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Your unconscious motivations drive you 24/7. They determine your behaviour for 95%. Every coach, manager and educator should understand why an insight into motivations is so important. Understanding your motivations helps yourself move forward. Only then will you discover the ideal you're chasing after, what you most of all want to avoid, and how you end up frustrating yourself and those around you.

This kind of awareness gives you more control over ...

"If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this-the most inspiring book I've ever read."

-Bill Gates (May, 2017)

A provocative history of violence-from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate, and Enlightenment Now.Believe it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence. In his gripping and controversial new work, New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows that despite the ceaseless n...

Developmental Psychology is a market leading textbook with a highly respected author team. This edition combines classic and up-to-date research across the broad span of this dynamic subject area to give a comprehensive introduction and is designed for first and second year undergraduate students. This topical approach provides a sophisticated presentation of the theories that guide research in developmental psychology whilst also retaining a focus on the importance of data.

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Introduces Jung's exciting concept of synchronicity - those meaningful coincidences that happen to all of us and which, Jung claimed, transcend time and space.

The perfect introduction to the essence of Jung's teaching for the reader unfamiliar with his ideas. It is a book that will awaken many to the new life of the self that Jung visualized.

Offers unique and penetrating insights into the lives and opinions of some of the most significant players in the cultural life of the twentieth century.

This popular, topically organized, and thoroughly updated child and adolescent development text presents you with the best theories, research, and practical advice that developmentalists have to offer today. Authors David R. Shaffer and Katherine Kipp provide you with a current and comprehensive overview of child and adolescent development, written in clear, concise language that talks "to" you rather than "at" you.

The authors also focus on application showing how theories and research apply...

Human Memory, 4th edition, provides a comprehensive overview of research and theory on human memory. Written in an engaging style, the book is divided into three sections, providing an accessible introduction to the application and assessment of memory theory. Beginning with the history of memory, the first section explores basic methodology and neuroscience.

The second section examines the key topics of memory such as the sensory registers, mechanisms of forgetting and short-term, nondeclara...

The second edition of Building Resilience to Trauma explains common responses to trauma from a biological perspective, reframing the human experience from one of shame and pathology to one of hope and biology.