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Synopsis: THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE is recognised as one of the most influential books ever written. In this seminal work, Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centred approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change, and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates. Translated into thirty-four languages and with phenomenal sales, THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE has been the key to the success of legions of business leaders and individuals the world over. (amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis:
For people faced with public speaking, asserting oneself and making
decisions, the author offers practical advice and thought-provoking
tips on how to transform their fears into confidence, energy and love.
From the Publisher: More than 50,000 copies have so far been sold of this unique little pocket book from the internationally renowned author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. That book, as well as Feel the Fear… and Beyond and Feel the Fear Power Planner are also published by Vermilion. |
Synopsis:
A book of advice on how to cope with fear of various kinds of
experience, such as public speaking, self-assertion, decision-making,
intimacy, being alone, ageing, losing a loved one, and ending a
relationship.
From the Publisher: Susan Jeffers Ph.D. became internationally renowned as the author of this book, which has sold more than 2 million copies to date and helped innumerable people overcome their fears and heal the pain in their lives. Vermilion also publish Feel the Fear … and Beyond, Feel the Fear Power Planner and The Little Book of Confidence by the same author. |
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Book Description: Studies have proven that music has an amazingly powerful effect on the intellectual and creative development of children. Simply listening to sounds, tones and rhythms can stimulate brain development, improve language skills, enhance awareness, reduce stress, and induce relaxation in children. In this remarkable book, Don Campbell, author of the highly successful The Mozart Effect, shows how your children can tap into the healing, strengthening, and creative power of music. Each chapter is devoted to a particular age, from prenatal to school age, and parents and teachers alike can access excellent musical guides, practical suggestions, and games to play to stimulate children both intellectually and creatively. Follow these unique techniques, and your children will enjoy a healthier, more harmonious way of life. (Amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis: With questions and examples, this work shows how traditional Sufi concepts can resolve social, psychological and spiritual concepts. It offers the means of looking at ourselves and our institutions in a new way. (Amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis Written by Krishnamurti, this book answers questions posed to him on education and includes general questions from staff and students at his schools. (Amazon.co.uk) |
5 star reviews (Amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis: In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice -- the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish -- becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice -- from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs -- has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. (Amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis: The internationally bestselling guide to better thinking used by tens of thousands of people - fully revised and updated. There is nothing more sad and wasteful than a roomful of intelligent and highly paid people waiting for a chance to attack something the speaker has said. With the Six Hats methods the fullest use is made of everyone's intelligence, experience and information. The Six Hats also removes all "ego" from the discussion process. The need for the Six Hats is based on an understanding of how the brain chemicals change with the mode of thinking. Using this method one major corporation reduced the time taken for multinational project discussions from 30 days to just two days. Argument is inefficient, ineffective and slow. Argument was never designed to be constructive. The parallel thinking of the Six Hats method is rapidly replacing argument around the world. From senior executives at major corporations like Siemens, NTT, Prudential (US) to four-year-olds in school. From Khmer villagers in Cambodia to senior government departments. For 2,400 years we have been content with argument which was never designed to be constructive. Discovering "what is" may not be the same as designing "what can be". (amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis: Attempting to show parents how to teach their children how to think, this book shows how children can be taught to think for themselves rather than filling their heads with actual facts. (amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis: This book, which is now internationally known and also a bestseller, is a textbook of creativity. It shows how the habit of lateral thinking can be encouraged and new ideas generated. the author has worked out special techniques for doing this, and the result is a triumph of entertaining education. (amazon.co.uk) |
THE TIMES: 'Tony Buzan will do for the brain what Stephen Hawking did for the universe.' |
Synopsis: A few years after this classic book on how to improve your brain power was first published in 1974, a fairly average 'O' level student announced that he intended to try for a place at Cambridge University. His chances were assessed as 'slim' since his grades were usually unexceptional Cs and Bs. But with the help of Use Your Head the student went on to achieve four As at A-level, two star firsts at Cambridge and a top job with a multinational company. The reasons he gives for this astounding success? Since 1974, Use Your Head has been translated into over 20 languages and has been published in five continents and 50 countries, has sold well over a million copies and still the demand increases! Its author Tony Buzan, the inventor of Mind Maps [trademark] and the concept of mental literacy, has become a 'Brain Star'. He now travels the world teaching his thinking, learning and memory techniques to help people to awaken that sleeping giant - the human brain. Use Your Head will teach you the vital skills of Learning How to Learn. (amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis:
Explores the power of music in relation to motivation, mood, and
behavior while explaining how different types of music create varying
levels of power in the mind and body.
