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Be the Smarter You @ Workplace
by Rasikraman DasIn the competitive work environment today, irrespective of who you are–a start-up entrepreneur, a C-level executive, a manager or an entry-level employee–if you are unable to shape up, the only option left is to ship out! This is probably why the global corporate training industry is in high demand and is one of the fastest growing sectors with a valuation of $300 billion and growth of 8% per annum. While employees joining organisations are reasonably trained for the work, they are often not sufficiently trained for the workplace. In this book, IITian-turned-ISKCON-monk, Rasikraman Das, tries to plug in this gap with a unique blend of ethics from the ancient epics such as the Ramayana and also the Bhagavad Gita as well as techniques of successful tycoons of our times such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. He shares success hacks for crucial workplace skills such as communication, decision making, teamwork, leadership, strategic planning, change management etc. which shall make you stand out and succeed at your workplace. Each chapter comes armed with ready-to-apply models and worksheets to use the knowledge as we go along. Be the Smarter You @ Workplace is the book you need to be your best self professionally.
The Kintsugi Moms: Transformative Insights from a Healer#s Diary
by Dr. Haseena ChokkiyilThe Kintsugi Moms is an anthology of stories of transformation from an eminent physician&’s case file. The book takes us through the challenges and struggles of single mothers and the ways they metamorphosed into the highest and truest expression of themselves. Through her lucid and relatable storytelling skills, Dr Haseena Chokkiyil takes us on an enlightening odyssey and puts forth tools for self-healing and attainment of fruition in life. The way she has presented the concepts of health, disease, and metaphysics through the experiences of real-life protagonists is sure to appeal to laymen as well as medical professionals alike. The life-changing tools and techniques discussed in the book are profoundly effective and can be easily implemented to extricate oneself from any health challenge, be it psychological, physical, or psychosomatic. The message at the heart of The Kintsugi Moms is clear—that with a little nudge and guidance in the right direction, no circumstance in life is insurmountable. All in all, the book is a compendium of invaluable knowledge and insights for anyone in need of healing at any level of existence.
Soul Mantra: Ignite Your Spiritual Voyage & Awaken the Self
by Sadguru Rameshji&‘It&’s complicated!&’ This is how most of us describe our lives . . . unaware of the fact that it is due to our own thoughts and actions that life seems complex. If not dealt with great care, essential aspects of life such as desires, ambitions, feelings, and relationships can become the reasons for our misery. Soul Mantra discusses these everyday concepts in a detailed and thought-provoking manner. Whether you are a spiritual seeker, a novice, a youngster, or a curious reader in need of new perspectives, this comprehensive spiritual guide will provide answers to all the tricky questions like: • Can an ordinary individual lead an extraordinary life? • Is there an end or purpose to desires or should you just keep running behind them? • Is there a way to be eternally happy without any ups and downs in life? Interspersed with insights and practical tips using real-life instances and anecdotes, this book is relatable to readers of every age, which also gives them the beautiful gift of broadened perspective. This compendium will make you feel as if it has been written, handpicked, and customised just for you.
Life Is Abracadabra: 21 Magical Stories from My Travels to Make You Look at Life with New Eyes
by Baisakhi Saha&‘I think people are afraid to dream because they don&’t want to be disappointed,&’ she told the Belgian guy . . .But what if there was a way to co-create our dreams with the universe? And what if the universe responded to us in a tangible way?At the tender age of seventeen, Baisakhi left her home to pursue higher studies abroad. Since then, she has dwelled in different continents—from Asia to Europe to Africa to South America to North & Central America—studying life through myriad mirrors of reality. She has lived with local families—eating their food, adopting their lifestyles, contributing to their economy, negotiating extreme realities and belief systems, and navigating diverse traditions and religions for several years to answer life&’s most pertinent questions. Coming from a conservative family in India, she had to overcome all limitations to fly!This book narrates the magical adventures and marvellous encounters of an ordinary girl who believes in extraordinary possibilities as she traverses the globe to fulfil her destiny. Life Is Abracadabra is peppered with true anecdotes of hope and faith, of meaningful coincidences and miracles that will make you perceive life from an altogether new dimension. It is about noticing the signs and synchronicities strewn on our paths and acting on them. Because when we do, life will be on our side too.
