In 1815, Goethe gave symbolic expression to his intense relationship with Marianne Willemer, a recently married woman thirty-five years his junior. He gave her a leaf from the ginkgo tree, explaining that, like its deeply cleft yet still whole leaf, he was "single yet twofold." Although it is not known if their relationship was ever consummated, they did exchange love poetry, and Goethe published several of Marianne's poems in his West-East Divan without crediting her authorship.In this beautiful little book, renowned Goethe scholar Siegfried Unseld considers what this episode means to our estimation of a writer many consider nearly godlike in stature. Unseld begins by exploring the botanical and medical lore of the ginkgo, including the use of its nut as an aphrodisiac and anti-aging serum. He then delves into Goethe's writings for the light they shed on his relationship with Marianne. Unseld reveals Goethe as a great yet human being, subject, as any other man, to the vagaries of passion.

H. Jefferson Powell offers a powerful new approach to one of the central issues in American constitutional thinking today: the problem of constitutional law's historicity, or the many ways in which constitutional arguments and outcomes are shaped both by historical circumstances and by the political goals and commitments of various actors, including judges. The presence of such influences is often considered highly problematic: if constitutional law is political and historical through and through, then what differentiates it from politics per se, and what gives it integrity and coherencePowell argues that constitutional theory has as its (sometimes hidden) agenda the ambition of showing how constitutional law can escape from history and politics, while much constitutional history seeks to identify an historically true meaning of the constitutional text that, once uncovered, can serve as a corrective to subsequent deviations from that truth.Combining history and theory, Powell analyzes a series of constitutional controversies from 1790 to 1944 to demonstrate that constitutional law from its very beginning has involved politically charged and ideologically divisive arguments. Nowhere in our past can one find the golden age of apolitical constitutional thinking that a great deal of contemporary scholarship seeks or presupposes. Viewed over time, American constitutional law is a history of political dispute couched in constitutional terms.Powell then takes his conclusions one step further, claiming that it is precisely this historical tradition of argument that has given American constitutional law a remarkable coherence and integrity over time. No matter what the particular political disputes of the day might be, constitutional argument has provided a shared language through which our political community has been able to fight out its battles without ultimately fracturing.A Community Built on Words will be must reading for any student of constitutional history, theory, or law.

Over the past two decades, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in the number and magnitude of punitive damages verdicts rendered by juries in civil trials. Probably the most extraordinary example is the July 2000 award of $144.8 billion in the Florida class action lawsuit brought against cigarette manufacturers. Or consider two recent verdicts against the auto manufacturer BMW in Alabama. In identical cases, argued in the same court before the same judge, one jury awarded $4 million in punitive damages, while the other awarded no punitive damages at all. In cases involving accidents, civil rights, and the environment, multimillion-dollar punitive awards have been a subject of intense controversy.But how do juries actually make decisions about punitive damagesTo find out, the authors-experts in psychology, economics, and the law-present the results of controlled experiments with more than 600 mock juries involving the responses of more than 8,000 jury-eligible citizens. Although juries tended to agree in their moral judgments about the defendant's conduct, they rendered erratic and unpredictable dollar awards. The experiments also showed that instead of moderating juror verdicts, the process of jury deliberation produced a striking "severity shift" toward ever-higher awards. Jurors also tended to ignore instructions from the judges; were influenced by whatever amount the plaintiff happened to request; showed "hindsight bias," believing that what happened should have been foreseen; and penalized corporations that had based their decisions on careful cost-benefit analyses. While judges made many of the same errors, they performed better in some areas, suggesting that judges (or other specialists) may be better equipped than juries to decide punitive damages.Using a wealth of new experimental data, and offering a host of provocative findings, this book documents a wide range of systematic biases in jury behavior. It will be indispensable for anyone interested not only in punitive damages, but also jury behavior, psychology, and how people think about punishment.

