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by Michael Glassman
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
The first comprehensive, research-based textbook on Internet-infused education, Educational Psychology and the Internet offers students an accessible guide to important issues in the field. Michael Glassman begins with an overview of the history that traces the evolution of the Internet and its significance...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Crew (or Cockpit) Resource Management training originated from a NASA workshop in 1979 that focused on improving air safety. The NASA research at that time found the primary cause of the majority of aviation accidents to be human error, and further showed the main problems to be failures of interpersonal...
Small Unmanned Aircraft
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
Autonomous unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) are critical to current and future military, civil, and commercial operations. Despite their importance, no previous textbook has accessibly introduced UAVs to students in the engineering, computer, and science disciplines--until now. Small Unmanned Aircraft...
by H. Luke
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
This is a new and outstanding contribution to understanding the working life of junior doctors. It opens out the field of research in sociology and inserts junior medical doctor culture right into medical sociology and professional medical education by its innovative use of Pierre Bourdieu's sociological...
by Kate Hefferon, Ilona Boniwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
This new textbook combines a breadth of information about positive psychology with reflective questions, critical commentary and up to date research.
Flow at Work
Measurement and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Flow can be defined as the experience of being fully engaged with the task at hand, unburdened by outside concerns or worries. Flow is an enjoyable state of effortless attention, complete absorption, and focussed energy. The pivotal role of flow in fostering good performance and high productivity...
Coaching Psychology
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Coaching Psychology: A Practitioner's Guide takes an in-depth look at the applications and everyday challenges faced by real-world practitioners of coaching and mentoring psychology. Developed as a companion to The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning, the practitioner’s guide delves more...
by Vlad Zachary
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
***Named the Best Motivational book of 2016 by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group in their annual Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Eric Hoffer Award finalist for non-fiction.***The Excellence Habit is biography of an idea, and the idea is simple. The main source of success...
Health and Cognition in Old Age
From Biomedical and Life Course Factors to Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
In recent years, the aim of research on aging has shifted from prolonging life to fostering healthy and cognitively robust old age. In order to improve the quality of life of older people, we need to better understand cognitive aging as well as bodily aging.
Health and Cognition...
The Psychology of Courage
An Adlerian Handbook for Healthy Social Living
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Courage refers to the willingness for risk taking and to move ahead in the presence of difficulties. The purpose of this book is to present courage as the main foundation of understanding and training for mental health in the three life task areas described by Adler: Work, Love, and Friendship. It...
Between Dreaming and Recognition Seeking
The Emergence of Dialogical Self Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
How can an internationally recognized theory contribute towards the enrichment of your own life? In Between Dreaming and Recognition Seeking, Hubert J. M. Hermans, the creator of Dialogical Self Theory, applies this theory to his own life and explains how readers can do the same. He describes several...
Guarding the Gates
Calming, Control and de-escalation of Mentally Ill, Emotionally Disturbed and Aggressive Individuals - A Comprehensive Guidebook for Security Guards
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
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. Security guards must frequently deal with such individuals in locations as varied as hospital emergency rooms, shopping...
by Patricia Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
An engaging and research-based text, The Psychology of the Internet provides a balanced overview of the psychological aspects of cyberspace. It explores crucial questions about the internet's effects on human behavior, such as why we often act in uncharacteristic ways in online environments and how...
AsapSCIENCE
Answers to the World's Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The instant New York Times bestselling book of entertaining, irreverent, and totally accessible illustrated answers to the scientific “questions you had no idea were bugging you all your life” (Fast Company), from the creators of the wildly popular YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE.
Why do we...