INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL BESTSELLERForensic psychologist and memory expert Dr. Julia Shaw reveals why we are all unreliable narrators of our own life stories.Think you have a good memory? Think again.Memories are our most cherished possessions. We rely on them every day of our lives. They make us who we are. And yet the truth is they are far from being the accurate record of the past we like to think they are.In The Me...

An original and scientifically rigorous exploration of the darkest recesses of the human mind.What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them.But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is all relative, rooted in our unique cultures. What one may consider normal, like sex before marriage, eating meat or...

Celeste has a good man and the relationship seems to be going in the right direction until her sex drive takes a nose dive. She doesn't know why and when her boyfriend Davis breaks up with her, she knows that she has to find a way to fix it. She finds a solution, but it's not conventional. The solution makes her the object of men's sexual desires.Celeste can now fulfill her own desires, but can she be the one to fulfill men's fantasies?

Delinda is looking to have a little fun to spice up her sex life. All of the ladies in her apartment complex are abuzz about the new maintenance man, Mike. Mike is gorgeous and charming and seems to be the man of several women's dreams.Delinda has never been the type to throw herself at any man, but when the opportunity arises to have some time alone with Mike, will she fall for him just like all of the other women?

Samantha and her husband are at an impasse. Her libido is stronger than his and he wants to give her more, but he's not able to. She decides to take her sexual satisfaction in her own hands and uses a website to connect with others who are looking for sexual satisfaction. When she hooks up with Dean, will stepping out on her husband be worth the night of lust she spends with another man?

Desiree has been unlucky in love for so long, she decides to just stop looking for it. She's convinced herself that love is not in the cards for her, and that there is no man that will treat her right and romance her the way she needs.One day, she receives a gift from a secret admirer who tries to persuade her that true love can be found. Will her secret admirer be the man that Desiree has dreamed about for so long?

A popular BBC presenter and podcaster looks at six world-changing environmental crimes and takes readers inside the minds of the people responsible.Our planet is a crime scene. People are murdered, ecosystems are destroyed, and corruption is rampant. In Green Crime, criminal psychologist Dr. Julia Shaw takes us inside six world-changing environmental crimes and reveals how the perpetrators think, why their crimes are so deadly, and how we ...

Julia J. A. Shaw is a Reader in Law and Literary Jurisprudence at De Montfort University, Leicester.

Food is a source of nourishment, a cause for celebration, an inducement to temptation, a means of influence, and signifies good health and well-being. Together with other life enhancing goods such as clean water, unpolluted air, adequate shelter and suitable clothing, food is a basic good which is necessary for human flourishing. In recent times, however, various environmental and social challenges have emerged, which are having a profound effect on both the natural world and built environ...

The “monumental bias” of Buddhist archaeology has hampered our understanding of the socio-religious mechanisms that enabled early Buddhist monks to establish themselves in new areas. To articulate these relationships, Shaw presents here the first integrated study of settlement archaeology and Buddhist history, carried out in the area around Sanchi, a Central Indian UNESCO World Heritage site. Her comprehensive, data-rich, and heavily illustrated work provides an archaeological basis for as...

The maintenance of human health and the mechanisms by which this is achieved – through medicine, medical intervention and care-giving – are fundamentals of human societies. However, archaeological investigations of medicine and care have tended to examine the obvious and explicit manifestations of medical treatment as discrete practices that take place within specific settings, rather than as broader indicators of medical worldviews and health beliefs. This volume highlights the importance...

Engaging with the underlying social context in which emotions are a motivationalforce, Law and the Passions provides a uniquely inclusive commentary on the significanceand influence of emotions in the history and continuing development oflegal judgment, policy formation, legal practice and legal dogma.Although the emotionality of the law and the use of emotional tropes in legaldiscourse has become an established focus in recent scholarship, ...