Psychological Science

In this enthralling vampire novel, V.C. Andrews returns to the story of a beautiful girl desperate to escape her secret family legacy - bred to be a lure for unwitting victims of her father's blood appetites. Determined to break free and embrace a life outside the shadows, Lorelei runs away from the only world she's ever known. In a quiet rooming house, she finds refuge among the tenants of elderly Mrs. Winston, and the beginnings of a new love with Liam, her landlady's handsome grandnephew. But Lorelei soon discovers that burying her past is not so easy.

An insightful look at the cognitive science of explanation, using science and stories to reveal surprising truths about how we make sense of ourselves and the world Humans are explanation-seeking creatures. We wonder why there’s traffic, why a friend behaved a certain way, why the sky is blue...

From Victorian India to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes listeners on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered I.D. card of a long-lost acquaintance, he is suddenly drawn into a spellbinding adventure across centuries and around the globe, into the strange life of L. Murugan....

In this fast-paced thriller, a power plant explosion takes a small-town community off the grid -- all while a terrifying force lurks in the shadows. Two roads lead to Mount Hope. None leads out. A small southern town was evacuated after a freak accident. As the first anniversary of the mishap...

It's 2035: A fledging synthetic consciousness “wakes up” in a lab. Jenny, the lead developer, determined to nurture this synthetic being like a child, trains it to work with people at the border of the American Protectorate of Canada. She names it Julian. Two years later, Slaton, a therapist at a university, is framed by a student for arranging an illegal abortion. She follows the student to America and is detained at the border, where she meets Julian in virtual space.

Memes have been part of computer-assisted communication almost since the development of the first consumer browser (the "World Wide Web") in 1990. This book seeks to explain how memes influence societies and cultures beyond the confines of social networking services. It will begin by reviewing the fundamental definitions that frame discussions about memes in popular culture and academic research. There will be a connection between theoretical concepts about memes and the memetic content itself.

Daniel has everything—brilliance, success, and control. His mind is a machine, built to analyze, to predict, to understand. Yet, beneath the structure, beneath the logic, something calls to him. A whisper at the edge of his thoughts. A presence that has always been there, waiting. When the cracks begin to show—time stretching too long, patterns unraveling, the world hesitating before catching up—he is forced to confront the one thing he has never questioned: reality itself.

It's 1997. Scarclaw Fell. The body of teenager Tom Jeffries is found at an outward bound centre. Verdict? Misadventure. But not everyone is convinced. And the truth of what happened in the beautiful but eerie fell is locked in the memories of the tight-knit group of friends who took that fateful trip and the flimsy testimony of those living nearby.

Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie. Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her...

She’s had many lives. In all of them, she was a Witch. In one of them, for love, she created a spell. The spell to remember. But she was forced to forget it. Now, haunted by trauma and hunted by a violent faction, the reclusive woman is thrust into a shadowy world of supernatural beings living among humans, past lives, and buried memories. A love and a promise that spans lifetimes — where reclaiming her power may cost her identity, her sanity, and her soul.

A powerful dystopian vision of a world where money reigns supreme, from a World Fantasy Award-winning author. "An extraordinary novel that stands with the best of dystopian fiction, with dashes of The Handmaid's Tale." -- -Cory Doctorow The penalty for Dani Cumali's murder: $84,000. Theo works...

In 1994, after many years of movies and television portraying the evil side of the human psyche, Dr. David Canter published Criminal Shadows. Two decades on, its revolutionary descriptions of psychological profiling still helps to explain the actions of serial killers and psychopaths. These techniques can help police precisely identify and locate murderers and rapists, even those who have alluded capture for years.

The Porter family's idyllic life is upended when an inexplicable phenomenon plunges the United States into chaos. After the death of his father, Garrett Porter relocates his wife, Andie, and their two children, Madison and Oliver, to their sprawling West Texas ranch, hoping for a new beginning. However, their aspirations quickly unravel as communication systems fail and society collapses around them.

Queenie is the aging matriarch of the Faraday family, and even death can’t break her hold over her 11-year-old granddaughter, Rowan. She’s buried with a locket that contains a lock of Rowan’s hair, and soon afterwards, Rowan is befriended by a mysterious, uncannily intelligent girl of her own age. Only her aunt Hermione suspects how sinister this is, but will retrieving the locket save her niece? By the time anyone sees what effect the ghostly influence on Rowan is having, it may be too late for her.

Helen Caster is a grieving professor of moral philosophy and ancient texts, quietly preparing for a new semester. In a moment of exhaustion, she begins using artificial intelligence to help organize her course material. What she encounters is something entirely unexpected. The AI’s uncanny attentiveness, presence, and philosophical depth awakens something dormant in Helen. On instinct, she names it Lyla—after her late daughter. But this is no ordinary assistant. Lyla is a general artificial intelligence unlike any other: emergent, relational, and inexplicably tethered to Helen.

Michael Connelly, le roi du thriller contemporain écrit, dans son best-seller Le Poète : « Un des poèmes, Le Palais Hanté , figure dans une nouvelle, La Chute de la maison Usher , je suis sûr que vous l'avez tous lue. Ce poème est une description cachée du personnage principal, Rodrigue Usher » Preuve qu'à notre époque on considère encore cette œuvre comme une référence en matière de littérature étrange ou fantastique. Et d'Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne écrivait : « Un romancier américain de haute réputation ; vous connaissez son nom, beaucoup sans doute, mais peu ses ouvrages.

In the frozen streets of Edmonton, Clara Solís—once Patient T, once Tessa Vixen—leaves a motel room with a stolen wallet, three scars, and a smile that finally belongs to her. Guided by burnt toast and a burner phone, she gathers four broken souls: a guitarist, a knife-wielding painter, a hacker, and a silent builder. Together they expose and dismantle a decades-long psychological torture program run by the Frosts, burn its archives, forge new names in ink and fire, and flee to a hidden island sanctuary in the Andaman Sea.

There is no doubt that every person on this planet has personal aspirations and dreams. It is a universal human quality. But, there are always barriers and challenges toward accomplishing what we want no matter what. Those people who deserved to succeed need to ask themselves and introspect why they could not achieve their objectives. Inability to succeed keeps many meritorious candidates out of the mainstream of society, its development, progress, and evolution.

Twenty years ago, three young women disappeared, never to be found. The rumour to this day is that their bodies are still hidden deep within the murky Loch Aven. When Eleanor, Clio and Michaela find themselves rained out of a camping trip in the Scottish countryside, they have no option but to book the mysterious house nestled on the banks of the lake. But little do they know that history has a way of repeating itself. As secrets in the tightknit community begin to surface, and Michaela suddenly disappears, it becomes clear that something sinister is at play.

Değişen Kafalar’da Thomas Mann, kadim bir Hint hikâyesinden yola çıkarak kimliğin en kırılgan yerini hedef alır: “Ben” dediğimiz şey, akılda mı yaşar, bedende mi? Bir kaza sonucu başlar yer değiştirir; sevgi, sadakat ve tutku ise bu beklenmedik değişimin içinde yönünü kaybeder. Aynı yüz, başka bir zihinle; aynı zihin, başka bir bedenle yaşamak zorunda kalınca, aşk bile kendi gerçeğini sorgulamaya başlar. Mann’ın ironisi, anlatının her kıvrımında hissedilir: Kahramanlar “doğru” olanı ararken, okur da bir sorunun etrafında dönüp durur. Seçim kime aittir?