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The Ultimate IQ Test Book: 1,000 Practice Test Questions To Boost Your Brain Power
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The Ultimate IQ Test Book: 1,000 Practice Test Questions To Boost Your Brain PowerThe Ultimate IQ Test Book is the biggest book of IQ practice tests available. Written and compiled by IQ-test experts, it contains 1000 practice questions organized into 25 tests, with a simple guide to assessing individual performance.
 
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Symbol and the Symbolic: Ancient Egypt, Science, and the Evolution of Consciousness
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Symbolism is the intuitive means of overcoming the limitations of reason. Here Schwaller explains how true progress in human thought can be made only if we call upon the "symbolizing" faculty of intelligence, developed and refined in the temple culture of ancient Egypt and reflected in its hieroglyphs.
 
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Notable Playwrights by Carl E. Rollyson
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Notable Playwrights by Carl E. Rollyson
Notable Playwrights by Carl E. Rollyson
Notable Playwrights contains biographical sketches and critical studies of 106 of the most important and best-known dramatists from antiquity to the present day. Essays in this volume are taken from the recently published Critical Survey of Drama, Revised Edition (2003), which combined all the earlier Critical Survey of Drama editions and added 79 new essays on individual playwrights. In selecting articles for Notable Playwrights, the editors have taken special care to include the dramatists whose plays are most often studied in high school and undergraduate literature and drama courses. Publication of this set completes Salem Press's adaptation of all its Critical Survey sets in the Magill's Choice line of books.

 
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An Outline of Scientific Writing: For Researchers With English As a Foreign Language by Jen Tsi Yang and Janet N. Yang
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An Outline of Scientific Writing: For Researchers With English As a Foreign Language by Jen Tsi Yang and Janet N. Yang
An Outline of Scientific Writing: For Researchers With English As a Foreign Language by Jen Tsi Yang and Janet N. Yang
Book Description
Aimed at researchers who need to write clear and understandable manuscripts in English. Many examples and exercises are included to clarify the rules and guidelines presented. Paper. DLC: Technical writing.
 
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Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
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Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
A renowned expert in nonverbal communication, Paul Ekman has led a revolution in our scientific understanding of emotions. Now he assembles his pathbreaking research and theories in a comprehensive look at human emotional life. Emotions Revealed explores the evolutionary essence of anger, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust, contempt, and happiness. In the process, he answers such questions as: What triggers emotions and can we stop them? How does our body signal to others whether we are slightly sad or anguished, peeved or enraged? Can we learn to distinguish between a polite smile and the genuine thing? Unique exercises and photographs help readers identify emotions in themselves and others. Emotions Revealed is a practical, mind-opening, and potentially life-changing exploration of science and self.
 
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