Have you ever heard of a person who left you wondering, "How could someone be so twisted? So evil?" Prompted by clues in her sister's diary after her mysterious death, author Barbara Oakley takes the reader inside the head of the kinds of malevolent people you know, perhaps all too well, but could never understand. Starting with psychology as a frame of reference, Oakley uses cutting-edge images of the working brain to provide startling support for the idea that "evil" people act the way they do mainly as the result of a dysfunction. In fact, some deceitful, manipulative, and even...
Have you ever heard of a person who left you wondering, "How could someone be so twisted? So evil?" Prompted by clues in her sister's diary after her ...
Konnen Menschen biologisch zum Bosen veranlagt sein? Ausgehend von verstorenden Erfahrungen in der eigenen Familie deckt die Autorin Barbara Oakley auf, dass ubel wollende Menschen oft aufgrund von korperlichen oder psychischen Fehlfunktionen so handeln. Sie setzt aktuelle psychologische, neurowissenschaftliche, verhaltensbiologische und genetische Entdeckungen in Beziehung zu den Charakteren vieler historischer Personen (allen voran Mao, Stalin, Hitler und Milosevic) und leitet daraus ein faszinierendes Bild vom Wirken des Bosen in der Politik, im Geschafts- und Sozialleben, in der...
Konnen Menschen biologisch zum Bosen veranlagt sein? Ausgehend von verstorenden Erfahrungen in der eigenen Familie deckt die Autorin Barbara Oakley...
Sustainability applies to everybody. But everybody applies it differently, by defining and shaping it differently--much as water is edged and shaped by its container. It is conceived in absolute terms but underpinned by a great diversity of relatively "green"--and sometimes contradictory--practices that can each make society only more or less sustainable. In Practicing Sustainability, chefs, poets, music directors, evangelical pastors, skyscraper architects, artists, filmmakers, as well as scientific leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, business executives, policy makers, and the...
Sustainability applies to everybody. But everybody applies it differently, by defining and shaping it differently--much as water is edged and shaped b...
The companion book to COURSERA(R)'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn" Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked her way through high school math and science courses, before enlisting in the army immediately after graduation. When she saw how...
The companion book to COURSERA(R)'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn" Whether you are a student struggling ...
