Life Theory

Transform Your Relationship Fears into Confidence and Security with the Anxious Attachment Workbook Tailored for those ready to rewrite their love stories, this guide is your beacon toward anxious attachment recovery. It combines profound insights with practical, actionable strategies. Discover Your Path to Secure Attachment Uncover the Roots of Your Anxious Attachment Style: Through guided self-reflection exercises, turn insights into action for profound self-awareness, laying the groundwork for transformative change. Master Communication Strategies: Foster openness and understanding, ...

Game Theory Made Simple: A Beginner's Guide to Strategic Thinking, Decision-Making, and Application to Everyday Life by The Practical Atlas is your essential introduction to the fascinating world of game theory. Whether you're curious about economics, psychology, international relations, or just want to make better decisions in daily life, this engaging and easy-to-follow guide will show you how game theory applies to the real world. With clear explanations, relatable examples, and zero jargon, this book walks you through the fundamental ideas of strategic decision-making. Learn how players...

In order to improve closeness and intimacy in all relationships, it is important to first understand the clear parallels between adult behavior and childhood experiences. Attachment Theory combines traditional teachings with knowledge of subconscious patterns to provide powerful tools for powerful change.

Simone is the star of Edwards University’s creative writing department: renowned Woolf scholar, grief memoirist, and campus sex icon. Her less glamorous and ostensibly devoted husband, Ethan, is a forgotten novelist and lecturer in the same department. But when Ethan and the department administrative assistant Abigail have sex, Simone and Ethan’s faith in their flawless marriage is rattled.

Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary, self-doubting mess. She found that navigating the basics of everyday life - from buying a cell phone and filing taxes to education and childcare - was much more complicated and stressful than anything she encountered in her homeland. At first she attributed her crippling anxiety to the difficulty of adapting to a freewheeling new culture. But as she got to know Americans better, she discovered they shared her deep apprehension.

Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov’s classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modeling of human psychology and behavior. Only much later did he realize that Asimov’s "psychohistory" had a real-world equivalent: game theory. Originating in the study of probabilistic gambling games that depend on a random source—the throw of a dice or the toss of a coin—game theory soon came to be applied to human interactions: essentially, what was the best strategy to win whatever you were doing?

This book throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.

How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology - and there's nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who's helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.

In John Adams: A Life, Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. Drawing on extensive research, Ferling depicts a reluctant revolutionary, a leader who was deeply troubled by the warfare that he helped to make, and a fiercely independent statesman. Bringing to life an exciting time, an age in which Adams played an important political and intellectual role. this book is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times.

The Making of Modern Economics presents a bold and engaging history of economics—the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today’s rigorous social science. This comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the major economic philosophers begins with Adam Smith and continues through to the present day. It examines the contributions each one made to our understanding of the role of the economist, the science of economics and economic theory.

A notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves. This audiobook explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Dr. Goffman uses the metaphor of theatrical performance as a framework. Each person in everyday social intercourse presents himself and his activity to others, attempts to guide and control the impressions they form of him, and employs certain techniques in order to sustain his performance, just as an actor presents a character to an audience.

Unlock the power of ChatGPT and DALL·E to create passive income and live on your terms. Whether you're looking to earn extra money, achieve financial independence, or explore new opportunities, this guide shows you how to succeed, even with no prior AI experience.

The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, takes us into the Green Zone, headquarters for the American occupation in Iraq. In this bubble separated from wartime realities, the task of reconstructing Iraq is in the hands of 20-somethings chosen for their Republican Party loyalty. They pursue irrelevant neoconservative solutions and pie-in-the-sky policies instead of rebuilding looted buildings and restoring electricity, angering the locals and fueling the insurgency.

For over two-hundred years, capitalist systems have overtaken the global economy, spreading near-universal growth and opening the floodgates for limitless human potential. Yet something is going terribly wrong in the world economy. National bestselling author George Gilder explains how economics is not an incentive system but an information system. Redefining capitalism for the modern age, he reveals how free enterprise is a mind driven system, material resources are essentially as infinite as atoms, and what governs economic growth is human creativity.

Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true - yet never provable - continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Gödel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life.

A Self-Guided Program for Healing Trauma, Managing Emotions, and Finding Inner Peace — Endorsed by Dr. Richard C. Schwartz, Founder of IFS Heal from the inside out with Internal Family Systems therapy — the evidence-based approach to emotional healing, trauma recovery, and self-leadership. You don’t have to stay stuck in cycles of anxiety, perfectionism, self-sabotage, or emotional overwhelm. This step-by-step workbook helps you connect with your “parts,” release the burdens of your past, and lead your life from a place of calm and clarity. Perfect for anyone seeking: ✅ Self-...

Penguin Audio presents Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark, read by Rob Shapiro. We stand at the beginning of a new era. What was once science fiction is fast becoming reality, as AI transforms war, crime, justice, jobs and society - and even our very sense of what it means to be human. More than any other technology, AI has the potential to revolutionise our collective future - and there's nobody better situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor and cofounder of the Future of Life Institute, whose work has helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.

Understanding the Theory of Relativity: A Beginner’s Guide to Einstein’s Revolutionary Ideas about Space, Time, and Gravity is your essential introduction to one of the most mind-expanding scientific theories ever conceived. Written in clear, engaging language for readers with no prior background in physics, this guide breaks down Albert Einstein’s Special and General Theories of Relativity into easy-to-understand concepts, real-world applications, and stunning implications for our universe. Explore how time slows down, how space bends, and why gravity is not a force but a feature of ...

In Goliath, New York Times best-selling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens. Beginning with the national elections carried out during Israel's war on Gaza in 2008/9, which brought into power the country's most right-wing government to date, Blumenthal tells the story of Israel in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo peace process.

For at least two hundred years there has been a debate over whether there is a gap between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, no gap or a modified gap. Included in this book is a fascinating story of what scientific evidence has to say about the past several billion years, and what the Bible has to say about the period of time from the creation of Adam and Eve and the birth of Jesus Christ. Prepare to be amazed.