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WHAT YOU CAN'T RECALL COSTS YOU TIME AND MONEY Today's busy executive is bombarded by a wealth of information, statistics, facts, names thoughts and dates. But how much of it is there when you need it on the spur-of-the-moment? Now, an acclaimed expert in the field of memory and recall tells you how to turn a jumble of forgotten dates, clients, numbers and ideas into a neat, on-call file of key information. Learn: * To turn your mental power on -- for an instantly better memory. * How to us...

Thishandbook discusses how to use different strands of new age thinkingincluding numerology, tarot, and astrologyto solve everyday problems and guide your decisions in life. It emphasizes the balance between the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual self and contains real-life case studies."

Are human beings the only conscious animals on earth? Where does consciousness come from? What is it? Where is it taking us? In 1971 Nicholas Humphrey, a theoretical psychologist, spent three weeks at Dian Fossey's gorilla research centre in Rwanda. It was there amongst the mountain gorillas that he began to focus on the philosophical and scientific puzzle that has fascinated him ever since - the problem of how a man or animal can know what it is like to be itself. This book describes where his...

First published in 1972. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Americans donate over 300 billion dollars a year to charity, but the psychological factors that govern whether to give, and how much to give, are still not well understood. Our understanding of charitable giving is based primarily upon the intuitions of fundraisers or correlational data which cannot establish causal relationships. By contrast, the chapters in this book study charity using experimental methods in which the variables of interest are experimentally manipulated. As a result, it beco...

This book covers the foundations and successes of Neuroergonomics, combining neuroscience and ergonomics to enhance efficiency and safety. An overview of the essential areas within the field is given including chapters on brain networks, perception, attention, and performance.

* Fresh approach to engineering design, innovation challenges, and stereotypical thinking; provides alternative methods that come closer to the heart of the visual creative process.

A fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind’s greatest invention. Language is said to be humankind’s greatest accomplishment. But what is language actually good for? It performs poorly at representing reality. It is a constant source of distraction, misdirection, and overshadowing. In fact, N. J. Enfield notes, language is far better at persuasion than it is at objectively capturing the facts of...

L'ouvrage a pour objectif de mettre en lumiere la dimension normative de l'action humaine, en partant d'une analyse phenomenologique de la perception. La perception n'est pas concue seulement comme enregistrement naturel de formes et de donnees, mais comme une veritable incorporation des significations qui, grace a la structure intentionnelle de la personne humaine, constituent la condition et le fondement de l'action elle-meme. L'auteur approfondit d'un point de vue epistemologique la question...

This book connects seminal work in affect research and moves forward to provide a developing perspective on affect as the "decisive variable" of the mathematics classroom. In particular, the book contributes and investigates new conceptual frameworks and new methodological 'tools' in affect research and introduces the new field of 'collectives' to explore affect systems in diverse settings. Investigated by internationally renowned scholars, the book is build up in three dimensions. The first pa...

Raymond Tallis's "The Explicit Animal" (1991) was a attack on attempts to explain human consciousness in purely biological terms. This book defended the distinctive nature of human consciousness against the misrepresentations of those many philosophers and cognitive scientists who aimed to reduce it to a set of functions understood in evolutionary, neurobiological and computational terms. "On the Edge of Certainty" does investigates and clarifying the implications of the view of human nature dis...

To achieve, you have to believe. It's that simple. If you can't picture yourself doing something difficult or challenging, you won't, because you won't have confidence in yourself. This book offers readers ten proven-effective skills for developing the confidence they need to turn their dreams into reality through the use of guided imagery. The guided imagery process couldn't be simpler or more powerful: whatever it is that you want to achieve, you develop a rich picture of it happening in your...

In this fascinating book, Ann and Barry Ulanov introduce readers to the tapestry and complexity of our mysterious imagination, its central role in the life of the spirit, and its ability to heal, nourish, and make whole.