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"New York Times Bestseller "
Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman's work changes the national
dialogue. Beyond their bestselling books, you know them from
commentary and features in the "New York Times," CNN, NPR, "Time,"
"Newsweek," "Wired," "New York," and more. E-mail, Facebook, and
Twitter accounts are filled with demands to read their reporting
(such as "How Not to Talk to Your Kids," "Creativity Crisis," and
"Losing Is Good for You").
In TOP DOG, Bronson and Merryman again use their astonishing
blend of science and storytelling to reveal what's truly in the
heart of a champion. The joy of victory and the character-building
agony of defeat. Testosterone and the neuroscience of mistakes. Why
rivals motivate. How home field advantage gets you a raise. What
teamwork really requires. It's baseball, the SAT, sales contests,
and Linux. How before da Vinci and FedEx were innovators, first,
they were great competitors.
Olympians carry TOP DOG in their gym bags. It's in briefcases of
Wall Street traders and Madison Avenue madmen. Risk takers from
Silicon Valley to Vegas race to implement its ideas, as educators
debate it in halls of academia. Now see for yourself what this
game-changing talk is all about.
One of the most influential books about children ever published,
NurtureShock offers a revolutionary new perspective on children
that upends a library's worth of conventional wisdom. With
impeccable storytelling and razor-sharp analysis, the authors
demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing
children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science
have been overlooked. Nothing like a parenting manual, NurtureShock
gets to the core of how we grow, learn and live.
Released in hardcover in September 2009, NurtureShock remained on
the New York Times best seller list for three months, and was one
of Amazon's best selling books for 2009. The book has become a
worldwide phenomenon with editions published around the world - in
fifteen languages, to date.
In addition to Bronson and Merryman's writings on praise -- first
made famous in "New York "magazine -- there are nine more equally
groundbreaking chapters. Among the topics covered:
Why the most brutal person in a child's life is often a sibling,
and how a single aspect of their preschool-aged play can determine
their relationship as adults.
When is it too soon - or too late - to teach a child about race?
Children in diverse schools are less likely to have a cross-racial
friendship, not more - so is school diversity backfiring?
Millions of families are fighting to get their kids into private
schools and advanced programs as early as possible. But schools are
missing the best kids, 73% of the time - the new neuroscience
explains why.
Why are kids - even those from the best of homes - still aggressive
and cruel? The answer is found in a rethinking of parental
conflict, discipline, television's unexpected influence, and social
dominance.
Parents are desperate to jump-start infants' language skills.
Recently, scientists have discovered a series of natural techniques
that are astonishing in their efficacy - it's not baby videos, sign
language, or even the richness of language exposure. It's nothing
you've heard before.
What if we told you... that dishonesty in children is a positive
trait that arguing in front of your kids can make you a good role
model and that if you praise your children you risk making them
fail ...and it was all true? Using a cutting-edge combination of
behavioural psychology and neuroscience, award-winning journalists
Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman have produced an innovative,
counter-intuitive read that will change the way we interact with
our children forever. They demonstrate that for years our best
intentions with children have been our worst ideas, using
break-through scientific studies to prove that our instincts and
received wisdom are all wrong. Nurtureshock is the Freakonomics of
childhood and adolescence, exploring logic-defying insights into
child development that have far-reaching relevance for us all.
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