Day: December 13, 2018

Being a parent is hard. Make the wrong decisions and your child can grow up to do something terrible, like root for Georgetown. How To Grow An Orange shows every parent how to make sure that never happens…by providing them with everything they could ever possibly want to know about Syracuse University sports. No Orange fan should be without this guide to the people, places and history of SU. How To Grow An Orange is perfect for any Syracuse fan, alumni, parent or incoming student. It is not, however, perfect for a Georgetown or UConn fan. It’s unfortunately too late for them.

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“Read him his rights.” We all recognize this line from cop dramas. But what happens afterward? In this book, Richard Leo sheds light on a little-known corner of our criminal justice system–the police interrogation.

Incriminating statements are necessary to solve crimes, but suspects almost never have reason to provide them. Therefore, as Leo shows, crime units have developed sophisticated interrogation methods that rely on persuasion, manipulation, and deception to move a subject from denial to admission, serving to shore up the case against him. Ostensibly aimed at uncovering truth, the structure of interrogation requires that officers act as an arm of the prosecution.

Skillful and fair interrogation allows authorities to capture criminals and deter future crime. But Leo draws on extensive research to argue that confessions are inherently suspect and that coercive interrogation has led to false confession and wrongful conviction. He looks at police evidence in the court, the nature and disappearance of the brutal “third degree,” the reforms of the mid-twentieth century, and how police can persuade suspects to waive their Miranda rights.

An important study of the criminal justice system, Police Interrogation and American Justice raises unsettling questions. How should police be permitted to interrogate when society needs both crime control and due process? How can order be maintained yet justice served?

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A Social History of American Technology, Second Edition, tells the story of American technology from the tools used by its earliest inhabitants to the technological systems–cars and computers, aircraft and antibiotics–that we are familiar with today. Ruth Schwartz Cowan and Matthew H. Hersch demonstrate how technological change has always been closely related to social and economic development, and examine the important mutual relationships between social history and technological change. They explain how the unique characteristics of American cultures and American geography have affected the technologies that have been invented, manufactured, and used throughout the years–and also the reverse: how those technologies have affected the daily lives, the unique cultures, and the environments of all Americans.

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Do you know someone who is just a bit too manipulative and full of himself? Does someone you know charm the masses yet lack the ability to deeply connect with those around her? You might have an Almost Psychopath in your life.

Do you know someone who is too manipulative and full of himself? Does someone you know charm the masses yet lack the ability to deeply connect with those around her?Grandiosity and exaggerated self-worth. Pathological lying. Manipulation. Lack of remorse. Shallowness. Exploitation for financial gain. These are the qualities of Almost Psychopaths. They are not the deranged criminals or serial killers that might be coined “psychopaths” in the movies or on TV. They are spouses, coworkers, bosses, neighbors, and people in the news who exhibit many of the same behaviors as a full-blown psychopath, but with less intensity and consistency.In Almost a Psychopath, Ronald Schouten, MD, JD, and James Silver, JD, draw on scientific research and their own experiences to help you identify if you are an Almost Psychopath and, if so, guide you to interventions and resources to change your behavior.If you think you have encountered an Almost Psychopath, they offer practical tools to help you:recognize the behavior, attitudes, and characteristics of the Almost Psychopath;make sense of interactions you’ve had with Almost Psychopaths;devise strategies for dealing with them in the present;make informed decisions about your next steps; andlearn ways to help an Almost Psychopath get better control of their behavior.The Almost Effect™ Series presents books written by Harvard Medical School faculty and other experts that offer guidance on common behavioral and physical problems falling in the spectrum between normal health and a full-blown medical condition. These are the first publications to help general readers recognize and address these problems.

