Category: Textbooks

An Introduction to the Psychology of Humor, PDF, provides a concise and accessible overview of psychologists’ research on humor. Drawing on research from a range of psychological perspectives, from cognitive and biological to social and developmental, the ebook assesses factors that affect our comprehension, detection, liking, and use of humor.

Laura King’s The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View, 5th Edition, (PDF) communicates the breadth and nature of psychology – and its value as a science – with a focus on why things go right.  With the key goals of teaching students to think like psychological scientists and emphasizing the

Unlike the majority of construction project management textbooks out there, Management of Construction Projects: A Constructor’s Perspective, 2nd edition (PDF) takes a distinctive approach by setting itself in the context of a single and real-world construction project throughout and also by looking at construction project management from a different, i.e.

Student-friendly and cutting edge, Choices in Relationships, 13th Edition, (PDF) takes readers through the lifespan of marriages, relationships, and families, and use research to help them make deliberate, informed choices in their interpersonal relationships. Authors Caroline Schacht, David Knox, and new co-author I. Joyce Chang draws on extensive research to

Show Students How Personal and Career Success Comes from the Development of Improved Human Relations Skills By linking career and personal success to the development of human relations skills, Dubrin’s Human Relations for Career and Personal Success, 11th Edition, (PDF) stresses the importance of learning to deal more effectively with