For much of the twentieth century, Americans had a love/hate relationship with France. While many admired its beauty, culture, refinement, and famed joie de vivre, others thought of it as a dilapidated country populated by foul-smelling, mean-spirited anti-Americans driven by a keen desire to part tourists from their money. We'll Always Have Paris explores how both images came to flourish in the United States, often in the minds of the same people.Harvey Levenstein takes us back to the 1930s, when, despite the Great Depression, France continued to be the stomping ground of the social elite of the eastern seaboard. After World War II, wealthy and famous Americans returned to the country in droves, helping to revive its old image as a wellspring of sophisticated and sybaritic pleasures. At the same time, though, thanks in large part to Communist and Gaullist campaigns against U.S. power, a growing sensitivity to French anti-Americanism began to color tourists' experiences there, strengthening the negative images of the French that were already embedded in American culture. But as the century drew on, the traditional positive images were revived, as many Americans again developed an appreciation for France's cuisine, art, and urban and rustic charms.Levenstein, in his colorful, anecdotal style, digs into personal correspondence, journalism, and popular culture to shape a story of one nation's relationship to another, giving vivid play to Americans' changing response to such things as France's reputation for sexual freedom, haute cuisine, high fashion, and racial tolerance. He puts this tumultuous coupling of France and the United States in historical perspective, arguing that while some in Congress say we may no longer have french fries, others, like Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, know they will always have Paris, and France, to enjoy and remember.

Once maligned as a swampy outpost, the fledgling city of Chicago brazenly adopted the motto Urbs in Horto or City in a Garden, in 1837. Chicago Gardens shows how this upstart town earned its sobriquet over the next century, from the first vegetable plots at Fort Dearborn to innovative garden designs at the 1933 World's Fair. Cathy Jean Maloney has spent decades researching the city's horticultural heritage, and here she reveals the unusual history of Chicago's first gardens. Challenged by the region's clay soil, harsh winters, and fierce winds, Chicago's pioneering horticulturalists, Maloney demonstrates, found imaginative uses for hardy prairie plants. This same creative spirit thrived in the city's local fruit and vegetable markets, encouraging the growth of what would become the nation's produce hub. The vast plains that surrounded Chicago, meanwhile, inspired early landscape architects, such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jens Jensen, and O.C. Simonds, to new heights of grandeur. Maloney does not forget the backyard gardeners: immigrants who cultivated treasured seeds and pioneers who planted native wildflowers. Maloney's vibrant depictions of Chicagoans like "Bouquet Mary," a flower peddler who built a greenhouse empire, add charming anecdotal evidence to her argument-that Chicago's garden history rivals that of New York or London and ensures its status as a world-class capital of horticultural innovation. With exquisite archival photographs, prints, and postcards, as well as field guide de*ions of living legacy gardens for today's visitors, Chicago Gardens will delight green-thumbs from all parts of the world.

Chiara Matraini (1515-1604?) was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch, cultivated later by the lyric poet Pietro Bembo, and supplanted by the epic poet Torquato Tasso. Though without formal training, Matraini excelled in a number of literary genres popular at the time-poetry, religious meditation, discourse, and dialogue. In her midlife, she published a collection of erotic love poetry, but later in life her work shifted toward a search for spiritual salvation. Near the end of her life, she published a new poetry retrospective.Mostly available in only a handful of rare book collections, her writings are now adeptly translated here for an English-speaking audience and situated historically in an introduction by noted Matraini expert Giovanna Rabitti. Selected Poetry and Prose allows the poet to finally take her place as one of the seminal authors of the Renaissance, next to her contemporaries Vittoria Colonna and Laura Battiferra, also published in the Other Voice series.

Alberto Giacometti's 1934 Cube stands apart for many as atypical of the Swiss artist, the only abstract sculptural work in a wide oeuvre that otherwise had as its objective the exploration of reality. With The Cube and the Face, renowned French art historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman has conducted a careful analysis of Cube, consulting the artist's sketches, etchings, texts, and other sculptural works in the years just before and after Cube was created. Cube, he finds, is indeed exceptional-a work without clear stylistic kinship to the works that came before or after it. At the same time, Didi-Huberman shows, Cube marks the transition between the artist's surrealist and realist phases and contains many elements of Giacometti's aesthetic consciousness, including his interest in dimensionality, the relation of the body to geometry, and the portrait-or what Didi-Huberman terms "abstract anthropomorphism." Drawing on Freud, Bataille, Leiris, and others Giacometti counted as influence, Didi-Huberman presents fans and collectors of Giacometti's art with a new approach to transitional work.

