Psychological Science

When offered a one-way trip to the past, Isabel sacrifices everything for a chance to change the rapidly deteriorating present - and see her murdered lover one last time. When she arrives 20 years in the past, buck naked and mortally wounded, she has 24 hours to convince a stunned but enraptured 19-year-old to change their future. Definitely easier said than done, as success means losing him to a brainy, smart-mouthed bombshell (her younger self), and that's a heart breaker, save the world or not.

For more than a year, Heather O'Grainne and her small band of heroes, operating out of Pueblo, Colorado, have struggled to pull the United States back together after it shattered under the impact of the event known as Daybreak. Now they are poised to bring the three or four biggest remaining pieces together, with a real President and Congress, under the full Constitution again. Heather is very close to fulfilling her oath, creating a safe haven for civilization to be reborn. But other forces are rising too.

In 1968, after the first zombie outbreak, Wanda Mayhall and her three young daughters discover the body of a teenage mother during a snowstorm. Wrapped in the woman's arms is a baby - stone-cold, not breathing, and without a pulse. But then his eyes open and look up at Wanda, and he begins to move.The family hides the child - whom they name Stony - rather than turn him over to authorities who would destroy him. Against all scientific reason, the undead boy begins to grow....

The America of 2037 is a country distracted by, infatuated with, and addicted to Arcadia. The brainchild of reclusive genius Juan Diego Reyes, Arcadia is a wickedly immersive, all-encompassing social-media platform and virtual-reality interface. Although Arcadia has made the Reyes family fabulously wealthy, it's left them - and the rest of the country - impoverished of that rare currency: intimacy.

Being born into the prestigious Holward family isn't easy for Quinn. As his father's heir, much is expected of him. It seems as though Quinn's future is set in stone but when tragedy strikes he finds himself driven to darker and deeper depths than he ever knew existed.

Quentin Coldwater es un chico brillante pero desdichado que vive obsesionado con las novelas de fantasía que leyó en su infancia y que transcurrían en un país mágico llamado Fillory. Cuál no será su sorpresa cuando inesperadamente es admitido en una muy secreta y exclusiva universidad de magia en Nueva York, donde recibirá una rigurosa educación sobre los arcanos de la moderna hechicería y descubrirá la amistad, el amor, el sexo, la bebida y el aburrimiento.

Spaceman Spiritus is a prisoner, found guilty of the enduring crime of solitude, sentenced to labor far underground somewhere in a distant galaxy. Peel is a rancher, a man tracing a lifetime of memories for those he loved and for the natural world around him. He’s about to plummet back to Earth with an angel by his side. And as for Martha and Pup, well...they’re the dogs charged with saving us all. Told in a braid of voices, Spaceman Spiritus weaves the trajectory of these characters into a thrilling, provocative, and ultimately, heart-wrenching allegory.

Imagine for a moment you could be sent back in time to witness the life of any historical figure. The Traveler’s Best Seller is a fiction novel about a humble school teacher who gets that opportunity. Having already suffered great loss and now facing a terminal cancer diagnosis, he embraces a bizarre “travel” opportunity offered by an unorthodox trio who seems unusually interested in fulfilling his dying wishes.

Tapper - a projecting empath - is the product of a corrupted government. Nurtured from birth and ruthlessly trained, Tapper learns the art of manipulation and persuasion - becoming an elite operative with a gift of immense power. He’s the government’s prized spy until he does the unthinkable. Horrified by his actions, branded as a monster, he goes into self-exile on Mitta-4 - a colony planet on the fringe of the known universe - to settle down and lose himself in a new life. There, he finds danger comes in many guises.

White City (a psychological horror story of the offbeat genre) is a story about a teenage girl named Lucy who throws a Halloween party at her house in Chicago, 1993. And at her party, she hears a scary story about the infamous serial killer, H. H. Holmes, who was said to have been buried in the basement of a post office that stands where his hotel (The Murder Castle) once did. Her and her friends visit the post office to see if the story was true.

