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Grace Under Fire:
Skills to Calm and De-escalate Aggressive & Mentally Ill Individuals (For Those in Social Services or Helping Professions)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Individuals suffering from psychiatric or substance use disorders sometimes display any one of a number of frightening behaviors: verbal outbursts, physical threats and even violence. In this comprehensive guidebook, Ellis Amdur walks professionals working in healthcare and social services settings...
by Louisa Gilder
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
In The Age of Entanglement, Louisa Gilder brings to life one of the pivotal debates in twentieth century physics. In 1935, Albert Einstein famously showed that, according to the quantum theory, separated particles could act as if intimately connected–a phenomenon which he derisively described as...
Stuff Matters
Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
**New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Notable Book 2014 • Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
“A thrilling account of the modern material world.” —Wall Street Journal
"Miodownik, a materials scientist, explains the history and science behind...
A Feast of Science
Intriguing Morsels from the Science of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
An entertaining and digestible volume that demystifies science, from the author of 16 bestselling popular science books
Crave answers? A Feast of Science demystifies the chemistry of everyday life, serving up practical knowledge to both inform and entertain. Guaranteed to satiate your hunger...
Resilient
How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
These days it’s hard to count on the world outside. So it’s vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion—the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world.
True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions. We need resilience every...
by YUUKI YUU
Language: Chinese
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Language: Chinese
Release Date: January 30, 2019
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Eureka
Discovering Your Inner Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
When it comes to science, too often people say "I just don't have the brains for it"--and leave it at that. Why is science so intimidating, and why do people let themselves feel this way? What makes one person a scientist and another disinclined even to learn how to read graphs? The idea...
Literary Taste
How to Form It
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
At the beginning a misconception must be removed from the path. Many people, if not most, look on literary taste as an elegant accomplishment, by acquiring which they will complete themselves, and make themselves finally fit as members of a correct society. They are secretly ashamed of their ignorance...
Having A Life
Self Pathology after Lacan
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
What is it about "having a life"- which is to say, about having a sense of separate existence as a subject or self - that is usually taken for granted but is so fragilely maintained in certain patients and, indeed, in most of us at especially difficult times? In Having A Life: Self Pathology...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology presents a survey of research and legal opinions from international experts on the rapidly expanding scientific literature addressing the accuracy and limitations of eyewitnesses as a source of evidence for the courts. For the first time, extensive reviews of...
by Albert Einstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
A new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government.
by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Universe and Solar System Series: The Life Cycle of Stars Having trouble on Physics? Need to find out information about the life cycles of stars and what causes their birth and death? This is an excellent book if you need, or want; to learn about the complete life cycle of stars including their characteristics...
by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Universe and Solar System Series: Theories of the Universe
Having trouble on Physics? Need to find out information about the Big Bang theories, and how the Universe came to existence?. This is an excellent book if you need, or want; to learn about the Big Bang Theory, String Theory, Inflation...