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From the days of Freud and Skinner to the modern science of fMRIs and genetics, Introduction to Psychology is a grand introduction to one of the most captivating fields of inquiry - where the subject is you, and everyone around you. Taught by Professor Catherine A. Sanderson of Amherst College, these 36 insightful lessons not only give you a panoramic grounding in the history, methods, and fundamental findings of psychology, but they also introduce you to the most up-to-date 21st-century research and discoveries.

A decade ago, developers built information-sharing software by writing a lot of custom code in a single code base, then adding layers of caching. Now we build information systems: interdependent software and services, data platforms, and event streams. Many of our software-to-systems initiatives fail, though, and when they do, we double down on traditional linear approaches. But linear thinking cannot resolve systems challenges. We need to shift to systems thinking.

How do you deal with those that break the law? If their aim is to evade you, how do you identify them? If their aim is to lie, how do you interview them? If they don't see their actions are wrong, how do you help them to successfully reform? Criminal psychology is the discipline which tackles these challenges head on. From the signals which give away when we’re lying to the psychological profiling of violent offenders, this exhaustive guide, written by the UK’s top experts, is the perfect introduction.

Bolezn', o kotoroj pojdjot rech' v jetoj knige, mnogie nazyvajut sovremennoj chumoj. I neudivitel'no: diagnoz «alkogolizm» eshhjo v nachale dvuhtysjachnyh postavili sta pjatidesjati tysjacham chelovek! My rassmotrim celyj rjad mifov i legend, kotorye chelovechestvo dobrovol'no vystroilo vokrug alkogolja, i ubedimsja, chto povodov vypit' u sovremennogo cheloveka namnogo men'she, chem on sam kogda-libo predpolagal.

This book explores the world of Sigmund Freud, who, making it into the author's highly popular series due to his creation of a brand-new branch of medicine called psychoanalysis, introduced the world to such controversial theories as Oedipal complexes, the id, and the ego.

In Beastly Brains, Nancy Castaldo delves into the minds of animals and explores animal empathy, communication, tool use, and social societies through interviews and historical anecdotes. Researchers from Charles Darwin to Jane Goodall have spent years analyzing the minds of animals, and today's science is revolutionizing old theories and uncovering surprising similarities to our own minds. Humans are not alone in our ability to think.

Sovremennaja zhizn' trebuet ot cheloveka postojannoj raboty uma. Nuzhno znat' svoju professiju, razbirat'sja v novoj tehnike, byt' vnimatel'nym i derzhat' v pamjati massu del i zadanij. V takoj situacii nash mozg okazyvaetsja peregruzhen. Mezhdu tem, chtoby postojanno byt' na pike umstvennoj formy, nuzhno zanjat'sja trenirovkoj intellekta. Neskol'ko prostyh i jeffektivnyh uprazhnenij, esli vypolnjat' ih reguljarno, pomogut stat' vnimatel'nym, uluchshat pamjat' i nauchat logicheski myslit'.