Heart Of The Race
The Heart of the Race is a powerful record of life as a black woman in Britain. Grandmothers drawn to the promise of the "mother country" in the 1950s talk of a different reality; young girls describe how their aspirations at school were largely ignored; working women tell of their commitments to families, jobs, and communities. First published in 1985,...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHealth Psychology in Practice
Published by Blackwell in association with the British Psychological Society, Health Psychology in Practice provides a comprehensive overview of the UK professional Stage 2 Qualification in Health Psychology. An essential text for professional training in health psychology, both for trainees and teachers, and supervisors contributing to health psychology courses. Published in association with the British Psychological Society, this book covers...Paperback$11899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHealing Trauma
Born out of the excitement of a convergence of ideas and passions, Healing Trauma provides a synthesis of the work of researchers, clinicians, and theoreticians who are leaders in the field of trauma, attachment, and psychotherapy. As we move into the third millennium, the field of mental health is in an exciting position to bring together diverse ideas from a...Hardback$9499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHealing with Stories
An invitation to observe and learn the therapeutic art of storytelling. Healing with Stories brings together a stellar collection of some of the world's most prominent practitioners, taking you inside their thinking and processes for working with metaphors. They represent the panorama of metaphor practice in psychotherapy today with considered, humorous, and compassionate case examples that step you through the...Paperback$13499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHealing the Traumatized Self
Cultivation of emotional awareness is difficult, even for those of us not afflicted by serious mental illness. This book discusses the neurobiology behind emotional states and presents exercises for developing self-awareness. Topics include mood (both unipolar and bipolar), anxiety (particularly PTSD), and dissociative disorders. Frewen and Lanius comprehensively review psychological and neurobiological research, and explain how to use this research...Hardback$9499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHealing Child and Family Trauma through Expressive and Play Therapies
There are many ways to help children and families heal from trauma. Leaning on our ancestral wisdom of healing through play, art, nature, storytelling, body, touch, imagination, and mindfulness practice, Janet A. Courtney helps the clinician bring a variety of practices into the therapy room. Healing Child and Family Trauma through Expressive and Play Therapies identifies seven stages of therapy...Hardback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHating Girls
Hating Girls is a collection of cutting-edge essays addressing the pervasive problem of misogyny from an intersectional framework, particularly focused on identities of gender, race, class, sexuality, and religion. Scholars, activist reformers, and social justice practitioners offer multiple perspectives on the misogyny that dominates our culture, providing both macro-views and case studies in the United States. This interdisciplinary analysis exposes...Paperback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHardship and Happiness
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C....Paperback$7299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHappiness in Action
A young philosopher and Guinness World Record holder in pull-ups argues that the key to happiness is not goal-driven striving but forging a life that integrates self-possession, friendship, and engagement with nature. What is the meaning of the good life? In this strikingly original book, Adam Adatto Sandel draws on ancient and modern thinkers and on two seemingly disparate pursuits...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHappiness
‘All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness…or it’s not worth an hour of trouble’ claims Alain Badiou in this lively intervention into one of the most persistent themes in philosophy: what is happiness? And what do I need to do to be happy? The desire to be happy is one of our most universal goals, and yet there don’t seem...Paperback$2899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin
For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers - and how their profound disagreements continue to offer important lessons for political theory and philosophy. Two of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) fundamentally disagreed on central issues in politics, history...Paperback$8200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksHannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin
For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers - and how their profound disagreements continue to offer important lessons for political theory and philosophy. Two of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997), fundamentally disagreed on central issues in politics, history,...Hardback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHandbook on the State of the Art in Applied Psychology
Learn the most up-to-date developments in applied psychology with one authoritative collection. The Handbook on the State of the Art in Applied Psychology delivers 19 state-of-the-art addresses on a selected topic in applied psychology. Together, they constitute an up-to-date and authoritative reference that describes the most cutting-edge material in the most prominent domains of applied psychology. The accomplished academics and...Paperback$30899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHandbook of the Teaching of Psychology
Handbook of the Teaching of Psychology is a state-of-the-art volume that provides readers with comprehensive coverage and analysis of current trends and issues, basic mechanics, and important contextual variables related to effective teaching in psychology. Uses concise and targeted chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, to explore a myriad of challenges in the teaching of psychology. Employs a...Paperback$11199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHandbook of Psychological Assessment
Organised according to the sequence mental health professionals follow when conducting an assessment, Groth-Marnat’s Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Sixth Edition covers principles of assessment, evaluation, referral, treatment planning, and report writing. Written in a practical, skills-based manner, the Sixth Edition provides guidance on the most efficient methods for selecting and administering tests, interpreting assessment data, integrating test scores, and developing...Hardback$26699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHafez
For 600 years, the Persian poet Hafez has been read, recited, quoted, and loved by millions of people in his homeland and throughout the world. Like his predecessor Rumi, he serves as a spiritual guide in our search for life's essence. Hafez is both a mystic philosopher and a heartfelt poet of desires and fears. Hafez is the perfect introduction...Paperback$4800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksHabermas and Religion
To the surprise of many readers, Jürgen Habermas has recently made religion a major theme of his work. Emphasizing both religion's prominence in the contemporary public sphere and its potential contributions to critical thought, Habermas's engagement with religion has been controversial and exciting, putting much of his own work in fresh perspective and engaging key themes in philosophy, politics and...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHa!
