Human Development

Esther Perel takes on tough questions, grappling with the obstacles and anxieties that arise when our quest for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. She invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home.

The power of effective listening is recognised as the essential tool of good management. In this book, Nancy Kline describes how we can achieve this and presents a step-by-step guide that can be used in any situation. Whether you want to have more productive meetings, solve business problems, create bold strategies, or build stronger relationships, this book offers you a new world of possibilities.

Finding love can be hard. Being single can feel even harder. In Love Life, world-renowned coach and New York Times bestselling author Matthew Hussey provides a practical roadmap for letting go of past relationships, overcoming the fear of getting left behind, and finding the love we want.

Judgement is in the eye of the beholder Adrian Harvey, London wine merchant, has lost the Christmas spirit. Someone is stalking him, stealing his post and vandalising his shop. When the police question him after an anonymous tip-off, he's more than anxious. He's scared. And who is that nun? Long time neighbour and friend DI Beatrice Stubbs is dispatched to Germany to investigate a series of apparently related art thefts, so Adrian seizes the chance to flee the city. He follows her to Hamburg to do some Christmas shopping and visit his ex. Yet the stalker is still on his heels. While ...

Nothing is more important in today’s competitive work environment than the strength of an organization’s culture. But how do you change a culture and strengthen it to help your organization? How do you increase productivity and engagement among your team while lowering employee turnover, workplace drama, and confusion?This book provides leaders with loads of answers to solve their company culture problems. It contains proven strategies that will have an enormous impact on the direction of any organization. With this book, anyone, in any institution can become a great leader and build an...

From the author of the number-one New York Times and number-one audio bestseller The Millionaire Messenger, an electrifying and inspiring work that provides the keys to motivating yourself to satisfy your highest, most essential creative and intellectual needs. Burchard, a world-renowned motivational speaker and best-selling author, makes a compelling case that it's time for an entirely new approach to understanding what drives human ambition and achievement today.

After speaking out about how weak and insecure men control women in relationships in 2009 on several globally televised shows, Tony Gaskins launched his career as a life coach and relationship counselor. Since then, Gaskins, has become one of America’s foremost experts on love and relationships. Drawing inspiration from the Bible and from his own personal failures and successes, Gaskins offers a framework for how to recognize the right person to settle down with, how to set standards that promote loving relationships, and more.

Amid growing international concerns about income inequality, labor abuses, racial injustice, and disinformation online, Conscience Incorporated examines the gaps in current corporate social responsibility measures and what more needs be done to address these challenges. The rise of new technologies such as smartphones and social media have made it easier than ever to document and spread awareness of corporate actions. Despite these developments, large corporations often fail to meaningfully address the human rights abuses linked to their business models and practices.

After three decades of study into human behavior, from being a Hollywood actor, to going to college to study experiential spiritual psychology, and training with many great masters and teachers, to going on his own hero's journey, David believes he has formulated a very easy to ingest and digest, simple, map to why we are why we are, and how we can evolve to our greatest potential. This is an operating manual to the human experience.

Inside our clothes we are all naked - and sometimes we should sit in a business meeting and think how ridiculous we would all be if we saw ourselves like that.This thought is the ultimate counter to pomposity - and that's an enemy to all of us. If you keep in mind how ridiculous we all are, then, strangely enough, the world becomes a kinder, more reliable place, and you start to understand people, and how to influence them and persuade them in a different way.And that is vital. Business development is primarily about people - and when you boil it down, it is about changing people's minds. ...

The Art of Human Chess: A Study Guide to Winning is a masterpiece. Its intended purpose is to teach the science of winning, giving the ordinary person on the streets and the person fresh out of college a chance to compete with the ruthless sharks in today's marketplace.

Embark on a transformative odyssey that weaves together the timeless wisdom of the past, the visionary possibilities of the future, and the boundless potential that resides within each of us. In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover invites you to explore a unique integrated Zen Mormon Quantum Universalist spiritual philosophy - a framework that draws upon diverse traditions to uncover the creative power of the unitary field of potentiality. Born into a devout Mormon household, Westover's spiritual journey took an unexpected turn when exposure to Zen Buddhism and exposer to the...

Dr. John Gottman, the country's preeminent researcher on marriage, is famous for his Love Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle where he deciphers the mysteries of human relationships through scientific research. His 35 years of exploration have earned him numerous awards, including from the National Institute of Mental Health, the American Psychological Association, and the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Now, Dr. Gottman offers surprising findings and advice on the characteristic that is at the heart of all relationships: trust.

This audiobook will provide you with hands-on practical ways to make the most of your human capital - either as a business owner or as a human resource manager. With accurate and up-to-date research in HR development, you will find this book helpful now and in the future of your business. This ultimate guide is a must-have for all HR managers and small business owners.

Master the art of thinking with Mental Models: An AI's Guide to 100 Thinking Tools Humans Overlook. This audiobook transforms complex concepts into actionable strategies, making life’s toughest decisions easier to tackle. Ever felt stuck in a problem, unsure how to navigate the noise? Or missed opportunities because you didn’t see all the angles? This audiobook is your shortcut to clarity and creativity.

The Human Magnet Syndrome: The Codependent Narcissist Trap is a complete rewrite of Ross's first book. Ross provides a more explicit rendering of The Human Magnet Syndrome, that includes new theories, explanations, and concepts. The information on Gaslighting and The Narcissistic Abuse Syndrome, like the rest of the information, is cutting edge and completely original. This audiobook contains many more case examples and stories of Ross's own codependency recovery.

The normal human way of doing things is rife with inefficiencies. It means starting a new writing project and blankly staring at your screen, waiting for inspiration to hit you. It means reading books at such a slow pace that you never have time to finish them in your busy schedule. It means having a capricious mind that jumps from one distraction to the next, stifling your ability to learn and retain information. To become superhuman is to achieve superhuman memory, reading, and writing skills.

Being human sounds like an obvious pursuit, but when change is constant and uncertainty is the norm, we all need some encouragement to lean into who we have the full potential to be. The task of preparing ourselves for and becoming comfortable with the unknown has shifted the way people live and work. Pivoting whilst staying true to oneself seems not only necessary to survive, but to grow and thrive. The personal and shared success can be multi-directional. Generally, it starts with pursuing self-awareness, the magic ingredient needed to authentically navigate personal challenges, ...

What are We Forgetting? Remarks presented as a closing address about the need to keep in mind spiritual values in successful international community development projects, offered to the Expert Consultation of the CORE Group, Kellogg Center, Gallaudet University Washington DC, June 21-24,1998; revised 2011. Alonzo Wind was then Child Survivor Coordinator, Medical Care Development Inc., Washington, D.C. and member of the Planning Committee for the Expert Consultation. He has worked since 1980 in international development programs in Latin America, Africa and Asia. He is currently a Foreign ...

Long before the term cuckold was a common word thrown around in the media, Dr. Ley explored the history and science of cuckolding. This groundbreaking work explores why and how some men not only allow, but encourage, their wives to pursue sexual relationships with other men.