Professional Ethics and Civic Morals
Émile Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of sociology, and Professional Ethics and Civic Morals is one of his most neglected yet insightful works. Durkheim's view that the instability of industrial society was connected to the decline of religion and his characterisation of the state as the ultimate moral force in society reveal his lifelong engagement with the relationship...Hardback$18600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPrinciples of Mathematics
First published in 1903, Principles of Mathematics was Bertrand Russell’s first major work in print. It was this title which saw him begin his ascent towards eminence. In this groundbreaking and important work, Bertrand Russell argues that mathematics and logic are, in fact, identical and what is commonly called mathematics is simply later deductions from logical premises. Highly influential and...Hardback$24700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPrimitive Classification (Routledge Revivals)
In this influential work, first published in English in 1963, Durkheim and Mauss claim that the individual mind is capable of classification and they seek the origin of the 'classificatory function' in society. On the basis of an intensive examination of forms and principles of symbolic classification reported from the Australian aborigines, the Zuni and traditional China, they try to...Paperback$10900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPositive Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy have, in one way or another, focused on the amelioration of the negative. This has only done half the job; the other half being to actively bring Positive Experience into patients’ lives. Positive Psychoanalysis moves away from this traditional focus on negative experience and problems and instead looks at what makes for a positive life experience, bringing...Hardback$42300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPopular Culture, Political Economy and the Death of Feminism
While some have argued that we live in a 'postfeminist' era that renders feminism irrelevant to people's contemporary lives, this book takes feminism, the source of eternal debate, contestation, and ambivalence, and situates the term within the popular, cultural practices of everyday life. It explores the intimate connections between the politics of feminism and the representational practices of contemporary popular...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPolicing Non-Citizens
Criminologists are increasingly turning their attention to the many points of intersection between immigration and crime control. Policing Non-Citizens discusses the detection of unlawful non-citizens as a distinct form of policing which is impacting on a growing range of agencies and sections of society. It constitutes an important contribution not only to the literature on policing but also to the...Paperback$9899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPlaying with Purpose
Playing with Purpose shows how a facilitator, coach, manager, people developer or trainer can invent or reinvigorate an artificial learning experience and make it so much more than a game. The authors explore a range of dilemmas, challenges and problems faced by anyone wanting to run memorable training sessions, classes and project meetings, demonstrating how to extract powerful lessons from...Paperback$10900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPlato (Routledge Revivals)
J.N. Findlay, distinguished scholar and acknowledged expert on Plato, argues persuasively for a new interpretation of the Platonic writings. He believes that Plato's Unwritten Doctrines were present in the background of all the great philosopher's mature written work. With the use of Aristotelian and other writings on these reported doctrines, he demonstrates that they admit of an intelligible elucidation and...Hardback$44700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPink Herrings
Pink Herrings engages in a re-examination of six of Freud's cases via Lacan's account of sexuation. Specifically, the book outlines a theoretical framework in which sexuation is understood as a 'choice' made in response to the fact of the sexual non-relationship. In making this choice, unconscious fantasy allows for the circulation of object a, which bear traces of jouissance. Drawing...Paperback$6199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPhotography and Ontology
This edited collection explores the complex ways in which photography is used and interpreted: as a record of evidence, as a form of communication, as a means of social and political provocation, as a mode of surveillance, as a narrative of the self, and as an art form. What makes photographic images unsettling and how do the re-uses and interpretations...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPhilosophy of Mind
Developments in the philosophy of mind over the last 20 years have dramatically changed the nature of the subject. In this major new introduction, Tim Bayne presents an outstanding overview of many of the key topics, problems, and debates, taking account not only of changes in the philosophy of mind itself but also of important developments in the scientific study...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPhilosophy in the Middle Ages
Thomas Williams' revision of Arthur Hyman and James J. Walsh's classic compendium of writings in the Christian, Islamic, and Jewish medieval philosophical traditions expands the breadth of coverage that helped make its predecessor the best known and most widely used collection of its kind. The third edition of Philosophy in the Middle Ages builds on the strengths of the second...Paperback$8999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPhilosophy for Graduate Students
When graduate students start their studies, they usually have sound knowledge of some areas of philosophy, but the overall map of their knowledge is often patchy and disjointed. There are a number of topics that any contemporary philosopher working in any part of the analytic tradition (and in many parts of other traditions too) needs to grasp, and to grasp...Hardback$37600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPhilosophy for A2
