Research Theories

Award-winning exploration of the lost empire that rivaled ancient Egypt and Babylonia. Winner of the Outstanding Creator Award for Best Nonfiction Book 2025, First Place in Educational & Reference, and Best Research. For centuries, the Hittites slipped into near oblivion, until archaeologists pieced together their astonishing legacy from ruins and clay tablets. Drawing on decades of research, archaeologist R. Jay Driskill brings this enigmatic civilization vividly to life. From their sudden rise in the early second millennium BCE to their collapse around 1180 BCE, the Hittites reshaped the ...

What if science has it backwards? For more than a century, we’ve been told that consciousness is produced by the brain—that when the brain dies, so do we. But a growing body of evidence suggests something very different. In this book, award-winning author Stephen Hawley Martin presents a compelling case that the dominant scientific worldview may be fundamentally incomplete—and that consciousness may not arise from matter at all. A Challenge to One of Science’s Deepest Assumptions Drawing on decades of research and firsthand experience, Martin examines a series of well-documented ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Hans Selye A Gateway to His Life, Discoveries, and Legacy Before stress became a word for deadlines, burnout, sleepless nights, and modern overload, Hans Selye saw it inside the body. In laboratory animals exposed to very different demands, he noticed a repeated biological pattern: alarm, adaptation, resistance, and eventual exhaustion. From this discovery emerged one of the most influential ideas of the twentieth century — the science of stress. This concise yet powerful volume explores Selye’s life, discoveries, and lasting influence, from his Central ...

A fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences. The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual orthodoxy that has ruled the social sciences for decades. The core of the orthodoxy consists of three...

Gay has made many important revisions to keep her foundational, award-winning text relevant for today's diverse student population, including: new research on culturally responsive teaching, a focus on a broader range of racial and ethnic groups, and consideration of additional issues related to early childhood education. This book demonstrates that all students will perform better on multiple measures of achievement when teaching is filtered through students' own cultural experiences.

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Revolutionary Discovery That Changes Everything We Know About Life & Death 🚨 CANCER PATIENTS: This could save your life. HEALTH ENTHUSIASTS: Prepare for the most mind-blowing biological revelations you've never heard of. Note-This is the Deluxe Color Edition-If you would prefer the economical Black & white edition for $14.99 please follow this link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLKBFHLV (also check out the amazing unique reviews there too!) What if the greatest medical mystery of our time has been hiding in plain sight for 3.8 billion years? This isn't just another ...

You're not crazy. You’re triggered. You’re not too much. You were trained to chase love that runs. You date people who pull away. You feel like you’re begging to be chosen. You either cling, vanish, or implode. You don’t need another breakup. You need to understand why your nervous system thinks this is love. This book doesn’t just describe attachment styles. It helps you repattern them — in real time, with tools that stick. You’ll get: ✅ Real-life dialogues between attachment styles (you’ll see yourself in them) ✅ Secure behavior scripts you can copy-paste into texts ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Mary Whiton Calkins A Gateway to Her Life, Theories, and Legacy Mary Whiton Calkins was one of the most important early figures in American psychology — and one of the clearest examples of brilliance denied its proper recognition. She completed the requirements for a Harvard doctorate, studied with some of the leading minds of her age, founded one of the first psychology laboratories in the United States, and became the first woman president of the American Psychological Association. Yet Harvard refused to grant her the degree she had earned. This concise yet ...

In "The Waldorf Effect," readers are invited to explore the enigmatic corridors of the Waldorf Estate of Fear in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, where a groundbreaking paranormal research theory emerges. This professional exploration delves into a four-part theory that scrutinizes the interaction of elements within haunted locales. Drawing from years of parascientific research that blends metaphysical and data-driven approaches. "The Waldorf Effect" investigates how these elements intertwine to generate fresh hauntings, amplify existing ones, and shift the energy dynamics of a site. The theory ...

Frankie finds that the bonobos she's studying are as complex as the humans she's working alongside. Their personalities are strong and distinct, and reigning over it all is Mama, the commanding, matriarchal leader of the group. Frankie comes to know the bonobos and to further develop her groundbreaking theory with the help of her research partner, a man with a complicated past and perhaps a place in her future. And then something changes everything, and the lines that divide them - between subject and scientist, between colleague and companion - begin to blur. 

What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less a...

Artificial intelligence is advancing at breathtaking speed. Large language models can write essays, generate code, compose music, diagnose disease, and simulate conversation with astonishing fluency. As discussions of artificial general intelligence (AGI) intensify, one question becomes unavoidable: If machines can think, what makes us human? In More Than Machines, award-winning Stephen Hawley Martin explores the critical distinction between machine intelligence and human consciousness. Drawing on philosophy of mind, neuroscience, quantum physics debates, and research into near-death ...

Hallucinated citations that survived review. Confidentiality breaches that didn't surface until the bar complaint. Malpractice exposure building invisibly, one unexamined AI output at a time. These aren't hypothetical. They're already happening to lawyers who adopted AI without a framework. And the lawyers who made those mistakes weren't careless—they were experienced, diligent, and trying to keep up.

A famed political scientist's classic argument for a more cooperative world We assume that, in a world ruled by natural selection, selfishness pays. So why cooperate? In The Evolution of Cooperation, political scientist Robert Axelrod seeks to answer this question. In 1980, he organized the...

You’ve seen the pattern. The lights in the sky that never land. The entities that appear but refuse to stay. The near-death experiences that reveal—but never fully explain. The encounters that feel real, structured, and intentional… yet always stop short of proof. What if that is the point? In High Strangeness, Rob Roden examines paranormal encounters not as random mysteries, but as bounded events operating within constraints. Across UFO sightings, entity encounters, synchronicities, and near-death experiences, a consistent architecture emerges: • Contact without escalation • ...

Ghosts are not rare. They are not random. And they are not confined to a single place, culture, or time. They repeat. Across centuries, people have reported the same shadowy figures, the same apparitions, and the same patterns of haunting, whether in ancient civilizations or modern homes. The details change. The environments shift. But the phenomena remain eerily consistent. Coincidence is no longer a satisfying explanation. In The Persistence of Ghosts, this unsettling pattern is brought into sharp focus. Drawing from historical records, global folklore, and contemporary investigations, ...

Academia has produced many motivational theories. Most are well thought, and subsequent research has supported their usefulness and validity. One concern with theses theories, however, is the fact that they were mostly developed in academia using interviews, surveys, or controlled subject groups made up of students or paid participants. Often times, real world application is not part of this process. This eBook examines the gap between academia and the real world. It describes major seven motivational theories and applies them to situations in organizations. Using the examples provided, ...

Enlightenment!—You may spend your whole life seeking it, but never find it. You may never search for it or even know that it’s possible, but reach it by accident. And you may live out your life ignorant of its existence, and die having never discovered your highest potential for happiness, self-mastery, and creative brilliance. The enlightened psychologist Abraham Maslow was the first to scientifically describe the fully enlightened person—which he called the “self-actualizing person.” Building on Maslow’s work through careful biographical study of the lives of self-actualizing ...

Best Books of the Year – The Financial Times and The Economist Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year ‘Important, timely, instructive and entertaining’ – Daniel Kahneman, bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow Megaproject expert Bent Flyvbjerg...

What if the struggle of launching an e-commerce business—finding products, creating professional content, managing operations—is completely unnecessary in the AI era? While you're agonizing over product photography, spending days writing descriptions, wondering how to handle customer service without hiring expensive staff, and watching competitors with bigger budgets dominate your market, early adopters have discovered how to use AI to build e-commerce businesses that generate six figures annually with minimal teams and sustainable profit margins.