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  • The Telemachus Complex
    Fatherhood today is in crisis. Fathers have gone missing, or have become their children’s playmates, and the symbolic authority of the father has lost its power. What remains of the father today in the wake of this decline, and what should the relation between children and parents now be? In addressing these questions, Massimo Recalcati draws inspiration from the story...
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  • The Superhumanities
    A bold challenge to rethink the humanities as intimately connected to the superhuman and to “decolonize reality itself.” What would happen if we reimagined the humanities as the superhumanities? If we acknowledged and celebrated the undercurrent of the fantastic within our humanistic disciplines, entirely new cultural worlds and meanings would become possible. That is Jeffrey J. Kripal’s vision for the...
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  • The Stuff of Life
    'An old teapot, used daily, can tell me more of my past than anything I recorded of it.' Sylvia Townsend Warner There are many ways of telling the story of a life and how we've got to where we are. The questions of why and how we think the way we do continue to preoccupy philosophers. In The Stuff of...
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  • The Study
    With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo, a 'little studio,' and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy and a poison for the soul. Blending fresh, insightful readings of literary and visual...
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  • The Student EQ Edge
    The Student EQ Edge is more relevant today than any other time in the history of our world. Our opportunity to succeed in the 21st century will depend a great deal on our emotional intelligence in our transformation to lifelong learning and our leadership ability. This book is the competitive edge. —Stedman Graham, best-selling author, speaker, entrepreneur We have been...
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  • The Strength to Say No
    An inspiring true life story that will resonate with those who decry the oppression of women and girls in some areas of the Third World. In a remote village in Bengal, 11-year-old Rekha and her large family live by rolling handmade cigarettes. She frequently observes the abrupt departure of her friends who go to live with their mothers-in-law, where they...
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  • The Story of Australian English
    The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today, there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of 'Englishes'. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, and verbal inventions that make up Aussie English come from? A lively...
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  • The STOP Domestic Violence Program
    The bold interventions from STOP have now been field-tested for more than thirty years among military and civilian populations, and STOP has now treated more than 50,000 domestic violence offenders. David Wexler's program offers therapists, social workers, and other counsellors a new level of sound, psychologically based interventions that reach the very men who often seem so unapproachable in a...
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  • The Stories Behind the Poses
    Discover the traditional stories and wisdom behind your favourite yoga poses in this stunningly illustrated book of Indian mythology for yogis of all levels. A beautifully written introduction to Indian mythology, join storyteller, scholar and teacher, Dr Raj Balkaran, and explore the unforgettable tales behind 50 key yoga poses, such as: Vrabhadrsana II, the original warrior pose Tsana, mountain pose...
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  • The Stoics Reader
    This volume gathers together the most important evidence about Stoic thought surviving from the ancient world. It is an expanded version of the section on Stoicism in Inwood and Gerson's Hellenistic Philosophy, consolidating related texts into larger, more continuous selections. The book adds material on the skeptical attack on Stoicism, providing a richer understanding of the discourse between different philosophical...
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  • The Stoic Art of Living
    Tom Morris's exuberant seminars and presentations to business leaders have taken the commanding heights of corporate America by storm, and his books on philosophy for businesspeople have sold millions. Dr. Morris shows how the ideas of Stoic Philosophy—emphasizing goals like gaining command of one's passions and achieving indifference to pain and distress—are completely up-to-date in their relevance to the practical...
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  • The States of the Earth
    How did disenchantment lead to climate change? The States of the Earth argues that European empires became secular as they entered the age of coal, using Orientalism as a means of racialising the Other. While industrial states began colonising parts of Asia and Africa in the aftermath of the French Revolution, the massive conversion of natives to Christianity waned in...
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  • The Spectre of Capital
    What is money? What is capital? Christopher J. Arthur brilliantly tackles these fundamental questions at a deep philosophical level in The Spectre of Capital. He argues that the modern world is ruled by an unseen force, the spectre of capital. This insight is rooted in a strikingly original combination of the ideas of Marx and Hegel. Arthur presents the most...
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  • The Soul of the World
    In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone. To be fully alive—and to understand what we are—is to acknowledge the...
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  • The Sovereignty of Reason
    The Sovereignty of Reason is a survey of the rule of faith controversy in seventeenth-century England. It examines the arguments by which reason eventually became the sovereign standard of truth in religion and politics, and how it triumphed over its rivals: Scripture, inspiration, and apostolic tradition. Frederick Beiser argues that the main threat to the authority of reason in seventeenth-century...
