psychology

Examines the nature of Hitler's appeal and reveals the role his charisma played in his success by investigating the social, psychological, and historical aspects that helped form his personality.

As a teenager in the early 1980s, Eric Nuzum was convinced that he was haunted by the ghost of a little girl, his classmate Laura who helped him through it, and eventually became a ghost herself. Now an adult, he confronts his fear of ghosts by visiting America's most haunted places.

Otto Dietrich was a thirty-four year old journalist when he met Adolf Hitler in 1931. In 1933 he was invited to become Hitler's press chief. He accepted with the simple, uncritical conviction that Hitler was dedicated to promoting peace and welfare for the German people. After the end of the war and five months after Hitler's death, imprisoned and disillusioned, Otto Dietrich sat down to write all that he had seen and heard during his twelve years of close association with Hitler. In 1948 he gave his memoir to someone he trusted requesting that it be published after his death. He died in 1952 at the age of fifty-five.

A scientist and expert on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder describes her own journey through trauma and its lingering effects after repressing and disassociating her own ordeal as the victim of an unsolved sexual assault as a teenager.

Chronicles the life of twentieth-century Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, discussing the evolution of his style and his relationships with his mother and his wife.

Chronicles the life and political career of Richard Nixon, drawing from more than one thousand interviews and five years of research to provide an understanding of not only Nixon's dark political dealings but his peacemaking attempts and his troubled but long-lasting marriage.

Explains how William Shakespeare created human nature and characters and includes analyses of the character development in each of Shakespeare's plays.

Discusses the life, views, and personal characteristics of the Concord, MA author Henry David Thoreau.