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Dignity The Essential Role it Plays in Resolving Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9780300188059, Yale University Press, January 2013
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The desire for dignity is universal and powerful. It is a motivating force behind all human interaction – in families, in communities, in the business world, and in relationships at the international level. When dignity is violated, the response is l...
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£14,99
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Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts
ISBN: HB: 9780300109863, Yale University Press, October 2012
368 pp., 25.4x17.1 cm
This is the first revised, expanded, and updated edition of "Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts" since its third edition in 1994. It presents a scholarly exposition of English-language psychoanalytic terms and concepts, including those from all contem...
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£65,00
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Psychology's Ghosts The Crisis in the Profession and the Way Back
ISBN: HB: 9780300178685, Yale University Press, April 2012
320 pp., 21x14 cm
This book is the product of long thought and profound concern about the state of contemporary psychology. Jerome Kagan, a brilliant thinker and leading researcher in the field, examines current popular practices and assumptions among psychologists. H...
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£54,00
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Boredom A Lively History
ISBN: PB: 9780300181845, Yale University Press, February 2012
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 26 black&white illus.
<p>In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea. He shows how boredom is, in fact, one of our most common an...
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£9,99
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How Intelligence Happens
ISBN: PB: 9780300177725, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
<p>Human intelligence is among the most powerful forces on earth. It builds sprawling cities, vast cornfields and coffee plantations, complex microchips; it takes us from the atom to the limits of the universe. Understanding how brains build intellig...
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£23,00
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Good Body Asceticism in Contemporary Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780300183092, Yale University Press, November 2011
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
What are the reasons for the current epidemic of eating disorders, the increasing obsession with exercise, diet, and cosmetic surgery, the constant exhortations to look and feel good? This engrossing book examines our concern with the "good body" fro...
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£18,00
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Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education
ISBN: PB: 9780300183009, Yale University Press, November 2011
266 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Kindergarten kissing games... four-year-olds playing doctor... a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these-spontaneous and pleasurable-are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in...
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£20,00
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Analysis of the Under-Five Child
ISBN: PB: 9780300183016, Yale University Press, November 2011
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Emotional problems in children age five to six or younger are too often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or simply neglected. Even for those children who do receive attention, it is frequently inadequate. To assume, however, that prelatency children are...
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£22,50
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Tragedy of Child Care in America
ISBN: PB: 9780300172119, ISBN: HB: 9780300122336, Yale University Press, May 2011
240 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm
Why the United States has failed to establish a comprehensive high-quality child care programme is the question at the centre of this book. Edward Zigler has been intimately involved in this issue since the 1970s, and here he presents a firsthand his...
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£24,00
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£30,00
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Boyhoods Rethinking Masculinities
ISBN: PB: 9780300171211, Yale University Press, April 2011
288 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm
Familiar and expected gender patterns help us to understand boys but often constrict our understanding of any given boy. Writing in a wonderfully robust and engaging voice, Ken Corbett argues for a new psychology of masculinity, one that is not stric...
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£14,99
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