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Does your dog get sad when you leave for the day? Does your cat purr because she loves you? Do bears attack when they’re angry? You can’t very well ask them. In fact, scientists haven’t been able to reach a consensus on whether animals even have emotions like humans do, let alone how to study them. Yet studies of animal emotion are critical for understanding human emotion and mental illness. In The Nature of the Beast, pioneering neuroscientist David J. Anderson describes a new approach to solving this problem.

In the vein of the international bestselling Freakonomics, award-winning journalist Matthew Syed reveals the hidden clues to success—in sports, business, school, and just about anything else that you’d want to be great at. Fans of Predictably Irrational and Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping...

In this illuminating book, brain scientist and horsewoman Janet Jones describes human and equine brains working together. Using plain language, she explores the differences and similarities between equine and human ways of negotiating the world. Mental abilities—like seeing, learning, fearing, trusting, and focusing—are discussed from both human and horse perspectives. Throughout, true stories of horses and handlers attempting to understand each other—sometimes successfully, sometimes not—help to illustrate the principles.

De Waal reviews the rise and fall of the mechanistic view of animals and opens our minds to the idea that animal minds are far more intricate and complex than we have assumed. De Waal's landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal - and human - intelligence.

Dr. Dunkley explains NeuroScience and how it relates to Golf Equipment Manufacturing and Practice. Including a short discussion abut the Inner Game of Golf and Zen Golf. Several key areas of the Inner Game that most Golfers are never taught correctly are highlighted. Vision 54 and the 19th Hole aspects.

NeuroScience and the Zen Golf constructs of Balance and ideas of breathing on the golf course.

TWO LOST HOURS ABOARD A UFO—THE ABDUCTION OF BETTY AND BARNEY HILL One of the most extraordinary UFO tales of our time—a thrilling, otherworldly, and wildly entertaining adventure that enraptured America and stands as the quintessential extraterrestrial encounter "True believers will see...

Parce que le sport, c’est bien plus qu’une question de performance. C’est un terrain d’apprentissage pour la vie. Dans La vie c’est du sport, je vous invite à découvrir des histoires humaines, inspirantes et vraies. Des parcours d’athlètes, de parents, d’entraîneurs et de passionnés qui partagent comment le sport les a transformés sur le terrain, mais surtout dans la vie. Ici, on parle d’intelligence émotionnelle, de neurosciences, de plaisir de jouer, de dépassement de soi, de relations humaines, de résilience et de tout ce que le sport nous apprend sur nous-mêmes. ...