This unique textbook offers an inspirational and engaging guide to psychology’s past and present, told through fascinating stories about the discipline’s charismatic personalities and the controversies they generated. Geoff Bunn introduces students to an array of conceptual and analytical tools for critical thinking and demonstrates how to apply these tools to understand a variety of historical controversies, psychological theories, and individual personalities.Each chapter focuses...

It was a time of DEATH and dying.But the people were not afraid to die, they did not live in fear like children scared of the dark.What did matter to them, to all of them, was HOW they died.And where there were any doubts about a death, might there not have been a VERIFIER - not exactly a 'detective', but the closest thing they had...-RETRIBUTION: Frode meets an ...

"I was only nineteen years old and she was thirty eight.In the 1960s, when I'd still been a child, amongst other men she had turned down Mick Jagger. Jagger, of all people. And that had been when he was already a star.As for her, she had been a model back then.A top model.The very top.So what was I doing in her bed?"Something in the Way is an old-fashioned romance with mor...

"The girl sitting opposite me wasn't a girl, she was a boy!"He met her a long time ago. She was blonde and beautiful. And she changed his life. Many years later, he returns home to rediscover the city he once knew so well and the true story of his relationship with 'the girl' is revealed in a series of flashbacks.An old fashioned romance with a big difference, Blonde Boy Red Lipstick is an atmospheric and utterly poignant exploration of gender, dis...

It was a time of DEATH and dying.But the people were not afraid to die, they did not live in fear like children scared of the dark.What did matter to them, to all of them, was HOW they died.And where there were any doubts about a death, might there not have been a VERIFIER - not exactly a 'detective', but the closest thing they had...-MURDER AT BRAE: FRODE is a t...

A road book for today.Similar to Jack Kerouac's classic "On the Road", The New Plantation tells the story of people who find themselves neither inside nor outside of society. Black humour, drugs, drink, music, the open road, despair and hope. Always hope... because, often, that is all that any of us have.

A year in Kronoberg.This is a story about snow. A story about winter and even more snow.But this is also a story about ice cream and sunshine too.This is a story about a gate, helpful neighbours, an angry squirrel and a drunken moose.This is a story about a country in europe that many people never visit.This is a story about SWEDEN.And it is the story of two Brits who moved to Sweden and found a new home there!...

"Actually, I'm dating a skinhead now", I said.I looked at the faces again. Friends I had known for some years. And their stunned, non-replies were deafening."She is a girl", I added hopefully.Prejudice comes in many forms. It's not only black people or gays who find themselves discriminated against. Fortunately, love is blind to race or gender, and it's also blind to ultra-short haircuts and tattoos...An old-fashioned romance with ...

It was a time of DEATH and dying.But the people were not afraid to die, they did not live in fear like children scared of the dark.What did matter to them, to all of them, was HOW they died.And where there were any doubts about a death, might there not have been a VERIFIER - not exactly a 'detective', but the closest thing they had...-BLOOD ON HER HANDS: A battle...

It was a time of DEATH and dying.But the people were not afraid to die, they did not live in fear like children scared of the dark.What did matter to them, to all of them, was HOW they died.And where there were any doubts about a death, might there not have been a VERIFIER - not exactly a 'detective', but the closest thing they had...-WHO STIRS THE SEA: At sea, t...

An old fashioned love story. But a love story with a difference..."blond(e) BOY, red LIPSTICK" is the first transgender love story to be aimed at a mainstream audience.Based on a true story, through tears and laughter, shoplifting, music and dance, can two teenage boys make their romance survive?"The girl sitting opposite me wasn't a girl. She was a boy!"

"Actually, I'm dating a skinhead now", I said.I looked at the faces again. Friends I had known for some years. And their stunned, non-replies were deafening."She is a girl", I added hopefully.Prejudice comes in many forms. It's not only black people or gays who find themselves discriminated against. Fortunately, love is blind to race or gender, and it's also blind to ultra-short haircuts and tattoos...An old-fashioned romance with ...