Psychology

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Jeffrey S. Nevid

Psychology: Concepts and Applications has been developed based upon the author's research on how students best learn from a textbook. It presents a concept-based modular organization focused on four key objectives: to enhance learning, engage student interest, sharpen critical thinking skills, and incorporate technology as a tool for learning. The text provides a broad perspective on psychology that covers the history, methods of research, major theories, and research findings of the discipline, as well as applications of the knowledge gained from contemporary research to the problems and challenges we face in today's world. - Preface.

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Alex Kozulin

Alex Kozulin, translator of Vygotsky's work and distinguished Russian-American psychologist, has written the first major intellectual biography about Vygotsky's theories and their relationship to twentieth-century Russian and Western intellectual culture. He traces Vygotsky's ideas to their origins in his early essays on literary criticism, Jewish culture, and the psychology of art, and he explicates brilliantly his psychological theory of language, thought, and development. Kozulin's biography of Vygotsky also reflects many of the conflicts of twentieth-century psychology--from the early battles between introspectionists and reflexologists to the current argument concerning the cultural and social, rather than natural, construction of the human mind. Vygotsky was a contemporary of Freud and Piaget, and his tragically early death and the Stalinist suppression of his work ensured that his ideas did not have an immediate effect on Western psychology. But the last two decades have seen his psychology become highly influential while that of other theoretical giants has faded. --from back cover.

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Marianne Williamson

Essai sur la femme dans une perspective féministe et avec des éléments de spiritualité religieuse; il s'agit de la spiritualité dans la lignée de ##Un cours sur les miracles##. Principaux aspects traités : la femme comme reine; la beauté intérieure; l'archétype de la déesse; l'amour et le sexe; les enfants.

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Peter J. Rentfrow

The places where people live vary considerably in terms of their social, economic, political, climatic, and physical characteristics. These conditions affect how people from different regions behave and interact with their environments and each other. This book makes the case that understanding of psychological phenomena can be greatly informed by a cross-disciplinary perspective that investigates the spatial organisation and geographical representation of such phenomena and the mechanisms that are responsible. The research described in this volume indicates that personality, political ideology, well-being, happiness, human virtues, and personal concerns are related to several important geographic social indicators.