Best Selling Books by Po Bronson

“Brimming with stories of sacrifice, courage, commitment and, sometimes, failure, the book will support anyone pondering a major life choice or risk without force-feeding them pat solutions.”—Publishers Weekly In What Should I Do with My Life? Po Bronson tells the inspirational true stories of people who have found the most meaningful answers to that great question. With humor, empathy, and insight, Bronson writes of remarkable individuals—from young to old, from those just starting out to those in a second career—who have overcome fear and confusion to find a larger truth about their lives and, in doing so, have been transformed by the experience. What Should I Do with My Life? struck a powerful, resonant chord on publication, causing a multitude of people to rethink their vocations and priorities and start on the path to finding their true place in the world. For this edition, Bronson has added nine new profiles, to further reflect the range and diversity of those who broke away from the chorus to learn the sound of their own voice.

In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter? Why do cross-racial friendships decrease in schools that are more integrated? If 98% of kids think lying is morally wrong, then why do 98% of kids lie? What''s the single most important thing that helps infants learn language? NurtureShock is a groundbreaking collaboration between award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. They argue that when it comes to children, we''ve mistaken good intentions for good ideas. With impeccable storytelling and razor-sharp analysis, they demonstrate that many of modern society''s strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science have been overlooked. Nothing like a parenting manual, the authors'' work is an insightful exploration of themes and issues that transcend children''s (and adults'') lives.

The author of What Should I Do with the Rest of My Life? draws on the profound and personal stories of twenty ordinary individuals to explore the complex mysteries of family life, explaining how, after years of conflict, a family can make the transition to a better place, and how to cope with such trials as divorce, death, infidelity, abuse, illness, and money. Reprint.

New York Times Bestseller Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman''s work changes the national dialogue. Beyond their bestselling books, you know them from commentary and features in the New York Times, CNN, NPR, Time, Newsweek, Wired, New York, and more. E-mail, Facebook, and Twitter accounts are filled with demands to read their reporting (such as "How Not to Talk to Your Kids," "Creativity Crisis," and "Losing Is Good for You"). In Top Dog, Bronson and Merryman again use their astonishing blend of science and storytelling to reveal what''s truly in the heart of a champion. The joy of victory and the character-building agony of defeat. Testosterone and the neuroscience of mistakes. Why rivals motivate. How home field advantage gets you a raise. What teamwork really requires. It''s baseball, the SAT, sales contests, and Linux. How before da Vinci and FedEx were innovators, first, they were great competitors. Olympians carry Top Dog in their gym bags. It''s in briefcases of Wall Street traders and Madison Avenue madmen. Risk takers from Silicon Valley to Vegas race to implement its ideas, as educators debate it in halls of academia. Now see for yourself what this game-changing talk is all about.

Entrepreneurs and tech wizards, immigrants and investors, dreamers and visionaries are heading West to seek their fortune.Their Mecca is Silicon Valley - where one person can achieve so much with just initiative, talent and a good idea. Meet David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo and worth over $500 million, who still sleeps under his desk one night a week. Meet the 26 year-old who is already on his fifth start-up venture. Meet the man with the biggest brain in the world. Meet the nudist who works the late shift.

Journeys behind the scenes of Silicon Valley to profile some of the colorful inhabitants of this high-tech universe, including David Filo, a co-founder of Yahoo.

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Should I Do with My Life?, Bombardiers is Po Bronson''s first novel, a devastating satire of the business world told through the lens of a crazed and colorful group of salespeople forced to push increasingly absurd financial products.

Find out where our world is headed with this dazzling first-hand account of inventing the future from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Should I Do With My Life? and the founder of science accelerator IndieBio. Decoding the World is a buddy adventure about the quest to live meaningfully in a world with such uncertainty. It starts with Po Bronson coming to IndieBio. Arvind Gupta created IndieBio as a laboratory for early biotech startups trying to solve major world problems. Glaciers melting. Dying bees. Infertility. Cancer. Ocean plastic. Pandemics. Arvind is the fearless one, a radical experimentalist. Po is the studious detective, patiently synthesizing clues others have missed. Their styles mix and create a quadratic speedup of creativity. Yin and Yang crystallized. As they travel around the world, finding scientists to join their cause, the authors bring their firsthand experience to the great mysteries that haunt our future. Natural resource depletion. Job-taking robots. China''s global influence. Arvind feels he needs to leave IndieBio to help startups do more than just get started. But as his departure draws near, he struggles to leave the sanctum he created. While Po has to prove he can keep the "indie" in IndieBio after Arvind is gone. After looking through their lens, you''ll never see the world the same.

