Based on 15 years of original research, psychologist Ickes examines "empathic accuracy"--the mind's potential to intuit what other people are thinking and feeling.
Dr. Erik Swenson, Professor of Psychology at State University, uses his professional skills in sorting out the mystery surrounding three genetically identical young men, one of whom is a psychopathic killer. The killer cleverly conceals his own identity while pointing the clues to his crimes in the direction of his two identical brothers who do not know of the existence of their psychotic sibling. The killer telephones Dr. Swenson's wife, Jennifer, and forces her to go with him to a seedy motel where he plans to trick Dr. Swenson into meeting them there. He intends to kill Dr. Swenson, then rape his wife. However, Dr. Swenson anticipates the trap and turns the tables on the psychopathic killer.
Dr. Erik Swenson, Professor of Psychology at a mid-western university, is called upon to use his skills in solving a theft and a murder. In the course of Erik's investigation he finds himself falling in love with Jennifer Flemming, owner and CEO of a textile plant that resides on the outskirts of Royceburg. A chemist at Jennifer's plant has discovered a secret textile formula that is worth millions of dollars. An attempted break in, ostensibly to steal the formula, brings Sergeant Angelo, a detective with the Royceburg Police Department, out to Jennifer's plant. Upon learning that Jennifer told Erik about the formula and its value, the sergeant first believes it is Erik who has made the attempt to steal the formula. Later, however, after a second attempt is made to steal the formula, and the would-be thief, a former boy friend of Jennifer, is killed, Sergeant Angelo now believes it is Jennifer who murdered the thief and stole the formula for herself. Angelo will not believe Jennifer when she tells him that the dead man was trying to rape her and was out to steal the formula. As suspicion goes from Erik to Jennifer, it strongly taxes their developing love for each other. However, all is made right when Erik Swenson solves the mystery and finds the real killer. Erik proposes marriage to Jennifer and they are wed.
Science reaches beyond the realm of imagination when a time sphere is invented in a secret research facility. The reader is made privy to the progress and the development of the time machine, called the Chronobird, through the interaction of the PR Director, Brad Iverson, and the Chief Researcher, Andy Richards. Unfortunately, a former member of the housekeeping staff, as a tourist in Germany, leaks enough information about the project to pique the interest of the neo-Nazis. The neo-Nazis send a small team to steal the secret of time travel. The team consists of a money-hungry scientist, Rudolph Oberhelman, who is the team captain, and two neo-Nazi soldiers, Lieutenant Eric Braun and Sergeant Karl Hoffman. At this point in the story, the love interest is the developing relationship between Brad Iverson and Angie Costello, one of the mathematicians. After becoming cognizant of a successful test of the time machine, the neo-Nazis start to implement their plan to steal Andy Richard's research notes. In the course of the theft Eric Braun and Brad Iverson find their destiny entwined when they both enter the time machine and are accidentally sent back in time to mid-nineteenth century America. Eric Braun seizes on this as an opportunity to fulfill an ambition to remain in America, desert the Nazi party, and to become a farmer. He strikes off on his own to find, what would be then, a very primitive and rural Omaha. Brad desperately wants to return to his own time in history. However, through a turn of events, including a snake bite, Brad finds himself on a wagon train of Mormon pioneers on their way to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. A beautiful young widow, Rachel Brown, nurses Brad back to health. It is not difficult for Brad to recognize how closely Rachel's physical appearance resembles that of Angie's. Brad falls in love with the widow and they eventually marry. Rachel has one son from her first marriage, Tommy, about twelve years old. A thread that weaves itself through the story is the life and literary works of James Freeman, an author of science fiction. Freeman ostensibly lived and worked in Salt Lake City during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Brad, a science fiction buff, is eager to meet Freeman and checks out all incoming wagon trains to greet Freeman when he arrives in Salt Lake City. He never does arrive. Perplexed, Brad makes a handwritten copy of Freeman's first novel, the text of which he remembers vividly from having read the novel dozens of times as a child. Brad sends the manuscript and a letter to Freeman's publisher in New York City. The letter inquires where Freeman lives. The manuscript arrives, but the letter is lost. A few weeks later Brad receives a check with information that the manuscript will shortly be published under his penname, James Freeman. Brad then realizes that he, Brad Iverson, is also James Freeman, and that he, Brad Iverson, has written all the books attributed to Freeman. Rachel, Brad's beloved wife, dies of pneumonia just ten years after their marriage. Brad is devastated. It is at this point when Brad's path again crosses that of Eric Braun. Eric's stay in Omaha was brief. He fell in love with a young Mormon girl who converts him to her church. They marry, join a wagon train, and immigrate to Salt Lake City.With the death of Rachel there is now no reason for Brad to remain in the nineteenth century. A fluke in the time machine brings Brad back to his own time. Eric remains in the mid-nineteenth century, as is his wish. Since Eric remains in the nineteenth century, the secret of time travel is never delivered to the neo-Nazis. Karl Hoffman, who has fallen in love, decides he wants to stay in America. He changes his identity by having phony ID's printed up, and he deserts the neo-Nazi party. Oberhelman is forced to return alone to face the wrath of the neo-Nazi commanders. Now back in his own time, Brad picks up the love interest with Angie that was interrupted
