Dante's Political Philosophy
Dante's Divina Commedia/Divine Comedy (completed c. 1321) is considered one of the greatest works in Western literature, and its three canticles – Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso – have had a powerful influence on subsequent literature and thought. Dante shares the classical idea that political philosophy aims to defend the philosophic life, and in Paradiso he does just that, defending philosophy,...Hardback$35100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Critical theory and the critique of alternative societies
Anti-capitalist activism has taken a wrong direction and social and political theoretical theorists have failed to realise this. The trend for building, what has become called, 'Alternative Societies', spaces such as mutual aid groups and workers' co-operatives, failed to grasp the true power of the capitalist totality. Drawing on the work of the early Frankfurt School, Critical Theory and the...Hardback$38300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Consumer Cacophony
There is too much. Too much to read, too much to watch, too much to try, too much to buy. For the modern consumer, it’s hard to hear and hard to think amid all of this noise. This book argues that such cacophony is a nihilistic abundance, threatening not only the physical environment that we live in, but also the...Hardback$28400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Connection
"Thrilling and fun. From Aristotle and Dante to Bono and adrienne maree brown, Dan Turello takes us to a wonderland where technology meets ideas." - Azar Nafisi, New York Times best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Technology gets a bad rap. It is accused of being a dehumanising force, a chief culprit in everything from...Hardback$31300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Conjuring the Hurricane
When Sarah Hanson realised she had to leave her abusive relationship, she didn't have a plan. She had fear, instinct, and a body that had learned how to survive. Conjuring the Hurricane is a survival memoir-in-verse about leaving a life that's killing you and rebuilding a self you can finally live inside. Told in fragments that mirror the way trauma...Hardback$6300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Confucian Gods
Confucian Gods offers an intellectual history of Confucian conceptions of the gods found in the Classics and feasted by the imperial court until the early twentieth century. Thomas Wilson examines court debates surrounding these canonical gods and the devotional rites to feast them at imperial altars and temples during the Tang (618-907), Song (960-1279), and Ming (1368-1644) dynasties. Ritual officers...Hardback$31200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Complexities of Anger
Anger is not simply an affect; it is a complicated and complex emotion that is culturally constructed and at the same time constructive of cultural, political, ecological and even psychological change and awareness. Complexities of Anger examines anger in 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone literature, including texts by Charlotte Mew, D. H. Lawrence, Carol Ann Duffy, A. S. Byatt, Ali Smith,...Hardback$40700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Chinese Feminisms and The Vagina Monologues
This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues (TVM, 1996), a radical-feminist play by the North American artist and activist Eve Ensler: Yin Dao Du Bai (The Vagina Monologues, 2003), Yin Dao Zhi Dao (Vagina's Way, 2013), and Dao Yin (Saying Vagina, 2021). Each production was staged in and informed by the changing landscape of Chinese feminism:...Paperback$7500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Chinese Feminisms and The Vagina Monologues
This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues (TVM, 1996), a radical-feminist play by the North American artist and activist Eve Ensler: Yin Dao Du Bai (The Vagina Monologues, 2003), Yin Dao Zhi Dao (Vagina's Way, 2013), and Dao Yin (Saying Vagina, 2021). Each production was staged in and informed by the changing landscape of Chinese feminism:...Hardback$21900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Chinese Cosmopolitanism
A provocative defence of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and difference. Historically, the Western encounter with difference has been catastrophic: the extermination and displacement of aboriginal populations, the transatlantic slave trade, and colonialism. China, however, took a different historical path. In Chinese Cosmopolitanism, Shuchen Xiang argues that the Chinese cultural tradition was, from its formative beginnings and throughout its...Paperback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Chaos and Cosmos
Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic Title This book offers a new and unique interpretation of Argentine essayist and fiction writer Jorge Luis Borges as a thinker of what continental twentieth century political theory called the political. While not a political writer in the traditional sense, Borges was indeed an author whose response to the advent of totalitarianism, in particular in its...Paperback$13200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Carceral Worlds
We live in a world in which the number of prisons is growing, and experiences of incarceration are increasingly widespread. Carceral Worlds offers a necessary and timely contribution to understanding these carceral realities of the globalised present. The book asks how the carceral has become so central in life, how it manifests in different geographical locations, and finally, what the...Paperback$13500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Cabin Time Reveal Thyself Time
A powerful, profound first book by Jeanne A. Schmidt! When trauma and memory loss leave one with only instilled faith, inherent core values, and open dreams, we have a choice: stop and let scathed, faltered belief systems cause continued immovable festering, or pave new trails to somewhere better, somewhere patiently waiting within our soul. Cabin Time Reveal Thyself Time is...Hardback$9300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Breaking the Trap
