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Autor: Jacques Martel

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,

Good Kids, Bad City

In the early 1970s, three African American men - Wiley Bridgeman, Kwame Ajamu, and Rickey Jackson - were accused and convicted of the brutal robbery

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

Tears to Triumph

Profesorul, conferențiarul și autorul bestsellerului New York Times A Return to Love, recunoscut la nivel internațional, susține că dorința noastră de a evita durerea e...

Overcoming Alcohol Misuse 2nd Edition

Statistics show that misuse of alcohol is a very common problem. Using alcohol unwisely can have long-term effects on your health, career and family life.

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.

Dying for Heaven

Religion and the Motivation Behind Terrorism Dying for Heaven reveals a groundbreaking theory of religion and religious destructiveness, providing the key for understandi...

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

Depresia. O mostenim sau nu?

Autor: Sylvie Tenenbaum

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

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

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

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

Zero Negativity

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

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

Make It Happen

Featuring interviews with world-renowned activists, Make It Happen is her essential and inspirational guide to being an effective activist. From finding your cro...

Why Do I Love These People?

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

Zucked

This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up

Women Who Love Too Much

Cel mai important lucru pentru tine este să ai pe cineva pe care sa îl iubești? Te gândești constant că împreună cu bărbatul potrivit pentru

Psychogeography by Merlin Coverley

The term 'psychogeography' is used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas, from ley lines and the occult to urban walking and political radicalism--where does

Marching Powder

MARCHING POWDER is the story of Thomas McFadden, a small-time English drug smuggler who was arrested in Bolivia and thrown inside the notorious San Pedro

Psychology for Busy People

Explore the fascinating world of the human psyche with this accessible and concise guide to the fundamentals of psychology. Broken down by subject, from the

People Like Us

What is it that makes us human? There are more than seven billion of us on the planet and we come in all different shapes

Smarter Than You Think

It’s undeniable—technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding “yes.”

The Dip

Every new project (or career or relationship) starts out exciting and fun. Then it gets harder and less fun, until it hits a low point

CRACKED

Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed – 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone last year –

The Electricity of Every Living Thing : A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home

A life-affirming and perspective-shifting memoir of one woman's walk in the wilds as she comes to terms with an Asperger's diagnosis. In August 2015, Katherine

Is It My Fault Mummy?

Foster carer Maggie Hartley is used to receiving placements at short notice, but the arrival of seven-year-old Paris sees her handling one of her most

Making Things Better

In Making Things Better, A. David Napier demonstrates how anthropological description of non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can be a tonic for contemporary econo...

The Empathy Instinct: How to Create a More Civil Society

Empathy is the power of understanding others, imaginatively entering into their feelings. It is a fundamental human attribute, without which mutually co-operative soc...

The Third Pillar

The 'third pillar' of the title is the community we live in. Economists all too often understand their field as the relationship between markets and

Jocul vietii si cum sa-l joci

Autor: Florence Scovel Shinn

Wake Up: Why the World Has Gone Nuts

It's time we get back to common sense. It's time to cancel the cancel culture. It's time to Wake Up. If, like me, you're sick

Switched On

The Heart Is a Shifting Sea

'Elizabeth Flock takes us on an intimate cruise on the shifting sea of the heart, in the best book set in Bombay that I've read

A New Hope for Mexico

On 1 July 2018, Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected as the next President of Mexico. AMLO's decisive victory speaks volumes about the corrupt state

Tu esti Placebo - Meditatia 2: Cum sa schimbi o credinta si o perceptie (Audiobook)

Autor: Joe Dispenza

The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century down the Royal Road

Rethinking the importance of Sigmund Freud’s landmark book The Interpretation of Dreams a century after its publication in 1900, this work brings together psychoanalysts...

Introducing Psycho-Analysis: A Graphic Guide

Este oare psihanaliza o știință? Cum cred psihanaliștii că funcționează mintea? De ce a fost Freud atât de interesat de sex? Fie că realizăm sau

Darwin Comes to Town

We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, and a large portion of the planet's landmass is urbanized. With

Not in Your Genes

There is a prevailing myth - in both modern society and in modern science - that who we are is largely down to our genetic

Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain (by New Scientist Instant Expert)

What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human? The conscious mind brings together perceptions, sensations, thoughts and memories to generate

The Magic Room

housands of women have stepped inside Becker's Bridal, in Fowler, Michigan, to try on their dream dresses in the Magic Room, a special space with

Why Do People Hate America?

Not just another 9/11 book, this controversial United Kingdom bestseller is for those who are trying to understand why America is a target for hate.

The Freudian Slip

Philology cross-examines Freud in this sustained critique of psychoanalysis and its foundational notion of the slip. Challenging virtually every account of linguistic er...

Book of Queer Prophets

Curated by Ruth Hunt, this is a vital collection of essays by LGBT writers exploring sexuality, faith and religion. Is it possible to believe in

Let Them In

A conservative columnist for The Wall Street Journal presents a case for the benefits of immigration, arguing that maintaining an open-border policy is consistent with

The Difficult Art

Margritte is a poet of dreams. His painting present to the eye of the observer an enigma having the same coded density as the oneiric

Hippo Eats Dwarf!

The following news story apparently first appeared in the Las Vegas Sun: 'A circus dwarf, nicknamed Od, died recently when he bounced sideways from a

Natural Causes Life, Death and the Illusion of Control

The seminal thinker offers a new understanding of our bodies, our selves and our powerlessness in controlling either. We tend to believe we have agency

Diversify

‘A handbook for these troubled times’ Psychologies Magazine ’Engaging and informative … highlights our common humanity’ Kofi Annan ‘A passionately written polemic’ You M...

Fake News

What is fake news? How can the news be wrong? How do we know if what we're reading is true or not? This book helps

Understand Psychology

Psihologia este despre oameni - despre modul în care gândim, ne comportăm și dăm sens lumii. Acesta este un subiect care ne preocupă pe noi

Order and Disorder: Anthropological Perspectives

Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, devia...

Out to Change the World

In 1971, a caravan of 60 brightly painted school buses and assorted other vehicles carrying more than 300 hippie idealists landed on an abandoned farm

Reaching Down The Rabbit Hole

What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this gripping and illuminating book, Dr Allan Ropper

Champions of Change

In fighting to pass the 19th Amendment, brave suffragists like Susan B. Anthony and Emmeline B. Wells fought to end laws and take down barriers

The Survival of Images : Art Historians, Psychoanalysts and the Ancients

This is an exploration of the moving image in psychoanalysis and art history in the early 20th century. The 20th century seemed destined, according to

The Bystander Effect

In the face of discrimination, bad behaviour, evil and abuse, why do good people so often do nothing? Every day, we see examples of bad