Nursing Home Care category: 238 books
Smarter Than You Think
How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
A revelatory and timely look at how technology boosts our cognitive abilities—making us smarter, more productive, and more creative than ever
It’s undeniable—technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding...
Radical Evolution
The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
In Radical Evolution, bestselling author Joel Garreau, a reporter and editor for the Washington Post, shows us that we are at an inflection point in history. As you read this, we are engineering the next stage of human evolution. Through advances in genetic, robotic, information and nanotechnologies,...
by Ryan James
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Have you ever wondered why there are some people you take an instant dislike to and others to whom you gravitate? Obviously, there's something else happening besides their verbal communications that are attracting or repelling you, right? You might just discover what that is by reading our book. ...
Why Us?
How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In this daring treatise on the current state of scientific inquiry, James Le Fanu challenges the common assumption that further progress in genetic research and neuroscience must ultimately explain all there is to know about life and man’s place in the world. On the contrary, he argues, the most...
by Stephen T. Asma
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Consider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases—all on the fly. Or think of a comedy troupe riffing on a couple of cues from the audience until the whole room is erupting with laughter. Or maybe it’s...
Born That Way
Genes, Behavior, Personality
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
A comprehensive view of the most heated debate of our time -- are genes the primary influence on human personality and behavior? In presenting the recent findings, William Wright argues that in a century dominated by psychoanalytic thought, there has been an insistence that humans, unlike all other...
by Jennifer H. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Diabetes is a condition where the glucose levels in a person's blood is too high. If left untreated, diabetes can progress over time, resulting in serious complications such as blindness, heart attacks, and strokes. Unfortunately, there is currently no medical cure for diabetes.
A healthy lifestyle...
The Murderer Next Door
Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
As acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, "People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils never forget." Though we may like to believe that murderers are pathological misfits and hardened criminals,...
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire-- Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What WeDo
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Now available in paperback?a provocative new look at biology, evolution, and human behavior ?as disturbing [as it is] fascinating? (Publishers Weekly).
Why are most neurosurgeons male and most kindergarten teachers female? Why aren?t there more women on death row? Why do so many male politicians...
Health Visiting
Preparation for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
The fourth edition of this seminal text retains its focus on placing the health visitor at the forefront of supporting and working with children, families, individuals and communities. Health Visiting: Preparation for Practice has been fully revised and updated to reflect the changes and developments...
Sperm Wars
Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2006
Published to acclaim and controversy a decade ago, Sperm Wars is a revolutionary thesis about sex that turned centuries-old biological assumptions on their head. Evolution has programmed men to conquer and monopolize women while women, without ever knowing they are doing it, seek the best genetic...
The Mating Mind
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
At once a pioneering study of evolution and an accessible and lively reading experience, The Mating Mind marks the arrival of a prescient and provocative new science writer. Psychologist Geoffrey Miller offers the most convincing–and radical–explanation for how and why the human mind evolved.
Consciousness,...
Mental Illness and Your Town
37 Ways for Communities to Help and Heal
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
A Blueprint for Community Action From Award-Winning Journalist Larry Hayes
Written with authority and compassion, this is the book that rescues mental illness from the shadows and takes the disability into the community.
Learn how each person can play a role to help those who so often...
by Desmond Gahan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Fear is the enemy of success. Large rewards only result from taking comparably large risks. If you're ruled by fear, you'll never take enough risks and never achieve success you deserve.
If I've learned anything in this life, it's that the actions that scared me the most at the time--leaving...