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  • The Socratic Method
    A thinking person's guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master, the method will change the way you think about life's big questions. "A wonderful book."-Rebecca Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex. About 2,500...
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  • The Sociology of Political Crisis
    The Sociology of Political Crisis provides a pioneering and powerful theoretical approach to a large range of critical events like political breakdowns, revolutions, upheavals, or collapses, which it considers as self-fueling processes emancipating themselves from the multiple causes that gave rise to them. Exploring the properties of "fluid conjunctures", Michel Dobry highlights the plasticity of the structures in which people...
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  • The Sociological Interpretation of Dreams
    For Freud, dreams were the royal road to the unconscious: through the process of interpretation, the manifest and sometimes bewildering content of dreams can be traced back to the unconscious representations underlying it. But can we understand dreams in another way by considering how the unconscious is structured by our social experiences? This is the hypothesis that underlies this highly...
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  • The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture, and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today. This volume brings together three of Rousseau's most important political writings: The Social Contract and The First Discourse (Discourse on the Sciences and Arts) and The Second Discourse (Discourse on the Origin and Foundations...
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  • The Social Construction of What?
    Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. His book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious...
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  • The Simpsons and Philosophy
    This unconventional and lighthearted introduction to the ideas of the major Western philosophers examines The Simpsons—TV's favourite animated family. The authors look beyond the jokes, the crudeness, the attacks on society, and see a clever display of irony, social criticism, and philosophical thought. The writers begin with an examination of the characters. Does Homer actually display Aristotle's virtues of character?...
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  • The Silva Mind Control Method
    The revolutionary program that teaches you how to use meditation and visualization to change your life. First published in 1978, The Silva Mind Control Method has helped millions of people create better, happier, and more successful lives. Based on the extraordinary course pioneered by José Silva in the 1960s, this accessible guidebook uses meditation and visualization to help you alleviate...
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  • The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected - A Natural Philosopher's Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything
    A personal and engaging tribute to nature from a world-famous theoretical physicist. Marcelo Gleiser has had a passion for science and fishing since he was a boy growing up on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. As a world-famous theoretical physicist with hundreds of scientific articles and several books of popular science to his credit, he felt it was time...
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  • The Sickness Unto Death
    The "greatest psychologist of the spirit since St. Augustine" (Gregory R. Beabout), Søren Kierkegaard is renowned for such richly imagined philosophical works as Fear and Trembling and The Concept of Anxiety. Yet only The Sickness unto Death condenses his most essential ideas—on aesthetics, ethics, and religion—into a single volume. First published in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, The Sickness unto...
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  • The Shadows of Socrates
    The Shadows of Socrates by Matt Gatton delves into what may be the most famous unsolved murder in history—the death of Socrates. Set during the Peloponnesian War, this narrative unveils the mystery for the first time, revealing how the philosopher was set up, who orchestrated it, and why. The influence of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates has been profound. Even...
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  • The Sex Factor
    Why did the West become so rich? Why is inequality rising? How ‘free’ should markets be? And what does sex have to do with it? In this passionate and skilfully argued book, leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning economic issues of our time if we put sex and gender – ‘the sex factor’ –...
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  • The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
    This new translation of The Seminar of Jacques Lacan offers welcome, readable access to the brilliant author's seminal thinking on psychoanalysis and contemporary social order. Lacan's work delves into notions of Freud, Marx, and Hegel; patterns of social and sexual behaviour; and the nature and function of science and knowledge in the contemporary Australian world.
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  • The Self in the West and East Asia
    From the fraught world of geopolitics to business and the academy, it’s more vital than ever that Westerners and East Asians understand how each other thinks. As Jin Li shows in this groundbreaking work, the differences run deep. Li explores the philosophical origins of the concept of self in both cultures and synthesises her findings with cutting-edge psychological research to...
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  • The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot
    This collection of writings from Pierre Hadot (1992-2010) presents, for the first time, previously unreleased and, in some cases, untranslated materials from one of the world's most prominent classical philosophers and historians of thought. As a passionate proponent of philosophy as a 'way of life' (most powerfully communicated in the life of Socrates), Pierre Hadot rejuvenated interest in the ancient...
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  • The Secular Enlightenment
    A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday lives. The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and...
