Emotional Science

For over 100 years, animal lovers have known that their dogs, cats, and other pets have complex emotional lives. Scholar and psychoanalyst Masson, with the help of Susan McCarthy, presents scientific evidence, fascinating anecdotes, and illuminating insights that offer powerful proof of the existence of animal emotion. When Elephants Weep draws upon the illuminating experiences of animal trainers and pet owners to create riveting and revolutionary stories that will permanently change and enrich the way we look at animals.

We live in a time where the world is facing an invisible enemy. The pandemic surges, and social relations are fraught with turmoil. Emotions are on edge, and people fear for their lives. We face turmoil, but turmoil does not come without emotions. Little has been written about the power of emotions and emotional contagion in this time of global turmoil—until now.

Abby doesn’t remember what happened the night she woke up in soot-stained clothes, lying next to a burning building with an unfamiliar boy at her side. But her connection with Sam is immediate and intense. And she has no one else: no family, no home, not even a last name. She and Sam start a new life, just the two of them, and Abby’s deliriously happy - until memories from her past begin to haunt her. And suddenly everything she’s learned to love turns sinister....

Francis Spufford's Unapologetic is a wonderfully pugnacious defense of Christianity. Refuting critics such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the "new atheist" crowd, Spufford, a former atheist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, argues that Christianity is recognizable, drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling, satisfying those who believe in it by offering a ruthlessly realistic account of the grown-up dignity of Christian experience.

Cory is the child of two worlds: when his birth-people come, they will break his mother's heart...but they may also be this world's only salvation. Molly and Gene Myers rescued Cory and kept him safe from those who wanted to use his remarkable knowledge and power for their own ends...and in doing so, they rediscovered themselves and fell in love with a remarkable child. In this gripping sequel to Our Child of the Stars, Cory and his new family are having to deal with the consequences of fame - but Molly is more concerned about the future, for Cory's people are on their way.

¿Qué hace que algunas personas tengan más seguridad que otras? ¿Por qué hay personas que emanan mayor influencia que otras? La respuesta se encuentra en su autoestima. Si estás con desafíos que para muchos pueden ser "normales" pero a ti se te hace todo un mundo. En este audiolibro quiero compartirte lo que a mí me ha ayudado en los últimos 10 años a recuperar mi poder y mi felicidad. Con una educación tradicional que dio paso al Bullying, la pubertad, y la adolescencia, hasta escenarios con más de 5000 personas que pude tener el honor de compartir como orador.

Don’t you wish you possessed the ability to convince, influence, manipulate, and persuade people to do, think, and act as you want them to? Manipulation isn’t always the negative thing it is often made out to be. Think of it as a tool that can be used to create as well as destroy. Using the powerful tips, techniques, and strategies mentioned in this audiobook, a person can become an effective influencer, manipulator, persuader, negotiator, salesperson, and orator.

1962, Anchor Bend, Oregon. The sea calls to Eleanor. Like the turn of the waves it beckons her from the heart of the town she’s always known, from her husband Hob and their young daughter, Agnes, to the unfathomable depths of the ocean. 1985. Agnes’s daughter Eleanor is six years old. She shares her name with the grandmother she never knew and everything else with her identical twin, Esmerelda. But to Agnes, only Eleanor is a constant reminder of the past.

Nearly a third of students are directly involved in bullying by the time they graduate from high school. A range of strategies have been shown to improve peer interactions and reduce bullying behaviors. Yet many teachers struggle to detect bullying and to respond to it effectively. This book is a much-needed guide to evidence-based methods for prevention and intervention in K-12 classrooms.

What if it is not depression? What if she can remember a better time line? Monica thought her idealistic life was ruined when her father betrayed her. Then, in an attempt to fix things, the time line was altered. Now, she has to realize she is not suffering from mental illness; she can remember the perfect life that disappeared.

While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from here. Can political or social divisiveness be healed? Is empathy among people with very little ideological common ground possible? In A Decent Meal, Michael Carolan finds answers to these fundamental questions in a series of unexpected places: around our dinner tables, along the aisles of our supermarkets, and in the fields growing our fruits and vegetables. What is more common, after all, than the simple fact that we all need to eat?

If you are interested in deepening your emotional awareness and in developing your emotional intelligence in ways that enhance conscious cocreative living, then this book is for you.

You swear you won’t overeat, but you’ve gotten into a cycle of eating. Maybe, you just binged, and that's why you looking for something that can help. I mean, sure, you might have looked at ways to stop, but the information is usually lacking detail, with only vague help and no specifics on diseases.

In a series of fun stories, innovator, inventor, social entrepreneur, and upstanding digital citizen Trisha Prabhu goes through the hows, the whats, and the whys of digital citizenship, showing readers how to lead with kindness and stop internet hate. For people who are just getting their first phone to others who have been scrolling, swiping, clicking and posting for years, this book makes us all consider what our role is in the digital world and how, together, we can make it a force for good.

Egal ob bei Debatten über die Klimakrise, über Identitätspolitik oder das Weltgeschehen: Politik ist nichts anderes als ein Aushandlungsprozess über unterschiedliche Gefühle. In ihrem Debattenbuch fordert die Neurowissenschaftlerin und Bestsellerautorin Maren Urner, unser rationales Politikverständnis zu überdenken: Angesichts fortschreitender Krisen müssen wir endlich aufhören, Verstand und Emotionen voneinander zu trennen. Nur, wenn wir beides zusammendenken und danach handeln, können wir konstruktiv Politik gestalten.

Here the emotional journeys of two German Jewish refugees are reconstructed from a substantial collection of family material, archives and secondary historical sources, which are used imaginatively to explore and illuminate a wider history. The letters evoke how it felt at the time to be a refugee and express eloquently the distress and losses involved in exile, separation and internment, providing intense dynamic snapshots of how they managed their emotions from day to day. The author shows the complex interrelationship between personal lives and social/historical events.

Karma Moon is a firm believer in everything "woo-woo", as her dad calls it. So when she asked her trusty Crystal Mystic if the call asking her dad to create a ghost-hunting docuseries was her dad's big break, it delivered: "No doubt about it." Because the universe never gets it wrong. Only people do.

True peace comes from understanding and integrating every part of your being! Do you feel disconnected from your true self or struggle to find peace in a busy world? What if you could understand and balance the core elements of your being—your body, mind, and consciousness—to unlock a profound sense of harmony and inner peace? The Art and Science of Spiritual Triangle is your guide to exploring these essential aspects of yourself and learning how to integrate them for a richer, more fulfilling life.