Wellness Culture

Are your kids unable to step away from the screens? Here is a practical, step-by-step guide that gives parents the tools to teach children, from toddlers to teens, how to gain control of their technology use.

According to estimates, the healthcare AI market will grow to over $45 billion by 2026. Now is the time for everyone involved, including medical consumers and entrepreneurs, to understand and embrace the AI in healthcare revolution. AI continues to advance at breakneck speeds. Nowhere else is AI moving faster than in the health care sector, where it’s being used to improve millions of lives at every point in the healthcare system. In this book, you will take a deep dive into the remarkable strides that AI is making.

Breaking the Mold explores the unique challenges and strengths of autistic adults in the workplace. Through a collection of personal stories and expert insights, this book sheds light on the obstacles faced by the autistic community and provides practical strategies for empowering individuals on the spectrum to reach their full potential in their careers. This empowering guide is a must-listen for anyone looking to promote diversity, inclusiveness, and understanding in the workplace.

What happened next? It's the question Jill Stark has been asked most often since the publication of her acclaimed memoir, High Sobriety. Now, in this updated and extended 10th Anniversary edition, narrated this time by Jill herself, she retells and continues her story.

Esta obra maestra es una profunda exploración sobre el conflicto entre las necesidades individuales y las demandas de la sociedad. Freud nos sumerge en el dilema del ser humano, atrapado entre su búsqueda de felicidad y la realidad de un mundo repleto de sufrimiento. El autor no solo nos confronta con las verdades incómodas de nuestra existencia, sino que también nos hace reflexionar sobre el alto costo de la civilización.

En este libro se aborda la nueva rama denominada la CiberPisoclogía, que estudia cómo se ha producido un cambio en la relación persona-tecnología, analizando cómo afectan los nuevos desarrollos al día a día de la persona, así como a la salud mental de sus usuarios. Todo ello avalado por una extensa bibliografía sobre las últimas investigaciones realizadas en este ámbito.

Paul Williams and Andreas Krebs take a no-punches-held look at the stories we tell ourselves about business success. The rags-to-riches tale is tempting, but we don’t have to search far to see that most organizations rise for a time, only to experience a dramatic fall from grace. Just look at some of the companies that used to be household names: Nokia, AOL, Pan Am, Woolworth, and Blockbuster. The Illusion of Invincibility examines the why of success and failure. It’s a smart, funny, and radical look at how to build and sustain a great organization.

With every tick of the clock, millions of people inch closer to their breaking points - a growing epidemic of apathy and anxiety in the workplace that is affecting life outside of the office. But meaningful work-life integration is possible. Filled with actionable strategies and inspiring true stories, this indispensable guide motivates listeners to seek fulfilling opportunities, reconnect with their passions, and recognize their power to make a difference.

Das Politikbuch für die Generation Smartphone. Bijan Kaffenberger ist 29, seit vielen Jahren politisch aktiv - und er hat Tourette. Seine körperlichen Tics hielten ihn aber nicht davon ab, seinen Weg zu gehen. Bijan ist entschlossen, die Welt zu verbessern. Aber irgendwie scheint er in seiner Generation mit dieser Einstellung ein Sonderling zu sein: Seine Altersgenossen gehen selten zur Wahl und interessieren sich zu wenig für Politik. Woran liegt das?

With eye-opening research and inspiring interviews, The Revolution Generation is the first in-depth exploration of the world-changing activism and potential of people born between 1980 and 2000. Labeled Generation Y or Millennials, theirs is the first digitally fluent generation. From sex and dating, to parental relationships, to jobs and the economy, Millennials live within a dynamic interplay of technological advances and real world setbacks.

When Eric Wendel was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1966, the survival rate was less than 10 percent. Today, it is 90 percent. Even as politicians call for a "Cancer Moonshot", this accomplishment remains a pinnacle in cancer research. The author's daughter, then a medical student at Georgetown Medical School, told her father about this amazing success story. Tim Wendel soon discovered that many of the doctors at the forefront of this effort cared for his brother at Roswell Park in Buffalo, New York. Wendel went in search of this extraordinary group.

The Business of Sleep provides practical ways of mitigating against or reducing the impact of compromised sleep in organisational environments. Drawing on both seminal and cutting-edge research alongside interviews with notable CEOs and business influencers, The Business of Sleep explains to listeners, in an accessible and conversational way, what the research tells us about how sleep works and the impact that lack of sleep can have on your work and career.

Follow a crawling baby around and you’ll see that right from the beginning, nothing excites us more than something new and different. Our unique human brains are biologically primed to engage with and even generate novelty, from our ancestors’ first bow and arrow to the latest tablet computer. This “neophilia” has enabled us to thrive in a world of cataclysmic change, but now, we confront an unprecedented deluge of new things, from products to information, which has quadrupled in the past 30 years and shows no sign of slowing.

To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders are less and less respectable; in the realm of business, cheating, lying, and stealing are hazily defined; and in daily life, rapidly changing technology offers permission to act in ways inconceivable without it. Yet somehow this hasn't quite led to a complete free-for-all - people still draw lines around what is acceptable and what is not. Collinsworth sets out to understand how and why.

When journalist and author Alison Stewart was confronted with emptying her late parents' overloaded basement, a job that dragged on for months, it got her thinking: How did it come to this? Why do smart, successful people hold on to old Christmas bows, chipped knickknacks, and books they will likely never reread? Junk details Stewart's three-year investigation into America's stuff.

Do games hold the secret to better productivity? If you’ve ever found yourself engrossed in Angry Birds, Call of Duty, or a plain old crossword puzzle when you should have been doing something more productive, you know how easily games hold our attention. Hardcore gamers have spent the equivalent of 5.93 million years playing World of Warcraft while the world collectively devotes about 5 million hours per day to Angry Birds. A colossal waste of time? Perhaps. But what if and use it for more creative and valuable pursuits?

No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply - some would say totally - involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today’s young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled” and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era.

Sarah Forbes was in graduate school when she stumbled upon a museum dedicated to...sex. The anthropology student hesitated when her boyfriend suggested that she apply for a job, but apply she did, and it wasn't long before a part-time position at New York's Museum of Sex led to a gig as the museum's curator. That was over 12 years ago. Now Sarah - a married mother of two - proudly sports her title as Curator of Sex.

In The Leap, bestselling author Ulrich Boser shows how the emerging research on trust can improve our lives, rebuild our economy, and strengthen society. As part of this engaging and deeply reported narrative, Boser visits a radio soap opera in Rwanda that aims to restore the country’s broken trust, profiles the man who brought honesty to one of the most corrupt cities in Latin America, and explains how a college dropout managed to con his way into American high society.

In lively prose that is as engaging as it is illuminating, Dattner tells a host of true stories of those he has worked with - from the woman who was so scapegoated by her colleagues that she decided to quit, to the clueless boss who was too quick to blame his staff. He shares a wealth of insight from the study of human evolution and psychology to reveal the underlying reasons why people are so prone to blaming and credit-grabbing; it's not only human nature, it's found throughout the animal kingdom.