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  • The Secret Teachings of the Tao Te Ching
    For over 2500 years, the words of the Tao Te Ching, the primary scripture of Laoism and Taoism, have been regarded as among the greatest treasures of the world. Lao-Tzu, whose name means "the ancient child," wrote these brief but essential verses that have both confounded and conferred blessings on humankind. Now, Taoist masters Mantak Chia and Tao Huang guide...
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  • The Search for Meaning
    In The Search for Meaning: A Short History, Dennis Ford explores eight approaches human beings have pursued over time to invest life with meaning and to infuse order into a seemingly chaotic universe. These include myth, philosophy, science, postmodernism, pragmatism, archetypal psychology, metaphysics, and naturalism. In engaging, companionable prose, Ford boils down these systems to their bare essentials, showing the...
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  • The Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy
    Through a collection of works from key thinkers in natural philosophy, the second edition of The Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy illuminates the central role scientific writing played in developing modern philosophical thought. This revised and expanded edition includes many new translations and incorporates works by foundational eighteenth- and nineteenth-century thinkers not in the first edition. It includes selections from...
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  • The Science of Reading
    Provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on the science of reading, revised and updated throughout The Science of Reading presents the most recent advances in the study of reading and related skills. Bringing together contributions from a multidisciplinary team of experts, this comprehensive volume reviews theoretical approaches, stage models of reading, cross-linguistic studies of reading, reading instruction, the neurobiology of...
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  • The Science of Intimate Relationships
    Provides a unique interdisciplinary approach to the science of intimate human relationships This newly updated edition of a popular text is the first to present a full-blooded interdisciplinary and theoretically coherent approach to the latest scientific findings relating to human sexual relationships. Written by recognised leaders in the field in a style that is rigorous yet accessible, it looks beyond...
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  • The Science and Treatment of Psychological Disorders, with eBook Access Code
    The Science and Treatment of Psychological Disorders blends theory and research with practice and clinical application to provide learners with a solid foundation in psychological disorders. It aims to develop their understanding with up-to-date and relevant research, examples, and contexts. Since its first edition, the focus of the book has always been on balancing contemporary research and clinical application while...
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  • The Science of Occupational Health
    The Science of Occupational Health is an evidence-based resource for all members of the healthcare team working with those affected by work-based stress—whether individuals suffering physical or psychological symptoms, or organisations trying to provide optimum conditions for healthy and productive employees. The authors offer a unique psychobiological perspective, discussing the modern workplace as a cause of stimulation and well-being, as...
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  • The Science of Reading
    The Science of Reading: A Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of reading research from leading names in the field, to create a highly authoritative, multidisciplinary overview of contemporary knowledge about reading and related skills. Provides comprehensive coverage of the subject, including theoretical approaches, reading processes, stage models of reading, cross-linguistic studies of reading, reading difficulties, the biology of reading, and...
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  • The Scent of Time
    In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into a labouring animal, an animal laborans. At the same...
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  • The Sage's Tao Te Ching, 20th Anniversary Edition
    The Sage's Tao Te Ching, 20th Anniversary Edition by Hank Tusinki and William Martin offers a profound free-verse interpretation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, one of the world's most widely read books of wisdom. This interpretation subtly and powerfully captures the complex emotions connected with growing older. It encourages today's sages to recognise their inestimable worth in a youth-centric...
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  • The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing
    For several years after 1968, Herbert Marcuse was one of the most famous philosophers in the world. He became the face of Frankfurt School Critical Theory for a generation in turmoil. His fame rested on two remarkable books, Eros and Civilization and One-Dimensional Man. These two books represent the utopian hopes and dystopian fears of the time. In the 1960s...
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  • The Royal Remains
    "The king is dead. Long live the king!" In early modern Europe, the king's body was literally sovereign—and the right to rule was immediately transferable to the next monarch in line upon the king's death. In The Royal Remains, Eric L. Santner argues that the "carnal" dimension of the structures and dynamics of sovereignty hasn't disappeared from politics. Instead, it...
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  • The Road to Wisdom
    Dr Francis Collins is a bridge person in a polarised time. Amid the shrillness of our era, Collins offers a calming voice of hope, as well as practical suggestions on how to heal the nation's wounds. - PHILIP YANCEY From world-leading scientist and New York Times bestselling author of The Language of God, a deeply thoughtful guidebook to discerning what...
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  • The Rising of the Women
    In this landmark study of American labour history, Meredith Tax charts the actions of women in working-class, feminist, and socialist movements between 1880 and 1917 in the USA. Caught between the hostility of male trade unionists, the chauvinism of male socialist organisers, and the assumptions of middle-class feminists, women workers forged their own demands for economic and political justice in...
