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Rhetorical Memory A Study of Technical Communication and Information Management
ISBN: HB: 9780226263380, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 8 line drawings, 1 table
Institutions have regimes – policies that typically come from the top down and are meant to align the efforts of workers with the goals and mission of an institution. Institutions also have practices – day-to-day behaviors performed by individual wor...
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Rethinking Therapeutic Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226250137, ISBN: HB: 9780226249933, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Social critics have long lamented America's descent into a "culture of narcissism", as Christopher Lasch so lastingly put it fifty years ago. From "first world problems" to political correctness, from the Oprahfication of emotional discourse to the d...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Are You Really a Genius? Timeless Tests for the Irritatingly Intelligent
ISBN: HB: 9781851244232, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2015
128 pp., 17x11 cm
In 1938, two authors embarked on a mission for the greater good of the country: to find more geniuses. They set about compiling fiendish brain-teasers, tortuous trick questions and complex numerical challenges and tested them thoroughly on some unsus...
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£9,99
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Girl's Childhood Psychological Development, Social Change, and the Yale Child Study Center
ISBN: HB: 9780300117592, Yale University Press, December 2014
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Sixty years ago, a group of prominent psychoanalysts, developmentalists, pediatricians, and educators at the Yale Child Center joined together with the purpose of formulating a general psychoanalytic theory of children's early development. The group'...
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£65,00
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After Freud Left A Century of Psychoanalysis in America
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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£37,00
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Fuckology Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts
ISBN: PB: 9780226186610, ISBN: HB: 9780226186580, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table
One of the twentieth century's most controversial sexologists – or "fuckologists" to use his own memorable term – John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert.  Money...
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£22,00
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£64,00
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Jealousy
ISBN: HB: 9780300189681, Yale University Press, October 2014
304 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Compete, acquire, succeed, enjoy: the pressures of living in today's materialistic world seem predicated upon jealousy – the feelings of rivalry and resentment for possession of whatever the other has. But while our newspapers abound with stories of...
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£16,99
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Madness Is Civilization When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980
ISBN: PB: 9780226214634, ISBN: HB: 9780226771472, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones
In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America's problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social...
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£42,00
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Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon Toward a Political History of Madness
ISBN: HB: 9780226025735, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
"The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon" is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after his death, the remains of Napoleon were returned to Paris for burial – and the next day...
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£36,00
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Hoarders Material Deviance in Modern American Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226171715, ISBN: HB: 9780226171685, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 1 line drawing
The verb "declutter" has not yet made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, but its ever-increasing usage suggests that it's only a matter of time. Articles containing tips and tricks on how to get organized cover magazine pages and pop up in TV pro...
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£61,00
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