Humour, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funny, and why? In this fascinating investigation into the science of humour and laughter, cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems uncovers what's happening in our heads when we giggle, guffaw, or double over with laughter....Hardback$7000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksGroup Processes
The new edition of the classic text on group dynamics theory and research—extensively revised, expanded, and updated Offering a critical appraisal of theory and research on groups, Group Processes: Dynamics with and Between Groups is one of the most respected texts in the field. This comprehensive volume covers all the essential dynamics of group processes and intergroup relations, ranging from...Paperback$9299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksGuardrails
When we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, 'guardrails' that guide our decisions, like the laws and rules that govern us. But what are good guardrails in today's world of overwhelming information flows and increasingly powerful technologies, such as artificial intelligence? Based on the latest insights from the cognitive sciences, economics, and public policy, Guardrails offers a...Hardback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGrief Dreams
A programme for using dreams as a tool for healing loss The universal experience of grief dreams can help us heal after the death of a loved one. T.J. Wray and Ann Back Price show how dreams can be uplifting, affirming, consoling, and inspiring. The authors guide readers in ways to understand and value their dreams, how to keep a...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksGrief
Experiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us—as universal as it is painful—is central to the human condition. Surprisingly, however, philosophers have rarely examined grief in any depth. In Grief, Michael Cholbi presents a groundbreaking philosophical exploration of this complex emotional event, offering valuable new insights about what grief is, whom we grieve,...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksGrief
Experiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us — as universal as it is painful — is central to the human condition. Surprisingly, however, philosophers have rarely examined grief in any depth. In Grief, Michael Cholbi presents a groundbreaking philosophical exploration of this complex emotional event, offering valuable new insights about what grief...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGreek Buddha
Pyrrho of Elis accompanied Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334-324 BC. There, he encountered early Buddhist masters. Greek Buddha illustrates how their Early Buddhism shaped the philosophy of Pyrrho, the renowned founder of Pyrrhonian scepticism in ancient Greece. Christopher I. Beckwith traces the origins of a...Paperback$10000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksGreek and Latin Poetry
Angelo Poliziano (1454–1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in Florence during the Age of the Medici. His poetry, composed in a variety of metres, includes epigrams, elegies, and verse epistles, as well as translations of Hellenistic Greek poets. Among the first Latin poets of the Renaissance to be inspired by Homer and...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksGreat Myths of the Brain
Great Myths of the Brain introduces readers to the field of neuroscience by examining popular myths about the human brain. Explore the commonly-held myths of the brain through the lens of scientific research, backing up claims with studies and other evidence from the literature: Look at enduring myths such as "Do we only use 10% of our brain?", "Pregnant women...Paperback$5800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksGreat Myths of Personality
Great Myths of Personality teaches critical thinking skills and key concepts of personality psychology through the discussion of popular myths and misconceptions. Provides a thorough look at contemporary myths and misconceptions, such as: Does birth order affect personality? Are personality tests an accurate way to measure personality? Do romantic partners need similar personalities for relationship success? Introduces concepts of personality...Hardback$16399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksGreat Myths of Personality
Great Myths of Personality teaches critical thinking skills and key concepts of personality psychology through the discussion of popular myths and misconceptions. Provides a thorough look at contemporary myths and misconceptions, such as: Does birth order affect personality? Are personality tests an accurate way to measure personality? Do romantic partners need similar personalities for relationship success? Introduces concepts of personality...Paperback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksGreat Myths of Intimate Relationships
Great Myths of Intimate Relationships provides a captivating, pithy introduction to the subject that challenges and demystifies the many fabrications and stereotypes surrounding relationships, attraction, sex, love, internet dating, and heartbreak. The book thoroughly interrogates the current research on topics such as attraction, sex, love, internet dating, and heartbreak. It takes an argument-driven approach to the study of intimate relationships,...Hardback$18600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksGreat Minds on Small Things
Three centuries ago, Voltaire published his Dictionnaire philosophique, taking in such idiosyncratic topics as adultery, mountains, nakedness, and others besides. In 1957, another French philosopher of more recent vintage, Roland Barthes, mused in his Mythologies on the masculine pursuits of wrestling, striptease and the Citroen DS. Since the dawn of philosophy, the world's great thinkers have been unable to resist...Hardback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGreat Minds Don’t Think Alike
Does technology change who we are, and if so, in what ways? Can humanity transcend physical bodies and spaces? Will AI and genetic engineering help us reach new heights, or will they unleash dystopias? How do we face mortality, our own and that of our warming planet? Questions like these—which are growing increasingly urgent—can be answered only by drawing on...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksGratitude Works!
A purposeful guide for cultivating gratitude as a way of life Recent dramatic advances in our understanding of gratitude have changed the question from "does gratitude work?" to "how do we get more of it?" This book explores evidence-based practices in a compelling and accessible way and provides a step-by-step guide to cultivating gratitude in daily life. Gratitude Works! also...Hardback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksGramsci and Educational Thought
Through a series of writings from international scholars, Gramsci and Educational Thought pays tribute to the educational influence of Antonio Gramsci, considered one of the greatest social thinkers and political theorists of the 20th century. Represents sound social theory and a broad application and reinvention of Gramsci’s ideas Covers important areas such as language and education, community education, and social...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksGod Makes the Rivers to Flow
Life-affirming and lyrical writings for inspiration and meditation, from saints and sages of the Christian, Hindu, Sufi, Jewish, Native American, Buddhist, and Taoist traditions. God Makes the Rivers to Flow by Eknath Easwaran is a collection where the author, who taught meditation and spiritual living for nearly 40 years, drew deep, ongoing inspiration from the sacred literature of the world's...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGod and the City
God and the City, based on the Aquinas Lecture delivered at the University of Dallas in 2022, aims to think about politics ontologically. In other words, it seeks to reflect on, not on some political theory or other, nor on the legitimacy of political action or the distinctiveness of particular regimes, but on the nature of political order as such,...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksGirl Online
The unwritten contract of the internet, that a user is what is used, extends from the well-examined issue of data privacy and consent to the very selves women are encouraged to create in order to appear. Invited to self-construct as 'girls online', vloggers, bloggers and influencers sign a devil's bargain: a platform on the condition they commodify themselves, eternally youthful,...Hardback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGifts Differing
The original book behind the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test Like a thumbprint, personality type provides an instant snapshot of a person's uniqueness. Drawing on concepts originated by Carl Jung, this book distinguishes four categories of personality styles and shows how these qualities determine the way you perceive the world and come to conclusions about what you've seen. It then...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGenograms
Widely used by family therapists—and by health care professionals in general—the genogram is a graphic way of organising the mass of information gathered during a family assessment. This visual representation allows the practitioner to find patterns in the family system for more targeted treatment. Now in its fourth edition, Genograms has been fully updated by renowned therapist Monica McGoldrick. Expanded...Paperback$9399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksGeneration Zombie
'It is never too late to make changes and put things right. If we recognise the problem of device use, we can regain control of our families and allow our children to grow up as they should.' Dr Charlotte Armitage Many theories that form the bedrock of good parenting were created decades before devices even existed - they don't consider...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGender and Biopolitics
In Gender and Biopolitics, Pnar Sargl sheds new light on the life spheres of the woman as a means of examining neoliberal Islamic thinking about individuals and populations. Sargl's exploration of the governmental rationality of post-2002 Turkey's Islamic neoliberalism is especially informed by Michel Foucault's critical perspective. The tenets and merits of Islamic neoliberalism bring moral and religious practices into...Paperback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGardening - Philosophy for Everyone
Philosophy and gardens have been closely connected from the dawn of philosophy, with many drawing on their beauty and peace for philosophical inspiration. Gardens, in turn, give rise to a broad spectrum of philosophical questions. For the green-fingered thinker, Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone reflects on a whole host of fascinating philosophical themes. Gardens and philosophy present a fascinating combination...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksGame of Thrones and Philosophy
