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The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorderby Katherine A. PhillipsISBN 0195167198 (0-19-516719-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder'Book summary:Jane is an attractive woman in her mid-thirties, tall, thin, and stately. She believes she is breathtakingly ugly. Tormented by what she sees as her huge nose, crooked lip, big jaw, fat buttocks, and tiny breasts, she has not left her house in six years. Though she lives in the same house as her mother, she once went two years without seeing her. When relatives come over, she avoids them, staying up on the third floor of the house, even on Thanksgiving. The one time she left the house--forced to see a doctor--she covered her face with bandages. Eventually, she attempted suicide. "I can't imagine any suffering greater than this. If I had a choice, I'd rather be blind or have my arms cut off. I'd be happy to have cancer."
Jane has body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD. In The Broken Mirror, Dr. Katharine Phillips draws on years of clinical practice and detailed interviews with over 200 patients to bring readers the first book on this debilitating disease, in which sufferers are obsessed by perceived flaws in their appearance. Phillips describes severe cases, such as Jane's, but also a multitude of milder cases, such as Carl, a successful lawyer who uses his work to distract him from his supposedly thinning hair, yet says that he thinks about it constantly. Many sufferers are able to function very well in society, but remain secretly obsessed by their "hideous acne" or "horrible nose," sneaking constant peeks at a pocket mirror, or spend hours at a time redoing makeup. According to Phillips' research, BDD afflicts approximately 2% of the population, or nearly 5 million people. It is not an uncommon disorder, simply a hidden one, since sufferers are often embarrassed to tell even their closest friends about their concerns: one woman, after fifty years of marriage, still felt too uncomfortable to reveal her preoccupation to her husband.
Besides the fascinating story of the disease itself, The Broken Mirror is also a literally lifesaving handbook for sufferers, their families, and their doctors. Left untreated, the torment of BDD can lead to psychiatric hospitalization and sometimes suicide. With treatment, many sufferers are able to lead normal lives. Phillips provides a quick self-assessment questionnaire, helping readers distinguish between normal concern with appearance and the obsession of BDD to determine whether they or someone they know have BDD. She includes warning signs for dermatologists and plastic surgeons, since they are the medical professionals who see BDD sufferers most often as they continually seek to "fix" their looks. Other chapters outline effective treatments for BDD using drugs and cognitive-behavioral therapy, answering often-asked questions about treatments. Finally, Phillips includes a chapter aimed at the friends and families of BDD sufferers. Profoundly affected by the disease themselves, since sufferers often refuse to attend weddings and other family events, or constantly ask loved ones for reassurance about their looks, those who care about someone with BDD will find both helpful advice and reassurance in this indispensable book.
The Broken Mirror--the first book on this underrecognized disorder--is essential reading for the psychiatrists, mental health professionals, and other physicians who see these often undiagnosed patients; for the friends and family concerned and upset by a loved one who won't believe their reassurances; and for the millions who suffer from BDD in silence and secrecy. [via]More editions of The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder:
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Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder: ISBN 0195121260 (0-19-512126-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder: ISBN 0195083172 (0-19-508317-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder: ISBN 0195167198 (0-19-516719-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder: ISBN 019516718X (0-19-516718-X)
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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 014600177X (0-14-600177-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde'Book summary:You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him. Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very respectable Dr Jekyll? [via]
Educational Psychologyby Anita E. WoolfolkISBN 0205263356 (0-205-26335-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Educational Psychology'Book summary:Student Study Guide. [via]
Essentials of Psychologyby Robert A. Baron, Michael J. KalsherISBN 020528146X (0-205-28146-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Essentials of Psychology: Study Guide Plusby Baron, Catherine E. Seta, John Seta, Paul PaulusISBN 0205288480 (0-205-28848-0)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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The Evolution of Cooperationby Robert AxelrodISBN 0140124950 (0-14-012495-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Evolution of Cooperation'Book summary:How can co-operation emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists - whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals - when there is no central authority to police their actions? The author explores this central question, and its implications in this age of nuclear weapons and arms talks. [via]
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Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mindby David M. BussISBN 0205370713 (0-205-37071-3)
Hardcover, Allyn & Bacon
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The Face of Battleby John KeeganISBN 0140048979 (0-14-004897-9)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980by Elaine Showalter, James R. RothausISBN 0140101691 (0-14-010169-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Four Loves: Featuring the Vintage Recordings of the voice of C. S. Lewisby C. S. LewisISBN 0156329301 (0-15-632930-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Four Loves: Featuring the Vintage Recordings of the voice of C. S. Lewis'Book summary:The Four Loves summarizes four kinds of human love--affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. Masterful without being magisterial, this book's wise, gentle, candid reflections on the virtues and dangers of love draw on sources from Jane Austen to St. Augustine. The chapter on charity (love of God) may be the best thing Lewis ever wrote about Christianity. Consider his reflection on Augustine's teaching that one must love only God, because only God is eternal, and all earthly love will someday pass away:
Who could conceivably begin to love God on such a prudential ground--because the security (so to speak) is better? Who could even include it among the grounds for loving? Would you choose a wife or a Friend--if it comes to that, would you choose a dog--in this spirit? One must be outside the world of love, of all loves, before one thus calculates.
His description of Christianity here is no less forceful and opinionated than in Mere Christianity or The Problem of Pain, but it is far less anxious about its reader's response--and therefore more persuasive than any of his apologetics. When he begins to describe the nature of faith, Lewis writes: "Take it as one man's reverie, almost one man's myth. If anything in it is useful to you, use it; if anything is not, never give it a second thought." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]More editions of The Four Loves: Featuring the Vintage Recordings of the voice of C. S. Lewis:
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Freedom Evolvesby Daniel DennettISBN 0142003840 (0-14-200384-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom Evolves'Book summary:[via]Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers yes! Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly detailed narrative, Dennett explains in a series of strikingly original
argumentsdrawing upon evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, and philosophythat far from being an enemy of traditional explorations of freedom, morality, and meaning, the evolutionary perspective can be an indispensable ally. In Freedom Evolves, Dennett seeks to place ethics on the foundation it deserves: a realistic, naturalistic, potentially unified vision of our place in nature.More editions of Freedom Evolves:
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The Hauntingby Shirley JacksonISBN 0140287434 (0-14-028743-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Haunting'Book summary:Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages.
Eleanor Vance has always been a loner--shy, vulnerable, and bitterly resentful of the 11 years she lost while nursing her dying mother. "She had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words." Eleanor has always sensed that one day something big would happen, and one day it does. She receives an unusual invitation from Dr. John Montague, a man fascinated by "supernatural manifestations." He organizes a ghost watch, inviting people who have been touched by otherworldly events. A paranormal incident from Eleanor's childhood qualifies her to be a part of Montague's bizarre study--along with headstrong Theodora, his assistant, and Luke, a well-to-do aristocrat. They meet at Hill House--a notorious estate in New England.
Hill House is a foreboding structure of towers, buttresses, Gothic spires, gargoyles, strange angles, and rooms within rooms--a place "without kindness, never meant to be lived in...."
Although Eleanor's initial reaction is to flee, the house has a mesmerizing effect, and she begins to feel a strange kind of bliss that entices her to stay. Eleanor is a magnet for the supernatural--she hears deathly wails, feels terrible chills, and sees ghostly apparitions. Once again she feels isolated and alone--neither Theo nor Luke attract so much eerie company. But the physical horror of Hill House is always subtle; more disturbing is the emotional torment Eleanor endures. Intense, literary, and harrowing, The Haunting of Hill House belongs in the same dark league as Henry James's classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Haunting of Hill Houseby Shirley JacksonISBN 0140071083 (0-14-007108-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Eleanor Vance has always been a loner--shy, vulnerable, and bitterly resentful of the 11 years she lost while nursing her dying mother. "She had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words." Eleanor has always sensed that one day something big would happen, and one day it does. She receives an unusual invitation from Dr. John Montague, a man fascinated by "supernatural manifestations." He organizes a ghost watch, inviting people who have been touched by otherworldly events. A paranormal incident from Eleanor's childhood qualifies her to be a part of Montague's bizarre study--along with headstrong Theodora, his assistant, and Luke, a well-to-do aristocrat. They meet at Hill House--a notorious estate in New England.
