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How Risky Is It, Really?: Why Our Fears Don't Always Match the Facts - Hardcover

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by David Ropeik (Author)"Clear, balanced, and lively." -- Steven Pinker, bestselling author of How the Mind Works ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE "RIGHT" RISKS? Do you worry more about radiation from nuclear power or from the sun? Are you more afraid of getting cancer than heart disease? Are you safer talking on your cell phone or using a hands-free device when you drive? Do you think global warming is a serious threat to your health? GET THE FACTS BEHIND YOUR FEARS--AND DISCOVER . . . HOW RISKY IS IT,...

The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be - Paperback

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by Dexter Dias (Author)We want to believe that there are some things we would never do. We want to believe that there are others we always would. But how can we be sure? What are our limits? Do we have limits? The answer lies with the Ten Types of Human: the people we become when we are faced with life's most difficult decisions. This pioneering examination of human nature looks at the best and worst that human beings are capable of, and asks why. It explores the frontiers of the human experi...

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by Barbara G. Kanki (Editor), José Anca (Editor), Robert L. Helmreich (Editor)Crew Resource Management, Second Edition continues to focus on CRM in the cockpit, but also emphasizes that the concepts and training applications provide generic guidance and lessons learned for a wide variety of "crews" in the aviation system as well as in the complex and high-risk operations of many non-aviation settings. Long considered the "bible" in this field, much of the basic style and structure of the prev...

Exceptional Life Journeys: Stories of Childhood Disorder - Hardcover

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by Jac Andrews (Editor), Peter Istvanffy (Editor)Most students in training to become teachers, psychologists, physicians, and social workers as well as many practicing professionals in these disciplines do not get the opportunity to fully understand and appreciate the circumstances of children, parents, and teachers who have had to cope and adapt to childhood disorder. Most professionals in the field of childhood disorders are well trained in assessment and treatment methods and are aware of ...

Wais-IV, Wms-IV, and Acs: Advanced Clinical Interpretation - Hardcover

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by James A. Holdnack (Editor), Lisa Drozdick (Editor), Lawrence G. Weiss (Editor)This book provides users of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV) with information on applying the WAIS-IV, including additional indexes and information regarding use in special populations for advanced clinical use and interpretation. The book offers sophisticated users of the WAIS-IV and Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS-IV) guidelines on how to enhance the clinical applicability of these tests. The first s...

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Volume 57 - Hardcover

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The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Volume 56 - Hardcover

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by Brian H. Ross (Editor)The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter thoughtfully integrates the writings of leading contributors, who present and discuss significant bodies of research relevant to their discipline. Volume 56 includes chapters on such varied topics as emotion and memory inter...

Kidnapping: An Investigator's Guide - Hardcover

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by Diana M. Concannon (Author)Kidnapping: An Investigator's Guide to Profiling is based on a three-part analysis of 100 randomly selected kidnapping cases prosecuted in the United States that have survived Supreme Court appeal. The results of the analysis are incorporated into each chapter as part of the exploration of the inductive profile of each kidnapping subtype, thereby offering a statistically based tool that can inform investigative strategies and the allocation of limited resources. ...

Evidence-Based Treatment for Children with Autism: The Card Model - Hardcover

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by Doreen Granpeesheh (Author), Jonathan Tarbox (Author), Adel C. Najdowski (Author)This manual is a user-friendly, comprehensive description of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) model of autism treatment--the latest scientific information on what truly works in treating autism in an integrated, organized, consumable format. The book details effective early behavioral intervention, covering topics such as challenging behavior, visual modification, parental involvement, improv...

Intelligence and Human Progress: The Story of What Was Hidden in Our Genes - Paperback

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by James Flynn (Author)Written by James R. Flynn of the Flynn effect (the sustained and substantial increase in intelligence test scores across the world over many decades), Intelligence and Human Progress examines genes and human achievement in all aspects, including what genes allow and forbid in terms of personal life history, the cognitive progress of humanity, the moral progress of humanity, and the cross-fertilization of the two. This book presents a new method for weighing family influ...