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Excerpt from Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based Upon the Investigations Made by the New Nancy School

Heterosuggestion but autosuggestion; and, as’ a corol lary, the chief advantages of psychotherapeutics can be secured without a suggester and without the more salient.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Rehabilitation professionals face a key challenge when working with clients with acquired cognitive impairments: how to teach new skills to individuals who have difficulty learning. Unique in its focus, this book presents evidence-based instructional methods specifically designed to help this population learn more efficiently. The expert authors show how to develop, implement, and evaluate an individualized training plan. They provide practical guidelines for teaching multistep procedures, cognitive strategies, the use of external aids, and more. User-friendly features include 17 sample worksheets and forms; blank forms can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2″ x 11″ size.

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A new attempt to acknowledge and rekindle interest in the experimental foundation of behavioral medicine, this volume focuses on the relevance of conditioning processes in the development of clinically relevant intervention strategies. It provides illustrations of the basic conditioning effects in the regulation of physiological responses, the role of conditioning in selected disease models, the precise application of conditioning principles, and speculative analyses of the potential of conditioning in the modification of clinically relevant responses. Issues involved in teaching both the fundamentals and the applied components of behavioral medicine are addressed.

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The story of one girl’s struggle growing up in the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, who eventually escaped from polygamy, and lives today to expose the facts about polygamous mind-control sects, including: The truth about plural marriage. The physical, mental and sexual abuse of women. The assigned marriage of young girls to senior men. The uncontrolled health issues brought about by intermarriage and incest. The excommunicated boys forced to fend for themselves. And the continuing efforts to liberate those still trapped within it. Jenny tells the things kept secret within the FLDS. The physical, mental, and sexual abuse; the fraud and misuse of welfare funds; the atrocities that are committed in the name of religion and God; the children driven out of their homes who are in need of intercession and protection and the parents who are forced by a tyrant religion to turn their back on them. Jenny was on the television show Geraldo Rivera, she was Hellraiser of the month in Mother Jones magazine and she also appeared on Good Morning America.

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This cozy series has everything you want and more: an eclectic cast of characters, a mystery or two, and diligent detectives on duty. The detectives, feline and canine, figure it all out, but they have a dickens of a time getting the humans to understand them. The series, Tiger Lily’s Café, is set in a Midwestern town nestled into the sunset coast of a Great Lake. The setting itself acts as a character, bringing the reader into the sights, sounds and smells of the small resort community of Chelsea. Read the series in order, or read any book alone. Each volume stands alone with a clear beginning and a clear end. This volume continues the story of Annie, a woman whose ownership of a prime piece of real estate and several businesses was almost a mistake. But own it, she does, and she makes the best of an idyllic situation. With her family of rescue cats and a diverse collection of business managers, staff and friends, Annie embraces her home on The Avenue, a picturesque slice of life that embodies the best – and sometimes the worst – that humanity has to offer. Christmas is coming, and New Year too. But then, so are those early snows and sub-zero temperatures, just in time for a true blizzard to hit on Christmas weekend. What a time for a bizarre mix of fishing and Phishing! While Pete, the Chief of Police, is on vacation, spearphishers, catphishers, and a tourist that hopes to be an ice-fisher run amok. The computer antics are aimed at Annie and her mix of businesses; it appears she has lost, well, a lot of money. The second string of the police department is in charge, and that leads to more trouble than Annie and her friends can handle. The FBI is called in, but will they be able to figure out who is targeting Annie? Is it someone from Chelsea? Someone from out of town? Someone who just began to work for Annie who has access to every building at all hours of the day or night? Is it true that Annie has criminals on her staff? Her trusted management staff? Tiger Lily and her siblings try to keep up with everything. However, their attention is split. They spend a lot of time with their canine friend, Cyril, who believes his human, Pete, has left him forever. Cyril believes he has been abandoned by his best canine friend as well. Cyril and Jock find themselves at odds because, of all things, the Westminster Dog Show. In the middle of it all, Annie hosts her entire family, ages 18 months through, well, the mature ages. Family meals and holiday parties on The Avenue don’t take a back seat to trouble. They become the center to which everyone can gather and feel safe.