In the basement of a distinguished research lab, Andy Caspar''s engineering talents are being ignored. But his chance to become an Ironman appears when the chief engineer sets Andy up a long-neglected project - to design a computer that can sell for only $300. Matters then take a dangerous turn.

Men Seeking Women: Love and Sex On-line is an exciting and original collection of new short fiction by men about men seeking women, and women seeking men in the digital age. The Internet revolution has altered the look of the traditional relationship. Through e-mail correspondence, chat room chats, and message board postings, the manner in which we meet and mate has drastically changed. While the search for love is a timeless one, how and where we look has never been more a sign of the digital times. Here, ten talented storytellers offer thoroughly contemporary portraits of relationships in the world of new media and high technology in chat rooms, porn sites and other on-line realms. Men Seeking Women is a fresh and unconventional look at the cyber-landscape of love, sex, and companionship.

Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society''s strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science of child development have been overlooked. The authors discuss the inverse power of praise, why insufficient sleep adversely affects kids'' capacity to learn, why white parents don''t talk about race, why kids lie, why evaluation methods for "giftedness" and accompanying programs don''t work, and why siblings really fight.

Po Bronson y Ashley Merryman han escrito el que esta destinado a ser uno de los libros mas provocativos e influyentes de nuestros tiempos sobre la educacion de los hijos. Literalmente, de un dia para otro, los padres cambiaron la manera de hablar a sus hi

Ein brillanter Forschungsbericht, der unser Denken über Erziehung grundlegend verändern wird Gemessen an der Anzahl der verfügbaren Erziehungsratgeber müsste eigentlich längst eine Generation von Engeln herangewachsen sein. Tatsächlich aber stehen heute Schwierigkeiten und Fehleinschätzungen im Umgang mit Kindern auch bei psychologisch gut informierten Eltern auf der Tagesordnung. Was ist so schwierig an einem Vorgang, von dem wir bislang dachten, er sei "ganz natürlich", eigentlich eine Sache des Instinkts? Die Autoren haben die Erklärung: Unser Instinkt bringt uns dazu, die Kinder vor allem zu beschützen, was aber nicht zwangsläufig dazu führen muss, dass sie sich dadurch zu starken, selbstsicheren und hilfsbereiten Erwachsenen entwickeln. "10 schockierende Wahrheiten über Erziehung" präsentiert neueste wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und stellt so gut wie alles auf den Kopf, was wir über Kindererziehung zu wissen glauben. Warum hat Lob oft den gegenteiligen Effekt? Warum lügen Kinder? Warum kann es auch vorteilhaft sein, als Einzelkind aufzuwachsen? Warum führt frühkindliche Förderung nicht unbedingt dazu, dass Kinder später erfolgreich sind? Und inwiefern zeugt Rebellion im Teenager-Alter eigentlich von Respekt vor den Eltern? Po Bronson und Ashley Merryman legen mit ihrem exzellent geschriebenen Forschungsbericht eines der kühnsten Bücher zum Thema Erziehung vor, das unsere gewohnten Denkmuster und Erfahrungen revolutionieren wird.

El Silicon Valley de San Francisco es, sin duda, la nueva Meca de los nuevos aventureros ciberneticos, gente inquieta y llena de ideas visionarias, ansiosos de triunfar de la noche a la manana. Po Bronson demuestra en este electrizante documento que, gracias a la informatica y las nuevas tecnologias, el viejo sueno americano del hombre corriente convertido en magnate sigue mas vivo que nunca, con sus luces y sus sombras. El nudista del turno de noche es el resultado de diez anos de trabajo de campo in situ, en los que el autor pudo ver de cerca como piensan, trabajan y se desenvuelven personajes como David Filo, cofundador de la empresa Yahoo!, o Sabeer Bhatia, un joven informatico procedente de la India, perseguido denodadamente por Microsoft para hacerse con una de sus brillantes ideas como programador. Estas historias veridicas constituyen el relato de la competencia salvaje, los esfuerzos y la imaginacion desplegada por innumerables programadores para colocar sus proyectos en el mercado y evitar que la competencia se les adelante. He aqui, pues, el retrato fiel, inteligente, descarnado y humoristico de esta nueva feria de vanidades y del lugar, Silicon Valey, donde nacio y se desarrollo; como dice Bronson en el prologo: B+Los supermillonarios de menos de treinta y cinco anos son, en realidad, una nueva forma de vida, una mutacion economica surgida de la charca del darwinismo capitalista. Esta nueva especie seduce la imaginacion mas que cualquier otro animal...B;

The bestselling author of "Bombardiers" and "The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest" traveled the world in search of people who had found meaningful answers to one of life''s greatest questions: What should I do with my life?" Along the way, his own life was changed by conversations with these individuals, who, by daring to be honest with themselves, have found new direction and understanding in their lives. National print coverage.