Download or read book What Makes Us Tick written by Hugh Mackay and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hugh Mackay is one of this country’s most perceptive social commentators' - Sydney Morning Herald Insightful and engaging, What Makes Us Tick? helps to explain what drives us, concerns us and is important to each of us – from Australia's leading social researcher, Hugh Mackay. Dr Mackay has spent a lifetime listening to people talk about their dreams, fears, hopes, disappointments and passions. As well, his bestselling books have documented the impact of the changes that have been radically reshaping our society. In What Makes Us Tick? he reflects on some of the things that don't change, identifies ten desires that drive us all, and asks: 'Why do we talk as if we're rational, but act as if we're not?'; 'Why do some people always want to take control?'; 'Why do we seek change, yet resist it?'; 'Why do we want more of the things that have failed to satisfy us?'. His exploration of these and other issues goes to the heart of some of life's big questions. In this new edition Hugh Mackay offers a postscript that delves into the many concerns that were raised by people around the country when he was first promoting What Makes Us Tick?. They include: 'Why do people become workaholics?'; 'How can religious people hold such irrational beliefs?'; 'Why are so many people hooked on social media?'; 'What about gender and generational differences?'; 'Shouldn't our desire for security be on the list?', as well as many other issues that resonate with modern Australia. He also offers more thoughts on ... the desire to be taken seriously; the desire for 'my place'; the desire for something to believe in; the desire to connect; the desire to be useful. Raising all these ideas, this is a book that will explain us to ourselves. Hugh Mackay is a psychologist, social researcher and novelist, and is the author of the the bestselling Advance Australia... Where?
Download or read book What Makes People Tick written by Des Hunt and published by AWC Business Solutions Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Australia’s quiet best-selling book and practical guide to self-discovery and personal growth. In it you will discover: • Your own personality style and the style of those you live and work with • How to see yourself as others see you • The strengths, shortcomings and hidden talents of the different styles • What style is best suited to what job • How to pick another’s style within 30 seconds of meeting them. • How to relate better with others • How to avoid personality clashes • How to enrich your relationships What Makes People Tick contains a unique, quick and easy-to-complete questionnaire to discover personality types as well as a Job Compatibility Indicator to pinpoint the most suitable personality type for each occupation. What Makes People Tick is ‘must know’ information for people who have to deal with, live with, sell to, and generally get on with other people.
Download or read book What Makes People Tick written by Chris Rose and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have you ever wondered what ‘makes people tick’, or needed to know how to persuade people to do something, then you should read this book. It reveals how, although we all share one planet, we are in effect in three separate worlds – the worlds of Settlers, Prospectors and Pioneers, worlds that are hidden until you know what to look for.
Download or read book Know What Makes Them Tick written by Max Siegel and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-01-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Siegel shows us how to successfully navigate situations that may arise at work, in the home, or in personal relationships. More, he shows how, if the cards are played right, everyone walks away a winner—an empowering feeling if ever there was one.” — Chris Gardner, author of The Pursuit of Happyness and Start Where You Are “Winners attract winners and smart leaders attract smart followers…. If you want to grow both personally and professionally, then join the winners and leaders who find wisdom with Max Siegel." — Chuck Wielgus, CEO of USA Swimming From highly innovative and successful business executive Max Siegel comes a straightforward and original self-help book that will give readers the upper hand in almost any kind of negotiation process.
Download or read book The Fantastic Body written by Howard Bennett and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fantastic Body is the ultimate kids' reference guide to the human body! Jam-packed with fun facts, cool diagrams, and gross stories, and written by a successful, practicing pediatrician, this go-to guide will captivate curious readers for hours on end. Kids will take their learning beyond reading the book with DIY projects that demonstrate different bodily functions and tips for making their regular checkups less scary. Through humor, science, and engaging illustrations, this fun and comprehensive reference book is perfect for kids who want to know more about the mysterious stuff going on inside their bodies.
Download or read book What Makes Us Tick written by Hugh Mackay and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hugh Mackay is one of this country’s most perceptive social commentators' - Sydney Morning Herald Insightful and engaging, What Makes Us Tick? helps to explain what drives us, concerns us and is important to each of us – from Australia's leading social researcher, Hugh Mackay. Dr Mackay has spent a lifetime listening to people talk about their dreams, fears, hopes, disappointments and passions. As well, his bestselling books have documented the impact of the changes that have been radically reshaping our society. In What Makes Us Tick? he reflects on some of the things that don't change, identifies ten desires that drive us all, and asks: 'Why do we talk as if we're rational, but act as if we're not?'; 'Why do some people always want to take control?'; 'Why do we seek change, yet resist it?'; 'Why do we want more of the things that have failed to satisfy us?'. His exploration of these and other issues goes to the heart of some of life's big questions. In this new edition Hugh Mackay offers a postscript that delves into the many concerns that were raised by people around the country when he was first promoting What Makes Us Tick?. They include: 'Why do people become workaholics?'; 'How can religious people hold such irrational beliefs?'; 'Why are so many people hooked on social media?'; 'What about gender and generational differences?'; 'Shouldn't our desire for security be on the list?', as well as many other issues that resonate with modern Australia. He also offers more thoughts on ... the desire to be taken seriously; the desire for 'my place'; the desire for something to believe in; the desire to connect; the desire to be useful. Raising all these ideas, this is a book that will explain us to ourselves. Hugh Mackay is a psychologist, social researcher and novelist, and is the author of the the bestselling Advance Australia... Where?
