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Moonwalking with Einstein

Autor: Joshua Foer

Número de Páginas: 302

'Be prepared to be amazed' Guardian Can anyone get a perfect memory? Joshua Foer used to be like most of us, forgetting phone numbers and mislaying keys. Then he learnt the art of memory training, and a year later found himself in the finals of the US Memory Championship. He also discovered a truth we often forget: that, even in an age of technology, memory is the key to everything we are. In Moonwalking with Einstein he takes us on an astonishing journey through the mind, from ancient 'memory palace' techniques to neuroscience, from the man who can recall nine thousand books to another who constantly forgets who he is. In doing so, Foer shows how we can all improve our memories. 'Captivating ... engaging ... smart and funny' The New York Times 'Delightful ... uplifting ... it shows that our minds can do extraordinary things' Wall Street Journal 'Great fun ... a book worth remembering' Independent 'A lovely exploration of the ways that we preserve our lives and our world in the golden amber of human memory' New Scientist

Moonwalking with Einstein

Autor: Instaread

Número de Páginas: 25

Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer | Summary & Analysis Preview: Moonwalking with Einstein recounts author Joshua Foer’s yearlong journey from participant-journalist covering the national memory championships to becoming the 2006 USA World Memory Champion. Other segments offer a journalistic history of the human relationship with memory, addressing its failings, its successes, and its limitations. Most people operate according to a series of misconceptions about human memory. Above all, many believe that they have an average brain and are therefore incapable of performing mental feats such as swiftly memorizing a deck of playing cards shuffled into random order. This belief, however, is false. Memory champions are no smarter than anyone else and have unremarkable brains from a biological standpoint. The difference is in how memory champions use their brain. They employ techniques and training to overcome shortcomings that are hard-wired into the human brain anatomy. Even those who appear to possess a photographic memory likely do not and are instead employing other memorization techniques… PLEASE NOTE: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original...

Moonwalking with Einstein

Autor: Joshua Foer

Número de Páginas: 341

The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory “Highly entertaining.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory.” —The Boston Globe An instant bestseller that has now become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.

Moonwalking with Einstein

Moonwalking with Einstein

Autor: Instaread Summaries

Número de Páginas: 28

Resumen - Caminando En La Luna Con Einstein

Autor: Sapiens Editorial

Número de Páginas: 58

RESUMEN: CAMINANDO EN LA LUNA CON EINSTEIN (MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN) – BASADO EN EL LIBRO DE JOSHUA FOER ¿Estás listo para potenciar tu conocimiento sobre “CAMINANDO EN LA LUNA CON EINSTEIN”? ¿Quieres aprender de manera rápida y concisa las lecciones clave de este libro? ¿Estás preparado para procesar la información de todo un libro en tan solo una lectura de aproximadamente 20 minutos? ¿Te gustaría tener una comprensión más profunda de las técnicas y ejercicios del libro original? ¡Entonces este libro es para ti! CONTENIDO DEL LIBRO: Introducción a la Memoria y el Camino a la Habilidad Los Primeros Pasos en el Campeonato de la Memoria El Mundo de los Mnemotecnia El Viaje a la Memoria de Savants El Arte de las Memorias Personales La Ciencia de la Memoria La Búsqueda de un Maestro de la Memoria Entrenando la Memoria: La Creación del Palacio Mental La Estrategia de la Imaginación El Desafío de los Números: La Técnica del Sistema Major La Memoria de las Cartas y los Nombres La Competencia de la Memoria: El Campeonato de los EE. UU. En la Ruta hacia el Campeonato Mundial de Memoria El Desafío Final: El Campeonato Mundial de Memoria Lecciones de Moonwalking ...

Summary of Moonwalking with Einstein

Autor: Instaread

Número de Páginas: 28

Summary of Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer | Includes Analysis Preview: Moonwalking with Einstein recounts author Joshua Foer's yearlong journey from participant-journalist covering the national memory championships to becoming the 2006 USA World Memory Champion. Other segments offer a journalistic history of the human relationship with memory, addressing its failings, its successes, and its limitations. Most people operate according to a series of misconceptions about human memory. Above all, many believe that they have an average brain and are therefore incapable of performing mental feats such as swiftly memorizing a deck of playing cards shuffled into random order. This belief, however, is false. Memory champions are no smarter than anyone else and have unremarkable brains from a biological standpoint. The difference is in how memory champions use their brain. They employ techniques and training to overcome shortcomings that are hard-wired into the human brain anatomy. Even those who appear to possess a photographic memory likely do not and are instead employing other memorization techniques... PLEASE NOTE: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the...

