Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him. It's such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother's best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced. Any relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to count, and Maya should just get over him. After all, he has made it clear that he wants her gone from his life. But not ... |
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Have you ever experienced a coincidence that felt too unlikely to be true? Or have you seen or heard something that seemed to be a message from a lost loved one? It's all too easy to dismiss synchronicities or signs like these as chance. But what if they weren't? And what if, by learning to tune into them, you could access a guiding wisdom that would help you overcome challenges and live with purpose? In this groundbreaking book, world-renowned neuroscientist Dr Tara Swart draws on her experience of grieving her beloved husband to explain how. Bringing together breathtaking real-life stories with teachings from ... |
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Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships-at least, that's what she tells herself. Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It's how he wins gold medals and breaks records: complete focus, with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips ... |
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Making right desicions when you don't have all the facts. ... Even the best decision doesn't yield the best outcome every time. There's always an element of luck that you can't control, and there's always information hidden from view. So the key to long-term success (and avoiding worrying yourself to death) is to think in bets: How sure am I? What are the possible ways things could turn out? What decision has the highest odds of success? Did I land in the unlucky 10% on the strategy that works 90% of the time? Or is my success attributable to dumb luck rather than great decision making? Annie Duke, a ... |
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In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation - each of these can be understood only by ... |
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The deeper she dives, the darker it gets. ... When Aster wakes alone on a tropical island, she has no idea what has happened, why she is there, or where to find her younger sister, Poppy. Meanwhile Sam, who once met the sisters on a plane, makes links between the mystery of their disappearance and suspicious happenings in his own life. In a stunning dual narrative, the truth unravels with devastating effect - and the answer lies in the secret underwater world surrounding the desert island, populated by the beautiful and the impossible. ... |
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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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Part Wonder Woman, part Vikings - and all heart. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, god-decreed rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: train to fight and fight to survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield - her brother, fighting with the enemy - the brother she watched die five years ago. Eelyn loses her focus and is captured. Now, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbour is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. But when the Riki village is ... |
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Пригответе се за изумително пътешествие из дебрите на ума, което ще ни обясни двете системи, които ръководят мисленето. Система 1 е бърза, интуитивна и емоционална. Система 2 е бавна, съзнателна и логична. Книгата разкрива изключителните характеристики - и положителните, и отрицателните - на мисловния процес и показва колко силно влияят нашите интуитивни впечатления на мозъка и поведението ни. Читателят се увлича в интересен диалог, разкриващ кога и как да вярваме на своята интуиция. Предлагат ни се практически и просветляващи прозрения за начина, по който правим избор и за различните техники срещу дефектите в мисленето, ... |
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Детската книжка Изгубената мисъл ни разказва за момиченцето София, което попада в приказен свят в търсене на своята изгубена мисъл."Зад един пъстроцветен храст, за който беше сигурна, че е много вкусен, видя една не много малка гъсеница с големи очи, която пъшкаше. – Добре ли си, мъниче? - попита момиченцето по-скоро себе си. – Добре ли ти изглеждам?! - отговори гъсеницата. – Ти можеш да говориш?! - подскочи от учудване тя. – Защо, ти не можеш ли? – Аз мога, но за първи път виждам говореща гъсеница. – Аз не съм гъсеница! Аз съм Робърт! - сърдито отвърна чудатото същество с големите очи, приличащо на гъсеница. – ... |
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Издателство „ Славена" поднася на своите читатели поредната книга на доайен-професора на НАТФИЗ „Кръстьо Сарафов" Иван Джаджев, посветена на естетическата мисъл през смятаната за най-неестетическа епоха - епохата на Европейското средновековие. Досега в поредицата от същия автор са излезли книгите: „Естетика на Класицизма" (2002) „ Естетика на Просвещението" (2007) „ Античната естетическа мисъл" (2009) Настоящото издание е адресирано към учени, преподаватели, творци и изследователи в областта на изкуството, студенти и към всички, интересуващи се от науката за красотата и изкуството и от нейната ... |
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"Античната естетическа мисъл" е четвъртата поред книга на Иван Джаджев, която издателство "Славена" поднася на своите читатели. Посветена на най-ранния етап в развитието на европейската мисловна рефлексия за красотата и изкуството, тя е адресирана към широк кръг читатели - учени, творци в областта на изкуството, учители, студенти и всички, които проявяват интерес към тази проблематика. ... |
