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"Personality" is an intimidatingly complex area of human behaviour, where empirically valid generalizations are not easily established or formulated, and where investigators at the time of publication were themselves a long way from the development of a commonly shared language and conceptual system. Originally published in 1969, Dr Carson’s book provided, for the first time, an empirically grounded, systematic framework to analyse, describe, and to some extent explain the transactions tha...

This book represents an inquiry into an area of human behavior at once fascinating and exasperating. It is fascinating because it is a class of behavior that, while peculiarly resistant to cognitive analysis and clarification it remains, for most of us throughout our lives, a subjectively crucial issue. In Interpersonal Behavior Carson analyzes, describes, and explains the transactions that occur between persons. The analysis focuses upon the smallest possible unit of social inter...

Now revised and updated to reflect critical changes in economic policy since the last edition, Microeconomic Issues Today, Eighth Edition, provides Conservative, Liberal, and Radical interpretations and solutions for seven current microeconomic issues. An instructor's manual with a test bank and discussion questions is available to professors who adopt the text, and PowerPoint downloads are available as teaching aids.

In "Kull of Atlantis - The Complete Series," Robert E. Howard crafts a richly imagined tapestry of myth and adventure that transports readers to the primordial age of a lost civilization. This compilation showcases Howard's signature blend of vibrant prose and visceral action, exploring themes of power, identity, and the duality of civilization and barbarism. Set in a fantastical world reminiscent of ancient mythologies, the series immerses readers in the life of Kull, an outsider fighting...

The "Solomon Kane Series" is a remarkable compilation of Robert E. Howard's early 20th-century stories featuring the brooding Puritan hero, Solomon Kane. These tales are marked by their rich, atmospheric prose, blending elements of horror, fantasy, and action-adventure into a cohesive narrative fabric. Set against the backdrop of a dark and supernatural early modern Europe, Howard's literary style is characterized by vivid imagery and a penchant for creating morally complex characters, ele...

Written in non-technical, everyday language that is accessible to the undergraduate audience, and requiring no background in economic analysis, this acclaimed text provides a unique approach to understanding what the practice of economics is all about. The authors address fourteen current economic issues, covering both micro- and macro-economics, and offer analyses and proposed solutions for each from Conservative, Liberal, and Radical perspectives. This new edition incorporates critical c...

Now revised and updated to reflect critical changes in economic policy since the last edition, Macroeconomic Issues Today, Eighth Edition, provides Conservative, Liberal, and Radical interpretations and solutions for seven current macroeconomic issues, including all-new coverage of the Social Security debate. An instructor's manual with a test bank and discussion questions is available to professors who adopt the text, and PowerPoint downloads are available as teaching aids.

In "Kull of Atlantis - Complete Fantasy & Action-Adventure Series," Robert E. Howard crafts a captivating tapestry of high adventure and rich mythology, set against the backdrop of an ancient, primordial world. Through a series of interconnected stories, Howard immerses readers in the life of Kull, a Cimmerian warrior-king whose reign is fraught with political intrigue, existential dilemmas, and encounters with the supernatural. The prose is vivid and visceral, characterized by Howard's ma...

Dominique is an innocent virgin when her new husband wins a honeymoon Caribbean cruise for two. They have no idea the voyage is a no-holds-barred clothing-optional cruise for hotwives! Their lives are changed forever as she’s taken brutally and unprotected by sixteen horny couples, BBC stud James from ‘Billionaire’s Ravished Hotwife,’ and several brawny crewmen!~~~~~ PG Excerpt ~~~~~The thought of thirty or forty people naked, or at least clothing-optional, and having rando...

The archaeologist, philologist, and Linguistics theoretician Nikolai Marr (1865-1934) has attracted increasing scholarly attention as a pivotal figure of late-tsarist and early Soviet cultural politics and as an early anticolonial theorist. He remains, however, an elusive thinker who is much written about but seldom read. This volume offers a representative selection of Marr’s writing from several stages of his life translated here for the first time into English.The selection of t...

I'm going out and have a real life.I'm going to be somebody. - Esther BlodgettFew Hollywood films have had the impact of the original version of A Star Is Born. Released in 1937 and starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, it was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won two (for best original story and best cinematography). Since then, the movie has been remade three times, attesting to its continued allure. But none have matched the geniu...

The screenplay writer in Hollywood was a pen-for-hire. Whatever your status elsewhere in the world here, in Hollywood, you were usually a high-paid weekly contract where your talents, your genius, were at the beck and call of others who spoke of Art but were really mad but we're really the mouthpieces of Commerce.But radio for the Hollywood studio system was all about marketing. On that basis something approaching art could be produced on a regular basis. This series produced some ...