Human Development

Study for your ASWB social work licensing exam on the go! With this audio study guide from social work exam coach Jeremy Schwartz, author of Pass the LMSW Exam and LMSW Passing Score, you can review content and practice questions during gaps in your day. This volume covers human development and behavior--one of the core content areas for the ASWB master's level social work licensing exam--and includes 80 practice questions with detailed answer explanations.

Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack, and ultimately led to its survival while the rest became extinct. Just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become masters of the planet? Ian Tattersall, curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us deep into the fossil record to uncover what made humans so special.

In 1997, Yiannis Kouros ran 188 miles in 24 hours. In 1984, at age 42, Maria Moreira gave birth to her 10th set of twins. In 1973, Terry Tao learned to read when he was two years old. Tao started college at age nine, and at 24 was appointed a full-time professor at UCLA. What does it feel like to be exceptional? And what does it take to get there? Why can some people achieve greatness when others can’t, no matter how hard they try? Just how much potential does our species have? Evolutionary biologist Rowan Hooper has the answers.

Vril is truly the essence of the active verb, the powerful sentence, and the narrative that moves people to action. It is the energy behind the words, which makes the mind react in a positive and uplifting fashion. As the Buddhists say, our words are actions, and should be approached soberly, cautiously, compassionately, and empathetically.

Do you want to know what virtues can help you raise kind, confident, and happy children? Are you curious about how you are going to apply this in parenting? Happiness is just a byproduct of all the virtues that you will learn in this audiobook. Once your children leave your home, you can only give advice and support. Help your children grow into kind, confident, and happy humans.

With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships is a companion for anyone experiencing the effects of trauma. Through true survivor stories, expert insight, writing prompts, and grounding exercises, it explores pleasure, relationships, and community as worthy and essential antidotes in trying times.

In nearly every industry, smart machines are replacing human labor. It's not just factory jobs - automated technologies are handling people's investments, diagnosing illnesses, and analyzing written documents. If we humans are going to endure, Edward Hess and Katherine Ludwig say we're going to need a dose of humility. We need to be humble enough to let go of the idea that "smart" means knowing the most, using that information quickest, and making the fewest mistakes. Smart machines will always be better than we are at those things.

Most people traditionally train only the conventional aspects of their abilities, they focus on the technical skills of a task. However there is another layer, an emotional and behavioral set of factors which can really make the biggest impact on the results you can achieve. That is where neuro-linguistic programming comes in. NLP techniques are designed to help you tap into those top level mindsets when required. But most people aren't equipped with the right strategies or outlook on NLP to really make it work.

Looking for something to bring passion and romance back into your relationship? Lonnie Barbach introduced women's erotica to the mainstream with her internationally acclaimed works Pleasures and Erotic Interludes The Erotic Edge is Barbach's first work of arousing fiction for and by both men and women, designed to bring couples together, enhance their sexual pleasure, and deepen their mutual understanding of intimacy. For Adults Only: Explicit language. Must be 18 years of age to purchase.

Most conversations don’t happen with words. They happen through subtle cues, body movements, tone shifts, emotional signals—and if you’re not trained to catch them, you’re missing out on 90 percent of what people really mean.

Researcher and lecturer Carl Lorenz Cervantes explores the timeless wisdom, ancestral worldviews, and spiritual tools of Filipino psychology and culture—and offers Indigenous ways of knowing for all readers, Filipino and non-Filipino alike. Drawing from folklore, language, ethnography, and...

In a culture that rewards performance over presence, numbs our wild instincts, and calls disconnection “normal,” what does it mean to truly come home to yourself? Rewilding Your Soul is both a deeply personal story and a powerful invitation. Drawing from lived experience, trauma-informed wisdom, and the intelligence of the natural world, this book explores why so many of us feel out of sync with modern life—and how to reconnect with the clarity, courage, and wholeness that’s never left us.

From your head to your feet, your body is communicating something out to the world, whether you know it or not. Sometimes this is helpful, but sometimes you don’t want to reveal all of your cards. You may be unintentionally communicating something to the world that is hindering you from success, whether at work, with friends, or with your love life. By becoming aware of body language, you can learn how to present yourself better to get what you want and figure out what others are thinking and feeling to better work with them.

Nationally renowned body language expert Tonya Reiman turns her attention to romance - explaining how to read the signals of your date, your mate, or that cutie across the bar - and never get rejected again! Attraction: It’s biological. It’s physical. It’s chemical. It’s mental. But it doesn’t end there. It’s also: Detectable. Manageable. Maneuverable.

In uncertain times, a clear path ahead is vital to living an authentic life with joy and conviction. The Human TOUCH provides a clear and simple method for untangling our thinking that enables us to engage with self-reflection and achieve resolution. Packed with insights and guidance on the five key elements of the framework – tolerance, openness, unity, collaboration and harmony – the book also provides access to a raft of self-reflective tools and an inspirational workbook to help you measure, witness and celebrate your progress.

This is a compassionate, real-world dive into what it means to feel emotionally whole. Drawing on psychology, personal reflection, human development theory, and hard-won experience, J. Michael Hogarth guides the listener through a map of the emotional landscape we all share. Accessible, honest, and deeply human, The 7 Primal Human Emotional Needs offers listeners insight not just into their own emotional patterns, but into the people they love, the systems they live in, and the healing they may have never known they needed.

The world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter’s call to action. A Call to Action addresses the suffering inflicted upon women by a false interpretation of carefully selected religious texts and a growing tolerance of violence and warfare. Key verses are often omitted or quoted out of context by male religious leaders to exalt the status of men and exclude women.

NLP is a very powerful and versatile toolkit of psychological methods that you can use for self-empowerment and understanding people in ways beneficial to you. But NLP can be very confusing if you try to learn it from random blog articles and it sure will cost you money to get training or an NLP coach.

In all the chaos of modern life it can be hard to find time to focus on happiness. Balancing work, relationships and families can feel like an impossible task and without the right tools, feelings of stress and overwhelm can begin to surface. But the humanist way of life offers a transformative way forward. In How to Be a Happy Human, Andrew Copson shares insights he's learnt from leading a humanist life, offering practical guidance to help you feel happier and live better.

What if we didn't put a leash on love? What if the actual love experience could mean more and not less? This is not the society we grew up in. We grew up with people all around, all trying to control our every step, not to mention our bodies! They want to control everything that happens in and out of our bodies. But especially the outer form, the part of us everybody sees but no one truly cares about.