The Little Book of Good Things
by Bhavya Doshi&‘When it comes down to it, it really is the little things that count most.&’ – Robert Cheeke Even though it might seem that everyone is happy, everyone is achieving their goals, everyone is living their dream life, the fact is that every single one of us goes through all the different seasons of life. And during the times when we are feeling down and out, it is usually not the big but the small things that can help us get up and about. The Little Book of Good Things! encourages us to re-envision moments of brokenness, isolation, and hurt as experiences of growth, fulfilment, and hope. It presents a collection of beautiful and minimal doodles along with an accompanying narrative that are sure to touch the heart of people of all ages. The author, Bhavya Doshi, understands the universality of art and harnesses its immense power to highlight: • Every season serves a purpose • The light of dawn will always find you • The universe always has your back So, whenever you are feeling low or just need a sprinkle of warmth and motivation, there is a page for you. This inspiring little book will help you recognise and rediscover the joy and magic hidden in the little things which we tend to forget in the hustle-bustle of life. After all, it is the little things that make the bigger picture a whole lot more beautiful!
The MBA Mindset: 13 B-School Secrets to Kick-Start Your Career
by Prashant Navin GuptaElevate your B-school journey; transform your career Hundreds of thousands of students take admissions in business schools with a dream of creating a rewarding career. This dream often gets shattered because B-schools solely focus on providing business adroitness, often ignoring other critical skills. Moreover, students chase wrong goals, take unwise career decisions, and end up moulding a dissatisfying career filled with regrets. The MBA Mindset will enable you to optimise your B-school journey, extract maximum value from an MBA, and eventually build a fulfilling career. It will guide you towards the most critical steps in your MBA journey: • Nurturing your MBA aspirations and cracking the B-school admissions • Laying out a plan for your B-school journey • Selecting the apt MBA specialisation • Building a personal brand and networking effectively • Making the best use of internships, projects, and corporate competitions • Grabbing the best offers from your dream firm • Continuing to learn after graduating to achieve sustainable success This witty and informative compendium, scattered with real-life instances, will send you rolling on the floor laughing and help you craft a meaningful career during your B-school sojourn.
Table for One: A Solo Living Manual for the Curious Indian Woman
by Sumaa TekurAn Indian woman living alone in India is rare. An Indian woman living alone in India by choice is rarer. An Indian woman living alone in India by choice when her parents live in the same city is rarest. Sumaa belongs to that rarest of breeds that form a tiny clutch of emerging single-person households in the country, ticking all those boxes—woman, single, and &‘past her prime&’. This book is a reflective and an honest take on the culture and politics of an Indian woman living alone through her thirties. With her youth fading and her biological clock running out of battery, the only proposals crossing her desk are the building committee welfare bids for choice of apartment elevation, paint colour, and flowerpots next to the car park. Even there, the judgemental eyes of curious neighbours and nosy relatives ask: &‘What? There&’s no man in the house to make decisions?&’ Rich with anecdotes, this book peels the complex layers of patriarchy, hypocrisy, and the changing social tides that leave both women and men a little more clueless by the passing day. It advocates living alone as a wholesome experience of self-discovery and for women to normalise it like marriage or living with family or roommates. While doing so, in no way does the book claim that living alone trumps co-living with a spouse or family (okay, actually it does!).&‘A jaunty, upbeat take on solo living!&’ —Shobhaa De &‘Fiercely honest and comprehensive chronicle of living alone as a single woman.&’ —Suma Varughese
Why We Are Who We Are: An Insightful Glimpse into Our Human Roles, Soul Personality, and Karmic Mandates
by Meetu BishtWe all have come across moments in life when we ask ourselves, &‘Who Am I?&’ and &‘What&’s my life purpose?&’ But often, we simply stop after the inquiry and spend our lifetimes chasing some dream—financial, personal, or societal—without thinking of the bigger picture. This way, we miss out on uncovering the deeper reality of life, its real purpose, and most importantly, why we are who we are. After her highly successful book, Living Spirituality, Meetu Bisht delivers an insightful text that brings us closer to understanding why we live the life that we live, the true purpose of our unique individual journeys, and the ways in which we can progress and evolve. The book elaborates on concepts such as soul personality and karmic mandates and also explains how our tendencies and certain karmic factors are responsible for our individual life scenarios and destinies. Why We Are Who We Are is relevant for all those who are keen to get a deeper understanding of their inner state and grow spiritually by living a life of greater meaning and purpose and by becoming a higher version of the self.