Summary of Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein

Autor: Milkyway Media

Número de Páginas: 26

Buy now to get the key takeaways from Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. Sample Key Takeaways: 1) Nowadays, we are relentlessly and endlessly bombarded with new information. There’s always much to remember, yet our brains capture so little of that information. Even the stuff that’s worth remembering often makes only a short-lived impression on us before disappearing forever. 2) Education has been tainted by the boring tradition of rote learning. Schools today cram huge amounts of information into students’ heads without teaching them how to retain it. Memorization has become a mindless way of retaining information just long enough to pass the next exam.

Summary Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein

Autor: Ant Hive Media

Número de Páginas: 30

This is a summary of Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein The Art and Science Of Remembering Everything Foer's unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect of our lives. On average, people squander forty days annually compensating for things they've forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people. But after a year of memory training, he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. Even more important, Foer found a vital truth we too often forget: In every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories. Moonwalking with Einstein draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of memory, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human remembering. Under the tutelage of top "mental athletes," he learns ancient techniques once employed by Cicero to memorize his speeches and by Medieval scholars to memorize entire books. Using methods that have been largely forgotten, Foer discovers that we can all dramatically improve our memories. Immersing himself obsessively in a quirky...

Moonwalk med Einstein

Autor: Joshua Foer

Número de Páginas: 320

Joshua Foer, en ung journalist, ska skildra de amerikanska minnesmästerskapen, och får till sin förvåning veta att han skulle kunna ställa upp i nästa års mästerskap om han bara tränar ordentligt - och att han faktiskt har en hyfsad vinstchans. Han, som själv brukar glömma det mesta, bestämmer sig för att gräva djupare för att förstå vad som ligger bakom minnesmästarnas enastående prestationer. I den internationella bästsäljaren Moonwalk med Einstein får vi följa hur Foer under ett år tränar upp sin minnesförmåga och samtidigt försöker förstå vetenskapen om minnet och vår inlärningsförmåga, hur minnet fungerar, dess naturliga begränsningar och gömda potential. De tekniker han får lära sig är sannerligen inte nya. De härstammar från antikens Grekland och har spelat en stor roll i den mänskliga historien ända fram till vår tid. Med en minnesmästares egna ord: "... minnesträning handlar inte bara om att kunna visa upp ett kul partytrick utan om att slå vakt om något djupt och ursprungligt mänskligt." Och hur gick det för Joshua Foer i tävlingen? I Moonwalk med Einstein får du svaret.

Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein

Autor: Ant Hive Media

Número de Páginas: 30

This is a summary of Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein The Art and Science Of Remembering Everything Foer's unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect of our lives. On average, people squander forty days annually compensating for things they've forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people. But after a year of memory training, he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. Even more important, Foer found a vital truth we too often forget: In every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories. Moonwalking with Einstein draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of memory, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human remembering. Under the tutelage of top "mental athletes," he learns ancient techniques once employed by Cicero to memorize his speeches and by Medieval scholars to memorize entire books. Using methods that have been largely forgotten, Foer discovers that we can all dramatically improve our memories. Immersing himself obsessively in a quirky...

Watch

Autor: Rick James

Número de Páginas: 265

To be asleep is to be oblivious to being oblivious. The danger of sleep is the danger of carbon monoxide: it’s colorless and odorless, and you’re anesthetized before you know it—before you ever hit the floor. And for the follower of Jesus, it’s just as dangerous—because the Christian who is “asleep” is spiritually unreceptive. If anything will be our undoing, sleep will. In this thoughtful, engaging, challenging book, Rick James dives deep into the New Testament’s teachings on spiritual wakefulness, calling Christ-followers to defy the darkness and remain awake as they await Christ’s return. Because being awake—continually in prayer, watchful for God’s will, expectant of open doors, cautious of sin, desiring to serve, eager to repent, continuously giving thanks, willing to witness, embracing of humility, overflowing with kindness, persevering in obedience—changes everything.