This is a collection of short stories presented in two sections. The first section represents stories that are pure fiction, with Payday being the only exception. The second section, Centerville, represents autobiographical sketches that are, for the most part, true stories but stories that are well seasoned with fiction when necessary for the sake of creating and maintaining dramatic interest. The titles of the stories, with a brief synopsis, appear as follows: THE NAHJA (fantasy) The nahja described in this story supposedly has magical properties-- or does it?THE VIAL (fantasy) A ne'er-do-well car salesman finds that a magic potion does not bring him happiness.PAYDAY (inspirational) An audiologist finds that his best pay comes from job satisfaction.THE DUMMY (inspirational) A severely hard-of-hearing man with a pronounced speech disorder, and lonely for female companionship, finds love from serving as a mimeTHE SOW'S EAR (unexpected) A bogus bearer bond is used to make several expensive purchases before being returned to its point of origin.THE BARGAIN (fantasy) A child's love convinces Danny that his bargain with the devil is a bad one.RACE WITH DEATH (adventure) Diptheria antitoxin is needed to save the life of Luke's little daughter. He has less than forty-eight hours to make a dog-sled run to get the antitoxin.CENTERVILLE (memoirs) Through a series of short stories, or sketches, the author recounts growing up in a pre-World War II Mormon community.
Based on 15 years of original research, psychologist Ickes examines "empathic accuracy"--the mind's potential to intuit what other people are thinking and feeling.
Can we predict how well--or how poorly--two strangers will get along? According to social psychologist William Ickes, the answer is yes. Drawing upon relevant research findings from his 30-year career, Ickes explains how initial interactions are shaped by gender, race, birth order, physical attractiveness, androgyny, the Big Five dimensions, shyness, and self-monitoring.Ickes's work offers unprecedented insights on the links between personality and social behavior that have not previously been compiled in a single source: how sibling relationships during childhood affect our interactions with opposite-sex strangers years later; why Latinos have a social advantage in initial interactions; how men react to the physical attractiveness of a female stranger in a relatively direct and obvious way while women react to the attractiveness of a male stranger in a more indirect and subtle way; and how personality similarity is related to satisfaction in married couples.This relatively short, highly accessible work serves as an ideal supplementary text for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in personality and social psychology. It will also appeal to scholars working in the fields of personality and social psychology and to laypersons who are interested in learning what researchers have discovered about the links between personality and social behavior.
The inauguration of Robert Maynard Hutchins as the fifth President of the University of Chicago in 1929 coincided with a drastically changed social and economic climate throughout the world. And Hutchins himself opened an era of tumultuous reform and debate within the University. In the midst of the changes Hutchins started and the intense feelings they stirred, William H. McNeill arrived at the University to pursue his education. In Hutchins' University he tells what it was like to come of age as a undergraduate in those heady times. Hutchins' scathing opposition to the departmentalization of learning and his resounding call for reforms in general education sparked controversy and fueled debate on campus and off. It became a struggle for the heart and soul of higher education—and McNeill, as a student and then as an instructor, was a participant. His account of the university's history is laced with personal reminiscences, encounters with influential fellow scholars such as Richard McKeon, R. S. Crane, and David Daiches, and details drawn from Hutchins' papers and other archives. McNeill sketches the interplay of personalities with changing circumstances of the Depression, war, and postwar eras. But his central concern is with the institutional life of the University, showing how student behavior, staff and faculty activity and even the Hyde Park neighborhood all revolved around the charismatic figure of Robert Maynard Hutchins—shaped by him and in reaction against him. Successive transformations of the College, and the tribulations of the ideal of general or liberal education are central to much of the story; but the memoir also explores how the University was affected by such events as Red scares, the remarkably successful Round Table radio broadcasts, the abolition of big time football, and the inauguration of the nuclear age under the west stands of Stagg Field in 1942. In short, Hutchins' University sketches an extraordinarily vibrant period for the University of Chicago and for American higher education. It will revive old controversies among veterans from those times, and may provoke others to reflect anew about the proper role of higher education in American society.
