Shows students, through interactive examples and opportunities for practice, how to effectively use psychology research in their studies to attain better grades in assessments.

In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed. In this book, he gives an account of his experience, and his vision for psychedelics.

Dive into the captivating world of philosophical exploration with Bertrand Russell's timeless masterpiece, "The Problems of Philosophy." In this thought-provoking journey, Russell takes readers on an exhilarating quest to unravel the fundamental questions that have perplexed the human mind for centuries.

Embark on a thrilling intellectual adventure as Russell skillfully guides you through the intricate landscapes of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. With clarity and precision, he tackles...

The complete edition of a timeless classic, includes the recently rediscovered Part Four and ‘Last Words’ by Richard Bach.Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary.

Are you on your first or second mountain?

Is life about you - or others?

About success - or something deeper?

The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high status, nice things. These are the goals of our first mountain. But at some point in our lives we might find that we're not interested in what other people tell us to want. We want the things that are truly worth wanting.

This is the second mountain.

What does it mean to look beyond yourself and find a moral...

The Psychology of Social Media will examine the core features of social media services – profiles, newsfeeds, connections, media and so on – and explain the psychological aspects of how they are used. This is the ideal introductory resource for students on cyberpsychology courses, as well as general readers interested in this topic.

The Psychology of Grief offers an overview of how psychologists have sought to explain grief and the way it is understood in different social, religious and historical contexts.

This insightful volume is designed as a series of invitations towards living attentiveness, examining how we all make the ‘other’, through ‘projection’ (blaming and shaming the other outside ourselves), our enemy with whom we prefer not to dialogue.

What if our previous teachings and beliefs regarding processing stimuli, reading emotions, and understanding human behavior is all untrue? In this book, Peter Vermeulen investigates new findings on the predictive brain and what these insights mean for autism and current interventions.