Philosophy for A2 is an engaging textbook for the new AQA A2 Philosophy syllabus. Structured closely around the AQA specification, this textbook covers the two units, Ethics and Philosophy of Mind, in a comprehensive and student-friendly way. All of the anthology texts are explained and commented on, and woven into the discussion of the syllabus. With chapters on ‘How to...Paperback$9899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPhilosophers’ Walks
Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, André Breton, Rousseau, Simone de Beauvoir: who could imagine a better group of walking companions? In this engaging and invigorating book, Bruce Baugh takes us on a philosophical tour, following in the footsteps and thoughts of some great philosophers and thinkers. How does walking reveal space and place and provide a heightened sense...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPhenomenology, Naturalism and Science
Arguing for the compatibility of phenomenology and naturalism, Phenomenology, Naturalism and Science by Jack Reynolds also refashions each. The opening chapters begin with a methodological focus, which seeks to curb the "over-bidding" characteristic of both traditional transcendental phenomenology and scientific naturalism. Having thus opened up the possibility that the twain might meet, it is in the detailed chapters on matters...Paperback$10200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPhenomenology in France
This book is an introduction to French phenomenology in the post-1945 period. While many of phenomenology’s greatest thinkers—Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty—wrote before this period, Steven DeLay introduces and assesses the creative and important turn phenomenology took after these figures. He presents a clear and rigorous introduction to the work of relatively unfamiliar and underexplored philosophers, including Jean-Louis Chrétien, Michel...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPete and Jem: A Grammar Tales Book to Support Grammar and Language Development in Children
Pete and Jem: A Grammar Tales Book to Support Grammar and Language Development in Children by Jessica Habib is a delightful story where Pete and Jem have lots of fun playing in the snow until they run into each other and fall over. This book targets subject-verb sentences and present progressive verbs, providing repeated examples of early developing syntax and...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPerspectives on Social Psychology
This groundbreaking new textbook takes a different perspective on social psychology, focused on the social and cultural worlds we inhabit, and encompassing a wide range of core social psychology topics – from the self to relationships, gender to health, racism to mental distress. Taking a critical approach, this book explores how qualitative methods and interpretational analyses can be used to...Hardback$30600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPersonality: A Topical Approach
Many texts attempt to bridge the areas of theory and research. They include one or two pages dealing with important theorists—Jung, Adler, Freud, etc.—inserted into chapters focusing on academic research. In most cases, the discussion fails to do justice to these theorists, and the relationship between theory and research is often tenuous at best. This book takes a different approach....Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPeirce for Architects
Ideas gain legitimacy as they are put to some practical use. A study of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) supports this pragmatism as a way of thinking about truth and meaning. Architecture has a strong pragmatic strand, not least as we think of building users, architecture as a practice, the practical demands of building, and utility. After all, Vitruvius placed firmness...Hardback$21200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPainting, Science, and the Perception of Coloured Shadows
Many artists and scientists – including Buffon, Goethe, and Philipp Otto Runge – who observed the vividly coloured shadows that appear outdoors around dawn and dusk, or indoors when a candle burns under waning daylight, chose to describe their colours as beautiful. Paul Smith explains what makes these ephemeral effects worthy of such appreciation – or how depictions of coloured...Paperback$9399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksOn Painting
Available for the first time in English: the complete and annotated transcripts of Deleuze's 1981 seminars on painting From 1970 until 1987, Gilles Deleuze held a weekly seminar at the Experimental University of Vincennes and, starting in 1980, at Saint-Denis. In the spring of 1981, he began a series of eight seminars on painting and its intersections with philosophy. The...Paperback$7900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksOn Having an Own Child
How are ideas of genetics, 'blood', the family, and relatedness created and consumed? This is the first book ever to consider in depth why people want children, and specifically why people want children produced by reproductive technologies (such as IVF, ICSI etc). As the book demonstrates, even books ostensibly devoted to the topic of why people want children and the...Paperback$8699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksOn Freud's "Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence"
This book includes the development of the concept of "splitting" from both metapsychological and clinical perspectives, emphasizing the great importance of this topic for contemporary psychoanalysis. Starting with the history of the concept, the book covers recent French, English and Latin American theorizations on the theme. In regard to clinical approaches, it presents the relationship between "splitting" and complex clinical...Paperback$8999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksOn Freud's "Creative Writers and Day-dreaming"
This volume contains Freud's essay Creative Writers and Day-dreaming, which explores the origins of daydreaming, and its relation to the play of children and the creative process. Each contributor offers an insightful commentary on the essay.Paperback$7799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksOn Belief
