Orang-orang bilang, anak bungsu itu paling disayang, paling dimanja, dan yang paling diperhatikan. Padahal, anak bungsu juga adalah anak yang mudah merasa kesepian dan dilupakan, terlebih lagi di saat orang tua sudah menua dan kakak sudah sibuk dengan kehidupan masing-masing. Terkadang, anak bungsu juga harus menyimpan mimpi-mimpinya sendiri untuk mewujudkan mimpi-mimpi keluarga. "Jika bisa me…
Fokus Menghadapi Psikotes hadir sebagai solusi bagi Anda yang ingin sukses dalam menghadapi bergabai jenis Psikotes. Buku ini disusun oleh tim yang sudah berpengalaman; beranggotakan praktisi-praktisi Psikometri. Anda akan mendapatkan berbagai macam pembahasan Psikotes yang terdiri atas Penalaran Verbal, Penalaran Kuantitatif, Penalaran Figural, dan Tes Psikometri.
Buku ini tidak hanya bertujuan untuk memberikan panduan praktis dalam membangun personal branding yang kuat, tetapi juga untuk mengajak kita merenung, menggali, dan mengembangkan potensi diri yang mungkin belum kita sadari.
Setelah bertahun-tahun merasa bahwa cinta selalu berada di luar jangkauan, jurnalis Natasha Lunn mencoba memahami bagaimana cinta bekerja dan berkembang sepanjang hidup. Dia menemui para penulis, terapis, tokok budaya, dan pakar untuk mempelajari pengalaman mereka, mulai mendalami kompleksitas cinta? Bagaimana kita mempertahankannya? dan bagaimana kita bisa bertahan ketika kehilangannya? Mel…
Riwayat ini mengandung banyak paham. Bias Prasangka hadir melengkapi desus. Remuk rendam menjadi sorakan. Bimbang. Barangkali Jenaka? Atma lunglai rasa tak menapak. Kosong termanipulasi gelagatnya sendiri. Piala " penderitan terbaik" tergenggam erat. Enggan lepas. Hingga sebuah utas melingkupi. Yang istimewa bukan hanya kamu. Dirimu jauh dari satu-satunya. Allah mencintai semua. Berikut g…
Jawab dengan cepat: Seandainya terlahir kembali di kehidupan berikutnya, kamu ingin menjadi apa? Berikut beberapa jawaban unik yang pernah kudengar baik dalam ruang praktik maupun ketika ngobrol santai dengan teman-teman: "Aku ingin menjadi ubur-ubur, melayang bebas tanpa tekanan atasan dan ekspektasi sosial." "Aku ingin menjadi pohon pinus, karena tinggi dan keren." "Aku ingin menjadi ikan …
Ibu, aku nggak sekuat itu. Ada banyak hal yang aku sembunyikan dari ibu. Tentang aku yang sering menangis di kamar sendirian, menangis di perjalanan pulang. Juga menangis karena beratnya hidup ketika harus jadi tulang punggung keluarga sejak sekecil ini. Ternyata jadi dewasa nggak enak, ya, bu? Aku kangen ibu. Aku pengin jadi anak kecil aja, pengin balik ke masa lalu aja, pengin main sepeda sa…
Lebih dari 2000 tahun lalu, sebuah mazhab filsafat menemukan akar masalah dan juga solusi dari banyak emosi negatif. Stoisisme atau Filosofi Teras adalah filsafat Yunani-Romawi kuno yang bisa membantu kita mengatasi emosi negatif dan menghasilkan mental yang tangguh dalam menghadapi naik turunnya kehidupan. Jauh dari kesan filsafat sebagai topik berat dan mengawang-awang, Filosofi Teras justru …
Buku ini adalah gabungan mengesankan dari penelitian dan contoh-contoh praktis bahwa memiliki sedikit informasi yang tepat, pada waktu dan konteks yang tepat, secara cukup memadai ke depan adalah kunci utama kesuksesan dalam bisnis dan dalam bidang-bidang usaha manusia yang lainnya. Penulis memberikan perspektif menarik soal bagaimana kemampuan peramalan yang tersedia bisa membantu kita menjadi…
Kita hidup di dunia yang terobsesi dengan bakat. Kita memuja-muja siswa berbakat di sekolah, atlet genius dalam olahraga, dan anak ajaib dalam musik. Namun, mengagumi orang-orang yang memulai sesuatu dengan keunggulan bawaan lahir membuat kita mengabaikan jarak yang bisa kita tempuh untuk mencapai kejayaan. Kita meremehkan berbagai keterampilan yang bisa kita pelajari dan seberapa jauh kita bis…
Berani hidup atau hidup yang berani mengandaikan kesediaan menghadapi tantangan kehidupan serta menjawab tantangan tersebut dengan berbagai sarana yang disediakan kehidupan. Berani hidup juga berarti kesiapan untuk menerima realita yang tidak sesuai dengan harapan seseorang disertai dengan semangat untuk mengubahnya melalui sarana dan berdasarkan prinsip-prinsip yang benar. Hidup berani adalah …
Sebentar lagi Gonzaga mencapai usianya yang ke-30. Usia yang seharusnya sebuah manusia atau lembaga sudah memiliki karakter dan ciri khas. Usia dimana ia sudah memberikan sumbangan nyata bagi lingkungan dan bangsa dimana ia berdiri.Kolose Gonzaga memiliki fokus perhatian pada 3 arah programatik, yaitu: Kemiskinan, Kerusakan Lingkungan, dan fundamentalisme agama.Atas dasar tiga latar belakang te…
