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michael j beran

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  • Primate Psychology

    In more ways than we may sometimes care to acknowledge, the human being is just another primate--it is certainly only very rarely that researchers into cognition, emotion, personality, and behavior in our species and in other primates come together to compare notes and share insights. This book, one of the few comprehensive attempts at integrating behavioral research into human and nonhuman ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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    Jefferson's Demons

    Portrait of a Restless Mind

    Narrated by Dan Cashman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 47 min

    Though he was a great statesman, one of America's founding fathers, and the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson suffered from depression. In Jefferson's Demons, Michael Knox Beran examines episodes of melancholia in Jefferson's life. In particular, he focuses on the journey Jefferson made to Europe in 1787 to escape the depression that set in due to his tumultuous experience as ... Read more

    $34.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Patrician

    Bobby Kennedy and the End of American Aristocracy

    OverviewIn this provocative reassessment of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century American politics, Michael Knox Beran shows how Bobby Kennedy was shaped by values of the aristocratic class to which he had been brought up to belong. He was one of them - until he realized that the welfare state they had helped to create at home and the empire they had helped to found abroad ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Jefferson's Demons

    Portrait of a Restless Mind

    "I have often wondered for what good end the sensations of Grief could be intended."-- Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson suffered during his life from periodic bouts of dejection and despair, shadowed intervals during which he was full of "gloomy forebodings" about what lay ahead.Not long before he composed the Declaration of Independence, the young Jefferson lay for six weeks in idleness and ill ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Self-Control in Animals and People

    by Michael Beran ...
    Self-Control in Animals and People takes an interdisciplinary look at what self-control is, how it works, and whether humans are alone as a species in their ability to demonstrate self-control. The book outlines historical and recent empirical approaches to understanding when self-control succeeds and fails, and which species may share with humans the ability to anticipate better future outcomes. ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Primate Cognitive Studies

    Researchers have studied non-human primate cognition along different paths, including social cognition, planning and causal knowledge, spatial cognition and memory, and gestural communication, as well as comparative studies with humans. This volume describes how primate cognition is studied in labs, zoos, sanctuaries, and in the field, bringing together researchers examining similar issues in all ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Murder by Candlelight

    In the early nineteenth century, a series of murders took place in and around London which shocked the whole of England. The appalling nature of the crimes—a brutal slaying in the gambling netherworld, the slaughter of two entire households, and the first of the modern lust-murders—was magnified not only by the lurid atmosphere of an age in which candlelight gave way to gaslight, but also by the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Forge of Empires

    Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871

    In the space of a single decade, three leaders liberated tens of millions of souls, remade their own vast countries, and altered forever the forms of national power:Abraham Lincoln freed a subjugated race and transformed the American Republic.Tsar Alexander II broke the chains of the serfs and brought the rule of law to Russia.Otto von Bismarck threw over the petty Teutonic princes, defeated the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Foundations of Metacognition

    Metacognition refers to the awareness an individual has of their own mental processes (also referred to as ' thinking about thinking'). In the past thirty years metacognition research has become a rapidly growing field of interdisciplinary research within the cognitive sciences. Just recently, there have been major changes in this field, stimulated by the controversial issues of metacognition in ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

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    Tears Are Only Water

    Unabridged

    10 hours 4 min

    Who is the face at Carmine’s window, and why won’t she let him sleep?You must read J. Herman Kleiger’s psychologically textured mystery to find out. Tears Are Only Water entwines a complex and twisty plot with the raw journey of breakdown, healing, and transformation.Carmine Luedke, a shy, narcoleptic bookkeeper hides from the world and comforts himself by reciting arcane mathematical equations ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wasps

    The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy

    An examination of WASP culture through the lives of some of its most prominent figures. Envied and lampooned, misunderstood and yet distinctly American, WASPs are as much a culture, socioeconomic and ethnic designation, and state of mind.Charming, witty, and vigorously researced, WASPS traces the rise and fall of this distinctly American phenomenon through the lives of prominent icons from Henry ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Murder by Candlelight

    The Gruesome Slayings Behind Our Romance With the Macabre

    by Michael Beran ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 39 min

    In the early nineteenth century, a series of murders took place in and around London that shocked the whole of England. The appalling nature of the crimes—a brutal slaying in the gambling netherworld, the slaughter of two entire households, and the first of the modern lust-murders—was magnified not only by the lurid atmosphere of an age in which candlelight gave way to gaslight but also by the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD