New Releases by David Niven

Não existe a menor dúvida: ser feliz é o desejo de todo ser humano. Mas o que é ser feliz e como fazer para atingir a felicidade com que todos sonhamos? Baseado nas pesquisas e estudos de cientistas junto a milhares de pessoas, o psicólogo e cientista social Dr. David Niven organizou a lista dos cem segredos mais simples que são realmente capazes de tornar as pessoas felizes. E como a leitura de um complicado tratado científico pode ser causa de infelicidade, esses segredos estão aqui colocados de forma interessante e com exemplos que vão nos fazer identificar as situações descritas e compreendê-las. É um livro para ser lido devagar, degustando cada tópico, deixando que ele penetre em nossa consciência, nos questionando e transformando. Assim você irá compreender as diferenças entre as pessoas felizes e as pessoas infelizes, e a saber o que pode fazer para aproveitar melhor a vida.

" Peut-être bien le meilleur livre jamais écrit sur Hollywood. " (The New York Times Book Review) S'il fallait décerner un prix d'élégance aux acteurs, alors David Niven recueillerait tous les suffrages. Rarement le complet rayé et le trait de moustache auront été si bien portés à Hollywood, et l'on ne s'étonnera pas que Ian Fleming pût l'imaginer dans le rôle de James Bond. Est-il annoncé au casting d'un film qu'on s'attend à le voir dîner en chemise à plastron, nœud papillon et slippers aux pieds ; avec lui, on pressent surtout les dialogues ironiques et toute la panoplie de l'humour " so british " – ce tranchant de l'intelligence. Mais avant la célébrité, Niven aura connu une véritable vie d'aventures. Renvoyé pour indiscipline de plusieurs écoles britanniques, insolent à l'armée, mis aux arrêts pour insubordination, il se gagne la sympathie du geôlier en partageant une bouteille de whisky puis s'échappe par la fenêtre. On le retrouve quelques mois plus tard aux États-Unis, versé dans le plagiat littéraire, le commerce de spiritueux, la danse professionnelle et même la course de poneys, avant que le destin se ressaisisse et le pousse vers les caméras des grands studios. Ainsi débute une carrière de près de cent films avec, très vite, des rôles principaux. Niven révèle surtout une disposition pour les comédies romantiques où sa souriante désinvolture fait merveille ; il rencontre ensuite le succès international, d'abord grâce à son rôle de Phileas Fogg dans Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours de Michael Anderson (1956), puis avec Les Canons de Navarone (1961) de John Lee Thompson et Les Cinquante-Cinq Jours de Pékin (1963) de Nicholas Ray. Parus et traduits en deux volumes dans les années 1970, introuvables en français depuis, ses souvenirs sont ici republiés pour la première fois. Tout refroidit vite, la gloire d'un acteur en particulier. Mais que l'on se rassure dans les librairies : peu de choses sont aussi vivantes qu'une page écrite par David Niven. " Peut-être bien le meilleur livre jamais écrit sur Hollywood. " –; The New York Times Book Review " Désopilant. " –; The Dailymail " Une lecture hilarante. " –; The Sunday Telegraph

"The Moon's a Balloonis an account of one of the most remarkable lives Hollywood has ever seen. From early tales of school, army and wartime hi-jinx, Niven shows how, even as an unknown young man, he knew how to live the good life. But it is his astonishing stories of life in Hollywood, working and partying with the legends of the silver screen - Lawrence Oliver, Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, James Stewart, Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich, Noel Coward and dozens of others, while making some of the most acclaimed films of the last century - which turn Niven's memoir into an outright masterpiece."

"Cada dia la vida nos trae nuevos retos que debemos resolver, y el problema que conllevan los problemas es que estos siempre intentan salirse con la suya. Los conflictos importantes suelen consumir nuestro tiempo, controlar nuestros pensamientos y decirnos que podemos hacer y que no; y todo ello nos impide dar con una respuesta. David Niven nos muestra un nuevo camino para encontrar soluciones, un camino que consiste simplemente en dejar de lado los problemas: si empiezas a dar a vueltas a tus problemas nunca hallaras una solucion; pero si empiezas pensando en una solucion, nunca mas volveras a preocuparte por tus problemas,"--Amazon.com.

