Personality category: 1900 books
American Normal
The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Asperger's Syndrome, often characterized as a form of "high-functioning autism," is a poorly defined and little-understood neurological disorder. The people who suffer from the condition are usually highly intelligent, and as often as not capable of extraordinary feats of memory, calculation,...
by Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Early in this century, most empirically oriented psychologists believed that all motivation was based in the physiology of a set of non-nervous system tissue needs. The theories of that era reflected this belief and used it in an attempt to explain an increasing number of phenomena. It was not until...
by Juan Moises de la Serna
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
Sometimes we find ourselves with people who tell us something that then turns out to be not true, that may not stop being an anecdote, but when lies are constant, we may be before a mythomaniac, that is, a person who lies almost compulsively, also known as a pathological liar. With this text you will...
Evil Genes
Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfri end
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Have you ever heard of a person who left you wondering, "How could someone be so twisted? So evil?" Prompted by clues in her sister's diary after her mysterious death, author Barbara Oakley takes the reader inside the head of the kinds of malevolent people you know, perhaps all too well, but could...
Computer Games and New Media Cultures
A Handbook of Digital Games Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Digital gaming is today a significant economic phenomenon as well as being an intrinsic part of a convergent media culture in postmodern societies. Its ubiquity, as well as the sheer volume of hours young people spend gaming, should make it ripe for urgent academic enquiry, yet the subject was a research...
The Bipolar Relationship
How to understand, help, and love your partner
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2009
Bipolar is a condition that affects peoples' relationships with others as much as it affects their own mental state. When one person in a couple is experiencing the extreme highs and lows of a disorder like this one, it's impossible for their partner not to feel the strain too.
Reassuring yet...
by Cunningham, Donna
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1986
Well-written and moving account of Pluto in the natal chart, and how Pluto aspects can affect childhood, adulthood, and life in general. Open discussion of child abuse, rape, incest, violence, repression, manipulative types and how they got thatway. Also included are ways to heal Pluto problems using flower remedies, meditation and more.
by Marcus Albey
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Simply put, the male mind and the female mind do not function the same. Relationships fail because of inherent differences that seem to go unnoticed. This book explores the differences in relationship thought patterns, as seen by the author.
Women Who Think Too Much
How to Break Free of Overthinking and Reclaim Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
From one of the nation's preeminent experts on women and emotion, a breakthrough new book about how to stop negative thinking and become more productive
It's no surprise that our fast-paced, overly self-analytical culture is pushing many people-especially women-to spend countless hours thinking about...
Break Up Bad Habits For Good!
Learn Powerful Advice To Stop Smoking, Stop Drinking, Stop Biting Nails, Stop Procrastinating Plus More So You Can Change Bad Habits To Good Habits For Good
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Breaking up bad habits can be very hard to do. It’s more psychological than anything else really. A habit is an unconscious pattern of behavior that a person has routinely used or repeated so often or has a certain inclination to for over a period of time that it becomes normal manner or a type...
Too Nice for Your Own Good
How to Stop Making 9 Self-Sabotaging Mistakes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
If you're like most folks, you were raised to be "nice". Yet now you find yourself asking: "If I'm so nice, why isn't my life better?" Renowned minister and lecturer Duke Robinson has the answer. Robinson says that well-intended behavior is essential to a humane society, but carries...
8 Great Smarts
Discover and Nurture Your Child's Intelligences
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Your child is smart, but does he or she believe it?
"Smart" is a power word. Children who believe they’re smart excel more in school and approach life with greater confidence. But children who don’t can struggle to apply themselves. Do you wish your child could see how smart he...
Handbook of Life-Course Criminology
Emerging Trends and Directions for Future Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The wide-ranging scope of the Handbook of Life-Course Criminology covers genetics and environment, child offenders and late bloomers, the impact of school and peers, lifelong and time-limited criminal careers, and qualitative and quantitative methodologies. This unique Handbook is further set apart...
Exit
The Endings That Set Us Free
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
From a renowned sociologist, the wisdom of saying goodbye
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is enthralled by exits: long farewells, quick goodbyes, sudden endings, the ordinary and the extraordinary. There's a relationship, she attests, between small goodbyes and our ability "to master and mark...