Download or read book It s a Jungle in There written by David A. Rosenbaum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saying "It's a jungle out there" refers to a competitive environment in which you'd better hone your skills if you hope to survive. And you'd better do what you can to keep a roof over your head, food in your belly, a leaf on your loins, and a mate who'll help pass on your genes to the next generation of jungle Jims and Janes. Distinguished professor and cognitive psychologist David Rosenbaum takes this metaphor of surviving in the wild and applies it to the competitive arena within the brain. He argues that the overarching theory of biology, Darwin's theory, should be the overarching theory of cognitive psychology, the science of mental functioning. He explores this new and intriguing idea by showing how neural elements compete and cooperate in a kind of inner jungle, where only the fittest survive. Competition within your brain does as much to shape who you are as the physical and figurative competition you face externally. Just as the jungle night seethes with noisy creatures beckoning their mates, issuing their warnings, and settling their arguments, you might have trouble falling asleep at night because the thoughts in your head are fighting for their chance at survival. Rosenbaum's pursuit of this bold idea explains why we are shaped into who we are, for better or worse, because we are the hosts of inner battlefields. Written in a light-hearted tone and with reference to hypothetical neural "creatures" making their way in a tough environment, Rosenbaum makes cognitive psychology and his theory easy to understand and exciting to ponder. Rather than rely on the series of disconnected phenomena and collection of curiosities that often constitute cognitive psychology, It's a Jungle in There provides a fascinating way to place all cognitive phenomena under one flourishing tree.
Download or read book My Backyard Jungle written by James Barilla and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThe captivating story of an urban family who welcomes wildlife into their backyard and discovers the ups and downs of sharing habitat/div
Download or read book YOU CALL IT SPORTS BUT I SAY IT S A JUNGLE OUT THERE written by Dan Jenkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last quarter century, Dan Jenkins has been fixing his cold-eyed stare and wisecracking style on the real-life Billy Clyde and Kenny Lee Pucketts of the sports world. You Call It Sports, But I Say It’s a Jungle Out There is a collection of his best work from Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Golf Digest, and his nationally syndicated column, and includes a stack of new pieces written especially for this book. Jenkins spares no one in his search for the culprits who have taken the fun out of sports: NFL owners and refs, PGA Tour administrators, basketball players who can’t read, tennis players who can’t speak English (or say anything worth hearing when they do). He also finds things worth celebrating: the electric charge given off by Arnold Palmer at his best, the excitement of a truly great college football game, or a real heavyweight champion, like Joe Louis. Overflowing with good ol’ boys, great one-liners, famous sporting events, and barroom tales, this is the best of Dan Jenkins—which is to say, it’s as good as sportswriting gets anywhere.
Download or read book The Restless Wave written by Sarah Meyrick and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2019-04-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nell comes across an old envelope in a desk drawer, the discovery sets her on a path to uncover a secret dating back to the Second World War. Told from the perspectives of Nell, her mother and her grandfather, this immensely empathetic novel explores the complexities of family dynamics, as each generation tries to make sense of the world and the events of their time.
Download or read book BY FORCES UNSEEN written by Richard Masters and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the broad, smooth, well-lit highway of everyday reality takes an abrupt detour into the shadowy byways of the preternatural, signposts can no longer be relied upon. The extraordinary becomes the usual. Fate is in the hands of FORCES UNSEEN. Is the house at 99 SYCAMORE CIRCLE haunted, as everyone claims, or is it animated by something else? An abused child discovers an enchanted spring in the woods. What will BENJI do with the WISH the spring grants him? THE MAN WHO LOVED TREES is a true child of nature, a reclusive old man who lives in the forest. When the people of a nearby town kill him, nature reacts. APRIL AND JUNE are two sisters devoted to one another. After June is murdered, she reaches back from beyond the grave to save her sister from a similar fate. Jens De Bekker is a GAMBLER in debt to a loan shark. His problems multiply when he employs the dark powers of an evil entity to repay his debt. Dan feels lucky when he finally finds a decent place to live. Unfortunately, his new APARTMENT has a serious bug problem: the flesh-eating kind. The CAVE is the story of a wealthy but bored and unfulfilled man, Mike Dodge, who craves excitement through dangerous pursuits like spelunking. When he finds himself trapped by a cave-in, he explores the rest of the cavern and is delighted to discover another way out. However, when he finally walks into the sunlight, he finds that he is no longer in the present but in the North America of 17,000 years ago.
Download or read book Renegade Valkyrie written by Stacy Claflin and published by Stacy Claflin. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of One Liners written by Geoff Tibballs and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 10,000 side-splitting one-line jokes arranged in categories from bestselling humour editor Geoff Tibballs. 'Is my wife dissatisfied with my body? A small part of me says yes.' 'Letting the cat out of the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back in.' 'I read somewhere that 26 is too old to still live with your parents. It was on a note, in my room.'
