![]() ![]() This TED speaker will tell you what the research really says. In the book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, author and distinguished professor of psychology Lisa Feldman Barrett sets out to clear the air. If you’re ready to get on the right course, look no further. ![]() These myths persist because “ emotional intelligence” industries, health professionals, and scientists often are not up-to-date with the current research. It’s a bit crazy how many of us believe these and many other myths about emotion. And here’s another: emotions come from the limbic, or “reptilian” brain and we must use our “rational” brain to control them. Here’s one you might believe that’s wrong: the world has universal facial expressions to express emotion, like smiling for joy. And it doesn’t help that there are tons of widely believed myths out there about emotions. But as we got older our emotions became increasingly more complex and confusing. ![]() We dropped our ice cream cone, we were sad. When we were young, emotions seemed pretty simple. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*: ![]()
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![]() The Puritans who ended up on your side of the Atlantic, you know, they were escaping religious persecution, but they were British. You know, the 13 colonies were a distinct phase of British colonialism. ![]() SANGHERA: Yeah, I mean, America likes to think of itself as anti-colonial, but America itself is a creation of the British Empire. readers, which says - if I might paraphrase - just because you guys rebelled against the British Empire in 1776 doesn't mean the story doesn't apply to you. SIMON: You've got an opening chapter added for and addressing U.S. Sathnam Sanghera joins us now from London. His new book, "Empireland," has been acclaimed in Britain and just published in the United States. ![]() Author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera believes that Britain and the rest of the world should learn more of it. A lot of history - Indian, British, African, empire - is packed into that one sentence. The prime minister of Britain, Rishi Sunak, was born in Southampton to Hindu parents of Indian Punjabi descent who were born in Southeast Africa and immigrated to Britain. ![]() ![]() Chizea's brilliant prose and storytelling skills are fully apparent as she reveals a young woman's struggle to find balance in her life and in herself while straddling physical and social borders of two distinctly different cultures. Despite loss and grief over a decade, Ada's heart becomes her own true compass and guides her to fully become the leader and activist she'd always been deep inside. ![]() College provides Ada with opportunities for academic success, personal experimentation, and full independence, as well as heartbreak. Soon she seeks independence from her mother, love on her own terms, as well as sexual autonomy. While protesting the Vietnam war in America, Ada forges friendships with other nonconformist youth: free-spirited Stacey, a boisterous hippie, and Sal, a philosophical wanderlust. ![]() ![]() In Nigeria-born, America-based author Ebele Chizea's stunning debut novel, teenager Ada and her mother flee the civil war of their West African home and come to America in 1966, where Ada soon discovers-and blossoms within-the US counterculture movement, developing a drive for anti-war activism which she takes with her back to Nabuka only to uncover new truths about herself as well as family secrets that threaten to shatter her plans for the future. ![]() ![]() This boxed set contains all eight books: THE LAST WISH, SWORD OF DESTINY, BLOOD OF ELVES, TIME OF CONTEMPT, BAPTISM OF FIRE, THE TOWER OF THE SWALLOW, THE LADY OF THE LAKE, SEASON OF STORMS. Translated by Danusia Stok and David French.Īndrzej Sapkowski, winner of the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement award, started an international phenomenon with his Witcher series. Title: The Witcher Boxed Set Author: Andrzej Sapkowski Publisher: Hachette Set includes: The Last Wish Sword of Destiny Blood of Elves Time of Contempt. ![]() and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth. Yet he is no ordinary killer: he hunts the vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent.īut not everything monstrous-looking is evil not everything fair is good. In Sapkowskis works, 'witchers' are beast hunters who develop supernatural abilities at a young age to battle wild beasts and monsters. The Witcher's magic powers and lifelong training have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Meet Geralt of Rivia - the Witcher - who holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity in the bestselling series that inspired the Witcher video games and a major Netflix show. ![]() ![]() Multiple copy pack The Last Wish, Sword of Destiny, Blood of Elves, Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire, The Tower of The Swallow, The Lady of the Lake, Season of Storms ![]() ![]() ![]() I came late the Knitting in The City Books, I read all of them back to back and had to wait only a couple of weeks for Marriage of Inconvenience. ![]() Sure, she might have a wee little crush on Dan the Security Man, but with clear rules, expectations, and a legally binding contract, Kat is certain she can make it through this debacle with her sanity - and heart - all in one piece.