This exciting new textbook for introductory psychology helps to open students’ minds to the idea that psychology is all around us. Authors RON COMER and LIZ GOULD encourage students to examine what they know about human behaviour and how they know it; and open them up to an appreciation of psychology outside of the classroom. Psychology Around Us helps students see the big picture by stressing the interconnected nature of psychological science. 
 Almost every chapter within this first edition helps open students’ minds to comprehend the big picture with sections that highlight how the different fields of psychology are connected to each other and how they connect to everyday life. This text highlights human development, brain function, abnormal psychology, and the individual differences in each area as cut-across themes to demonstrate these connections. Also included are two-page art spreads to demonstrate exactly What Happens In The Brain When we engage in everyday activities such as eat pizza, study psychology, or listen to music. The art featured in these spreads have been created especially for Psychology Around Us by an award-winning artist with input from faculty on how it will contribute to teaching and learning.

Introductory Psychology

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Comer, Ronald

Gould, Elizabeth

Psychology & Counseling

wiley

Psychology Around Us

Ogden, Nancy

Boyes, Michael

The Voice

NEW PUBLICATION DATE: JANUARY 10, 2012 In the year 1099 a group of men rode off to Jerusalem in search of the Holy Grail and found themselves trapped in a 900 year quest for wealth, god-like power and everlasting life. Over the course of time their mystical quest transformed them from mercenary Norman warlords to feudal princes to modern businessmen through magic and reincarnation, but their mission remained the same; control the crossroads between heaven and earth at a critical moment in the earth’s planetary cycles at the end times and establish a utopian god-like reign over the planet forever.    Was there magic in the past that could predict the future? You bet. Were their seekers who could tap into secrets hidden in ancient parchments taken from the holy land and hoard the knowledge for their own benefit? Undoubtedly yes! But who were these conspirators that sought to enslave the Holy Grail to their purpose? And will they succeed?  The answer lies in The Voice, a novel of dreams and visions that brings the past into perspective and the present with all its mind-bending technology and homeland national security obsession into stark relief.

Literature & Fiction

FitzGerald, Paul

Contemporary

Xlibris, Corp.

The Voice, a personal journey of self-discovery, is an eight hundred year old love story born of our dreams and real events. It reveals the mystical struggle for the future of the Western Dream.

Romance

The war in Afghanistan has become the most complex foreign policy problem the United States has ever faced, spreading into Pakistan and involving the conflicting interests of Russia, India, China and Iran. Written as a companion to Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald's widely acclaimed book Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story, Crossing Zero focuses on the nuances of the Obama administration's evolving military and political strategy, the people implementing it, and the long-term consequences for the United States and the region.
"Fitzgerald and Gould have consistently raised the difficult questions and inconvenient truths about western engagement in Afghanistan. While many analysts and observers have attempted to wish a reality on a grim and tragic situation in Afghanistan, Fitzgerald and Gould have systematically dug through the archives and historical record with integrity and foresight to reveal a series of misguided strategies and approaches that have contributed to what has become a tragic quagmire in Afghanistan. I suspect that many of their assessments while presently viewed as controversial and contentious, will eventually be considered conventional wisdom."—Thomas Johnson
"Americans are now beginning to grasp the scope of the mess their leaders made while pursuing misguided military adventures into regions of Central Asia we once called 'remote.' How this happened—and what the US can do to extricate itself from its entanglements in Pakistan and Afghanistan—is the story of Crossing Zero. Based on decades of study and research, this book draws lines and connects dots in ways few others do. It is clear, sober and methodical—an ideal handbook for anyone seeking to understand how the US became the latest imperial power to blunder into this turbulent and fascinating region."—Stephen Kinzer, author of All the Shah's Men and Reset: Iran, Turkey and America's Future
"I loved it. An extraordinary contribution to understanding war and geo-politics in Afghanistan that will shock most Americans by its revelations of official American government complicity in using, shielding, sponsoring and supporting terrorism. A devastating indictment on the behind-the-scenes shenanigans by some of America's most respected statesmen."—Daniel Estulin
"Gould and Fitzgerald have identified the triumphalist strain that has marked American foreign policy over the past 100 years and documented President Obama's failure to introduce change to American national security policy. The war in Afghanistan is consistent with previous failures in U.S. policymaking over the past 50 years as well as with the misuse of military force. This book should be required reading at the National Security Council and the Pentagon."—Melvin A. Goodman; CIA Senior Soviet Analyst, 1966-1990; Professor of International Security at the National War College,1986-2004; Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy, Washington, DC.
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, a husband and wife team, began working together in 1979 co-producing a documentary for Paul's television show, Watchworks. Called, The Arms Race and the Economy, A Delicate Balance, they found themselves in the midst of a swirling controversy that was to boil over a few months later with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Their acquisition of the first visas to enter Afghanistan granted to an American TV crew in the spring of 1981, brought them into the middle of the most heated Cold War controversy since Vietnam. But the pictures and the people inside Soviet occupied Afghanistan told a very different story from the one being broadcast on the evening news.

Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire (City Lights Open Media)

History

Middle East

City Lights Publishers

New Choices for Writers

Writers Resources

Comer and Gould's Psychology Around Us demonstrates the many-often surprising, always fascinating-intersections of psychology with students' day-to-day lives. Every chapter includes sections on human development, brain function, individual differences and abnormal psychology that occur in that area. These "cut-across" sections highlight how the different fields of psychology are connected to each other and how they connect to everyday life. 
Every chapter begins with a vignette that shows the power of psychology in understanding a whole range of human behavior. This theme is reinforced throughout the chapter in boxed readings and margin notes that celebrate the extraordinary processes that make the everyday possible and make psychology both meaningful and relevant. The text presents psychology as a unified field the understanding of which flows from connecting its multiple subfields and reinforces the fact that psychology is a science with all that this implies (research methodology, cutting edge studies, the application of critical thinking).

Psychology Around Us, 2nd Edition

John Wiley and Sons

Psychology Around Us for JCC

This text is an unbound, binder-ready edition. Psychology Around Us, Second Edition empowers students to build psychological literacy by tying together topics and sub-topics throughout. Following a familiar organization, the unique Tying It Together sections in Psychology Around Us highlight the significance of psychology’s big picture, rather than presenting the field as disjointed topics, chapter-by-chapter. The Psychology Around Us program is full of rich, powerful media resources and supplements that have been streamlined by a team of psychology instructors like you. Psychology Around Us offers professors and students a range of tools to successfully tie psychology all together, highlighting that psychology is an integrated science.

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