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The Paradox of Passion: How Rewards Covertly Control Motivation reveals how motivational research and popular opinions of motivated behavior are misinterpreted, overgeneralized, and decontextualized, resulting in the amplification of unreliable, unobtainable, and mythical views of optimal performance.

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A Guide to the Professional Interview makes scientifically grounded interview techniques accessible for everyone who asks questions.

(Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)

Examines one of the puzzling and examined questions of human psychology: why it's so difficult to change our own minds and each other's and what happens when we do actually change our minds. This title describes seven factors at work in various cases of mind change. It also examines changes of mind in six arenas.

(Paperback, Fifth Edition)

Since the publication of the first edition in 1966, Eye and Brain has established itself worldwide as an essential introduction to the basic phenomena of visual perception. Richard Gregory offers clear explanations of how we see brightness, movement, color, and objects, and he explores the phenomena of visual illusions to establish principles about

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Three year old Michael, his granny and her pets meet up with a saucy stray cat who shares in the magic and secrets revealed in a backyard garden.

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Hypocrisy is the natural state of the human mind. This title shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understanding the mind's design. It explains the roots and implications of our inconsistent minds, and why it is perfectly natural to believe that everyone else is a hypocrite.

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Can a Canali-clad million-dollar banker learn anything from a paint-stained artist Definitely. Especially now.

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Combining insights from both cognitive neuroscience and molecular biology, two of the world's leading experts address memory from molecules and cells to brain systems and cognition.

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The River of Consciousness is a remarkable culmination of a lifetime's research into the way the brain works by the celebrated late neurologist Oliver Sacks.

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Yale psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn explains why our judgement is so often wrong and offers actionable strategies to help us respond to real-life challenges as individuals and as societies at large.

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The first complete account in English of the evolution of 'pataphysics from its French origins, with explications of key ideas and excerpts from primary sources, presented in reverse chronological order.

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"A new theory on adjunct control from a leading linguistics researcher"--

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"An advanced level textbook on the science of action and movement from one of the most respected researchers in the field"--

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"A wide-ranging interview with one of America's most influential psychologists and educators, courtesy of a prominent anthropologist"--

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"Bown explores the developments in machines and software that can create or support art, music, literature, and other creative artifacts"--

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Brain science at its most accessible, informative and intriguing.

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The sometimes shocking, always fascinating history of brainwashing, from the bestselling author of COCAINE

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"An accessible overview of categories and categorization, written by a leading researcher in cognitive science"--

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A book that uses domain-general learning theory to explain recurrent trajectories of language change.

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In which a scientist searches for an empirical explanation for phenomenal experience, spurred by his instinctual belief that life is meaningful.

(Paperback, 4th edition)

A concise, practical introduction to the Creative Problem Solving process, this book offers an overview of each component and steps in the most recent version of CPS. CPS is based on extensive research, development, and field experience in education, business, and many other organizations.

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