Gorilla Suit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gorilla Suit write by Bob Paris. This book was released on 1998-10-15. Gorilla Suit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An inside look at the world of professional bodybuilding by the former Mr. Universe, Bob Paris. "An unexpectedly eloquent guide".--"Kirkus Reviews".
The Invisible Gorilla
The Invisible Gorilla - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Invisible Gorilla write by Christopher Chabris. This book was released on 2011-06-07. The Invisible Gorilla available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 truth: Our minds don’t work the way we think they do. We think we see ourselves and the world as they really are, but we’re actually missing a whole lot. Chabris and Simons combine the work of other researchers with their own findings on attention, perception, memory, and reasoning to reveal how faulty intuitions often get us into trouble. In the process, they explain: • Why a company would spend billions to launch a product that its own analysts know will fail • How a police officer could run right past a brutal assault without seeing it • Why award-winning movies are full of editing mistakes • What criminals have in common with chess masters • Why measles and other childhood diseases are making a comeback • Why money managers could learn a lot from weather forecasters Again and again, we think we experience and understand the world as it is, but our thoughts are beset by everyday illusions. We write traffic laws and build criminal cases on the assumption that people will notice when something unusual happens right in front of them. We’re sure we know where we were on 9/11, falsely believing that vivid memories are seared into our minds with perfect fidelity. And as a society, we spend billions on devices to train our brains because we’re continually tempted by the lure of quick fixes and effortless self-improvement. The Invisible Gorilla reveals the myriad ways that our intuitions can deceive us, but it’s much more than a catalog of human failings. Chabris and Simons explain why we succumb to these everyday illusions and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against their effects. Ultimately, the book provides a kind of x-ray vision into our own minds, making it possible to pierce the veil of illusions that clouds our thoughts and to think clearly for perhaps the first time.
Understanding and Treating the Aggression of Children
Understanding and Treating the Aggression of Children - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding and Treating the Aggression of Children write by David A. Crenshaw. This book was released on 2007-09. Understanding and Treating the Aggression of Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Understanding and Treating the Aggression of Children: Fawns in Gorilla Suits provides a thorough review of the theoretical and research basis of the techniques and interventions in the treatment of aggressive and sometimes violent children. This is not a dry and sterile academic review but rather one that comes from work directly in the therapy room with thousands of hurting and in many cases traumatized children. One cannot read this book without being deeply moved and touched by the pain of these children and yet also be buoyed by their courage and willingness to persevere against formidable barriers. The metaphor of the fawn in a gorilla suit is introduced, followed by chapters covering developmental failures and invisible wounds, profound and unacknowledged losses, the implication of new findings from neuroscience, psychodynamics of aggressive children, risk factors when treating the traumatized child, special considerations when treating children in foster care, strengthening relationships with parents and helping them be more effective, enhancing relationships with direct care and instructional staff, developing mature defenses, and coping skills, creating a therapeutic milieu for traumatized children, and fostering hope and resilience.
Memory
Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memory write by Richard F. Thompson. This book was released on 2007-09-02. Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published: Washington D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2005.
Gorilla
Gorilla - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gorilla write by Ted Gott. This book was released on 2013-06-01. Gorilla available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since coming to international prominence in the mid-nineteenth century when English, French, and American scientists first encountered them, the gorilla’s physical resemblance to humans has struck a deep chord. Gorillas quickly came to dominate evolutionary debates and grew prevalent in literature, art, film, and popular culture—they are the focus of movies such as Congo and the inspiration for the video game character Donkey Kong and DC Comics super villain Gorilla Grodd. In Gorilla, Ted Grott and Kathryn Weir provide a compelling and unsettling account of our relationship with these highly intelligent animals as they fight extinction due to habitat destruction, commercial hunting, and disease. Gott and Weir describe how early European observations of gorillas in their native Africa were the genesis of literary and artistic representations such as King Kong. At the same time, gorillas became symbolic of sexuality and subconscious, uncontrolled urges, and influenced theories of criminality. It was not until Dian Fossey’s research in the 1960s and 1970s that many misconceptions about the gorilla—especially their violence—were dispelled. A notable history of the gorilla’s influence on our culture and its plight at the hands of humans, Gorilla will appeal to any animal lover wanting to learn more about this noble creature and its uncertain future.
