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Lie detection, offender profiling, jury selection, insanity in the law, predicting the risk of re-offending , the minds of serial killers, and many other topics that fill news and fiction are all aspects of the rapidly developing area of scientific psychology broadly ...
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Twentieth century Europe went through a dramatic transition from low income populations experiencing hunger and nutritionally inadequate diets, to the recent era of over-consumption and growing numbers of overweight and obese people. By examining the trends in food ...
Fred Feldman - What Is This Thing Called Happiness (2010).jpg
According to an ancient and still popular view -- sometimes known as 'eudaimonism' -- a person's well-being, or quality of life, is ultimately determined by his or her level of happiness. According to this view, the happier a person is, the better off he is. The doctrine is ...
Gunter Schmolders - The Psychology of Money and Public Finance (2006).jpg
This book features the main papers of Gunter Schmolders (1903-1991), a pioneer in economic psychology for the first time in the English language. Schmolders incorporated psychological considerations in his economic analyses at a time when the distance between the two ...
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Pathological gambling is a significant public health problem, but it is only recently that a body of systematic research on its phenomenology, etiology, and treatment has emerged. This is an important volume, for it represents the first comprehensive synthesis of ...
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'This book is the distillation of the life experiences of an internationally renowned guru of management and leadership studies. Combining insight with his signature wit, Kets de Vries cuts to the bone as he reflects on and gently guides executives, and others, through ...
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This book explores the complex relationship between art and politics. Walter Davis uses his extensive knowledge of psychoanalysis to develop a philosophical critique of the impact that the current political climate is having on all artistic endeavour. He uses examples ...
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William Hughes' 'Critical Thinking' is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the essential skills required to make strong arguments. Hughes gives a thorough treatment of such traditional topics as deductive and inductive reasoning, logical fallacies and how ...
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Uruguay was once the most stable democracy in Latin America, but in 1973 the military seized power for the first time. Political parties did not disappear, however, even though they were made illegal. By the 1980s Uruguay's generals were anxious to find a way to withdraw from ...
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This study offers a new theoretical framework for understanding how institutional instability affects judicial behavior under dictatorship and democracy. In stark contrast to conventional wisdom, the central findings of the book contradict the longstanding ...
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Wendy Conklin, Gisela Lee - Confucius: Chinese Philosopher: World Cultures Through TimeTeacher Created Materials | 2008 | ISBN: 0743904370 | Pages: 32 | PDF | 3.09 MBConfucius (kuhn-FYOO-shuhs) was a man who lived long ago inChina. He grew up during a time of war and chaos ...
Farid Mirbagheri - Historical Dictionary of Cyprus (2009).jpg
From ancient times to the present, the history of Cyprus is provided in this useful reference, which includes hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on its historical, political, social, cultural, and economic history.
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During the 1970s and 1980s, national-security regimes in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay declared war on suspected subversives, carrying out campaigns of mass human rights violations. The Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars describes the period, including the ...
Anique H.M. van Ginneken - Historical Dictionary of the League of Nations (2006).jpg
Created in 1919, the League of Nations proved to be a training ground for the United Nations and the countless other organizations, both governmental and non-governmental, which now surround us. Just what the League of Nations was able to do during its brief but hectic ...
Stanislav J. Kirschbaum - Historical Dictionary of Slovakia (2006).jpg
The Historical Dictionary of Slovakia offers in its second edition an up to date series of entries on Slovak political, social, and economic development since the creation of the second Slovak Republic in 1993 until its admission into the European Union in 2004.
Jacques Fomerand - Historical Dictionary of the United Nations (2007).jpg
Consisting of 192 Member States, the United Nations was founded in 1945 to maintain international peace and security; to develop friendly relations among nations based on the respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples; to achieve ...
Li-hua Ying - Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature (2010).jpg
Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. This book offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, ...
Nigel West - Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence (2006).jpg
This is the fourth in the publisher's Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence series and the second written by West. Similar in format to the other works in the series, it contains a list of acronyms, a chronology (1908-2005), and entries on ...
Sharon Eicher - Corruption in International Business (2008).jpg
It is common practice to assume that business practices are universally similar. Business and social attitudes to corruption, however, vary according to the wide variety of cultural norms across the countries of the world. International business involves complex, ...
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The process of economic globalization, as product and capital markets integrate, places huge, and it is argued by some, irresistible pressures on the worlds 'insider' stakeholder oriented corporate governance systems. Insider corporate governance systems in ...
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Cities of the World: Africa (Cities of the World Vol 1: Africa) By: Gale GroupCities of the World: Western Hemisphere (Cities of the World Vol 2 Western Hemisphere) By: Gale GroupCities of the World: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East (Cities of the World Vol 3 Europe ...
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Andrew Collier is the boldest defender of objectivity -- in science, knowledge, thought, action, politics, morality, and religion. In this tribute and acknowledgement of the influence his work has had a wide readership, his colleagues show that they have been stimulated ...
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The Moral Fabric in Contemporary Societies (Annals of the International Institute of Sociology. New Series, V. 9)BY: Grazyna Skapska (Editor), Annamaria Orla-Bukowska (Editor), Krzysztof Kowalski (Collaborator)
Stanley Brandes - Staying Sober in Mexico City (2002).jpg
This is an impeccably crafted work by one of the most widely respected anthropologists of his generation. . . . I am quite confident that it will become not only the standard reference on the cultural study of alcoholism in Mexico, but also one of the very best overall social ...
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"This history is . . . the first fully-fleshed story of African Nairobi in all of its complexity which foregrounds African experiences. Given the overwhelming white dominance in the written sources, it is a remarkable achievement."—Claire Robertson, International ...