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West: Effective teamwork

Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: Most organizations see effective teamwork as essential to their success, but find that the reality of working in teams presents many practical difficulties. This text, based on rigorous research evidence, provides all the tools necessary to help teams overcome these difficulties, including case studies, discussion questions, exercises and questionnaires. Drawing on the latest psychological…

Hewitt: Handbook of Atmospheric Science

Скачать книгу (размер 3 298 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 648) Аннотация: The alarming consequences of global climate change have highlighted the need to take urgent steps to combat the causes of air pollution. Hence, understanding the Earth's atmosphere is a vital component in Man's emerging quest for developing sustainable modes of behavior in the 21st century.Written by a team of expert scientists, the Handbook of Atmospheric Science provides a broad and up-to-date…

Davis: Handbook of research methods in experimental psychology

Скачать книгу (размер 2 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 520) Аннотация: The Handbook of Research Methods in Experimental Psychology presents a comprehensive and contemporary treatment of research methodologies used in experimental psychology. The volume is divided into three sections: Part One places experimental psychology in historical context and provides insights into current activities and future trends, Part Two investigates the changing nature of research…

Race Phil: How to study

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: 'Essential Tips for Students' is the ideal companion for all students at college or university. It contains around 1,000 practical tips, taking students from their first lectures through to their final exams and beyond. The book covers a wide range of concerns including: — Getting through assessments — how to write essays, give presentations, prepare for and sit exams. — Handling the ups and…

Brewer Marilynn B.: Social Cognition

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Social Cognition is a collection of readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology that examine the mental representations that people hold of their social world and the way that social information is processed, stored, and retrieved. The readings have been selected to provide a representative sampling of exciting research and theory on social cognition that is both…

Jansz Jeroen: A Social history of psychology

Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: A Social History of Psychology documents the rise of psychology in the twentieth century and its growing influence on Western society. The book focuses on practical, or «applied», psychology and examines the causes and social consequences of psychology's omnipresence in society. After a general overview of the history of psychology as a practical discipline, the book provides detailed accounts of…

Agger Ben: Virtual Self 2003

Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: The Virtual Self is a concise, critical introduction to social life in an age of rapid technology and high speed communication. It addresses a fundamental question of our time: is contemporary society significantly different from the society that formed the theories and basic concepts of the founders of sociology? Our rapidly changing society requires innovative sociological concepts, and this…

Sheppard: A Companion to Economic Geography

Скачать книгу (размер 2 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 552) Аннотация: A Companion to Economic Geography presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understanding this important subdiscipline. The contributions are written by prominent international scholars offering a wide-ranging overview of the field.The authors provide the reader with an understanding of the tradition of geographic research in all the…

Agnew: A Companion to Political Geography

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: A Companion to Political Geography presents students and researchers with a substantial survey of this active and vibrant field. The volume contains specially written essays by prominent scholars from around the world and covers a wide variety of crucial themes in contemporary critical political geography.Each contributor not only charts the important work that has been done in the past, but also…

Abraham Tesser: Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Individual Processes

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: This authoritative handbook provides a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research as well as an assessment of future trends in the field of intraindividual processes. After outlining a set of integrative perspectives — evolutionary and cultural, developmental, and methodological — it goes on to provide an in-depth treatment of current research on social cognition and social motivation.…

Gaertner: Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intergroup Processes

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: This authoritative, state of the art overview of the field of intergroup processes is divided into nine major sections on cognition, motivation, emotion, communication and social influence, changing intergroup relations, social comparison, self-identity, methods, and applications. — Includes 25 specially commissioned chapters offer unparalleled coverage of the whole field of intergroup processes.…

S. Schech: Culture and Development

Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: This book introduces students to new ways of thinking about culture and development. The book integrates the recent scholarship in the area of cultural studies within the existing frameworks of development studies, which have primarily focused on issues of political economy and structural transformation. Rather than viewing culture as simply an attribute of the societies undergoing development,…

Brown R.: Group processes

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: People's lives are inescapably bound with the groups to which they belong. Whether at home, work, or play human beings are essentially group beings. Thus, an understanding of behavior in group settings is a central task for social psychology.Group Processes aims to deepen our understanding of relationships within and between groups by means of three key ideas. First, groups are a source of social…

Teichman Evans: Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide is unique in its approach to introducing philosophy. Its succinct and self-contained chapters make this jargon-free text accessible to people who have had little or no previous contact with philosophy. In this new, revised and extended edition of the popular student text, Teichman and Evans introduce philosophy as it is studied in mainstream colleges and…