Practical Human Factors for Pilots - Paperback

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by Capt David Moriarty (Author)Practical Human Factors for Pilots bridges the divide between human factors research and one of the key industries that this research is meant to benefit--civil aviation. Human factors are now recognized as being at the core of aviation safety and the training syllabus that flight crew trainees have to follow reflects that. This book will help student pilots pass exams in human performance and limitations, successfully undergo multi-crew cooperation training and...

The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes - Hardcover

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by Mark Douglas (Author)The classic book that introduced the investment industry to the concept of trading psychology. With rare insight based on his firsthand commodity trading experience, author Mark Douglas demonstrates how the mental matters that allow us function effectively in society are often psychological barriers in trading. After examining how we develop losing attitudes, this book prepares you for a thorough "mental housecleaning" of deeply rooted thought processes. And then it s...

Performance Psychology: Perception, Action, Cognition, and Emotion - Hardcover

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by Markus Raab (Editor), Babett Lobinger (Editor), Sven Hoffmann (Editor)This book integrates findings from across domains in performance psychology to focus on core research on what influences peak and non-peak performance. The book explores basic and applied research identifying cognition-action interactions, perception-cognition interactions, emotion-cognition interactions, and perception-action interactions. The book explores performance in sports, music, and the arts both for individuals...

Happiness: Lessons from a New Science - Paperback

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by Richard Layard (Author)There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average incomes have more than doubled.The central question the great economist R...

The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want - Paperback

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by Sonja Lyubomirsky (Author)Learn how to achieve the happiness you deserve "A guide to sustaining your newfound contentment." --Psychology Today "Lyubomirsky's central point is clear: a significant portion of what is called happiness . . . is up for grabs. Taking some pages out of the positive psychology playbook, she coaches readers on how to snag it." --The New York Review of BooksYou see here a different kind of happiness book. The How of Happiness is a comprehensive guide to understandin...

A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness - Paperback

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by Nassir Ghaemi (Author)The New York Times bestseller"A glistening psychological history, faceted largely by the biographies of eight famous leaders . . ." --The Boston Globe "A provocative thesis . . . Ghaemi's book deserves high marks for original thinking." --The Washington Post "Provocative, fascinating." --Salon.com Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Rate Madn...

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined - Paperback

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by Steven Pinker (Author)"If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this--the most inspiring book I've ever read." --Bill Gates A provocative history of violence--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate, and Enlightenment Now.Believe it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence. In his gripping and controversial new work, New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows that despit...

The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life - Paperback

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by Piero Ferrucci (Author), Dalai Lama (Preface by)The popular guide to living with kindness now includes a new chapter, introduction, and exercises in this tenth-anniversary edition. When The Power of Kindness first appeared in 2006 it thrilled and challenged readers with one audacious promise: Your acts of generosity and decency are the secret to a fuller, more satisfying life. Kindness is not some squishy virtue but the very key to your own happiness. With nearly 125,000 copies sold, Tarch...

Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help - Paperback

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by Larissa Macfarquhar (Author)What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas. A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they think: If they can change two lives, why not four? Or ten? They adopt...

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress - Paperback

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by Steven Pinker (Author)INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. By the author of the new book, Rationality. Is the world really falling apart?...

Child and Family Practice: A Relational Perspective - Paperback

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by Shelley Cohen Konrad (Author)Child and Family Practice: A Relational Perspective, Second Edition presents important guidelines and principles for working with children, their families, and their service-providing organizations. It is grounded in the traditional social work theories of relationship with emphasis on three core concepts: relational connection, evidence-guided knowledge, and reflexivity. With this text students can connect theory to evidence-based practice and use realistic ca...

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science - Paperback

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by Norman Doidge (Author)"Fascinating. Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain."--Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat What is neuroplasticity? Is it possible to change your brain? Norman Doidge's inspiring guide to the new brain science explains all of this and moreAn astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable, and proving that...

Gender, Sex, and Sexualities: Psychological Perspectives - Paperback

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by Nancy Dess (Editor), Jeanne Marecek (Editor), Leslie Bell (Editor)For decades, the field of gender, sex, and sexualities has been a focal point of increasing interest. This inquiry has been ignited by successive waves of dramatic social change, chief among them: the re-emergence of feminist movements in the U.S. and Europe in the late 1960s; the sustained (and increasingly successful) bids for legal, social, and religious acceptance of non-heterosexual sexualities in many parts of the worl...

Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience - Paperback

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by Gregg Caruso (Editor), Owen Flanagan (Editor)Existentialisms arise when the foundations of being, such as meaning, morals, and purpose come under assault. In the first-wave of existentialism, writings typified by Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche concerned the increasingly apparent inability of religion, and religious tradition, to support a foundation of being. Second-wave existentialism, personified philosophically by Sartre, Camus, and de Beauvoir, developed in response to similar ...

Someone to Talk to: How Networks Matter in Practice - Paperback

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by Mario Luis Small (Author)Winner of the James Coleman Award for Best Book from the Rationality and Society section of the American Sociological Society Winner of the Outstanding Recent Contribution from the Social Psychology section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the Best Publication Award from the Mental Health section of the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, PROSE Book Award, Cultural Anthropology and Sociology, from the Association of American Publis...

The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought: Mind-Wandering, Creativity, and Dreaming - Hardcover

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by Kieran C. R. Fox (Editor), Kalina Christoff (Editor)Where do spontaneous thoughts come from? It may be surprising that the seemingly straightforward answers "from the mind" or "from the brain" are in fact an incredibly recent understanding of the origins of spontaneous thought. For nearly all of human history, our thoughts - especially the most sudden, insightful, and important - were almost universally ascribed to divine or other external sources. Only in the past few centuries have we tr...

ADHD: What Everyone Needs to Know - Paperback

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by Stephen P. Hinshaw (Author)Rates of diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are skyrocketing, throughout America and the rest of the world. U.S. rates of youth diagnosis have increased 40% from just a decade ago. Adults with ADHD are now the fastest-growing segment of the population receiving diagnosis and medication. The disorder is painful and sometimes disabling for individuals and tremendously costly for society; yet, widespread misinformation, skepticism, and unan...

Testimony That Sticks: The Art of Communicating Psychology and Neuropsychology to Juries - Hardcover

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by Karen Postal (Author)Following on the success of Feedback That Sticks (Oxford, 2013), Karen Postal demonstrates, through the words of forensic experts, how to translate complex, highly technical neuropsychological and psychological information for jurors in a way that is engaging, understandable, and (to quote Faulkner) sets the truth on fire. Testimony That Sticks shares the fruits of four years of in-depth interviews with over 70 seasoned forensic neuropsychologists and psychologists, as...

Effective Weight Loss: An Acceptance-Based Behavioral Approach, Clinician Guide - Paperback

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by Evan M. Forman (Author), Meghan L. Butryn (Author)The obesity epidemic is one of the most serious public health threats confronting the nation and the world. The majority of overweight individuals want to lose weight, but the overall success of self-administered diets and commercial weight loss programs is very poor. Scientific findings suggest that the problem boils down to adherence. The dietary and physical activity recommendations that weight loss programs promote are effective; howeve...

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by Jaime L. Kurtz (Author)Travel is one of the most sought-after experiences in life. It has the singular ability to capture our imaginations, serving as a canvas onto which we project our deepest desires and needs: escape, relaxation, transcendence, interpersonal connection, cultural education, and more. Few things hold such a privileged place, yet until now, there has been no instruction manual for how to make the most of travelling, be it to an exotic country or to the local beach. In The ...

The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis (Author)Music has been examined from multiple perspectives: as a product of human history, for example, or a product of human culture. But there is also a long tradition, intensified in recent decades, of thinking about music as a product of the human mind. Whether considering composition, performance, listening, or appreciation, the constraints and capabilities of the human mind play a formative role. The field that has emerged around this approach is known as ...

Overcoming Parent-Child Contact Problems: Family-Based Interventions for Resistance, Rejection, and Alienation - Paperback

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by Abigail M. Judge (Editor), Robin M. Deutsch (Editor)In recent years there has been heightened interest in the clinical and legal management of families in which children resist contact with one parent and become aligned with the other following divorce. Families affected by these dynamics require disproportionate resources and time from mental health and legal professionals, and cases require a specialized clinical approach. Traditional models of individual and family therapy are not desig...