The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory
This clear and accessible textbook introduces the brain's remarkable capacity for memory. The text was developed for undergraduate and beginning graduate students, but it will also be of use to cognitive scientists, biologists, and psychologists w...
Soul Signs
HOW YOUR SUN SIGN REVEALS YOUR PERSONAL PATH TO FULFILLMENT, GROWTH, AND HAPPINESS Most astrology books see personality as destiny, but in Soul Signs, expert astrologer and teacher Diane Eichenbaum shows you how your birth sign reveals your person...
Partisan Appointees and Public Servants
This comparative collection of original contributions examines the role of political staff in executive government and the consequences for policy-making and governance. The leading contributors reveal that good governance is about governments get...
Cultural History of Genocide in the Middle Ages
The period covered by this volume, roughly 800-1400, considers genocidal massacres and actions within the context of the pre-modern state, a time when the term "genocide" did not yet exist. In considering rhetoric, discrimination, and po...
Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
'A gripping, suspenseful page-turner' (Kirkus Reviews) with a 'fast-paced, detailed narrative that moves like a thriller' (International Business Times), Fukushima teams two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists, David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman, with award-winning journalist Susan Q. Stranahan to give us the first definitive account of the 2011 disaster that led to the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl. Four years have passed since the day the world watched in horror as an earthquake large enough to shift the Earth's axis by several inches sent a massive tsunami toward the Japanese coast and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, causing the reactors' safety systems to fail and explosions to reduce concrete and steel buildings to rubble. Even as the consequences of the 2011 disaster continue to exact their terrible price on the people of Japan and on the world, Fukushima addresses the grim questions at the heart of the nuclear debate: could a similar
What Do Women Want?
'This book highlights the fact that women are brought up to understand men's emotional needs but men are not brought up to understand women's.' Woman Many women today feel that they pour love, commitment and understanding into their relationships,...