Hill House is a foreboding structure of towers, buttresses, Gothic spires, gargoyles, strange angles, and rooms within rooms--a place "without kindness, never meant to be lived in...."
Although Eleanor's initial reaction is to flee, the house has a mesmerizing effect, and she begins to feel a strange kind of bliss that entices her to stay. Eleanor is a magnet for the supernatural--she hears deathly wails, feels terrible chills, and sees ghostly apparitions. Once again she feels isolated and alone--neither Theo nor Luke attract so much eerie company. But the physical horror of Hill House is always subtle; more disturbing is the emotional torment Eleanor endures. Intense, literary, and harrowing, The Haunting of Hill House belongs in the same dark league as Henry James's classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Hilgard's Introduction to Psychologyby Richard C. Atkinson, Daryl J. Bem, Edward E. Smith, Nolen-Hoeksema, Rita L. AtkinsonISBN 0155039121 (0-15-503912-1)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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A History of Modern Psychologyby Duane P. Schultz, Sydney Ellen SchultzISBN 0155025600 (0-15-502560-0)
Hardcover, Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Modern Psychology'Book summary:Provides an overview of modern pscyhology, presenting the evolution of the schools of thought as a continuing story and illustrating their development within the social-intellectual climate of their times, as well as their impact on one another. It personalizes the hsitory of pscyhology, showing how events in the lives of influential theorists, researchers, and teachers affected their ideas, approaches and methods. [via]
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- A History of Modern Psychology: ISBN 0155083554 (0-15-508355-4)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning - A History of Modern Psychology: ISBN 0155374656 (0-15-537465-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich - A History of Modern Psychology: ISBN 0155374672 (0-15-537467-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Pub - A History of Modern Psychology: ISBN 0155025600 (0-15-502560-0)
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- A History of Modern Psychology: ISBN 0155083554 (0-15-508355-4)
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I Am Right-You Are Wrongby Edward De BonoISBN 0140126783 (0-14-012678-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Am Right-You Are Wrong'Book summary:In this book, Dr Edward de Bono, who is well-known worldwide for his origination of lateral thinking, puts forward a direct challenge to what he calls the 'rock logic' of Western thought. Rock logic is based on rigid categories, absolutes, argument and adversarial point scoring. Edward de Bono believes that this thinking cannot solve our problems. Instead of rock logic, he proposes the water logic of perception. Drawing on our understanding of the brain as a self-organizing information system, Dr de Bono shows that perception is the key to more constructive thinking and creativity. Here, in this brilliantly argued assault on outmoded thought patterns, he calls for nothing less than a New Renaissance. [via]
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In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religionby Scott AtranISBN 0195178033 (0-19-517803-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion'Book summary:This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential and moral elements that have evolved in the human condition. [via]
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Introduction to Psychologyby Rita L. AtkinsonISBN 0155030736 (0-15-503073-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to Psychology'Book summary:Long considered a classic, this new twelfth edition of Introduction to Psychology continues in the tradition of the most respected introductory textbooks on the market by consistently and cohesively covering the most recent developments and established theories. This focus earns Introduction to Psychology a position as one of the most frequently adopted psychology textbooks in publishing history. The hallmark of Introduction to Psychology is its coherent and comprehensive coverage, which offers students an in-depth view into psychological study. The authors present an uncompromising approach that is still easily accessible to the modern day student. Stylistic clarity has always been one of the key features of this text. The twelfth edition has been strengthened in many ways, most obviously by: * integrating biological perspective at the end of each chapter with 'Biological Psychological Perspectives' * the addition of a new chapter on 'Individual Differences' which looks at issues of heritability and the nature-nurture debate * a revision of the chapter on 'Motivation' which now includes a section on sexual orientation A comprehensive teaching practice also accompanies the text. Features: * Thorough coverage of development is placed early in the text (Chapter 3) to capture students' interest. * A special feature at