Volume I is devoted to problems originally tacked in the first paper of the series, "The nature of the child's tie to his mother"

Research shows a remarkable increase in eating disorders during the past three decades. Eating Disorders explores the definitions, risk factors, symptoms, and health consequences of such illnesses as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. The author discusses the assessment and treatment of these conditions and imparts health education strategies related to the "Dos and Do'nts" of awareness and prevention efforts.

The Encyclopedia of the Mind contains 293 entries that fall under the following broad topics: Action and Motor Control, Attention, Concepts and Catigories, Consciousness, Decision Making, Disorders and Patology, Emotion, Epistemology, Genetics, Groups, Intelligence, Language and Communication, Learning, Memory, Methaphysics, Methodology, Mind/Body Problem, Morality/Ethics, Perception, Personality, The Social Mind, and Thinking and Reasoning.

This edition set features nearly 300 entries from leading international scholars that examine the psychological dimensions of peace and conflict studies. Entries provide key concepts, methods, issues, theories, and practies that define peace psychology in the twenty-first century. Contributors situate psychology in relation to other social science disciplines and provide concise overviews of topics such as social activism, child soldiers, intergroup relations, forgivness and reconcilation, genocide, decision-making, nonviolence, research methods, social justice, conflict resolution, and many other topics relevant to human well-being and survival.

The encyclopedia is divided into two volumes and is arranged alphabetically by entry. Topics include nightmares and their treatment, how sleep and dreams change across the lifetime, and the new field of evolution of sleep and dreams, While this book includes ample material on the science of sleep and dreams, content is drawn from a broad range of disciplinary contexts, including history, anthropology, and neuroscience.

The Third Edition of this bestselling text reviews and analyzes the foremost leadership theories, giving special attention to how each theoretical approach can be applied in real-world organizations.

The book follows a sequential model of human cognition from sensation to perception, to attention, to memory, to higher-order cognition.

The fifth edition of Human Development is unrivaled in its detailed coverage of numerous critical issues. Each chapter features new sections that seek to expand coverage of important new findings. This unique feature manifests our commitment to students learning and overall breadth of knowledge. Included are detailed discussions of AIDS in children and adults, comprehensive coverage of Carol Gilligan's grounbreaking research on self-esteem in addolescent girls, an updated discussion of genetic screening and counseling, an important section on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and drug babies, a thoroughly revised and much applauded section on language acquistion, an updated section on learning disabilities and their relationship to the locus of control and learning theory, new material on maternal employment, and a searching look at the right-to-die movement.