From cyberspace reason to the paradox that is Western Buddhism, On Belief gets behind the contours of the way we normally think about belief, in particular Judaism and Christianity. Holding up the so-called authenticity of religious belief to critical light, Žižek draws on psychoanalysis, film and philosophy to reveal in startling fashion that nothing could be worse for believers than...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksOn Anxiety
We frequently hear that we live in an age of anxiety, from 'therapy culture', the Atkins diet, and child anti-depressants to gun culture and weapons of mass destruction. While Hollywood regularly cashes in on teenage anxiety through its Scream franchise, pharmaceutical companies churn out new drugs such as Paxil to combat newly diagnosed anxieties. On Anxiety takes a fascinating, psychological...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksOn Adolescence
Adolescence and adolescent states of mind have seldom captured so much attention publicly, nor have they stirred so much anxiety and disturbance privately. This long acknowledged, problematic, transitional world between childhood and adulthood is especially fraught, these days, with the assaults and pressures of contemporary culture and modern technology. The heart of the book lies in the exploration of the...Paperback$8499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksNurturing Natures
This new edition of the bestselling text, Nurturing Natures, provides an indispensable synthesis of the latest scientific knowledge about children’s emotional development. Integrating a wealth of both up-to-date and classical research from areas such as attachment theory, neuroscience, developmental psychology, and cross-cultural studies, it weaves these into an accessible, enjoyable text that always keeps in mind children recognisable to academics,...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksNight Vision
A philosopher's personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly human Under the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern psychology, they can even look like mental disorders. The self-help industry, determined to sell us the...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksNgā Kūaha
Ngā Kūaha: Voices and Visions in Māori Healing and Psychiatry explores what it means to hear voices and see visions from the perspectives of Māori healer Wiremu NiaNia and psychiatrist Allister Bush. Wiremu explains Ngā Kūaha as referring to doorways and offers entranceways into Māori knowledge about wairua (spirituality) handed down by his forebears and other Māori sources. The authors...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksNeuropsychology
The second edition of this comprehensive textbook for students of Neuropsychology provides a thorough overview of the complex relationship between brain and behaviour. With an excellent blend of clinical, experimental, and theoretical coverage, it draws on the latest research findings from neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, neurochemistry, clinical neuropsychology, and neuropsychology to offer students new insights in this fast-moving field. The book...Paperback$19300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksNeuropsychology
The second edition of this comprehensive textbook for students of Neuropsychology provides a thorough overview of the complex relationship between brain and behaviour. With an excellent blend of clinical, experimental, and theoretical coverage, it draws on the latest research findings from neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, neurochemistry, clinical neuropsychology, and neuropsychology. This offers students new insights into this fast-moving field. The book...Hardback$54100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksNeurodevelopmental Disorders
Interest in the field of neurodevelopmental disorders has grown exponentially in recent years across a range of disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, education and neuroscience. The research itself has become more sophisticated, using multidisciplinary methods to probe interdisciplinary questions. Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Research Challenges and Solutions provides a thorough overview of the key issues involved in researching neurodevelopmental disorders. The volume includes...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksNeon Genesis Evangelion and Philosophy: That Syncing Feeling
When most people think of anime, they think of large-eyed adolescents fighting fearsome monsters (kaij). On the surface, Neon Genesis Evangelion is just the same, filled with destructive explosions and gigantic EVA missiles that can only be piloted by super-hot teens. But as every otaku knows, anime as a stylised artform has much more to offer, often pushing the artistic,...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksNatural-Theological Understanding from Childhood to Adulthood
It is commonly assumed that young children only begin to think about God as a result of some educational or cultural influence, perhaps provided by their parents. Natural-Theological Understanding from Childhood to Adulthood asks if there is anything about God that children can know independently of any specific cultural input; does their knowledge of God simply come from their everyday...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksNarratology
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become an international classic and the comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts, both literary and non-literary. Providing insights into how readers interpret narrative text, the fourth edition of Narratology is a guide for students and scholars seeking to analyse narratives of any language, period, and region...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMyth and Madness
The persistence of anti-Semitism and its current resurgence after a brief post-Holocaust suppression challenge those who study human behaviour to locate the causal bases of anti-Semitism and find approaches to combat it. This is an astonishing report of a nine-year study of the psychodynamics of anti-Semitism. Undertaken by Dr. Mortimer Ostow on behalf of the Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund,...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMy Blob Feelings Workbook
