The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better, Paperback - Will Storr

From the author of }The Heretics{ and }Selfie{, this is an exploration of how master storytellers manipulate and compel us, from the Hebrew scriptu...

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'Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas ... The Status Game might be his best yet' James Marriott, Books of the Year, The TimesPublishe...

Introduces the value of storytelling throughout life and how it can transform challenging situations in both childhood and adulthood. Offers practi...

Reducere. This book is your fast track to storytelling - 'the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit' (Harvard leadership guru Howard Gardner).From ...

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Economists are widely reviled and their profession has become a favourite punching bag in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Yet their services...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Jonathan MalesicNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x 219 x 28Cover type:...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): AristotleNumber of pages: 264Collection: Ancient Wisdom for Modern ReadersPublication date: 2022Dim...

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If you're worried about your child making friends or being bullied, read this book. Every child feels like a social outcast at times - we all have,...

Reducere. The book tells the stories of 16 Jewish women who fled Nazi Germany and their decisions to return to live in their original homeland years later.Th...

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Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy itPublisher: Basic BooksAuthor(s): Jonathan GottschallNumber of pages: 27...

Psychologists and philosophers have long grappled with the mysteries of dreaming, and now-thanks largely to recent innovations in brain imaging -ne...

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In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today's constantly changing worl...

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Contributor(s): Author: Peter AshYou know who you are, right? Of course you do, you're you But what if who you think you are is actually holding yo...

Reducere. The human species is special because we contain general intelligence. Engineers believe they can build computerized artificial intelligent (AI) ver...

One in four people experience a mental health problem each year, with depression and anxiety alone afflicting over 500 million people. Why are thes...

A mind-bending, eye-opening scientific exploration of our senses - all 32 of themIllustrations: n/a

A mind-bending, eye-opening scientific exploration of our senses - all 32 of themPublisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Emma YoungNumber of pages:...

Your mind is not built to make you happy; it's built to help you survive. So far, it's done a great jobBut in the process, it may have developed so...

Reducere. Clinical psychologists have been dealing with miserable feelings since their discipline was established. In the last 30 years, neuroscientists have...

What is music? How is it made? And what's changed --- and what hasn't --- about how we listen to it? Here's all the best stuff about the science an...

Reducere. How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers is a whimsical and delightful book of children's verse. Each verse centers around two things that resemble o...

Even as they have become fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-cla...

Reducere. All humans see the world in two fundamentally different ways: even babies have a rich understanding of both the physical and social worlds. They ex...

The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving.Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Joseph JebelliNumber of page...

* An eye-opening account of the hidden workings of choice in everyday life* Subtitle: The Decisions We Make Everyday - What They Say About Us and H...

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Humans are not like other mammals. In fact, this book argues, across the animal kingdom we demonstrate unusual behaviour, rarely found except in on...