How to Be Human: With What You Have, Where You Are, with What You Can
by Ritu SharmaLife is all about balance in nature—good and evil, hope and hopelessness, morality and immorality, fear and courage . . . This inhuman world must become human somehow. But the means to arrive at this destination seems to escape most of us. Despite various shortcomings, humans are still the torchbearers of faith, humanity, goodness, and dignity. And this book explores the various facets of ethical dilemmas and spiritual searches you find yourself in every now and then. If you keep wondering how to make the world around you better and find ways to keep doing good deeds, this book includes all the golden rules of being a moral human. The chapters have been designed in a way that will make you keep coming back to them as they offer tools that provide you with assistance to take an informed decision as you walk the path of being a kind and good human being. How to Be Human looks to answer your deepest queries, soothe your innermost concerns, put to rest your deepest fears, and help you look deep within to see the change reflected not only in you but around you as well. It&’s a remarkable compendium of age-old wisdom for modern-day challenges.
Sustainable Cities and Military Installations
by Igor LinkovAccess to reliable and affordable energy, water, and services is an important determinant of the prosperity of cities along with effective mission sustainment at military installations. The idea for this book was conceived at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) in June 2012 in Hella, Iceland. The workshop was attended by 50 scientists, engineers, and policymakers representing 15 different nations and multiple fields of expertise, reflecting the global and interdisciplinary nature of climate change and sustainability research. The focus of the workshop was on ways in which military installations and small cities can integrate energy, water, and infrastructure sustainability strategies into city and installation management plans that account for climate change uncertainties. The organization of the book reflects major topic sessions and discussions during the workshop.
Gratitude and the Good Life
by Philip C. WatkinsThis book provides clear and sometimes surprising answers to why gratitude is important to living well. The science of gratitude has shown much growth in the last ten years, and there is now sufficient evidence to suggest that gratitude is one of the most important components of the good life. Both correlational and experimental studies have provided support for the theory that gratitude enhances well-being. After providing a lucid understanding of gratitude, this volume explores the many aspects of well-being that are associated with gratitude. Moreover, experimental work has now provided promising evidence to suggest that gratitude actually causes enhancements in happiness. If gratitude promotes human flourishing, how does it do so? This issue is addressed in the second section of the book by exploring the mechanisms that might explain the gratitude/well-being relationship. This book provides an up to date account of gratitude research and suggested interesting paths for future research, all while providing a theory of gratitude that helps make this information more understandable. This book is very valuable to gratitude investigators, as well as all who are interested in pursuing this line of research, students and scholars of emotion and well-being and instructors of positive psychology courses and seminars.
Financial Crimes and Existential Philosophy
by Michel DionThe aim of this book is to deepen our understanding of financial crimes as phenomena. It uses concepts of existential philosophies that are relevant to dissecting the phenomenon of financial crimes. With the help of these concepts, the book makes clear what the impact of financial crimes is on the way a human being defines himself or the way he focuses on a given notion of humankind. The book unveils how the growth of financial crimes has contributed to the increase of the anthropological gap, and how the phenomenon of financial crimes now distorts the way we understand humankind. Using the existential philosophies of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Buber, Heidegger, and Marcel, the book sheds light on how these philosophies can help to better perceive and describe financial crimes. Next it looks at prevention strategies from an organizational perspective, using concepts of Sartre, Gadamer and Tillich. The book provides readers with existential principles that will help them be more efficient when they have to design and implement prevention strategies against corporate crime.
Climate in Asia and the Pacific: Security, Society and Sustainability (Advances in Global Change Research #56)
by Michael Manton Linda Anne StevensonCommissioned by the Intergovernmental Meeting (IGM) of the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), this book offers a detailed survey of the current status of climate change and climate variability in the Asia-Pacific region, a thorough and thoughtful assessment of climate and security and clear recommendations on the best paths of climate research in the future.
Sustainable Communities: A Framework for Planning
by Raymond Charles Rauscher Salim MomtazThis book is in part a response to the attempts of governments to address increasing concerns over such environmental issues as the impact of climate change; carbon emissions; pressures from overpopulation of cities; coal seam gas extraction and depleting natural resources. The authors have developed a Sustainable Communities Framework (SCF) which incorporates social-cultural, environmental and economic sustainability principles in the process of urban planning. The authors propose a five-step SCF built on an application of sustainability tables. The book examines a wide range of urban planning practices utilizing sustainability criteria, outlining both qualitative and quantitative tools. Separate chapters discuss application of the SCF to both the natural environment and the built environment. This framework is applied to a case study of the outer Sydney growth area of Wyong Shire, Central Coast, NSW, Australia. Addressing the question of how best to measure the environment, the authors present a table for selecting indicators of sustainability, and outline sustainability scorecards which use color-coded ratings of green, red and amber to measure indicators of sustainability. The authors show how aggregating these ratings allows the framework to be scaled up for application to larger areas. Finally, the authors show how scorecards can be incorporated in sustainability reports, with actions and monitoring components. The authors also examine urban planning education including land use planning, natural resource planning and sustainable urban planning, focusing on the extent to which schools incorporate principles of sustainability. The authors offer their critique on the movement of planning practices towards a more coordinated and holistic framework, in incorporating sustainability principles. Sustainable Communities: A Framework for Planning concludes by drawing a future scenario on the application of the SCF to incorporate principles of sustainability into urban planning. The authors propose future options for SCF applications, including adopting a systems program; environmental performance monitoring and showing how the framework will accommodate the social-cultural and economic components of sustainability, in addition to the environmental ones as examined in the case study.
Solving the Mind-Body Problem by the CODAM Neural Model of Consciousness?
by John G. TaylorThis book details a model of consciousness supported by scientific experimental data from the human brain. It presents how the Corollary Discharge of Attention Movement (CODAM) neural network model allows for a scientific understanding of consciousness as well as provides a solution to the Mind-Body problem. The book provides readers with a general approach to consciousness that is powerful enough to lead to the inner self and its ramifications for the vast range of human experiences. It also offers an approach to the evolution of human consciousness and features chapters on mental disease (especially schizophrenia) and on meditative states (including drug-induced states of mind). Solving the Mind-Body Problem bridges the gap that exists between philosophers of mind and the neuroscience community, allowing the enormous weight of theorizing on the nature of mind to be brought to earth and put under the probing gaze of the scientific facts of life and mind.
Human Motivation and Interpersonal Relationships
by Netta WeinsteinThis volume summarizes and organizes a growing body of research supporting the role of motivation in adaptive and rewarding interpersonal interactions with others. The field of human motivation is rapidly growing but most studies have focused on the effects of motivation on individuals' personal happiness and task engagement. Only recently have theorists and empiricists begun to recognize that dispositional and state motivations impact the ways individuals approach interpersonal interactions. In addition, researchers are now recognizing that the quality of interpersonal interactions influences consequent happiness and task engagement, thus helping to explain previous findings to this end. Similarly social psychology and relationships researchers have focused on the impact of cognitions, emotions, and behaviors on people's relationships. In their work, relationships researchers demonstrate that both contextual characteristics and individual differences influence the quality of interactions. Many of these studies seek to understand which characteristics strengthen the bonds between people, encourage empathy and trust and create a sense of well-being after a close interaction. This work seeks to integrate the field of human motivation and interpersonal relationships. Both fields have seen extensive growth in the past decade and each can contribute to the other. However, no single compiled work is available that targets both fields. This is the case, in part because only now is there enough work to make a strong and compelling case for their integration. In the previous years, research has been conducted to show that motivation is relevant and important for interactions among strangers and in close relationships. In addition developmental mechanisms for these relations are identified and mechanisms by which motivation strengthens people's relationships. Finally recent work has demonstrated the many implications for interpersonal relationships, showing that motivation impacts a range of interpersonal processes from prejudice regulation and objectification of others to empathy and care. This book seeks to summarize and organize all these findings and present them in a way that is relevant to both motivation researchers and social and relationship researchers.
Three Dimensional Creativity
by Kwang Hyung LeeIs creativity something that we are simply born with and cannot hone with effort? Some say that creativity cannot be cultivated. Is it true? In general our thinking sticks to reality unless there is any external stimulation. With our thinking fixed on a certain situation, it becomes difficult to come up with a fresh idea. In this regard, three questions are suggested: (1) Question of Time: When a problem arises, question yourself on a time axis first of all. How would the matter be handled 10 or 20 years from now? (2) Question of Space: Ask yourself some questions on its spatial elements. How would the matter be handled in Saudi Arabia or in China? (3) Question of Field: Apply the given problem in a variety of fields. How would the matter be handled in the field of music or electronic engineering? The three questions suggested here are given on the three axes: time, space, and field, and this book deals with theoretical and practical aspects on the topics. In this way it is a unique book about the systematic method of developing creativity, which will have appeal to researchers and students in multidisciplinary fields from neuroscience to physics, and engineering and computer science, as well as a general public.
Psychological, Educational, and Sociological Perspectives on Success and Well-Being in Career Development
by Anita C. Keller Robin Samuel Manfred Max Bergman Norbert K. SemmerThis collection covers how success and well-being relate to each other in early career development in the domains of employment and education. It gives a conceptual overview of success and well-being as established in the psychological research tradition, complemented by educational and sociological approaches. The volume presents articles on success and well-being in applied contexts, such as well-being as an individual resource during school-to-work transition, or well-being and success at the workplace. Work psychologists, social psychologists, educational researchers, and sociologists will find this book valuable, as it provides unique insights into social and psychological processes afforded by the combination of disciplines, concepts, and a diversity of approaches.
Linking Local and Global Sustainability
by Sukhbir Sandhu Stephen Mckenzie Howard HarrisThe book takes a holistic approach to sustainability. Acknowledging the Brundtland definition, that sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, the book is specifically concerned with the ethics of contemporary social and environmental sustainability activity and thinking. It is concerned with the role of institutions-both local and global in achieving sustainability initiatives. All twelve chapters extend sustainability-conceptually, empirically and theoretically, and in doing so provide insights into linking local and global sustainability. The book refocuses sustainability as a series of interwoven and dynamic relationships, backed by just ethical decision-making, which begin locally, and reach out to impact the global level.
Conjunctions of Mind, Soul and Body from Plato to the Enlightenment (Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind #15)
by Danijela KambaskovicThis book examines the nexus between the corporeal, emotional, spiritual and intellectual aspects of human life as represented in the writing of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Authors from different fields examine not only the question of the body and soul (or body and mind) but also how this question fits into a broader framework in the medieval and early modern period. Concepts such as gender and society, morality, sexuality, theological precepts and medical knowledge are a part of this broader framework. This discussion of ideas draws from over two thousand years of Western thought: from Plato in the fifth century BC and the fourth century Byzantine dialogues on the soul, to the philosophical and medical writings of the early 1700s. There are four sections to this book: each section is based on where the authors have found a conjunction between the body and mind/soul. The work begins with a section on text and self-perception, which focuses on creative output from the period. The second conjunction is human emotions which are described in their social contexts. The third is sex, where the human body and mind are traditionally believed to meet. The fourth section, Material Souls, engages with bodies and other material aspects of existence perceived, studied or utilised as material signs of emotional and spiritual activity.
Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy (Contributions To Phenomenology #73)
by Alfonsina ScarinziThe project of naturalizing human consciousness/experience has made great technical strides (e. g. , in mapping areas of brain activity), but has been hampered in many cases by its uncritical reliance on a dualistic "Cartesian" paradigm (though as some of the authors in the collection point out, assumptions drawn from Plato and from Kant also play a role). The present volume proposes a version of naturalism in aesthetics drawn from American pragmatism (above all from Dewey, but also from James and Peirce)--one primed from the start to see human beings not only as embodied, but as inseparable from the environment they interact with--and provides a forum for authors from diverse disciplines to address specific scientific and philosophical issues within the anti-dualistic framework considering aesthetic experience as a process of embodied meaning-making. Cross-disciplinary contributions come from leading researchers including Mark Johnson, Jim Garrison, Daniel D. Hutto, John T. Haworth, Luca F. Ticini, Beatriz Calvo-Merino. The volume covers pragmatist aesthetics, neuroaesthetics, enactive cognitive science, literary studies, psychology of aesthetics, art and design, sociology.
