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Can you be re-lit by poetry? This little book offers everyone one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of poetry.

Leading expert on resilience and the psychology of wellbeing debunks our current theories of success and shows us that taking care of ourselves is the most productive thing we can do to thrive personally and professionally.

This is a fully updated edition of Personnel Selection, a seminal text on the psychometric approach to personnel selection by a noted expert in the field.

A new method of estimating what affects IQ shows that life history and choice count toward your level of intelligence. Contrary to the twin studies, your home can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, and the choices you make at any age (what you read) can upgrade your intelligence.

Revised edition of the author's Group and team coaching, 2010.

The operation failed to eliminate Molaison's intractable seizures, but it did have an unintended effect: Henry was left profoundly amnesic, unable to create long term memories.The story of Patient H.M., as he came to be known, is the story of how we came to understand memory, and better understand ourselves.

A practical primer for using cognitive behavioural therapy, an evidence-based, goal-oriented self-help technique that has been successful for millions of people around the world.

Draw on evidence from neuroscience to help ensure the success of change management programmes by helping people be more innovative, productive and engaged.

Making therapeutic concepts engaging for children, this book full of activities gives clinicians' practical guidance on how to work with children aged 4-12. Using only readily available items, these activities are specifically designed for clinicians to interact with and help children understand their emotions.

This book introduces polyamorous families and explains how they come to be, manage the ins and outs of daily family life, and cope with the challenges they face both within their families and from society at large. Sheff investigates the polyamorous household and reveals its advantages, its disadvantages, and the lives of those living in them.

Weird and wonderful psychological experiments from dramatic corners of human experience to change how you think.

Traces the developmental course of each disorder. This book also shows how child psychopathology involves biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors interacting with a child's environment.

Follow-up to the bestselling Mindfulness: Be Mindful. Live in the Moment.

"First edition published by Routledge 2004"--Title page verso.

* Slavoj Zizek is one of the most widely-read and controversial philosophers writing today.

Our breath catches and we jump in fear at the sight of a snake. We pause and marvel at the sublime beauty of a sunrise. These reactions are no accident; in fact, many of our human responses to nature are steeped in our deep evolutionary past. The author explores the role of evolution in human responses to the environment.