psychological aspects

Onstage production of inspiring stories by inspirational speakers involving fear of dying, accepting fate, and appreciating the moment.

Three years after the horrific mass shooting in Newtown, CT that took the lives of twenty elementary school children and six educators on December 14, 2012, the small New England town is a complex psychological web in the wake of yet another act of mass killing at the hands of a disturbed young gunman.

Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.

Looks at the problems and pressures facing adolescent girls, and suggests how to help them develop into self-assured young adults.

A nonfiction graphic novel about psychologist Harry Harlow's famous experiments that demonstrated how rhesus monkeys preferred the soft, cloth-stuffed animal mother over wire surrogates; and how scientists wouldn't admit the word love into their clinical language.

"Maisie Cothay has never known the feel of human flesh: born with the power to kill or resurrect at her slightest touch, she has spent her childhood sequestered in her family's manor at the edge of a mysterious forest. Maisie's father, an anthropologist who sees her as more experiment than daughter, has warned Maisie not to venture into the wood. Locals talk of men disappearing within, emerging with addled minds and strange stories. What he does not tell Maisie is that for over a millennium her female ancestors have also vanished into the wood, never to emerge-for she is descended from a long line of cursed women. But one day Maisie's father disappears, and Maisie must venture beyond the walls of her carefully constructed life to find him."--Provided by publisher.

The author considers statistics, physics, and physiology to determine the potential for human performance, examining how high someone can dunk a basketball, how much weight a person can bench press, the speed at which a human can run, and related questions.

Examines the psychological effects music has on people, investigating its role in human evolution, its effects on emotions, and how musical preferences and expertise are formed.

Dogs have been domesticated for longer than any other animal on the planet, and humans have developed a unique relationship with these furry friends. New research is revealing what dog lovers have suspected all along, that dogs have an uncanny ability to read and respond to human emotions. How did this incredible relationship between humans and dogs come to be? And how can dogs, so closely related to fearsome wild wolves, behave so differently? It's all in the genes.