An in-depth look at the philosophical issues behind HBO's Game of Thrones television series and the books that inspired it George R.R. Martin's New York Times bestselling epic fantasy book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, and the HBO television show adapted from it, have earned critical acclaim and inspired fanatic devotion. This book delves into the many philosophical...Paperback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksG. A. Cohen
G. A. Cohen was one of the towering political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His intellectual career was unusually wide-ranging, and he was celebrated internationally not only for his penetrating ideas about liberty, justice, and equality, but also for his method, a highly original and influential combination of analytical philosophy and Marxism. Christine Sypnowich guides readers...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksFuture Metaphysics
The triumph of technological rationality and of the sciences as a whole has by no means provided answers to humanity’s great questions. Instead, it has raised new and old questions and problems. To orient ourselves in the twenty-first century, we must take a new look at the central categories of philosophy that, often unbeknownst to us, continue to shape our...Paperback$2399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksFrontline Midwife
‘Brutally powerful . . . Totally absorbing’ Independent ‘A gripping, honest and moving account of healthcare work in a war zone’ Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm At twenty-six years old, Anna Kent helped a woman deliver her baby in a tropical storm by the light of a headtorch. At age thirty, she would be responsible for the female...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFrom Pain to Violence
Violence is all around us; yet, despite its widespread prevalence, we remain unclear about its causes. In the book From Pain to Violence, Felicity de Zulueta begins by defining "violence" as distinct from "aggression", and then attempts to trace its origins, highlighting the polarisation between those who believe mankind to be innately violent and those who see violence as the...Paperback$10799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksFrom an Other to the other, Book XVI
Sollers once wrote that, to him, Claudel was first and foremost the man who wrote, “Paradise is around us at this very moment, all its forests attentive like a great orchestra that invisibly adores and implores. The whole invention of the Universe with its notes falling vertiginously one by one into the abyss where the wonders of our dimensions are...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksFriendship
An entertaining and provocative investigation of friendship in all its variety, from ancient times to the present day A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human need, a type of love. What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? How has friendship changed since the ancient Greeks began to analyse...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksFriends
‘Fascinating... In essence, the number and quality of our friendships may have a bigger influence on our happiness, health and mortality risk than anything else in life save for giving up smoking’ Guardian, Book of the Day Friends matter to us, and they matter more than we think. The single most surprising fact to emerge out of the medical literature...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFreud – The Mind of the Moralist
Now a classic, Freud – The Mind of the Moralist was hailed upon its original publication in 1959 as "An event to be acclaimed . . . a book of genuine brilliance on Freud's cultural importance . . . a permanently valuable contribution to the human sciences."—Alastair MacIntyre, Manchester Guardian "This remarkably subtle and substantial book, with its nicely ordered...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksFreud: The Key Ideas
Reading the complete works of Sigmund Freud would take more time than most of us have to spare. Freud: The Key Ideas condenses all the information you need about the life and work of the great man into one book. With clear explanations and examples drawn from Freud's own cases, you will soon have a solid understanding of the main...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFrege Explained
What is the number one? Does 2 plus 2 always equal 4? These seemingly simple questions have perplexed philosophers for eons, but the ideas of German philosopher Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) transformed the discussion. Frege believed that the truths of arithmetic and of all mathematics are derived from self-evident logical truths. His new way of looking at logic and mathematics was...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFree to Learn
In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today's constantly changing world, we must entrust them to steer their own learning and development. Drawing on evidence from anthropology, psychology, and history, he demonstrates that free play is the primary means by which children learn to control their lives, solve...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFree Time
Recent debates about inequality have focused almost exclusively on the distribution of wealth and disparities in income, but little notice has been paid to the distribution of free time. Free time is commonly assumed to be a matter of personal preference, a good that one chooses to have more or less of. Even if there is unequal access to free...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFree Speech
