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Listen Like You Mean It: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection
Ximena Vengoechea · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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ly to find out you haven't been meeting expectations. Fortunately, listening, like any communication skill, can be improved--and Ximena Vengoechea can show you how. As a user researcher, she has spent the past six years facilitating hundreds of conversations at LinkedIn, Twitter, and Pinterest.... |
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Tech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World
MIKE BROOKS · Oxford University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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Parents often worry about raising kids in a tech-saturated world - the threats of cyberbullying, video game violence, pornography, and sexting may seem inescapable. And while these dangers exist, there is a much more common and subtle way that technology can cause harm: by eroding our attention... |
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Freud: The Making of an Illusion
Frederick C Crews · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud's scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin -- but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions... |
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Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It
Laurie Mintz · HarperOne
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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We've been thinking about sex all wrong. Mainstream media, movies, and porn have taught us that sex = penis vagina, and everything else is just secondary. Standard penetration is how men most reliably achieve orgasm. The problem is, women don't orgasm this way. We've separated... |
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Cause: . . . And How It Doesn't Always Equal Effect
GREGORY SMITHSIMON · Melville House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The Freakonomics of the sociology world. This book shows how deeply irrational we humans are, and what we can do about itWhen we try to understand our world, we ask "why?" a specific event occured. But this profoundly human question often leads us astray. In Cause, sociologist... |
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Indigenous Education: New Directions in Theory and Practice
Huia Tomlins-Jahnke · University of Alberta Press
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
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For Indigenous students and teachers alike, formal teaching and learning occurs in contested places. In Indigenous Education, leading scholars in contemporary Indigenous education from North America and the Pacific Islands disentangle aspects of education from colonial relations to advance... |
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The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
Gad Saad · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 235
Format: Hardcover
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- The West's commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism have become endangered by a series of viral forces in our society today. Renowned host of the popular YouTube show "The SAAD Truth", Dr. Gad Saad exposes how an epidemic of idea pathogens are spreading like... |
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The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long-Term in a Short-Term World
Roman Krznaric · The Experiment
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"The most important question we must ask ourselves is: Are we being good ancestors?" So said Jonas Salk, who cured polio in 1953. Salk saved millions of lives, but he refused to patent his cure or make any money from it. His radical rethinking of what we owe future generations... |
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