Product Description: How different are men and women's brains? Does altruism really exist? Are our minds blank slates at birth? And do dreams reveal our unconscious desires? Psychology is everywhere in today's society. No crime fiction, documentary, chat show or medical consultation is complete without the introduction of a psychological angle...read more

Product Description: All in the Mind has been a successful but unusual textbook. It does not claim to be comprehensive: but it does cover important and currently controversial subjects critically and lucidly. Adrian Furnham's aim is to make the topic so interesting that the reader wants to read more, by providing the spark which leads to self-motivation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A unique reference to the social attitudes of British adolescents in the late 1980s. The contents range over key issues of the day, including sex roles, race, school, work and unemployment, and crime and law enforcement. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in education, psychology and sociology; professionals in education and the youth service; policy makers.

Product Description: This book is about the identification, measurement and assessment of business potential among possible future or existing employees. It examines research on using biographical information about individuals to determine their potential in a specific organisational environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The idea of leadership failure and derailment has been brushed under the carpet for far too long, and only now are statistics appearing on the sheer numbers who fail. Backstabbers and Bullies provides the latest psychiatric and clinical perspectives on dark-side behavior, including: recognizing and coping with overconfident, narcissistic, and psychopathic leaders; causes of leadership derailment and failure; corrupt corporate cultures; and the criminal personality...read more

Product Description: First published in 1993. This book is intended for managers and occupational psychologists involved in the selection and assessment of the workforce. It details the history and development of the use of biographical data for both recruitment and promotion of employees...read more

The children's and teenagers' market has become increasingly significant as young people have become more affluent and have an ever growing disposable income. Children as Consumers traces the stages of consumer development through which children pass and examines the key sources of influence upon young people's consumer socialisation. It examines: * the kinds of things young people consume * how they use their money * how they respond to different types of advertising * whether they need to be protected through special legislation and regulation * market research techniques that work well with young people. Children as Consumers will be useful to students of psychology, sociology, business and media studies, as well as professionals in advertising and marketing.

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Product Description: Psychographics have been developed in the field of market research as a way to relate consumer behaviour to market choice. This book, originally published in 1992, introduces the essential elements of psychographics. It shows how researchers go about defining consumer profiles and designing successful research programmes...read more

Product Description: Corporate Assessment, first published in 1993, looks at four types of company audit and provides a pragmatic, readable guide for managers. The authors show how assessment of a company in terms of its culture, climate, communications and customers can enhance management vision and lead to recommendations designed to improve employee satisfaction, motivation, loyalty and performance...read more

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Product Description: Shall we get together for dim sum? Tapas? Sushi? Meze? Many cultures, it seems, have the same concept: a range of dishes offered in small helpings, each with its individual taste, which taken as a whole make a substantial meal. This book, by a world-renowned business psychologist, offers 80 concise bites of management advice and wisdom...read more

Product Description: Economic Socialization is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on how children and adolescents come to understand the economic world. The citizen of contemporary Western societies, while often lacking formal training in economics, is a skilled user and interpreter of the economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Through an exclusive arrangement with the publisher, Thorndike Press offers the finest selections from the popular Harlequin Romance line in a library hardcover format. Harlequin fans are delighted to find favorite authors like Betty Neels, Emma Darcy, and Penny Jordan published in easy-to-read, lightweight, durable hardcovers -- perfect for outreach and homebound library services.Nick Konrads has made good and returned to the Australian town which sent him packing seven years ago. Upon meeting Suzannah again, Nick cannot deny his feelings still run deep for her even though she betrayed his love. And then he looks into the eyes of her six-year-old daughter and recognizes his own child.

Most managers are ignorant of, and not even very interested in, human behaviour. Yet good mangers are like good teachers, they understand the human condition and human needs. This book includes 100 'thought-pieces' on the world of management and sales.

Product Description: This book is about the dark side of management. It is about incompetence rather than competence. It is about under--educated, misinformed, pusillanimous, egocentric and fundamentally deluded human beings who end up as managers causing misery and poverty to millions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A surprisingly large number of people claim to have worked for a manager who was clearly incompetent. Some people even believe, that in certain sectors, the incompetent outnumber the competent. This book looks at when, why and how managers become incompetent and what to do about it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)