Psychology

Designed to help those studying speech-language pathology, this highly useful workbook is both an introduction to the basic concepts and a teaching...

The most widely acclaimed reference series in education and psychology, the Mental Measurements Yearbooks are designed to assist professionals in s...

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. T...

Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discou...

«Dr. Hammers account of lives of registered prostitutes illustrates the complexity of discourses on medical supervision and police control of sexua...

Given the increasing number of old people, the proliferation of books about old age is hardly surprising. Most of these come from cultural historia...

The human brain is a most remarkable organ, but how well do we really understand the way it works?What is a brain and what is the mind? Do you only...

Teaching the World to Sleep provides a complete, science-based overview of sleep and sleep problems, from environmental, legal, and technological f...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismA leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender tr...

Focusing on disorders, Bate unravels the mysteries and intricacies of facial processing from a new perspective, covering cognitive, developmental a...

Centered on three themes, this book explores the latest research in plasticity in sensory systems, focusing on visual and auditory systems. It cove...

The first volume in the new Cambridge Handbooks in Behavioral Genetics series, Behavioral Genetics of the Mouse provides baseline information on no...

Why does someone join an extremist group? What are the pathways via which individuals join such groups? How does one show commitment to an extremis...

Neuroscientific research on emotion has developed dramatically over the past decade. The cognitive neuroscience of human emotion, which has emerged...

Evolutionary psychology explains why some mental illnesses developed, but to answer questions about how to improve our mental well-being in the fac...

Deb Dana is the leading clinical translator of Stephen Porgess influential polyvagal theory. Here she further extends the reach of this groundbreak...

In surrealist artist Paul Klees The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnatio...

Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speec...

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and ...