An engrossing guide to seeing—and communicating—more clearly from the groundbreaking course that helps FBI agents, cops, CEOs, ER docs, and others save money, reputations, and lives.How could looking at Monet’s water lily paintings help save your company millions? How can checking out people’s footwear foil a terrorist attack? How can your choice of adjective win an argument, calm your kid, or catch a thief?In her celebrated seminar, the Art of Perception, ...

With Amy Herman’s Fixed., we now have access to what the FBI, NATO, the State Department, Interpol, Scotland Yard, and many more organizations and their leaders have been using to solve their most intractable problems.Demonstrating a powerful paradigm shift for finding solutions, Herman teaches us to see things differently, using art to challenge our default thinking and open up possibilities otherwise overlooked. Her unexpected, insightful, and often delightful me...

"Um livro fascinante que fará você ver o mundo com muito mais clareza, transformando sua maneira de lidar com desafios e oportunidades." LEONARD MLODINOW, autor dos best-sellers O andar do bêbado e Subliminar Inteligência visual é a capacidade de ver o que está lá e os outros não veem; ver o que não está lá e deveria estar; ver os pontos positivos e os negativos, as oportunidades e as vantagens. É um conjunto de habilidades que todos nós possuímos, mas poucos sabem como usar corretamente. ...

With Amy Herman's Fixed., we now have access to what the FBI, NATO, the State Department, Interpol, Scotland Yard, and many more organizations and their leaders have been using to solve their most intractable problems.Demonstrating a powerful paradigm shift for finding solutions, Herman teaches us to see things differently, using art to challenge our default thinking and open up possibilities otherwise overlooked. Her unexpected, insightful, and often deli...

Partiendo de sus conocimientos como historiadora del arte, la autora, que imparte en Nueva York un seminario sobre el arte de la percepción a colectivos profesionales tan diversos como médicos o policías, enseña cómo mejorar nuestras habilidades de observación y comunicación, unas habilidades que todos poseemos pero pocos saben utilizar eficazmente. Sus lecciones, que combinan sabiamente las lecciones del arte con la vida cotidiana, enseñan mucho más que los objetos que tenemos a la vista;...

Transform your online presence into a lead generation machineInstagram & Facebook All-in-One For Dummies brings together the expertise of a group of seasoned social media professionals and certified Meta trainers to solve the biggest challenge facing businesses and individuals today: how to translate Facebook and Instagram’s massive user bases into loyal audiences and customers. This comprehensive guide eliminates the confusion around Meta's constantly evo...

Siddhartha is a religious novel published in 1922 by Herman Hesse, who was deeply interested in Eastern thought.

Discover the heartbeat of American poetry through 101 Great American Poems — a carefully curated collection that spans centuries of voices.From the reflective verses of Anne Bradstreet to the bold rhythms of Langston Hughes, this anthology captures the soul of a nation through themes of love, loss, freedom, and hope. Tracing a journey from Puritan resolve to the artistic fervor of the Harlem Renaissance, these poems invite readers to explore America's evol...

The Spring 2021 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”As guest-editor Laura van den Berg writes in her introduction, “At its core, literatu...

The short story in Literature is a few pages of beginning, middle and end peopled by characters who quickly draw themselves into its arc from the minds of their authors.How these authors, including Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, M R James and Violet Hunt imagine their characters journeys is, of course, illuminating, thought-provoking and classic literature.1 - Stories with The Writer as Protagonist - An Introduction2 - Bobok by Fyodor Dostoyevsky3 - Th...

Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Sustainable development and ecosocial work have become one of the most dynamic global debates of the social work profession. How can social work contribute to the sustainability transitions of European societies?Bringing together a diverse group of researchers from around the world, this book offers an analysis of the main theoretical insights on ecosocial work, the contribution of social work research to transdisciplinary res...