My Blob Feelings Workbook provides the reader with a series of unique visual reflective exercises that help to reveal one’s own emotional portrait. Using a combination of Blob characters and open questions, the reader can gradually build up an image of themselves across a wide range of ‘who I am’ subjects and real-life scenarios. Packed with well-loved blob illustrations, this...Paperback$6399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMusic in the Head
We are starting to see a rapprochement between psychoanalysis and neuroscience such as Freud could only dream of. Pay dirt will be found at the brain-mind border. One can now perhaps hope to have an analysis of release hallucinations, equally rooted in neurology and psychiatry, in biology and biography. It is such a synthesis which Dr Leo Rangell, one of...Hardback$31800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMotivational Games and Activities for Groups
How can you encourage people to be motivated? How can you create that sense of yearning to achieve or reach a goal? How can you energise and inspire group members? The exercises and activities in this resource will help you to motivate your team or the group with which you are working. The activities are organised in sections from which...Paperback$7099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMoral Disagreements
Moral Disagreements is the first anthology to bring together classic and contemporary readings on this key topic. It is clearly divided into five parts: The Historical Debate; Voices from Anthropology; Challenges to Moral Objectivity; Defences of Moral Objectivity; and New Directions. The anthology presents readings from the following key thinkers: Sextus, Empiricus, Chagno, Wong, MacIntyre, Aquinas, Shweder, Brink, Rawls, Montaigne,...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMoon Spell Magic
Want to learn more about moon spells, phases of the moon, Wiccan spells, and other aspects of the Wiccan religion? Moon Spell Magic is intended to be a practical and inspirational handbook for making magic, with spells for each day of the week: Rituals for romance Seasonal sacred energy altars Secrets for money magic And everything in between The wisdom...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMoney as Emotional Currency
The importance of money and our relationship to it is impossible to ignore in a decade defined by global economic crisis and financial instability. Integrating a psychoanalytic perspective with insights offered by economics, Money as Emotional Currency contributes to a debate that aims for a better understanding of money in its dual functioning— as an omnipresent component of our external...Paperback$6199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksModality
This introduction to modality places the emphasis on the metaphysics of modality rather than on the formal semantics of quantified modal logic. The text begins by introducing students to the "de re/de dicto" distinction, conventionalist and conceptualist theories of modality, and some of the key problems in modality, particularly Quine's criticisms. It then moves on to explain how possible worlds...Paperback$9399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMinority and Cross-Cultural Aspects of Neuropsychological Assessment
Minority and Cross-Cultural Aspects of Neuropsychological Assessment is more relevant now than ever in our diverse world. Given the dramatic local and global changes occurring daily with regard to demographics, population changes, and immigration issues, minority and cross-cultural psychology is fast becoming a respected and critical area of scientific study. Pair that with the fact that people of all cultures...Hardback$51700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMindreaders
Theory of mind, or "mindreading" as it is termed in this book, is the ability to think about beliefs, desires, knowledge and intentions. It has been studied extensively by developmental and comparative psychologists and more recently by neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists. This book is the first to draw together these diverse findings in an account of the cognitive basis of...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMetaphysics: Contemporary Readings
Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that draws together leading philosophers writing on the major themes in metaphysics. Chapters appear under the headings: Universals, Particulars, Modality and Possible Worlds, Causation, Time, Persistence, Realism, and Anti-Realism. Each section is prefaced by an introductory essay by the editor, which guides students gently into each topic. Articles by the following leading philosophers...Hardback$36500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMetaphysics and the Representational Fallacy
Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy is an investigation into metaphysics: its aims, scope, methodology and practice. Dyke argues that metaphysics should take itself to be concerned with investigating the fundamental nature of reality, and suggests that the ontological significance of language has been grossly exaggerated in the pursuit of that aim.Paperback$13200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMetaphysics
This book is an introduction to metaphysics. It presupposes no previous acquaintance with philosophy and addresses the following questions: What is metaphysics? Is there a plurality of things, or is there only one thing? Is there an external world, a world of things that exist independently of human thought and sensation? What is time? Is there such a thing as...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMental Imaginery in the Child
Jean Piaget was one of the most salient and inspirational figures in psychological and educational research of the 20th century. He was also prolific, authoring or editing over 80 books and numerous journals and papers which spawned a continuation of his work over the following decades. His work now comprises a major component of many courses on children's psychological development....Hardback$48200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMelanie Klein Revisited
While much writing has been devoted, predominantly by contemporary Kleinian adult psychoanalysts, to the Kleinian and post-Kleinian development of Klein's work, comparatively little has recently been written about the ongoing importance and character of Klein's clinical work for contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy or analysis with very small children (2 - 6 year olds). Little attention now seems to be paid to...Paperback$8499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMe, But Better
