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Return on Courage A Playbook for Courageous Change

Berman Ryan

ISBN: HB: 9780999191354, Bookport, Greenleaf Book Group, July 2020
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Learn to Lead with Courage Ryan Berman has spent the last two years studying the most courageous people and leaders on the planet. So what do an astronaut, a Navy SEAL, the cofounder of Method, the former VP of communications at Apple, and the presid...

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Psychology

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Minds Make Societies How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

Boyer Pascal

ISBN: PB: 9780300248548, ISBN: HB: 9780300223453, Yale University Press, February 2020
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

"There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature". Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integrating recent in...

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Emotionally Disturbed A History of Caring for America's Troubled Children

Blythe Doroshow Deborah

ISBN: HB: 9780226621432, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 3 line drawings

Before the 1940s, children in the United States with severe emotional difficulties would have had few options for care. The first option was usually a child guidance clinic within the community, but they might also have been placed in a state mental...

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Copycats and Contrarians Why We Follow Others... and When We Don't

Baddeley Michelle

ISBN: HB: 9780300220223, Yale University Press, April 2018
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.

Rioting teenagers, tumbling stock markets, and the spread of religious terrorism appear to have little in common, but all are driven by the same basic instincts: the tendency to herd, follow, and imitate others. In today's interconnected world, group...

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Craving Mind From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love - Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

Brewer Judson

ISBN: PB: 9780300234367, Yale University Press, March 2018
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 black&white illus.

A leading neuroscientist and pioneer in the study of mindfulness explains why addictions are so tenacious and how we can learn to conquer them. We are all vulnerable to addiction. Whether it's a compulsion to constantly check social media, binge eat...

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When the Sun Bursts The Enigma of Schizophrenia

Bollas Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780300223651, Yale University Press, February 2017
240 pp., 20.3x13 cm

A leading psychoanalyst shares his experiences working with schizophrenic patients to show how effective talk therapy can be as a treatment Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, iso...

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Psychology

After Freud Left A Century of Psychoanalysis in America

Burnham John C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226211862, ISBN: HB: 9780226081373, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 12 halftones

From August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together a stunning gallery of leading historians of psychoanalysis and of...

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Literary Criticism

Psychology

Literary Lacan From Literature to "Lituraterre" and Beyond

Biswas Santanu

ISBN: HB: 9780857420374, Seagull Books, April 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The relationship between literature and psychology is long and richly complex, and no more so than in the work of Jacques Lacan, the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud. "The Literary Lacan: From Literature to 'Lituraterre' and Beyond" is de...

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Philosophy

Psychology

Intimacies

Bersani Leo, Phillips Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780226043456, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
134 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis and its central...

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