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Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships
2024 || Paperback || John Gray || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The legendary relationships guide that mothers recommend to their daughters, friends give as gifts and brothers steal from their sisters, MEN ARE FROM MARS AND WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS is inarguably the definitive book on having a happy relationship.
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Happiness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
2024 || Paperback || Harvard Business Review e.a. || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
This book explores answers to these questions by presenting research into how happiness is measured, frameworks for personal behaviors, management techniques that build happiness in the workplace--and warnings that highlight where the happiness hype has been overblown.
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The Blank Slate
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
2024 || Paperback || Steven Pinker || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Recently many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. This title shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature.
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The Stuff of Thought
Language as a Window into Human Nature
2024 || Paperback || Steven Pinker || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Why do so many swear words involve topics like sex, bodily functions or the divine? Why do some children's names thrive while others fall out of favour? Why do we threaten and bribe and seduce in such elaborate, often comical ways? This title looks at how the relationship between words and thoughts can help us understand who we are.
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Why Can't We Sleep?
Understanding our sleeping and sleepless minds
2024 || Paperback || Darian Leader || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A short and accessible analysis of the mental processes at work in the struggle to get to sleep, combining pop culture and historical anecdotes in its mythbusting pursuit of the answers behind insomnia.
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Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?
2024 || Paperback || Jesse Bering || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does 'free will' really exist? And why is the penis shaped like that anyway? This title deals with these questions.
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Resilience (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
2024 || Paperback || Harvard Business Review e.a. || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
This book reveals the key traits of those who emerge stronger from challenges, helps you train your brain to withstand the stresses of daily life, and presents an approach to an effective career reboot.
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Predictably Irrational
The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
2024 || Paperback || Dan Ariely || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? The answers will surprise you. Predictably Irrational is an intriguing, witty and utterly original look at why we all make illogical decisions.
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The Asshole Survival Guide
How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt
2024 || Paperback || Robert I Sutton || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
From the international bestselling expert on dealing with assholes
'With cutting-edge research and real-life examples that are thought-provoking and often hilarious, this is an indispensable resource'
Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project
'At last someone has provided clear steps for rejecting, dejecting, deflecting, and deflating the jerks who blight our lives. Better still, that someone is the great Bob Sutton, which ensures that the information is useful, ev...
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Connect the Dots
The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck
2024 || Paperback || Dr Christian Busch || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.