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Anthropology

Call of the Trance

Clement Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780857421906, Seagull Books, September 2014
184 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

"The Call of the Trance" is a magnificent book that takes us to the unchartered frontiers of the forbidden. From initiation ceremonies to crises of hysteria, from suicide attempts to the ecstasies of witches, Catherine Clement explores in simple but...

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Psychology

Restoration of the Self

Kohut Heinz

ISBN: PB: 9780226450131, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
368 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In his foundational work "The Restoration of the Self", noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges what he called "the limits of classical analytic theory" and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a "psychology of the self" as a theory...

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Psychology

Boy on the Beach Building Community through Play

Paley Vivian Gussin

ISBN: PB: 9780226150956, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
104 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Four-year-old Eli plays alone at the shore, inventing dramas out of sand and water. He is Builder, Fireman, Protector, and Scout, overcoming waves and conquering monsters. Enter Marianne and doll, Mother and Baby, eager to redefine Eli as a good fath...

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Popular Science

Psychology

Psychology Book: From Shamanism to Cutting-Edge Neuroscience 250 Milestones in the History of Psychology

Pickren Wade E.

ISBN: HB: 9781402784811, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2014
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

What could be more fascinating than the workings of the human mind? This stunningly illustrated survey in Sterling's Milestones series chronicles the history of psychology through 250 landmark events, theories, publications, experiments and discoveri...

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Education

Psychology

Boys and Girls Superheroes in the Doll Corner

Gussin Paley Vivian

ISBN: PB: 9780226130101, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
144 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With the publication of "Boys and Girls" in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play – and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of...

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Psychology

Sport

VigorRobic The Training Plan to Boost Your Sex Life

Sommer Frank

ISBN: PB: 9781782550150, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, January 2014
200 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 8 colour illus., 115 black&white illus., 19 tables

Male potency is subject to the natural aging process. This process can be slowed down by regular exercise. Just like the endurance ability of the cardiovascular system can be exercised, potency has to be exercised as well if the man wants to sustain...

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Psychology

Agewise Fighting the New Ageism in America

Gullette Margaret Morganroth

ISBN: PB: 9780226101866, ISBN: HB: 9780226310732, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
304 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 2 halftones

Let's face it: almost everyone fears growing older. We worry about losing our looks, our health, our jobs, our self-esteem – and being supplanted in work and love by younger people. It feels like the natural, inevitable consequence of the passing yea...

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Psychology

Sites of the Unconscious Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting

Mayer Andreas

ISBN: HB: 9780226057958, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings

In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing a new experimental technique for the study of neuroses: hypnotism. Though the efforts of the famous French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot to transfo...

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Philosophy

Memory Fragments of a Modern History

Winter Alison

ISBN: PB: 9780226084541, ISBN: HB: 9780226902586, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 32 halftones

Picture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are those memories? Should we trust them to be accurate, or is there a chance that you're remembering incorrectly? And where have...

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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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