A former drug dealer turned community leader shares a powerful story of transformation and redemption, revealing how anyone can break free from the mental, financial, and spiritual traps that keep generations stuck in cycles of struggle. Drawing from his own life experiences, the author exposes the hidden patterns that trap individuals and communities in poverty, poor decision-making, and hopelessness. Through...Hardback$6800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Breaking the Trap
A former drug dealer turned community leader shares a powerful story of transformation and redemption, revealing how anyone can break free from the mental, financial, and spiritual traps that keep generations stuck in cycles of struggle. Drawing from his own life experiences, the author exposes the hidden patterns that trap individuals and communities in poverty, poor decision-making, and hopelessness. Through...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Beyond the Computer Metaphor of Mind and Brain
This book explores groundbreaking scientific perspectives on mind and brain, challenging traditional models that view cognition solely through the lens of computation. Featuring contributions from leading thinkers across behavioural sciences, cognitive sciences, philosophy of mind, psychology, and neurosciences, it highlights innovative approaches that emphasise the dynamic interplay of perception, action, and adaptation in an ever-changing world. Readers will discover cutting-edge...Hardback$36900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Beyond the Bible, Beyond the West
Beyond the Bible, Beyond the West is a research in ontological hermeneutics. It is critical of "textual positivism"—which makes the univocity and clarity of a text the main goal of its task—and also of "cultural positivism"—a cultural matrix that elevates univocity and clarity as the ultimate goal of contemporary systems. This essay indirectly sketches a cultural critique and not only...Paperback$10200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Between Philosophy and Phenomenology of Value
This book examines the convergence of emotion, reason, and culture in the development of value theory from modern phenomenology to contemporary debate. It addresses the emergence of values in lived experience and demonstrates how the various theories of value that emerged between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are indispensable for understanding more precisely the contemporary debate on moral...Hardback$43500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Be Stoic
Be Stoic - The Complete Guide to Stoicism and the Modern Man by Chris Hargreaves In a world of noise, distraction, and chaos, Be Stoic is the call back to strength, virtue, and clarity. This is not another self-help book. It's a manual for modern men who want to lead with calm, think with reason, and live with purpose. Drawing...Paperback$5600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Bergson in Mexican Literature and Film
This is the first book-length analysis of the influence of Henri Bergson’s philosophy in Mexican literature and film. Following the publication of Matter and Memory (1896) and Creative Evolution (1907), Bergson’s philosophy swept the world and was a touchstone for the voices of change during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). Bergson’s writing on time, memory, consciousness, and intuition found a receptive...Hardback$48600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Bergson and Affect
This book is a philosophical study of the concept of affect in the thought of Henri Bergson. It provides an account of the place and evolution of the idea throughout Bergson's works and argues that an understanding of the changing nature of this central concept reveals important ruptures in Bergson's own philosophical development. As Bergson shows, affectivity plays a central...Hardback$35500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Becoming Stendhal
How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there such a thing as an authentic self? Can an author translate an authentic self onto the written page? Stendhal—considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of French realism—addressed these questions with style and acumen in his celebrated novels The Red and...Hardback$35700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Back to Center
After loss, disruption, and life's unexpected turns, finding your way back to yourself can feel uncertain. Back to Center is a thoughtful and grounding guide for those navigating change, emotional fatigue, or moments of personal reset. Through reflective insights, practical tools, and guided questions, this book helps you reconnect with clarity, rebuild your inner steadiness, and move forward with intention....Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
August Wilhelm Rehberg (1757-1836)
August Wilhelm Rehberg (1757-1836) is primarily depicted as a conservative politician, although he made significant contributions to the metaphysical, moral-philosophical, and literary discussions of his time. In Enlightenment studies, he has mostly been forgotten. He is mainly known for his critical reviews of Kant's Kritik der praktischen Vernunft and Gemeinspruch, as well as his conservative view on the French Revolution....Hardback$38300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Augustine and the Natural Law
Augustine and the Natural Law by Katherine Chambers delves into the seminal contributions of Augustine of Hippo (354–430 CE) to the foundational theological discussion of the natural law within Western Christianity. Despite his significant influence, Augustine's thoughts on the natural law have not been thoroughly examined, even amid the growing interest among contemporary theologians and philosophers. For Christian thinkers, the...Hardback$23100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Art Beyond the Edge
Art Beyond the Edge is not just a title: it's a designation, a call to action, and a means to achieve enduring impact. Reflecting over a quarter century of collaborative artistic production, research, and activism across five continents, this book is a field-breaking and era-defining exploration of art created during sociopolitical conflict and war, protests and calamities, and their aftermaths....Hardback$29400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