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  • The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought
    The definitive history of China's philosophical confrontation with modernity, available for the first time in English. What does it mean for China to be modern, or for modernity to be Chinese? How is the notion of historical rupture—a fundamental distinction between tradition and modernity—compatible or not with the history of Chinese thought? These questions animate The Rise of Modern Chinese...
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  • The Right to Oblivion
    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year "It is a radiantly original contribution to a conversation gravely in need of new thinking." –Ben Tarnoff, The New Yorker A visionary reexamination of the value of privacy in today's hypermediated world—not just as a political right but as the key to a life worth living. The parts of our lives that...
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  • The Rich and the Poor
    The Rich and the Poor is part chronicle, part analysis of a disturbing sea-change: the abandonment of ethics in public policy. Seventy years ago, it was possible for serious thinkers, including some in the governments of affluent nations, to consider policies for raising living standards worldwide. Today, by contrast, the principal policy questions revolve around how to stay on top...
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  • The Revolt of the Masses
    Social upheaval in early twentieth-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset of the mass man—the phenomenon of mass culture that more than any other factor stamps the character of modern life. Continuously in print since 1932, Ortega's analysis of Western culture as sinking to its lowest common denominator and...
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  • The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
    The long-awaited Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (RSE) is founded on the canonical Standard Edition (SE) translation from the German by James Strachey, while adding a new layer of revisions and translations. Conceptual and lexicographic ambiguities are clarified in extensive new annotations. Drawing on established conventions and intellectual traditions, the Revised Standard Edition supplements...
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  • The Rested Child
    Sleep disorders in children are on the rise. Experts have pronounced sleeplessness a 'hidden health crisis' for young people, with 10 percent of children presenting with diagnosable sleep disorders - but well over half are misdiagnosed. Every year, tens of thousands of children are treated for diseases such as diabetes, learning disorders, or chronic pain, when the real root cause...
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  • The Republic of Plato
    The best available English translation.... [It] compels intelligent readers to come to grips with what Plato actually wrote.' , American Political Science Review
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  • There’s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship
    Published in 1973, L'Etourdit was one of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's most important works. The book posed questions that traversed the entire body of Lacan's psychoanalytical explorations, including his famous idea that "there is no such thing as a sexual relationship," which seeks to undermine our certainties about intimacy and reality. In There’s No Such Thing as a Sexual...
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  • The Republic (Hero Classics)
    Part of the Hero Classics series "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." The Republic, a pioneering work of political philosophy, is a dialogue that does not feature Plato directly, as at the heart is Socrates, his teacher. Even though the conversations between Socrates and Athenians as well as...
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  • The Reasons of Love
    A clear, accessible exploration of how and why we love by prominent philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt. In The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest...
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  • The Reason of Things
    "A person who does not think about life is like a stranger mapless in a foreign land." But in the twenty-first century, what meaning can we give to our lives? How can we justify our existence and continue to grow and learn? In The Reason of Things, the bestselling philosopher A. C. Grayling gives us pause to examine these questions...
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  • The Real and Its Double
    Clément Rosset bridges highbrow philosophy with everyday life, using pop culture to illuminate complex metaphysical issues. As a maverick philosopher unafraid of challenging the ideas and methods of his colleagues, Clément Rosset's work attempts to connect sometimes lofty academic philosophy with the concerns of everyday life. For decades, he has worked to illuminate some of the most obscure metaphysical issues,...
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  • Therapy for Relationships with Eating Disorders
    Effective eating disorder treatment modalities for adults continue to elude practitioners, and the rates of eating disorder relapse remain staggeringly high. Meanwhile, a vital resource for people with eating disorders remains unexplored: their romantic relationships. Tapping into this largely ignored vein of support, Therapy for Relationships with Eating Disorders introduces Gottman-RED (Relationships with Eating Disorders), a new therapy for couples...
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  • Therapist and Client
    Therapist and Client: A Relational Approach to Psychotherapy provides a guide to the fundamental interpersonal elements of the therapeutic relationship that make it the most effective factor in therapy. Presents the fundamental interpersonal elements that make the therapeutic relationship the most effective factor in psychotherapy. Explores and integrates a range of approaches from various schools, from psychoanalysis to body-oriented psychotherapy...
