Product Description: Widely regarded as the classic text on user-centered design of public buildings and spaces, this book studies how people relate to the designed space around them and how the design of that space can affect their behavior. Its contents are based on comprehensive academic research, the conclusions it draws are highly applicable in real-world projects, and the style of presentation is lucid and interesting...read more

Product Description: Auf Befehl Heinrich Himmlers wurden ab 1942 in fast allen großen Konzentrationslagern der Nazis Bordelle für Häftlinge eingerichtet. Häftlingsfrauen aus den KZ Ravensbrück und Auschwitz wurden mit falschen Versprechungen in die Bordellkommandos gelockt oder von der SS für diese selektiert...read more

Product Description: Keeping pace with the ever-changing world of self-help, the revised and expanded edition of this indispensable reference helps consumers and professionals distinguish high-quality self-help resources from those that are misleading, inaccurate, or even harmful...read more

Product Description: American Holidays embraces the range of contemporary American life, from day trading and multi-level marketing schemes to road rage and suburban bigotry. In the tradition of story collections such as James Joyce's Dubliners and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, these stories offer piercing, witty, and often humorous glimpses into the lives of ordinary people as they celebrate, or sometimes ignore, each of ten distinctively American holidays...read more

Product Description: This new edition of Robert Sommer and Barbara Sommer's successful book A Practical Guide to Behavioral Research continues to emphasize a hands-on, multimethod, and interdisciplinary approach to behavioral research in psychology, sociology, and anthropology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Self-help materials have become a prime source of psychological advice for millions of Americans. While many self-help resources provide high-quality information, others may be misleading, inaccurate, or even harmful. This indispensable volume reveals which are the good ones, which are the bad ones, and why...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Calls attention to the widespread inability to think visually and demonstrates the relevance of visual thinking to psychotherapy, memory, and the enrichment of life

Describes the history of American prisons, provides reasons for their survival in the face of overwhelming evidence of their failure, and proposes reforms

Pictures footprints, dog tracks, wheel marks, and drawings in city sidewalks and shows how to copy street fossils