In recent years, Olga Khazan had been spiralling toward an existential crisis. Though she treasured her loving, long-term relationship and her dream job, she often caught herself snatching dissatisfaction from the jaws of happiness. Her neurotic overachieving had always been a professional asset, but lately, Olga felt that her brittle disposition could shatter under the weight of just one more...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMarx's Inferno
Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply offering a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers' movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of...Paperback$6799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMarx's Critical/Dialectical Procedure (RLE Marxism)
This book, first published in 1991, demonstrates that Marx is the legitimate founder of what was to become the critical theory of society. It argues that in order to justify a new conception of humans as collective, cultural and historical beings, Marx undertook a radical critique of the theoretical/analytical method of his predecessors and his contemporaries in political economy, philosophy,...Paperback$9899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMarxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique
Using the aesthetic and political concerns of Parry’s oeuvre as a touchstone, Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique explores new directions for postcolonial studies, Marxist literary criticism, and world literature in the contemporary moment, seeking to re-imagine the field, and alongside it, new possibilities for left critique. It is the first volume of essays focusing on the field-defining...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMarx and Wittgenstein
At first sight, Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein may well seem to be as different from each other as it is possible for the ideas of two major intellectuals to be. Despite this standard conception, however, a small number of scholars have long suggested that there are deeper philosophical commonalities between Marx and Wittgenstein. They have argued that, once grasped,...Paperback$12300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMarriage and Morals
First published in 1985, Marriage and Morals won Bertrand Russell the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. With his customary wit and clarity, Russell explores the changing role of marriage, the codes of sexual ethics, and the question of population. By what codes should we live our sexual lives? Every aspect, from the origin of marriage to the values of...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMaking a Difference in Patients' Lives
Winner of the 2009 Gradiva Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Publication! Within the title of her book, Making a Difference in Patients' Lives, Sandra Buechler echoes the hope of all clinicians. However, she counters, experience soon convinces most of us that insight, on its own, is often not powerful enough to have a significant impact on how a life is actually...Hardback$35300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMaking a Difference in Patients' Lives
Winner of the 2009 Gradiva Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Publication! Within the title of her book, Making a Difference in Patients' Lives, Sandra Buechler echoes the hope of all clinicians. But, she counters, experience soon convinces most of us that insight, on its own, is often not powerful enough to have a significant impact on how a life is actually...Paperback$10600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMadness and Civilization
In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity and fascination, it might also make you...Hardback$21900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMadness
Madness: History, Concepts and Controversies provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of current perspectives on mental illness and how they have been shaped by historical trends and dominant sociocultural paradigms. From its representation among world religions and wider folkloric myth, to early attempts to rationalise and treat symptoms of mental disorder, this book outlines the principal contemporary models of understanding...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMachiavellianism
The world abounds with tricksters, swindlers, and impostors. Many of them may well be described with the term Machiavellian. Such individuals disrespect moral principles, deceive their fellow beings, and take advantage of others’ frailty and gullibility. They have a penetrating, rational, and sober mind undisturbed by emotions. At times we cannot help but be enchanted by their talent even though...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMachiavelli
Machiavellian can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli himself is far more complex than this cliché. A high-ranking Florentine government official and prolific writer of hugely influential political, military, and historical works, Machiavelli was also a vernacular poet, first-rank dramatist, and religious radical, rejecting not only the contemporary Catholic Church but Christianity itself. From champion of Florentine popular...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLove in the Age of the Internet
This highly topical book explores the new technological environment we have created, and our adaptation to it, twenty-five years after the death of John Bowlby. In the space of just a couple of decades, the world has changed radically, and we are changing too: personal computers and smartphones mediate our lives, work, play, and love. Relationships of all kinds are...Paperback$8699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLove and Therapy
Sigmund Freud noted the importance of love in the healing of the human psyche. So many of life's distresses have their origins in lack of love, disruption of love, or trauma. People naturally seek love in their lives to feel complete. Is therapy a substitute for love? Or is it love by another name? This important book looks at the...Paperback$7099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLoss
The experience of loss is ubiquitous in human life, but its nature and impact have great variations. When loss is phase-specific, expected, and accompanied by compensatory supplies, it can lead to ego growth. When loss is untimely, unexpected, and unaccompanied by environmental 'holding,' it becomes traumatic and needs clinical attention. This edited volume brings together a distinguished cadre of international...Hardback$28200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLogic: The Basics
Logic: The Basics is an accessible introduction to several core areas of logic. The first part of the book features a self-contained introduction to the standard topics in classical logic, such as: · mathematical preliminaries · propositional logic · quantified logic (first monadic, then polyadic) · English and standard ‘symbolic translations’ · tableau procedures. Alongside comprehensive coverage of the standard...Hardback$23500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLogic
Bringing elementary logic out of the academic darkness into the light of day, Paul Tomassi makes logic fully accessible for anyone attempting to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject. Including student-friendly exercises, illustrations, summaries, and a glossary of terms, Logic introduces and explains: The Theory of Validity The Language of Propositional Logic Proof-Theory for Propositional Logic...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLiving with Mild Brain Injury
This important book presents a unique, personal account of the impact a mild traumatic brain injury can have. It tells the story of Pauline, who was 33 when a late football tackle caused a bleed in her brain which went undiscovered for 18 months. The account includes descriptions of hidden symptoms of concussion and post-concussion syndrome, pitfalls in diagnoses, the...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLife Whimsy
Life is short, so make it whimsical! Wendy Conklin built her chair upholstery hobby into a multi-six-figure brand by breaking conventional rules and tapping into her own creative potential. Now, she's sharing her strategies in Life Whimsy to help people bring more creativity to the way they think, play, and work. Filled with inspiring photos and insightful advice, ranging from...Hardback$12000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLife's Big Questions
Answer Life's Questions with A New Perspective "...200 questions that can truly impact your life in positive ways... to help us bring meaning and exploration back into our daily lives." - Dr. Bernie Siegel, Love, Medicine, and Miracles Filled with questions, inspiring anecdotes, and guided meditations, Life's Big Questions invites readers to examine their beliefs about spirituality and learn new...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLet's Go Shopping: A Grammar Tales Book to Support Grammar and Language Development in Children
Pete and Jem are very helpful at the supermarket, but end up causing chaos with a tower of food on display. Let's Go Shopping: A Grammar Tales Book to Support Grammar and Language Development in Children targets Subject-Verb-Object sentences and the conjunction ‘and’ for listing. This book provides repeated examples of early developing syntax and morphology, which will engage and...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLectures on Violence, Perversion and Delinquency
In this volume, contemporary staff describe their thinking and clinical work. Theoretical underpinnings for the understanding of perversion and violence, questions of risk and ethics, and the institutional difficulties which emerge in the care of these patients are presented alongside chapters on clinical work with adults and adolescents, including chapters on paedophilia, the compulsive use of internet pornography, and transsexuality....Paperback$8299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLearning Along the Way
Learning Along the Way sees Patrick Casement trace the development and application of his earlier key contributions to psychoanalytic technique. These include his observations about internal supervision, trial identification with the patient, and monitoring how the analytic space is either preserved or spoiled by the analyst’s contributions. Throughout the book, Casement cautions against preconceptions that steer the analytic process along...Hardback$28200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLeaders in Transition
Leaders in Transition brings a new perspective on why some leaders succeed more than others when taking charge of an organisation. Based on in-depth case studies, in which four new leaders and their teams in large and complex international organisations were tracked for over a year, this book uncovers that success in managing transition is directly related to leaders' ability...Paperback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLaws
This is a superb new translation that is remarkably accurate to Plato's very difficult Greek, yet clear and highly readable. The notes are more helpful than those in any other available translation of the Laws since they contain both the information needed by the beginning student as well as analytical notes that include references to the secondary literature for the...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLanguage Acquisition
Language Acquisition: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the must-know issues in child language development. Covering key topics drawn from contemporary psychology, linguistics and neuroscience, readers are introduced to fundamental concepts, methods, controversies, and discoveries. It follows the remarkable journey children take; from becoming sensitive to language before birth, to the time they string their first words together; from...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLanguage Acquisition
Language Acquisition: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the must-know issues in child language development. Covering key topics drawn from contemporary psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience, readers are introduced to fundamental concepts, methods, controversies, and discoveries. It follows the remarkable journey children take; from becoming sensitive to language before birth, to the time they string their first words together; from...Hardback$32900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks