The Rough Guide to Psychology: An Introduction to Human Behaviour and the Mind, Dr Christian JarrettThe Rough Guide to Psychology looks at the question psychologists have been asking for over a hundred years: why are we the way we are? It starts with you, your mind and brain, broadening out to look at your friends and other relationships, then finally on to crowds, mobs and religion. It explores the latest research relevant to crime, schooling, sports, politics, shopping and health, and what happens when the mind goes wrong, including depression,

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he turns his attention to one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their furnishings

"Backgrounds" begins with the appendix Faulkner wrote in 1945 and sometimes referred to as another telling of The Sound and the Fury and includes a selection of Faulkner’s letters

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the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annexe” of an old office building

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In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last

Plagued—as we are

Just one of the surprises: The best way to get your children into the college of their choice

Following the story of Prague from its origins in medieval darkness to its uncertain present

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