Tsipursky, Gleb
Summary: "Want to avoid business disasters, whether minor mishaps such as excessive team conflict or major calamities that threaten bankruptcy or doom a promising career? Fortunately, behavioral economics studies show that such disasters are preventable. They stem from poor decisions due to our faulty mental patterns-what scholars call cognitive biases. Unfortunately, the typical advice for business...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Career Press 2019
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Summary: Explores nature-versus-environmental factors that influence how people make decisions, offering advice for adapting one's decision-making style in order to improve everyday circumstances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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Contents: Prologue: righteous voices -- What's wrong? -- Justice for all -- Grammars of violence -- The moral organ -- Permissible instincts -- Roots of right -- First principles -- Epilogue: the right impulse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2006
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Summary: Focus, organization, stress management, and more--these qualities are gained and improved by strengthening executive functioning and core skills. Thriving with Adult ADHD offers a toolbox of practical, evidence-based exercises to build this mental skill set and take control of ADHD. From managing common distractions at work to regulating emotions with family and friends, these proven-effective...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Althea Press 2018
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Contents: Conversing with the devil -- Gaining a sadistic thrill -- Silencing the lambs -- Looking more innocent than an innocent man -- Killing without a care -- Hating enough to kill -- Hiding domestic violence? -- Fighting the culture of silence -- Killing for company -- Planning and plotting to kill -- Motivating mindless murder -- Teaming up to kill -- Threatening to kill -- Victimizing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2008
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Summary: Looks at the role of electricity in the human body, covering the colorful history of how scientists discovered this role, the current state of knowledge of electrophysiology, and how new discoveries are driving advances in medicine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.014 ASHZuchora-Walske, Christine.
Summary: Explains about solar energy and what it can do for us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co. 2013