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  • The Quotable Kierkegaard
    Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven; in the spring, at the earth. — Søren Kierkegaard The father of existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher who could write like an angel. With only a sentence or two, he could plumb the depths of the human spirit. In this collection...
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  • The Question of Painting
    Since the latter half of the 20th century, committed art has been associated with conceptual, critical, and activist practices. Painting, by contrast, is often defined as an outmoded, reactionary, market-led venture; an ineffectual medium from the perspective of social and political engagement. How can paintings change the world today? The question of painting, in particular, fuelled the investigations of a...
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  • The Quotable Jung
    The definitive one-volume collection of Jung quotations C. G. Jung (1875-1961) was a preeminent thinker of the modern era. In seeking to establish an interdisciplinary science of analytical psychology, he studied psychiatry, religion, mysticism, literature, physics, biology, education, and criminology. He introduced the concepts of extraversion and introversion, and terms such as complex, archetype, individuation, and the collective unconscious. He...
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  • The Question of Psychological Types
    In 1915, C. G. Jung and his psychiatrist colleague, Hans Schmid-Guisan, began a correspondence through which they hoped to codify fundamental individual differences of attention and consciousness. Their ambitious dialogue, focused on the opposition of extraversion and introversion, demonstrated the difficulty of reaching a shared awareness of differences even as it introduced concepts that would eventually enable Jung to create...
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  • The Question of Eclecticism
    The Question of Eclecticism is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988....
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  • The Question of Eclecticism
    The Question of Eclecticism is part of UC Press's Voices Revived programme, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988....
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  • The Pursuit of Equality in the West
    One of the world's foremost historians of Western political and legal thought proposes a bold new model for thinking about equality at a time when its absence threatens democracies everywhere. How much equality does democracy need to survive? Political thinkers have wrestled with that question for millennia. Aristotle argued that some are born to command and others to obey. Antiphon...
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  • The Public Intellectual
    New essays by prestigious thinkers such as Edward Said, Bruce Robbins, Jacqueline Rose, and Stefan Collini explore the public role of writers and intellectuals. The Public Intellectual offers insightful analyses and discussions, considering the impact and responsibilities that intellectuals hold in society. This collection provides a rich dialogue on the influence and presence of public intellectuals in various cultural and...
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  • The Psychotherapy Documentation Primer
    Everything you need to know to record client intake, treatment, and progress—incorporating the latest managed care, accrediting agency, and government regulations. Paperwork and record keeping are day-to-day realities in your mental health practice. Records must be kept for managed care reimbursement; for accreditation agencies; for protection in the event of lawsuits; to meet federal HIPAA regulations; and to help streamline...
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  • The Psychosocial Experience Of Retired Police Officers
    This issue is critical to explore to ensure that officers receive the support they need to transition out of their career into retirement positively and manage some of the emotional turmoil that have been seen to result from retirement (e.g., denial, stress, anger, anxiety). Three research questions were designed to focus the inquiry: How do retired police officers perceive their...
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  • The Psychology of Retirement
    The Psychology of Retirement is the first self-help guide to retirement based on highly proven psychological coping strategies. Provides the most comprehensive and coherent account of the challenges of retirement and the associated ageing process. Represents the culmination of over 30 years of clinical, teaching, and research involvement in the main issues discussed within this book. Draws systematically on applied...
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  • The Psychology of Self-Esteem
    This new edition of the original text reveals how Nathaniel Branden's landmark book broke the rules of conventional behavioural theory and promulgated his revolutionary ideas on the critical role that self-esteem plays in living a healthy, fulfilling life. The Psychology of Self-Esteem offers an in-depth exploration of the need for self-esteem, the nature of that need, the conditions of fulfilment,...
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Philosophy & Psychology

Welcome to our Philosophy & Psychology section, where profound questions meet insightful answers. If you’re curious about the nature of existence, the workings of the mind, or the foundations of human behavior, this collection offers a wide range of books to deepen your understanding.

Discover classic works from great philosophers, contemporary explorations of ethics, logic, and metaphysics, and engaging texts that bridge philosophy with modern psychology. Whether you’re interested in the philosophical underpinnings of human thought or the psychological theories that explain why we think, feel, and act the way we do, there’s something here for every inquiring mind.

From thought-provoking essays and groundbreaking studies to accessible introductions and comprehensive guides, our Philosophy & Psychology books invite you to explore new ideas and perspectives. Dive in and start your journey of self-discovery and reflection today.