This book contains a selection of articles and pamphlets on analytical psychology written at intervals during the past fourteen years. These years have seen the development of a new discipline, and as is usual in such a case, have involved many changes of view-point, of concept, and of formulation.??It is not my intention to give a presentation of the fundamental concepts of analytical psychology in this book; it throws some light, however, on a certain line of development which is especially characteristic of the Zürich School of psychoanalysis.??As is well known, the merit of the discovery of the new analytical method of general psychology belongs to Professor Freud of Vienna. His original view-points had to undergo many essential modifications, some of them owing to the work done at Zürich, in spite of the fact that he himself is far from agreeing with the standpoint of this school.??I am unable to explain fully the fundamental differences between the two schools, but would indicate the following points: The Vienna School takes the standpoint of an exclusive sexualistic conception, while that of the Zürich School is symbolistic. The Vienna School interprets the psychological symbol semiotically, as a sign or token of certain primitive psychosexual processes. Its method is analytical and causal.??The Zurich School recognises the scientific feasibility of such a conception, but denies its exclusive validity, for it does not interpret the psychological symbol semiotically only, but also symbolistically, that is, it attributes a positive value to the symbol.??The value does not depend merely on historical causes; its chief importance lies in the fact that it has a meaning for the actual present, and for the future, in their psychological aspects. For to the Zürich School the symbol is not merely a sign of something repressed and concealed, but is at the same time an attempt to comprehend and to point out the way of the further psychological development of the individual. Thus we add a prospective import to the retrospective value of the symbol.??The method of the Zurich School is therefore not only analytical and causal, but also synthetic and prospective, in recognition that the human mind is characterised by "caus?" and also by "fines" (aims). The latter fact needs particular emphasis, because there are two types of psychology, the one following the principle of hedonism, and the other following the principle of power. Scientific materialism is pertinent to the former type, and the philosophy of Nietzsche to the latter. The principle of the Freudian theory is hedonism, while that of Adler (one of Freud's earliest personal pupils) is founded upon the principle of power.??The Zurich School, recognising the existence of these two types (also remarked by the late Professor William James), considers that the views of Freud and Adler are one-sided, and only valid within the limits of their corresponding type.??Freud and Adler interpret in the analytical and causal way, reducing to the infantile and primitive. Thus with Freud the conception of the "aim" is the fulfilment of desire, with Adler it is the usurpation of power. Both authors take the standpoint in their practical analytical work which brings to view only infantile and gross egoistic aims.??The Zurich School is convinced of the fact that within the limits of a diseased mental attitude the psychology is such as Freud and Adler describe. It is, indeed, just on account of such impossible and childish psychology that the individual is in a state of inward dissociation and hence neurotic. The Zürich School, therefore, in agreement with them so far, also reduces the psychological symbol (the phantasy products of the patient) to the fundamental infantile hedonism, or to the infantile desire for power. But Freud and Adler content themselves with the result of mere reduction, according to their scientific biologism and naturalism.

