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Science doesn't speak for itself. Neck-deep in work that can be messy and confounding and naïve in the ways of public communication, scientists are often unable to package their insights into the neat narratives that the public requires. Enter celebrities, advocates, lobbyists, and the funders behind them, who take advantage of scientists' reluctance to provide easy answers, flooding the media with misleading or incorrect claims about health risks. In Bad Advice, Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don'ts of battling misinformation.

Harness the power of your wardrobe to achieve your dreams with this timely take on personal style from a world-renowned fashion psychologist. You may get dressed every day without really thinking about what you're putting on, but did you know that what you wear has a powerful effect on how you...

Based on Mike Bayer’s New York Times bestseller Best Self, a motivational, do-it-yourself workbook teaching you how to reinvent your life and live every day as your Best Self. In Best Self, Mike Bayer, known to his fans and followers as Coach Mike, empowered his listeners to embrace...

This book will teach you how to become mentally stronger and how to have control over everything around you. Whether if you meet a manipulative in person, or you just face covert manipulation while you’re watching TV, it will explain to you all you need to know to avoid being manipulated ever again.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame resilience...

Simple Exercises for Building the Life You Want An interactive guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones, based on the 25-million copy #1 New York Times bestseller Atomic Habits. The official companion to the #1 worldwide bestseller is the next step in your habits toolkit. Guided...

Changing your habits is no easy task. You may start off at the right pace or with the right routine, but you might soon find yourself facing an uphill - might I even say up-mountain - struggle maintaining your habits. Your motivation may enjoy a burst of energy in the beginning, but dwindle to a shadow of its former self. You might have created plans, guides, and even reminders, only to watch yourself have diminishing returns. Your ability to push back your bad habits into the depths of your memory, past the point of remembrance, may not be going as well as you had hoped.

Narratives about decision making are often inadvertently tailored primarily to men. Meanwhile, narratives about women in business overlook decision making or offer advice that is unhelpful and can even backfire. How Women Decide fills this gap. It takes on the very real psychological and cultural obstacles women face, asks how these affect decision making, and suggests practical changes for approaching important choices.

A pair of doctors team up to illuminate, through neuroscience and captivating stories from their clinical practice, how serving others—and pitching in to the world in general—is a secret superpower. If a doctor’s prescription could bring you: - Longer life - Better health - More energy and...

How to Analyze People shows you all the little details you may have overlooked in all your years on this planet, the clues, the hints, and the nonverbal messages. This book goes into intricate secrets of the hidden world of body language, from the way people sit, where their eyes are aimed, and the tone of their voice, to flirting, making an impression on your employer, or being more social.

In this practical guide to becoming the best boss ever, Dr. Karen Walker delivers a personal touch to a highly scientific approach of measuring human behavior. There are anecdotes from real-life experiences in military, civilian, and academic settings that are applicable to all walks of life and significant relationship building.

Would you like to find out how to avoid being manipulated by people you trusted? If your answer to this question is yes, then keep reading to find out more. Human beings have the unique capacity to alter their environment to suit their needs. This capacity to alter the environment can be stretched as far as manipulating others to inadvertently do their bidding. This poses a significant threat to the much-treasured freedoms that ought to be enjoyed by all without external influence.

Have you ever wished that you could read people's minds to see their true thoughts? Have you wished that you could understand others in a quicker and deeper way? Are you interested in knowing what others are thinking before they even know it? Then this book is perfect for you. You can gain the valuable secrets behind analyzing others by learning how to read their words on a deeper level, interpret their nonverbal cues, and using your own emotions to better understand others.