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Do you ever feel that visiting social media is an increasingly negative experience? Social media taps into some of our most profound human weaknesses and makes it almost impossible to live without the temptation of comparing yourself to others, seeking their approval, or arguing with each other. Screen with Envy: How Social Media Culture Is Weakening Our Sense of Belonging and Making Us Lonelier discusses the antisocial ways we're behaving towards each other online and why we need to do better at rediscovering close connections offline instead.

Have you ever found yourself mindlessly scrolling your timeline? Have you ever wondered why we spend so much time glued to our phones and the many social media apps that take up our time? Have you ever wondered about the dangers of social media and the importance of understanding what’s coming across our screens? Mirage focuses on positively impacting your mental health, while analyzing the culture of social media, the daily experiences we have on social media, and breaking down how those experiences impact the way we think, feel, and behave.

From the New York Times reporter whose beat is culture and ideas comes a fascinating, revelatory, and timely social history of the concept of middle age. For the first time ever, the middle-aged make up the biggest, richest, and most influential segment of the country, yet the history of middle age has remained largely untold. This important and immensely listenable book finally fills the gap.

Zoe, Jake, Mia, Gregor, and Whitney meet at freshman orientation. At the end of that first day, they make a promise to reunite after graduation. So much can happen in those in-between years....

This nonfiction self-help book for young listeners with disordered eating and body-image problems delivers real talk about eating disorders and body image, tools and information for recovery, and suggestions for dealing with the media messages that contribute so much to disordered eating.

Ödipus Suite: Ein Kulturbeitrag ist trotz alles philosophischen Tiefgangs ein Selbsthilfe-Essay. Selbsthilfe ohne Bewusstmachung der kulturellen Strukturen, in die unser Leben eingebettet ist, kann nicht überzeugen. Menschliche Größe kann nicht erreicht werden, indem wir uns über die Kultur hinwegsetzen, sondern indem wir die Kultur, die wir internalisiert haben, hinterfragen und bewusst machen.

Join your teen girl on a beautiful journey and discover the magic of self-love! Are you concerned about the social pressures, emotional issues, and mental health challenges your teenage daughter faces today? Are you looking for ways to support her through school, friendships, body image concerns, and challenges with mean girls? If so, Inspire Her is the perfect resource! Packed with empowering exercises and actionable advice, this workbook will help your teen overcome these challenges.

When in their lives are innovators most creative, and why? This book summarizes more than two decades of research prompted by this question. The result is an authoritative statement of a new unified theory of creativity, that overturns both popular and scholarly beliefs about the sources of human inventiveness. David Galenson shows that there are two distinctly different kinds of creativity in virtually every discipline.

Tackling the complex subject of bias head on, Skewed investigates the hidden messages we absorb from birth. Looking closely at what the research can tell us, Caryn Franklin and Dr Keon West explain how our inner worlds are shaped by false information, media trends, and the brain’s preference for patterns and stereotypes. Exploring biases around gender, sexuality, race, age and appearance, Caryn and Keon explain how bias impacts all of our lives.

The most essential thing in the world to any individual is to understand himself. The next is to understand the other fellow. From this audio book you are going to learn more about the the Osseous type, or the Stayer, and about key principles of human analysis. This volume also includes rules for how to understand combinations of different types. Read in English, unabridged.

A hilarious and heartwarming young YA comedy about an unlikely connection between two very different teen boys as they grapple with crushes, toxic friendships, and the true meaning of masculinity. Anton Charles and his friends are the kings of the school, and they rule with an iron fist...

When a loved one passes unexpectedly, the person left behind can lose their bearings. After the sudden loss of her mother, Chelsea Hanson, a nationally recognized grief educator and founder of With Sympathy Gifts and Keepsakes, didn't know where to turn for help, what to do next, or how to put the pieces of her life back together. Hanson's The Sudden Loss Survival Guide gathers everything that she learned during her own recovery process and provides an indispensable road map to aid those who've experienced a life-changing loss.

This book explores the nature and essential role of hope in human life under conditions of oppression. Oppression is often a threat and damage to hope, yet many members of oppressed groups, including prominent activists pursuing a more just world, find hope valuable and even essential to their personal and political lives. Katie Stockdale offers a unique evaluative framework for hope that captures its intrinsic value, the rationality and morality of hope, and ultimately how we can hope well in the non-ideal world we share.

Un classico della psicologia sociale della persuasione! Oltre 5 milioni di copie vendute nel mondo! In questo nuovo volume, ampliato e aggiornato, Robert B. Cialdini, professore di psicologia sociale della persuasione, offre una guida per aiutarci a capire quando veniamo manipolati per accettare ciò che ci viene offerto. L'autore ha fatto ricerche approfondite, penetrando da "studente" anche nei settori della vendita e della pubblicità, dove le tecniche di persuasione sono utilizzate al massimo delle loro possibilità, e ha stilato un elenco dei principali fattori che aiutano le persone a persuaderci a dire sì alle loro offerte.

Gwen Fisher is suffering from postpartum stress. Angeni Luna is thriving in her social media enterprise. Sasha Robinson is grieving over the loss of her sister. All three are looking for something they can’t quite name: connection, validation, closure…any sign that they’re doing something right. They just might find it on Bainbridge Island. There, Angeni runs her “momfluencer” commune with its focus on staying present through all the noise. She has plenty of her own that she’s learned to quiet down over the years. Now she’s offering that same peace to anyone in search of it.

Reizt es Sie, den Rätseln und scheinbaren Widersprüchen des menschlichen Verhaltens auf die Spur zu kommen? Wollen Sie herausfinden, wie sich das Tun Ihrer Mitmenschen möglichst präzise vorhersagen und beeinflussen lässt? Möchten Sie außerdem der ständigen Manipulation durch Medien, Kollegen, Freude und zahlreiche weitere Stellen endlich entgegensetzen können und selbst zum Meister der Manipulation?

While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from here. Can political or social divisiveness be healed? Is empathy among people with very little ideological common ground possible? In A Decent Meal, Michael Carolan finds answers to these fundamental questions in a series of unexpected places: around our dinner tables, along the aisles of our supermarkets, and in the fields growing our fruits and vegetables. What is more common, after all, than the simple fact that we all need to eat?

Endlich digitale Balance finden. Anna Miller hat den Ratgeber für eine digitale Ernährungsumstellung geschrieben. Sie greift neueste wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse aus der Positiven Psychologie, Neuropsychologie, Motivations- und Beziehungsforschung auf und stellt das Digitale in einen größeren Zusammenhang. Dieses Hörbuch gibt konkrete Tipps und Übungen an die Hand, damit wir uns unseres eigenen Umgangs und Konsums mit Smartphone und Bildschirm bewusst werden und gleichzeitig eine neue Vision für ein gutes Leben entwickeln können.

Un video, un post, una foto, un meme, una frase, una canzone diventano tormentoni, improvvisamente prendono a circolare, colonizzando, grazie a computer, smartphone, tv, giornali, la nostra attenzione e la nostra mente. Perché certe idee circolano più di altre? Che cosa rende più o meno virale un'immagine o un prodotto culturale? Il libro aiuta a capire i meccanismi che presiedono alla riproduzione e alla trasmissione delle idee, assicurandone la propagazione e il successo o decretandone il fallimento.

This cultural analysis of visual and narrative elements within Batman comics provides an important exploration of the ways readers and creators negotiate gender, identity, and sexuality in popular culture.