Tahukan Anda bahwa untuk hidup sukses Anda tidak cukup hanya bekerja keras, namun harus pula menemukan faktor-faktor penentu kesuksesan dan kemudian menyelaraskan dengan kehidupan? Faktor takdir, nasib, bakat, kemampuan memanfaatkan momentum (waktu dan tempat yang tepat), dukungan orang-orang di sekitar, pengembangan internal (diri sendiri), pemanfaatan faktor kali (leverage) serta teknologi…
Buku ini dilengkapi dengan penjelasan yang akan membantu anda dalam memahami materi psikotes verbal dan non verbal untuk seleksi masuk BUMN, BUMD, Swasta, dan Umum. Latihan soal disajikan dengan jawaban, pembahasan, tips dan trik mengerjakan soal yang mudah dipahami pembaca.
Ketika menyambut pasien yang sedang berduka, seorang psikiater akan menggali keilmuan yang dimiliki. Dia akan mengulik semua teori duka yang pernah dipelajari di masa kuliah dulu dan mengingat pengalaman dari pasien-pasien sebelumnya. Kemudian, dia menyintesis itu untuk membantu pasien yang sedang berduka di hadapannya. Tapi, ketika Andreas - seorang psikiater - kehilangan anaknya, dia melakuka…
Psikotes sering kali dianggap "monster" menakutkan bagi sebagian besar orang, terutama tes gambar dan angka. Betapa tidak, hasil penilaian tes ini tidak berdasarkan siapa yang paling pintar, karena bisa saja orang yang secara akademik tidak begitu pintar justru mampu mengalahkan orang yang lebih pintar. Akibatnya, banyak orang yang sebenarnya pintar namun gagal berulang kali dalam psikotes. Su…
Inilah buku luar biasa yang merekam rahasia-rahasia prestasi puncak manusia di era pergantian milenium. Bagian kedua ini menyajikan terobosan-terobosan mutakhir di bidang pendidikan, yang memadukan dunia sekolah, bisnis, dan komunikasi instan dari internet. Ditulis dengan ketekunan akademis dan kegairahan yang luarbiasa, berdasarkan penelitian doktoral Jeanette Vos dan rekaman berbagai terobosa…
This book offers a timely and thoughtful resource for school leaders who want to turn their ideals into action. Written by educational leadership expert Viviane Robinson, the book shows leaders how they can make a bigger difference to the quality of teaching and learning in their school and ultimately improve their student's performance. This book also is based not on fad or fashion but on the…
This book discusses the 12 business principles of Tao Zhu-gong and relates them to today's corporate setting. They state 12 vital abilities that one will need in order to succeed in business. Ranging from handling customers and employees to managing a company and its products to making business decisions, the principles cover most of the areas necessary for a business to develop. The 12 princip…
This book clearly shows how to school leadership improves student achievement. The book based on an ambitious five-year study on educational leadership that was sponsored by The Wallace Foundation. The authors studied 43 districts, across 9 states and 180 elementary, middle, and secondary schools. In this book, the author report on what they found. The results within will have significant impli…
Anda bisa menjadi pemimpin. Lebih dari lima juta kopi buku karya John Maxwell, 21 Hukum Kepemimpinan Sejati, laris terjual, memberdayakan pria wanita dalam keterampilan memimpin. Dalam 21 Hukum Kepemimpinan Sejati Teruji oleh Waktu, Jim Garlow menelaah bagaimana orang biasa sepanjang zaman telah menggunakan ke-21 hukum ini untuk menjadi pemimpin yang paling besar kuasanya, disegani, dan berpeng…
The human is a source of trouble for posthumanism. Committed to dis-turbing the opposition between human and nonhuman, posthumanist theory has tended to sideline the human from the scene of its theoretical engagements with otherness. The human has become akin to the “Invisible Gorilla” made famous by psychologists Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. Seeking to establish …
The subject of my book is a Portuguese Cistercian nun, Joana de Jesus (1617–1681),whowroteanautobiographicalmysticaltext.However,themostfamousPortuguesenun is still Mariana Alcoforado (1640–1723),probably the fictional author of theLet-tresPortugaises.1Thisbook–anardentcorrespondencebetweenacloisterednunanda French aristocrat – had wide appeal in the European literary scene of its time.…
From subtle discrimination in everyday life, to horrors like lynching in the Old South, cultural imperialism, and "ethnic cleansing", racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society. Despite civil rights movements and other attempts at progress, racial prejudices and stereotypes remain deeply embedded in Western culture. Racism takes a frank and objective look at why the…
Psychotherapy and counselling are now widely available to help people overcome emotional and psychological difficulties in their lives. They involve spending time with a professional in an emotionally safe and structured relationship to explore and express the issues that cause distress and difficulty, such as long term self-doubts, relationship problems, or the impact of a trauma or crisis. As…
