Elephant Communication

The playbook for consigning MAGA-style politics to the ash heap of history (where it belongs). Featuring a foreword by Jonathan V. Last. After Donald Trump won the 2024 election, Sarah Longwell did what she's done nearly every week for the past eight years: She sat down with voters. She...

Writing in an exciting, fast-paced narrative style, Gerstner takes readers through his experiences at IBM -- from the high-powered recruiting pressure to take the Chairman's position, to first days on the job learning the strengths and weaknesses of IBM, to formulating and successfully...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Malby-Anthony offers a book of great inspiration and wide appeal to nature-loving readers." —Publishers Weekly A heart-warming sequel to the international bestseller The Elephant Whisperer, by Lawrence Anthony's wife Françoise Malby-Anthony. A chic Parisienne...

Learn how to persuade cats--the world's most skeptical and cautious negotiators--with this primer on rhetoric and argument from the New York Times bestselling author of Thank You for Arguing! Cats are skilled manipulators who can talk you into just about anything without a single word. They can...

Brought to you by Penguin. Steven Pinker, one of the world's greatest thinkers and bestselling author of Enlightenment Now, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Language Instinct, reveals the power and perils of thinking alike. As a cognitive scientist, the ultimate subject of Steven...

On a hot day in the African savannah, a group of elephants searches for food. While foraging they often lose sight of one another. Yet at the end of the day, in one coordinated movement, the elephants suddenly regroup. This coordinated movement - and others like it - has puzzled scientists and caused them to question how elephants communicate with each other. Since the 1990s, scientists have gathered significant data on elephant “talk.”

The four co-creators of The Try Guys, one of the Internet’s most popular and viral sensations, deliver their first book—an inspirational self-improvement guide that teaches you that the path to success is littered with humiliating detours, embarrassing offenses, and unexpected failures. Best...

It made centuries of scientific data obsolete. It caused countries to go to war. We found out humans are not the most intelligent animal, on this planet. It all happened when one man spoke to an elephant, and the elephant answered him. When a South African bushman with a mysterious brain infection begins speaking with elephants, a skeptical scientist is brought in to translate. The elephants, led by the ancient chief Gur, want to sue the human government in court for encroaching on their sacred migration path. As this unprecedented trial unfolds against a backdrop of brewing global war, ...

Do systems have souls? This book, based on a popular elective at IIM Ahmedabad, looks for answers in the hard trade-offs inherent in the design of operating systems and business models. It encourages business leaders to ask two different sets of existential questions: Does the organization that...

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is the one who is credited with saying "The only thing that is constant is change." In the world of giving speeches this is especially true. One does not just suddenly become a great speaker. Rather, what happens is that we start to give speeches and gradually over time we get better at doing it. However, we'll never get any better at speaking in public if we don't know how to change.

على سبيل المثال، إذا كان لديَّ صنبور به تسريب، أحضر كتابًا عن إنجاز أعمال السباكة بنفسك. ثم أقرأ عن آلية عمل الصنابير، ثم أدرس أنواع الصنابير المختلفة، وأقرأ عن أسباب التسريبات والحلول الأكثر شيوعًا لإصلاح تلك التسريبات، ثم أتأكد من أن لدي الأدوات المناسبة، وأبدأ العمل على إصلاح الصنبور. الكتاب في يد ومفتاح الربط في اليد الأخرى، وسأشرع في فك الصنبور. وبعد كل خطوة سأتحقق من الكتاب للتأكد من أنني نفذت ذلك بطريقة صحيحة وللتعرف على الخطوة التالية.

Writing in an exciting, fast-paced narrative style, Gerstner takes readers through his experiences at IBM -- from the high-powered recruiting pressure to take the Chairman's position, to first days on the job learning the strengths and weaknesses of IBM, to formulating and successfully...

Learn how to analyze people and take control of your life! Improve your emotional intelligence and start living the life you want instead of being constantly manipulated by ads, sales people, politicians, etc. Detect lies, know people's true intentions, and learn some of the intricacies of reading human micro expressions/body language. This can be crucial in helping you understand your own emotions as well as those around you. In addition, this audiobook is also an excellent tool for honing personal skills - such as appreciation of your emotional intelligence.

You see the giant footprints the moment you walk through the door. The conference room is a swirling mess of tension, heaviness, anxiety, and peanut shells. Something is very wrong with your team. Everybody knows it, but nobody is talking about it. It’s obvious there’s an elephant in the room. Is it an Avoidephant, feeding off the fears of retaliation and exclusion? Perhaps it’s a Blamephant—whom we love to feed because it makes us feel better about ourselves. In Don’t Feed the Elephants!, Sarah explores how you can address the true elephant in the room: avoidance.

A surreal tale woven with symbols and flights of imagination, where childhood dreams take shape and come alive. The prince-on-a-white-horse is real, elephants take to the skies, and all that your heart desires unfolds before you. A story brimming with poetry, suspense, and unexpected twists, turning the act of reading into a whirlwind of stirring emotions. The great myths of love—losing one’s heart, losing oneself in the blind pursuit of a beloved—are told with childlike wonder, wrapped in delicate naivety and playful, whimsical dialogues that make you laugh and cry in equal measure. ...

The holidays can bring out the worst in people and turn cheer and good tidings into ""I saw that first"" and ""Bah, humbug!"" But this season you don't have to get scrooged by other people's bad behavior. Don't Get Scrooged will show you how to avoid, appease, and even win over the Scrooges who...

Every speaker would like to become a better speaker. After each speech that we give, we all think to ourselves about the things that we could have done differently that would have gotten a better reaction from our audience. The trick is that we have to remember the changes that we need to make and then we need to make them. That's what this audiobook is all about - helping you to remember how you can become a better public speaker.

Detecte mentiras, conozca las verdaderas intenciones de las personas y aprenda algunas de las complejidades de leer microexpresiones/lenguaje corporal humano. Esto puede ser crucial para ayudarlo a comprender sus propias emociones y las emociones de los que lo rodean. Además, este libro es una excelente herramienta para perfeccionar habilidades personales, como la apreciación de su inteligencia emocional. Este libro puede ayudarle a mejorar muchos aspectos de su vida social, incluyendo relaciones románticas, de trabajo, o simplemente comprenderse mejor a sí mismo.

A delightful guide to harnessing the rhythms of nature for self-care. We could all learn a thing or two about living in balance from our friends in the plant and animal kingdom. Take, for example, the jellyfish, one of the most energy-efficient animals in the world, moving through the ocean by...

Do product managers have super powers? Probably not, but there are some product managers who seem to be more successful than others. These "super" product managers seem to be able to make things happen almost effortlessly. What's their secret?