Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era"Over the last two decades Oprah Winfrey's journey has taken her from talk show queen to-as Time Magazine has asserted-"one of the most important figures in popular culture." Throu...9999903081128Janice Peck
Editors Varis
jueves, 8 de febrero de 2024
Story of Sensitivity Training and the Encounter MovementSensitivity training, T-Groups, and encounter groups have become a way of life. Beyond Words traces the history of this movement, the background of its successes, its varieties, an...9999903079958Kurt W. Back
Editors Varis
martes, 6 de febrero de 2024
The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and DeathErasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death reveals that death is not a moment in time. Death, rather, is a process ??a process that can be i...9999903077367Sam Parnia
HarperCollins
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
Using Science to See Our Species as We Really areHuman beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, the apple of God's eye, specially-created creatures who are somehow above and beyond the natural world. This v...9999903077329David P. Barash
Oxford University Press
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
The Rise and Fall and Rise of a Radical PsychiatristFeatured in the new film Mad to be Normal, the radical psychiatrist R. D. Laing took the world by storm in the 1960s and 1970s with his ideas about madness, families and people's n...9999903076834David Boyle
Editors Varis
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
Understanding Our AddictionCelebrity culture surrounds us. We are inundated with information about actors and actresses, athletes, musicians, and others who have become famous or infamous. Although we never ...9999903076773Michael S. Levy
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing'Deeply moving, darkly funny and hugely powerful' Robert Macfarlane 'A brave, lit-up account of going mad and getting better' Jeanette Winterson After a lifetime of ups and downs, ...9999903076711Horatio Clare
Vintage
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
American News Media and the Psychedelic ExperienceNow synonymous with Sixties counterculture, LSD actually entered the American consciousness via the mainstream. Time and Life, messengers of lumpen-American respectability, trumpet...9999903076445Stephen Siff
University of Illinois Press
jueves, 1 de febrero de 2024
The Gentle Revolution in Music, Books, Television, Fashion, and FilmNew York Times, Spin, and Vanity Fair contributor Marc Spitz explores the first great cultural movement since Hip Hop: an old-fashioned and yet highly modern aesthetic that ??s emb...9999903074182Spitz, Marc
HarperCollins
viernes, 26 de enero de 2024
The Science Behind RevulsionThere is a powerful subconscious reaction that influences a disturbingly wide range of our daily behaviour - our eating habits, our relationships, our values. The very same reactio...9999903068440Valerie Curtis
Oxford University Press
jueves, 18 de enero de 2024
Improving Lives, Psychotherapy, and the Brain.Gareth Hamlyn takes readers on a journey through LSD research and its implications for improving psychotherapy. LSD is one of the strongest serotonergic hallucinogens known to medi...9999903064688Gareth Hamlyn
Editors Varis
viernes, 12 de enero de 2024
How DNA Makes Us who We areOne of the world's top behavioural geneticists argues that we need a radical rethink about what makes us who we are. The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that ...9999903064008Robert Plomin
Penguin
jueves, 11 de enero de 2024
Inside the Science of Our Continuing EvolutionAre humans still subject to the forces of evolution? An evolutionary biologist provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens In this intriguing book, evolutionary b...9999903063360Scott Solomon
Yale University Press
miércoles, 10 de enero de 2024
Now in its fifth edition, Diffusion of Innovations is a classic work on the spread of new ideas.In this renowned book, Everett M. Rogers, professor and chair of the Department of C...9999903062424Everett M. Rogers
Charles Scribner's Sons
martes, 9 de enero de 2024
A Public Health PerspectiveChild labour has long been a major public health concern. Worldwide, an estimated 110 million children aged 5 to 14 years are engaged in hazardous work. This book takes a fresh loo...9999903049951Anaclaudia Gastal Fassa D...
Oxford University Press
miércoles, 13 de diciembre de 2023
Across the world, children are the most vulnerable population. The threats to them may vary, but wherever one looks, children are endangered and exploited. Susan Mapp examines thre...9999903049944Susan C. Mapp
Oxford University Press
miércoles, 13 de diciembre de 2023
"The authors have taken pains to make the subject accessible and the result is a terrific book for newcomers to evidence-based practice, as well as old hands. One of the more groun...9999903049920Helen Aveyard Pam Sharp
Open University Press
miércoles, 13 de diciembre de 2023
An Approach to Emergency SituationsRelief workers face rapidly changing and complex environments, new disease patterns, enormous humanitarian needs and relatively limited resources. The authors of this book use thei...9999903049913Médecins sans frontières
Macmillan
miércoles, 13 de diciembre de 2023
A Learning Programme for ProfessionalsChildhood TB empowers healthcare workers to learn about the primary care of children with tuberculosis. Our aim is to improve the care of children with TB in all communities, espec...9999903049883The Desmond Tutu Tubercul...
Editors Varis
miércoles, 13 de diciembre de 2023
Lecture Notes on Tropical Medicine is a core text with an emphasis on the clinical aspects of problem-solving in the tropics. This new, revised edition includes a more global and s...9999903049876G. V. Gill Nick Beeching
Blackwell Science
miércoles, 13 de diciembre de 2023
The Mental Demands of Modern LifeIf contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would anyone graduate? In the spirit of a sympathetic teacher...9999903047797Robert Kegan
Harvard University Press
sábado, 9 de diciembre de 2023
How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for DarwinTHE DRAGON SEEKERS is a book about the early fossilists, that extraordinary group of individuals who first identified the dinosaurs and whose discoveries helped pave the way for Da...9999903033813Christopher McGowan
Little, Brown and Company
sábado, 14 de octubre de 2023
Why Americans Can't Think Straight about RaceIn this lively book, a well-known social critic draws on evidence from movies, TV, literature, and advertising to argue that many Americans have been lulled by the media into belie...9780300073942Benjamin DeMott
Yale University Press
miércoles, 30 de agosto de 2023
The Anatomy ; [catalogue on the Exhibition]Created by anatomist Gunther von Hagens and curator Angelina Whalley, Animal Inside Out is a completely new type of animal world that gets under your skin. Never before have lay pe...9999903005216Angelina Whalley Gunther ...
Editors Varis
miércoles, 19 de julio de 2023
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