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Shiver-inducing science not for the faint of heart. No one studies fear quite like Margee Kerr. A sociologist who moonlights at one of America's scariest and most popular haunted houses, she has seen grown men laugh, cry, and push their loved ones aside as they run away...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2015-09-29
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Every culture rests on a bedrock of folk wisdom handed down through generations.The pronouncements of philosophers are homespun by our grandmothers, and find their way into our common sense: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Do unto others as you would have done...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2015-06-18
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In all modern societies almost everyone of their citizens have spent many years in school buildings, and the largest professional group in modern societies, teachers, is working every day during the working year in school buildings.In spite of this, we know surprisingly...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-16
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Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to justify, the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-01-08
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Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to justify, the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-01-08
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This book won the 2014 National Communication Association’s Diamond Anniversary Book AwardThis book received the 2014 Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Book Award from the «Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association» and the «National...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-12-09
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Despite decades of debate, psychologists are still undecided on what exactly emotion is. This book will help students and general readers to explore emotion and reach their own conclusions. The fascinating, and sometimes controversial, topics covered include what...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2014-08-29
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Although university studies do not always provide translators with the necessary skills, many of them continue in their professional capacity, which is understood to be the result of self-directed learning processes. Thus, translators seem to be not only agents of their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-15
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Seit der Antike wird der Musik eine große emotionale Wirkung zugeschrieben. Bis heute sind unterschiedliche Erklärungsmodelle diskutiert worden. Das betrifft zunächst das Phänomen der Gefühle im Allgemeinen, aber auch die Frage nach der Ursache der ästhetischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-17
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What really makes us feel glad to be alive? This classic work of psychology from world-renowned psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is your essential guide to unlocking a happier, more fulfilling state of being.'[He] has done more than anyone else to study this state...
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Ebury Digital
Parution :
2013-11-15
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Desire and Disillusionment: A Guide to American Fiction Since 1890 departs from the typical academic study in that it appeals to the general reading public, undergraduate and graduate students, and literary scholars. The book’s focus on a highly relatable subject,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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What can a brain scan, or our reaction to a Caravaggio painting, reveal about the deep seat of guilt?How can reading Heidegger, or conducting experiments on rats, help us to cope with anxiety in the face of the world's economic crisis?Can ancient remedies fight sadness...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2013-08-01
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Few people will easily admit to taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others. But who doesn't enjoy it when an arrogant but untalented contestant is humiliated on American Idol, or when the embarrassing vice of a self-righteous politician is exposed, or even when an...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-07-02
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If you adore Jennifer E. Smith's The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight and Jessica Park's Flat-Out Love, you'll love this book.Courtesy of watching his mom's relationships, Sebastian Hawkins knows what girls need to do to get a guy. He has what he considers...
Editeur :
Headline Eternal
Parution :
2013-06-06
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Diese Arbeit untersucht die biblischen Beschreibungen und Bewertungen von Gefühlen. Der Zorn Gottes und der Zorn des Menschen stehen dabei zunächst im Zentrum, doch später wird der Blickwinkel auf das generelle christliche Problem der Leiblichkeit, des Umgangs mit dem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-01
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Diese Arbeit ist ein Beitrag praxisrelevanter Forschung und schafft neben dem neu entwickelten Evaluierungsinstrument «EBQ» (zur Einschätzung der Beziehungsqualität) die theoretische Grundlage für eine entwicklungspsychologisch orientierte Musiktherapie. Das...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-03-20
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Love: All That Matters argues that the modern view on love has been distorted by a fixation on romantic love that has depleted our resources for living through the darker sides of love, whereas in fact there are several ways in which humans give and experience love over...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2013-01-25
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All That Matters
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When we think of psychology, we think of a field dedicated to understanding and curing the dark side of life--addictions, phobias, compulsions, anxieties, and on and on. But there is a field of psychology that looks at the bright side, that considers seriously these...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-12-31
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This book argues that a silent axis of the unconscious world rests largely undiscovered. It recasts foundational concepts in the psychology of Freud, Jung, Carol Gilligan and R.D. Laing, as well as in cognitive science, to highlight this hidden unconscious axis:...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-17
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Susanne Ott erarbeitet die Entstehung und den Verlauf von Autismus als einer pränatalen Störung im Stammhirnbereich mit Folgen in der Organisation und der Funktion der sich nachfolgend ausbildenden Systeme. Betroffen sind primär die intrinsische soziale und dialogische...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-27
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