How the study and treatment of psychological disorders stand today

Comer’s textbook shows students where the study and treatment of psychological disorders stand today. Focussed on psychopathology in the modern day this title uses visuals to help explain perspectives on psychological disorders and technologies. This thoroughly updated edition employs extraordinary interactive tools bringing students face to face with the realities of psychological dysfunction, whilst remaining carefully org...

This is a condensed companion text to Technical Communication, offering a brief guide to practical strategies for technical communication.

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How do otherwise considerate human beings do cruel things and still live in peace with themselves? Drawing on his agentic theory, Dr. Bandura provides a definitive exposition of the psychosocial mechanism by which people selectively disengage their moral self-sanctions from their harmful conduct. They do so by sanctifying their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes; they absolve themselves of blame f...

This volume begins with an overview of the context, course and aftermath of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. The documents in Part Two include 'official' sources such as royal edits and magistrates' reports, but also popular songs, polemics, and selections from memoirs and other eye-witness accounts and visual documents.

Writing about Literature is a practical guide to interpreting works of literature and to planning, composing, and documenting papers about literature. Students will find help with forming and supporting an interpretation, avoiding plot summary, integrating quotations from a literary work, observing the conventions of literature papers, and using secondary sources. Writing about Literature also includes two sample student essays — one that uses only a primary source and one that uses primary...

The best value for beginning college writers

Beginning college writers come from a wide range of backgrounds. For many, academic reading and writing skills are ones they must learn and practice. Enter Rules for Writers. Comprehensive and easy to use, this book provides students with all of the support they need--accessible explanations of writing and grammar topics, step-by-step advice for writing and doing research, class-tested examples and models, and opportunities to practice and build th...

A concise title that connects students to the field of developmental psychology

This title connects students to the field of developmental psychology in an engaging, accessible, culturally inclusive way. With just 15 concise chapters and an epilogue this text is the right length for a single term. Throughout this brief presentation, students will encounter an extraordinary range of research breakthroughs, theories, practices, and stories, all conveyed in Berger’s signature narrative voice. ...

Baum and Smith, both professors evolutionary biology and researchers in the field of systematics, present this highly accessible introduction to phylogenetics and its importance in modern biology.