Product Description: In our current era of holy terror, passionate faith has come to seem like a present danger. Writers such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens have been happy to throw the baby out with the bathwater and declare that the danger is in religion itself...read more

Product Description: Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again!  Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests...read more

More than five hundred Harvard graduates from the class of 1975 reflect on their middle-age lives and the times they live in as they gather for their twenty-fifth reunion.

Drawn from an unrivaled series of studies on a vast array of subjects, from their teens to old age, a revolutionary guide documents the essential factors involved in obtaining a happy. healthy old age, and offers practical advice for changing our lifestyle and aging gracefully and successfully. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Drawn from an unrivaled series of studies on a vast array of subjects, from their teens to old age, a revolutionary guide documents the essential factors involved in obtaining a happy. healthy old age, and offers pratical advice for changing our lifestyle and aging gracefully and successfully. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Between 1939 and 1942, one of America's leading universities recruited 268 of its healthiest and most promising undergraduates to participate in a revolutionary new study of the human life cycle. The originators of the program, which came to be known as the Grant Study, felt that medical research was too heavily weighted in the direction of disease, and their intent was to chart the ways in which a group of promising individuals coped with their lives over the course of many years...read more

Product Description: One of America's preeminent psychiatrists draws on his famous Study of Adult Development to give us an exhilarating look at how the mind's defenses work. What we see as the mind's trickery, George Vaillant tells us, is actually healthy...read more

Product Description: When The Natural History of Alcoholism was first published in 1983, it was acclaimed in the press as the single most important contribution to the literature on alcoholism since the first edition of Alcoholic Anonymous's Big Book...read more

Product Description: One of America's preeminent psychiatrists draws on his famous Study of Adult Development to give us an exhilarating look at how the mind's defenses work. What we see as the mind's trickery, George Vaillant tells us, is actually healthy...read more

Product Description: Not since Anna FreudÂs 1937 book, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense, has any one volume explored this topic as fully as Ego Mechanisms of Defense by George E. Vaillant. By summarizing the latest empirical studies, proposing a universal language of defense mechanisms, and demonstrating how various assessment methods can be used in diagnosis, case formulation, and treatment, Dr...read more