A world-class thinker counts the ways-100 in all-in which humans behave irrationally, showing us what we can do to recognize and minimize these thinking errors for better decisions and a better life Despite the best of intentions, humans are notoriously bad-that is, irrational-when it comes to making decisions and assessing risks and tradeoffs. Psychologists and neuroscientists refer to these distinctly human foibles, biases, and thinking traps as cognitive errors. Cognitive errors are systematic deviances from rationality, from optimized, logical, rational thinking and behavior. We make these errors all the time, in all ... |
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Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of changing his fortunes through an act of extreme violence: the killing of an elderly pawnbroker. His mind baulks at the horror of his plan, but when he hears that his sister Dunya is about to agree to a loveless marriage in order to escape the advances of her employer, his disgust for the world becomes unbounded, and his feelings of rebellion and revenge push him closer and ... |
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Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far. Drawing from the ideas and examples of Pericles, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr, ... |
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Are you axious, avoidant or secure? How the science of adult attachment can help you find - and keep - love. Is there a science to love? In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment theory - the most advanced relationship science in existence today - can help us find and sustain love. Pioneered by psychologist John Bowlby in the 1950s, the field of attachment explains that each of us behaves in relationships in one of three distinct ways: Anxious people are often preoccupied with their relationships and tend to ... |
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Today more than ever, love is the answer. Here is the classic instruction manual. Now reissued with a beautiful new cover, here is Erich Fromm's ground-breaking international bestseller that has shown millions of readers how to achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for love. Most of us are unable to develop our capacities for love on the only level that really counts-a love that is compounded of maturity, self-knowledge, and courage. Learning to love, like other arts, demands practice and concentration. Even more than any other art it demands genuine insight and understanding. In this ... |
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In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia and the account of his three-month sojourn on Sakhalin Island, together with his notes and extracts from his letters to relatives and associates. Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov’s motivations and objectives for visiting ... |
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Над 40 000 думи и изрази. Различията между британския и американския правопис и употреба. Таблица на неправилните глаголи в английския език. ... |
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The English-Bulgarian Phrase-book contains all the words and phrases, that the English speaking tourists for communication. It can be used in most situations. It is best edition in Bulgaria. handy, cheap and up-to-date easy to use complete and precise it guides how to conduct a simple conversation it brings luck it contains brief information about Bulgaria an edition of 200 pages and 25 photos of Bulgarian sights ... |
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Как се чете с български букви? Формат: 11.7 x 16.4 cm. ... Английско-българският речник в това издание съдържа 3000 най-използвани английски думи. Те представляват 98% от ежедневната образована реч в нейния най-пълен обем. Ако сега започвате да изучавате езика или вече го знаете в някаква степен, прегледайте текста и отбележете думите, които не знаете. Може да ги научите направо от речника, като използвате една от двете транскрипции - с международни знаци или с български букви. Транскрипцията отразява британските норми, а в някои случаи, когато произношението се отличава значително, е посочен и американският вариант. ... |
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Оцветяване, рисуване, любопитни факти. Двуезично издание на български и английски език. ... В тази книга представяме някои от най-живописните български крепости. Строени през различни епохи, те показват величието на България. Всяка илюстрация е съпътствана от кратък текст на български и английски език, а пътешествието ни започва с карта, на която е нанесено местоположението на забележителностите. Подготвили сме и времева скала – ориентир за периода им на построяване. Предлагаме на детето Ви да опознае красотата и историята на България, докато оцветява крепостите в книгата. Чрез въображението си то може да възроди ... |
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An English-language edition of History of Bulgarian Diplomatic Relations. Published in 2005, the book traces back and documents the historical development of Bulgaria's diplomatic relations and the institutions engaged in its foreign policy. The English edition was published by the Bulgarian Bestseller publishing house. History of Bulgarian Diplomatic Relations is authored by Maria Mateeva, and Peter Konstantinov has edited and updated it. ... |
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