From the Author: The right music can make your life work better! As an ethnomusicologist, I know that cultures around the world have always used music to make their daily lives work better--and I created Tune Your Brain (TM) to help you become an expert music user with your own CD collection... (amazon.co.uk) Reviews |
Book Description We're introducing the second book in our "Pocket Prompters" series. This series was designed to provide some easy-to-use tools for the educator, counselor, therapist, parents, etc. These versatile, fun-to-use, pocket-size books of questions can be used in a myriad of situations. Ideal for groups of most any size, these questions help challenge group members to begin to focus and concentrate as a whole, to experience differing opinions, and to practice problem-solving methods. The questions will also be useful in helping young people form personal opinions and generate discussion with others, leading to greater understanding of themselves and their peers. Ideal for essay ideas for school groups, family talk, and youth groups, to name a few! (Amazon.co.uk) |
Book Description: A New York Times bestseller with over 1.9 million copies in print, THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS poses 265 questions that invite people to explore the most fascinating of subjects: themselves. These questions are as intriguing as our very lives because they are about our lives-our fundamental values and beliefs, our dreams and nightmares about sex, money, love, power. Some of the questions thrust you into a value-testing hypothetical situation (Would you accept 20 years of extraordinary happiness and fulfillment if it meant you would die at the end of the period?), some ask you to delve into your past (When is the last time you stole anything?) and help you find out if you've changed (Would you now return it if you could?), and others reveal your basic nature by examining your behavior (When you are given a compliment do you usually acknowledge it or suggest that you really do not deserve it?). Whether used as an avenue for personal growth, a tool for deepening relationships, or simply as an entertainment, THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS may be the only publication that challenges-and even changes-the way readers view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own. (Amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis: Everybody wants it. But what exactly is happiness? The pursuit of happiness has been recognized by everyone from poets to politicians as what makes the world go round. The world's largest and fastest-growing industries - alcohol, pharmaceuticals, mind altering drugs, self-help books, counselling, travel, and tourism - all profit heavily from our intent to become completely happy with our lives. In the first comprehensive book to address this most basic of human desires, Daniel Nettle explores why we want to be happy, how we assess our levels of happiness, and the different ways that happiness is interpreted in different cultures. Using statistical information from the National Child Development Study, a project that has collected social and emotional data from thousands of people since 1958, Nettle shows the ways in which definitions and sources of happiness have changed over time. (Amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis: Describes the influence of spoken and written language and rational thinking on man's perception of the natural world around him. (Amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis:
While adhering to the conventions of cartography, this atlas invites
travellers to follow routes through familiar-looking topography to
realms of imagination, ideas, feelings and experience. It encompasses
the Ocean of Possibilites, the Swamps of Boredom, the City of Boom and
the Airport of Escape.
Review: Two Dutch cartographers get carried away with the idea that life is a journey and can be represented on maps. The text between the maps is suitably thought-provoking and inspirational, but it feels like two books in one. I would have enjoyed even closer integration between the text and the maps, but it's worth buying for the maps alone. There is plenty of scope for the creative trainer to turn this coffee table novelty into a powerful tool for reflection. Some might say that Tony Buzan has done the job already with Mind Mapping. But this is different and more magical. It is like Treasure Island or The Phantom Tolbooth - for grown ups. (reviewed by Roger Greenaway) Reviews at Amazon.co.uk - from 1 star to 5 star Go to the publisher's website and make your own map - at a price |
Our understanding of the natural world, from the tiniest quark to the
biggest galaxy, is ever-deepening, even while it seems that our grasp
on who we are--our essential humanity--is slipping farther and farther
away. Renowned cultural historian Bruce Mazlish makes the case for
advancing the "human sciences" (psychology, philosophy, hermeneutics
and literature) in his masterful yet humble book The Uncertain
Sciences. Standing on the shoulders of giants from nearly every field
of endeavour, Mazlish seeks a place for us to fit into our schemes of
knowledge, to be at one with the objects of our understanding. Can we develop a science of humanity while avoiding the pitfalls of positivism and postmodernism? Mazlish is optimistic, even ebullient at times, though always practical and keeping an eye on what is possible. Hopeful that our species can transform itself into a "truth community" which values knowledge of self and others more highly than today's culture, he explores what it would mean to merge morality with mathematics--meaning with measurement--into a synthesis by which we might retain both our knowledge and our essence. Mazlish writes that The Uncertain Sciences "...is like an orange, to be slowly peeled", and any book that quotes Faraday, Asimov and Foucault in the first few pages deserves such a warning, but the careful reader will find the rewards well worth the challenge. (Rob Lightner, Amazon.co.uk) |
Review: The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviours spread just like viruses do." Although anyone familiar with the theory of mimetics will recognise this concept, Gladwell's The Tipping Point has quite a few interesting twists on the subject. (Amazon.co.uk) |
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