Stefan Klein Libri

Che cosa è il tempo e - soprattutto - come funziona? Il tempo della nostra vita coincide davvero con quello che mostrano gli orologi? Stefan Klein ci accompagna nell'esplorazione di una delle attività più raffinate della mente alla quale partecipano - incredibilmente - quasi tutte le funzioni del nostro cervello. Scopriremo come funzionano i ritmi circadiani, la psicologia della memoria e della percezione, perché alcuni di noi sono attenti e ricettivi fin dal primo mattino (sono delle allodole) e perché per altri tirare fino a tardi è la più naturale delle cose (sono delle civette). Scopriremo perché il tempo ci sembra sempre poco e come fare per prendercene cura, e così prenderci anche, un poco, cura di noi stessi perché, come scrisse Benjamin Franklin, «il tempo è la sostanza di cui è fatta la vita».

World-leading natural and social scientists shed light on their discoveries and lives in conversation with an award-winning science writer. When acclaimed science writer Stefan Klein asks Nobel Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffmann what sets scientists apart, Hoffmann says, 'First and foremost, curiosity.' In this collection of intimate conversations with 19 of the world's best-known scientists, Klein lets us listen in as today's leading minds reveal what they still hope to discover -- and how their paradigm-changing work entwines with their lives outside the lab. From the sports car that physicist Steven Weinberg says helped him on his quest for 'the theory of everything' to the jazz musicians who gave psychologist Alison Gopnik new insight into raising children, scientists explain how they find inspiration everywhere. Hear from evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on selfishness; anthropologist Sarah Hrdy on motherhood; primatologist Jane Goodall on animal behaviour; neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran on consciousness; geographer Jared Diamond on chance in history; and other luminaries!

By the international bestselling author of The Science of Happiness and The Secret Pulse of Time, a fresh exploration of Da Vinci's real code--science!

Stefan Klein explores the hidden dimensions of time, looking at everything from when the present becomes the past to the tribe that see the future backwards, from when sex is best to why the years seem to speed by as we age.

Popular science at its very best, The Secret Pulse of Time awakens us to and empowers us with the idea that time is far more at our disposal than we have previously realized. Award-winning journalist Stefan Klein— whose previous book, The Science of Happiness, is a longtime international bestseller—here provides what are essentially “operating instructions” for time. Through a combination of original investigation and reportage, personal revelation, and a commanding presentation of scientific research (among disciplines including brain physiology, social psychology, philosophy, and Einsteinian physics), The Secret Pulse of Time teaches readers not only to better master time but also to understand why they so often fail to do so.

This revelatory tour de force by an acclaimed and internationally bestselling science writer upends our understanding of "survival of the fittest" and invites us all to think and act more altruistically. The phrase "survival of the fittest" conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan Klein, author of the #1 international bestseller The Science of Happiness and winner of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Scientific Journalism, makes the startling assertion that the key to achieving lasting personal and societal success lies in helping others. In fact, Klein argues, altruism is our defining characteristic: Natural selection favored those early humans who cooperated in groups, and with survival more assured, our altruistic ancestors were free to devote brainpower to developing intelligence, language, and culture--our very humanity. As Klein puts it, "We humans became first the friendliest and then the most intelligent apes."

Collaboration of organizations reshapes traditional managerial practices and creates new inter-organizational contexts for strategy, coordination and control, information and knowledge management. Heralded as organizational forms of the future, networks are at the same time fragile and precarious organizational arrangements, which regularly fail. In order to investigate the new realities created by technology-enabled forms of network organizations and to address the emerging managerial challenges, this book introduces an integrative view on inter-firm network management. Centred on a network life cycle perspective, strategic, economic and relational facets of business networking are explored. The network management framework is illustrated onto a broad range of European inter-firm network examples in various industries rendering insights for new management practices.