psychological aspects

Advice from over one hundred teens and experts on how to deal with a parent having cancer.

Contains interviews with 28 French men and women who lost one or both parents in the Holocaust.

Studying competitive arenas from the workplace, the stock market, sport, politics, the military, and schools and using the latest findings in genetics, neuroscience and behavioral psychology, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman describe how we compete and the ingredients that sometimes stand between winning and losing.

Discusses how mixed messages about making mistakes teach people as adults to try to avoid or cover up their errors, and argues that those avoidance behaviors lead to an unwillingness to take risks or accept challenges.

Psychologist Sam Gosling reveals what people can learn about others by studying their possessions, explaining how people project and protect their true inner selves through the things they collect and do and the places they inhabit.

Examines the seven deadly sins from a psychological perspective.

The CEO of a security firm provides advice for detecting a person's violent behavior, analyzing threats, seeking protection when involved in a business or personal relationship with a dangerous person, and coping with a child who may have violent tendencies.

Analyzes over five hundred accounts of unexplained aerial phenomena from antiquity through the late nineteenth century and their impact on popular culture, history, and religion.

Originally written in 1938 but never published due to its controversial nature, an insightful guide reveals the seven principles of good that will allow anyone to triumph over the obstacles that must be faced in reaching personal goals.

Presents viewpoints about the war on terror that is selected from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications.