Psychopathy remains one of the least understood personality disorders and one of the most intransigent to therapeutic amelioration. Encompassing all the significant viewpoints regarding the nature of psychopathic personalities, this volume surveys current typologies and treatment approaches.

Survey of English usage, grammar, and style offering guidance on almost any writing problem imaginable.

Robert Hartwell Fiske aims to eliminate laxity in language today by way of this witty and engaging reference. Fiske rails against "laxicographers and ding-a-linguists" who, with their misguided thinking, actually promote the dissolution of the English language. He also illustrates why dictionaries don't always provide the correct meaning or usage of a word. With concise instruction and numerous examples of misused words, Fiske makes it easier than ever to learn from others' mistakes. This comprehensive dictionary of common misusages lays bare the mistakes we all make every day. Robert Hartwell Fiske, the grumbling grammarian of our time, shows you the definitive right way and wrong way to use language--and illustrates why dictionaries don't always provide the correct meaning or usage of a word.

Most of author B. Phoenixs adult life has been spent working as a human resources professional for nonprofit organizations and some of the most prestigious law firms in the nation. In Inadmissible, she gives a glimpse of life as shes known it and shares the unbelievably wacky and wild events of her career as an HR professional for several multimillion-dollar law firms and other companies throughout several decades. Although Phoenix worked with many brilliant, good citizens, she also worked with individuals who personified the darkest level of ambition, and she saw greed at an unprecedented level. She shares a variety of information from files she maintained working in HRmany of which describe some real doozie disingenuous artists. Additionally, she relays stories of even wilder behaviors she encountered in more than thirty years as an HR professional. From theft, to tardiness excuses and absenteeism, lies, and terminations, and more, Inadmissible offers insight into employees, employers, and the oftentimes crazy work world.

Exercises designed to develop vocabulary skills present words together with their pronunciations, definitions and use in sentences