In this insightful, engaging and entertaining book, you will learn the amazing secrets of effective communication gleamed in recent years from neuroscience and behavioural economics.You’ll discover 8 simple rules that you can effectively, simply apply to your business and work so your messages are never ignored.The full text downloaded to your computerWith eBooks you can:search for key concepts, words and phrasesmake highlights and n...

The Instant Sunday Times BestsellerLearn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind.There is a war on for your mind. You may not notice, but you are surrounded by manipulators: advertisers, politicians, big tech, even the humble waiter who asks, ‘Still or sparkling?’Free Your Mind is your field manual to surviving the information battlefield. In this indispensable book, Laura Dodsworth and Patrick Fagan draw ...

Tough Crimes is a collection of thoughtful and insightful stories by twenty of Canada’s most prominent criminal lawyers. In the book, they write about cases that had surprising turns, or that presented personal or ethical challenges. We’ve all heard the media’s take on notorious criminals, but when have we had a chance to hear directly from the lawyers who defended or prosecuted them? We’ve all lamented the fate of a person who we think was wrongfully accused, but who better to explain wha...

The Instant Sunday Times BestsellerLearn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind.There is a war on for your mind. You may not notice, but you are surrounded by manipulators: advertisers, politicians, big tech, even the humble waiter who asks, ‘Still or sparkling?’Free Your Mind is your field manual to surviving the information battlefield. In this indispensable book, Laura Dodsworth and Patrick Fagan draw ...

Il metodo scorretto (ma infallibile) per non lasciarsi fregare e imparare a pensare con la propria testaAziende informatiche, grandi marchi, catene di supermercati: a colpi di campagne pubblicitarie e post sui social media, tutti ci spingono a pensare quello che vogliono loro, a comprare quello che vogliono loro, a essere quello che vogliono loro. Questo libro è uno strumento fondamentale per imparare a difendersi smascherando i trucchi e le strategie di manipolazi...

This book explores how pharmaceutical evidence is designed, interpreted, and used, drawing on positivist, constructivist, critical realist, pragmatist, feminist, and decolonial traditions. It shows how dominant evidence paradigms often struggle to account for time, population heterogeneity, patient experience, and context across contemporary therapeutic and care settings.Rather than treating these dimensions as downstream complications, the book advances an evidence ecology approac...

Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching: Contemporary Theory and Research contains essays by key scholars in the territory where Catholic social thought and secular sociology meet, and offers a much needed alternative to the relativism and individualism that so often characterize social scientific analysis today. Contributors to this volume argue that Catholic social teaching, as articulated so powerfully today in recent papal encyclicals and major summations such as the Compendium of the S...

For fans of C.J. Box, Craig Johnson, and Harlan Coben — a late 1970s Wyoming thriller in which a hospital becomes a crime scene, Ben Jones resurfaces in Alaska, and Trish Flint finally gets to decide what she wants.Dr. Patrick Flint is training for Mount Rainier when his dog Ferdinand finds a badly beaten woman in a ravine on his morning hike. The woman dies. Her killer is a man named Bull Folske — controlling, obsessive, and working his way down a list of...

Fans of C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett and Craig Johnson’s Walt Longmire will be hooked by Patrick Flint and his family.“Best book I’ve read in a long time!”This unputdownable 3-mystery box set brings suspense, danger, and unforgettable characters to 1970s Wyoming, from USA Today bestselling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins.Switchback – Taken meets LongmirePatrick Flint’s mountain getaway turns into a race against time when his...

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...

For fans of C.J. Box, Craig Johnson, and Nevada Barr — a Summer 1978 Wyoming thriller in which a dead climbing partner washes up in Clear Creek and Dr. Patrick Flint's wife becomes the prime suspect.Dr. Patrick Flint chases a marmot off his deck, breaks his hand, falls into Clear Creek, and discovers the body of his mountain climbing partner Whitney Saylor in the water. Whitney has Patrick's business card in her pocket with a note on the back: 'his wife kn...

For fans of C.J. Box, Craig Johnson, and Nevada Barr — a Summer 1977 Wyoming thriller in which a plane crashes in Cloud Peak Wilderness, Chicago mobsters want whatever was on it, and a teenage boy's best friend doesn't come home.Dr. Patrick Flint is on a horseback camping trip in Cloud Peak Wilderness when a plane with a sputtering engine crashes just over the ridge. The injured survivor is Elvin Cross — a man Patrick knows from the Wind River Reservation....