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The international bestseller that launched a movement with its powerful insight: "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." The Art of Loving is a rich and detailed guide to love-an achievement reached through maturity, practice, concentration, and courage. In the decades since the book's release, its words and lessons continue to resonate. Erich Fromm, a celebrated psychoanalyst and social psychologist, clearly...
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National Issues Forums Institute
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[2015]
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English
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What Can We Do about Excessive Drinking? Alcohol is a legal beverage, but its misuse hurts people, costs our nation billions of dollars, and makes the public less safe. The question remains: What can we do about excessive alcohol use? This issue guide presents three options for deliberation: * Protect Others from Danger: Society should do what it takes to protect itself from the negative consequences of drinking behavior. * Help People with Alcohol...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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[2012]
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English
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"A look at the origins of cognitive abilities in primate species. Since Darwin's time, comparative psychologists have searched for a good way to compare cognition in humans and nonhuman primates. In Origins of Intelligence, Sue Parker and Michael McKinney offer such a framework and make a strong case for using human development theory (both Piagetian and neo-Piagetian) to study the evolution of intelligence across primate species. Their approach is...
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Abrams / Vearsa Limited
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[2019]
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English
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"What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is all relative, rooted in our unique cultures. What one may consider normal, like sex before marriage, eating meat, or being a banker, others find abhorrent. And if evil is only in the eye of the beholder,...
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Seven Leaves Press
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[2017]
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English
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Do you feel stuck in your life? Do you wonder why? Does something seem wrong, but you can't put your finger on it? In The Lies We Tell Ourselves, psychotherapist Jon Frederickson reveals the ways we fool ourselves and how to get unstuck. Through dozens of stories and examples, he shows how the apparent cause of our problems is almost never the real cause. In addition, he reveals what we really fear and how to face it. In these pages you'll discover...
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Babelcube Inc
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[2021]
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English
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"Whether we call ourselves Minimalist or not, we all seek a better life. Also, it is possible to achieve a balanced view and just beyond our illusory conditions and thoughts." By "minimalism", the author does not only mean a fad linked to personal development, but rather a vital, interdependent movement towards serenity with ourselves and others. What is Minimalism? What does it mean to be a Minimalist? What is not Minimalism? How do we relate to...
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Barakaldo Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations pioneered the modern field of social cognition. A giant of social psychology, Heider had few students, but his book on social perception had many readers, and its impact continues into the 21st Century, having been cited over 13,000 times. In "The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations," Heider argued that social perception follows many of the same rules of physical object perception, and that the organization...
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Barakaldo Books
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[2020]
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English
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By 1960, psychology had come to be dominated by behaviorism and learning theory, which emphasized the observable stimulus and response components of human and animal behavior while ignoring the cognitive processes that mediate the relationship between the stimulus and response. The cognitive phenomena occurring within the black box" between stimulus and response were of little interest to behaviorists, as their mathematical models worked without them....
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Open Road Distribution
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[2016]
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English
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Twenty-five hundred years ago, Pythagoras taught that the simple counting numbers are the basic building blocks of reality. A century and a half later, Plato argued that the world we live in is but a poor copy of the world of ideas . Neither realized that their numbers and ideas might also be the most basic components of the human psych: archetypes . This book traces the modern evolution of this idea from the Renaissance to the 20th century, leading...
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Dover Publications
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[2012]
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English
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Volume 2 of the famous long course, complete and unabridged. Stream of thought, time perception, memory, experimental methods - these are only some of the concerns of a work that was years ahead of its time and is still valid, interesting and useful. Total in set: 94 figures.
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Ediciones Fortuna
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[2020]
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English
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Avoid the errors that are stopping you finding love with this practical manual.
When we want to have a relationship, the understanding between men and women seems simply impossible. It is not surprising, since we speak very different languages. "Finding Love (This Time For Real)" addresses this problem in clear, relaxed language that will make you feel like you're chatting with a friend. However, just as you would with your best friend, Marta Hari...
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"Why we run with -- or avoid -- the crowd, and why it matters, from choosing a restaurant in a tourist trap to believing fake news. I learned a lot" (Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist ). Rioting teenagers, tumbling stock markets, and the spread of religious terrorism appear to have little in common, but all are driven by the same basic instincts: the tendency to herd, follow, and imitate others. In today's interconnected world, group...
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Elliott & Thompson
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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In 2017, our political choices seem to carry more weight than they have for a generation. Many people feel more divided than ever. How much do we really know about ourselves, and each other? Psychologists have been studying how we make political choices for years, and the truth is, we're a lot less rational than we think we are; we vote for reasons we're not even consciously aware of. In this absorbing book, Lee de-Wit delves into the science to show...
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Philosophical Library/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"This study by a British psychologist explores the relationship between mental illness, murder, and the Homicide Act of 1957. In 1957, a new bill went before Parliament addressing the use of capital punishment in cases of murder. It sparked a debate -- as relevant today as it was then -- about how to prosecute a killer who suffers a mental illness or disability. In order to shed light on the terms of this argument, psychologist W. L. Neustatter published...
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Barakaldo Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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There is a need for a popular, systematic presentation of the Montessori Method. The Montessori Revolution in Education is just such a book. It clearly presents the wealth of Maria Montessori's ideas, and goes on to describe how the Montessori school is actually working in the United States.
Part One, 'Montessori Principles,' is a succinct summary of the essential philosophy. Part Two 'Montessori illustrated.' demonstrates with a wealth of photographs...
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Babelcube Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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From the moment you receive a diagnosis of cancer, life changes. At that moment, it is like a bolt from the blue. There are many states of mind that are lived, from fear to impotence, from anger to despair. Every woman, however, has a great vital force within herself that she brings out more than ever in critical moments and which helps her to overcome even such a hard and complex path. In this period of continuous checks, treatments and surgical...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it. The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average-like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings-reveal something meaningful about our potential is so ingrained in our consciousness that we...
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Danilo Henrique Gomes
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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P sychology is a fascinating subject. It was to be expected that psychology would not only bring long-term techniques, but also short-term ones. And this happened. The science of the mind has discovered several simple tricks for small dilemmas that bother various people around the world. Many of these tricks are gathered in this book. All of the techniques cited here have had their veracity tested and proven. It is obvious that each person is different...
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Babelcube Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Clinical Psychology is one of the most chosen professional job prospects for professionals studying Psychology career, in which they focus their psychological attention on people showing or not psychopathologies. Equally, clinical psychology is well known for the general audience about psychologist's labor, area which is every day wider because of the great benefits of counting on professionals specialized in knowing the way people feel, think and...
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