Moonwalking with Einstein

Autor: Norman Gjorn

Número de Páginas: 42

When we meet Joshua Foer, his memory is "nothing special." A year later, he is able to memorize the order of a shuffled deck of cards in less than two minutes and the names of 99 people he's just met. He has also etched in his brain images of his friend urinating on Pope Benedict's skullcap, of Rhea Perlman involved in indelicate acts with Manute Bol, and of other things most of us would try hard to forget. Let it never be claimed that there is no cost to self-improvement.

Business Strategy

Autor: J.-c. Spender

Número de Páginas: 339

Emphasising that firms face uncertainties and unknowns, this book argues that the core of strategic thinking and processes rests on the organization and its leaders developing newly imagined solutions to the opportunities that these uncertainties open up. It presents new approaches for managers, consultants, strategy teachers and students.

Do Not Cast Me Away

Autor: Paul Rader

Número de Páginas: 101

The quick facts are these: Alzheimer's Disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and is the only cause of death in the top ten in America that cannot be prevented, slowed, or cured. In 2015, dementias cost our nation an estimated $226 billion. By 2050, these costs could rise to as high as $1.1 trillion. Dementias not only affect individuals and their families, they plague us in other kinds of ways, as well. What happens when the owner of the most important company in town begins to be affected? Or a surgeon at the hospital? Or the pastor of your church? No place that involves people is immune. If dementia has not come to your pulpit, it will. It most assuredly has arrived already in your congregation. The aim of this book is to demystify dementia in order to encourage families and congregations to respond to it in meaningful, helpful, and faithful ways. This is a conversation we all need to enter. Like it or not, dealing with dementia is now part of the stewardship of our lives together.

Fifty-four Pick Up

Autor: Shmuel Herzfeld

Número de Páginas: 323

There is no issue too controversial for Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld as he seamlessly connects ideas and themes of the Torah to the major issues of our times. What does the Torah say about homosexuality? What is the agunah crisis, and what can we do about it? How do we effectively combat intermarriage? Is our justice system truly just? In this collection of thoughts about the fifty-four weekly Torah portions, Rabbi Herzfeld shows us how the Torah can guide us and inspire us in our daily lives. Why is giving away your pillow the best way to get a good night s sleep? Should the Internet be used for bar mitzvah lessons? How can you be a good parent? What would you do if you had only five minutes to live? Rabbi Herzfeld is confident and proud of his Jewishness. His enthusiasm and unabashed love for the Torah is contagious, and his Jewish pride shouts out from every page. Warning: If you read this book you will be infected by Rabbi Herzfeld's love of Torah!

Why We Forget and How to Remember Better

Autor: Andrew E. Budson , Elizabeth A. Kensinger

Número de Páginas: 449

"One of us (Elizabeth) had the opportunity to conduct research with a gentleman named Henry Molaison (better known by his initials, H.M.1), who had the interior portion of his left and right temporal lobes (the part of your brain next to your temples) removed in 1953 because of epileptic seizures that were difficult to control. From a technical standpoint, the surgical procedures went fine. But, as he recovered, the doctors and researchers soon noticed something very troubling: he was unable to form any new memories. He could read, and talk, and if you were having a brief conversation with him, you would probably not notice anything amiss. But family members would visit and, although he knew who they were, he would have no memory of them coming. New doctors would introduce themselves and the next day (or even the next hour) he did not recall that he had met them. It was then that the doctors understood that, somehow, the removal of those parts of the temporal lobe caused him to become completely amnestic"--

Seeing Cities Change

Autor: Jerome Krase

Número de Páginas: 302

Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them. In contemporary urban areas, all sorts of diversity are simultaneously increased and concentrated, chief amongst them in recent years being the ethnic and racial transformation produced by migration and the gentrification of once socially marginal areas of the city. Seeing Cities Change demonstrates the utility of a visual approach and the study of ordinary streetscapes to document and analyze how the built environment reflects the changing cultural and class identities of neighborhood residents. Discussing the manner in which these changes relate to issues of local and national identities and multiculturalism, it presents studies of various cities on both sides of the Atlantic to show how global forces and the competition between urban residents in 'contested terrains' is changing the faces of cities around the globe. Blending together a variety of sources from scholarly and mass media, this engaging volume focuses on the importance of 'seeing' and, in its consideration of questions of migration, ethnicity, diversity, community,...

