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The Psychic Within

Twenty-two intriguing stories help you understand that each of us has a Psychic within and that nothing happens by chance.

Yeti

What leads us to believe in monsters? What happens when we meet the brutal creatures of our nightmares?

Clean Clothes: A Global Movement to End Sweatshops

The Clean Clothes Campaign is a worldwide movement that aims to improve the wages and conditions of sweatshop workers. This is the story of their

Women migrants from East to West

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...

Why Can't We All Just Get Along

In an increasingly divided society, Iain examines why we've all become so disrespectful and intolerant. Using experiences from his career in politics and the media,

The Price and Privilege of Being a Woman

Endorsements 'Through gripping stories Winnie Williams provides an insightful commentary on the plight of women in diverse settings struggling to achieve their rights in ...

Captain Rugged

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

Claiming Individuality

Investigates why the concept of individuality is important to people, and how it varies in different social settings worldwide Individuality is often interpreted as a

Contesting Publics

Through ethnographic cases and activists' narratives, Contesting Publics analyses the challenges feminists face as they seek to engage with new spaces of participatory de...

Speaking and Listening

The Primary Teacher's Guide to... series provides detailed subject knowledge for teachers to aid professional development. This title covers all the elements of primary ...

Art Of Thinking Clearly

The Art of Thinking Clearly is essential reading for anyone with important decisions to make. It reveals, in 100 short chapters, the most common errors

How to Think Like Stephen Hawking

Undoubtedly the most famous scientist on the planet and the very face of physics over the last half-century, Stephen Hawking is remarkable for many reasons.

Conceiving the Future

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

'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

Spree

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

How to Make a Difference

If not you, who? If not now, when? This is a unique and practical guide to activism which combines the latest thinking, experiences and advice

Stressed Sex

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

Poignant Relations

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...

Us, in progress

A collection of short stories featuring Latin Americans allows readers to experience life through their eyes, celebrate their victories, and see their hardships.

Least Worst Place

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...

Alienated America

Now a Washington Post bestseller. Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with Hillbilly Elegy and the classi...

Loving through Your Differences

FIND HAPPINESS AND FULFILLMENT THROUGH — RATHER THAN DESPITE — YOUR DIFFERENCES Dr. James Creighton has worked with couples for decades, facilitating communication and co...

Figuring Out the Past

What was the tallest building of the ancient world? Or the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was

Wise Mind Living

In Wise Mind Living , Dr. Olivo teaches you how to identify and overcomeconditioned responses to eight core categories of emotion. 'When you’re living in

Hillbilly Elegy

În acest memoriu profund emoționant, Vance spune povestea demonilor familiei sale și a problemei Americii cu neglijarea generației. Cum mama lui s-a luptat împotriva, da...

Generations

Informed by unique analysis of hundreds of studies, Duffy reveals that many of our preconceptions are just that: tired stereotypes. Revealing and informative, Generation...

The Heartland

A powerful work of non-fiction and the natural sequel to his Costa Book of the Year Award-winning The Shock of the Fall.

On Rape

Fame: From the Bronze Age to Britney

We're told that we're celebrity-obsessed. But are we? When we elevate mere mortals to the status of gods, is this a new disease, or a

Filiation and Affiliation

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

Mindspan Diet

The Ethical Treatment of Depression

A philosopher argues there is an ethical imperative to provide psychotherapy to depressed patients because the insights gained from it promote autonomy. One in six

Blood Gun Money

Presents a searing investigation into the role of the drug trade in the black market for firearms, both within the U.S. and across the U.S.-Mexican

100 Voices

The poignant, funny and inspiring stories collected here are as varied and diverse as their authors, who include established names such as Louise Jensen, Sabrina

Cornelia James Cannon and the Future American Race

A probing analysis of the role of eugenics in the thinking of progressive reformers in the 1920s and 1930s

LOVING EACH OTHER

In this exploration of loving and living, bestselling author Leo Buscaglia addresses the intricacies and challenges of love relationships. He asks such important ...

The Capability of Places

How can we assess the ability of a place to respond to challenges like migration, recession and disease? Places which seem similar can respond very

Never Marry A Girl With A Dead Father

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...

This Book Is Anti-Racist

This book is written for EVERYONE who lives in this racialised society—including the young person who doesn’t know how to speak up to the racist

The Handbook of Multisensory Processes

A reference work for the emerging field of multisensory integration, covering multidisciplinary research that goes beyond the traditional 'sense-by-sense' approach and r...

Us and Them

US AND THEM: Understanding your tribal mind reveals how and why we convince ourselves that we belong to differing human kinds - tribe-type categories like

Serial Killers at the Movies

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

Culture Warlords

White supremacists, Incels, White nationalists, National Socialists, Proud Boys, Christian extremists... In order to showcase their behaviour in their natural habitat, T...

Comparing Countries

Take a trip around the world, looking at the many different ways that people celebrate special days, holidays, religious festivals and traditional celebrations. Comparin...

This Is Not the Way

Few subjects invoke more controversy than the past history and current influence of Diaspora Jews in Western societies and the nature of their relationship with

Catching a Wave

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

Like Water on Stone

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

Separated

In June 2018, Donald Trump's most notorious decision as president had secretly been in effect for months before most Americans became aware of the astonishing

Fixing Broken Windows

Based on a groundbreaking theory of crime prevention, this practical and empowering book shows how citizens, business owners, and police can work together to ensure

Simla Village Tales

One cannot sojourn for long in the East without hearing strange stories, all of which are vouched for by the natives. Most would make ones

Play-by-Play

Smith examines the troubled relationship between higher education and the broadcasting industry, the effects of TV revenue on college athletics (notably football), and th...

On Time - Finding Your Pace in a World Addicted to Fast

Why has time sped up? Why is there never enough? How can you make it yours again? On Time reveals why time sped up, why

Some of My Friends Are...

An insightful look at how cross-racial friendships work and fail within American society. In a U.S. national survey conducted for this book, 70% of respondents

Freedom

A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest

American Awakening

Din tinerețe, John Kingston a purtat întotdeauna o viziune pentru o Americă liberă și unită. În American Awakening, Kingston trage de la istorie, știință, credință

Sartre, Self-formation, and Masculinities

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

From Here to Eternity

Fascinată de teama și teroarea noastră omniprezentă față de cadaveric, Caitlin Doughty, anteprenor de pompe funebre, se angajează într-o expediție în jurul lumii pentru ...

Steiner Education And Social Issues

via a series of short, engaging chapters, and based on his broad personal experience of teaching and teacher-training, Masters tackles a wide range of modern

Introducing Evolutionary Psychology: A Graphic Guide

Drawing on the insights of evolutionary biology and cognitive psychology, as well as data from anthropology, primatology, and archaeology, evolutionary psychologists are...

The Book of Woe: the DSM and the unmaking of psychiatry

De mai bine de doi ani, autorul și psihoterapeutul Gary Greenberg s-a înregimentat în războiul care a izbucnit odată cu cea de-a cincea ediție a