In 1993 at a top secret facility conducting telekinetic research, something dangerous escaped. Now the government wants it back. Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, is a quiet little tourist town where nothing exciting ever happens. All of that changes when a young woman is found brutally murdered and a local boy vanishes without a trace.

Each winter the crew at the Shackleton South Pole Research Facility faces nine months of isolation, round-the-clock darkness, and one of the most extreme climates on the planet. For thirty-something mechanical engineer Cass Jennings, Antarctica offers an opportunity to finally escape the guilt of her troubled past and to rebuild her life. But the death of a colleague triggers a series of mysterious incidents that push Cass and the rest of the forty-four-person crew to the limits of their sanity and endurance.

Nicole Krauss’ Great House was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Man Walks Into a Room follows Samson Greene, who, during the removal of a brain tumor, loses his adult memories. Feeling lost as an outsider in his own life, Samson agrees to participate in a scientific experiment in which memories are grafted from one brain to another.

FrontierWorld follows Tommy Ray and Willie Parker and a half dozen other characters as they meet in Seattle to begin their wagon train adventure. Once they arrive at the wagon camp, the group meets Brad Jefferson, the young wagon master who will lead the neo-pioneers through their 14-day journey. Jefferson gives the group strict instructions that everything from the 21st century must stay at the base camp. From this point on, everything will be just as it was in the early 1800s.

Dopo la grande accoglienza dell`articolo intitolato ”Qual è il ruolo dello psicologo di fronte al nuovo Coronavirus?” che ho pubblicato su Cátedra Abierta de Psicología y Neurociencias lo scorso 12 febbraio 2020, e dato l`interesse suscitato tra colleghi psicologi e altre persone interessate alla psicologia, ho deciso di scrivere questo libro in cui viene affrontato l`argomento della prospettiva psicologica in tempi di pandemia.

When a guitar believed to have once belonged to Robert Johnson is discovered, it sets off a chain of events that will unravel the darkest secrets of music history. Ethan, an autistic man with a unique connection to AI technology, unlocks the ability to relive the haunting moments tied to the guitar’s past. As he taps into its memories, he discovers that every musician who touched it—Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse and many more—was part of a tragic fate: each had sold their soul to the devil, paying the ultimate price at the age of 27.

When Dom, a convicted murderer, awakens in a prison infirmary after a suicide attempt, he’s told he’s been chosen. For what, no one will say. But the next morning he’s shackled, loaded into a van, and driven deep into the mountains—where a secretive order of monks awaits. His task? Walk the Path. A brutal, remote trail leading to a summit no one ever reaches. Each walker carries a strange amber cube that seems to know them. It grows heavier with guilt, whispers their sins, and punishes those who try to set it down. One by one, the walkers disappear—burning from the inside out.

Year 2084. The Mediterranean island-nation of Thalassia has survived a devastating war. Not won — simply not vanished. 29% of the country lies in ruins. 87% of its citizens live on Basic Income — enough to afford rent and food. The rest? Work. Design. Manage. Or pretend to. Mister Drey is one of the last people still trusted to think. As a third-level analyst, he predicts the future and simulates societal behavior. Everything appears under control — until he meets Emma. She doesn’t exist in any protocol. She doesn’t appear in the system. But once she arrives, the model starts acting… alive.

Why do superheroes choose to be superheroes? Where does Spider-Man's altruism come from, and what does it mean? Why is there so much prejudice against the X-Men, and how could they have responded to it, other than the way they did? Why are super-villains so aggressive? The Psychology of Superheroes answers these questions in a wide range of essays on topics from Aquaman to Arkham Asylum - exploring the inner workings our heroes usually only share with their therapists.

Everyone but Ann thought that Carl Urbanowich was a harmless man who had lost his mind. Ann believes his fantasies of power and tries to stop him from ending the earth. She risks her life to prevent the catastrophe. Can she prevent him from smashing our planet into four individual solar systems?