Brian Little: 10 books

Welchen Einfluss hat unsere Persönlichkeit auf unser Leben? Und wie, wenn überhaupt, können wir sie verändern? Dieses Buch zu lesen ist wie eine Einführungsvorlesung eines charmanten, geistreichen und bewunderten Professors zur Persönlichkeitspsychologie … Mein Ich, die anderen und...

Banbury boasts a busy and eventful history. The author draws on earlier accounts, but more so on his own extensive research into unpublished records, and the recent archaeological investigations, in this entertaining and detailed exploration of the town’s entire past. Accompanied by numerous well-captioned...

Fiction: "The Wheel" by Bentley Little "We" by Bentley Little "Out of Touch" by Simon Strantzas "The Long Black Coat" by Benjamin Percy "An Excerpt from The Painted Darkness" by Brian James Freeman "In Darkness" by Shaun Jeffrey "Deathbed" by Brian Knight Special Features: "A Conversation...

In the past few decades, personality psychology has made considerable progress in raising new questions about human nature-and providing some provocative answers. New scientific research has transformed old ideas about personality based on the theories of Freud, Jung, and the humanistic psychologies...

This fun, smart read for anyone eager to better understand (and improve) themselves argues that personality is driven not by nature nor nurture—but instead by the projects we pursue, which ultimately shape the people we become. Traditionally, scientists have emphasized what they call the...

★Amazon五顆星、紐約時報、科克斯評論  一致好評 ★TED超人氣演說近四百萬人點閱   你夠了解自己嗎？明明平時待人和善，卻對家人沒有耐心？為何我們有時開朗健談，有時卻內向沈默？究竟哪個才是真實的你？如何能更透徹了解自己，發揮潛力？ 我們都比自己想像的還要複雜，需要一種思考自己與他人的新方式！ 無法正確認識自己，就會限制自己的潛力   作者布萊恩．李托教授是國際知名的人格心理學大師，連續三年獲哈佛大學畢業生評選為「最喜愛的教授」，更被國外媒體譽為「羅賓．威廉斯和愛因斯坦的綜合體」。   本書是李托教授最新的人格心理學研究，打破過去簡單的性格分類，讓我們更加了解我們是誰、為什麼有那樣的行為、我們能改變與不能改變的是什麼，以及該如何隨順我們的「本性」，讓生命獲得最好的發展。   提供一個重新看見自己與他人的新架構   透過精彩故事、研究資料、切身經驗與有趣的互動式評量，每個人都可以更完整的了解自己的不同面向，以及讓自己在不同情況適當調整，在所追求的個人目標與計畫下，能更適性發揮，獲得人生最大快樂與成就。   本書精華 ˙   ...

Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities seeks to develop a counterculture that eschews the neoliberal ideology and interloping market values in higher education. More than merely lamenting the disruptive effects of these marketplace values in higher...

This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either analyzed its impact on its socio-historical environment or treated the body as a self-enclosed semiotic and affective...

◎TED超人氣演說近四百萬人點閱 ◎哈佛最受歡迎的心理學教授、暢銷書《探索人格潛能，看見更真實的自己》 作者布萊恩．李托最新著作 誰說性格是天生的改不了？ 我們其實比自己想得還要複雜。 你認為自己是內向還是外向？平易近人還是容易翻臉？ 個性真的是天注定嗎？性格，能改變嗎？ 國際馳名的人格心理學大師李托研究發現，我們可以改變自己的性格！ 性格不僅源自先天特質與後天的社會環境，還有第三個重要來源，就是我們每天的所作所為，也就是所謂的個人計劃。例如內向的你為了完成老闆交付爭取大訂單的任務，不斷練習在客戶面前侃侃而談，久了就變得更外向更自信。 不要懷疑。雖然性格看似根深蒂固，但是涵蓋大大小小努力的個人計劃其實有強大的力量，塑造性格、改變自我認同，改變力量遠遠超乎你的想像。 改變性格，就改寫命運。先認識自己的天性、了解自己的期望，你才能最有效地追求生命中最有意義的計劃，塑造更精彩的人生，把自己變幸福！ TED...

Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries. This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient...