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Generation and Degeneration

This distinctive collection explores the construction of genealogies—in both the biological sense of procreation and the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patr...

Specialty Competencies in Group Psychology

Human beings are born into groups, educated in groups, and belong to many groups, yet routinely attribute individual motives to their actions when in fact

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

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...

The 'R' Word: Racism

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

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

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

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

Untangling the Web

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

Hysteria

Hysteria was once simultaneously physical illness, an illness without physical symptoms - and something unmistakably feminine. Freud and Charcot diagnosed Hysteria as ps...

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...

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...

BODY LANGUAGE

Fie că suntem conștienți de asta sau nu, corpurile noastre spun multe despre noi. De la interviuri până la întâlniri, de la sala de ședințe

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

Trust : Self-Interest and the Common Good

Trust lies at the very heart of our relationships, our society, and our everyday lives. Kohn's essay consider its connections to a wider complex of

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...

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

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

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

Adolescence - How to Survive It

In this book, former Head Master of Eton and bestselling author Tony Little and child and adolescent psychiatrist Herb Etkin tackle the problems faced by

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

More Very British Problems

If you... *Carry emergency teabags in your money belt *Quietly tut at badly formed 'queues' *Cleverly avoid blisters by wearing socks with your sandals ...then

Women and the Machine: Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age

From sexist jokes about women drivers to such empowering icons as Amelia Earhart and Rosie the Riveter, representations of the relationship between women and modern

Age of Ageing Better?

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

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

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

100 de trucuri pentru o relatie mai buna cu adolescentii

Autor: Danie Beaulieu

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 ...

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...

Drunk Tank Pink

'Drunk Tank Pink' is a particular shade of pink. In 1979 psychologists discovered that it has an extraordinary effect: if you stare at it for

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

Culture Warlords

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

Mensa Boost Your IQ

'Mensa Boost Your IQ' consists of a series of IQ tests, starting at a normal level and progressing through to an advanced stage. IQ tables

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wording the World

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

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,

The surplus woman

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

An Anthropological Trompe Loeil For A Common World An Essay On The Economy Of Knowledge

Our political age is characterized by forms of description as 'big' as the world itself: talk of 'public knowledge' and 'public goods,' 'the commons' or

The power of law in a transnational world anthropological enquiries

Recoge: Power of law as discourse - At the intersection of legalities - Religion as a resource in legal pluralism.

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

BEHIND THE FACADE: A PSYCHIATRIS'S VIEW

Această colecție poate fi văzută ca punctul culminant al experienței și succesului de 50 de ani al lui Dennis Friedman ca psihanalist și scriitor. Unele

Women and the Authority of Scripture

Addresses the theological impact of accepting the absolute authority of biblical scripture and its related issues, examining how women in the church have dealt with

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