Eduardo Punset's books
Today we woke up with the sad news of death of Eduardo Punset. The author and communicator of scientific dissemination with more readers in Spain had 82 years and has not been able to overcome a cancer suffered since 2007. Known for his work and for his peculiar style and shape to tell it, leave us a great figure of science. Esta es una selection of 6 of his countless books destined to deepen the knowledge of human nature.
Eduardo Punset
He graduated in Law from the University of Madrid and obtained a master's degree in Economic Sciences awarded by the University of London, where he was an editor at the with the BBC. He was also economic director for Latin America of the newspaper The Economist, and collaborated with IMF in the United States and in Haiti.
In the Transition He served as Minister for the European Communities with Adolfo Suárez and as Finance Counselor of the Generalitat with Josep Tarradellas. They followed various positions in public and private companies. But for the general public it will always remain as author of numerous books on popular science who also became very successful on television, directing and hosting the show Industrial.
6 books
The self help touch in addition to popular science, Punset's books touch all the sticks of human knowledge. These are some.
The journey to love
La approximation and the attempt to explain love, the most powerful of emotions, from the point of view of evolution and biology. Because the technological revolution is allowing this study through these channels. He also comments on the scientific keys to understand love, its conditioning factors and its phases: the genetic component, sexual desire, chemistry and imagination, the choice of a partner, the commitment to parenthood, heartbreak and its consequences or its management ...
There is a final chapter where he proposes the formula about the ability to love and offers a evaluation test for the reader.
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Journey to optimism
Where he manages to transmit that they follow us there are plenty of reasons to bet that the future it will be better. For this we can support and serve in the constant scientific advances. Punset also denies that there is a planetary crisis, advocates the fair redistribution of work and warns that life expectancy increases by two and a half years every decade. Also, remember that it is no longer possible to live without social networks and it is also necessary to learn to manage emotions.
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The journey to life
More bets for life how to highlight than concepts like empathy and intuition they can change the future. Both have taken a qualitative leap in this technological present as a vehicle to avoid isolation from society and the help that we previously needed from third parties or our closest environment.
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What happens inside us
A fundamental study to understand and understand ourselves is that of self knowledge, know how we are. It is the key to learning to manage ourselves both inside and out. To help us in this work is science, which is supported by the experiences and testimonies of dozens of real cases.
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Letter to my granddaughters
Perhaps his most personal work and the intellectual and most enthusiastic legacy of everything he learned, with the idea of projecting it into the future represented by his granddaughters and also all his followers. She passionately dissects the great ideas that changed her way of seeing the world, from her love of science transmitted by her mother to her perennial need to keep learning.
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Alice's dream
Punset takes the name of Alice in its Greek meaning of «truth», To propose a work full of answers and open questions. It is also a bet of hope and future that endorse the latest and constant scientific discoveries. All wrapped up in the form of a "dream" where fiction and reality go hand in hand and complement each other.
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