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How to Mind Map: The Ultimate Thinking Tool That Will Change Your Life

A practical pocket guide that teaches you how to Mind Map with ease from Tony Buzan, the inventor of the Mind Map. Mind Maps(R) are the ultimate thinking tool for maximizing your brainpower and...

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Head First!: 10 Ways to Tap into Your Natural Genius

In this book, Tony Buzan, best selling author, inventor of the Mind Map, and world expert on how people can maximize their brain power, proves that you are smarter than you think. Manufacturer:...

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The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force

In his work treating patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz made an extraordinary discovery: by focusing their attention away from negative behaviors and toward positive...

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Human Facial Expression: An Evolutionary View

This unique book provides an integrated view of human facial expressions based on contemporary knowledge about the evolution of signaling across the animal kingdom. Spanning fields that range from...

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The Right Mind: Making Sense of the Hemispheres

Twenty-five years after his bestselling The Psychology of Consciousness, Robert Ornstein gives new insight into how the brain really works. In a brilliant and short book, the psychologist makes sense...

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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

I don't know if people will ever be able to talk to animals the way Doctor Doolittle could, or whether animals will be able to talk back. Maybe science will have something to say about that. But I do...

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Born Entrepreneurs, Born Leaders: How Your Genes Affect Your Work Life

It's no secret that your genes have a subtle, but powerful impact on your job and career. But did you know that your DNA accounts for one third of the difference between you and your co-workers in...

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Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms in Essential Knowledge for Social Work Practice (5th Edition) (MySocialWorkLab Series)

Joe M. Schriver's book is different from other Human Behavior and the Social Environment (HBSE) books in its use of a traditional/alternative paradigm conceptual framework to critically examine...

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Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals (MacSci)

Customer Review: For centuries we believed that humans were the only ones that mattered. The idea that animals had feelings was either dismissed or considered heresy. Today, that’s all changing....

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Behavioral Endocrinology, Second Edition

This popular behavioral endocrinology text provides detailed information on what hormones are, how they affect cells, and how such effects can alter the behavior of animals, including humans....

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Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting

Anyone who has wondered if free will is just an illusion or has asked 'could I have chosen otherwise?' after performing some rash deed will find this book an absorbing discussion of an endlessly...

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Time Pressure and Stress in Human Judgment and Decision Making

The current volume makes an important contribution to an underexplored field by integrating research into the effects of stress associated with time constraints on individual judgment. Unique and...

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Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition

Human language and our use of it to communicate or to understand the world requires deriving relations among events: for example, if A=B and A=C, then B=C. Relational frame theory argues that such...

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Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience

A compelling investigation into one of our most coveted and cherished ideals, and the efforts of modern science to penetrate the mysterious nature of this timeless virtue.We all recognize wisdom, but...

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Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple...

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The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives

Most of us would agree that there’s a clear—and even obvious—connection between the things we believe and the way we behave. But what if our actions are driven not by our conscious values and...

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Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again

Two renowned psychologists offer an innovative approach to solving long-term emotional problems based on the proven principles of cognitive therapy. As seen on Oprah, this guide shows how to...

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The Pioneers of Judicial Behavior

In The Pioneers of Judicial Behavior, prominent political scientists critically examine the contributions to the field of public law of the pioneering scholars of judicial behavior: C. Hermann...

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Cengage Advantage Books: Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior (Thomson Advantage Books)

Co-written by an author who garners more accolades and rave reviews from instructors and students with each succeeding edition, INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY: GATEWAYS TO MIND AND BEHAVIOR, TWELFTH...

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Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)

When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account...

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Behavior Modification in Applied Settings

Alan Kazdin, a well-known and highly respected researcher in behavior modification, offers a scholarly, thoroughly contemporary look at behavior modification principles and their application in...

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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

How can we give animals the best life-- for them? What does an animal need to be happy? In her groundbreaking, best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience...

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My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies

When it first appeared, My Secret Garden created a storm of outrage and exhilaration. Women who read it were astonished to find in its pages the hidden content of their own sexual fantasies. More...

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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction

The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. Manufacturer: Vintage Author:...

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The Biology of Violence (How Understanding the Brain, Behavior, and Environment Can Break the Vicious Circle of Aggression)

There has been a revolution in neuroscience over the last ten years, and, as Debra Niehoff shows in the first book to examine violence from a complete biological perspective, now is the right time to...

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A Chicken Soup for the Soul Christmas

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year Children experience Christmas through magic, anticipation, and learning about the baby Jesus. As we mature, we experience Christmas through the gifts we give, the...

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Behavioral Development: Concepts of Approach/Withdrawal and Integrative Levels (Research in Developmental and Comparative Psychology)

Inaugurates a new scholarly series of works dedicated to honor the contributions of T.C. Schneirla. This volume presents original research and theoretical papers based on the approach/withdrawal...

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Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness

Three of the most original thinkers of our time explore issues that call into question our current views of reality, morality, and the nature of life. *A wide-ranging investigation of the ecology of...

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COMING OUT & COVERING UP: CATHOLIC PRIESTS TALK ABOUT SEX SCANDALS IN THE CHURCH

For the first time ever, we are able to glimpse behind the cloak of clergy privilege, to finally hear from the priests themselves on the pedophilia scandals that have rocked the hierarchy of the...

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The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

Your every significant choice -- every important decision you make -- is determined by a force operating deep inside your mind: your perspective on time -- your internal, personal time zone. This is...

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Introducing Consciousness, 2nd Edition (Introducing... S.)

Introducing Consciousness starts with the problem of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, explains the historical origins of this problem, and traces different scientific attempts to...

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Kids in the Syndrome Mix of ADHD, LD, Asperger's, Tourette's, Bipolar and More!: The One Stop Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals

"Kids in the Syndrome Mix" is a concise, scientifically up-to-date, all-in-one guide to the whole range of often co-existing neuro-behavioral disorders in children - from attention deficit...

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Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing

How can an evangelist convert a hardboiled sophisticate? Why does a POW sign a "confession" that he knows is false? How is a criminal pressured into admitting his guilt? Do the evangelist, the...

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Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning

(2009 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA): Honors Award)Executive functions are the cognitive skills that help us manage our lives and be successful. Children with weak executive skills,...

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MindReal: How the Mind Creates its Own Virtual Reality

Customer Review: Dr. Ornstein's books such as The Right Mind and The Healing Brain have always been considered mind blowing. The Evolution of Consciousness is probably the one I talk to people the...

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How We Decide

Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we "blink" and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the...

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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

What do dogs know? How do they think? The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other...

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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why

When psychologist Richard E. Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese observers instead commented on...

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Incredible 5-Point Scale ¿ Assisting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Understanding Social Interactions and Controlling Their Emotional Responses

This must-have resource shows how the use of a simple 5-point scale can help students understand and control their emotional reactions to everyday events. This book shows how to break down a given...

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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

In the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. This paperback includes a new P.S....

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Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique

One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social...

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Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

How do we think about money? What caused bankers to lose sight of the economy? What caused individuals to take on mortgages that were not within their means?What irrational forces guided our...

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Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

Selected as one of the "Best Books on Innovation, 2008" by BusinessWeek magazine Named the "Best Human-Capital Book of 2008" by Strategy + Business magazine A crash course in the...

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The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners

For education courses in Educational Psychology, Advanced Educational Psychology, Differentiated Instruction, Inclusion/Mainstreaming, Mild/Moderate Disabilities Methods, or General Methods (K-12). ...

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

In his runaway bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other ...

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