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If you’ve ever wanted to delve more deeply into the mysteries of human emotion, perception, and cognition, and of why we do what we do, these 48 lectures offer a superb place to start. With them, you’ll see the entire history of psychology unfold. In the hands of Professor Robinson, these lectures encompass ideas, speculations, and point-blank moral questions that might just dismantle and rebuild everything you once thought you knew about psychology.

Learn a proven step-by-step mixing process that's helped thousands of musicians and engineers like yourself make amazing mixes in their home studio, using only EQ, compression, reverb, delay, and saturation.

Ein jahrtausendealter Fluch. Ein grausamer Halbgott, der sich nach Rache sehnt. Eine junge Frau, die den Tod überlisten will. Yuna Lark weiß dank ihrer Gabe genau, wann jemand sterben wird – und ihre Mutter hat nur noch wenig Zeit. Als sie den Halbgott Zenon versehentlich von einem uralten Fluch befreit, bietet er ihr eine Reise in die Unterwelt an, um mit den Schicksalsgöttinnen selbst um das Leben ihrer Mutter zu feilschen. Je näher sie den mächtigen Moiren kommen, desto mehr verliert sie sich in Zenons rauen Berührungen.

Kai war einst die Große Beschützerin von Vallendor – bis sie vom rechten Weg abgekommen ist. Nun hat sie ihre Erinnerungen zurück, aber ihr Reich steht kurz vor der Vernichtung. Um ihren Feind zu besiegen, muss sie zwei magische Artefakte finden. Doch nicht nur das: Ausgerechnet Jadon, der sie belogen hat und noch immer eine Flut an zwiespältigen Gefühlen in ihr auslöst, braucht ihre Hilfe. Kai muss ihre Macht zurückfordern und sich entscheiden, wer sie sein will: Eine Zerstörerin oder eine Retterin?

Der Sozialpsychologe Jonathan Haidt zeigt: Die Antwort liegt in unserer Moral – die weit weniger auf Rationalität und Logik gründet als auf Intuition und Sozialtrieb. Moral bringt uns dazu, individuelle Interessen zu überwinden und mit anderen zu kooperieren; zugleich aber macht sie uns blind für die Perspektiven anderer Gruppen. So haben sich im Lauf der Evolution und Geschichte zwischen Gemeinschaften und Kulturen sehr unterschiedliche moralische Intuitionen herausgebildet.

Like pilots navigating turbulence, CEOs must handle the invisible forces that want to drag their companies down and learn to take advantage of the ones that keep them soaring. Drawing from three decades as a growth advisor to CEOs around the world, Kevin Lawrence explains how even exceptional leaders can become victims of their own success and reveals what it takes to keep a company on course. Filled with examples from real CEOs, The 4 Forces of Growth offers a clear path to achieving real, consistent, and scalable growth by harnessing a few simple tools and avoiding common pitfalls.

There’s an apocryphal story that Alexander the Great once captured a notorious pirate named Diomedes. The great conqueror decided to interview the doomed pirate, asking him what he thought gave him the right to seize the property of other people. The pirate responded by asking the emperor what he thought gave him the right to take property that doesn’t belong to him, including entire countries. The story goes that Alexander thought the pirate very clever, granting him freedom instead of execution.

Estate planning shouldn’t feel like reading a law school textbook. Yet too many guides are packed with confusing terms, expensive legal recommendations, and little thought for the real concerns seniors face.

What were the forces that thrust the British Empire to its extraordinary position of greatness and then just as powerfully drove it into decline? And why is nearly every nation on earth, in one way or another, the consequence of the British Empire?In these 36 lectures, Professor Allitt leads you through four centuries of British power, innovation, influence, and, ultimately, diminishment-four profound centuries that literally remade the world and bequeathed the complex global legacy that continues to shape your everyday life.

Certain works of literature, history, science, philosophy, political theory and religion offer powerful examples of how books can spark revolutions, birth great religions, spur scientific advancements, shape world economies, teach us new ways of thinking, and much more. And with this fascinating collection crafted from our extensive library of courses, you can now get a single course that represents 36 of our best lectures on literary works that changed the world.

“Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A book everyone should read for the joy and emotion of the language it contains.” — The Paris Review A special 50th anniversary edition of the magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning...

La nuit, Sapphire se déhanche sans honte sur la scène du Gentlemen's Jewels. Le jour, elle redevient Rafaëlla Gonzalez et s'occupe avec acharnement de son fils, Aljan, et de sa sœur Angelina. Ruslan Volkov a mis entre parenthèses sa carrière de flic et a quitté New York dans l'espoir de retrouver Irina, disparue deux ans plus tôt. Sa piste ? Andrei Kosma, proche de Poliakov, nouveau client du club de strip-tease le plus huppé de Pittsburgh.

We all remember. We all forget. What do we remember? What do we forget? Why do we remember? Why do we forget? When do we remember? When do we forget? Inspired by fairytales like Grimm's THE SINGING, SPRINGING LARK and Anderson's THE SNOW QUEEN, FORGET/REMEMBER is the story of two young sweethearts who share their dreams of a future together. When life's circumstances pull them apart, will they remember their words, their feelings and their dreams when they are reunited years later?

Read by the author with a full cast. This first Bible storybook from one of the world's top Bible scholars draws the connections across all of God's very good story, His Word. This practical Bible guide shares all your family's favorite stories, plus some that may be new, combining a...

For centuries, people have speculated about the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars, but only since the 1990s has technology allowed astronomers to detect them. At this point, more than five thousand such exoplanets have been identified, with the pace of discovery accelerating after the launch of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey and the Webb Space Telescope. In The Little Book of Exoplanets, Princeton astrophysicist Joshua Winn offers a brief and engaging introduction to the search for exoplanets and the cutting-edge science behind recent findings.

Stella glaubt nicht an Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Aber Abneigung auf den ersten Blick? Die gibt es garantiert. Schließlich hat sie Tyler sofort verabscheut, als sie ihm das erste Mal in ihrem Tattoostudio begegnet ist. Und sie hasst ihn aus tiefstem Herzen, als er anfängt, sie zu erpressen, und sie zwingt, ihn mit ihrer High-Society-Familie bekanntzumachen. Doch Liebe und Hass liegen nah beieinander, und schon bald weiß Stella nicht mehr, was schlimmer ist: dass er sie ruinieren will oder dass sie ihre Finger nicht voneinander lassen können.

A thorough understanding of Conservatism's lineage, principles, and impact on history is essential to making sense of the 21st-century political dialogue-a dialogue that consumes the television you watch, the newspapers you read, and the radio you listen to.No matter where you place yourself on the ideological spectrum, these 36 lectures will intrigue you, engage you, and maybe even provoke you to think about this political philosophy in an entirely new way.

Here's the hard truth about leadership: It either forces you to get stronger or it slowly destroys your life. There is no in-between. Kevin Lawrence has discovered 17 habits that allow any leader to transcend the perils of success and keep achieving - habits that have already helped hundreds of CEOs and executives become stronger and more resilient.

A late bloomer thought a visit to a sex club might jump start her love life, but instead makes an instant connection that turns her whole world upside down, in this adult debut from author Zakiya N. Jamal. When Stella Renee Johnson's roommate invites her to a sex club party but bails at the last...

What if the words you use are the very thing holding you back from accessing your true potential? Follow Curious, a gentle seeker, on a transformative journey beyond the limits of language - toward presence, ease, and a deeper sense of purpose. Along the way, you'll find simple practices, designed to help you slow down, reflect, and embody what the story awakens in you.