In the spirit of The Tipping Point and Freakonomics, David Niven presents a new way of decoding the riddles of the everyday choices we make. It's Not About the Shark opens the door to the groundbreaking science of solutions by turning problems—and how we solve them—upside down. When we have a problem, most of us zero in, take it apart, and focus until we have it solved. David Niven shows us that focusing on the problem is exactly the wrong way to find an answer. Putting problems at the center of our thoughts shuts down our creative abilities, depletes stamina, and feeds insecurities. It's Not About the Shark shows us how to transform our daily lives, our work lives, and our family lives with a simple, but rock-solid principle: If you start by thinking about your problems, you'll never make it to a solution. If you start by thinking about a solution, you'll never worry about your problems again. Through real-life examples and psychology research, Niven shows us why: *Focusing on the problem first makes us 17 times less likely to find an answer *Being afraid of a problem is natural: we're biologically primed to be afraid *Finding a problem creates power – which keeps you from finding a solution *Working harder actually hides answers *Absolute confidence makes you less likely to find the answer *Looking away from a problem helps to see a solution *Listening only to yourself is one of the best ways to find an answer Combining hard facts, good sense, and a strong dose of encouragement, Niven provides fresh and positive ways to think about problem solving.

Che cos'hanno di diverso dalle altre, le famiglie unite e affiatate? Qual è l'ingrediente magico dell'armonia in casa? Ecco la ricetta della vera felicità. I figli, i compiti a casa, la spesa, il lavoro, i pranzi dai suoceri. Diciamolo pure: la vita in famiglia è una vera corsa a ostacoli e, affannati come siamo a saltarli uno dopo l'altro, (troppo) spesso dimentichiamo di divertirci. Così quello che dovrebbe essere il luogo più accogliente e felice per ciascuno di noi si trasforma invece in una fonte di grattacapi, tensioni e stress. Eppure basterebbe tanto poco per invertire la tendenza e creare, conservare e nutrire la felicità tra le mura domestiche. Sulla base di studi scientifici e storie di vita vera, questo libro spiega come riuscirci attraverso 100 consigli semplici da seguire e da mettere in pratica. Per esercitarsi a fare famiglia giorno dopo giorno.

La Ciencia de una Familia Feliz ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre las personas que tienen relaciones íntimas y cariñosas con sus familias, y aquellas que tienen relaciones tensas y frustrantes? Sociólogos, terapeutas y siquiatras se han pasado toda una vida investigando los pormenores de la dinámica familiar, pero sus hallazgos tienden a quedar ocultos en publicaciones académicas que sólo leen otros expertos. Ahora, David Niven, autor bestseller a nivel internacional de la serie Los 100 Secretos ha reunido la información más reciente e importante de más de mil estudios científicos que se han hecho acerca de familias. Niven nos explica estos descubrimientos en un lenguaje sencillo y fácil de comprender, resumiéndolo todo en cien consejos claves que nos ayudarán a encontrar y mantener el amor, la felicidad y la satisfacción en nuestras relaciones familiares. No olvide el pasado: Los padres que comparten la historia de su familia con sus hijos generan en ellos un alto nivel de interés por otros miembros de la familia y aumentan la probabilidad de que sus hijos sean felices. Sin precio: Una vez suplidas todas las necesidades básicas, la situación económica de su familia no tendrá ningún impacto sobre qué tan satisfechos se sienten con sus vidas. Escuche la opinión de todos: Las personas de edad que tienen dificultad viviendo solas tienen un 84 por ciento más de probabilidades de estar satisfechas con su situación de vivienda si sienten que su opinión es esencial a la hora de elegir un nuevo hogar. El mejor regalo: La gente que está contenta con su vida familiar tiene un 72 por ciento más de probabilidades de estar satisfecha con su vida en general.

قضى كثير من العلماء والأكاديميين زمنًا طويلاً في البحث عن أسباب السعادة، غير أن بحوثهم بقيت دفينة نشرات علمية نائية عن أيدي العامة. أما هنا في هذا الكتاب، فقد قام عالم اجتماعي ونفسي هو ديفيد نيفن بتقطير أكثر من ألف من الدراسات الجادة التي صيغت بأساليب ومصطلحات معقدة لا تفهمها عامة الناس، تبحث في السعادة وأسبابها، فصاغها في نصائح سهلة الفهم والهضم. وقد زين المؤلف كل تلك الممارسات والعادات المئة بأمثلة واضحة، فأنار سبيلها بإيضاحات مباشرة من العلم الذي يكمن وراءها، لكي يبين للقارئ كيف يستطيع أن يحول نتائج عملية جافة وباهتة إلى حياة مفعمة بالسعادة والنشاط. وأكثر ما ينصح به هو (الثقة بالنفس) معتبرًا أن ثقتك في قدراتك الذاتية تزيد حياتك رضى، وتجعلك تعيش حياة أسعد، سواء في بيتك وبين أسرتك، أو في عملك. ثم ينصحك بأن تنعم بما عندك، مؤكدًا، وبالأدلة، أن هذا القليل الذي عندك من الممكن أن يمنحك سعادة أكبر من ذلك الكثير الذي لدى غيرك!!