The following pages contain certain rules and suggestions concerning health, and certain simple and sensible ways in which it may, we hope, be acquired and maintained at a very small expense of time and self-denial, by a large number of people who are naturally accustomed to feel not very well. The book is founded on notes made by its two authors who, though they lead for the most part very different lives, are agreed on certain broad principles of health herein set forth. ??One of them, for instance, eats largely of flesh-foods every day, the other has scarcely touched meat for years. But both are accustomed to feel extremely well and to undertake considerable exertion either of mind or body without experiencing any fatigue. One of them takes regular exercise, that is to say he plays an out-door game on most days of his life, while the other who abstains from flesh-foods has little practice of the sort. He will take no out-of-door exercise for several days, work very hard, and find himself perfectly fit for some severe physical test at the end. But they are both agreed that if the one abandoned flesh-foods (which he does not propose to do) he would cease to require regular exercise, and that if the other took flesh-foods (which he does not propose to do) he would not only be very ill, but would also require regular exercise. ??One again is seldom seen without some appliance of tobacco in his mouth, because he finds it agreeable and after an experiment of abstinence from it found that it did not make any difference, as far as he could make out, in his general health. The other never smokes at all. One again takes a cold bath in the morning, the other a hot one followed by cold sponging.??But both are absolutely in accord on far more main points than those on which their practice, at any rate, differs, and they have found it perfectly easy to write this book together without wrangling, on which account they wish to express a pious hope that the very fact that they differ in so many things may have saved them from dogmatism. For it has helped them to realize that even when they are agreed on any point it would be a sheer stupidity to hint that they were therefore right, and in consequence they only put forward the points on which they are agreed as suggestions, hoping that others after trial may also agree with them. ??For universal laws on an empirical matter like health are rare, and the constitutions of men are various. One man’s meat, in fact, is literally another man’s poison. But in the main the two authors are agreed. They believe that the majority of mankind habitually eat too much and habitually take too much stimulating food and drink. They believe also that most people who do so do not take enough exercise, and that either an increase of exercise or a decrease of stimulant is needed. ??They believe that the best sorts of exercise are not those of slow pushing movements such as are made in the use of dumb-bells, but full brisk extended movements, with much use of the breathing apparatus and the large muscle areas of the body. Similarly they are in accord as regards present systems of training which tend to treat an entire crew or team as if they were identical specimens, not as widely different specimens; in every day life also they hold that because a certain mode of diet and work suits A, it will not necessarily suit B and C, though B and C might do worse than try it.

In this special edition of James Allen's classic, As a Man Thinketh, you will learn how to use the power of thought to bring success and happiness into your life. You will discover that you are the creator of the conditions in your life, good and bad, and you can change those conditions by changing the way you think. Bestselling authors Dale Carnegie, Norman Vincent Peale, and others were heavily influenced by Allen's writings, and Inc. Magazine praised Allen's book as "one of the top 10 motivational books of all time." Success coach Tony Robbins says it is his favorite book, and he has read it a dozen times. This Classic Edition was developed for a course at Virtual University by Richard De A'Morelli, a best-selling author and editor with deep experience in the self-help field. Most versions of Allen's book are unedited reprints of his 1903 work, but this collector's edition includes the full text of the book, updated and restyled for today's readers, plus helpful tutorials reviewing key points in each chapter. A bonus chapter offers daily meditations from James Allen's popular book, Meditations for Every Day of the Year. The wisdom of James Allen provides a foundation for living well and being happy in today's hectic world. Whether this is your first exposure to his writings or you are already a fan, this special edition is must reading. Available as an ebook and in paperback (ISBN 978-1-988236-10-0). Add it to your library and give as a gift to your friends who may benefit from this wonderful message of hope and empowerment.

Trei fo?ti ofi?eri CIA, autorit??i interna?ionale ?n detectarea disimul?rii, v? ofer? un set de tehnici accesibile pentru a afla dac? vorbitorul din fa?a voastr? spune sau nu adev?rul. Fie c? realiza?i un interviu de angajare sau o anchet? judiciar?, fie c? vre?i s? afla?i dac? adolescentul vostru a consumat droguri ori dac? partenerul v? ?n?al?, ave?i acum la dispozi?ie un arsenal de ?ntreb?ri ?i tehnici de interpretare care ?i-au dovedit eficien?a chiar ?i ?n fa?a celor mai versa?i spioni ?i terori?ti. Baz?ndu-se pe analize complexe ale unor anchete de contraspionaj sau ale unor interviuri televizate cu politicieni pref?cu?i, cartea v? ?nva?? s? pune?i cele mai percutante ?ntreb?ri ?i s? identifica?i minciuna pornind de la semnele ei verbale (ezit?ri, generaliz?ri, apelul la divinitate) ?i nonverbale (mutarea centrului de sprijin, acoperirea fe?ei cu palma etc.). ?Arta ?n?el?ciunii este tema principal? a acestei c?r?i, care se adreseaz? unui spectru larg de speciali?ti: psihologi, avoca?i, judec?tori, procurori, poli?i?ti, investigatori, oameni de afaceri, oameni de v?nz?ri etc.“ – Ion Duvac, fondator al Psychological Profiler Academy

