Aptitude, Personality and Motivation Tests: Analyse Your Talents and Personality and Plan Your CareerMore and more companies are using tests to vet job applicants and assess staff. To perform their best under test conditions, candidates need to practice their skills.

Prospective test-takers, as well as people looking for guidance on career choices, will find useful advice in the new edition of Aptitude, Personality and Motivation Tests.

Understanding motivation and emotion (5th Edition)

This book walks psychologists through the study of motivation, exploring all conditions that exist within the person and within the environment and culture that explain why we want what we want and why we do what we do. The fifth edition expands on theoretical ideas further into practical applications, especially in the areas of education, work, therapy, sports, and the home.

How would the legendary figures in the Bible advise us today? We're running the race of our lives and it's a long one. We need encouragement along the way a cheering grandstand or a personal trainer or two. John Maxwell reminds us that even in a modern world, the greatest inspiration is still found within the pages of the Old Testament.

Motivation and Emotion provides an explanation of emotional experience and aspects of human behavior using psychological, physiological, and alternative approaches. The brain mechanisms that govern motivations are discussed and questions such as 'Why don't we eat ourselves to death?' and 'How do we know we are thirsty?' are answered. Types of emotional responses and explanations of emotional behavior are covered. The book analyzes psychological, physiological, and combined approaches to theories of motivation and emotion.

Understanding Human Motivation is a lively presentation of how factors such as biological nature, instinct, past experience, and society determine what we do.

"This new book on human motivation by Donald Laming represents a fresh look at an important area of psychology. The material is presented in the original idiom of real life stories in newspapers, which serve to illuminate classical controversies in social psychology. Although the book also has some novel theoretical insights, it should be particularly useful for students beginning in psychology."