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Fast Track to Happiness: From Fed-up to Fabulous in Ten Days
Using the research in medicine, psychology and social science, this book offers guidelines to the reader and also interesting exercises, quizzes and checklists to...
Sun Tzu Strategies for Marketing
Presents marketing principles including organization of intelligence - know your market as well as you know yourself, and a secure position - occupy a position that cannot easily be taken by your opponent. This book also presents the principle of surprise - gain psychological dominance and deny the initiative to you opponent.
Against the Machine
Explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of high-tech solitude. Arguing that the internet's widespread anonymity eliminates boundaries and encourages otherwise polite people to be downright abusive, this book discusses the half-fantasy, half-realism of online personae.
Life is Sales
Life is about getting what you want, and sales skills can improve your life. Most people resist spelling out what they want, but those who know what they want and know how to ask for it are far more successful in all aspects of life. This book highlights the psychology behind getting people to do what you want.
What Kind of an Investor are You?
Aims to help you formulate the best plan for you - one that allows you to achieve your financial goals. This book provides readers with the information about investment fundamentals, mutual funds, and investment psychology. It covers the pros and cons of investment in actively managed mutual funds, individual securities, and index products.
Negotiation
Looks at the theory and practice of negotiating and provides insights into the skills and psychology of negotiation that can make all the difference to how successful you are. This book covers avoidance-avoidance model, Bagatelle, compromise agreement, dirty tricks, expectations, frontal assault, Guanxi, and Hooker's principle.
The Psychology of Dexter
Analysing the psychologically complex characters of "Dexter", the hit US show, this book is aimed at "Dexter" devotees and armchair psychologists. It takes on the psychological complexities of the popular series. What makes Dexter tick? And what makes a show about a serial killer so appealing to those of us at home?
Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control
Bringing the worlds of neuroscience and social psychology together, this book examines the ethical problems involved in carrying out the required experiments on ...
Ceremonial Violence
Argues that there is an element of ceremony behind the actions of a number of school killers. This book analyses the psychological background to the five cases of school shootings. It highlights the elements of abnormal psychology, sociology and neurology that contribute to the homicidal mindset, offering us a means of understanding tragedies.
Fast Track to Happiness
Using the research in medicine, psychology and social science, this book offers guidelines to the reader and also interesting exercises, quizzes and checklists to enable you to work out what is going wrong. It aims to help you find your own strengths; become an optimist; discover what's holding you back; get yourself onto the right path; and more.
Fast Track to Happiness
Using the research in medicine, psychology and social science, this book offers guidelines to the reader and also interesting exercises, quizzes and checklists to enable you to work out what is going wrong. It aims to help you find your own strengths; become an optimist; discover what's holding you back; get yourself onto the right path; and more.
Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work
The Enneagram is a psychological system for determining personality types as a path for self-improvement. This book offers instruction for using this tool in the workplace. It includes techniques for bringing out your leadership skills, improving your weaker areas, and preventing conflict. It can help you build relationships with your co-workers.
Kanzi
Kanzi offers any number of crucial insights into the workings of the mind.| |http://www.pickabook.co.uk/bookdetails.aspx?ISBN=9780471159599|http://www.pickabook.co.uk/CoverImages/2008_2_22_40/9780471159599.jpg| |1-28| | | |GBP|10.49|14.99| |0|1|1|2| EN|9780471159629|9780471159629|Inevitable Illusions|SOCIAL, GROUP OR COLLECTIVE PSYCHOLOGY|John Wiley and Sons Ltd| |Inevitable Illusions by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini|Fascinating and insightful... I cannot recall a book that has made me think more about the nature of thinking. " -- Richard C. Lewontin Harvard University Everyone knows that optical illusions trick us because of the way we see.
Lonely, Sad and Angry
Provides information about depression and depressive disorders in children and adolescents. This book gives parents the tools to identify when their child is troubled and how to go about finding the right help. It also includes information on psychological treatments, medications, and family relationships.
Child Exodus from Tibet
Every year an average of 1000 Tibetan children risk their lives to escape from a system of education that is almost entirely Chinese. This book seeks answers to questions such as: what leads parents to expose their children to these risks? How many flee? What is the journey like? What are the psychological consequences? And more.
Peak Everything
The 20th century saw unprecedented growth in population, food production and energy consumption. As the population shifted from rural areas to urban cities, the human impact on the environment increased dramatically. This book addresses various cultural, psychological and practical changes we need to make as nature rapidly dictates our new limits.
The Guerrilla Marketing Revolution
Including 125 effective marketing weapons, this book takes the proven methods, strategies and weapons of Guerrilla Marketing and intertwines these with advanced psychology and Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP). It also offers a structured approach to consistent marketing success.
Language
This book aims to synthesize research from a number of related disciplines, including social psychology, communication science, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. It begins with an examination of theoretical issues, and proceeds to a consideration of actual contexts where language and social forces interact. This particular copy is in very good condition. Its exterior has only slight signs of wear - scuffs to its edges from shelf storage. As for the interior, its pages are clean and free of any writing, highlighting or markings. Overall, this book deals with contexts that bear on matters such as ethnolinguistic identity, bilingualism, health and ageing. It will be of interest to all linguists.