Tehnici simple ?i amuzante pentru ?mbun?t??irea memoriei Ui?i mereu unde ??i la?i cheile? Nu mai ?tii zilele de na?tere ale prietenilor, iar atunci c?nd ??i este prezentat cineva ?i ui?i imediat numele? ??i aduci aminte c? trebuie s? mergi la o ?nt?lnire dup? ce a ?nceput deja? Dac? primul lucru la care te g?nde?ti ?n urma acestor constat?ri este c? te vei trezi ?n cur?nd ?ntr-o lume f?r? amintiri, temerea ta este nefondat?. Nu ?i-ai pierdut min?ile, ci doar cheile, iar ?ntre timp ai g?sit cartea care te poate ajuta s? ??i ?mbun?t??e?ti memoria ?i s? ??i ?nt?re?ti capacitatea mental?. Pornind de la cele mai recente cercet?ri ?n domeniu, autorii ne ofer? explica?ii clare despre modul ?n care func?ioneaz? memoria. Creierul uman este un organ mult mai complex, mai flexibil, mai maleabil ?i mai u?or de re?nnoit dec?t se credea. Ca ?i ?n cazul mu?chilor, antrenarea creierului poate duce la rezultate extraordinare. Cele 8 capitole ale lucr?rii sunt u?or de parcurs ?i con?in cele mai eficiente instrumente de ascu?ire a memoriei. Exerci?iile practice, sfaturile ?i trucurile ne ?nva?? cum s? ne concentr?m mai bine, at?t la procesul de codificare a informatiilor, c?t ?i la procesul de recuperare a lor din amintire. Prin cre?terea capacit??ii de a re?ine lucrurile importante pentru noi, se ?mbun?t??e?te garantat ?i calitatea vie?ii. A?adar, dac? ai ?ndoieli ?n leg?tur? cu eficien?a memoriei tale sau ??i dore?ti, pur ?i simplu, s? re?ii lucrurile cu mai mult? u?urin??, ai ?ncredere ?n Doctorul memoriei! Specialitatea lui sunt amintirile clare, complete ?i de durat?.

V? ?ngrijoreaz? apatia partenerului din ultima vreme? V? irit? zg?rcenia prietenilor? Sau v? ?nfurie nep?sarea colegilor de birou?Fie c? e vorba despre minusurile observate la al?ii sau de propriile defecte, cartea de fa?? v? invit? s? explora?i ?i s? integra?i ?ntr-un mod constructiv ?i s?n?tos toate aceste aspecte de ?umbr?“ ale vie?ii voastre.Folosind concepte psihologice accesibile (proiec?ie, rezonan??, polaritate), Ruediger Dahlke demonstreaz? prin exemple din realitatea curent? ?n ce fel pute?i transforma sl?biciunile ?n puncte forte ?i asperit??ile interpersonale ?n oportunit??i de cre?tere. G?ndirea ?n ?alb ?i negru“ va fi astfel ?nlocuit? de o con?tientizare a nuan?elor ?i multiplelor ?fe?e“ ale vie?ii, oferind cititorului ?ansa de a ac?iona mai ?n?elept, mai pu?in tensionat, cu acel echilibru specific persoanelor care ?i-au reg?sit centrul.