Super-Charged Learning

Autor: Richard J. Giordano

Número de Páginas: 213

Anyone wishing to improve his/her learning will benefit from Super-Charged Learning, but it is especially intended for parents of K-12 children. What parents know about their children is what should make them critical players for their children. Knowing how to apply life-experiences to learning is what Super-Charged Learning is about. Parents know their children’s experiences and can show them how to use these experiences to learn. Super-Charged Learning uses the skill-sets that elite athletes use to be champions. Now parents can show their children how to use these to be champions . . . in their academics. Athletes want to be bigger-faster-stronger. Make your child that kind of learner: learn bigger quantities of information, learn faster, hold onto what’s learned longer.

Improve Your Memory Today!

Autor: Vernon Macdonald

Número de Páginas: 45

Discover how to train your mind to easily learn and recall critical information on command, just like the ancient Greeks From the student studying for a test to a business professional, a powerful memory can be your ticket to success Imagine that you are a student studying for an exam. Do you think having the ability to effortlessly memorize dates and names would be an advantage? Or maybe you’re a professional giving a speech. How much more impressive would it be to your audience if you gave it without notes? No matter who you are or what you need to remember (grocery lists? People’s names?) a robust memory is a huge advantage, a game changer even. Who wouldn’t want a powerful memory? However, if you’re like most people your memory today is likely anything but. You likely forget the names of people you were introduced to 2 minutes before. Remember a single phone number? Forget about it (literally). Why is it that despite the advantages that a photographic memory would bestow so few of us possess it? Why are our modern memory abilities so flabby? It wasn’t always this way. In ancient Greece the idea of a trained and disciplined memory was not the foreign idea it is today. ...

Greek for Life

Autor: Benjamin L. Merkle , Robert L. Plummer

Número de Páginas: 125

Learning Greek is one thing. Retaining it and using it in preaching, teaching, and ministry is another. In this volume, two master teachers with nearly forty years of combined teaching experience inspire readers to learn, retain, and use Greek for ministry, setting them on a lifelong journey of reading and loving the Greek New Testament. Designed to accompany a beginning or intermediate Greek grammar, this book offers practical guidance, inspiration, and motivation; presents methods not usually covered in other textbooks; and surveys helpful resources for recovering Greek after a long period of disuse. It also includes devotional thoughts from the Greek New Testament. The book will benefit anyone who is taking (or has taken) a year of New Testament Greek.

The 12-Hour Author

Autor: Noah Charney

Número de Páginas: 203

Are you interested in getting published and earning money as a writer? Whether your focus is books or articles, there are all manner of tricks of the trade that most writers have to learn the hard way, on their own, through trial and error—if they learn them at all. From how to write a book proposal to pitching to editors, from great openings to how to get paid and read contracts, the logistics of how to be a writer are rarely taught, even in creative writing programs and in how-to-write books. The 12-Hour Author lifts the veil and invites the reader in on the secrets of successful writers, both from the angle of how to write well, but also—and almost uniquely among books on the subject—the practical elements of how to work as a writer. The author is a Pulitzer nominee who has published more than twenty books, including international best-sellers, and hundreds of articles for major publications, including The Guardian and The Washington Post. Divided into 12 chapters, if you’re willing to commit as little as 12 hours to learning this craft, you’ll have all the tools you’ll need.

The Woman who Changed Her Brain

Autor: Barbara Arrowsmith-young

Número de Páginas: 292

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her as slow, stubborn - or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backwards, was physically uncoordinated and she continually got lost. But by relying on her formidable memory and iron will, she made her way to graduate school, where she chanced upon research that inspired her to invent cognitive exercises to 'fix' her own brain, which we now now as neuroplasticity. The Woman Who Changed Her Brain interweaves Barbara's personal story with riveting case histories from over thirty years of working with both children and adults at what became the Arrowsmith School in Toronto. This remarkable book by a brilliant pioneer deepens our understanding of how the brain works. Our brains may shape us, but this book offers clear and hopeful evidence of the corollary: that we can shape our brains. Foreword by Norman Doidge, M. D., author of The Brain that Changes Itself

