Samuel Barondes

A NEW, MORE PRACTICAL EDITION OF THE POPULAR SCIENTIFIC GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING OTHER PEOPLE What really bothers you about your boss—or your daughter’s boyfriend? Why are you so attracted to the person you’re dating? Can you rely on your intuition about people? This book will help you find out. Drawing on extensive research, renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Samuel Barondes gives you powerful tools for understanding what people are really like and how they got that way. Now improved with easy, step-by-step “practical summaries,” these tools will help you quickly assess anyone’s tendencies, patterns, character, and sense of identity. You’ll learn how to combine these into a unified picture of who that person is. With these insights, you can choose more satisfying relationships, recognize telltale signs of dysfunction and danger, and savor the complexity and uniqueness of everyone you meet. A quick, easy system for understanding anyone!

Here is a collection of poems that are successors to Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses." Each poem is about experiences at home, at school, or at play. Each invites children to develop a poetic awareness of themselves, of others, and of their place in the world.

Complemente sua intuição! - Aprenda um sistema para entender qualquer pessoa - Identifique forças e fraquezas de caráter - Tome melhores decisões sobre a quem devemos recorrer e quem devemos evitar - Descubra como todas as personalidades são moldadas por dois grandes eventos do o conjunto de genes que nós apresentamos e o mundo específico no qual, eventualmente, nós crescemos. O que de fato o incomoda em seu chefe ou no namorado da sua filha? Será que a pessoa com quem você namora pode realmente ser um parceiro para a vida? Será que você pode mesmo confiar em sua intuição sobre as pessoas? Este livro o ajudará a descobrir. Utilizando-se de uma extensa pesquisa, o renomado psiquiatra e neurocientista Samuel Barondes nos dá ferramentas poderosas e fáceis de usar para entendermos como as pessoas realmente são e como elas ficaram do jeito que são. Essas ferramentas fornecerão um sistema de avaliação de traços, caráter e senso de identidade de uma pessoa para, então, reunir esses elementos em uma imagem unificada. Aprendendo a pensar nas pessoas desse modo, você poderá escolher relacionamentos mais satisfatórios, reconhecer sinais indicadores de disfunção e perigo e saborear a complexidade e singularidade de todos ao seu redor.

A NEW, MORE PRACTICAL EDITION OF THE POPULAR SCIENTIFIC GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING OTHER PEOPLE What really bothers you about your boss—or your daughter’s boyfriend? Why are you so attracted to the person you’re dating? Can you rely on your intuition about people? This book will help you find out. Drawing on extensive research, renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Samuel Barondes gives you powerful tools for understanding what people are really like and how they got that way. Now improved with easy, step-by-step “practical summaries,” these tools will help you quickly assess anyone’s tendencies, patterns, character, and sense of identity. You’ll learn how to combine these into a unified picture of who that person is. With these insights, you can choose more satisfying relationships, recognize telltale signs of dysfunction and danger, and savor the complexity and uniqueness of everyone you meet. A quick, easy system for understanding anyone!Supplement your intuition Identify character strengths and weaknesses Make better decisions about whom to seek out and whom to avoid Find out how all personalities are shaped by two great chance the set of genes we happen to be born with, and the world we happen to grow up in