psychological aspects

Provides guidance for teenagers in areas such as building self-confidence, making meaningful friendships, resisting peer pressure, getting along with family, and achieving goals. Includes cartoons, quotes, and real-life stories.

Explores the physics behind sports. Learn the mental aspects that world-class athletes bring to their efforts, and examine why people play and watch sports.

Looks at connections between the mind and body, and different types of music such as jazz, classical, rap and rock. Examines work in neuroscience to determine how and why the brain responds to certain types of music.

Young Union soldier Henry Fleming matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.

An examination of night in all its aspects from the underworld patrolled by police to the interpretation of children's dreams.

When Hee Jun's family moves from Korea to West Virginia, he struggles to adjust to his new home, where none of his classmates look like him and he can't understand anything the teacher says - even when she speaks s-l-o-w-l-y and loudly to him.

The author, the son of a terrorist, discusses his childhood growing up in America and explores the psychological aspects of terrorism.

An evaluation of the sources of illogical decisions explores the reasons why irrational thought often overcomes level-headed practices, offering insight into the structural patterns that cause people to make the same mistakes repeatedly.

The author, the son of a terrorist, discusses his childhood growing up in America and explores the psychological aspects of terrorism.

Social psychologist Philip Zimbardo explores the many reasons why people are susceptible to immoral actions, revealing the situational forces and group dynamics that work together to make good people do bad things.