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The Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma healing is not just for individuals - and that social change is not just for movement builders. Just as health practitioners need to consider the societal factors underlying trauma, so too must activists understand the physical and mental impacts of trauma on their own lives and the lives of the communities with whom they organize. Trauma healing and social change are, at their best, interdependent.

La manipulación es una herramienta poderosa, y cada vez es más frecuente en nuestro mundo actual. Por eso es importante aprender a protegerse de ella y entender las técnicas que utilizan los manipuladores. Con este audiolibro, ¡podrás hacer exactamente eso! En él, aprenderás a analizar a las personas, a leer su lenguaje corporal y a utilizar la PNL y la hipnosis para entrar en sus mentes. También aprenderás a protegerte de la influencia emocional y el control mental.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It is used regularly by Fortune 500 companies, universities, hospitals, churches, and the military. Its language of personality types - extraversion and introversion, sensing and intuiting, thinking and feeling, judging and perceiving - has inspired television shows, Online dating platforms, and Buzzfeed quizzes. Yet despite the test's widespread adoption, experts in the field of psychometric testing, a $2 billion industry, have struggled to validate its results - no less account for its success.

Can a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as best-selling historian Rick Shenkman shows in Political Animals, our world is anything but rational. This isn't because we aren't smart. Instead, modern cues are setting off ancient, instinctive responses that worked to keep us safe in the Stone Age but lead us astray today.

Speed-read people, decipher body language, detect deception, and get to the truth. We live in a world where dishonesty and lies are seemingly everywhere. From fake news and problematic media outlets to corrupt management in our workplaces and selfish friends, there’s no doubt that as you grow older, you become more cynical and more distrusting of the world and the people in it. What if there was a way to spot the lies and take yourself closer to the truth? Well, there is, and it’s all detailed in this very audiobook.

Es difícil saber lo que la gente está pensando. Incluso si crees que conoces a alguien, ¿realmente entiendes sus motivos? ¿Qué pasa con sus deseos o miedos ocultos? El mundo está lleno de manipuladores que hacen todo lo posible todos los días para poder aprovecharse de los demás para beneficio o placer personal. Si tan solo hubiera una forma de que todos pudiéramos protegernos de estos malhechores... Bueno, ¡ahora existe! Con este audiolibro, podrás entrar en la cabeza de otras personas y relacionarte mejor con ellas.

What you'll find here is practical magic: unique knowledge, drawn from a variety of sciences, revealing what charisma really is and how it works. You'll get both the insights and the techniques you need to apply this knowledge. The world will become your lab and every person you meet a chance to experiment. The Charisma Myth is a mix of fun stories, sound science and practical tools. Cabane takes a scientific approach to a heretofore mystical topic, covering what charisma actually is, how it is learned, what its side effects are and how to handle them.

People don’t make decisions with their conscious mind, but on instinct. In The Power of Instinct, marketing consultant and behavioral science expert Leslie Zane shows that to grow a brand, business, or even a social movement, traditional persuasion tactics fall short. Instead, you must connect to the instinctive mind. And to do this, you need to understand the science of consumer choice and employ techniques that work with a person’s brain, not against it.

Relational Acuity 1.0 is a powerful opening to the Relational Acuity series, where you will learn the proper way to build Kingdom relationships (platonic, romantic, professional, familial and ministerial). In this intellectually invigorating, insightful and life-altering guide, you will better understand why you may have failed (in the past) at building healthy relationships. This is a must-have book for believers who want to focus-forward and learn how to truly guard their hearts and build relationships that are both beneficial and rewarding!

Inside, you’ll find absolutely everything you need to begin your journey of speed reading everyone around you and actually uncovering their true intentions, motivations & behaviors. As well as that, you’ll be able to decode your own behaviors and start decoding what others are thinking & deciphering when they are communicating with you....

Worried that learning how to analyze people and protecting yourself against manipulation might be unethical? Don’t fret! This book provides you with the tools to read people effectively while also ensuring that you use this knowledge for good.

On an average day in America, seven young people aged 19 or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. Far from a dry account of gun policy in the United States or a polemic about the dangers of gun violence, the book is a gripping chronicle of an ordinary but deadly day in American life.

In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows listeners how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform their approaches to everyday working life. Advances in these behavioral sciences are giving us ever better understanding of how our brains work, why we make the choices we do, and what it takes for us to be at our best.

We are bombarded every day by reports of bad behaviour: from sexual harassment to political corruption, from bullying to corporate greed. We believe these things are wrong or even evil, but in practice few of us choose to intercede. Why We Act draws on the latest developments in psychology and neuroscience to explain why we act differently in groups than when we are alone, how slippery slopes begin and prosper and where the dissonance lies between good intentions and real action.

In Go Free, we call these antiwhite ideas Meme-Pathogens (MPs), because they infect the mind like a virus. This book will prove to you that your subconscious mind is more infected than you know.

Para empezar, analizaremos por qué los seres humanos distamos mucho de ser seres racionales. Entenderemos cómo procesamos la información de una manera que está lejos de ser objetiva porque, en definitiva, buscamos creer lo que queremos creer. Examinaremos por qué nuestra memoria no es fiable y cómo elaboramos falsos recuerdos de una manera perfecta.

In this illuminating Audible Original, Professor Wind Goodfriend explores the various facets of social psychology, including how we form personal identities, the importance of perceptions, the human need to be liked and respected, stereotypes and prejudices, and more. Social psychology can be both fascinating in its own right and, ideally, applicable to your everyday life.

Puede ser duro saber cómo hablarle a la gente, especialmente si eres tímido o introvertido. Puede que sientas que siempre dices algo equivocado o que simplemente no tienes nada interesante que decir. Pero eso no significa que no puedas mejorar tus habilidades sociales. De hecho, con las herramientas y técnicas adecuadas, puedes convertirte en una persona sociable en poco tiempo.

Adults with Asperger's syndrome and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may find social engagement to be extremely stressful, but "Overcome Shyness and Anxiety" provides a glimmer of hope. Recognizing the particular obstacles that people with Asperger's Syndrome and ASD must overcome, Dr. Jordan provides specific techniques. To assist listeners in using these tactics in their everyday lives, "Overcome Shyness and Anxiety" includes practice scenarios, anecdotes, and real-world examples in addition to these ideas.

Harry Potter has provided a portal to the wizarding world for millions of listeners, but an examination of Harry, his friends, and his enemies will take us on yet another journey: through the psyche of the muggle (and wizard!) mind. In The Psychology of Harry Potter, leading psychologists delve into the ultimate Chamber of Secrets, analyzing human mind and motivation by examining the themes and characters that make the Harry Potter books the best-selling fantasy series of all time.