Forgiveness and Health
by Loren Toussaint Everett Worthington David R. WilliamsThis volume collects the state-of-the-art research on forgiveness and mental and physical health and well-being. It focuses specifically on connections between forgiveness and its health and well-being benefits. Forgiveness has been examined from a variety of perspectives, including the moral, ethical and philosophical. Ways in which to become more forgiving and evolutionary theories of revenge and forgiveness have also been investigated and proposed. However, little attention has been paid to the benefits of forgiveness. This volume offers an examination of the theory, methods and research utilized in understanding these connections. It considers trait and state forgiveness, emotional and decisional forgiveness, and interventions to promote forgiveness, all with an eye toward the positive effects of forgiveness for a victim's health and well-being. Finally, this volume considers key moderators such as gender, race, and age, as well as, explanatory mechanisms that might mediate links between forgiveness and key outcomes.
Hojas de ruta
by Jorge BucayQuizás estas Hojas de Ruta puedan servir a algunos de los que, como yo, suelen perder el rumbo, y quizás, también a aquellos que suelen encontrar atajos. De todas maneras, el mapa nunca es el territorio y habrá que ir corrigiendo el recorrido cada vez que nuestra propia experiencia encuentre un error del cartógrafo. Sólo así llegaremos a la cima. Ojalá nos encontremos allí. Jorge Bucay Esta edición reúne los cuatro volúmenes de la colección Hojas de Ruta, El camino de la Autodependencia El camino del Encuentro El camino de las Lágrimas y El camino de la Felicidad en un solo tomo. "posiblemente habrá que arrancar solo y sorprenderse al encontrar, más adelante en el camino, a todos los que seguramente van en la misma dirección. Éste rumbo último, solitario, personal y definitivo, sería bueno no olvidarlo, es nuestro puente hacia los demás, el único punto de conexión que nos une irremediablemente al mundo de lo que es. Llamemos al destino final como cada uno quiera: felicidad, autorrealización, elevación, iluminación, darse cuenta, paz, éxito, cima, o simplemente final... lo mismo da. Todos sabemos que arribar con bien allí es nuestro desafío."
INTELIGENCIA ETICA PARA LA VIDA..(EBOOK)
by Diana Cohen AgrestInteligencia ética para la vida cotidiana nos invita a pensar, crítica y reflexivamente, en torno de nuestras vidas. Conciliando lo que creemos ser, lo que somos y lo que aspiramos a ser.
¡Ay Dolores!: Es preferible reír que quejarse. Pequeño manual ilustrado de confidencias
by Hilda LevyLa autora de «Mujeres de sesenta» aborda en este libro el tema del dolordesde una mirada optimista que mezcla la psicología y el humor. ¿A quién no le duele algo? Existen los dolores del cuerpo, del alma ydel bolsillo, que suelen interactuar y potenciarse entre sí. Y no sonprivativos de los mayores, también los padecen los jóvenes y los niños.Pero ¿cómo hacer para no estacionarse en la queja? En su extensatrayectoria como psicóloga, Hilda Levy ha recogido cientos deexperiencias y anécdotas relacionadas con estos síntomas que nosdesvelan. Dolores que repercuten en nuestra vida emocional, estresando odeprimiendo, que modifican nuestra rutina familiar e incluso obstruyenla actividad laboral. Por eso, como sucede en sus libros anteriores, eltoque de humor y de psicología hacen de «¡Ay, Dolores!» una obra muyamena e interesante. Hilda Levy aborda temas reales, comunes, actuales,urticantes, como la resiliencia, el beneficio secundario de laenfermedad, el pensamiento lateral, la percepción selectiva, el síndromede alienación parental, la inteligencia emocional, el hábito de posponery la sobreexigencia, dando siempre una mirada positiva sobre la utilidadde las crisis.