Explains why too much choice has led to the ever increasing complexity of everyday decisions, why too much of a good thing has become detrimental to human well-being, and how to focus on making the right choices.

Product Description: Break free of codependency and embrace your true self!Are you codependent? Do you make other people's problems your own? Do you find it hard to set boundaries and take care of your own needs? In this reassuring guide, Dr. Jennifer Sowle helps you learn how to identify your own destructive behavior, regain self-esteem, and set healthy boundaries in all types of relationships...read more

Product Description: A menudo pensamos que nuestra vida se encuentra a merced de todo tipo de circunstancias y de fuerzas externas que nos hacen navegar a su capricho. Este libro demuestra que, por el contrario, todos tenemos el poder de dar forma a nuestra propia existencia, y que solo de nosotros depende conseguir mas plenitud y mas exito...read more

Americans are fixated on the idea of choice. Our political theory is based on the consent of the governed. Our legal system is built upon the argument that people freely make choices and bear responsibility for them. And what slogan could better express the heart of our consumer culture than "Have it your way"?In this provocative book, Kent Greenfield poses unsettling questions about the choices we make. What if they are more constrained and limited than we like to think? If we have less free will than we realize, what are the implications for us as individuals and for our society? To uncover the answers, Greenfield taps into scholarship on topics ranging from brain science to economics, political theory to sociology. His discoveries—told through an entertaining array of news events, personal anecdotes, crime stories, and legal decisions—confirm that many factors, conscious and unconscious, limit our free will. Worse, by failing to perceive them we leave ourselves open to manipulation. But Greenfield offers useful suggestions to help us become better decision makers as individuals, and to ensure that in our laws and public policy we acknowledge the complexity of choice.

Product Description: Este libro es una fascinante exposición de las abundantes investigaciones que se han realizado para descubrir modos de controlar tus pensamientos y deseos cotidianos. Esta información te va a conmocionar y horrorizar. Pellizcar tu psique se ha convertido en un gran negocio...read more

Product Description: En El secreto de la sombra, Debbie Ford nos muestra como redescubrir nuestra verdadera esencia, oculta en las sombras de las dramaticas historias de nuestra propia vida. La autora condensa aqui sus conocimientos y experiencias, adquiridas tras numerosos anos como asesora personal, consejera y profesora, y les da forma de una manera clara que te ayudara a descubrir y afirmar el plan unico para tu vida...read more

Uneasy with how chance determines a huge part of our lives, we try to control what cannot be controlled and predict what cannot be predicted. It's a self-delusion that can have serious consequences for our personal finances, careers, happiness, and health. Dance With Chance explains how we all fall foul of this "Illusion of Control". Fortunately, when we understand how luck operates, we can lessen its ill effects. Minor lifestyle adjustments can have huge positive results. From simple investment strategies to warning against health screenings, the authors offer the revolutionary advice needed to make luck work for you. You'll find out why millions of deaths are caused each year by medical negligence and why a billionaire is no happier than an Eskimo. You'll discover why no-one predicted the worst financial crisis since the great depression and what makes a sports star. Witty, inventive, and informed by the latest findings in psychology and statistics, Dance with Chance is an essential guide to navigating the uncertain world in which we live.

Product Description: A gripping tale of how even experts misread the role of chance - from the stock market to doctors' surgeries - Dance With Chance argues that we all fall foul of the The Illusion of Control, meaning that we underestimate the role of luck in our lives...read more

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Product Description: Rational Choice Theory and Religion considers one of the major developments in the social scientific paradigms that promises to foster a greater theoretical unity among the disciplines of sociology, political science, economics and psychology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Mysteries of Attention explores the principles of selection through which the nature of human attention is established and delineates the modes, forms, measures, and motifs of attention. It is a literary/philosophical discussion of the ways in which our sense of the world is determined by the mechanisms of attention that always remain beyond our comprehension...read more