A Radical God
Religion is making itself unbelievable—scandal-ridden, antiscientific, authoritarian, and reactionary. Can religion be saved? Is it even worth saving? Can religion be saved not just from its critics but from itself? John D. Caputo proposes a radical alternative—what he calls religion’s last stand—by turning to theopoetics. In the traditional account, theopoetics calls for approaching God poetically because God transcends human language....Hardback$43600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
A Metaphysics and Science of our Agency
In our scientific era, there has been widespread talk about the demise of conventional notions about our agency. In this book, Jason Runyan examines our conventional thought and talk about our agency and the basis for thinking that it is inconsistent with scientific findings. Using clear language and concrete examples, he brings philosophy and science to bear on fundamental questions:...Hardback$34500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Ambivalent Recognition
Recognition has become one of the key concepts of contemporary critical theory, heralded by thinkers such as Axel Honneth and Charles Taylor. It is widely claimed that a person must be recognized by others in order to realise their own identity and that the lack of recognition constitutes a form of oppression or injustice. Is recognition always a good thing?...Hardback$36700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Always Under Siege
Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies strategies of physical and moral survival. Irina Paperno brings to light the autobiographical chronicle (her "notes") of Olga Freidenberg (1890–1955), a pioneering Russian philologist and cultural theorist (and cousin of Boris Pasternak), who endured Stalin's purges, the Leningrad blockade during World War...Paperback$11300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
A Healthy Brain for Life
Many people claim they would rather be diagnosed with cancer than dementia or Alzheimer's. What they may not realise is that decreased or impaired brain function is not a foregone conclusion as we get older. Our own lifestyle choices and habits can have a significant impact—for good or ill—on our brains. And that means there's hope. Drawing from the latest...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Agamben's Ethics of the Happy Life
Ype de Boer invites you to rethink what you know about the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben. In a compelling and original argument, De Boer contends that, in the work of Agamben, ethics takes primacy over politics. Presenting a careful evaluation of Agamben’s overlooked contribution to ethics, this book explores his enigmatic yet central concept of the ‘happy life’. By reading...Paperback$13600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Against Better Judgment
Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia'—that is, the possibility that people might act against their better judgment? The contributors to this volume turn an ethnographic lens upon situations in which people...Paperback$11400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Against All Odds
Against All Odds; The Rose That Grew From Concrete is a moving anthology of resilience, faith, and transformation. Through deeply personal stories, contributors share how they survived trauma, loss, betrayal, and systemic barriers—yet refused to be defined by them. Each narrative reveals the quiet strength required to heal, the courage to reclaim identity, and the determination to grow where hope...Paperback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Affective Dimensions of Political Violence
Affective Dimensions of Political Violence challenges the dominant accounts of political violence, which view it as a purely rational or structural phenomenon, often dismissing emotions like rage and anger as irrational and therefore apolitical. This book argues that emotions become deeply political when they disrupt the order established and maintained by the state—often through violence. Using the case of a...Hardback$35500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Aesthetics and the Art of Living in the Zagros Mountains of Iran
In this rare approach to half a century of ethnographic study of a pastoral ethnic community in the hinterland of Iran, the emotional and judgmental reactions local people have to conventions and customs of their own culture is in sharp focus. The book rests on a longitudinal ethnographic study of an agro-pastoral group over five decades in a remote mountain...Paperback$10200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Advances in Psychological Assessment in South Africa
Advances in Psychological Assessment in South Africa provides a detailed, practical and critical appraisal of the evolution of psychological testing since the publication of Psychological Assessment in South Africa: Research and Applications (2013). Editors Laher and Cockcroft once again bring together practitioners and researchers to explore new tools and methods used to evaluate mental processes and behaviours in South Africa's...Paperback$25500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
A Cup of Zen
Escape the Noise. Embrace the Stillness. Find Your Zen. Do you ever wish your mind had an "off" switch? Tired of overthinking everything and feeling overwhelmed? Longing for a moment of true peace in your day? A Cup of Zen is your invitation to step away from the chaos and into clarity. This collection of 21 short, soul-soothing Zen stories...Paperback$5900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
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A Continental Philosophy of Luxury
John Armitage shows how the ideas and theories of continental philosophers Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, Bataille, Gadamer, and Adorno play an important role in the understanding of luxury practices, revealing the actual and potential extent of modern and contemporary critical luxury studies. Discussing contemporary case studies representing luxury, including the longing for luxury perfume, the transgression of superyachts, and the consumer...Hardback$23000Unit price /UnavailableOut 8 Sep 2026Pre-order -
