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Scientists may be approaching the finish-line in the race to understand consciousness. John Taylor introduces the contending theories, including his own.

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How to assess critical aspects of cognitive functioning that are not measured by IQ tests: rational thinking skills.

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Are you feeling stuck, making the same mistakes again and again Are you trying your best to create the life you dream of only to find yourself blocked It's not your fault - events from your past are to blame.

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An analysis of the formation and fulfillment of life aspirations, this text looks at the way a desired end-state is matched with common perceptions of a career. The mismatches of these perceptions can often be the cause of vocational failure, and frustration within the chosen occupation.

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Using a method of critical correlation, the author recommends an interaction between clinical psychology and liberal theology which preserves their unique sources, methodologies, and content, while engaging in a mutually enriching dialogue.

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Challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. This book argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts.

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The Relationship of Affect and Creativity in Mathematics explores the five legs of creativityIconoclasm, Impartiality, Investment, Intuition, and Inquisitivenessas they relate to mathematical giftedness.

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Combines survey measurements with recorded observations of viewing behaviour, experimental studies of remote control use, and historical and critical analyses. Examples include: gender differences in its use; and family communication and parental control of the device.

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"This breakthrough book presents, for the first time, the scientific underpinnings of the unconscious. Whereas clinical psychologists embrace the world of the mind and neuroscientists examine the physi"

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Students examine the concepts of intelligence, culture, technology and communication in this study. Using the information, they can form a culture for an intelligent organism that could exist on an unknown planet. A set of colour transparencies are also available (ISBN 1-56308-414-7).

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Through fifteen riveting case studies, a leading figure in adolescent psychiatry offers a provocative new way of thinking about parenting teens.

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The study analyzes the visual scanning characteristic of infants from the time of birth to five months of age, an interval of rapid advances in visul encoding capabilities. The volume draws upon recent findings from the neurosciences to aid in the interpretation of the behavioral data on infant scanning characteristics.

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Consciousness emerges as the key topic in this second edition of Owen Flanagan's popular introduction to cognitive science and the philosophy of psychology.

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Wagman presents a general, unified theory of artificial and human intelligence under which the nature of human reasoning, problem solving, analogical thinking, and scientific discovery is examined from theoretical, research and computational perspectives.

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This book is a study of the evolution and nature of sexual desire. Arguing that our sexuality is the result of three forces - gender, culture and constitution - it examines how we become straight or gay, desire blondes or brunettes, breasts or buttocks, people who do or don't look like our parents, and sex which is wild or tame.

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This text offers a set of guiding principles that aim to help parents of children at each age - from preschoolers to teenagers - develop the skills they need to reassure and guide them so that they feel secure in their homes, their schools and in their community at large.

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This volume focuses on relations between the self and other individuals, the self and groups, and the self and context.

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This study examines lifestyle development and change as a dynamic self-altering process. The author divides lifestyle development into three main phases: initiation; interaction between incentive and opportunity; and choice.

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A 12-year-old boy vows he will never do to his future family what his father did by leaving him, his sister and mother. Yet 30 years later, the boy, now a man, leaves his own family. This book examines whether some people feel a compulsion to repeat self-destructive acts, what the foundation for that compulsion might be, and how it can be changed.

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In the bestselling Affluenza, world-renowned psychologist Oliver James introduced us to a modern-day virus sweeping through the English-speaking world.

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