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[2020]
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xxviii, 319 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"In today's technological society, with an unprecedented amount of information at our fingertips, learning plays a more central role than ever. In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene decodes its biological mechanisms, delving into the neuronal, synaptic, and molecular processes taking place in the brain. He explains why youth is such a sensitive period, during which brain plasticity is maximal, but also assures us that our abilities continue into adulthood,...
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Are some people born to achieve anything they want while others struggle? Call them lucky, blessed, or possessors of the Midas touch. What is the real reason for their success? Is it family background, wealth, greater opportunities, high morals, an easy childhood? New York Times best-selling author John C. Maxwell has the answer: The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. Most people...
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First published in 1841, this history chronicles the popular foolishness of Mackay's day. It is divided into three broad categories, including 'National Delusions,' 'Peculiar Follies,' and 'Philosophical Delusions.' The author discusses and usually debunks a wide variety of subjects and events. These include economic bubbles like the tulip craze of Holland in 1637 or the Mississippi Company financial bubble of 1719; alchemy, which was of particular...
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Theron Q. Dumont was one of the many pseudonyms of American occultist, author, and pioneer of the New Thought movement William Walker Atkinson. A central tenet of the New Thought movement is the importance of thoughts in creating real change in person's physical, emotional, and financial life. Negative thoughts will attract negative events and negative people and positive thoughts will bring about positive outcomes. In "The Power of Concentration"...
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Perfect for psychology students and professionals interested in social media, clinical psychology and cyberpsychology.Social media is fascinating. It is good and bad. Social media can help and harm people with depression for different reasons.This brilliant, easy-to-understand book helps readers to understand the fascinating, complex benefits and disadvantages of social media on behaviour, hooking readers throughout with Connor's conversational and...
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Judge Not: How Invisible Situations Shape Our Lives by David, J. Y. Combs, PhD explores the vast, and often invisible, power that situations have in shaping our lives. Human beings tend to assume that the behavior we observe in other people is a window into who they are. So, when we see a person engage in a good behavior, we tend to think that they are a good person. If we see a bad behavior... we assume the person is bad, flawed, or defective.
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70) Issue 1 Careers in Psychology: A Guide to Careers in Clinical Psychology, Forensic Psychology, BU
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Over 33,000 words of psychological knowledge, theory and practice by bestselling writer Connor Whiteley. If you want great, fascinating information covering a wide range of psychological topics for a cheaper price you NEED to buy this issue!BUY NOW!Issue 1 contains two brilliant full-length psychology books:Careers In Psychology: A Guide To Careers In Clinical Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Business Psychology and MoreCriminal Profiling: A Forensic...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...
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2023
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331 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Do you ever feel like you're living a life you didn't intend to create? Over the years, you've checked everything off the list that you thought would make you happy. And although, on paper, your life looks good, something just feels off. Deep within yourself, you dream of a bigger life. You are not satisfied with the mediocre. You don't believe in grinding your life away. Your heart tells you there is something better and greater. There is. It's...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. These classic essays address concerns of religious faith from a philosophical perspective. "The Will to Believe" is a defense of the legitimacy of religious faith-though not as a defense of the validity of such faith. James responds to the often corrosive effect of rationality on religious faith by arguing that it is most rational to choose faith. He continues his...
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Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich explain that we are causing our own problems because we have created a world where our basic mental functions are no longer suitable. We evolved over a period of millions of years to survive in small tribal families on the wild grassy plains of East Africa. Now the way we live has nothing to do with that time and place, but the mental tools that were, developed to survive on the savanna have remained unchanged. These...
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Este libro es resultado de un estado del arte sobre los ejes fundamentales de la psicología clínica y de su campo. Consta de cuatro capítulos: el primero está dedicado a la clínica y su demarcación epistemológica en el campo de la psicología general; se encuentran allí aspectos que tal demarcación debe tener en cuenta para identificar y diferenciar cada uno de los campos de aplicación propios de la psicología. El segundo capítulo recoge,...
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La obra resume la extensa trayectoria intelectual, académica y clínica del autor, de treinta años de duración en la investigación de la esperanza. Presenta los fundamentos epistemológicos de la esperanza y deriva el marco teórico referencial a partir de la cosmovisión bíblica. Se precisan los contenidos semánticos en una definición operativa de la esperanza-desesperanza integrada por ocho dimensiones dialécticas básicas.
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Arriving at our answers means going on a journey and facing some tough stuff about ourselves. There's no way around it. If we want to heal and grow, we have to go straight through the thick of it.
In Therapize Yourself, practicing psychotherapist Carrie Leaf won't tell you what your deal is or exactly how to "fix" it, but if you commit to this journey you're on, and you put in the time, effort, and energy, this book can help guide you to the answers...
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Uncovers the roots and consequences of and offers solutions to the widespread alienation and disconnection that beset modern society
Since the beginning of the 21st century, people have become increasingly disconnected from themselves, each other, and the world around them. A "crisis of connection" stemming from growing alienation, social isolation, and fragmentation characterizes modern society. The signs of this crisis of connection are everywhere,...
80) Psychology Worlds Issue 6: Year in Psychology a Student's Guide to Placement Years, Working in AC
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Over 54,000 words of psychological knowledge, theory and practice by bestselling writer Connor Whiteley in one great collection. If you want great, fascinating information covering a wide range of psychological topics you NEED to buy this issue!BUY NOW!Issue 6 contains two brilliant full-length psychology books:Year In Psychology: A Student's Guide To Placement Years, Working In Academia and MoreBiological PsychologyAND contains 5 enthralling blog...
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