Freud ♡ 18 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 A critical reassessment of one of the most controversial philosophers of the last century. Few figures have had so decisive and fundamental an influence on
Never Marry A Girl With A Dead Father ♡ 29 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 Freud's ''discovery'' of hysteria was both anticipated by, and grounded in, 19th-century realist fiction. Here, the author reveals how the dark continent that Freud cal...
Catching a Wave ♡ 29 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 A collection of original essays that calls for new voices to redefine feminism. Young women today have benefited from the strides made by grassroots social
Nurturing a Healthy Mind ♡ 17 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 The 90's was declared the 'Decade of the Brain' and a flurry of research on brain development soon followed. The result: two decades on we
Pimp State ♡ 16 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 Never before have prostitution, strip clubs and pornography been as profitable, widely used or embedded in mainstream culture as they are today. How society should
Positive Placements ♡ 16 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 Case study extracts from past students on a diverse range of placements give a flavour for what its really like to go on placement. Summaries
WTF? ♡ 16 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand where we have gone wrong.' Verno...
When They Go Low, We Go High ♡ 15 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 Cartea Anului a Revistei Times: ‘Pentru toți cei care cred în politica bazată pe principii și speranță, acesta este un memento că nu pierd întotdeauna.
Thinning the Herd ♡ 15 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 'Thinning the Herd' is a book all about life's only certainty - death - and the various ways in which it comes upon us, from
College Girls ♡ 27 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 Since the opening of Vassar College in 1865, objections to higher education for women have ranged from charges that females were mentally and physically incapable
Dumbocracy Adventures With The Loony Left The Rabid Right And Other American Idiots ♡ 27 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 In this scathing exploration of the ridiculous ends of the American political spectrum both conservative and liberal, fresh new voice Marty Beckerman interacts with the
Spliffs 3 ♡ 15 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 A largely pictorial section (Skins and Things) take a trip through the array of rolling papers of the past and present and a look at
Crete: Women, History, Books and Places ♡ 15 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 This livret links legend and archaeology by writing and place, but does not neglect Crete's other women. Over the centuries they were subject to numerous
Veblen And Modern America ♡ 15 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 EvaluatesVeblen not just as an economist or a sociologist but as a seminal critic of modern American culture.
The 'R' Word: Racism ♡ 31 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Rasa și rasismul rămân o parte inevitabilă a vieții oamenilor de culoare. Disprețul zilnic, adesea înrădăcinat în frici și în percepții greșite despre „celălalt”, încă
Filiation and Affiliation ♡ 26 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Announcements in the 1970s and 1980s of the death of kinship and descent as subjects of anthropological study were highly premature. These subjects continue routinely
Play-by-Play ♡ 26 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Smith examines the troubled relationship between higher education and the broadcasting industry, the effects of TV revenue on college athletics (notably football), and th...
Nobrow ♡ 14 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 From an incisive and cultural critic comes a fascinating look at the commercialization of taste. Combining social commentary, memoir, and profiles of the potentates and
Sartre, Self-formation, and Masculinities ♡ 25 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Published on the occasion of Sartre's Centenary, this book helps to understand the man behind the work, offering a psycho-social analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre with
The surplus woman ♡ 25 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 The belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenberschu, formed a principal pillar of the first German womens movement and served
Negotiating Poverty ♡ 25 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Over one and a half billion people live on the equivalent of less than one US dollar a day. As the gap between rich and
Conceiving the Future ♡ 24 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938 Through nostalgic idealizations of motherhood, family, and the home, a...
Informed Consent To Psychoanalysis The Law The Theory And The Data ♡ 24 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 'This book examines informed consent to psychoanalysis. It reviews the law. It examines informed consent as a theoretical matter: e.g., is it possible, is it
Wording the World ♡ 24 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 The essays in this book offer a detailed exploration of how Veena Das's work has been critically assimilated in the thinking and writing of a
Double or Nothing? ♡ 24 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 A lively and accessible look at Jewish intermarriage and its familial and cultural effects. The American Jewish resistance to intermarriage held by earlier generations...
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote ♡ 24 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote
The End of Anger ♡ 24 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 With The Rage of a Privileged Class, Ellis Cose, a venerated and bestselling voice on American life, offered an eye-opening look at the simmering anger
Women migrants from East to West ♡ 23 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Based on the oral histories of eighty migrant women and thirty additional interviews with ‘native’ women in the ‘receiving’ countries, this volume documents the contempor...