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I’m scum. Yes, I always have been. . . . I know what I did, and what I should have done.
 
A spellbinding and provocative psychological thriller that shows just how far a man will go to win the most enduring and ruthless of games: the game of power.  
 
Raised in the upper echelons of elite New York society, Thomas Spencer has never wanted for much. But much is hardly enough for a man whose greatest satisfaction lies in shattering the happiness of others. Thomas, the black sheep of his family, harbors only resentment toward those closest to him for what they have more of: good looks, good cheer, good social graces. But what Thomas may lack in charm, he makes up for in cunning. And it is this that will serve him best when he trades in his glittering world of privilege for a chance to claw his way to the top—on his own terms, and at any cost. As Thomas achieves fame and success as an ad man, he becomes ever more deeply entrenched in an insidious underworld of media, politics, and women, and an astonishing picture emerges of a complex, destructive personality who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Shameless and electrifying, Story of a Sociopath illuminates the true nature of power through the mind of a master psychological manipulator.

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This hardbound 800-page (8 1/4X 10 1/2 inch) volume represents the most complete and comprehensive book ever written on forensic psychophysiology using the polygraph. This most authoritative 25-chapter book contains a 23-page Glossary of Term, 143 Figures, 23 Tables, 17 Appendices, and a 65-page Index. This book is also available on CD-ROM.

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*NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
*Financial Times Best Business Books of 2016
*Inc.com’s Best Sales and Marketing Book of 2016

The author of the legendary bestseller Influence, social psychologist Robert Cialdini shines a light on effective persuasion and reveals that the secret doesn’t lie in the message itself, but in the key moment before that message is delivered.

What separates effective communicators from truly successful persuaders? Using the same combination of rigorous scientific research and accessibility that made his Influence an iconic bestseller, Robert Cialdini explains how to capitalize on the essential window of time before you deliver an important message. This “privileged moment for change” prepares people to be receptive to a message before they experience it. Optimal persuasion is achieved only through optimal pre-suasion. In other words, to change “minds” a pre-suader must also change “states of mind.”

His first solo work in over thirty years, Cialdini’s Pre-Suasion draws on his extensive experience as the most cited social psychologist of our time and explains the techniques a person should implement to become a master persuader. Altering a listener’s attitudes, beliefs, or experiences isn’t necessary, says Cialdini—all that’s required is for a communicator to redirect the audience’s focus of attention before a relevant action.

From studies on advertising imagery to treating opiate addiction, from the annual letters of Berkshire Hathaway to the annals of history, Cialdini draws on an array of studies and narratives to outline the specific techniques you can use on online marketing campaigns and even effective wartime propaganda. He illustrates how the artful diversion of attention leads to successful pre-suasion and gets your targeted audience primed and ready to say, “Yes.”

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This book examines how today’s technology, as it includes smartphones, computers, and the internet, shapes our physical health, cognitive and psychological development, and interactions with one another and the world around us.

• Addresses a topic of interest and of increasing concern for researchers, parents, and educators

• Examines both the positive and negative effects of technology across many aspects of physical, psychological, and social health

• Provides real-world examples through case studies to illustrate key concepts discussed in the book

• Offers additional information through interviews with experts in an accessible Q&A format

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L.W. DeLaurence is perhaps most famous for his in-line ads and work with grimoires, but this stands out as perhaps one of his best works for those who actually desire to practice the content. Covering multiple methods of hypnotism and mesmerism, it purports to let the reader quite literally engage in such a practice. Nowadays reduced to a parlor trick or else to alternative medicine, suggestion of these various types is worth the study of occultists and remains very much actually, literally real.

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Donna Dale Carnegie, daughter of the late motivational author and teacher Dale Carnegie, brings her father’s time-tested, invaluable lessons to the newest generation of young women on their way to becoming savvy, self-assured friends and leaders.