Insufficient healthcare coverage, a weakened economy, the fragile environment—most people would be hard pressed to find even one example of how things are better today than they were yesterday. How about one for each day of the year? In his engaging and informative new book, Up!, David Niven, the best-selling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series (more than a million copies sold in the U.S. alone), gives us 365 examples of how life is better now than ever before. We think we’re running out of time—but we actually live twice as long as our great-grandparents did. We think our culture is in decline—but worldwide IQ scores are higher today than ever before. We think life keeps getting harder—but the percentage of people who feel happy is growing every year. Well researched and full of insight, Up! not only proves that life today is a vast improvement from the past but also that it continues to get better with each passing day. For those who need convincing or for those who need reminding, Up! is a great resource for appreciating how far we’ve come and realizing that, in all ways, things are truly looking Up!

The Simple Science of a Happy Family From raising children to getting along with in-laws, what do people with close and loving families do differently than those with strained or unfulfilling relationships? Sociologists, therapists, and psychiatrists have spent entire careers investigating the ins and outs of family dynamics, yet their findings are inaccessible to ordinary people, hidden in obscure journals to be shared with other experts. Now, David Niven, the international bestselling author of The 100 Simple Secret series has collected the most current and significant data from more than a thousand of the best scientific studies on families and then spelled out the findings in plain English. The advice is based not on one person's unique experiences or opinions, but offers for the first time the research of noted scientists studying average American families. These findings have been boiled down to one hundred essential ways to find and maintain love, joy, and satisfaction in all family relationships. Each statistic is accompanied by a true story about a real family showing the results in action. Don't Forget the Past: Parents who share stories of family history with their children create higher levels of concern for family members and increase the likelihood of their children's happiness. No Price Tag: Once basic necessities are met, the increasing economic status of one's family has zero effect on the likelihood of feeling satisfied with life. Let Every Opinion Be Heard: Senior citizens having trouble living in their own homes are 84 percent more likely to be satisfied with their housing situation if they feel as if their concerns are an important part of selecting a new home or facility. The Greatest Gift: Life satisfaction is 72 percent more likely among those who feel content with their family life.

What are the essential qualities of a great relationship? What do people in healthy and happy relationships do differently? Scientists and academics have spent entire careers investigating the nature of relationships, dating, and marriage, yet their findings are inaccessible to ordinary people, hidden in obscure journals read only by other academics. Now the bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series has collected the most current and significant data from more than a thousand studies on relationships and spells out the key findings in plain English. The advice is not based on one person's unique experiences or opinions, but offers for the first time the research of noted scientists studying the lives and loves of average Americans. Each of the findings is accompanied by a true story that shows the results in action. Love is hard to calculate: Researchers have proven that a partner's age, income, education, and religion are unrelated factors in the likelihood of relationship satisfaction. Always trying to win can lead to a major loss: People who feel a sense of competition with their partner are 37 percent less likely to feel that their relationship is satisfying. leave the past in the past: More than 40 percent of people report that jealousy over a previous relationship is a source of conflict in their current relationship.

Practical advice on how to thrive in the second half of your life, based on scientific studies. The sixth book in the bestselling 100 Simple Secrets series. What do people who relish the second half of their lives do differently than those who dread getting older? Sociologists, therapists and psychiatrists have spent entire careers investigating the ins and outs of successful aging, yet their findings are inaccessible to ordinary people, hidden in obscure journals to be shared with other experts. Now the international bestselling author of The 100 Simple Secrets series has collected the most current and significant data from more than a thousand of the best scientific studies on the second half of life. These findings have been boiled down to one hundred essential ways to find and maintain joy, health, and satisfaction every day of your life. Each one is accompanied by a true story showing the results in action. The Baby Boomers are hitting retirement age. This upbeat, light approach will appeal to the enormous market of citizens grappling with the effects of becoming 'senior', looking to discover the positive benefits of aging beyond discount tickets at the movie theatre. Books about aging well continue to sell year in and year out. The Simple Secrets approach will stand out among the heavier self-help/psychology titles and will without a doubt become an affordable impulse and gifty mainstay in this category. A good inexpensive gift for parents and grandparents.

What are the keys to success? Scientists have studied the traits, beliefs, and practices of successful people in all walks of life. But the answers they find wind up in stuffy academic journals aimed at other scientists. The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People takes the best and most important research results from over a thousand studies and spells out the key findings in ways we can all understand. Each entry contains advice based on those findings, a real life example of what to do or not to do, and a telling statistic based on scientific research.

