Psychological Science

Tutto comincia nella sala d'attesa di un aeroporto. Non poteva essere altri che lui, una vittima perfetta. È stato sufficiente parlargli. E aspettare che la trappola scattasse. Tutto finisce nella sala d'attesa di un aeroporto. Va detto comunque che il caso non esiste. Un giallo? Forse. Certamente la doppiezza dell'uomo, la crudeltà, la bellezza e la bruttezza.

Dostoyevsky was never shy to play with the issues of human mind in his work. A Funny Man's Dream is one of his shorter pieces that, nevertheless, lacks none of the profundity or the mind-bending power of his larger works.

"When we are happy, we are always good," says Lord Henry, "but when we are good, we are not always happy." Lord Henry’s lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven - even murder - if it can make people laugh at a dinner party. Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Oscar Wilde original by Jill Nevile.

Question: when do sewer rats in suburbia acquire intelligence and cunning? Answer: when they begin calling each other names. For Duff and Tuff, newly arrived on Conner's lawn after being ejected from a drain culvert during a flood, their I.Q. soon begins to rise while Conner's falls. Conner, you see, is obsessed with TV. Now the plan is to keep this bachelor from going through with his vow to change his life (and their situation) by pretending to be his supposedly deceased ex wife. Inspired by "Who Moved My Cheese?", this short fable has but one lesson: imagination is linked to reading, not watching television.

A gentleman enjoying the morning over the River Seine waves to a steamer, and the nightmare begins. He believes he may be going insane, but then he begins to feel there is an entity that he cannot see invading his mind and his home. The entity is perhaps an invader from another world. Guy de Maupassant's tale of classic horror will enthrall you.

El doctor Templeton había viajado mucho en sus tiempos juveniles, y en París se convirtió, en gran medida, a las doctrinas de Mesmer. Por medio de curas magnéticas había logrado aliviar los agudos dolores de su paciente, que, movido por este éxito, sentía cierto grado natural de confianza en las opiniones en las cuales se fundaba el tratamiento.

Ever since they were orphaned, Tyler has kept close tabs on his sister, Shannon. He has to, considering her weird and risky obsessions. Now she has a new one: an inexplicable crush on an odd-looking stranger. And what Shannon wants from her unwitting “honey boy,” Tyler can’t begin to fathom. Not until he follows his sister into the darkest corners of her desires.

Jenna Logan’s holiday plans are unexpectedly interrupted when her dearest friend needs her help. Elvis travels to 2025 to look at his own past. How can Jenna help him as he travels back through time to face the greatest heartbreak of his life? Will he find out that some things are better left alone, or will he be able to change the future for himself and heal the pain from decades ago? Follow Jenna and Elvis on a deeply personal journey as they look to the past to map his future, facing emotional challenges and choices along the way.

Franz Kafka's profound and disturbing novella Metamorphosis was first published in German in 1915. In this recent translation by David Wyllie, Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman, wakes to find himself "transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin". How he, his family, and others deal with this untoward situation is subsequently revealed.

A man is arrested for breaking the rules in a dystopian society, reminiscent of 1984. A short dystopian story illustrating the cost of rebellion within totalitarianism.

Lost in the rubble of a society long dead, a small group of survivors forages for what supplies are left to be found. Their explorations will lead to a fatal confrontation as their paths cross with one young man with a death wish. The story of what drove him to that place on that day is one that will change their outlook forever on their increasingly bleak existence on the landscape of a newly alien world.

A great science fiction short story from the age of the digest size sci-fi magazines in the burgeoning science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s by one of the masters of the genre.

Caught in an electromagnetic wave, the ship's artificial intelligence wakes the Organics for an opinion, an options appraisal; but why? The eventuality planning for this trip had taken decades, for god's sake, so why are the machines waking me? Jatan ponders as the data stream enters and becomes his thoughts displacing his idle memories of the Faction war and his carnal thoughts for his mate. Who holds the moral high ground with the machines asking and the Organics telling? What is it to be an Organic? "The Blast" is a 5000-word short story.

The year is 2051, and The MedMoore Group is the largest pharmaceutical and medical device producer in the world. The introduction of a new device, The Electric Mask, was revolutionary for Denise, a reclusive burn victim. But when a visit from her estranged sister opens the floodgates, the horror of childhood memories rush in, demanding resolution and the mask is the perfect tool.

Two lucid dreamers meet in recurring dreams, fall in love, and conceive a dream baby; but the unreality of the dream world leads them to distrust each other - with nightmarish results. A paranoid exploration of two minds dreaming the same dream, and fighting to control it.

Deep space exploration ramped up. Though governments search the black with top-notch scientists running expensive robots and drones; corporations cornered the market. Contracting their staff for little more than room, board, and a promised portion of any find, they fling ships into the universe. The frontline Suicide Squad explores with little to live for and often expire before their contracts.

In seguito al successo del libro intitolato Aspetti Psicologici Nei Tempi Della Pandemia, in cui vengono affrontati temi relativi all’ impatto del virus sulla vita dei cittadini dal punto di vista psicologico, e sulla base dell’espressa richiesta da parte dei lettori di un testo incentrato sul personale sanitario, ho deciso di scrivere questo libro.

Aging kills about 100,000 humans each day. If you help to hasten the defeat of aging by just one day, then you can potentially save 100,000 lives. About 36,500,000 humans die each year from aging. Nothing is more tragic than aging. This book is meant to spread the message that defeating aging is both feasible and desirable. This book is about why funding should be increased for longevity research.

The media has had a drastic impact on not only the development of children and their image of what a person should be, but also the entire society’s view on what a person should be. This audiobook provides a quick look at how the media impacts children and their development. It is designed to be straight forward and to make the listener think.