It is widely recognized that our privacy is under threat. Electronic surveillance, biometrics, CCTV, ID cards, RFID codes, online security, encryption, the interception of email, the monitoring of employees--all raise fundamental questions about privacy. Legal expert Raymond Wacks here provides a compact introduction to this complex and controversial concept. He explores the tension between fre…
Generations of philosophers, both ancient and modern, have traced their inspiration back to the Presocratics. Part of the fascination stems from the fact that little of what they wrote survives. Here Osborne invites her readers to dip their toes into the fragmentary remains of thinkers from Thales to Pythagoras, Heraclitus to Protagoras, and to try to reconstruct the moves that they were making…
Letting Go adalah sebuah buku monumental yang menjelaskan cara paling efektif untuk menyirnakan berbagai hambatan batin menuju pencerahan. Setelah didera puluhan penyakit kronis yang tak tersembuhkan oleh metode medis, Dr. Hawkins memasrahkan semua penyakitnya hingga satu per satu sirna. Hampir semua penyakit fisik dan mental disebabkan oleh emosi-emosi negatif yang terpendam di alam bawah-sada…
SECUPLIK CERITA UNTUKMU 1. Tapi, aku nggak tahu mau jadi apa 2. Pengin cepat-cepat lulus aja 3. Mengapa pendidikan di Indonesia begini banget? 4. Hanya murid rata-rata yang tak penting 5. Aku cuma pengin orang tuaku bangga 6. Salah jurusan: haruskah aku pindah? 7. Surat untuk anak rantau 8. Hari wisuda dan orang tua yang berharap 9. Pengusaha vs Karyawan vs PNS: mending mana? 10. Feno…
Masyarakat kita hidup dengan stres, kecemasan, ketakutan, keresahan, rasa sakit, penderitaan, dan depresi. Alkoholisme dan kecanduan lainnya, obesitas, masalah seksual, masalah penuaan, kanker, hingga penyakit-penyakit baru yang dikaitkan dengan bakteri dan virus tertentu diberitakan oleh media sepanjang waktu. Umat manusia secara umum hanya memiliki sedikit informasi tentang bagaimana menghada…
This study argues for a new view of contemporary Arab thought by analyzing the idea of time that underlies key discussions over Arab heritage (tur?th). Focusing on three authors, it shows how their work was shaped by a linear temporality and how they break with a common understanding of Arab thought by critiquing its temporal basis. This analysis leads to a richer engagement with contemporary A…
Kita hidup dalam zaman yang menarik. Secara material, segalanya tampak sangat baik melebihi zaman-zaman sebelumnya, Meski begitu, entah mengapa segala-galanya tampak kacau balau dan benar-benar ambyar. Apa yang terjadi? Jika ada satu orang yang bisa membantu kita mengenali bencana yang terjadi saat ini dan ikut membantu memberesi, salah satunya adalah Mark Manson. Dalam buku ini, Manson membent…
Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. Following a brief account of the historical relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this Very Short Introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture. While the author discusses such wel…
Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly readable introduction the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key postmodernist ideas are explored and challenged,…
In clear-eyed prose, Carl Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Featuring full-color illustrations, Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, E…
This paper is a review of research on psychological abuse in interpersonal and family relationships including in settings such as long-term care residences. There is no simple definition of psychological abuse. Generally, researchers and front line service providers define it as the systemic destruction of a person’s self-esteem and/or sense of safety, often occurring in relationships where t…
Towards a New Social Contract Ars Electronica 2023 is dedicated to the complex questions of truth and the concept of ownership in this digital age. In doing so, the festival navigates the central questions of our time. The focus is on how our perception of “authentic” and “original” is being transformed and whether truth can be owned, and how this relates to digitalization and the rapid…
The key event in this first part of the tale occurs when the old fisherman innocently opens the sealed flask he found, and the Djinn materializes from the bottle, and threatens to kill the old man. How are we to interpret this opening event?If this were someone’s dream, a common psychological interpretation would be that the Djinn, imprisoned in the bottle, represents a repressed, unconscious…
