How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.

What is Five Star Success? Five Star Success is having a balanced, well rounded, well-grounded life full of joy, love, peace, and purpose. We accomplish Five Star Success by first having an awareness that God is at the center of success in every area of our lives. When we seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, ALL these things will be added unto us (Matt. 6:33)! It is then that we are released to become the woman or man of God in which the Father created us to be! Five Star Success is not about arriving at a specific destination. It's about enjoying the journey and diving deep into God's word. It's about having a childlike faith and positioning ourselves to receive the Kingdom of God. It's a state of mind, an attitude of gratitude - where God is all, in all, through all. With God, nothing is impossible (Matt. 19:26).

20 Win-Win Ways TO Satisfy YOUR Customers AND YOUR Margins From his humble childhood selling fish to passersby in China to accepting the 2013 Tibbetts Award at the White House for small business excellence, Ken Kuang's inspiring story and insightful tips will empower you to take your business to the next level. Inside, you'll learn how to: - Establish credibility - Anticipate customer needs - Turn challenges into opportunities - Build a winning team - Get more by asking for less No matter what industry you're in, From Start-Up to Star provides stimulating ideas, useful stratagems, and winning tactics for businesses of all sizes.

Jacqueline Stallone's Starpower book reveals in full detail the secrets to success that have brought fame and fortune to Hollywood stars (including her son Sylvester, shown here on the back cover of the book) and she shows readers how to apply those principles to their own lives.Packed with celebrity gossip and call-it-like-it-is advice, STARPOWER explores not just the traditional 12 divisions of the zodiac, but the 36 subcategories (the decans) that make all the difference in discovering hidden personality strengths and dangers.It offers specific directions for finding a person's best career choices, for choosing the most compatible lover (through the Love Scale), and for making smart decisions that reap happiness, success wealth and power. You'll also be privy to delicious revelations about the rich and celebrated such as: Why Gemini, Jack Kennedy, had the perfect wife in Leo, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier.Why Libra, John Lennon, was a fated soul mate for Aquarius, Yoko Ono.Why Leos, Madonna and Sean Penn, should never have gone on a second date, let alone say, "I do."Why Aries, Warren Beatty, is able to exert such irresistible charm over women.Amazingly accurate and eye-opening, STARPOWER, is at once a brassy, bawdy look at all the stars, an authoritative and detailed guide written by a professional astrologer.Jacqueline Stallone shows you how her book has worked for her and her famous friends... how it has worked for Hollywood's brightest stars... and now she shows you how it can work for you -- bringing a future filled with passion, money, career changes, and wonderful adventures.

From attempted sonnets to lengthy love poems, Melanie has been exploring the world of poetry for years. Her poems are based on a multitude of themes from her disability to the ideals of basic sciences. She discovers a self satisfaction in writing them. Before you, there is a collection of various poems she has written over the course of three years. Each and everyone with its own meaning in it's realistic/fictitious universe.

Project Success is a blended-learning digital and print course with a strong focus on workplace skills, career readiness, and 21st century challenges. This unique video-based series engages learners with high-interest video vignettes that represent a "day in the life" of characters in diverse workplace settings that may simulate their own. Integrated skills lessons encourage critical thinking and problem solving woven into the students' English language learning journey.