Playing with Fire
Author | : Roderick D. Buchanan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2010-05-06 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780198566885 |
ISBN-10 | : 0198566883 |
Rating | : 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Playing with Fire by : Roderick D. Buchanan
Download or read book Playing with Fire written by Roderick D. Buchanan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Playing with Fire' is a biography of psychologist Hans J. Eysenck's career. It looks to describe the contradictions in Eysenck's public and professional image and explain how one fed the other. It documents his boyhood in Berlin and the origins of his key ideas about personality, learning and the biogenetics of behaviour.