Įxcept, what happens when Dan O’Malley isn’t as indifferent - or as trustworthy - as she thought? Dan O’Malley checks all the boxes: single, romantically indifferent to her, completely trustworthy. To avoid imminent disaster, she must marry immediately it is essential that the person she chooses have no romantic feelings for her whatsoever and be completely trustworthy.įortunately, she knows exactly who to ask. But now, Kat’s silver spoon past has finally caught up with her, and so have her youthful mistakes. Determined to live a quiet life, Kat Tanner changed her identity years ago and eschewed her family’s legacy. ![]() And three: She knows how to knit.īeing a billionaire heiress isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. One: She’s determined to make good decisions. There are three things you need to know about Kat Tanner (aka Kathleen Tyson.and yes, she is that Kathleen Tyson). ![]() ![]() The main character is Inspector Armand Gamache, who definitely reminded me of Hercule Poirot, although less all-knowing. Still Life is a modern-day mystery series set in a small town near Montreal. The Amazon reviews seem to bear that out. So I’m willing to cut it some slack and say the rest of the series is probably stronger. ![]() Granted, this is book one in the series, and Penny’s first novel. In fact, Amazon names Louise Penny’s most recent novel in the series as one of their Best Books of 2011. ![]() I read about this series on Amazon and readers rave about it. ![]() I mostly read historical mysteries, but having recently read and enjoyed two Agatha Christie novels, I thought it would be nice to broaden my horizons a bit. I can sum up this book by saying I wanted to like it more than I did. ![]() ![]() ![]() " and other broad posts don't belong on TIL. Starting your title with a why/what/who/where/how modifier should be unnecessary. Titles must be able to stand on their own without requiring readers to click on a link.not "TIL something interesting about bacon"). 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You learn something new every day what did you learn today? ![]() ![]() Here the animus functions in the proper way: he must have vision, he must see what is going on in the unconscious he now informs the conscious that he has seen three flaming crosses, which the conscious does not see. That he is in the right place here is shown in the fact that when the dawn broke, he looked out if the tent and beheld three flaming crosses in the sky. ![]() He must be connected with consciousness, one should always know wwhere he is when he disappears, anything may happen. The animus is not meant to live in the depths of the unconscious, he is meant to live on the surface of the earth. He is the natural mind, and instinct has taken him back into his natural conditions. The wigwam is the right place for the Indian, he is among his own tribe where he belongs. Well, they rode out into the desert till they came to a wigwam, where the Indian went to sleep. ![]() ![]() Visions : Notes of the seminar given in 1930-1934 (2 Volume Set) (Bollingen) ![]() ![]() ![]() Former Organisation of Islamic Cooperation General Secretary Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, who ran as the joint candidate of 13 opposition parties including the Republican People's Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), came second with 38.44%. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, leader of the AKP and Prime Minister since 2003 after winning the 2002 Turkish general election, won with 51.79% of the vote. ![]() Over 55 million people were eligible to vote, both within Turkey and abroad. The election took place under reforms resulting from the 2007 constitutional referendum, which introduced a direct national vote, rather than election by members of the parliament. ![]() Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was elected outright with an absolute majority of the vote in the first round, making a scheduled run-off for 24 August unnecessary. Presidential elections were held in Turkey on 10 August 2014 in order to elect the 12th President. ![]() ![]() It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. ![]() The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. That’s what enabled Western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance piazza. We’ve always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. There, too, incongruous things came together: a steelworks construction site superimposed on a kerosene lamp an old-fashioned lamp with a painted-glass shade shattered into tiny splinters and rising up over a desolate landscape of marshland.įranz said, ‘Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. ![]() The view changed with each step, as if they were following a winding mountain path surrounded by breathtaking scenery a young man in a black suit directing an invisible orchestra while crossing the street a fountain spurting water and a group of construction workers sitting on the rim eating lunch strange iron ladders running up and down buildings with ugly red façades, so ugly that they were beautiful and next door, a huge glass skyscraper backed by another, itself topped by a small Arabian pleasure-dome with turrets, galleries, and gilded columns. ![]() Franz and Sabina would walk the streets of New York for hours at a time. ![]() |