Rela?ii interpersonale intense ?i haotice, accese de furie, impulsivitate, amenin??ri cu abandonul sau cu suicidul… dup? ce ai cunoscut ?ndeaproape o astfel de persoan? r?m?i adesea cu un gust amar ?i cu ?ntrebarea: ?Unde am gre?it?" ?n spatele acestui tablou ?nnegurat, se afl? ?ns? drama protagonistului – temeri profunde, o senza?ie de vid interior, ne?ncredere fundamental? ?n sine.Lumea unui ?borderline" este ?n alb ?i negru, acut?, direct?, f?r? nuan?e, cu at?t mai impresionant?, cu c?t ace?ti oameni sunt capabili s? duc? o via?? func?ional?. Pot fi partenerul de cuplu, colega de serviciu, amicul din copil?rie.Cartea de fa??, bazat? pe informa?ii din cele mai noi cercet?ri ?n domeniu, reprezint? un ghid cuprinz?tor prin h??i?urile acestei personalit??i aflate la grani?a dintre nevroz? ?i psihoz?. Scris? ?ntr-un limbaj accesibil, ea se adreseaz? at?t terapeu?ilor, c?t ?i publicului larg, aduc?nd lumin? asupra posibilelor cauze ale acestei tulbur?ri, descriindu-i plastic tr?s?turile prin intermediul a numeroase exemple, ajut?ndu-te s? ?n?elegi persoana cu borderline de l?ng? tine ?i s? creezi pun?i c?tre ea.Cea mai important? parte a oric?rei terapii este rela?ia dintre pacient ?i terapeut. Aceast? interac?iune formeaz? baza ?ncrederii, constan?ei obiectului ?i a intimit??ii emo?ionale. Terapeutul trebuie s? devin? o figur? de ?ncredere, o oglind? care s? reflecte o identitate coerent? ?n dezvoltare. Pornind de la aceast? rela?ie, persoana borderline ?nva?? s? extind? ?i asupra altora a?tept?rile adecvate ?i ?ncrederea. – Jerold Kreisman, Hal StrausAspectul fizic al lui Jennifer la ?edin?ele de terapie fluctua dramatic. C?nd venea direct de la serviciu era ?mbr?cat? ?ntr-o ?inut? business, eman?nd maturitate ?i rafinament. Dar ?n zilele ei libere, ap?rea ?n pantaloni scur?i, cu ?osete p?n? la genunchi ?i cu codi?e ?mpletite; ?n aceste ?edin?e se comporta ca o feti?? cu voce sub?ire ?i vocabular mult mai limitat. Uneori se transforma chiar sub ochii doctorului Gray. Putea fi plin? de intui?ie ?i inteligent?, colabor?nd pentru ob?inerea unei mai bune ?n?elegeri de sine, iar apoi devenea o copil? cochet? ?i seduc?toare, declar?ndu-se incapabil? s? func?ioneze ?n lumea adult?. – Jerold Kreisman, Hal Straus

nvturile lui Osho, unul dintre cei mai cunoscui lideri spirituali ai secolului XX, rstoarn tiparele clasice de gndire, provocndune la o permanent punere sub semnul ntrebrii a certitudinilor i la un proces de contientizare de sine.Crile din seria Incursiune ntrun nou mod de via prezint viziunea lui Osho privind cele mai importante probleme pe care i le pun oamenii interesai de tiina transformrii de sine i de o spiritualitate adaptat la provocrile cotidiene ale vieii contemporane.

Trebuie cu orice pre? s? treci examenul de admitere? Se cuvine ca so?ul sau so?ia ta s?-?i acorde mai mult timp? Este imperios necesar s? fii apreciat la serviciu? Desigur c? ??i dore?ti s? fie a?a ?i ar fi bine ?i pl?cut dac? aceste lucruri s-ar ?nt?mpla. Dar via?a nu se desf??oar? ?ntotdeauna dup? cum ne dorim noi. Vestea bun? este, ?ns?, c? tu ?i numai tu alegi cum s? te sim?i. Tu alegi dac? o situa?ie este o catastrof? sau o problem? obi?nuit? de via??, ce poate fi ?n?eleas? ?i dep??it?.Aceast? carte ??i ofer? numeroase tehnici ?i metode practice, u?or de aplicat, prin care s? po?i schimba felul ?n care te raportezi la evenimentele de zi cu zi, astfel ?nc?t ele s? devin? mai nuan?ate, mai suportabile, mai pu?in ?nfrico??toare. Utiliz?nd exemple din via?a oamenilor obi?nui?i, te invit? ?i pe tine, cititorule, s? redevii st?p?nul g?ndurilor ?i al vie?ii tale.