A Confucian theory of power
In the book's lead essay, Sungmoon Kim offers a comprehensive analysis of Confucian power. Through a blend of philosophical, political, and historical analysis, Kim challenges the dominant idea that Confucianism is primarily centred on virtue ethics. Instead, he argues that Confucianism perceives power through the prism of responsibility. Kim not only traces this perspective throughout history but also demonstrates its...Hardback$38000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
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By exposing and critiquing the hegemony of otherness and difference in 20th-century philosophy, Gregory S. Moss liberates philosophy from the fetishization of incompleteness that dominates much of the history of the analytic and continental traditions. Inspired by German Idealism and the Kyoto School, Moss defends the view that the Absolute exists and can only be known as a true contradiction....Hardback$63000Unit price /UnavailableOut 8 Sep 2026Pre-order-
Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures
Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures takes up the work of three iconic feminist thinkers – Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway – to ask how each author’s vision of work, the family, and the carceral state can expand contemporary feminism’s ability to structurally analyse social problems. Kathi Weeks examines the archive of this unexpected collection of Marxist feminists whose works...Hardback$34751Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
9 Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed in Love and Life
Many years of counselling have enabled Dr. Henry Cloud to observe people trying to work out the most important issues of life: relationships, career, fulfilment, meaning, pain, hurt, loss, despair, and addictions. If we sincerely want to get life right and quit repeating the same mistakes over and over again, 9 Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed in Love...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Working with the Law
A classic guide to becoming the master of our circumstances. There are countless laws that impact on our daily lives and actions. But there are other laws just waiting to be discovered and put to work from within—laws that anyone can use to live a limitless and prosperous life. After many printings, the lessons in Working with the Law are...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
When Words Fail Us
I am out of words at home. I have grown bored with my language, bored with my voice, bored with my writing. My words labour under the weight of Australia's history. The land itself, as much as I love it, bears down hard. Now in another place, I am finding lighter words. At times, I may not need to speak...Hardback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Walter Benjamin
An accessible and authoritative biography of Walter Benjamin that guides the reader through the complexity of his intellectual legacy and the turbulence of his time. Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) is widely considered one of the most creative cultural critics of the twentieth century. Esteemed for his literary acumen and capacious imagination, he developed a unique style of criticism—his friend Hannah Arendt...Hardback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Wait, You Need It When?!?
Reclaim your time! Set priorities, stop procrastinating, and get your stuff done! While some believe that you're either born a great time manager or you're not, that's not really the case at all. Anyone can learn the powerful habits of being more effective and more productive—and getting things done. Wait, You Need It When?!? is the essential guide to learning...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Thoughtfulness and the Rule of Law
An essential study of the rule of law by one of the world's leading liberal political and legal philosophers. For many, the rule of law is the essence of good government. Jeremy Waldron takes a different view, arguing that a relatively thin version of the rule of law is more compatible with goals like democracy, human rights, economic freedom, and...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
This Is Modern Philosophy
Provides students and general readers with a basic understanding of the central concepts, issues, and thinkers of the early modern era of philosophy. Is there a world that exists apart from ourselves? If an external world exists, what is its nature? Can an external world based on evidence from our sense perception be known? How do such questions arise? Is...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Trouble with Space in Painting
James Hyde, a practising painter, presents a radical and historically detailed investigation into how the concept of pictorial space in art emerged. Using primary documents and a selection of images, Hyde exposes what many will find surprising—that space only becomes part of the descriptive apparatus of art and architecture at the turn of the 20th century, not earlier. Remarkably, this...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Secret Life of Pronouns
In The Secret Life of Pronouns, social psychologist and language expert James W. Pennebaker uses his groundbreaking research in computational linguistics—in essence, counting the frequency of words we use—to show that our language carries secrets about our feelings, our self-concept, and our social intelligence. Our most forgettable words, such as pronouns and prepositions, can be the most revealing: their patterns...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Origins and History of Consciousness
A landmark account of the evolution of consciousness by one of the twentieth century's leading Jungian psychologists This book draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich Neumann, one of C. G. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Obsolescence of the Human Volume 75
