Questioning the veil

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

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...

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...

Despre frici si credinte

Autor: Lise Bourbeau

Despre senzualitate si sexualitate

Autor: Lise Bourbeau

The Ethical Treatment of Depression: Autonomy through Psychotherapy (Philosophical Psychopathology)

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

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...

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

Star Wars Psychology : Dark Side of the Mind

From its very first frame, the Star Wars series created a compelling universe, with complex characters and engaging storytelling. In advance of the highly anticipated

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

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

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

Despre angajament, responsabilitate si culpabilitate

Autor: Lise Bourbeau

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

Emotii in povesti. Cum sa-i ajutam pe copii sa accepte si sa gestioneze propria lor sfera emotiva

Autori: Veronica Arlati, Ramona Covianici

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

KNOWLEDGE, COMPETENCE & COMMUNICATION: CHOMSKY, FREIRE AND THE COMMUNICATIVE MOVEMENT

In Knowledge, Competence, and Communication , author William H. Walcott debates the meaning of creating equitable and critical instructional practices by exploring dive...

Computation, Cognition, and Pylyshyn

A collection of cutting-edge work on cognition and a celebration of a foundational figure in the field. Classical cognitive science has found itself in something

Cum sa cresti un copil sigur de sine ... si sa-i consolidezi autostima

Autori: Paola Santagostino, Ancuta Cotuna

Switched On

If You Were There : Missing People and the Marks They Leave Behind

O călătorie puternică, evocatoare și profund personală în lumea persoanelor dispărute. Când Francisco Garcia avea doar șapte ani, tatăl său, Christobal, și-a părăsit ...

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

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.

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

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...

Diversify

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

Eureka Factor

De unde vin ideile mari? Ce se întâmplă în creierul tău cu adevărat în timpul unui moment 'Evrika'? Și cum putem avea mai multe astfel

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...

Superior: The Return Of Race Science

Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book of the Year 'Roundly

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

Seeing the Bigger Picture: Global Infographics

Ever wondered whether other countries consume as much bottled water as the U.S., or which country gives the most to charity? This book is jam

Equal Power: A handbook for men and women

De ce este inegalitatea de gen atât de persistentă? Din cauza puterii. Chiar și astăzi, puterea rămâne concentrată în mâinile oamenilor din lumea afacerilor, politicii

The Walking Dead Psychology

The characters of The Walking Dead live in a desolate postapocalyptic world, filled with relentless violence and death. In reality, how would such neverending trauma

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...

An Indian Portia : Selected Writings of Cornelia Sorabji

Cornelia Sorabji a fost o reformatoare socială, autoare și prima femeie care a practicat dreptul în India și Anglia. Până în momentul în care vederea

Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide

Sociology is interested in the way citizens shape a society and the way a society shapes its citizens. Simply, it is the study of how

The Right Darwin ?

The common assumption that Darwinism and conservatism are mutually inconsistent is now fiercely debated on the right. A number of conservative thinkers argue that evolut...

Intangibles

Award-winning sportswriter Joan Ryan whisks readers from the sports field to the research lab on an ambitious quest to understand the seemingly indefinable phenomenon c...

Battle Ready

Making Sense of Hierarchy

Analyses Fijian hierarchy and its constitution in everyday ritual behaviour. The author spent July 1981 to February 1983 in Fiji, eighteen months of the time

Missing Each Other

În viețile noastre rapide și obsedate de tehnologie, rareori ne acordăm o atenție reală și atentă unii altora. Cu tot ceea ce se întâmplă în

When Time Stopped : A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to

How to Think Like Sigmund Freud

An insight into the mind of the man with the keenest insight into the minds of man. Undoubtedly one of the most important thinkers of

Parintii mei se despart. Si eu? Cum sa avem grija de noi si de copiii nostri in timpul divortului si al despartirii

Autori: Armando Cecatiello, Carlo Alfredo Clerici, Dina Frinculescu

Believing Identity

The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrant...

A Quiet Revolution

In A Quiet Revolution , renowned civil rights activist Mary Elizabeth King questions the prevailing wisdom that the first Palestinian Intifada was defined by viole...

Europeanizing Contention

What are the consequences of European integration on social movements? Who are the 'winners' and the 'losers' of Europe's organized civil society? This book explores

On Being Stuck: Tapping Into the Creative Power of Writer's Block

What if writer's block became your most precious teacher? An empowering new process for writers who struggle with the seemingly insurmountable middle of a project,

50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International

The Situationist International was a small group of international political and artistic agitators with roots in Marxism and Lettrism. They played a central role in

Margaret Mead Made Me Gay

Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development ...

The Prodigal Tongue

Limba engleză este pe atât de frumosă pe cât este de supusă schimbărilor. Tot auzim întrebarea: „Care este varianta corectă?”, unele persoane acuzând americanii de

The Buddha Pill: Can Meditation Change You?

Millions of people meditate daily but can meditative practices really make us ‘better’ people? In The Buddha Pill, pioneering psychologists Dr Miguel Farias and Catheri...

Psychology

Psychology: 50 in 500 sheds light on these and other crucial questions by examining the ideas and work of fifty of the world_s greatest psychologists.

Gender Relations In German History

This collection of essays examines the construction of gender norms in early modern and modern Germany.
The modes of reinforcement by the state, the church,