Preaching by Heart

Autor: Ryan P. Tinetti

Número de Páginas: 127

There’s a seemingly innocuous villain that is taking up residence in the pulpits of countless churches, disrupting the connection between the pastor and the people and keeping the proclamation of God’s word from having its full effect. That villain is the preacher’s notes. Preachers know this all too well. Many wish that they could “preach by heart” without the aid of notes, but are unsure how to do so—and are left feeling frustrated and discouraged by the presence of that disruptive interloper. Author Ryan Tinetti shares an unexpected solution in the form of an ancient and time-tested practice known as the method of loci, or Memory Palace. Surveying portions of classical rhetoric that are especially relevant for contemporary preachers and diving deep into the theory and practice of the Memory Palace, Preaching by Heart plunders these ancient treasures that have been so formative for preachers through the ages but too oft neglected in our own time. When pastors preach by heart, they find greater satisfaction in the homiletic task and their proclamation is even more effective. Preaching by Heart shows how to pitch the notes and reach that goal.

Meeting Design

Autor: Kevin M. Hoffman

Número de Páginas: 241

Meetings don’t have to be painfully inefficient snoozefests—if you design them. Meeting Design will teach you the design principles and innovative approaches you’ll need to transform meetings from boring to creative, from wasteful to productive. Meetings can and should be indispensable to your organization; Kevin Hoffman will show you how to design them for success.

Songs to the Wise 1

Autor: Michel-pierre Huppé

Número de Páginas: 1117

Songs to the Wise 1 takes on a simple yet sizeable challenge: to impart profound knowledge, practical skills, and universal truths in an immediately useful way, and in as few words as possible. Combining the power and play of rhyme with the authors extensive reading history and rich life experience, its packed with wise words, pithy messages and tangible takeaways to improve every aspect of ones life. Whether read at length or browsed at leisure, it will provide timely answers in challenging times, clear guidance where maps have become scarce, and balanced perspective as we journey through this world.

Mastering CryENGINE

Autor: Sascha Gundlach , Michelle K. Martin

Número de Páginas: 407

A comprehensive guide that covers advanced tasks performed with the CryENGINE system using interesting examples and illustrations demonstrating each of its features. This book is designed for developers who already have a basic understanding of CryENGINE and who want to take their skills to the next level. Whether you are a hobbyist developer or you are working on an AAA project, Mastering CryENGINE will help you enhance your CryENGINE proficiency.

Hearing Kyriotic Sonship

Autor: Michael R. Whitenton

Número de Páginas: 407

In Hearing Kyriotic Sonship Michael Whitenton explores first-century audience impressions of Mark’s Jesus in light of ancient rhetoric and modern cognitive science. Commonly understood as neither divine nor Davidic, Mark’s Jesus appears here as the functional equivalent to both Israel’s god and her Davidic king. The dynamics of ancient performance and the implicit rhetoric of the narrative combine to subtly alter listeners’ perspectives of Jesus. Previous approaches have routinely viewed Mark’s Jesus as neither divine nor Davidic largely on the basis of a lack of explicit affirmations. Drawing our attention to the mechanics of inference generation and narrative persuasion, Whitenton shows us that ancient listeners probably inferred much about Mark’s Jesus that is not made explicit in the narrative.

What Do Dreams Do?

Autor: Sue Llewellyn

Número de Páginas: 381

We have puzzled over dreams for centuries. From ancient societies, believing dreams to be messages from the gods, Freud's theory of dreams revealing our unconscious minds to modern day experiments in psychology and neuroscience, dreams continue to fascinate but also be a source of mystery. Are dreams just mental froth or do they have a purpose? This book argues that, originally, we dreamed to survive. Dreaming brains identify non-obvious associations, taking people, places, and events out of their waking-life context to uncover complex and, seemingly, unrelated connections. In our evolutionary past, survival depended on being able to detect these divergent, associative patterns to anticipate what predators and other humans might do, as we moved around to secure food and water and meet potential mates. Making associations drives many, if not all, brain functions. In the present day, dream associations may support memory, emotional stability, creativity, unconscious decision-making and prediction, while also contributing to mental illness. Written in a lively and accessible style, and showing the reader how to identify patterns in their own dreams, this book presents a highly...

