Found 1,231 results for "Nature, psychological aspects"
The Varieties of Religious Experience
by William James, Dr. William James
It is with no small amount of trepidation that I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned audience.
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Der blondhaarige Junge glitt das letzte Stück Felsen hinab und begann, sich zur Lagune durchzuarbeiten.
Le suicide
by Émile Durkheim
THERE are two sorts of extra-social causes to which one may, a priori, attribute an influence on the suicide-rate; they ...
Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Anyone living in the United States in the early 1990s and paying even a whisper of attention to the nightly news or a da...
Nature, Man,& Woman
by Alan Watts
WHEN CHRISTIANS FIRST DISTINGUISHED themselves from pagans, the word "pagan" meant "country-dweller."
Moriæ Encomium
by Desiderius Erasmus
During my recent journey back from Italy to England, not wishing to waste all the time I was obliged to be on horseback ...
Emotional Intelligence
by Daniel Goleman
Ponder the last moments of Gary and Mary Jane Chauncey, a couple completely devoted to their eleven-year-old daughter An...
The Psychology of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
"You would need an engineering degree from MIT to work this," someone once told me, shaking his head in puzzlement over ...
Sozialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur
by Arnold Hauser, S. Godman
THE legend of the Golden Age is very old.
Mindset
by Carol S. Dweck
"When I was a young researcher, just starting out, something happened that changed my life."
Industrial Society and Its Future
by Theodore Kaczynski
1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Scattered
by Gabor Maté
UNTIL FOUR YEARS AGO, I understood attention deficit disorder about as well as the average North American doctor,which i...
The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker, Ernest Becker
The first thing we have to do with heroism is to lay bare its underside, show what gives human heroics its specific natu...