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Bayes or Bust provides the first balanced treatment of the complex set of issues involved in this nagging conundrum in the philosophy of science.

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This work captures the essence of the evolutionary patterns of human communication, provides the reader with their own unique communication style and offers tips on improving their influence with others.

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Exploring the idea that brain, body and world are united in a complex and extended computational activity, this book addresses foundational questions concerning the tools and techniques needed to make sense of the embodied mind. Ideas from robotics, neuroscience and psychology are used.

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In this persuasive book, a "New York Times" columnist shows that mistakes are everywhere, and suggests that when they are acknowledged and identified correctly, lives can improve.

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JOSEPH NEWIRTH CONTENDS THAT LOCATING SUBJECTIVITY in the unconscious frees us from the 19th-century bias that privileged consciousness and rational thought, and suggests that the analytic enterprise is not to make the unconscious conscious, but rather to make the conscious unconscious.

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This volume focuses on the concepts of stress and hope, their psychological and physical outcomes. Students and scholars studying health psychology, stress management or stress and coping will appreciate the information presented, as will those involved with medical science, nursing, and sociology.

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In addition to lifestyle structure, Walters examines the three factors believed to be responsible for selection of a lifestyle over adaptation and preference for one lifestyle over another: incentive or type of fear experienced, opportunity or specific learning experiences, and choice or decision making apparatus.

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A collection of writings developing the ideas of Dr Carl Rogers, originator of the Person-Centred Approach.

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Examines the nature of late adolescent and adult thought and concludes that there is describable and significant cognitive development during those stages of life which goes beyond Piaget's stage of formal operations.

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Lewis Terman heralded the field of gifted education in the United States by tracing the development of high-IQ children from their childhood in the1920s to midlife and beyond. The contemporary field of gifted education, building on the work of Terman and others, presumes that gifted children become exceptional adults.

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First published in 1973. New ed. with epilogue originally published in 1979.

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When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different evolutionary trajectories, ecological niche

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Henri F. Ellenberger, the Swiss medical historian, is best remembered today as the author of The Discovery of the Unconscious (1970), a brilliant, encyclopedic study of psychiatric theory and therapy from primitive times to the mid-twentieth century. However, in addition to this well-known work, Ellenberger has written over thirty essays in the his

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This revised edition updates and extends theory and research on nonuniversal developmental domains and related topics. In this second edition, the author argues that developmental science has transformed since the first edition, consistent with the proposed changes for the field introduced in the first volume.

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This revised edition updates and extends theory and research on nonuniversal developmental domains and related topics. In this second edition, the author argues that developmental science has transformed since the first edition, consistent with the proposed changes for the field introduced in the first volume.

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"Recommended for collections strong in the area of biographical reference." Library Journal

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