A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today. Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat. In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal,...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFree Market Fairness
Can libertarians care about social justice? In Free Market Fairness, John Tomasi argues that they can and should. Drawing simultaneously on moral insights from defenders of economic liberty such as F. A. Hayek and advocates of social justice such as John Rawls, Tomasi presents a new theory of liberal justice. This theory, free market fairness, is committed to both limited...Paperback$10300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksFreedom
We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom. The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we understand it, but the moment we try and define it we encounter contradictions. In this new philosophical exploration, Slavoj Žižek argues that the experience of true,...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFreedom
Winner of the PROSE Award An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year "Ambitious and impressive. At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more important than ever." -The Nation "Helps explain how partisans on both the right and the left can claim to be protectors of liberty, yet hold...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksFreedom
For 15 years, Henri Bergson, the most important French philosopher of the early 20th century, taught at the Collège de France. Speaking without notes, most of his classes are now lost to history, but records of a handful of courses fortuitously survived thanks to stenographic transcripts. Conveying Bergson’s very voice, these extraordinary documents are finally presented here in English. The...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFrance before 1789
A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political philosophers, France before 1789 traces the historical origins of France's National Constituent Assembly of 1789, providing a vivid portrait of the ancien regime and its complex social system in the decades before the French Revolution. Jon Elster writes in the spirit of Alexis de...Hardback$10200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFoucault's Last Decade
On 26 August 1974, Michel Foucault completed work on Discipline and Punish, and on that very same day began writing the first volume of The History of Sexuality. A little under ten years later, on 25 June 1984, shortly after the second and third volumes were published, he was dead. This decade is one of the most fascinating of his...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksFoucault
Giles Deleuze (1925-1995) was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. In Foucault, Deleuze presents one of the most incisive and productive analyses of the work of Michel Foucault. This is a crucial examination of the philosophical foundations and...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFor the Good of the World
Can we human beings agree on a set of values which will allow us to confront the numerous threats that we and our planet face? Or will we continue our disagreements, rivalries and antipathies, even as we collectively approach what, in the not impossible extreme, might be extinction? To answer these questions, A. C. Grayling considers the three most pressing...Hardback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFormations of the Unconscious
When I decided to explore the question of Witz, or wit, with you this year, I undertook a small enquiry. It will come as no surprise at all that I began by questioning a poet. This is a poet who introduces the dimension of an especially playful wit that runs through his work, as much in his prose as in...Paperback$7500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksForensic Psychology
Why do people commit crime? How effective and reliable is the investigative process? How do jurors decide whether a person is guilty or innocent? How effective is treatment in reducing the risk of reoffending? In this up-to-date edition of his highly informative textbook, Adrian Scott reveals just how much forensic psychology can tell us—not only about offenders and their crimes,...Paperback$4195Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksForensic Psychology
Comprehensive and accessible forensic psychology textbook covering unique challenges that forensic psychologists often face clinically, legally, and ethically. Integrating research, cases, examples, and theory for a well-rounded perspective, Forensic Psychology: Research, Clinical Practice, and Applications provides readers with an in-depth and insightful introduction to the clinical practice of forensic psychology and the assessment and treatment of individuals who interact with...Paperback$30899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksForensic Case Formulation
Forensic Case Formulation is the first text that describes the principles and application of case formulation specifically to forensic clinical practice. Key Features: Addresses risk assessment and its implications for case formulation and treatment Covers a range of serious forensic problems such as violence, sexual offending, personality disorder, and substance misuse Offers guidance in training clinicians on ways to create...Paperback$9299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksForagers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. However, most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why. Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, are driven by the...Hardback$8499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFood, Social Politics and the Order of Nature in Renaissance Italy
