Psychology Philosophy

You've probably heard the advice put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others. This is true both in airplanes and in classrooms. You have to take care of yourself before you can help someone else. If teachers are stressed out and exhausted, how can they have the patience, positive energy, and enthusiasm to provide the best instruction for students? Author Mike Anderson asked that question as a teacher himself, and the answers he found form the basis of The Well-Balanced Teacher.

Many doctors overlook the seemingly inexplicable tragedies and recoveries that happen in hospitals every day, opting to view them simply as aberrations from the medical norm. In this book, Dr. Marc Siegel draws from his decades of experience treating patients and explores the sometimes miraculous effects that the spirit and emotion can have on disease and healing. The inner pulse is the essence that links the soul to the mind and body, the marker that predicts whether a person's life force is fading.

In this smart and timely book, the distinguished moral philosopher Sissela Bok ponders the nature of happiness and its place in philosophical thinking and writing throughout the ages. With nuance and elegance, Bok explores notions of happiness - from Greek philosophers to Desmond Tutu, Charles Darwin, Iris Murdoch, and the Dalai Lama - as well as the latest theories advanced by psychologists, economists, geneticists, and neuroscientists.

Each of us has a story. Each of us is unique. Heart Printsencourages teachers to open their hearts and eyes to each of the students in their classrooms. It reveals the realities of the classroom when a teacher realizes that each person has a story to tell and each person has a voice to be heard. This work is a story of connections, success, heartbreak and love. It is an impassioned call to learn to teach, love and speak with your heart to change your life. This book is filled with honesty, despair, victories and tears.

Child psychiatrist and best-selling author Robert Coles offers a profound meditation on how secular culture has settled into the hearts and minds of Americans. This book is a sweeping essay on the shift from religious control over Western society to the scientific dominance of the mind.

כולנו נחשפים למוזיקה כמעט מדי יום, מרצון או שלא מרצון. אנשים מקדישים את זמנם להפקת מוזיקה, לביצועה ולצריכתה. יש ימי מוזיקה לאומיים, שבהם חוגגות מדינות את המורשת, הכישרונות והשאיפות המוזיקליות שלהן. אז השאלה היא לא אם אנחנו עוסקים במוזיקה כי בעצם אנחנו זוללים אותה. סודות הפסיכולוגיה של המוזיקה עשויים לעזור לנו לפתור את השאלה מדוע יש למוזיקה השפעה כה חזקה עלינו.

An ordinary Utah college student named Reggie Shaw fatally strikes two rocket scientists while texting and driving. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Matt Richtel follows Reggie from the moment of the tragedy, through the police investigation, the state's groundbreaking prosecution, and ultimately, Reggie's wrenching admission of responsibility. Richtel parallels Reggie's journey with leading-edge scientific findings regarding human attention and the impact of technology on our brains.

John Brockman, editor of This Will Make You Smarter, presents his latest thought-provoking audiobook, featuring insights from leading thinkers such as Steven Pinker, Lisa Randall, Matt Ridley, and Daniel C. Dennett. Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about - and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. Encompassing neuroscience, economics, philosophy, physics, psychology, biology, and more - here are 150 ideas that will revolutionize your understanding of the world.

In this book the philosopher Jonathan Westphal examines the mind-body problem in detail, laying out the reasoning behind the solutions that have been offered in the past and presenting his own proposal. The sharp focus on the mind-body problem, a problem that is not about the self or consciousness or the soul or anything other than the mind and the body, helps clarify both problem and solutions. Westphal outlines the history of the mind-body problem, beginning with Descartes.

A thought-provoking exploration of how people really change their minds, and how persuasion is possible. In Stop Being Reasonable, Eleanor Gordon-Smith weaves a narrative that illustrates the limits of human reason. Here, she tells the stories of people who have radically altered their beliefs - from the woman who had to reckon with her husband's terrible secret to the man who finally left the cult he had been raised in since birth. Gordon-Smith shows how we can change the course of our own lives, and asks: What made someone change course?

In America’s Ethical Archetype, Damien Terrence Dubose uncovers the hidden psychological and philosophical dynamics driving today’s political dysfunction. By focusing on self-awareness, ethical grounding, and intellectual leadership, this book offers a path forward.

Tauche ein in die Tiefen der Lernpsychologie und entdecke die Geheimnisse hinter den kognitiven und emotionalen Prozessen, die die Entwicklung der Schüler fördern.Dieser umfassende Leitfaden bietet wichtige Einblicke und Werkzeuge für Pädagogen, Eltern und alle, die sich für das intellektuelle und emotionale Wachstum der neuen Generationen interessieren.

Creating a classroom environment that honors diversity begins with respecting the individuality of each student. When a teacher embraces a humanistic ethos and the principles of the universal design for learning, a beautiful mosaic emerges that enables all students to learn and grow within a productive and caring learning environment.

Schapiro shows that familiar theories of inclination fail to provide compelling answers to these questions, as they make being inclined to perform an action either too similar or too dissimilar to the action itself. The moment of decision is your will at a crossroads. Feeling Like It provides a concise and accessible investigation of a new problem at the intersection of ethics, philosophy of action, and philosophy of mind.

What is human well-being? Valerie Tiberius argues that our lives go well to the extent that we succeed in terms of what matters to us emotionally, reflectively, and over the long term. In other words, well-being consists in fulfilling or realizing our appropriate values over time. In the first half of the book, Tiberius sets out the theory of well-being as value fulfillment. She explains what valuing is and what it is to fulfill values over time. In the second half of the book, she applies the theory to the problem of how to help others, particularly our friends.

Hatred is often considered the opposite of love, but in many ways it is much more complicated. It also may be considered one of the dominant emotions of our time, as individuals, groups, and even nations express or enact hatred to varying degrees. What is hatred? Where does it come from, and what does it reveal about the hater? And is hatred always a bad thing? Brogaard makes a deep dive into the moral psychology of one of our most complex and vivid emotions.

What is property, and why does our species have it? In The Property Species, Bart J. Wilson explores how humans acquire, perceive, and know the custom of property and why this might be relevant to understanding how property works in the 21st century. Arguing that neither the sciences nor the humanities synthesizes a full account of property, the book offers a cross-disciplinary compromise that is sure to be controversial: Property is a universal and uniquely human custom.

This book contains proven and effective strategies on how to improve your reading speed and overall comprehension. Revealed within are secrets that will supercharge your reading speed and make you a speed-reading demon.

Дети – наше счастье! Сколько радости и счастливых моментов дарят нам эти шалопаи и шалуньи! Но воспитание – сложный и сбалансированный процесс, где каждому родителю надо умело находить подход к ребенку в любом возрасте, будь это период кризиса 3-х лет или первые подростковые сложности. В этой книге собраны советы от Ларисы Сурковой для детей всех возрастов – от младенцев до подростков. Все тексты дополнены новыми главами и материалами, которые помогут вам еще лучше понять своего ребенка.

This book explores the fascinating world of reinforcement learning, a powerful mechanism that drives learning and adaptation in both the human brain and artificial intelligence. Written for teens and young adults, it unveils the secrets behind how we learn and how AI is becoming increasingly intelligent.