Behavioral Sciences

WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE An instruction manual for life, love, and relationships by a brilliant young scientist whose Asperger's syndr...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Beck Diet Solution teams up with her daughter and colleague at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therap...

You've Read The Headlines: industry after industry battered by globalization, deregulation, and commoditization. The Darwinian struggle of business keeps g...

A vivid account of what makes us human. Based groundbreaking new research, We Are Our Brains is a sweeping biography of the human brain, from infancy to ad...

All humans, but no other species, have the capacity to create and understand language. It provides structure to our thoughts, allowing us to plan, communica...

Poland's history from the thirteenth century to modern times overshadows a 1981 dispute between Janko Buk, the leader of a group of militant farmers, and Sz...

Traces The Author's Early Descent Into Promiscuity In The Aftermath Of Her Parents' Divorce, Her Struggles With An Addiction To Both Sex And Male Attention,...

Developments In The Philosophy Of Mind Over The Last 20 Years Have Dramatically Changed The Nature Of The Subject. In This Major New Introduction, Tim Bayne...

This comprehensive, respected, and up-to-date survey of contemporary behavior therapy synthesizes the clinical, research, theoretical, and ethical facets of...

francis Crick, Who Died At The Age Of Eighty-eight In 2004, Will Be Bracketed With Galileo, Darwin, And Einstein As One Of The Great Scientists Of All Tim...

This manual helps parents master proven techniques for teaching social-communication skills to young children with autism. The authors clearly describe th...

Ann Mcelroy And Patricia K. Townsend ; [with Contributions By Pamela L. Erickson And Others]. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 325-357) And Index....

Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader Is A Groundbreaking Collection On The Understanding And Practice Of Human Rights Over The Past 60 Years. For Decades...

Asking And Listening Is The First Book To Trace The Changing Ways In Which Human Beings Have Learned To Look At The Others Beyond The Gate With Their Strang...

Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these touching, firsthand accounts examine how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class and religious backg...

Overcome Anxiety By Facing Fear Proven Tips And Tools. There Are A Lot Of Resources Out There For Managing Anxiety. However, Many Of Them Are Based On Opini...

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The cooperative action of different regions of our brains gives us an amazing capacity to perform activities as diverse as playing the piano and hitting a ...

This book adopts a data-analysis approach to multiple regression. Pedhazur integrates design and analysis, and emphasizes learning by example.Categories: Me...

Critical and creative thinking for life experience and career success The first edition of The Pearson Guide to Critical and Creative Thinking provide...

"In response to mounting concerns about the future of the press, an outpouring of lively debate and proposals for alternative models of journalism has explo...

An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology offers an accessible review of recent research in the application of cognitive methods, theories, and models...

When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understan...

Handbook on Animal-Assisted Therapy: Foundations and Guidelines for Animal-Assisted Interventions, Fourth Edition, continues the excellence of the previou...

Combining Psychology With Brain Science, Baars Brilliantly Brings His Subject To Life With A Metaphor That Has Been Used To Understand Consciousness Since T...

Professor Ray's unique philosophy of science approach focuses on introducing you to the basics of science and the spirit that motivates many scientists, and...

Uncovers The Science Behind Our Unintentional Biases Using Real World Stories Underpinned By Scientific Theories And Research. Experiments Have Shown That O...

a New York Times Bestseller That Has Changed The Way Readers View The Ecology Of Eating, This Revolutionary Book By Award Winner Michael Pollan Asks The Se...

While Gray Hair And Wrinkles May Be Unwelcome If Inevitable Signs Of The Passing Years, The Memory Loss, Intellectual Impairment, And Mood Swings That Come ...

Working with clients who abuse drugs or alcohol poses formidable challenges to the clinician. Addicted persons are often confronting multiple, complex pro...

From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists comes a seminal book on forecasting that shows, for the first time, how we can all get bette...

Governor General’s Award Finalist Colleen Nelson’s tale of identity, unlikely friends, and a secret book club, now available in a new paperback format.B...

Connecting the study of cognition to everyday life in an unprecedented way, Bruce Goldstein's COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY gives equal treatment to both the landmar...

The largest company in the world by far, Wal-Mart takes in revenues in excess of $280 billion, employs 1.4 million American workers, and controls a large sh...

"Criminal Behavior: A Psychosocial Approach, Seventh Edition" presents a critical and interdisciplinary look at criminals and crime, challenging students t...

Bell et al’s Environmental Psychology is considered to be the most authoritative textbook available for this course. It is the only environmental psycholo...

Achieve your life goals with SELF-DIRECTED BEHAVIOR! With abundant strategies based on research, this psychology text guides you through exercises for deve...

A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current Clinical Technique Addresses the most current thought on sexual dysfunction. Shared here are clinical techn...

In This Book A Cognitive Scientist Explains How The Brain Evolved To Store And Use Information, Allowing Our Ancestors To Control Their Environment, And Why...

This book examines Mental Health Courts (MHC) within a socio-legal framework. Placing these courts within broader trends in criminal justice, especially pro...

Using cases from the authors' files or from case files of other working clinicians, CASEBOOK IN ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY portrays the rich and arresting nature o...

Introduction: Affective Attachments -- 1. Imagination -- 2. Idealization -- 3. Consummation -- 4. The Aesthetic -- 5. Affective Failure And Renewal. Irving ...

A survey of the past 300 years of theorizing on myth, this book takes into account the work of such prominent thinkers as Albert Camus, Claude Lévi-Strau...

This original, entertaining, and surprising book investigates verbal blunders: what they are, what they say about those who make them, and how and why we'v...

now In Use At Over 200 Colleges And Universities, cognition: Exploring The Science Of The Mind Is One Of The Premier Textbooks In The Field.Categories: Medi...

For more than three years, British psychologist David Chantry followed the daily activity on the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) Listserve, recogniz...

Offering students an overview of the anthropological findings in religion that have amassed in the last 100 years, this sourcebook presents articles wri...