The Simple Science of a Healthy Life From fitness to diets to emotional health and longevity, what do people who feel and look healthy do differently than those who are overtired, depressed, or out of shape? Every day we face an avalanche of studies and statistics that tell us what we should or shouldn't eat, how long we need to exercise, or how to protect ourselves from secondhand smoke and the harmful rays from the sun. Not only are these studies often contradictory, but the actual scientific information is usually inaccessible. Moving beyond the myths and misinformation, the advice in these pages is not based on one person's opinions or one expert's study. For the first time the research available on the health of average Americans has been distilled into one hundred essential ways that we can become healthier and happier. Each of the core findings is accompanied by a real life example showing these results in action. Eat more often. Oxford University researchers found that people who ate five or six times a day had a 5 percent lower total cholesterol than average and were 45 percent more likely to be able to sustain their target weight than people who ate once or twice a day. Who says caffeine is bad for you? The majority of scientific evidence shows that, for a healthy adult, moderate quantities of caffeine (about three cups of coffee per day) pose no significant health risks. Home sweet home. People who described their home lives as satisfying were 24 percent more likely to live beyond normal life expectancy, according to a UCLA study.

Why do people who have dogs live happier, longer, and more fulfulling lives? Sociologists and veterinarians have spent years investigating the positive effects that dogs have on people's health and happiness yet their findings are inaccessible to ordinary people, hidden in obscure journals to be shared with other experts. Now the international bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series has collected the most current and significant data from more than a thousand of the best scientific studies on the profound relationship between humans and our canine companions. These findings have been boiled down to the one hundred essential ways dogs positively impact our lives. Each fact is accompanied by a inspiring true story. If you love your dog, and science tells us that you do, this book will inspire and entertain. Communicate Better: It sounds odd to say a creature that communicates with barking and body language can have such a profound effect on human communication. But by providing a common point of reference and concern, dogs help us to feel a connection to other humans. That connection makes us feel more comfortable communicating with each other. When meeting a new person, the presence of a dog reduces the time before people feel comfortable while talking with each other by 45 percent. Live Longer: There is perhaps no better gift that dogs offer us humans than this simple fact. People who care for a dog live longer, healthier lives than those who do not. On average, people who cared for dogs during their lives lived 3 years longer than people who never had a dog. No Monkey Business: Primates are genetically more similar to humans than any other creature. But try to tell a chimpanzee something and you will be hard pressed to get your message across. Dogs are uniquely attuned to the messages we send. Dogs study humans and have evolved to build social skills that help them to function around us. Dogs are 52 percent more likely to follow human cues such as pointing toward a source of food than are primates. Around the Block: Good habits are often misunderstood as difficult or unpleasant chores. But there is tremendous value in the simple act of taking a walk. Walking not only burns calories, it also decreases stress. Having a dog means regularly talking walks – it's something you do for your dog but in truth your dog is doing for you. Dog owners walk 79 percent farther in an average week than non–dog owners.

Sociologists, therapists, and psychiatrists have spent entire careers investigating the ins and outs of health, success, and happiness, but their findings are inaccessible to ordinary people, hidden in obscure journals seen only by other experts. Now David Niven, the international bestselling author of the Simple Secrets series, has collected the most current and significant data from more than a thousand of the best scientific studies on three of the most important aspects of our daily lives. Niven has boiled these findings down to sound, succinct advice for each day of the year, presenting 365 essential ways to find and maintain health, wealth, and wisdom. Each entry is accompanied by a true story showing the results in action. Whether you want to enhance your body, your bank account, your IQ, or all three, this bestselling series offers 365 essential ways to let science help you.

"Death Justice" argues that one fallacy that passes for truth is the widely held notion that Justices Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas apply a fixed standard to death penalty cases. Thanks in part to the trio, the U.S. stands far apart from its allies and quite close to its enemies with regard to the death penalty.

¿Qué es lo que diferencia a las familias unidas y amorosas de las familias con relaciones tensas y vacías? Sociólogos, terapeutas y psiquiatras han dedicado años de trabajo a la investigación de las dinámicas familiares, pero habitualmente sus descubrimientos son inaccesibles para la gente común, al quedar escondidos en informes científicos que sólo leen los expertos. David Niven, autor de la exitosa serie Los 100 secretos..., recopila los más recientes y significativos datos de más de mil de los mejores estudios científicos sobre familias, para ponerlos al alcance de cualquier persona mediante un lenguaje sencillo. Los consejos no se basan únicamente en las opiniones o experiencias de un solo individuo, por el contrario, se ofrecen por primera vez investigaciones de importantes científicos que han estudiado el modelo de familia promedio. Estos descubrimientos han sido resumidos en cien formas esenciales de encontrar y mantener el amor, la alegría y la satisfacción en todas las relaciones familiares. Cada estadística se encuentra acompañada de una historia real, sobre una familia real que muestra los resultados de su aplicación en la práctica.

