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Miracle technology could allow people to transmit their brainwaves and speak to each other mind-to-mind. Scientists are working to create computers that read thoughts to find terrorists, and machines to scan people's minds like thumbprints, causing some to wonder if 'thought theft' could become the crime of the future.

"The work of B.F. Skinner reshaped the field of psychology. This vintage program consists of an archival discussion with Professor Skinner and the University of Oxford's Geoffrey Warnock, in which they engage in a good-natured debate on the presuppositions and morality of behavior control. Free will, operant behavior, contingencies of survival, environment, culture, the human capacity for self-analysis, and other key topics are all scrutinized in...

Explains how anger builds neural pathways in the human brain and offers advice for controllings outbursts, reducing stress, and fostering conflict resolution solutions that can lead to improved mental and physical health.

Just over a hundred years ago, the Viennese physician Richard von Krafft-Ebing coined the term "masochism," after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, who depicted pleasurable submission to cruelty in his novels. Noyes analyzes the social and political problems that inspired the concept, suggesting, for example, that the triumphant expansion of European colonialism was animated in part by an ambivalence in masculine sexuality. In a society of accelerating technological...

"Technology and the era of globalization have revolutionized the ways to build, keep, and assure success. To cope with these changes, adapt, and accomplish your goals, you not only must gain power, but apply it with wisdom." "In Power and Influence: The Rules Have Changed, master power broker and communications maestro Robert Dilenschneider arms you with the intellectual, technical, and moral weapons - the power tools that you need to get ahead and...

Working with manipulative people can be difficult, as they have the ability to influence or even exploit you. Psychologists Peter Quarry and Eve Ash explain and analyze various styles of manipulation. Following explanation they suggest a series of methods and tactics for defusing manipulation and manipulators.

This intensely practical text helps nurses build the skills they need to gain and use influence throughout their entire careers. This second edition is updated throughout with new information on nursing, health care, and technology--including social media. Readable, timely, and upbeat, this book teaches through real-life examples, offering proven advice for using influence to solve many contemporary workplace problems. Each chapter contains sections...

Charismatic leadership in its extreme manifestations resembles a hypnotic situation in which the followers lose their autonomic judgment. Popper compares leadership to fire. The leader is the spark, the followers the fuel, and the circumstances the oxygen that feeds the flames. Fire can destroy everything in its path, and such a strong fire is a metaphor for what is described as "Hypnotic Leadership." Examples of hypnotic leadership are described...

A story of a ruthless race to power and the desire for an heir. The Duke of Norfolk tells Buckingham of the meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. On the instigation of Cardinal Wolsey, Buckingham is arrested for high treason.

Presents the argument that man's environment must be changed rather than man himself if the traditional goals of the struggle for freedom and dignity are to be reached. "In this profound and profoundly challenging book, the great behaviorist B.F. Skinner, regarded by many as the most influential and controversial living psychologist, author also of the celebrated utopian novel Walden Two, makes his definitive statement about man and society. Insisting...