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by Dr. Bob Rotella
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Filled with insightful stories about golf, Dr. Bob Rotella’s delightful book will improve the game of even the most casual weekend player.
Dr. Bob Rotella is one of the hottest performance consultants in America today. Among his many professional clients are Nick Price (last year's Player...
The Invisible Gorilla
And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Reading this book will make you less sure of yourself—and that’s a good thing. In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology’s most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific findings to demonstrate an important...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
“The interpretation of dreams is the via regia to a knowledge of the unconscious element in our physical life.”—Sigmund Freud
Freud’s discovery that the dream is the means by which the unconscious can be explored is undoubtedly the most revolutionary step forward in the entire history...
How to Relax
Stop Being Busy, Take a Break and Get Better Results While Doing Less
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
How to Relax, Slow Down, Recharge Your Batteries and Reclaim Control over Your Life
Today’s world is charging at a breakneck speed. People are working over twelve hours every single day, catching extra minutes of sleep in the metro, and completely giving up on the antiquated notion of time...
The Antidote
Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Self-help books don't seem to work. Few of the many advantages of modern life seem capable of lifting our collective mood. Wealth—even if you can get it—doesn't necessarily lead to happiness. Romance, family life, and work often bring as much stress as joy. We can't even agree on what "happiness"...
How to Build Self-Discipline
Resist Temptations and Reach Your Long-Term Goals
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
How to Develop Self-Discipline, Resist Temptations and Reach Your Long-Terms Goals
If you want to make positive changes in your life and achieve your long-term goals, I can’t think of a better way to do it than to learn how to become more self-disciplined.
Science has figured out a...
Engine Airflow HP1537
A Practical Guide to Airflow Theory, Parts Testing, Flow Bench Testing and Analy zing Data to Increase Performance for Any Street or Racing Engine
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
This informative, fully illustrated handbook includes basic discussion on the science of engine airflow and relationships, how flowbenches work, testing individual engine components, how to analyze the data, calibration issues, intake and exhaust tuning, engine formulas, and putting it all together for maximum performance.
by Wael Hikal Carreón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 19, 2013
El presente volumen expone los conceptos de la Psicología aplicados a la Criminología Tradicional o Etiológica, tradición que se concreta en la llamada Criminología Clínica, la cual ha sido relativamente desplazada del primer plano de los estudios de la materia por la Criminología Sociológica...
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Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
**The instant New York Times bestseller!
A Wall Street Journal Best Science Book of the Year!
A Popular Science Best Science Book of the Year!
From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation...
Twists, Tilings, and Tessellations
Mathematical Methods for Geometric Origami
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Twists, Tilings, and Tessellation describes the underlying principles and mathematics of the broad and exciting field of abstract and mathematical origami, most notably the field of origami tessellations. It contains folding instructions, underlying principles, mathematical concepts, and many beautiful photos of the latest work in this fast-expanding field.
by Andrew Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Practical Business Statistics, Sixth Edition, is a conceptual, realistic, and
matter-of-fact approach to managerial statistics that carefully maintains–but
does not overemphasize–mathematical correctness. The book offers a deep
understanding of how to learn from data and how to deal with uncertainty...
Is That a Fact?
Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
An entertaining and digestible volume that demystifies science
Eat this and live to 100. Don’t, and die. Today, hyperboles dominate the media, which makes parsing science from fiction an arduous task when deciding what to eat, what chemicals to avoid, and what’s best for the environment....
by Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2004
Napoleon's Buttons is the fascinating account of seventeen groups of molecules that have greatly influenced the course of history. These molecules provided the impetus for early exploration, and made possible the voyages of discovery that ensued. The molecules resulted in grand feats of engineering...
How Not to Be Wrong
The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands
The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows...