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.

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...

In his new book, eminent psychologist - Daniel Stern, explores the hitherto neglected topic of 'vitality'. Truly a tour de force from a brilliant clinician and scientist, Forms of Vitality is a profound and absorbing book - one that will be essential reading for psychologists, psychotherapists, and those in the creative arts.

Humans are social animals, and change is a social process. To understand this social process and explain the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of individuals, knowledge of how the presence of others influences people is crucial. In this regard, bias is a concept with a lot of potential.

Because cognitive and social biases influence human thinking, feelings, and behaviour, these provide insights and knowledge that are helpful, if not essential, for the field of organizational behaviour and ch...