psychological aspects

Presents the psychological effects music has on people, investigating its role in human evolution, its effects on emotions, and how musical preferences and expertise are formed.

Profiles fourteen athletes whose need to prove themselves led to their downfall, describing their painful journeys to the top of their sports and back down to the depths of failure and despair.

The hosts of television's "What Not to Wear" provide dressing tips for twenty-six male and female body types, offering advice on how people can look their best in business, casual, and evening wear. Includes photographs.

Gretel Ehrlich recounts her adventures traveling in some of the world's coldest locations in an attempt to understand the complex, primal nature of cold.

A collection of essays that address the need for an in-depth discussion of school violence, presenting an overview of the many types of school violence and the measures that can be taken to prevent it.

Explores the science of affect and emotion to discover why people develop emotional connections to everyday objects such as cars or teapots, and looks at how a designer's mood can influence the product he or she creates.

A critically humorous examination of American modern art since the 1900s.

Explains how William Shakespeare created human nature and characters and includes analyses of the character development in each of Shakespeare's plays.