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From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters, "a startling
portrait of one of our greatest tech visionaries, Zappos CEO Tony
Hsieh" (Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road), reporting on
his short life, untimely death, and what that means for our pursuit
of happiness. Tony Hsieh-CEO of Zappos, Las Vegas developer, and
beloved entrepreneur-was famous for spreading happiness. He lived
and breathed this philosophy, instilling an ethos of joy at his
company, outlining his vision for a better workplace in his New
York Times bestseller Delivering Happiness. He promoted a workplace
where bosses treated employees like family members, where stress
was replaced by playfulness, and where hierarchies were replaced
with equality and collaboration. His outlook shaped how we work
today. Hsieh also aspired to build his own utopian cities, pouring
millions of dollars into real estate and small businesses, first in
downtown Las Vegas, Nevada-where Zappos is headquartered-and then
in Park City, Utah. He gave generously to his employees and close
friends, including throwing notorious Zappos parities and
organizing gatherings at his home, an Airstream trailer park. When
Hsieh died suddenly in late 2022, the news shook the business and
tech world. Wall Street Journal reporters Kirsten Grind and
Katherine Sayre discovered Hsieh's obsession with happiness masked
his darker struggles with addiction, mental health, and loneliness.
In the last year of his life, he spiraled out of control, cycling
out of rehab and into the waiting arms of friends who enabled his
worst behavior, even as he bankrolled them from his billion-dollar
fortune. Happy at Any Cost sheds light on one of our most creative,
yet vulnerable, business leaders. It's about our intense need to
find "happiness" at all costs, our misguided worship of
entrepreneurs, the stigmas still surrounding mental health, and how
the trappings of fame can mask all types of deeper problems. In
turn, it reveals how we conceptualize success-and define
happiness-in our modern age.
A modern guide to food, drink, work, rest and play from the cult
London coffee brand. Based on a decade of eating and drinking in
London, A Modern Guide to City Living offers the Grind guide to
almost everything. Whether you're looking for how to make a flat
white at home, how to politely bail on a date, or just find
flatmates that don't suck, Grind present their sometimes
questionable (always entertaining) advice on living in the city
today. Throughout, you'll find recipes and stories from ten years
of Grind in London chronicling everything from the rich world
history of coffee, to how to make killer avocado toast for brunch
and even the secret to their infamous Espresso Martini - regularly
name-checked as the very best in London. @grind / grind.co.uk
During the most dizzying days of the financial crisis, Washington
Mutual, a bank with hundreds of billions of dollars in its coffers,
suffered a crip-pling bank run. The story of its final, brutal
collapse in the autumn of 2008, and its controversial sale to
JPMorgan Chase, is an astonishing account of how one bank lost
itself to greed and mismanagement, and how the entire financial
industry--even the entire country--lost its way as well.
Written as compellingly as the finest fiction, "The Lost Bank"
introduces readers to the regulators and the bankers, the home
buyers and the lenders who together created the largest bank
failure in American history. The result is a magisterial and
gripping account of the incredible rise and the precipitous
collapse of not only an institution but of trust, fortunes, and the
marketplaces for risk across the world.
The briefs presents a model for happiness based on current
knowledge in evolutionary biology and neurobiology. Briefly, the
primary purpose of nervous systems is to direct an animal toward
behaviour relevant for survival and procreation. In primitive
animals actions are based on reflexes, while in humans the modules
directing behaviour engage positive and negative affect (good and
bad feelings), and they are swayed by cognitive processes. The
reason why evolution opted for this strategy was the improved
flexibility in response - i.e., we learn from previous experiences.
The human capacity for happiness is an accidental consequence.
An array of brain modules has evolved to care for various
pursuits, but recent studies suggest that they converge on shared
neural circuits designed to generate positive and negative mood.
Happiness can be construed as the net output of the relevant
modules. The briefs suggests a strategy for how to avoid having
negative feelings (such as anxiety, depression and chronic pain)
dominate the mind, and how to exercise positive feelings. In short,
the book offers both a deeper understanding of what happiness is
about, and a framework for improving well-being.
An array of brain modules has evolved to care for various
pursuits, but recent studies suggest that they converge on shared
neural circuits designed to generate positive and negative mood.
Happiness can be construed as the net output of the relevant
modules. The book suggests a strategy for how to avoid having
negative feelings (such as anxiety, depression and chronic pain)
dominate the mind, and how to exercise positive feelings. In short,
the book offers both a deeper understanding of what happiness is
about, and a framework for improving well-being.
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The present volume covers the physiology of the visual system
beyond the optic nerve. It is a continuation of the two preceding
parts on the photochemistry and the physiology of the eye, and
forms a bridge from them to the fourth part on visual
psychophysics. These fields have all developed as independent
speciali ties and need integrating with each other. The processing
of visual information in the brain cannot be understood without
some knowledge of the preceding mechanisms in the photoreceptor
organs. There are two fundamental reasons, ontogenetic and
functional, why this is so: 1) the retina of the vertebrate eye has
developed from a specialized part of the brain; 2) in processing
their data the eyes follow physiological principles similar to the
visual brain centres. Peripheral and central functions should also
be discussed in context with their final synthesis in subjective
experience, i. e. visual perception. Microphysiology and
ultramicroscopy have brought new insights into the neuronal basis
of vision. These investigations began in the periphery: HARTLINE'S
pioneering experiments on single visual elements of Limulus in 1932
started a successful period of neuronal recordings which ascended
from the retina to the highest centres in the visual brain. In the
last two decades modern electron microscopic techniques and
photochemical investigations of single photoreceptors further
contributed to vision research."
