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  • Humor and Life Stress

    Antidote to Adversity

    by Herbert M. Lefcourt, Rod A. Martin ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This monograph reflects a culmination of influences. Over a decade ago, a graduate student at the University of Waterloo, Dr. Carl Sordoni, had worked with one of the present authors (H.L.) to develope a dissertation concerned with humor. At that time, the literature on humor was scanty. There was much that had been written by philosophers and scholars in literature. But in psychology, especially ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Humor

    The Psychology of Living Buoyantly

    by Herbert M. Lefcourt ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    In his earlier work the author has studied stress and the personality characteristics that protect us from its effects on health and well-being. In this new book he places humor firmly within the literatures of coping processes, the moderation of stressful experiences, and health by showing how humor can help create and encourage feelings of community, closeness, and control. Lefcourt blends ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    The ten desires that drive us

    by Hugh Mackay ...
    'Hugh Mackay is one of this country’s most perceptive social commentators' - Sydney Morning HeraldInsightful and engaging, What Makes Us Tick? helps to explain what drives us, concerns us and is important to each of us – from Australia's leading social researcher, Hugh Mackay.Dr Mackay has spent a lifetime listening to people talk about their dreams, fears, hopes, disappointments and passions. As ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • The Psychopath Inside

    A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain

    by James Fallon ...
    “Compelling, essential reading for understanding the underpinnings of psychopathy.” — M. E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a SociopathFor his first fifty-eight years, James Fallon was by all appearances a normal guy. A successful neuroscientist and professor, he’d been raised in a loving family, married his high school sweetheart, and had three kids and lots of friends. Then he learned a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Theory U

    Leading from the Future as It Emerges

    by C. Otto Scharmer ...
    Access the deepest source of inspiration and visionWe live in a time of massive institutional failure that manifests in the form of three major divides: the ecological, the social, and the spiritual. Addressing these challenges requires a new consciousness and collective leadership capacity. In this groundbreaking book, Otto Scharmer invites us to see the world in new ways and in so doing discover ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Search For The Real Self

    Unmasking The Personality Disorders Of Our Age

    by James F. Masterson, M.D. ...
    From the authoritative expert in personality disorders, Search for the Real Self is a thorough dissection of how one’s real self is developed, how it relates to the outer world, and how personality disorders are understood and treated in our modern society.Personality disorders—borderline, narcissistic, and schizoid—have become the classic psychological disorders of our age. Outwardly successful, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Experience of Meaning in Life

    Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies

    Edited by Joshua A. Hicks, Clay Routledge ...
    This edited volume takes an in depth exploration into the burgeoning field of meaning in life in the psychological sciences. Each chapter features leading scholars who describes current empirical findings in a thorough and accessible manner, highlighting important issues and controversies facing the scientific study of meaning in life. The book covers an exhaustive range of topics including ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • The Power of Positive Confrontation

    The Skills You Need to Handle Conflicts at Work, at Home, Online, and in Life, completely revised and updated edition

    by Barbara Pachter ...
    The step-by-step guide to tackling conflict-personal or professional-including a section on navigating sticky situations online.When slighted, misunderstood, cut in front of, annoyed, taken advantage of, or treated rudely, most people avoid their bosses, ignore coworkers, change hairdressers, complain to friends, pound their fists, or rant on social media. They often miss the most positive, ... Read more

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  • Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior

    by Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    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 the 1950s that it became irrefutably clear that much of human motivation is based not in these ... Read more

    $296.99 USD

  • Where Does Mind End?

    A Radical History of Consciousness and the Awakened Self

    by Marc Seifer, Ph.D. ...
    A new comprehensive model of mind and its nearly infinite possibilities• Recasts psychology as a vehicle not for mental health but for higher consciousness• Shows that we have consciousness for a reason; it is humanity’s unique contribution to the cosmos• Integrates the work of Freud, Jung, Gurdjieff, Tony Robbins, Rudolf Steiner, the Dalai Lama as well as ESP, the Kabbalah, tarot, dreams, and ... Read more

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  • Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context

    Perspectives on the Psychology of Agency, Freedom, and Well-Being

    Edited by Valery I. Chirkov, Kennon M. Sheldon, Richard Ryan ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This volume presents the reader with a stimulating tapestry of essays exploring the nature of personal autonomy, self-determination, and agency, and their role in human optimal functioning at multiple levels of analysis from personal to societal and cross-cultural. The starting point for these explorations is self-determination theory, an integrated theory of human motivation and healthy ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Frontiers of Motivational Psychology

    Essays in Honor of John W. Atkinson

    Edited by Donald R. Brown, Joseph Veroff ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

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