Hebrew for Life

Autor: Adam J. Howell , Benjamin L. Merkle , Robert L. Plummer

Número de Páginas: 186

Three experienced biblical language professors inspire readers to learn, retain, and use Hebrew for ministry, setting them on a lifelong journey of reading and loving the Hebrew Bible. This companion volume to the successful Greek for Life offers practical guidance, inspiration, and motivation; incorporates research-tested strategies for learning; presents methods not usually covered in other textbooks; and surveys helpful resources for recovering Hebrew after a long period of disuse. It will benefit anyone who is taking (or has taken) a year of Hebrew. Foreword by Miles van Pelt.

Ditch the Pitch

Autor: Steve Yastrow

Número de Páginas: 206

"Founder of business strategy consulting firm argues that customers are more persuaded by improvised conversations than scripted sales pitches. Presents techniques and practices for six habits people can learn to enable spontaneous conversations that persuade customers to say 'yes'"--

The Art of Public Writing

Autor: Zachary Michael Jack

Número de Páginas: 295

Today’s professionals recognize the need to elevate written communication beyond argument-driven pedantry, political polemic, and obtuse pontification. Whether the goal is to write the next serious work of best-selling nonfiction, to develop a platform as a public scholar, or simply to craft clear and concise workplace communication, The Art of Public Writing demystifies the process, showing why it’s not just nice, but necessary, to connect with those inside and outside one’s area of expertise. Drawing on a diverse set of examples ranging from Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species to Steven Levitt’s Freakonomics, Zachary Michael Jack offers invaluable advice for researchers, scholars, and working professionals determined to help interpret field-specific debates for wider audiences, address complex issues in the public sphere, and successfully engage audiences beyond the Corner Office and the Ivory Tower.

Digital Vertigo

Autor: Andrew Keen

Número de Páginas: 225

"Digital Vertigo provides an articulate, measured, contrarian voice against a sea of hype about social media. As an avowed technology optimist, I'm grateful for Keen who makes me stop and think before committing myself fully to the social revolution." —Larry Downes, author of The Killer App In Digital Vertigo, Andrew Keen presents today's social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-paced historical narrative with front-line stories from today's online networking revolution and critiques of "social" companies like Groupon, Zynga and LinkedIn, Keen argues that the social media transformation is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a new egalitarian and communal age. The tragic paradox of life in the social media age, Keen says, is the incompatibility between our internet longings for community and friendship and our equally powerful desire for online individual freedom. By exposing the shallow core of social networks, Andrew Keen shows us that the more electronically connected we become, the lonelier and less powerful we seem to be.

Jésus avant les évangiles

Autor: Bart D. Ehrman

Número de Páginas: 323

Mais comment a-t-on transmis le souvenir de Jésus ? Qui étaient les premiers témoins oculaires ? Quelles chaînes de transmission ont permis aux rédacteurs des évangiles d'écrire leurs textes, près d'un siècle après la mort de Jésus ? Le travail de B. Ehrman met l'accent sur la critique textuelle du Nouveau Testament, le Jésus historique et l'évolution du christianisme primitif. Avec ce dernier livre, best-seller aux Etats-Unis en 2016, l'auteur propose audacieusement de s'interroger le rôle et le fonctionnement de la mémoire, à la fois individuelle et collective, pour comprendre la construction, voire l'invention, de la figure de Jésus comme sauveur. Il s'appuie pour cela sur les meilleures études scientifiques contemporaines sur la mémoire et sur une profonde connaissance des textes antiques, chrétiens et apocryphes. Ce livre est écrit comme une enquête policière : quelles traces avons-nous du personnage Jésus ? Quelles preuves historiques ? Comment évaluer les témoignages dont nous disposons ? Un livre captivant.

