psychological aspects

Explains what it means to be right or wrong and why it matters so much to people, arguing that the tendency to make mistakes is an essential part of human intelligence.

The lives of four London art students are forever changed by the events of World War I after two of them decide to go to the frontlines to tend to wounded soldiers and see the atrocities of war.

Examines the psychological aspects and themes of the works of late-nineteenth-century American portrait painter Thomas Eakins, whose favored subjects included rowing scenes, surgeries, musicians, and artists.

Presents a series of meditations on various experiences of the dawn throughout the seasons, drawing from world religions, history, etymology, meteorology, poetry, animals, and other sources of perspective and inspiration.

Explores the reasons why irrational thought often overcomes level-headed practices, explaining the structural patterns that cause people to make the same mistakes repeatedly, with new insight into the 2008 financial crisis.

Amy Wilensky discusses the close relationship she shared with her younger sister Alison until they reached their teens and Alison became obese, and she meditates upon how her feelings about her sister have both changed and stayed the same since Alison underwent gastric bypass surgery and lost nearly two hundred pounds.

Mike Krzyzewski, basketball coach at Duke University, shares the leadership lessons he has learned throughout his life from his childhood in a Polish Chicago neighborhood, to his days at the U.S. Military Academy, and his tenure at Duke.

Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing provides a fictional account of her parent's experiences during World War I, when her father was a farmer turned soldier who lost a leg, and her mother was a nurse stationed at Royal Free Hospital; and also describes their relationship after the close of the Great War, based on the real-life memories of the author.

Challenges conventional wisdom about diets and weight loss, arguing that society's obsession with weight loss is not about being trim and healthy, but about money, power, and trends.