Durante años, científicos y académicos se han dedicado a investigar sobre qué hace feliz a las personas. Pero, en la mayoría de los casos, los resultados de estas investigaciones se pierden en publicaciones especializadas a las que el público general no tiene acceso y que están escritas en un lenguaje difícil de entender para el no especialista. En Los 100 secretos para ser feliz, el psicólogo y científico social David Niven, autor de la exitosa serie Los 100 secretos..., recoge gran cantidad de estudios sobre la felicidad, los traduce a palabras y conceptos que cualquier persona puede entender y los reúne en cien características que tienen en común las personas que se sienten satisfechas con la vida. Cada uno de estos cien secretos para ser feliz está ilustrado con un ejemplo y cuenta con una explicación sencilla del estudio en el cual se basa, con el objeto de que usted pueda aplicarlos para ser más feliz. Algunos de ellos son: cultive amigos, apague la televisión, acéptese incondicionalmente, acuérdese de dónde viene, entre otros.

¿Qué tienen en común las personas exitosas? Durante años, científicos y académicos han estudiado las características, creencias y costumbres de la gente exitosa, pero por lo general sus investigaciones aparecen en publicaciones técnicas accesibles sólo a especialistas.David Niven, autor de la exitosa serie Los 100secretos..., reúne en este libro una gran cantidad de investigaciones recientes sobre el éxito y las presenta en un lenguaje que cualquier persona puede comprender.Desde historias tan diversas como la de un campeón olímpico que se crió en un barrio marginal hasta la de un guitarrista que retomó el control de su vida después de perderlo todo a causa de las drogas, entre otras, este libro le inspirará y le mostrará cómo alcanzar el éxito, según sus aspiraciones propias, de manera realista y satisfactoria.

بدءاً من تربية الأطفال إلى التعامل مع أهالي الأزواج، ما الذي يفعله الأشخاص الذين يعيشون في أسر تسودها علاقات المحبة والود، وهل يختلفون عن الذين يعيشون في أسر متشددة وبينها علاقات مفككة؟ لقد قضى علماء النفس والأطباء والمعالجون النفسيون مدة خدمتهم في الوظيفة وهم يتحرون الأوضاع الداخلية والخارجية للأسرة، ولكن نتائج دراساتهم غير متاحة لعامة الناس، بل محصورة في المجلات المتخصصة التي يشارك فيها خبراء آخرون. والآن يعمل ديفيد نيفين الكاتب لسلسلة كتب الأسرار المائة البسيطة الأكثر مبيعاً في العالم على جمع البيانات الأكثر أهمية وتداولاً من أكثر من ألف دراسة علمية عن العائلات ومن ثم يقوم بنشر تلك النتائج بلغة إنجليزية مبسطة. لا تعتمد التوصيات على خبرات أو آراء شخص بعينه، ولكنها تقدم للمرة الأولى أبحاث العلماء المذكورين الذين درسوا العائلات الأمريكية المعتدلة. تم اختصار تلك النتائج إلى مئة طريقة أساسية لإيجاد والحفاظ على الحب، والمتعة، والرضا في كل العلاقات الأسرية. ويرافق كل الإحصائيات قصة حقيقية عن أسرة واقعية توضح النتائج من خلال التصرفات. لا تنس الماضي: الآباء الذين يشاركون أبناءهم قصصاً من تاريخ العائلة يعطون مستويات أعلى من الاهتمام لأفراد الأسرة ويزيدون من إمكانية سعادة أبنائهم. ليس هناك تسعيرة: عندما تواجهنا أمور أساسية هامة، فإنه لن يكون لزيادة المستوى الاقتصادي لأي أسرة أي تأثير على الشعور بالرضا داخل الأسرة. دعنا نسمع جميع الآراء: المواطنين الكبار الذين يجدون صعوبة في العيش بمفردهم يصبحون أكثر رضا بحالة سكنهم بنسبة 84% فيما لو شعروا أن رغبتهم في إيجاد منزل جديد أو مكان إقامة خاص بهم موضع اهتمام. أعظم هدية: يمثل الرضا عن الحياة نسبة 72% أكثر من هؤلاء الذين يشعرون بالترابط في حياتهم الأسرية.