Roy: 2801 books

Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially well is to prospect the future. We are homo prospectus. In this book, Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sripada argue it is anticipating and evaluating future possibilities...

This is a dictionary that is extraordinarily different. It is the most comprehensive listing of French words and phrases associated with French food and dining you will ever see. A great many of the words listed simply do not appear in standard French-English dictionaries and yet they are in common...

Winners Train...Losers complain. That's a great quote, but what if you feel like you've legitimately put in your share of practice on the field and sweat equity in the weight room but are still coming up short come game time? Do your opponents just have better genetics or more natural ability than...

Illness prevention, designed by nature, and researched by a rocket scientist! You do not need a background in science to understand The Wellness Project because it is based on common sense. The diet section of the book is backed by the largest "clinical study" in human history, and works...

Este libro es una pequeña obra maestra que revolucionó el mundo de la superación personal desde el mismo momento de su salida al mercado.  Y lo hizo porque explicaba de la forma más sencilla jamás imaginada un método bastante inteligente para conseguir todo aquello que uno desee en la...

BE THE GREAT PUBLIC SPEAKER YOU ALWAYS WISHED YOU COULD BE! No one is born with the ability to be a great public speaker. Like all things, it is learned. This practical book will help you on your journey to overcoming the number one fear of all people: the fear of public speaking,...

There have been millions of shipwrecks, but just a few have been remembered. A ship can disappear suddenly without a trace. Or a loss may involve a fascinating web of intrigue and drama. Exploration, the aftermath of wrecking in remote regions of the world and the interaction of survivors with local...

The tramp ship was the taxi of the seas. With no regular schedules, it voyaged anywhere and everywhere, picking up and dropping off cargoes, mainly bulk cargoes such as coal, grain, timber, china clay and oil. It was the older and slower vessels that tended to find their way into this trade, hence...

Keeping the Atlantic sea-lanes open was a vital factor in the fight against Nazi Germany. In the battle to protect merchant shipping from the menace of surface raiders and U-boats, Allied resolve and resources were tested to the utmost. The story of the extraordinary measures that were taken...

Have men really been engaged in a centuries-old conspiracy to exploit and oppress women? Have the essential differences between men and women really been erased? Have men now become unnecessary? Are they good for anything at all? In Is There Anything Good About Men?, Roy Baumeister offers provocative...

The purpose of Zen is to awaken to the bodhisattva within us. This perception, also called kensho, “seeing self-nature,” opens the way to a true Zen life lived in unrestricted liberation. To attain such freedom, one must strive in all of one’s activities to live in accordance with the Bodhisattva...

Is there a distinction between the experience of consciousness and the consciousness of experience? Is there a line that separates the two or are they the very Oneness that is sought after by so many? In Seeking the End of Seeking, Roy Melvyn examines this and other issues such as: 1. When did I become...

Shinran calls to us, who are inclined to identify ourselves within our own bodies, to awaken to that which is true, real and eternal.After decades of reading and reflection, Shinran compiled these texts as his enduring proclamation of the meaning of Amida Buddha's Primal Vows for his life...

Enlightenment does not come from the enlightened and knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge applied. To be the wise one, you must gain knowledge. Faith is not enlightenment; knowing is. With knowledge comes great power from using it. The answers are not found only in faith or in religion but...