Although individuals may have different goals and wishes on the surface, deep down we all want the same things. Our fundamental needs are universal: Regardless of culture, age, and lifestyle, everyone ultimately has the same set of needs. Needs are the basic requirements for our functioning and the nutriments for our well-being and advancement. We can only fully develop and flourish if all our …
To begin with a thinker who remained always attuned to the du-plicitous nature of beginning requires candor. There is a thetic dimension to every beginning, and we will do well not to deny it here. Rather, let us begin by attending to the things Reiner Schürmann himself said about beginning: “A starting point,” he wrote, “that neither abandons ordinary experience nor t…
Now Find Your Why picks up where Start With Why left off. It shows you how to apply Simon Sinek’s powerful insights so that you can find more inspiration at work -- and in turn inspire those around you. I believe fulfillment is a right and not a privilege. We are all entitled to wake up in the morning inspired to go to work, feel safe when we’re there and return home fulfilled at the en…
his is a book about Aldo Leopold’s land ethic,1 a view he developed over the course of his lifetime, a view that was informed by his experiences as a hunter, forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, con-servationist, and professor. It culminated in the essay “The Land Ethic” in A Sand County Almanac, published posthumously after his untimely death at age sixty-one in 1948. It has been extre…
The claim “what we know is what exists” appears, at first glance, to be quite an obvious statement – we know dogs and horses and so it seems obvious that dogs and horses exist. However, upon further reflection, it rather seems that what is most properly the object of our knowledge is not these particular dogs and horses themselves, but something that is universal – what Plato called a …
What does your body language say about you? From strangers on the street, to your closest friends and family – even if you're not speaking, you're saying a lot with your body. Body Language explores the way we use our bodies to communicate, the way we hold ourselves, the way we sit, stand, and point our hands, feet and eyes can all reveal how we are feeling in any given situation. This …
Ethics 101 offers an exciting look into the history of moral principles that dictate human behavior. Unlike traditional textbooks that overwhelm, this easy-to-read guide presents the key concepts of ethics in fun, straightforward lessons and exercises featuring only the most important facts, theories, and ideas. Ethics 101 includes unique, accessible elements such as: -Explanations of the ma…
A hands-on approach to exploring the human mind Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and experiments of psychology into tedious discourse that even Freud would want to repress. Psych 101 cuts out the boring details and statistics, and instead, gives you a lesson in psychology that keeps you engaged - and your synapses firing. From personality quizzes and the Rors…
Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and figures of philosophy into tedious discourse that even Plato would reject. Philosophy 101 cuts out the boring details and exhausting philosophical methodology, and instead, gives you a lesson in philosophy that keeps you engaged as you explore the fascinating history of human thought and inquisition. From Aristotle and Heideg…
The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning charts the evolution of associative analysis and the neuroscientific study of behavior as parallel approaches to understanding how the brain learns that both challenge and inform each other. - Covers a broad range of topics while maintaining an overarching integrative approach - Includes contributions from leading authorities in t…
Near-death experiences offer a glimpse not only into the nature of death but also into the meaning of life. They are not only useful tools to aid in the human quest to understand death but are also deeply meaningful, transformative experiences for the people who have them. In a unique contribution to the growing and popular literature on the subject, philosophers John Martin Fischer and Benj…
Reasons matter greatly to us in both ordinary and theoretical contexts, being connected to two fundamental normative concerns: figuring out what we should do and what attitudes to have, and understanding the duties and responsibilities that apply to us. This book introduces and critiques most of the contemporary theories of normative reasons – considerations that speak in favour of an action,…