How to Win Friends and Influence People for Teen Girls offers concrete advice on teen topics such as peer pressure, gossip, and popularity. Teen girls will learn the most powerful ways to influence others, defuse arguments, admit mistakes, and make self-defining choices. The Carnegie techniques promote clear and constructive communication, praise rather than criticism, emotional sensitivity, tolerance, and a positive attitude—important skills for every girl to develop at an early age. Of course, no book for teen girls would be complete without taking a look at how to maintain friendships with boys and deal with commitment issues and break-ups with boyfriends. Carnegie also provides solid advice for older teens beginning to explore their influence in the adult world, such as driving and handling college interviews.

Full of fun quizzes, “reality check” sections, and true-life examples, How to Win Friends and Influence People for Teen Girls offers every teenage girl candid, insightful, and timely advice on how to influence friends in a positive manner.

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If you want special powers and abilities that will allow you to read and analyze a person without their knowledge…then keep reading.

How many times have you been in a situation where you wished to know more about a person? Or been in situations where you were unable to read persons body language and were left feeling unsure of yourself.

How many times have you gotten a bad vibe when in the presence of a certain person?

Don’t you wish you could “read” your customers? Or your boss? Or your spouse or lover?

Reading auras is an ancient technique that has been used for centuries to help us better understand and communicate with each other.

Everyone has an energy field and you can learn to read that energy field so that you are no longer left guessing.

In Auras, Clairvoyance and Psychic Development: Energy Fields and Reading People you will discover…

Anyone can learn to do this – even you! It doesn’t require any special devices or equipment. You don’t have to be a certain religion to read auras. It only requires following the steps in this book and simple practice. And, its fun!

So if you want to learn to read people and in exchange change your life, then click the “Add to Cart” button now.

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A flexible, current, and comprehensive look at the biological, industry, and species approaches to Animal Science, complete with worldview information and societal issues.

Relevant and timely, Introduction to Animal Science features the most comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the traditional disciplines that are so essential to a solid foundation in Animal Science: nutrition, digestion, feeds, genetics, reproduction, disease, and animal behavior. The text’s comprehensive, non-traditional approach introduces the discipline as an ever-changing, integral part of every aspect of human existence. Author W. Stephen Damron not only presents thorough coverage of the major species and their respective concerns, he challenges readers to consider the many pressing interests relevant to Animal Science as it influences and is influenced by society today.

The Sixth Edition features updated, expanded, and improved coverage including the latest statistical information as appropriate; improvements to the lactation chapter, the animal health chapter, and the animal health sections in each of the species chapters; substantial updates in the biotechnology chapter and the nutrition chapters; enhanced material on food safety; new figures and redesigned and updated graphics throughout; streamlined tables with greater emphasis on example information; and enhanced margin terms and glossary terms to facilitate reading and understanding of the material.

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Psychopaths continue to be demonised by the media and estimatessuggest that a disturbing percentage of the population haspsychopathic tendencies. This timely and controversial new booksummarises what we already know about psychopathy and antisocialbehavior and puts forward a new case for its cause – withfar-reaching implications.

• Presents the scientific facts of psychopathy and antisocialbehavior.
• Addresses key questions, such as: What is psychopathy? Arethere psychopaths amongst us? What is wrong with psychopaths? Ispsychopathy due to nature or nurture? And can we treatpsychopaths?
• Reveals the authors’ ground-breaking research into whether anunderlying abnormality in brain development leaves psychopaths withan inability to feel emotion or fear.
• The resulting theory could lead to early diagnosis andrevolutionize the way society, the media and the state both viewsand contends with the psychopaths in our midst.

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The Language of the Body, originally published in 1958 as Physical Dynamics of Character Structure remains one of the most influential books in psychology. It is an essential book for psychiatrists, therapists, and everyone interested in understanding body-psychotherapy. In this groundbreaking work, Alexander Lowen outlines the foundations of character structure and describes how personality is expressed in the form and function of the body.

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