n ultima vreme, gndirea pozitiv a devenit o mod. Selectnd din via numai emoiile pozitive, cutnd cu ndrjire s evitm disconfortul i s obinem fericirea, oare nu ne privm pe noi nine de o parte din propriile triri Suntem fiine umane complexe, imperfecte, angelice i machiavelice deopotriv, nu doar nite mti cu zmbetul pe buze. Reacionm adesea cu mnie, cu team, ne ndoim de propriile capaciti sau recurgem la manipulare, agresivitate i grandomanie pentru a iei din anumite situaii. Bazat pe cercetri tiinifice recente, cartea de fa ne arat cum aceste aspecte ale noastre mai puin dezirabile ne ajut s fim mai adaptabili, s dm un randament mai bun, s gsim soluii la problemele cu care ne confruntm. Alegnd s ascundem sau s reprimm acele pri din noi pe care societatea tinde s le arate cu degetul, nu facem dect s renunm la resurse personale importante i la bucuria de a fi noi nine. Captivant, scris cu umor, presrat cu multe exemple, aceast carte ne dovedete c nimic din ceea ce purtm cu noi nu este de prisos. n cele din urm, aceasta este o carte care ne spune de ce fericirea ne poate ntrista i de ce mindfulness-ul ar putea fi supraevaluat. Partea luminoas a prii ntunecate ofer un set de argumente provocatoare, fundamentate tiinific, n sprijinul unei viei echilibrate. Dac nu ai citit-o nc, ar trebui s te simi vinovat –iar acest lucru va fi spre binele tu. -- Adam Grant Simt c am cinci noi superputeri dup ce am citit aceast carte. Se dovedete c, pentru a avea o via bun i satisfctoare, nu trebuie s ncercm s fim fericii, calmi sau optimiti tot timpul. Putem nva s folosim sentimentele inconfortabile precum mnia, anxietatea, vinovia, tristeea sau plictiseala pentru a fi mai buni, mai curajoi, mai istei, mai creativi i mai persuasivi. Partea ntunecat are ntr-adevr o parte luminoas i aceast carte ne nva cum s-o folosim, pentru a duce n mod real o via mai plin de sens. -- Jane McGonigal, PhD

ntreaga noastr via suntem n cutarea unui echilibru satisfctor i sntos ntre legturile simbiotice i puterea de-a aciona liber. ns gsirea justei proporii ntre dependen i autonomie devine extrem de dificil atunci cnd individul a trecut n primii si ani de via printr-o traum simbiotic“ la nivelul relaiei de ataament cu mama sau cu ali ngrijitori apropiai. Atunci cnd sugarul sau copilul mic nu obine de la mama sa iubirea, sigurana, protecia i cldura de care are absolut nevoie, el va cdea prad unor complicaii simbiotice“ care, n dezvoltarea sa ulterioar, vor lua forma unor comportamente adictive, anxioase sau chiar schizofrenice. Prin numeroase studii de caz, Ruppert demonstreaz n ce fel abordarea bazat pe constelaiile familiale – i mai specific pe constelarea inteniei“ – poate aduce autonomia i integrarea persoanelor traumatizate i afectate de un clivaj psihic timpu-riu. Datorit multiplelor forme ale complicaiilor simbiotice“ (din familii, dar i din organizaii sau chiar la nivel de naiune), cartea este de interes nu doar pentru psihotraumatologi, dar i pentru consilieri, terapeui ori sociologi i specialiti n asisten social.

