This book lies on the table of every Swedish leader, teacher and journalist. Its author, the famous Scandinavian psychologist Thomas Erickson, divides all people into four color types. It describes the logic of behavior, temperament, value system of repre

Psy-sciences (psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, pedagogy, criminology, special education, etc.) have been connected to politics in different ways since the early twentieth century. Here, in twenty-two essays, scholars address a variety of these intersections from a historical perspective. The chapters include such diverse topics as the cultural history of psychoanalysis, the complicated...

Having set the goal of exploring the problems of managing people in all their concrete and living everyday diversity (‘fathers and sons’ in one company, ‘office romance’, the notorious ‘women’s question’), Natalia Petrova, a recognized master of trainings on innovative methods of doing business and building a career, in her new book turns to unique and typical situations of relationships...

How to avoid success? How be unsuccessful forever? The book answers these and some other questions with wisdom and irony. Great self-help guidebook from famous M. Norbekov.

Author summarizes his theory of psychological aikido, introducing psychological methods of influencing people, resolution of conflicts, building good relationships with family, friends, and coworkers. Book is addressed to psychologists, business owners, teachers, and everybody else who is interested in establishing effective communication.

In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect--a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well.

In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter with a bull on a desolate mountain in Norway has left him with a severely damaged leg. But what should be a routine recuperation is actually the beginning of a strange medical journey when he finds that his leg uncannily no longer feels part of his body. Sacks's brilliant description of his crisis and eventual recovery...

Moving to another country is a major life event. People can learn a new language and pack their suitcases, but it is just one of many steps in a big and complicated journey. Another important dimension is a psychological preparation, which could help immigrants not to break under stress and pressure. In this book, readers can find dozens of real immigrant stories, descriptions of methods of...

The time-tested secrets taught in this book include Cicero's three-step strategy for moving an audience to action, and Honest Abe's Shameless Trick for lowering an audience's expectations. And it's also replete with contemporary techniques such as politicians' use of code language to appeal to specfic groups and an eye-opening assortment of persuasive tricks, including the Eddie Haskell Ploy,...