From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters, "a startling
portrait of one of our greatest tech visionaries, Zappos CEO Tony
Hsieh" (Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road), reporting on
his short life and untimely death and what they mean for our
culture's pursuit of happiness. Tony Hsieh-CEO of Zappos, Las Vegas
developer, and all-around beloved entrepreneur-was famous for
spreading happiness. He lived and breathed this philosophy,
instilling an ethos of joy at his company and outlining his vision
for a better workplace in his New York Times bestseller Delivering
Happiness. He promoted a workplace where bosses treated employees
like family members, where stress was replaced by playfulness, and
where hierarchies were replaced with equality and collaboration.
His outlook shaped Silicon Valley and the larger business world.
Hsieh used his position at work to integrate levity into a normally
competitive environment. He aspired to build his own utopian
cities, pouring millions of dollars into real estate and small
businesses, first in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada-where Zappos was
headquartered-and then in Park City, Utah. He gave generously to
his employees and close friends, including throwing infamous Zappos
parties and organizing gatherings at his home, an Airstream trailer
park. When Hsieh died suddenly in November of 2020, the news shook
the business and tech world. Wall Street Journal reporters Kirsten
Grind and Katherine Sayre quickly realized the importance of the
story because of Hsieh's stature in the industry, but as they dug
into the details of his final months, they realized there was a
bigger story to tell. They found that Hsieh's obsession with
happiness masked his darker struggles with addiction, mental
health, and loneliness. In the last year of his life, he spiraled
out of control, cycling out of rehab and into the waiting arms of
friends who enabled his worst behavior, even as he bankrolled them
from his billion-dollar fortune. Happy at Any Cost sheds light on
one of the most venerated, yet vulnerable, business leaders of our
time. It's about our culture's intense need to find "happiness" at
all costs, our misguided worship of entrepreneurs, the stigmas
still surrounding mental health, and how the trappings of fame can
mask all types of deeper problems. In turn, it reveals how we
conceptualize success-and define happiness-in our modern age.
"This book is not only a work of history, it makes history.... We
desperately need to hear this story if we are to save the earth,
the sky, the water, the air -- save ourselves.... I thank Donald
Grinde and Bruce Johansen for their eloquent and powerful
contribution to our education". (Howard Zinn)
"A dense, hard-hitting well-documented work ... Ecocide of
Native America offers a much needed option to European perspectives
of history.... It is a valuable alternative textbook, if you can
hold with its difficult truths". (New Mexican)
The book includes the moving testimony of those who continue to
experience the slow death of their lands, their means of
subsistence, their communities, even as environmentalists look to
Native American ecological precedents for solutions to our common
global catastrophe.
Disillusioned with humanity, Colton Anders has fled from society to
seek lonely solace in conquering the most dangerous peaks of the
unforgiving natural world, among them the legendary El Capitan of
Yosemite Valley and the jagged spires of Chilean Patagonia.
Following his self-enacted exile, he spends years pushing the
limits of human ability, becoming increasingly apathetic and
reckless in the process.
Everything changes, though, when he unexpectedly meets a woman who
turns out to be a shocking link to the past he's traveled so far
and climbed so high to forget. When Colton's relationship
with this woman seemingly brings generation-long
injustices and secrets to light, tragedy once again
threatens to collapse his fragile reality.
In a thrilling, twisting, touching tale of epic
proportions, a drifter more willing to face death than
his own history is challenged to finally confront
his greatest torments: love, faith, and hope.
The contemporary fiction novel "Chasing Oblivion" will
take you to the edge of your seat and keep you
there until you run out of pages to turn.
Using both contributed essays from eminent scholars and excerpts of
primary source documents with explanatory headnotes, the new
reference series, American Political History, will focus on
broad-based issues in American political history. The first title
in the series explores the political history of Native Americans.
Through a combination of documents and analytical essays-court
cases, legislation, executive branch statements and
activities-Native Americans will explain a wide range of
historical, political, and social issues that have impacted Native
Americans since the founding of the United States. Native Americans
will explain: The historical and legal federal Indian policy Native
American self-government and politics Social Issues like religious
freedom, women's rights, criminal justice, equal protection,
welfare, and the environment Governing Issues such as sovereignty
of tribal government, genocide, ethnocide, taxation, hunting
rights, water rights, and property rights.
This book presents an analysis of limits in perception from the
vantage point of the physicist, the engineer, the psychophysicist,
the psychologist and the theorist. Limits in perception find their
causal explanation at many logically and/or physically different
levels. Some of the most fundamental bottlenecks are due to the
quantum mechanical and atomistic structure of the microworld. Other
simple constraints are due to the material constitution of sensory
organs. For instance, the fact that the eye is predominantly
composed of water limits both the optical quality and the available
spectral window. The engineer uses knowledge on such limits to
design equipment that optimizes human performance in daily life.
Examples include room acoustics and visual displays.
Psychophysicists and psychologists deal with limits on a quite
different logical level. These limits constrain much of our
perceptually guided behaviour. The book includes chapters on such
topics as movement perception, binocular vision, illusory
phenomena, language and perception, the perception of time. A few
concluding chapters on fundamental limits imposed by information
theoretical constraints on the coding and representation of sensed
structure are included. Limits in Perception will be important
reading material for scientists and/or engineers in the following
fields: perception, experimental psychology, sensory biology,
physics, neuroscience, human engineering, artificial intelligence,
robotics, ophthalmology, audiology, psychonomics and ergonomics,
remote sensing.
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