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Police Suicide

April 4, 2013 By

Examines the need for improved research that focuses on related psychological components and successful prevention and intervention strategies. This book examines police suicidal behaviours and should prove helpful in developing suicide assessment and training programs.

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Child Abuse and Neglect

April 1, 2013 By

Examines child abuse and neglect. This book opens with the background on child maltreatment including its history, an overview of the research, and the risk factors. It also examines different forms of maltreatment - physical abuse, neglect, psychological maltreatment, sexual abuse, fetal abuse, and Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome.

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Executive Power

March 23, 2013 By

Executive Power arms readers with effective, fast-acting techniques that show them, step-by-step, how to get what they need before they and their companies pay a heavy toll for lack of it. This book contains specific, carefully formulated psychological tactics that can be applied to any business situation, with any person.

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Gender and Colonialism

March 22, 2013 By

The fist edition of this book was a pioneering work in the newly emerging field of liberation psychology. This revised and updated edition provides an up-to-date review of the latest international developments in liberation psychology, feminist psychology and critical psychology, with a framework that links the personal and the political.

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Trends in Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Research

March 21, 2013 By

Alcoholism is a disorder characterised by the excessive consumption of and dependence on alcoholic beverages, leading to physical and psychological harm and impaired social and vocational functioning. This book gathers research on this socially and medically destructive disorder.

The Prince

March 17, 2013 By

Written in the 16th century as advice from a senior civil servant to the ruling Prince, Lorenzo de Medici, this book is useful for those seeking and attaining power, and gives the listener a psychological insight into character formation.

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French Presidential Elections

March 14, 2013 By

An original and comprehensive study of the sociological and psychological forces driving individual choices in French Presidential elections. Based on a unique comparative analysis of four French presidential contests over the last two decades, this book presents a rigorous examination of long-term and short-term voter motivations.

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Catastrophe

March 5, 2013 By

How should we respond to events that, for a variety of psychological and cultural reasons, we find it hard to wrap our minds around? This book argues that realism about science and scientists, innovative applications of cost-benefit analysis, and a pragmatic attitude toward civil liberties are among the keys to coping with catastrophic risks.

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The Art of Executing Well

March 4, 2013 By

In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This book includes some of the songs, stories, poems, and images that they used, and also first-person accounts and ballads describing particular executions.

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The Psychology of Executive Coaching

February 21, 2013 By

Deals with the developments in the field of executive coaching. This book describes several important psychological theories and how to effectively translate them into coaching strategies, and essential business lessons in leadership, marketing, and the corporate viewpoint along with vocabulary for the therapist.

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