the end of each chapter integrates the continuing interaction of biological and psychological levels of analysis to assist students' understanding of these important relationships. * Critical Discussions are used to point out controversial issues or treat topics covered in the text in more detail, to give students an expanded view of psychology. * The authors integrate the coverage of gender and culture throughout the text which encourages students to explore sexual and cultural issues. New to this edition: * A new chapter on Individual Differences (12) takes an in-depth look at issues of heritability and the nature-nurture debate, particularly in areas of mental abilities and personalities, providing students with thorough coverage of a major issue in psychology. * The chapter on Motivation (10) has been thoroughly rewritten and updated. A new section on sexual orientation covers the most recent research on this topic and places it in the larger context of the nature-nurture explanations. * The book has been streamlined, now with 18 chapters and fewer pages than the previous edition. It has also been ambitiously revised and updated throughout with recent research to give students the most current survey of the field. * The coverage of biological perspectives has been strengthened with cutting-edge theory and research giving students additional material on contemporary issues. * Added coverage of health psychology reflects the growing interest in this field of research (Chapter 14). [via]
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- An Introduction to Psychology: ISBN 0155436899 (0-15-543689-9)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub - Introduction to Psychology: ISBN 0155002872 (0-15-500287-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Pub - Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology: ISBN 0155015540 (0-15-501554-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Pub - Introduction to Psychology: ISBN 0155436775 (0-15-543677-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich - Introduction to Psychology: ISBN 0155436821 (0-15-543682-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich - Introduction to Psychology: ISBN 0155436880 (0-15-543688-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich - Introduction to Psychology: ISBN 0155030736 (0-15-503073-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Pub
- An Introduction to Psychology: ISBN 0155436899 (0-15-543689-9)
Invitation to the Psychology of Religionby Raymond F. PaloutzianISBN 0205148409 (0-205-14840-9)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Kagan & Segal's Psychology An Introduction: An Introductionby Jerome Kagan, Julius SegalISBN 0155014765 (0-15-501476-5)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kagan & Segal's Psychology An Introduction: An Introduction'Book summary:This text combines clarity, relevance, and a history of classroom success in a classic presentation of psychological principles and theories. Psychology 8e emphasizes human diversity, individual differences and presents an increased coverage of gender and ethnic diversity. Features: * Developmental Perspective is an overriding features of this text. It presents themes of heredity and environment, continuity and change, and context in behavior. * Emphasizes human diversity and individual differences and their relationship to the science of psychology. * Concise presentation that focuses on the core concepts of psychology. * Outstanding pedagogy that includes comprehensive chapter summaries organized by chapter sections. * Applied TEST YOURSELF questions appear at the end of each section and the answers appear at the end of each chapter. New to this edition: * Two new features highlight the authors' strengths: the first, LIFE SPAN PERSPECTIVE, addresses issues across the life span, drawing on Kagan's expertise as a leading researcher in developmental psychology, the other, PSYCHOLOGY AND THE MEDIA, highlights Segal's experience as a widely published writer. * Increased coverage of gender and ethnic diversity. * Now includes a running glossary with a pronunciation guide. * New built-in STUDY GUIDE has been integrated into the text and provides additional student value. * INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL and TEST BANK have been revised extensively and expanded. [via]
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- Kagan & Segal's Psychology An Introduction: An Introduction: ISBN 0155726331 (0-15-572633-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich - Kagan & Segal's Psychology An Introduction: An Introduction: ISBN 0155726455 (0-15-572645-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich - Kagan & Segal's Psychology An Introduction: An Introduction: ISBN 0155014765 (0-15-501476-5)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
- Kagan & Segal's Psychology An Introduction: An Introduction: ISBN 0155726331 (0-15-572633-1)