Now available in English—one of the twentieth century's most important works on the philosophy of technology With this first English translation of influential German philosopher Gnther Anders's 1956 masterpiece of critical theory, The Obsolescence of the Human, a new generation of readers can now engage with his prescient and haunting vision of a "world without us" dominated by technology. Looking...Paperback$7499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system. Named after the laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States until the mid-1960s, The New Jim Crow argues that while America is now legally a colorblind society—treating all races equally...Hardback$4699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Impossibility of Time
Time raises certain irresolvable contradictions: the question of its absolute beginning leads us into the paradox of infinite regress versus a 'time before time', and to conceive of the temporal present as either an extension or a simple point fails to explain how time passes now. In this book, James Sares demonstrates—via his readings of Kant and Hegel—the impossibility of...Hardback$18700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The History of Western Philosophy in 100 Haiku
A whirlwind tour of two and a half millennia, told in 100 razor-sharp haiku. In this audacious pocket history, celebrated Greek poet Haris Vlavianos compresses Western philosophy from Thales to Nussbaum into crystalline 5-7-5 bursts: funny, heretical, and unexpectedly illuminating. Plato gets a cave with "all mod cons." Kant boots up a "laptop mind." Wittgenstein tries to coax a fly...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Grand Inquisitor
This new edition presents The Grand Inquisitor together with the preceding chapter, Rebellion, and the extended reply offered by Dostoevsky in the following sections, entitled The Russian Monk. By showing how Dostoevsky frames the Grand Inquisitor story in the wider context of the novel, this edition captures the subtlety and power of Dostoevsky's critique of modernity as well as his...Paperback$1699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Force of Nonviolence
The Force of Nonviolence by Judith Butler illustrates how an ethic of nonviolence must be intricately linked to a broader political struggle for social equality. It argues against the common misconceptions that nonviolence is a merely passive practice arising from a calm, inner tranquility, or just an individualist ethical approach to existing power structures. In contrast, nonviolence is described as...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Elixir of the Gnostics
Sadr al-Din Muhammad Shirazi (1572-1640), more commonly called Mulla Sadra, was one of the grand scholars of later-period Islamic philosophy and has grown to become one of the best-known Muslim philosophers. Iksir al-'arifin, or Elixir of the Gnostics, is unique among Sadra's writings in that it reworks and amplifies an earlier Persian work, the Jawidan-nama (Book of the Everlasting) by...Hardback$9900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Effect of Delay and of Intervening Events on Reinforcement Value
First published in 1986. This is Volume V of six in a series on Quantitative Analyses of Behavior. Quantitative analysis now generally refers to the fact that theoretical issues are represented by quantitative models. An analysis is not a matter of fitting arbitrary functions to data points. The volumes in the present series have been written for behavioural scientists. Those...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Edge of Experience
Traditionally, the development of psychoanalysis has been based on the study of 'neurotic' patients, for the most part displaying classic symptoms of hysteria, obsessive-compulsion and depression. However, during the last three or four decades, there has been a notable shift in the pattern of patients seeking psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The Edge of Experience, drawn from papers presented at the First European...Paperback$8999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Columbian Exchange
One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in other disciplines. This is not a charge that can be laid at the door of Alfred Crosby. His book The Columbian Exchange not only incorporates the results of wide reading in the hard sciences, anthropology,...Hardback$4699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Caring Child
We live in a self-centred world—despite the call from employers and thought leaders for more cooperation and compassion. Empathy, or the ability to understand other people's thoughts and emotions from their point of view, is a vital component of cooperation and necessary in our increasingly diverse world. The Caring Child pulls together the latest research from positive psychology to provide...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Book of Beautiful Questions
From the bestselling author of A More Beautiful Question, hundreds of big and small questions that harness the magic of inquiry to tackle challenges we all face—at work, in our relationships, and beyond. When confronted with almost any demanding situation, the act of questioning can help guide us to smart decisions. By asking questions, we can analyse, learn, and move...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Art of Gesture
Andrew Benjamin approaches the relationship between philosophy and art history through the concept of gesture. Critically engaging with Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg, and Giorgio Agamben, by focusing on gesture he offers a novel philosophical intervention into the classical problem of 'meaning' in art, as well as addressing the new perspectives brought by political theology into art theory. Benjamin uses gesture...Hardback$63000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Tao TE Ching
Tao Te Ching, also commonly known as Lao Tzu, is one of the most important Chinese classics and has had great influence on Chinese thought. It is regarded as the bible of Taoism and is by far the most frequently translated Chinese classic, with over thirty translations into English alone. The work is said to be by Lao Tzu, who...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Tao Te Ching
