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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience. It also explores topics that listeners will relate to, but often misunderstand, such as "opposites attract", "people use only 10% of their brains", and "handwriting reveals your personality", and provides a "mythbusting kit" for evaluating folk psychology claims in everyday life.

In recent years, the advent of MRI technology seems to have unlocked the secrets of the human mind, revealing the sources of our deepest desires, intentions, and fears. As renowned psychiatrist and scholar Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld demonstrate in Brainwashed, however, the explanatory power of brain scans in particular and neuroscience more generally has been vastly overestimated.

Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A. O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott shows that while individual critics - himself included - can make mistakes and find flaws where they shouldn't, criticism as a discipline is one of the noblest, most creative and urgent activities of modern existence.

I don't want you to quit running! I don't want you to get injured! These 26 tips will save you time and help you avoid injury along your running career. As a beginner runner, I gathered these tips during my first marathon training. This book is concise and drills down into what to do and what not to do including actionable steps for each tip.

Black Lady Business is a podcast about black ladybusiness. As in getting, growing and keeping the bag. Starting a business. Entrepreneurship. Navigating the corporate world. We’ll talk about all of that with the most successful Black women at work right here every week. Host, Teneshia Carr is a serial entrepreneur. Founder of Blanc magazine and now the creative agency BabyRobot, Inc., photographer and creative director, contributor to Inc. Magazine, Black lady. Cohost, Scott Omelianuk is my partner at BabyRobot, also a founder, a professor of marketing and entrepreneurship and the former ...

My memoir begins with a massive heart attack that leaves me in a vegetative state with no possibility of recovery, according to my doctors. What the doctors didn't know about me was I neither counted anyone in nor counted anyone out—especially me.

Long Run Hacks dives into the reasons we feel mentally and physically unmotivated to complete our required training mileage. The action steps at the end of each chapter give you a summarized takeaway solution to motivate and help get you through your long runs. Make the most of your long-distance training efforts, and listen to the tips offered in this audio guide.

Welcome to the simple lyfe of one New Yorker. Journey through the 70s, 80s, 90 to today. Come with me and experience accomplishments, disappointments, honesty mixed with a lil reflection. Yeah, "this is gonna hurt me more than you!" Remember that...