Human Development

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.

Love - in both the abstract and the up-close-and-personal - has always provided limitless inspiration for artists, writers, and musicians, but scientists are just as fascinated by these affairs of the heart, though they seldom sing about it. In Love, Sex, and Science, our editors take a step back, analyzing romance using tools like fMRI studies instead of a paint brush or guitar. The writers examine a variety of topics, starting with the perceived sex differences between men and women discussed in Section 1 - are we really as different as Mars and Venus?

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.

A fresh take on emotional intelligence – and the many ways that it can help us navigate life’s ups and downs We all aspire to be emotionally mature, but what does that really mean – and how do we achieve it? In this insightful guide, educator and founder of The EQ School Genny Rumancik...

Mixing erotic vignettes with practical how-to advice and personal insight, Sensuous Magic is the author's guide to sadomasochism for couples. For readers who harbor fantasies of erotic dominance and submission, Sensuous Magic demystifies S/M, explaining terminology and technique. Experienced players will appreciate the author's knowledge of S/M safety and his insight into S/M psychology. Novices will be reassured by the book's honest, frank approach.

This book is an investigation of the development of the American social welfare state from 1933 to 1969.

This audiobook is about the development of the American social welfare state, from FDR to LBJ, with particular emphasis on the ideas (social, political, and economic) that have formed the basis of America's social welfare state.

This book is the second part of three parts on the development of the American social welfare state from 1933 to 2016. This volume is focused on the action (or inaction) toward a comprehensive social welfare state during the American presidential administrations of Richard Nixon to Barack Obama (until January 2016). This volume is concentrated mainly on American economic philosophy, in particular the common misperceptions around the term neoliberalism.

Obscene Thoughts: A Pornographer's Perspective on Sex, Love and Dating examines progressive, intellectual and academic constructs regarding mate selection, sexual behavior and the reasons why people cheat. Obscene Thoughts investigates and deconstructs core socioeconomic and biological values and the sexual behaviors of men and women, in a fresh, distinct manner.

Science helps us to understand ourselves in a world where we often feel like strangers - but what we know about the world around us, what has already been explored and discovered is only half of science's story. Unexplained will explore the frontier between what we do and don't know about the world: where knowledge meets mystery, complexity overwhelms certainty, and the vastness of our universe unspools the logic of science's established laws. Dr Camilla Pang will teach you to embrace the beauty in the unexplained and fall in love with the search for unknown answers.

PEAK: Unlocking Human Motivation by Professor Dr. Joseph Rodriguez offers a groundbreaking framework for understanding what truly drives people to act, grow, and transform. For decades, motivation has been framed in terms of rewards, punishments, or fleeting incentives. But Joseph drawing on his rich background as a psychologist, kinesiologist, coach, martial artist, and philosopher, reimagines motivation as a spectrum that leads to the highest state of human potential.

This book talks about the importance of building your self-esteem, focusing on your personal growth and development, being aware of your higher self through the state of your spirituality, and getting connected with your environment while tackling all the issues that affect your energy, emotion, your want, needs and desires, and lastly how to overcome a negative rough patch of your life to beat any low stage that may potentially introduce you and your energy to the stage of depression.

What happens when the inner voice falls silent? In a world that celebrates confidence without reflection and power without pause, The Shameless I peers into the darkened mirror of the modern self. This is not a book about morality—it is a descent into its absence. Through a slow, unflinching anatomy of conscience, the text exposes how guilt has been pathologized, how betrayal is normalized, and how the soul is anesthetized in the name of freedom. What emerges is a portrait of a time where shame is weakness, remorse is obsolete, and success is measured by the ability to feel nothing.

This book is a raw and honest dive into the heart of human nature. Drawing on timeless philosophical wisdom and modern introspection, it explores the hidden forces that shape your identity. And how to manage your anger, your sadness, your happiness, your lust, your time—and the lies you believe about all of them. It doesn’t offer a twelve-step plan or a quick fix. Instead, it holds up a mirror.

Are you stuck in a cycle of constant scrolling, digital fatigue, and mental overload? Do you reach for your phone before you even get out of bed? Scroll Less, Live Free is your practical guide to mindful technology use, digital balance, and emotional clarity. Designed for busy professionals, parents, and anyone craving a healthier relationship with screens, this book helps you unplug with purpose, without quitting tech entirely.

If you want to learn how to read and analyze people, and how to protect yourself from manipulators, then pay attention...Are you sick and tired of assuming that someone is an amazing friend, only to have them betray you? Do you wish there was an easy way to discover who's genuine and who isn't? Do you want to find out the secrets of persuasion, mind control, and body language, which people use to influence others? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this audiobook is for you.

One of our great decoders of human connection chronicles the astonishing rise of new rituals around the world—and offers a road map for restoring togetherness with gatherings you’ll love Since time immemorial, humans have turned to ritual to connect us in periods of change. Until today...

What God Would Have Known offers a thorough and incisive treatment of its subject that remains respectful and fair-minded throughout. It is not concerned with the overworked question of whether classical Christians believe irrationally, but with what overlooked arguments about human development show in relation to the truth or falsity of Christian claims about reality.

Don’t fear the future. Shape it. We are living through the fastest transformation in human history. Artificial intelligence, automation, and global disruption are rewriting the rules of work, wealth, and meaning. Yesterday’s expertise is today’s liability. The question is not “Will things change?” — it’s “How will YOU change with them?” The Future-Proof Human is your survival and growth manual for the AI era. With gripping stories, practical frameworks, and actionable strategies, this book reveals how to thrive when certainty disappears.

Spiritual Human Behavior is a newly developed area of psychology that helps listeners understand how the circumstances have shaped you into the person you are, this book is intended to help listeners navigate their own healing by working through developmental trauma, understand their purest desires and unlock the purpose of their soul. If you've been seeking healing through self discovery this is your guide to unlocking the most authentic version of yourself.