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Persona Digital Publications
Philosophy, Psychology & Neuroscience
A series of books present important topics in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy
in a condensed format. These are for the reader who wants a salient review of
the most essential topics.
Printed books are order from Alpha Online and delivered by mail.
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Author, Stephen Gislason MD
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 Persona Books, an integrated collection
Group Dynamics is a 21st century description of sociology. The topics
are essential to understanding human nature, its origins and its problems.
You could treat each topic as module of a larger system that develops emergent properties
as the modules interact. Each reader discovers the features of human nature in himself
or herself and then discovers similar features in others For example, you need to
develop a deep understanding of the critical disputatious nature of the human mind.
You don’t have to travel far to study critical disputatiousness. Your selftalker
is quietly at work everyday creating criticisms of others and defending your social
status by planning retaliatory attacks. You can then move to an analysis of conversations
with family and friends. After you understand more about the dynamics of close relationships,
you can look at larger groups. You can continue by applying your insights
into human dynamics to governments, countries and international affairs.
Other books, describe the same dynamics but emphasize different vantage
points. For example, human problems that threaten our survival are examined in the
book, Surviving Human Nature. The book, Religion for the 21st Century,
examines how innate tendencies are expressed as religions and consider how religions
in the past have created conflicts that threaten human survival or, at least, hinder
progress toward solutions. New religions and variations on old religions continue
to emerge. The book examines the best paths for religious renewal in the 21st century.
The book, I and Thou, focuses on intimate relationships. Innate tendencies
are hard at work when people meet, become lovers and end with arguments and fighting.
The same tendencies determine how family members interact and explain why so many
families are “dysfunctional.” When lovers form an enduring pair bond, they often
become parents and everything changes.
he book, Children and Family, examines the intense interactions of
parents and children.
Language is an important tool and determinant of social interactions. The book,
Language and Thinking, focuses on the innate features of language and
identifies the uses and abuses of language in the creation of social truths and
lies. Neuroscience Notes places the human brain at the center of the universe.
Since the brain is the organ of the mind, consciousness and all knowledge is contained
within the brain.
Our PDF files are read using the Adobe Reader, a free download. We use the current
Abobe 9 reader to test our files and encourage you to update your reader if you
have not done so already. Adobe is unusually generous, providing free updates once
you have the reader installed. When you open a PDF file, you will see a series of
icons in the upper left corner. Right click the top icon to see a menu and
click on Bookmarks -- this opens a table of contents in the left side bar. You can
click on each chapter heading to see the section contents. Click on topics of interest
and read.
International eBook Orders We encourage international customers
to order eBooks rather than print books. The cost of shipping books is increasing.
eBooks are low cost with no shipping charges.
The Adobe Reader was designed as a desktop application that works within
the internet explorer. If you use the reader, be sure to go the view menu and open
the navigation bar (a left sidebar); click on bookmarks to see a table of contents
for our books. This is collapsible menu that allows you to to find topics quickly
and move through the book. You can also use the search ( find) function to look
for keywords or phrase.
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