The act of eating is a basic human need. Yet in all societies, quotidian choices regarding food and its consumption reveal deeply rooted shared cultural conventions. Food goes beyond issues relating to biological needs and nutrition or production and commerce; it also reveals social and cultural criteria that determine what dishes are prepared on what occasions, and it unveils the...Paperback$6199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksFollowing Nature’s Lead
In the spirit of E. F. Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful, this is a dazzling and revelatory exploration of what ancient ideas and ways of living can teach us about creating a more sustainable world. How should we think and live in a world facing environmental catastrophe? In this urgent, original, and wide-ranging book, classicist and farmer M. D. Usher brings...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFlow 2.0
How the pioneering co-founder of the field of positive psychology can help us navigate our increasingly complicated world Over the years since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi first published Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, the field of positive psychology has become a rigorous, evidence-based discipline. Dr. Csikszentmihalyi’s pioneering work on “flow,” a state in which one is completely absorbed in a task...Paperback$11999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksFlourish
What is a meaningful life? What does it mean to flourish? Antonia Case, the co-founder of New Philosopher and Womankind magazines, quits her corporate job in the city and, with her partner, travels across the world in search of meaning. In a quest to find answers, she turns off the soundtrack of the media, rids herself of technology, and with...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFlourish
What is a meaningful life? What does it mean to flourish? Antonia Case, the co-founder of New Philosopher and Womankind magazines, quits her corporate job in the city and, with her partner, travels across the world in search of meaning. In a quest to find answers, she turns off the soundtrack of the media, rids herself of technology, and with...Hardback$6300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksFirst Writings
Before he became an analyst, Lacan was a psychiatrist. The articles in the present volume would not be being republished if they didn’t invite us to read them retroactively. What can they teach us about the formation of this future analyst? Lacan’s clinical approach is rooted in the uniqueness of each case, which is only ever chosen for its “singularity”....Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksFirst Philosophy Last Philosophy
What is at stake in that form of inquiry that the western philosophical tradition has called first philosophy or metaphysics? Is it an abstract, now outmoded branch of philosophy, or does it address a problem that is still of great interest—namely the unity of western knowledge? In fact, metaphysics is "first" only in relation to the other two sciences that...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksFinding the Heart Sutra
An illuminating — and deeply personal — exploration of the essence of Buddhist thought, from the author of Lost Japan. Powerful, mystical and concise, the Heart Sutra is believed to contain the condensed essence of all Buddhist wisdom. This brief poem on emptiness has exerted immense influence throughout Asia since the seventh century and is woven into the fabric of...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFighting Antisemitism Today
In autumn 1962, Theodor W. Adorno delivered a lecture on fighting antisemitism to the German Coordinating Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation. This lecture remains as topical and urgent today as it was in the 1960s. After the Second World War, Germany grappled with a reluctance to admit collective guilt for the horrors of the Holocaust. German society was witnessing...Paperback$2399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksFieldwork in Familiar Places
The persistence of deep moral disagreements—across cultures as well as within them—has created widespread scepticism about the objectivity of morality. Moral relativism, moral pessimism, and the denigration of ethics in comparison with science are the results. Fieldwork in Familiar Places challenges the misconceptions about morality, culture, and objectivity that support these scepticisms, to show that we can take moral disagreement...Paperback$7399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksFictions
From ancient philosophy to contemporary theories of fiction, it is a common practice to relegate illusory appearances to the realm of the non-existent, like shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave. Contrary to this traditional mode of drawing a metaphysical distinction between reality and fiction, Markus Gabriel argues that the realm of the illusory, fictional, imaginary, and conceptually indeterminate is...Hardback$8399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksFeminism, Interrupted
I was blown away - Angela Davis Plastered over t-shirts and tote bags, the word 'feminist' has entered the mainstream and is fast becoming a popular slogan for our generation. But feminism isn't a commodity up for purchase; it's a weapon for fighting against injustice. This revolutionary book reclaims feminism from consumerism through exploring state violence against women, reproductive justice,...Paperback$2399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks