Drawing from a range of applications, including investing, law, criminology, gambling, and religion, this book shows how opportunities can be defined in various contexts. It examines undesirable situations, where opportunity is lacking, such as poverty and historical instances of slavery to illustrate the defining characteristics of opportunity.
Presents an exploration of the personal, social, and cultural triggers that give rise to paranoid reactions in our everyday lives. This work helps readers recognise a potentially debilitating problem that is common in a stress-filled society. It shows how ordinary people can lose their way in a world of social alienation.
What is reality? This work takes us on a romp through many findings in various scientific fields - from neurobiology to physics and genetics, describing how difficult it is for these findings to sink in and impact our perspectives. It discusses what neuroscience has found out about certain apelike mechanisms in our brains.
Are there 'power-crazed, difficult people' in your life? Written by a psychology author, this title presents a study in organisational psychology and reveals the personalities behind the facades of 'power freaks'.
This upbeat manual combines encouraging theology with practical suggestions for finding inner peace. Egeberg explores such common obstacles as self-criticism, stress, conflict, frustration, resentment, and the struggle to forgive others or accept forgiveness. He suggests ways to overcome these difficulties, including prayer, affirmations, ......
Everyone has creative potential waiting to be discovered. The challenge we all face is learning how to tap into that potential to release our creative gifts. This work shows the way, and discusses various aspects from developing a climate for creativity to the uses of illusion to spur on creative expression of all sorts.
Shows that charisma, competitiveness, confidence, drive, intuition, rebellion, risk-taking, and tenacity led the celebrities to the top by selecting six disciplines which include the arts, business, humanities, politics, science, and sports and those who achieved greatness within them. This book includes biographical commentary on 28 visionaries.
The Lost Art of Thinking With 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your M
With 20 different ways to think better, and an introduction, this work is an examination of contemporary thought or lack of it in our society. It explains the problem of fuzzy thinking in detail, and optimistically proposes necessary remedies to 'dumbth' in the 101 rules for good thinking, reading, writing, speaking, and, reasoning.