Know Your Own Personalityby Hans Jurgen EysenckISBN 0140219625 (0-14-021962-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Wayby Shah, Indries, SayedISBN 0140195130 (0-14-019513-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Listening to Prozacby Peter D. KramerISBN 0140159401 (0-14-015940-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Listening to Prozac'Book summary:Psychiatrist Peter Kramer's book Listening to Prozac created a sensation when it was released in 1993, and it remains the most fascinating look at the new generation of antidepressants. Kramer found that the changes in brain chemistry brought about by Prozac had a wide variety of effects, often giving users greater feelings of self-worth and confidence, less sensitivity to social rejection, and even a greater willingness to take risks. He cites cases of mildly depressed patients who took the drug and not only felt better but underwent remarkable personality transformations--which he (along with many of the book's readers) found disconcerting, leading him to question whether the medicated or unmedicated version was the person's "real" self. Kramer has been criticized for seeming to advocate Prozac over psychotherapy or as a way of achieving personality changes not directly related to the disease of depression, such as improving one's social confidence or job performance. In fact, he makes no such recommendations; he was simply the first popular writer to suggest that these changes might occur. (He answers those critics in the afterword to this 1997 edition.) For anyone considering taking antidepressants or wanting a better understanding of the effects these drugs are having on our society, Listening to Prozac is a very important book. [via]
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Looking Out/ Looking inby Neil Towne, AdlerISBN 0155058118 (0-15-505811-8)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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Looking Out/Looking in: Interpersonal Communicationby Ronald B. Adler, Neil TowneISBN 0155017284 (0-15-501728-4)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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Lying: A Metaphorical Memoirby Lauren SlaterISBN 014200006X (0-14-200006-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Masks of God: Occidental Mythologyby Joseph CampbellISBN 014019441X (0-14-019441-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Nature of Prejudiceby Gordon W. AllportISBN 0201001780 (0-201-00178-0)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nature of Prejudice'Book summary:With profound insight into the complexities of the human experience, Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport organized a mass of research to produce a landmark study on the roots and nature of prejudice. First published in 1954, The Nature of Prejudice remains the standard work on discrimination. Now this classic study is offered in a special unabridged edition with a new introduction by Kenneth Clark of Columbia University and a new preface by Thomas Pettigrew of Harvard University.Allports comprehensive and penetrating work examines all aspects of this age-old problem: its roots in individual and social psychology, its varieties of expression, its impact on the individuals and communities. He explores all kinds of prejudice-racial, religious, ethnic, economic and sexual-and offers suggestions for reducing the devastating effects of discrimination.The additional material by Clark and Pettigrew updates the social-psychological research in prejudice and attests to the enduring values of Allports original theories and insights.[via]More editions of Nature of Prejudice:
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The Nature of Prejudice: 25th Anniversaryby Gordon W. AllportISBN 0201001799 (0-201-00179-9)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nature of Prejudice: 25th Anniversary'Book summary:With profound insight into the complexities of the human experience, Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport organized a mass of research to produce a landmark study on the roots and nature of prejudice. First published in 1954, The Nature of Prejudice remains the standard work on discrimination. Now this classic study is offered in a special unabridged edition with a new introduction by Kenneth Clark of Columbia University and a new preface by Thomas Pettigrew of Harvard University.Allports comprehensive and penetrating work examines all aspects of this age-old problem: its roots in individual and social psychology, its varieties of expression, its impact on the individuals and communities. He explores all kinds of prejudice-racial, religious, ethnic, economic and sexual-and offers suggestions for reducing the devastating effects of discrimination.The additional material by Clark and Pettigrew updates the social-psychological research in prejudice and attests to the enduring values of Allports original theories and insights.[via]More editions of The Nature of Prejudice: 25th Anniversary:
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George Orwell, Peter DavisonISBN 0151660344 (0-15-166034-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'Book summary:"Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere."
