Author: Louann Brizendine File Type: epub Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men cant remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts? These and other questions have stumped both sexes throughout the ages. Now, pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and who they love. While doing research as a medical student at Yale and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Louann Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the overwhelming need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat womens brain function. In The Female Brain, Dr. Brizendine distills all her findings and the latest information from the scientific community in a highly accessible book that educates women about their unique brainbodybehavior. The result women will come away from this book knowing that they have a lean, mean, communicating machine. Men will develop a serious case of brain envy.** Every brain begins as a female brain. It only becomes male eight weeks after conception, when excess testosterone shrinks the communications center, reduces the hearing cortex, and makes the part of the brain that processes sex twice as large. Louann Brizendine, M.D. is a pioneering neuropsychiatrist who brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and whom theyll love. Brizendine reveals the neurological explanations behind why b• A woman remembers fights that a man insists never happenedb b• A teen girl is so obsessed with her looks and talking on the phoneb b• Thoughts about sex enter a womans brain once every couple of days but enter a mans brain about once every minute bb• A woman knows what people are feeling, while a man cant spot an emotion unless somebody cries or threatens...

Author: Eric Metaxas File Type: mobi From Publishers WeeklyIn this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas (Amazing Grace) offers a comprehensive review of one of historys darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural and religious influences that formed one of the worlds greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research to unpack the confluence of circumstances and personalities that led Germany from the defeat of WWI to the atrocities of WWII. Abundant source documentation (sermons, letters, journal entries, lectures, the Barman Declaration) brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped Bonhoeffer his highly intellectual, musical family theologically liberal professors, pastoral colleagues and students his extensive study, work, and travel abroad. Tracing Bonhoeffers developing call to be a Jeremiah-like prophet in his own time and a growing understanding that the church was called to speak for those who could not speak, Metaxas details Bonhoeffers role in religious resistance to Nazism, and provides a compelling account of the faith journey that eventually involved the Lutheran pastor in unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler. Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history and theology. br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. ReviewIn Hitlers Germany, a Lutheran pastor chooses resistance and pays with his life. . . Eric Metaxas tells Bonhoeffers story with passion and theological sophistication, often challenging revisionist accounts that make Bonhoeffer out to be a humanist or ethicist for whom religious doctrine was easily disposable. . . Metaxas reminds us that there are forms of religion -- respectable, domesticated, timid -- that may end up doing the devils work for him. --_Wall Street Journal_ In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas offers a comprehensive review of one of historys darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural, and religious influences that formed one of the worlds greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research. . . Abundant source documentation brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped BonhoefferaInsightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history, and theology. --_Publishers Weekly_ A welcome new biography of one of the twentieth centurys leading lights. Metaxas magnificently captures the life of theologian and anti-Nazi activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), who thought it the plain duty of the Christian-and the privilege and honor-to suffer with those who suffered. In the finest treatment of the man since Eberhard Bethges Dietrich Bonhoeffer Man of Vision, Man of Courage (1970), Metaxas presents a complete, accessible picture of this important figure, whose story is inspiring, instructive, and international in scope. . . Metaxas rightly focuses on his subjects life, not his theology, though readers will learn plenty about his theology as well. The author makes liberal use of primary sources, which bring Bonhoeffer and other characters to vivid life. For the most part, Metaxas allows this epic story to play itself out, unhindered by commentary where he does add his own voice, the conclusions are sage. A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the twenty-first century. --_Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)