Download or read book The Well at the World s End written by A. J. Mackinnon and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a wonderful book ... warm, humorous and entertaining.” – Bookseller+Publisher When A.J. Mackinnon quits his job in Australia, he knows only that he longs to travel to the Well at the World’s End, a mysterious pool on a remote Scottish island whose waters, legend has it, hold the secret to eternal youth. Determined not to fly (‘It would feel like cheating’), he sets out with a rucksack, some fireworks and a map of the world and trusts chance to take care of the rest. By land and by sea, by train, truck, horse and yacht, he makes his way across the globe – and through a series of hilarious adventures. He survives a bus crash in Australia, marries a princess in Laos, is attacked by Komodo dragons and does time in a Chinese jail. The next lift – or the next near-miss – is always just a happy accident away. This is the astonishing true story of a remarkable voyage, an old-fashioned quest by a modern-day adventurer. “One of the most enjoyable books I have ever read ... a marvellous read by a travel writer with a unique style.” – The Canberra Times A.J. Mackinnon is the author of The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow and The Well at the World’s End. He was born in Australia in 1963 and he spent his childhood between England and Australia, travelling as a small boy with his family on the last P&O liners to sail between the two countries. His interests include painting, philosophy, writing, conjuring and home-made fireworks.
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Download or read book Getting Off the Radiator written by Dorothy Preston and published by Shanti Arts Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothy Preston’s debut memoir, Getting Off the Radiator: A Story of Shame, Guilt, and Forgiveness, is the story of a child growing up in a twenty-eight-room mansion infested with roaches and overrun with hippies, thieves, drug abusers, alcoholics, and a murderer. The youngest of seven children abandoned by their father, Preston watched while her mother struggled to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads while also diving deeper into the bottle, standing in line for welfare, and renting rooms in their home for income. Given the cast of characters who passed through the house and the absence of parental guidance, the family lived the life of a twisted fairy tale in which shame, guilt, and anger played leading roles. Preston recounts her journey through childhood into adulthood, her years waging battles with her difficult past, overcoming adversity, practicing forgiveness, and cherishing the love of a family whose bonds cannot be broken. Beautifully written and accompanied by intimate family photographs, this is a memoir that breaks open what it means to live with a difficult past while struggling to embrace a hopeful future.
Download or read book Trusting the River written by Jean Aspen and published by Epicenter Press. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Aspen, daughter of arctic explorer and author Constance Helmericks, began life in the wilderness. Throughout six decades, the natural world has remained central to her. What began as a series of letters to her son, Lucas, when she and her husband Tom set out to search for a different future, evolved over the seasons into a many snapshots of her remarkable life. All those seemingly random threads have woven the tapestry of her journey and the journey of the river flowing by the remote cabin. In Trusting the River, she closes the circle of her mother's books and her own early work, Arctic Daughter.
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Father and Son Soul written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad. Chicken Soup for the Father and Son Soul takes a peak into the lives of fathers and sons, sharing the important male milestones from birth through childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, the senior years, and every step in between. This is a celebration of how fathers and sons carry each other along life's journey. Share the story of one man who didn't think much of becoming a father until the day he laid eyes on his son, and how in a matter of moments his perspective on life and being a dad had profoundly changed forever, and the touching story of a young boy who finds the father he always longed for in a special stepdad, as well as the story of the love and respect between a father-in-law and son-in-law that appears when least expected. Readers will be inspired by the stories of sons looking up to their fathers and learning by example, and fathers recollecting their own childhoods and relationships with their own dads. These insightful stories show men and boys working through the ups and downs of life, learning as they go and becoming better because of their relationship with each other. These powerful and poignant stories are written from every point of view—fathers, sons, grandfathers, mothers, and wives—everyone who has been deeply touched by the father and son relationship.
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Download or read book Haunting License written by Carol J. Perry and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a fisherman is murdered, Florida innkeeper Maureen Doherty and her spirit sleuths must cast a wide net to catch a killer... Greetings from Haven, Florida, a quaint, scenic old town on the Gulf Coast where Massachusetts transplant Maureen Doherty and her excessively friendly Golden retriever are the newest proprietors of the charming local inn…along with its many ghostly tenants! It’s June in Haven, Florida, a “between seasons” time in the tourism business, and Maureen’s Haven House Inn is feeling the pinch. There are plenty of ghosts in residence, but Maureen needs living guests to pay the bills. Inspired by an old brochure she finds in a trunk she inherited along with the inn from her mysterious benefactor Penelope Josephine Gray, she gets the brilliant idea to revive a June fishing tournament from twenty years ago, hoping to reel in anglers who’d love to catch the Gulf Coast’s popular kingfish and take home a trophy. But one fisherman won’t make it to the tournament. While walking on the beach with her golden retriever Finn, Maureen discovers a body. When Officer Frank Hubbard arrives, he recognizes local charter boat fisherman Eddie Manuel. Now it’s up to Maureen and her spirited sleuths to sort through the red herrings and bait a hook for a killer before someone else ends up sleeping with the fishes . . .
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Board of Agriculture in India written by India. Board of agriculture and Animal Husbandry and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