Stressed Sex ♡ 23 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Every day millions of people struggle with psychological and emotional problems. The Stressed Sex sets out to answer a simple, but crucial, question: are rates
Cornelia James Cannon and the Future American Race ♡ 23 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 A probing analysis of the role of eugenics in the thinking of progressive reformers in the 1920s and 1930s
Assume nothing ♡ 23 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Frank images of twenty-five people ranging in age from twenty to sixty from countries around the world explore the meaning of gender and includes the
The Right Darwin ? ♡ 23 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 The common assumption that Darwinism and conservatism are mutually inconsistent is now fiercely debated on the right. A number of conservative thinkers argue that evolut...
Captain Rugged ♡ 22 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 Captain Rugged is a multimedia project collaboration between 2 Nigerian artists: Keziah Jones and Native Maqari. The book is a graphic novel and will come
Zero Negativity ♡ 22 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 COMANDĂ ACUM Există momente în care viața pare că te încolțește: dificultăți financiare, probleme de relație, probleme de serviciu, toate cele de mai sus. Fiecare
Rendezvous With Oblivion ♡ 22 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 'What does a middle-class democracy look like when it comes apart? When, after forty years of economic triumph, America's winners persuade themselves that they owe
Spree ♡ 21 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 Journalist and shopping addict Pamela Klaffke documents the history of shopping, from a time when cattle were currency to the current age of contemporary shopping
Poignant Relations ♡ 21 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 Theirs was a discreet, relational feminism, which they expressed by considering their relationships to themselves and to others. Because they were less political (and thu...
Serial Killers at the Movies ♡ 38 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 The depraved crimes of both real and imagined serial killers and mass murderers have long transfixed us in newspapers and books, but perhaps nowhere more
The power of law in a transnational world anthropological enquiries ♡ 21 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 Recoge: Power of law as discourse - At the intersection of legalities - Religion as a resource in legal pluralism.
Russian Minority Politics in Post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan ♡ 21 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 The collapse of the Soviet Union suddenly rendered ethnic Russians living in non-Russian successor states like Latvia and Kyrgyzstan new minorities subject to dramatic po...
Fast Or Die ♡ 21 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 Italian photographer Alex Fakso got his start at the age of 13, photographing his own works of graffiti on trains. Since then, Fakso has become
African Encounters With Domesticity ♡ 21 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 Anthropologists usually think of domesticity as the activities related to the home and the family. Such activities have complex meanings associated with the sense of
Letters to Santa Claus ♡ 21 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 Who are the people called Hoosiers? What are their stories? Two centuries ago, on the Indiana frontier, they were settlers who created a way of
Comics' comics ♡ 21 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 Erich Beasley likes to laugh, and he likes to laugh with the comedians that make him laugh.Comics’ Comicsis the result of Beasley’s pursuit to meet
Narrating Victimhood ♡ 21 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 Mythologies and narratives of victimisation pervade contemporary Croatia, set against a backdrop of militarised notions of masculinity and the political mobilisation of r...
Yes Sisters ♡ 28 15 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 A single 'no' from someone close to us can crush our dreams. You can't . . . You'll never . . . You're kidding yourself
The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin De Rios ♡ 20 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 A look inside almost half a century of pioneering research in the Amazon and Peru by a noted anthropologist studying hallucinogens, including ayahuasca Reveals how
Guihai Yuheng Zhi ♡ 20 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 This important work of twelfth-century Chinese scholarship is at once a gazetteer, an ethnography, and a natural history of south China - mainly Guangxi and
Together ♡ 25 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 'Together' by Ece Temelkuran is a book that defines our new political story that will shape the way we see the world and the way
The Time In Between: A memoir of hunger and hope ♡ 20 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 Când Nancy Tucker avea opt ani, clasa ei a avut de scris despre ceea ce își doresc de la viață. S-a gândit și s-a tot
Least Worst Place ♡ 19 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 In January 2002, the first detainees of the War on Terror disembarked in Guantánamo Bay, dazed, bewildered, and--more often than not--alarmingly thin. With little advance...
Like Water on Stone ♡ 19 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 Provides a historical review of Amnesty International, as well as a close-up look at the ways the organization has assisted people in their diverse struggles
Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects ♡ 19 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 The essays in Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects ask how the risingpreponderance of scholarship from Southeast Asia is de-centering Southeast Asian studies in the United St...
The Home Its Work And Influence ♡ 19 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 Reprint of 1903 edition of Gilman's classic indictment of domestic life, offering a program of domestic reform that inspired women at the beginning of what
Reading the Fire ♡ 19 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 Reading the Fireengages America's 'first literatures,' traditional Native American tales and legends, as literary art and part of our collective imaginative heritage. Thi...