Atletismo mental

Autor: Andrés Rieznik

Número de Páginas: 124

Primer manual de Atletismo Mental en lengua castellana. Brinda las técnicas de esta poderosa disciplina y explica las claves del funcionamiento del cerebro mientras las ejercitamos. Un libro para ampliar los límites de nuestras facultades cognitivas, lograr una memoria prodigiosa y mantener nuestro cerebro en forma. ¿Les resulta difícil memorizar la lista del supermercado o la fecha de cumpleaños de sus amigos? El Atletismo Mental es una novedosa disciplina que enseña a mejorar nuestra memoria y nuestra capacidad de cálculo a través de una creativa fusión de técnicas milenarias y recientes descubrimientos neurocientíficos. Este libro parte de los increíbles estándares de algunos atletas mundiales y se pregunta si se trata de genios, de individuos con habilidades extraordinarias, o si en realidad cualquiera de nosotros podría superarlos. Y la respuesta es alentadora: si bien existen diferencias genéticas entre las personas, ser un Einstein o un Mozart es posible con una adecuada guía de entrenamiento. Andrés Rieznik detalla las técnicas fundamentales del Atletismo Mental valiéndose de ejemplos y ejercicios llenos de humor, y hasta de algunos de los secretos mejor ...

EBOOK: Cognitive Psychology 2e

Autor: Kenneth Gilhooly , Fiona Lyddy , Frank Pollick , Sandra Buratti

Número de Páginas: 695

EBOOK: Cognitive Psychology 2e

Thinking about Thinking

Autor: Philip E. Mcdowell

Número de Páginas: 411

This book examines cognition with a broad and comprehensive approach. Drawing upon the work of many researchers, McDowell applies current scientific thinking to enhance the understanding of psychotherapy and other contemporary topics, including economics and healthcare. Through the use of practical examples, his analysis is accessible to a wide range of readers. In particular, clinicians, physicians, and mental health professionals will learn more about the thought processes through which they and their patients assess information.

A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking

Autor: James M. Russell

Número de Páginas: 210

Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a quick sense of what each book is like to read and a highly compressed summary of the main points of the book in question. The titles covered include thought-provoking classics on psychology, mindfulness, rationality, the brain, mathematical and economic thought and practical philosophy. The selection includes books about self-improvement as well as historically interesting accounts of how the mind works. Titles included go back as far as the Epictetus classic The Enchiridion and Bertrand Russell's charming The ABC of Relativity, and proceed through classics such as Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking and into the digital era with titles such as The Shallows and Big Data. The books are arranged chronologically, which draws attention to some of the interesting juxtapositions and connections between them. Some of the titles included are: Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt; Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell; Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari; The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the ...

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Autor: Esther Safran Foer

Número de Páginas: 230

Esther Safran Foer creció en una familia con un pasado demasiado terrible como para hablar sobre él. El Holocausto fue el trasfondo en el que discurrió su vida cotidiana —estaba ahí, pero nadie lo mencionaba—, porque sus padres fueron los únicos supervivientes de sus respectivas familias. La infancia de Esther estuvo marcada por silencios dolorosos y un aire trágico. Incluso con una carrera exitosa, su matrimonio y sus tres hijos, Esther siempre sintió que algo se le escapaba. Todo cambió el día que la madre de Esther reveló un secreto enterrado años atrás: su padre había tenido una esposa y una hija que fueron asesinadas en el Holocausto. Esther decide entonces averiguar quiénes fueron aquellas mujeres y cómo sobrevivió su padre. Con solo una foto en blanco y negro y un mapa dibujado a mano, la autora viaja a Ucrania, decidida a encontrar el shtetl donde se escondió su padre durante la guerra. Lo que encuentra allí le dará una nueva forma a su identidad y la oportunidad de hacer el duelo finalmente. Todavía seguimos aquí es la conmovedora historia de cuatro generaciones que vivieron a la sombra del Holocausto; cuatro generaciones de supervivientes, de...

Remember

Autor: Lisa Genova

Número de Páginas: 274

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do to protect our memories, from the Harvard-trained neuroscientist and bestselling author of Still Alice. “Using her expertise as a neuroscientist and her gifts as a storyteller, Lisa Genova explains the nuances of human memory”—Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, author of How the Mind Works Have you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can't for the life of you remember the name of that actor in the movie you saw last week, or you walk into a room only to forget why you went there in the first place? If you're over forty, you're probably not laughing. You might even be worried that these lapses in memory could be an early sign of Alzheimer's or dementia. In reality, for the vast majority of us, these examples of forgetting are completely normal. Why? Because while memory is amazing, it is far from perfect. Our brains aren't designed to remember every name we hear, plan we make, or day we experience. Just because your memory sometimes fails doesn't mean it's broken or succumbing to disease. Forgetting is...