Misterul st?rne?te uimire, iar uimirea ?l face pe om s? vrea s? ?n?eleag?. – Neil ArmstrongAu existat cu adev?rat Atlantida ?i Lemuria? Cine a construit piramidele ?i ?n ce scop? C?t de avansat? era tehnologia culturilor antice?La aceste ?ntreb?ri ?i la multe altele cartea de fa?? ??i propune s? ofere r?spunsuri prin intermediul unor adev?rate autorit??i ?n domeniu.Erich von D?niken, celebrul autor al bestsellerului interna?ional Amintiri despre viitor, examineaz? piramidele egiptene, studiindu-le implica?iile astronomice ?i mesajele pe care erau menite s? le transmit?.Temerarul explorator al Americii antice, Frank Joseph, se ocup? de scandalurile arheologice ?i tentativele de suprimare a dovezilor, printre care ?pierderea“ de c?tre Muzeul Smithsonian’s a craniilor maya?e descoperite ?n insulele Aleutine.Philip Coppens, unul dintre comentatorii seriei Ancient Aliens de la History Channel, exploreaz? re?eaua celtic? de drumuri care poate fi pus? ?n leg?tur? cu o reproducere veche de 4 000 de ani a Atlantidei, realizat? pe sol.Savantul ?i exploratorul de mistere Oberon Zell-Ravenheart adun? laolalt? Gr?dina Edenului, Arborele Vie?ii, marele potop biblic, ?ncerc?nd s? descifreze misterul scufund?rii Lemuriei.Marie D. Jones ?i Larry Flaxman exploreaz? teoriile antice despre sunet ?i rezonan?? ?i ipoteza folosirii acestora ?n construirea megali?ilor ?i a piramidelor, precum ?i ?n atingerea st?rilor modificate ale con?tiin?ei.Jurnalistul Nick Redfern dezv?luie interesul st?ruitor al autorit??ilor SUA pentru trecutul nostru str?vechi, misterele religiei ?i artefactele enigmatice.Dovezi privind aceste mistere antice sunt pretutindeni – dac? ?tii ce s? cau?i.

The School of Life ofer soluii revoluionare prin care putem s ne nsuim tezaurul comun al cunoaterii umane.“ Independent on Sunday Seria Lecii de via din The School of Life alege cte un mare gnditor i pune accentul pe acele idei ale sale care au o nsemntate profund pentru noi, cei de astzi. Crile din aceast serie demonstreaz c voci importante din trecut nc au lucruri fundamentale de transmis generaiilor actuale. Sren Kierkegaard a fost un filosof danez, teolog, poet, critic social i autor religios. S-a nscut n 1813 la Copenhaga. Opera sa filosofic evideniaz primatul individului concret i importana alegerii personale i a angajamentului. Critic acerb al gnditorilor idealiti contemporani cu el, Kierkegaard este considerat primul filosof existenialist. Vei gsi aici fragmente din cele mai importante lucrri ale sale.

Cum convingi un f?pta? s?-?i recunoasc? nelegiuirile? Dar un angajat s? admit? c? a furat din companie? ?i cum vei reu?i s?-l faci pe partenerul de via?? s? admit? c? a min?it? Dac? ?n bestsellerul Spy the Lie, cei trei fo?ti agen?i CIA te-au ?nv??at cum s? detectezi ?n?el?toria, acum vei afla ?n ce fel po?i s?-l determini pe cel?lalt, ?n mod persuasiv, dar neagresiv, s? dest?inuie secretele ce-l apas?.Plec?nd de la propria experien?? de interogatori, autorii ofer? o serie de tehnici relevante pentru arta ?smulgerii“ adev?rului: ?inerea celui interogat ?n modul de g?ndire pe termen scurt (pentru a nu se mai ?ntreba ce va p??i dac? m?rturise?te), proiectarea vinov??iei (?Poate c? ceva independent de tine te-a ?mpins s? faci asta“), ra?ionalizarea ac?iunilor (?Mul?i ar fi reac?ionat la fel ?n atare condi?ii“), empatia cu f?pta?ul ?i identificarea tipurilor sale de rezisten??. Cartea este o dovad? vie c? tehnicile create pentru contraspionaj sau investiga?ii penale pot fi adaptate destul de u?or pentru interviul de angajare, ?n examin?rile din sala de tribunal, la masa negocierilor sau ?n via?a de familie.