What do we want? What makes us tick? From acceptance to vengeance to curiosity, this book explains the 16 basic and universal desires that shape our behavior--and shows how the ways we prioritize them determines our personalities. Grounded in up-to-date psychological research, this book can help pa[...]

In The Normal Personality, Steven Reiss argues that human beings are naturally intolerant of people who express values significantly different from their own. Because of this intolerance, psychologists and psychiatrists sometimes confuse individuality with abnormality and thus over-diagnose disorder[...]

This text details the use of inheritance, object libraries, design patterns and notations, and library class creation. It discusses language and programming features like exception handling, and interprocess communication. It also contains material from software engineering and object-orientation.[...]