Download or read book Human Body Explorations written by Karen E. Kalumuck and published by Kendall Hunt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorations that will lead to a better understanding of many of the intriguing and mysterious aspects of the body, both macroscopic and microscopic.
Download or read book What Makes Ryan Tick written by Susan Hughes and published by Hope Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An update to Susan Hughes acclaimed Ryan, A Mothers Story of her Hyperactive/Tourette Syndrome child. It covers the very difficult adolescent years - a period when he had to be placed in a residential treatment facility - and the subsequent period of returning home and pursuing a normal life following an excellent response to the right combination of medication, family and school support. This is a hair-raising and heart rendering story that should be read by everyone who has ever interacted with a difficult child.
Download or read book The Restless Clock written by Jessica Riskin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A core principle of modern science holds that a scientific explanation must not attribute will or agency to natural phenomena. "The Restless Clock" examines the origins and history of this, in particular as it applies to the science of living things. This is also the story of a tradition of radicals--dissenters who embraced the opposite view, that agency is an essential and ineradicable part of nature. Beginning with the church and courtly automata of early modern Europe, Jessica Riskin guides us through our thinking about the extent to which animals might be understood as mere machines. We encounter fantastic robots and cyborgs as well as a cast of scientific and philosophical luminaries, including Descartes and Leibnitz, Lamarck and Darwin, whose ideas gain new relevance in Riskin's hands. The book ends with a riveting discussion of how the dialectic continues in genetics, epigenetics, and evolutionary biology, where work continues to naturalize different forms of agency. "The Restless Clock "reveals the deeply buried roots of current debates in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology.
Download or read book What Makes Silicon Valley Tick written by Tapan Munroe Ph. D. and published by Nova Vista Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanford University, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Apple, Cisco, Google - What makes Silicon Valley such a resilient, powerful hotbed of innovation? This work shows CEOs, academics, investors and government and business leaders how the best practices of this innovative ecosystem in California can create world-class high-tech economies elsewhere.
Download or read book Can You Die of a Broken Heart written by Nikki Stamp and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the vein of Gut and The Brain That Changes Itself, a gripping exploration into the inner workings of the heart and how emotions and lifestyle affect every beat. 'Dr Stamp is so clearly in love with her subject: that wonderful and yet still mysterious organ, the human heart.' Michael Mosley When actress Debbie Reynolds died a day after her beloved daughter, Carrie Fisher, the world diagnosed it as 'heartbreak'. But what's the evidence? Does emotional upheaval affect the heart? Can love, or chocolate, really heal our heart problems? And why do we know so much about heart attacks in men, when they are more fatal in women? Heart and lung surgeon Dr Nikki Stamp takes us into the operating theatre, explaining what she sees in patients with heart complications and how a life-saving transplant works. Stamp fell in the love with the heart as a child and continues to be fascinated by its workings and the whole-of-life experiences that affect it. Rich with anecdotes, and insights for maintaining heart health, Can You Die of a Broken Heart? is a blockbuster from a uniquely positioned young specialist.
Download or read book What Makes You Tick written by Geert M. N. Verschuuren and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book explores scientific determinism and its relation to the nature of material and nonmaterial entities. It proposes a new approach to benefit neuroscience in dealing with the human mind and mental concepts"--
Download or read book What Makes an Opossum Tick written by Lyn Smith and published by Piscataqua Press. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bailey visits his grandfather's house in Maine, he learns about an opossum who lives in the backyard.
Download or read book Human Psychology 101 written by Alan G. Fields and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the human mind is a complicated array of wirings of the past combined with the physical and chemical inclinations of the present. Psychology is the study of the human brain, but it's so much more than a mere dissection of the gooey gray mass trapped in our skulls; it's a study of what makes us tick as individuals and as a species. Human Psychology 101: Understanding the Human Mind and What Makes People Tick is meant to show you the facets of a human being and how they work together to make a person tick. It's not a psychological treatise or a DSM-V. It's a collection of my own research of psychology and stories from my life and those of my friends and acquaintances that help illustrate the principles I'm going to be telling you about. I will be dividing this book into seven aspects of human psychology: emotions, personality, decision-making, morality, perception, behavior, and relationships. To understand what makes someone tick is to have mastered a sort of psychological sleight of hand, and I hope that this book serves as a useful step on your way to mastery over that brand of magic trick. How human beings think and behave is an unendingly fascinating study, one that reveals how simple and elegant and, on the other hand, complex and mysterious we all are. I hope you are as pumped as I am to think about the inner workings of how people tick.
Download or read book A Controversial Theory on What Makes Us Tick written by Lyn Williams and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The object of this book is an attempt to help you understand why you behave the way you do. Written in a common sense way and without any technical jargon.No attempt is made to prove or disprove any other theory but to put forward a completely new way of looking at yourself.Analyzing your own emotions and an explanation of where they come from. Why we have different personalities/character and why different people react in a different way to the 'same' situation. The author does not pretend to be any kind of professional expert, but an expert only in common sense added to by experiences of life.You may not like some of the things you read but by accepting the theory and studying your emotions the author believes it can enrich your life.A controversial look at psychology and psychiatry.
Download or read book What Makes Us Tick written by Linda Faulkner and published by . This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Makes Us Tick written by Rebecca Rushmore and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
