximize learning. Don't Miss the Following Content: - Succinct breakdown of the book categorized into major lessons - Read and use the exercises yourself or as a group - Easy-to-understand analysis of each lessons distilled for even the newest of readers - Simple and practical worksheets to further reader's application - Quiz questions as a resource to be used for yourself or others So, what are you waiting for? Get your copy now and take out a pencil, pen, or whatever digital technology to jot down, implement, and make solid change

Avoid, Improve, Maintain or Eliminate the 20 Most Common Medical Problems
Avoid, Improve, Maintain or Eliminate the 20 Most Common Medical Problems

Author: Carol Watkins

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published:

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1728302005

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This book includes detailed information suggesting ways in which you can avoid, improve, maintain, or sometimes, eliminate the twenty most common medical problems many of us struggle with daily. In order to target the information of utmost interest to each reader, this book has been divided into three companion books. This method hopefully will reorder the books more reasonably priced. In turn, this should make the books available to all who wish to explore the knowledge derived from personal experiences, observation, informal training, and a lifetime of study and learning.

Algorithms Are Not Enough
Algorithms Are Not Enough

Author: Herbert L. Roitblat

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0262044129

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Why a new approach is needed in the quest for general artificial intelligence. Since the inception of artificial intelligence, we have been warned about the imminent arrival of computational systems that can replicate human thought processes. Before we know it, computers will become so intelligent that humans will be lucky to kept as pets. And yet, although artificial intelligence has become increasingly sophisticated—with such achievements as driverless cars and humanless chess-playing—computer science has not yet created general artificial intelligence. In Algorithms Are Not Enough, Herbert Roitblat explains how artificial general intelligence may be possible and why a robopocalypse is neither imminent, nor likely. Existing artificial intelligence, Roitblat shows, has been limited to solving path problems, in which the entire problem consists of navigating a path of choices—finding specific solutions to well-structured problems. Human problem-solving, on the other hand, includes problems that consist of ill-structured situations, including the design of problem-solving paths themselves. These are insight problems, and insight is an essential part of intelligence that has not been addressed by computer science. Roitblat draws on cognitive science, including psychology, philosophy, and history, to identify the essential features of intelligence needed to achieve general artificial intelligence. Roitblat describes current computational approaches to intelligence, including the Turing Test, machine learning, and neural networks. He identifies building blocks of natural intelligence, including perception, analogy, ambiguity, common sense, and creativity. General intelligence can create new representations to solve new problems, but current computational intelligence cannot. The human brain, like the computer, uses algorithms; but general intelligence, he argues, is more than algorithmic processes.

The Sustainability Scorecard
The Sustainability Scorecard

Author: Urvashi Bhatnagar

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2022-07-12

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 152309379X

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Using a rigorous, straightforward scorecard as a guide, this book shows business leaders and innovators how to create breakthrough sustainable products and processes that are good for the planet, human health, and profits. Natural resource inputs to business operations are getting scarcer and more expensive, while climate-change-related economic shocks pose a risk to seamless operations and, more importantly, threaten business continuity. How can organizations integrate sustainable design in their overarching operations and align it with profitability and corporate strategy? Based on Paul Anastas's foundational Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry, the Sustainability Scorecard is the first scientifically rooted, data-driven methodology for creating inherently sustainable and profitable products and processes. By redesigning with sustainability as a key design element, firms open themselves to unexpected solutions, leapfrog innovations, and sources of value that simply don't occur when sustainability is leveraged purely as a risk-avoidance and compliance measure. Urvashi Bhatnagar and Anastas offer dozens of examples of how sustainable operations can yield benefits such as expanding market share, creating new service lines, and transforming supply-chain and sourcing models to drive the most consistent and highest long-term value. With this comprehensive framework, your firm will be able to identify truly innovative, inherently sustainable products as opposed to less bad products and processes that don't provide the exponential value that only breakthrough products can.

How to Think about Algorithms
How to Think about Algorithms

Author: Jeff Edmonds

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-02-29

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 1009302167

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Understand algorithms and their design with this revised student-friendly textbook. Unlike other algorithms books, this one is approachable, the methods it explains are straightforward, and the insights it provides are numerous and valuable. Without grinding through lots of formal proof, students will benefit from step-by-step methods for developing algorithms, expert guidance on common pitfalls, and an appreciation of the bigger picture. Revised and updated, this second edition includes a new chapter on machine learning algorithms, and concise key concept summaries at the end of each part for quick reference. Also new to this edition are more than 150 new exercises: selected solutions are included to let students check their progress, while a full solutions manual is available online for instructors. No other text explains complex topics such as loop invariants as clearly, helping students to think abstractly and preparing them for creating their own innovative ways to solve problems.