In this new translation, a world-renowned scholar brings out the metaphysical, moral, and poetic power of Laozi's classical Chinese text. David Bentley Hart offers a luminously beautiful new translation of the Tao Te Ching (or Daodejing), one of the ancient world's most mysterious works. Drawing on his extensive study of philosophy, religion, and literature across traditions, Hart, with the help...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
St. Paul
Presented here for the first time in English is a remarkable screenplay about the apostle Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini, a legendary filmmaker, novelist, poet, and radical intellectual activist. Written between the appearance of his renowned film Teorema and the shocking, controversial Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, St Paul was deemed too risky for investors. At once a...Paperback$3899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
SPSS for Psychologists
Students can find statistical analysis a challenging and complex task and, in order to master the techniques and complete their assignments successfully, they need a sound understanding of IBM SPSS. Updated to be compatible with IBM SPSS 30, with handy screenshots throughout, the eighth edition of this trusted and practical textbook will take students on a step-by-step journey towards carrying...Paperback$7699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Sound Affects
'Transformative and a fascinating read; this book will open your ears to the world of sound and change your life' – Steven Bartlett, author of The Diary of a CEO 'A fascinating insight into the power of sound' – Susan Cain, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of QUIET Every day, the sounds around us affect every aspect of...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Shamans and Analysts
Shamans and Analysts provides a model by which to understand the wounded healer phenomenon. It provides evidence as to how this dynamic arises and gives a theoretical model by which to understand it, as well as practical implications for the way analysts' wounds can be transformed and used in their clinical work. By examining shamanism through the lens of contemporary...Paperback$9899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Seeing No-Self
What if everything you believe about yourself is an illusion? We spend our lives seeking improvement, peace, and purpose, operating from the core assumption that we are a separate self—a thinker, a doer, a manager of our lives. But what if this 'self' is not what you truly are? What if the very search for a better 'you' is the...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Releasing the Emotional Wound
Recognising the wound as an opportunity to create a new personal identity Explores the meaning of primal emotional wounds, their origins, and how our identification with them can obscure our self-perception. Shares mantras, emotional ceremonies, rituals, and amulets to help facilitate the creation of a new personal identity. Provides practices to experience and maintain your new identity such as encounters...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Reconstruction in America
Reconstruction in America is the name given to the period that, beginning shortly before the end of the American Civil War and running until 1877, saw the frustration of the federal government's attempts to integrate the newly freed slaves into the American political and economic system. It ended in frustration, disillusionment, and also violence, with individual southern states denying rights...Hardback$4699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Psychopolitics
Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics fueling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical framework that provides an original...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Psychology of Gender
Noted for its fair and equal coverage of men and women, Psychology of Gender reviews the research and issues surrounding gender from multiple perspectives, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, and public health. Going far beyond discussions of biological sex and gender identity, the text explores the roles that society has assigned to females and males and the other variables that co-occur...Hardback$58800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Psychology of Gender
Noted for its fair and equal coverage of men and women, Psychology of Gender reviews the research and issues surrounding gender from multiple perspectives, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, and public health. Going far beyond discussions of biological sex and gender identity, the text explores the roles that society has assigned to females and males and the other variables that co-occur...Paperback$32900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Politics
Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, was born at Stagirus in 384 BCE to Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there from 367–347 BCE. Subsequently, he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor, and during this time he married Pythias, a relation of...Hardback$9700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Polis
The Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and enduring to 350 CE, it offered a means for collaboration among fellow city-states and social bargaining between a community and its elites, but at what cost? Polis proposes a panoramic account of the ancient...Paperback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Phenomenology of Practice
Max van Manen offers an extensive exploration of phenomenological traditions and methods for the human sciences. This is his first comprehensive statement of phenomenological thought and research in over a decade. Phenomenology of Practice refers to the meaning and practice of phenomenology in professional contexts such as psychology, education, and health care, as well as to the practice of phenomenological...Hardback$36500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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