Demystifying Anorexia Nervosa ♡ 19 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 Emotionally and physically devastating, anorexia nervosa is the third most common chronic illness in teenage girls, striking one in every two hundred (boys only make
Everyone Versus Racism : A Letter to My Children ♡ 19 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 'Vreau doar egalitate, egalitate pentru noi toți. În acest moment, balanța este incorect echilibrată și vreau doar ca lucrurile să fie corecte pentru copiii mei,
Nobody's Victim ♡ 23 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 Ia un moment și gândește-te la cel mai intim secret al tău. Lucrul pe care nu vrei să-l știe nimeni. Haide, gândește-te la ceva. Cu
Untangling the Web ♡ 23 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 The World Wide Web is the most revolutionary innovation of our time. In the last decade, it has utterly transformed our lives. But what real
Beyond Love ♡ 23 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 Mr. Wise has written a very unusual book. He analyzes the recent past and extends current trends into the future. With a characteristic disregard for
Age of Ageing Better? ♡ 23 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 The Age of Ageing Better? takes a radically different view of what our aging society means. Dr Anna Dixon turns the misleading and depressing narrative
Why Do I Love These People? ♡ 18 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 We all have an imaginary definition of a great family. We imagine what it would be like to belong to such a family. No fights
For girls only ♡ 26 15 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 Babysitting rules, giving a great pedicure, and proper netiquette are some of the topics discussed in a wonderful compilation of advice, tips, and information for
Why Young Men ♡ 18 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 The day after the 2015 Paris terror attacks, twenty-eight-year-old Canadian Jamil Jivani opened the newspaper to find that the men responsible were familiar to him.
Aging in Today's World ♡ 18 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 Aging is an issue in today's world as never before. In this book an anthropologist and a physician explore the subject from their different perspectives,
Transit States ♡ 26 15 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar) form the largest destination for labour migration in
Corona Crash ♡ 18 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 Free market, competitive capitalism is dead. The separation between politics and economics can no longer be sustained. In The Corona Crash, leading economics commentator...
The Unmade Bed ♡ 25 15 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 “Satisfying food for thought on the ever-changing dynamics of men and women as they interact and go about their individual lives” (Kirkus Reviews) as cultural
END GAME: TIPPING POINT EARTH ♡ 22 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 Ce se va întâmpla când creșterea populației va pune în pericol rezervele de hrană ale lumii? Sau apa noastră? Nevoile noastre de energie, climatul sau
Poppyganda ♡ 17 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 This is the story of how the modern relationships between man and nature, war and politics, and the media and technology are writing another chapter
The Walking Dead Psychology ♡ 22 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 The characters of The Walking Dead live in a desolate postapocalyptic world, filled with relentless violence and death. In reality, how would such neverending trauma
BEYOND OJ ♡ 17 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 Discusses the social issues of the O.J. Simpson case, comparing recent cases involving white and African American male defendants with similar charges
The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future ♡ 22 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 Glossy television images of happy, industrious and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially ap...
The Invisible Presence ♡ 17 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 Whether he's conscious of it or not, a man's mother is the model for just about every relationship with a woman he has for the
On The Public Agenda ♡ 17 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 Puts the idea of dissidence, and the confidence to effect change, back on the public agenda.
Without Consent or Contract: Markets and Productions ♡ 17 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 Written to accompany Without Consent or Contract, this book is part of a two volume set which has been designed to fill out the portrait
No House to Call My Home ♡ 17 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 În acest debut liric, Ryan Berg afundă cititorii în lumea dureroasă, periculoasă și șocantă a adolescenților LGBTQA fără adăpost din New York. Berg a asistat
Cocaine Addiction: Treatment, Recovery, and Relapse Prevention ♡ 28 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 Cocaine is America's fastest growing drug problem, especially since the appearance of crack. This concise, highly practical book is a detailed guide to clinical assessme...
Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux ♡ 21 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 A vital short handbook offering ten survival skills for a world in flux. If we are going to survive and respond well to Covid-19, we
Happy: Finding joy in every day and letting go of perfect ♡ 21 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 She's known for her fun and upbeat presenting style, but Fearne Cotton has also been bravely open about her struggle with depression during some darker
A TREATISE ON SOCIAL THEORY ♡ 16 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 The concluding volume of W.G. Runciman's trilogy on social theory applies his theory and methodology to the case of twentieth-century English society. He shows how...
Zucked ♡ 16 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 One of the Financial Times' Best Business Books of 2019 The New York Times bestseller about a noted tech venture capitalist, early mentor to Mark
To Be Young Was Very Heaven ♡ 16 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 A great history of the important women living in New York City before WWI who helped to shape the social consciousness of the twentieth century.
Ageing Without Children ♡ 16 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 Rapid fertility declines and improved longevity are now shifting the overall balance of population towards older ages in many parts of the world. Within this