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Louder Than Hell

by Jon Wiederhorn & Katherine Turman

From Sabbath to Slipknot, Louder Than Hell is the definitive oral history of heavy metal, straight from the mouths of those who defined it. The book was crafted from more than four hundred interviews conducted...

The Construction of Social Judgments

by Leonard L. Martin & Abraham Tesser

Researchers have been addressing social judgment from a cognitive perspective for more than 15 years. Within recent years, however, it has become increasingly clear that many of the models and assumptions initially...

Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness: A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuroscience

by Anil Seth & Geraint Rees

How do conscious experience, subjectivity, and free will arise from the brain and the body? Even in the late 20th century, consciousness was considered to be beyond the reach of science. Now, understanding the...

Emotional States, Attention, and Working Memory: A Special Issue of Cognition & Emotion

by Nazanin Derakhshan & Michael Eysenck

This Special Issue is concerned with the effects of three emotional states (positive affect; anxiety; and depression) on performance. More specifically, the contributors focus on the potential mediating effects...

Memory and Amnesia: An Introduction

by Alan J. Parkin

Memory and Amnesia provides a clear and comprehensive account of amnesia set in the context of our understanding of how normal memory operates. Part I provides the reader with an up-to-date survey of contemporary...

The Uncertain Mind: Individual Differences in Facing the Unknown

by Richard M. Sorrentino & Christopher J.R. Roney

This book discusses individual differences in how people react to uncertainty. The authors show that while some people are relatively comfortable dealing with uncertainty and strive to resolve it (uncertainty-oriented),...

Multidimensional Scaling: History, Theory, and Applications

by Forrest W. Young & Robert M. Hamer

This outstanding presentation of the fundamentals of multidimensional scaling illustrates the applicability of MDS to a wide variety of disciplines. The first two sections provide ground work in the history...

The Ecological Approach To Visual Perception

by James J. Gibson

This is a book about how we see: the environment around us (its surfaces, their layout, and their colors and textures); where we are in the environment; whether or not we are moving and, if we are, where we...

Festivals

by Carolyn Hewitson

Festivals provides an insight into various events that children may, or may not, have in common. It will enhance your understanding of a range of cultural events, provides a range of activities that have meaning...

Language Development for Science: Activities for Home

by Marion Nash & Jackie Lowe

These simple play-based activities are ideal for teachers to copy and give out to parents who want to know how to help their child improve his or her science language skills and have fun at the same time. Activities...

How to Use an Interactive Whiteboard Really Effectively in your Secondary Classroom

by Jenny Gage

This book helps teachers get to grips with using software and offers advice on the different classroom management, differentiation and learning styles issues involved in using a whiteboard in a classroom context...

Unlocking Literacy: A Guide for Teachers

by Robert Fisher & Mary Williams

An edited collection describing key issues in supporting literacy development, this book helps to 'unlock' the mysteries behind helping children learn to read, write, speak and listen. It explores ways to help...

Feeding the Under 5s

by Allan Dyson & Lucy Meredith

One young child in every four is overweight and one in ten is obese, some of the reasons for this are:

• a general lack of interest and understanding of food and cooking
• junk food being consumed every day 
...

Modern Foreign Languages 5-11: A guide for teachers

by Jane Jones & Simon Coffey

Foreign language teaching is a flourishing area of the primary curriculum and can offer many valuable, enriching and enjoyable learning experiences for children. Written to support busy schools and teachers...

Work-Life Balance: A Practical Guide for Teachers

by Margaret Adams

Work-life balance picks up where conventional time management stops. After you have prioritised ruthlessly, learned how to delegate, dealt with interruptions, managed your managers, planned and reviewed and...

Neuropsychology: From Theory to Practice

by David Andrewes

This comprehensive textbook provides an up-to-date and accessible account of the theories that seek to explain the complex relationship between brain and behaviour. Drawing on the latest research findings from...

Alzheimer's Day Care: A Basic Guide

by David A. Linderman, Nancy H. Corby & Rachel Downing

A book whose purpose is to offer guidance to individuals, organizations and agencies on how to develop day care programmes for patients with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia.

A range of programme aspects...

A Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology: Volume 2: Work Psychology

by De,Wolff, Charles, P J D Drenth & THIERRY HENK

Work Psychology, the second volume of the Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology, concentrates on issues related to the direct relationship between the worker and the organization and on his or her task...

Behavioral Medicine Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

by Kristina Orth-Gom‚r, Neil Schneiderman & Kristina Orth-Gomer

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one killer of men and women in industrialized countries. In older age groups, CVD is also the most important cause for hospitalization, and, in many countries, it is...

Human Abilities: Their Nature and Measurement

by Ian Dennis & Patrick Tapsfield

This volume brings together many of the leading researchers on human intelligence and cognition to address issues including definition, measurement, and instructional design. Its publication is a result of the...