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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

Nobrow

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

EARLY

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

Lovers

Only the soul that loves is happy.' This stunning photographic series is a celebration of Mothers, Fathers, Family and Friendship and what it means to

When They Go Low, We Go High

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

'Thinning the Herd' is a book all about life's only certainty - death - and the various ways in which it comes upon us, from

Dictionarul ofiterilor si angajatilor civili ai Directiei Generale a Penitenciarelor

Dictionarul ofiterilor si angajatilor civili ai Directiei Generale a Penitenciarelor reprezinta un instrument de lucru util pentru reconstituirea multiplelor aspecte a...

Pimp State

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

Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out

Susan Kuklin s-a întâlnit și a intervievat o multitudine de tineri adresându-le întrebări privind situația actuală a LGBTQA. La final a selectat 6 dintre cele

Positive Placements

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

Nurturing a Healthy Mind

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

WTF?

'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...

The Islamic Veil: A Beginner's Guide

Un articol vestimentar interzis în instituțiile publice din Franța și Turcia, obligatoriu în Arabia Saudită și Iran, vălul islamic incită la reacții furioase ca nici

Spliffs 3

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

Freud

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

Crete: Women, History, Books and Places

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

EvaluatesVeblen not just as an economist or a sociologist but as a seminal critic of modern American culture.

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects

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...

Melatonin

Melatonin takes a deep dive into the workings of this essential, all-natural hormone, which regulates sleep and the body's circadian rhythm. Learn about its effects

Double or Nothing?

A lively and accessible look at Jewish intermarriage and its familial and cultural effects. The American Jewish resistance to intermarriage held by earlier generations...

Poppyganda

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 Home Its Work And Influence

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

The End of Anger

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

Negotiating Poverty

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

BEYOND OJ

Discusses the social issues of the O.J. Simpson case, comparing recent cases involving white and African American male defendants with similar charges

The Time In Between: A memoir of hunger and hope

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

A TREATISE ON SOCIAL THEORY

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...

Assume nothing

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

Preface to Peasantry

Arguing that the plantation system had taught African Americans only dependence and irresponsibility, Raper warned that, without social programs that materially altered t...

Fast Or Die

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

Zucked

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

African Encounters With Domesticity

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

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

Talking with Psychopaths and Savages

A natural subject for the UK's bestselling true-crime author: a study of people who randomly kill large numbers of others (spree killers), or who set

On The Public Agenda

Puts the idea of dissidence, and the confidence to effect change, back on the public agenda.

College Girls

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

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

Why Young Men

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.

To Be Young Was Very Heaven

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.

Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty

Adulthood is taken for granted. It connotes the end of childhood, the resolution to the 'storm and stress' period of adolescence. This conception is strongly

Routes into the Abyss International Studies in Social History

Examining the 1930s and the different reactions to the crisis, this volume offers a global comparative perspective that includes a comparison across time to give