Some people are somehow able to get the almost impossible done. But what do you have an influence on, and what do you not have an influence on? The trick is to make that distinction. When you're better able to recognize the force fields in which you find yourself, when you learn to observe without judgment and surrender to "what is," you can make wise choices that allow you to do well.

"The fountain" metaphor helps you firmly take your rightful place (in life) and grant others theirs. In thi...

The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Seventh Edition, provides a psychological and evidence-informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many criminological and mental health explanations of criminal behavior.

Real-world examples, fascinating applications, and clear explanations, help students to understand the basics of learning and memory research.

With real-world examples, fascinating applications, and clear explanations, this breakthrough text helps uninitiated students understand the basic ideas and human impact of groundbreaking learning and memory research. The text features a unified approach to behavioral studies and the biological mechanisms common to all species with integrated coverage ...

Providing a view of psychology's interaction with culture and society in different periods beginning in the ancient times and stretching through the Middle Ages and the modern period to the millennium and without reducing the discussion of both contemporary and classic themes and theories, this book endorses an approach to psychological knowledge.

Now in a fully rewritten fourth edition, this is the authoritative presentation of motivational interviewing (MI), the powerful approach to facilitating change. It has been updated and streamlined to be even more user-friendly as a practitioner guide and course text. MI originators William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick elucidate the four tasks of MI--engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning--and vividly demonstrate what they look like in action. A wealth of vignettes and interview examples ...

Concerned with the ways humans develop an organised set of characteristics to shape themselves and the world around them, this is a study of how people come to be 'different' and 'similar' to others, on both an individual and a cultural level. This volume focuses on various contexts and applications of personality and individual differences, in chapters arranged across three thematic sections.

Drawing on insights derived from teaching thousands of students over a 25 year period this book teaches students how to write effective and compelling academic essays.

More than once we can be amazed by the scientific wealth

of ancient Egyptian culture. Regardless of whether it concerns

architecture,astronomy,mathematics, geometry, natural sciences,

medicine and healing, agriculture, chemistry, martial arts or philosophy.

Egypt and not Greece is rightfully the cradle of our European culture.

All the great Greek scientists did spend years and years of training

in the famous Universities of that time throughout Egypt.

Among them was Plato, Socrates, Aristot...

Do you keep encountering the same problems in daily life time and time again, and do you want to shake off a feeling you just can’t put your finger on? Do you often feel guilty and like to keep everyone on your side? Are you stuck in an unhealthy relationship or is contact with your parents difficult? How do you learn to deal with this, so you can experience more calm in your life?

Stubborn patterns in your life can often be traced back to your family system; the inseverable connection wit...