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Written for graduate students and early professionals who are conducting applied sport psychology work for the first time, Excelling in Sport Psychology is a guide for planning, preparing, and executi
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In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn’t trust government to re
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We now live in the era of lethal injection as the instrument of death for condemned prisoners. Lethal injection, as Danny LaChance shows, conflates punishment with medicine. And even in Texas, the cap
Social engineering attacks target the weakest link in an organization's security—human beings. Everyone knows these attacks are effective, and everyone knows they are on the rise. Now, Social Engineer
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