Clifford Gaddy's and Barry Ickes' thesis-- that Russia's economy is based on illusion or pretense about nearly every important economic yardstick, including prices, sales, wages and budgets-- has forced broad recognition of the inadequacies of the intended market reform policies in Russia and provided a coherent framework for understanding how and why so much of Russia's economy has resisted reform.
Perhaps not southerners in the usual sense, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Lyndon B. Johnson each demonstrated a political style and philosophy that helped them influence the South and unite the country in ways that few other presidents have. Combining vivid biography and political insight, William E. Leuchtenburg offers an engaging account of relations between these three presidents and the South while also tracing how the region came to embrace a national perspective without losing its distinctive sense of place. According to Leuchtenburg, each man "had one foot below the Mason-Dixon Line, one foot above." Roosevelt, a New Yorker, spent much of the last twenty-five years of his life in Warm Springs, Georgia, where he built a "Little White House." Truman, a Missourian, grew up in a pro-Confederate town but one that also looked West because of its history as the entrepôt for the Oregon Trail. Johnson, who hailed from the former Confederate state of Texas, was a westerner as much as a southerner. Their intimate associations with the South gave these three presidents an empathy toward and acceptance in the region. In urging southerners to jettison outworn folkways, Roosevelt could speak as a neighbor and adopted son, Truman as a borderstater who had been taught to revere the Lost Cause, and Johnson as a native who had been scorned by Yankees. Leuchtenburg explores in fascinating detail how their unique attachment to "place" helped them to adopt shifting identities, which proved useful in healing rifts between North and South, in altering behavior in regard to race, and in fostering southern economic growth. The White House Looks South is the monumental work of a master historian. At a time when race, class, and gender dominate historical writing, Leuchtenburg argues that place is no less significant. In a period when America is said to be homogenized, he shows that sectional distinctions persist. And in an era when political history is devalued, he demonstrates that government can profoundly affect people's lives and that presidents can be change-makers.
For almost sixty years, the results of the New Deal have been an accepted part of political life. Social Security, to take one example, is now seen as every American's birthright. But to validate this revolutionary legislation, Franklin Roosevelt had to fight a ferocious battle against the opposition of the Supreme Court--which was entrenched in laissez faire orthodoxy. After many lost battles, Roosevelt won his war with the Court, launching a Constitutional revolution that went far beyond anything he envisioned. In The Supreme Court Reborn, esteemed scholar William E. Leuchtenburg explores the critical episodes of the legal revolution that created the Court we know today. Leuchtenburg deftly portrays the events leading up to Roosevelt's showdown with the Supreme Court. Committed to laissez faire doctrine, the conservative "Four Horsemen"--Justices Butler, Van Devanter, Sutherland, and McReynolds, aided by the swing vote of Justice Owen Roberts--struck down one regulatory law after another, outraging Roosevelt and much of the Depression-stricken nation. Leuchtenburg demonstrates that Roosevelt thought he had the backing of the country as he prepared a scheme to undermine the Four Hoursemen. Famous (or infamous) as the "Court-packing plan," this proposal would have allowed the president to add one new justice for every sitting justice over the age of seventy. The plan picked up considerable momentum in Congress; it was only after a change in the voting of Justice Roberts (called "the switch in time that saved nine") and the death of Senate Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson that it shuddered to a halt. Rosevelt's persistence led to one of his biggest legislative defeats. Despite the failure of the Court-packing plan, however, the president won his battle with the Supreme Court; one by one, the Four Horsemen left the bench, to be replaced by Roosevelt appointees. Leuchtenburg explores the far-reaching nature of FDR's victory. As a consequence of the Constitutional Revolution that began in 1937, not only was the New Deal upheld (as precedent after precedent was overturned), but also the Court began a dramatic expansion of Civil liberties that would culminate in the Warren Court. Among the surprises was Senator Hugo Black, who faced widespread opposition for his lack of qualifications when he was appointed as associate justice; shortly afterward, a reporter revealed that he had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Despite that background, Black became an articulate spokesman for individual liberty. William E. Leuchtenburg is one of America's premier historians, a scholar who combines depth of learning with a graceful style. This superbly crafted book sheds new light on the great Constitutional crisis of our century, illuminating the legal and political battles that created today's Supreme Court.
A History of Psychology: Ideas & Context, 5/e, traces psychological thought from antiquity through early 21st century advances, giving students a thorough look into psychology’s origins and development. This title provides in-depth coverage of intellectual trends, major systems of thought, and key developments in basic and applied psychology.
A renowned historian recounts how President Roosevelt inspired the country and changed forever the political, social, economic, and even the physical landscape of the United States--Cover.
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