Why do we routinely choose options that don't meet our short term needs and undermine our long-term goals? Why do we insist we're right even when evidence contradicts us? Why are we prone to assigning meaning to statistically common coincidences? This book reveals a remarkable paradox: what your brain wants is frequently not what your brain needs.
What began as a personal pick-me-up quickly became a feel-good phenomenon, tapping into the power of gratitude. In October 2011, Kubitsky began asking, "What makes you grateful?" and invited people to write or draw a glimmer of gladness on a postcard and mail it back to her. Placing blank invitation cards in public places like college cafeterias, ......
This book series will feature the stories of pioneer cemeteries in the western states, written by local authors, revealing the tales behind the intriguing, lost, abandoned, forgotten, and earlies pioneer cemeteries. Each book will include photos, essays, and stories of locations and individuals whose deaths and history have been forgotten-or at ......
What Lies Beneath features stories of pioneer cemeteries in the western states, written by local authors, revealing the tales behind the intriguing, lost, abandoned, forgotten, and earlies pioneer cemeteries. The author depicts the lives of these pioneers through archival images, essays, and family stories of locations and individuals whose deaths ......
What Lies Beneath features stories of pioneer cemeteries in the western states, written by local authors, revealing the tales behind the intriguing, lost, abandoned, forgotten, and earlies pioneer cemeteries. The author depicts the lives of these pioneers through archival images, essays, and family stories of locations and individuals whose deaths ......
Exposes the many flaws in Jungian analysis and methodology. This book criticises Jung's popular theory of the collective unconscious as an example of over-interpretation and a failure to examine the diversity of cultural evidence.
Summarizes the scholarship on the origins, nature, and history of the Bible; and evaluates the major critiques of it as an authoritative guide for modern living. A rationalist, humanist treatment that draws personal conclusions, but neither preaches nor condemns. More for general readers than for b
Describes ways in which secular humanism's scientific, philosophical, and ethical outlook has exerted a profound influence on civilisation from the ancient world to the present.
Breaking through the quagmire of confusion and obfuscation that often surrounds talk of God, La Croix distinguishes and prioritises the essential questions and relevant side issues that must be confronted if clarity is ever to be achieved in this area. Useful for professionals and laypersons alike, this work features his essays.
