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What if there was an easy way to know when someone is trying to deceive you, would you be interested? Would you like to be a better communicator and protect you and your family from shady characters? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then this book is for you!
Frank Runles, veteran FBI Special Agent, reveals everything he has learned over a 20-year career spotting liars and exposing cheats using Deceptive Language Analysis.
If you...
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To talk about getting better-about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer-is to talk about pursuing the life we want, in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want, of our version of a good life, come from what we have already experienced. (We write the sentences we write because of the sentences we have read.)
How can we talk differently about how we might want to change, knowing that all change precipitates us into...
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This book provides an analysis of the individual and social dynamics of racism and hatred, an analysis of the specific characteristics of the most malignant leaders and monsters in history as well as social analyzes of why huge populations of people have chosen to follow these monsters. Their conclusions come back to the existential issues we all face as human beings as well as the social influences perpetuated by an authoritarian patriarchy. The...
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A concise, straightforward book on how to handle difficult people in your personal or professional life.
• Tips on how to work with different personality types (agressive, negative or lazy).
• Techniques for effective communication through body language and spoken and written communication.
• A simple, step-by-step guide to help readers learn how to say 'no'.
• Case studies make this a lively
• The author is frequently called upon for...
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At last! The secret is out about romantic relationships. 'Emotional Learning' is what we know but lack words to express. Early learning, as an infant or child, reveals 'how we are wired' for intimacy. This book gives practical tips for discovering the script of your unique Emotional Learning, the way it impacts everything important to you and how it might be changed through memory reconsolidation – an important discovery from the neurosciences....
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William James was the older brother of novelist Henry James, and a pioneering psychologist and philosopher. His works pushed the boundaries of psychology and helped shape the direction the field would grow in. Collected here are four of his most important books: 'Essays in Radical Empiricism', 'The Meaning of Truth', 'The Varieties of Religious Experience', and 'What is an Emotion?' These books helped forge a field and remain as important today as...
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What Linneaus did for biology, LeShan does for human consciousness and behavior -- provide a classification system for aspects and states of consiousness. This framework contains both the objective and subjective aspects of life and shows that they can be intelligibly connected.
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Texto que introduce, de forma amena y variada, al amplio campo de la psicología de la comunicación. Su contenido incluye una sistematización de los conocimientos aportados por los principales enfoques al estudio y comprensión del fenómeno comunicativo.
En este sentido, el interés primordial está dirigido hacia aquellas perspectivas que se han ocupado fundamentalmente de la comunicación en cuanto a su aspecto pragmático, vale decir, de los...
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Dieses Handbuch wurde potentiellen Mitgliedern der IRA zur Verfügung gestellt. Es sollte auf Gefängnisaufenthalt und Verhöre vorbereiten. Ebenso wird Mind Set und Struktur einer konspirativen Organisation abgebildet. In der vorliegenden Deutschen Übersetzung ist das green book als historisches Dokument jüngster Irischer Geschichte zu verstehen. Mittlerweile ist es aber auch Lektüre von Demokratie Bewegungen, deren Mitglieder psychischer und...
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¿Te has preguntado alguna vez por qué algunos líderes políticos, figuras públicas o incluso personas en tu círculo social parecen incapaces de reconocer sus propias limitaciones?Todos conocemos a personas que creen saberlo todo sobre todos los temas imaginables (¿has visto alguna vez algún tertuliano en televisión?). Son esas personas que, en medio de una conversación, tienen la respuesta perfecta para cualquier pregunta, la solución infalible...
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In this peerless study of the Kasuga Gongen genki, twenty fourteenth-century picture scrolls illuminating the sacred powers of the Kasuga Shrine on Mount Miyama, Royall Tyler collapses the distinction between high and low forms of medieval Japanese religious practice and argues for reading in the scrolls critical reflections of developments in Japanese history, society, culture, literature, and religion.
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The challenges presented by business environments worldwide require managers to have a strong sense of leadership. The wealth of literature on coping and resilience lacks a fundamental theory to link coping with leadership; on the contrary, the popular cognitive resource theory of leadership states that leaders lose their cognitive skills under stress, and advocates the value of experience only in the face of challenges. In order to cope and face...
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LA VOZ DE LOS NECESITADOS es ms que un libro; es la compilacin de ideas de hombres y mujeres que desean ver un cambio en la sociedad en la que viven. Tambin es una expresin de un lder que por ms de veinte aos ha estado trabajando con los que nadie escucha y con los que son ignorados por todos los sectores de la sociedad tanto los que tienen poder como los que no tienen. Este escrito est dirigido a los hombres y mujeres que tienen la gran encomienda...
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¡Qué daríamos por saber qué hay detrás de la mirada de la persona con la que estamos hablando! ¡Por saber si es sincera y cuáles son sus intenciones...! ¡Por saber qué piensa de nosotros...! Existe un método científico y eficaz que cualquiera puede aprender con rapidez: la interpretación del lenguaje del cuerpo. Todos movemos nuestro cuerpo y hacemos miles de gestos: nos frotamos la nariz, nos lamemos los labios, cruzamos las piernas....
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Anchored in Jewish ethical tradition, community-building, and an activist's call to repair the world, "Hope into Practice" is about human liberation, linking personal healing with social justice. It also asks Jewish women to love ourselves enough to face our fears without acting on them-expanding our sense of possibility, empowering our activism. This book brings to life an irresistible blend of healing stories, fascinating history, and a fair-minded...
96) Swing
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As four very different letters arrive at the playground, each makes the next feel unwelcome, but once they begin to swing together, they have a wonderful time
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The present paper is an attempt to formulate a positive theory of motivation, which will satisfy these theoretical demands and at the same time conform to the known facts, clinical and observational as well as experimental. It derives most directly, however, from clinical experience. This theory is, I think, in the functionalist tradition of James and Dewey, and is, fused with the holism of Wertheimer, Goldstein, and Gestalt Psychology, and with the...
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Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, has produced some of the world's best minds: prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices, presidents. For those lucky few selected, tuition, room, and board are free. But acceptance...
99) The namesake
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"With a new afterword from Jhumpa Lahiri, a new edition of the contemporary classic. Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world--conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. In The Namesake,...
100) Long story short
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"A sixteen-year-old homeschooled math genius finds herself out of her element at a theater summer camp and learns that life--and love--can't be lived by the (text)book"--
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