Both a document and a handbook The Art of Seeing records Aldous Huxley's victory over near-blindness and details the simple exercises anyone can follow to improve eyesight. Using the method devised by…
Mario Luna desmenuza hasta el último detalle los mecanismos ocultos que convierten en éxito o en fracaso el intento de seducir a una chica. Su observación y estudio científico de cientos de casos le h…
What makes a champion? What does it take to be the best in the world at your sport? Rafael Nadal has the answers. In his memoir, written with award-winning journalist John Carlin, he reveals the secre…
Ser emprendedor constituye una postura vital, una forma de enfrentarse al mundo que implica disfrutar con la incertidumbre y la inseguridad de qué sucederá mañana. No existen ideas brillantes que, por…
How do you sniff out danger? What is a sense of direction or a gut instinct? You know about your five senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch. But recent research has shown that we actually hav…
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Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, bestselling author of Peace is Every Step and one of the most respected and celebrated religious leaders in the world, delivers a powerful path to happiness through masteri…
You don't need a book to tell you this much: Sometimes things fall apart, crack open, and miss the mark. You can plan and strategize and keep your eye on the horizon, watching for trouble. And nothing…
Shelve Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
Jill Taylor was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Through the eyes of a curious scientist, she watched her mind deteriorate whereby she could not…
Shelve My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
A leading German philosopher and metaphysician of the 19th century, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) exerted an influence far beyond the hermetic world of philosophy, with adherents ranging from Richar…
Nel 1935 Cesare Pavese viene condannato a tre anni di confino a Brancaleone Calabro per aver tentato di proteggere la donna amata, militante nel Pci. Il carcere, pubblicato solo nel 1948, nasce così d…
Through vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters, The Inner Life of Animals weaves the latest scientific research into how animals interact with the world with Peter Wo…
Shelve The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion -- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
We all know that what people say is often very different from what they think or feel. Now with Body Language, you can learn to read others' thoughts by their gestures. You can use it to tell if someo…
Shelve Body Language: How to Read Others' Thoughts by Their Gestures
'How can I get in touch with this real self, underlying all my surface behaviour? How can I become myself?' Carl Rogers, US psychotherapistThe Inner Self is a book about the ways we hide from the …
Shelve The Inner Self: The Joy of Discovering Who We Really Are
The New York Times best-selling author of My Stroke of Insight blends neuroanatomy with psychology to show how we can short-circuit emotional reactivity and find our way to peace.
For half a century we…
Shelve Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life
How can the furniture in your home affect your well-being? What colour clothing will help you play sport better? And what simple trick will calm you after a tense day at work? In this revelatory book,…
Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed that his work was understood by a wide public, rather than just by psychiatrists, and therefore he ag…
With such bestsellers as A History of God and Islam, Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered penetrating, readable, and prescient (The New York Times) works that have lucidly engaged a wide range o…
An accessible, invaluable guide to mastering your “inner game” to ensure success on and off the court—part of the bestselling Inner Game series, with more than one million copies sold!
“Groundbreaking …
Shelve The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance