In this enlightening study, the authors implement a unique research approach to offer a greater understanding of policy reform of pretrial release and detention practices in the criminal courts in Boston, Miami, and Phoenix.

Harvard psychologist and TED star Amy Cuddy reveals how to unleash your boldest self to heighten your confidence, influence others, and perform at your peak.Have you ever left a nerve-racking challenge and immediately wished for a do over? Maybe after a job interview, a performance, or a difficult conversation? The very moments that require us to be genuine and commanding can instead cause us to feel phony and powerless. Too often we approach our lives' biggest hur...

The opening installment in a five-volume series on the Diamond Approach—a path to greater self- and spiritual realization—presented by its founderFounded by spiritual teacher A. H. Almaas, the Diamond Approach presents a unique path to enlightenment that borrows from modern psychology and therapy. Through the method’s core practice of inquiry, practitioners engage with their inner world—the very qualities and experiences that make them human—as a means of unlocking...

The fourth volume to appear in the Seminar in Psychological Astrology series sponsored by the Centre for Psychological Astrology in London. In this exciting book, the authors team up to discuss the value of Mercury, Venus, and Mars as they symbolize important aspects of personality. This book is about the process of understanding how the inner planets actually represent the individual, and how they directly color the energy of the Sun and the Moon.

The founder of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization examines narcissism through a spiritual lens, presenting it as our greatest barrier to understanding our truest selfIn this book, the author explores the underlying spiritual understanding of narcissism. He presents a detailed map of the steps involved in working through barriers that prevent us from recognizing the most essential nature of our true identity.“Almaas is one of the most significant voice...

Your child is smart, but does he or she believe it?"Smart" is a power word. Children who believe they’re smart excel more in school and approach life with greater confidence. But children who don’t can struggle to apply themselves. Do you wish your child could see how smart he or she is?Find hope in 8 Great Smarts. You’ll be empowered and equipped with new language and creative ideas for how to:Accept and affirm your child’s ...

A tour de force connecting the evolution of the human personality structure and the formation of parenting bonds with the passage of the sun through the year. The author builds a case for the realistic prediction of human type fundamentals from a birth date, and includes descriptions of the sixty four basic human types. The author writes convincingly about the hows and whys of making relationships and how you can find your best partner (it's not what you think). This book is for anyone wan...

Discover a compendium of knowledge on the inspector – ISTJ personality type! As you explore this book, you will find the answer to a number of crucial questions:* How do inspectors think and what do they feel? How do they make decisions? How do they solve problems? What makes them anxious? What do they fear? What irritates them?* Which personality types are they happy to encounter on their road through life and which ones do they avoid? What kind of friends, life partners an...

This digital collection, curated by Harvard Business Review, offers four books on the topic of emotional intelligence, found by bestselling author Daniel Goleman to be twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership. In Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors, the authors show that great leaders excel not just through skill and smarts, but by connecting with others using emotional intelligence competencies like empathy a...

Ayn Rand is well known for advocating egoism, but the substance of that instruction is rarely understood. Far from representing the rejection of morality, selfishness, in Rand's view, actually demands the practice of a systematic code of ethics. This book explains the fundamental virtues that Rand considers vital for a person to achieve his objective well-being: rationality, honesty, independence, justice, integrity, productiveness, and pride. Tracing Rand's account of the harmony of human...

Autobiographical memory plays a key role in psychological well-being, and the field has been investigated from multiple perspectives for over thirty years. One large body of research has examined the basic mechanisms and characteristics of autobiographical memory during general cognition, and another body has studied what happens to it during psychological disorders, and how psychological therapies targeting memory disturbances can improve psychological well-being. This edited collection r...

This book develops and tests an ecological and evolutionary theory of the causes of human values—the core beliefs that guide people’s cognition and behavior—and their variation across time and space around the world. We call this theory the parasite-stress theory of values or the parasite-stress theory of sociality. The evidence we present in our book indicates that both a wide span of human affairs and major aspects of human cultural diversity can be understood in light of variable parasi...