Human Life

A fully revised and expanded edition of the runaway bestseller, Surrounded by Idiots—now with more: Content Examples Snark! Master the four basic behavior types and change the way you communicate! Do you ever think you’re the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your...

New York Times Best Seller 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...

For two thousand years, cadavers have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.

Explores history's most incredible spiritual moments and the people who changed the world with their passion for the truth. Covers the Buddha, Jesus, John Hus, Joan of Arc, Martin Luther, Giordano Bruno, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many more. Also reveals how to achieve a triumph of the spirit for oneself through exercises and the use of your own spiritual power.

Federico Faggin is one of the greatest luminaries of high technology alive today. A physicist by education, he is the inventor of the microprocessor and the MOS silicon gate technology, both of which underlie the modern world's entire information technology. With the knowledge and experience of a lifetime in cutting-edge fields, Federico now turns his attention to consciousness and the nature of reality, sharing with us his profound insights on the classical and quantum worlds, artificial intelligence, life and the human mind.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | New York Times' Staff Favorite Book of the Year | Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America’s most visible death...

Humans are a force of nature like no other animal on the planet. For thousands of years, we have radically altered the destiny of other species. Today, we do so at such an accelerating rate that it is widely proposed that we live on the brink of a Sixth Extinction, comparable to the most destructive moments in the fossil record. The Last Animal provides the first historical account of humanity's impact on animal biodiversity, taking listeners from the megafaunal extinctions of the Ice Age to the planetwide perils of the present.

READ BY THE AUTHOR An explosive memoir by the most senior U.S. Intelligence Official to investigate unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and non-human intelligent life For over thirty-two years, Jay Stratton served the U.S. on the battlefield and as a senior member of the National Intelligence...

Modern humans have come a long way in the seventy thousand years they’ve walked the earth. Art, science, culture, trade—on the evolutionary food chain, we’re true winners. But it hasn’t always been smooth sailing, and sometimes—just occasionally—we’ve managed to truly f*ck things...

Mindreader : How to Read Someone's Mind. The Psychology of Understanding Thoughts, Emotions, Body Language, Hidden Intentions, and Human Behavior in Everyday Life. Every day, you are surrounded by messages that have nothing to do with words. The colleague who says 'I'm fine' but won't meet your eyes. The date who leans in when you speak. The friend whose smile fades a half-second too quickly. The salesperson who pauses just a moment too long before answering your question. Every human being is broadcasting information constantly — through their face, their body, their voice, their ...

Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing.

Erik Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Applying His Major Ideas in Everyday Life is your essential roadmap to mastering one of the most influential psychological theories of the 20th century. Whether you're a psychology student, educator, therapist, parent, or simply someone interested in personal growth, this comprehensive and reader-friendly guide helps you understand and apply Erikson’s 8 stages of psychosocial development in everyday life. Explore how trust, autonomy, identity, intimacy, and legacy shape who we become—from infancy to...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Anna Freud A Gateway to Her Life, Theories, and Legacy Anna Freud changed how the modern world understands children. As the youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, she grew up inside the household where psychoanalysis was being born — but her own life’s work moved the field somewhere new. Where her father reconstructed childhood from adult memories, Anna Freud turned towards real children: watching them in classrooms, nurseries, clinics, hospitals, and wartime shelters, and insisting that the young must be understood as developing people in their own right. This...

When you ask people about their most cherished values in life, “happiness” is always at the top of the list. But surprisingly few people claim real happiness. We seem to be completely satisfied with nothing, and indeed, there is little correlation between the circumstances of people’s...

In The Tragic Sense of Life, Miguel de Unamuno invites you into one of the most profound inner dialogues ever written—a passionate exploration of what it means to exist while knowing we must die. Rather than offering abstract theories, Unamuno speaks directly to the reader’s deepest anxieties and hopes, revealing philosophy as a living struggle between intellect and longing. This timeless classic of existential philosophy examines faith, doubt, mortality, and the human hunger for immortality with a voice that is at once philosophical, poetic, and intensely personal. As you turn its ...

Message from Ascended Master Quan Yin: Humanity is at a crossroads in terms of your politics and your policies. You are at a crossroads spiritually as well. Many people are calling into question at this time their own beliefs, beliefs that they had held to be as truths in every portion of their lives leading up to this moment, and that is why it is important to know your history. It is important for you to know where you came from, why you are here, and where you are potentially going. This book addresses all of that and more, as it gives you a perspective, my perspective as an Ascended ...

Renowned canine expert Patricia McConnell answers the questions of dog lovers everywhere. Do dogs have emotions like we do? More to the point, does my dog love me? Sharing riveting dog stories from her experiences, Dr. McConnell also offers accessible science that clues listeners in to what's going on behind those puppy dog eyes.

Thomas Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. Illustrating his points with examples, and supporting them with the latest research findings, he documents the cognitive, social, and motivational processes that distort our thoughts, beliefs, judgments and decisions.

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Albert Bandura A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy Albert Bandura changed how we understand learning, confidence, influence, and human agency. From a small farming town on the Canadian prairie to the lecture halls of Stanford, Bandura became one of the most influential psychologists of the twentieth century. His work showed that people do not learn only through reward and punishment. We learn by watching. We absorb examples. We imitate models. We build confidence through experience. And, crucially, we are not merely shaped by our surroundings — we also...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Albert Einstein A Gateway to His Life, Discoveries, and Legacy Albert Einstein changed the way humanity understands reality. His work reshaped space, time, light, matter, energy, and gravity — yet his life was never only a story of equations. He was a curious child with a compass, a restless outsider in the classroom, a patent-office thinker who overturned physics, a refugee from fascism, a public conscience in the atomic age, and a deeply human figure whose private life was far more complicated than the icon suggests. This concise yet powerful volume distils ...