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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.

Nobody's Victim

Take a moment and think about your most private secret. The thing you don't want anybody to know. Go ahead, actually think of something. We

Epiphanies of the Ordinary

A challenge to look out for and respond to those moments when God provides bursts of revelation amidst the everyday Through his work as a

Together, Closer

A deeply felt book that explores intimacy through the stories of eight relationships, from a leading neuroscientist and author of How We Feel. What is

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 ...

Essaying Montaigne

John O'Neill reads Montaigne's Essays from their central principle of friendship as a communicative and pedagogical practice operative in society, literature and politic...

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...

White Guilt

In 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA evidence

Mitch, Please!

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From the founder of Kentucky Sports Radio and attorney Matt Jones, a withering, humorous look at

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.

The Declining Significance of Homophobia

Cercetarea în domeniu arată că în mod recurent liceele sunt medii ostile tineretului LGBT. Băieții folosesc comporatemntul homofob pentru a-și demonstra masculinitatea ș...

Fed Up

From Gemma Hartley, the journalist who ignited a national conversation on emotional labor, comes Fed Up, a bold dive into the unpaid, invisible work women

Dreams

This guide to interpreting and working with dreams organizes dreams according to categories and common dream scenarios. This unique approach to dream interpretation teach...

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...

Despre senzualitate si sexualitate

Autor: Lise Bourbeau

Ethics In The Field Contemporary Challenges

In recent years ever-increasing concerns about ethical dimensions of fieldwork practice have forced anthropologists and other social scientists to radically reconsider th...

Beyond Love

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

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

Making India Awesome - New Essays and columns

Love your country? Want to make it truly great? Tired of loud debates and complex arguments which lead to no solutions? Welcome to Making India

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

Equal

'Equal tells a personal story that changed the public debate' Guardian '[An] absorbing account . . . she laces her tale with mordant humour' Financial

Tell Me Who You Are

An eye-opening exploration of race in America In this deeply inspiring book, Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi recount their experiences talking to people from all

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...

Cocaine Addiction: Treatment, Recovery, and Relapse Prevention

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...

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

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

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

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

Creative Care

'MacArthur Genius recipient Anne Basting lays out her pioneering discoveries in applying creativity to treating and interacting with those suffering from dementia, bringi...

Learning Little Hawk's Way of Storytelling

The book is based on the teachings of renowned Mi'Kmaw First Nation storyteller, Kenneth Little Hawk. He teaches the techniques of oral tradition storytelling in

Islands Apart : A Year on the Edge of Civilization

Author Ken McAlpine stands in his front yard one night in Ventura, California, trying to see the stars. His view is diminished by light pollution,

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

The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin De Rios

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

Despre angajament, responsabilitate si culpabilitate

Autor: Lise Bourbeau

The Velvet Rope Economy

In nearly every realm of daily life there is an invisible velvet rope that divides how we live. On one side, appointments are secured, queues

Raceless

In Georgina Lawton's childhood home, her Blackness was never acknowledged the obvious fact of her brown skin, ignored by her white parents. Over time, secrets

There Will Be No Miracles Here

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

Lovers. Lovers who meet at Civil Rights Conferences, sit-ins, church rallies, art galleries. Lovers who send letters back and forth from maximum security prison. Lovers

END GAME: TIPPING POINT EARTH

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

Consent

'Consent is compelling and disturbing and a welcome expansion of our urgent conversation'--Rebecca Traister Donna Freitas has lived two lives. In one life, she is

The Shallows

In this ground-breaking and compelling book, Nicholas Carr argues that not since Gutenberg invented printing has humanity been exposed to such a mind-altering technology...

Game Changers

In this lively history of game theory, a gifted math educator and science writer explains for lay readers the uses and value of this innovative

The Orchid and the Dandelion

From one of the world's foremost researchers and pioneers of pediatric health--a book that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents, teachers, psychologists,

This Book Is Feminist

This Book is Feminist is a stylishly illustrated introduction to intersectional feminism and its roots for young feminists in training.

The Life and Ideas of James Hillman

Considerat a fi cel mai important gânditor post-jungian din lume, James Hillman este cunoscut drept fondatorul psihologiei arhetipale și autorul a peste douăzeci de cărț...

The Hilarious World of Depression

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...

Dispatches from the Sweet Life

Many fantasize about dramatically changing their lives — living in accordance with their ideals rather than the exigencies of job, bills, and possessions. William Powers

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...

Ordinary Wonder

My name is Otolorin. I've been called monster. Within dark valleys of flesh I defy the given - a snake curled in upon itself, two-in-one,

Future Bright: A Transforming Vision of Human Intelligence

Încă din momentul în care Alfred Binet a inventat testul IQ acum mai bine de un secol, am inceput să ne gândim la inteligență ca

What Is Post-Traumatic Growth?

In this insightful book, positive psychologist Miriam Akhtar explores the new science of post-traumatic growth, answering the most frequently asked questions about the s...

Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2

Like the first volume, The Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 is a reference work on the interconnection between language and ethnic identity.

When Reporters Cross the Line

The phone-hacking scandal has brought journalism into disrepute, closed a bestselling newspaper and led to the imprisonment of senior media executives. This account of m...

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

Adaptive Perspectives on Human-Technology Interaction

The chapters in this volume provide quantitative and computational models and measures for studying how people come to terms with an increasingly technological ecology, ...

Under My Thumb

Women write about their experiences of loving music that doesn’t love them back – a feminist 'guilty pleasures'.e - a kind of feminist guilty pleasures.

Fanpire

An author immerses herself in the frenzied fandom of Twilight, the young-adult vampire romance series that has captivated women of all ages Twilight, Stephenie Meyer’s