Product Description: From the ancient world to the present day, anomalous experiences - such as apparitions, premonitions, out-of-body and near-death experiences - provide stories that continue to mystify and intrigue. In this lively introduction, the authors investigate what these stories signify, and why some people turn to the paranormal for explanation...read more

Product Description: Cognitive Psychology focuses on those areas of Psychology which deal with the processing of information. Within the framework of the chapters listed below it covers topics such as: sensory, working and longterm memory; the real world implication of research in memory; focused, auditory and visual attention; divided attention; vigilance and absent-mindedness; the encoding and decoding of speech; reading and sign language; thinking; reasoning; problem solving; subjective judgements of probability; artificial intelligence...read more

Product Description: This collection assesses the Gulf War from a variety of social science perspectives and across several disciplines: history, international relations, economics, psychology, and law. Contributors: Joe Stork, Ann M. Lesch, John Simpson, John Bulloch, Harvey Morris, Adel Darwish, Judith Miller, Laurie Mylroie, Clive Ponting, Peter W...read more