The year is 1984; the scene is London, largest population center of Airstrip One.
Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two other vast entities, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment, depending upon current alignments, all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. Winston Smith knows this, because his work at the Ministry of Truth involves the constant "correction" of such records. "'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"
In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.
Newspeak, doublethink, thoughtcrime--in 1984, George Orwell created a whole vocabulary of words concerning totalitarian control that have since passed into our common vocabulary. More importantly, he has portrayed a chillingly credible dystopia. In our deeply anxious world, the seeds of unthinking conformity are everywhere in evidence; and Big Brother is always looking for his chance. --Daniel Hintzsche [via]
Occidental Mythologyby Joseph CampbellISBN 0140043063 (0-14-004306-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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On Suicideby Emile Durkheim, Alexander Riley, Robin Buss, Richard SennettISBN 0140449671 (0-14-044967-1)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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Émile Durkheim, one of the fathers of modern sociology, was the first to suggest that suicide might be as much a response to society as an act of individual despair. When he looked at social, religious, or racial groups that had high incidences of suicide, he discovered that abnormally high or low levels of social integration increase the likelihood of suicide. More than a century after its initial publication, Durkheim?s groundbreaking work continues to fascinate and challenge those seeking to understand one of the least understandable of human acts.More editions of On Suicide:
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Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticismby Irving HoweISBN 0155658115 (0-15-565811-5)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticism'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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The Oxford Companion to the Mindby Richard L. Gregory, O. L. ZangwillISBN 0198602243 (0-19-860224-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Companion to the Mind'Book summary:A field of 216 contributors filled this tome with savory items from Abacus to Zeno of Elea. In between there are 819 pages of 1001 entries, all in some way expanding our understanding of psychology, philosophy and the physiology of the brain. Like all excellent references, you could easily, happily get lost perusing, but it also happens to be excellently well indexed. Been wondering about the hippocampus or Thomas Hobbes, introversion or tautologies? Wonder no more, or at least wonder with more acumen. [via]
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Constructionby Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Sara IshikawaISBN 0195019199 (0-19-501919-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction'Book summary:The second of three books published by the Center for Environmental Structure to provide a "working alternative to our present ideas about architecture, building, and planning," A Pattern Language offers a practical language for building and planning based on natural considerations. The reader is given an overview of some 250 patterns that are the units of this language, each consisting of a design problem, discussion, illustration, and solution. By understanding recurrent design problems in our environment, readers can identify extant patterns in their own design projects and use these patterns to create a language of their own. Extraordinarily thorough, coherent, and accessible, this book has become a bible for homebuilders, contractors, and developers who care about creating healthy, high-level design. [via]
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Piaget's Theory of Cognitive and Affective Development: Foundations of Constructivismby Barry J. WadsworthISBN 0205406033 (0-205-40603-3)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Practical Thinking: 4 Ways to Be Right, 5 Ways to Be Wrong, 5 Ways to Understandby Edward De BonoISBN 0140137831 (0-14-013783-1)
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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, George Anthony Bull, Anthony GraftonISBN 0140447520 (0-14-044752-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated treatise on statecraft. While Machiavelli was only one of the many Florentine "prophets of force," he differed from the ruling elite in recognizing the complexity and fluidity of political life. [via]
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Psychology:an Introduction: An Introductionby Jerome Kagan, Ernest HavemannISBN 0155726099 (0-15-572609-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
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The Psychology of Superstitionby Gustav JahodaISBN 0140212035 (0-14-021203-5)
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Natureby Matt RidleyISBN 0140245480 (0-14-024548-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature'Book summary:Two fascinating questions lie at the heart of The Red Queen: Why is Homo sapiens a sexual species, and what implications does this have for human nature? That man is sexual may seem unremarkable, yet in fact not all plants and animals need to have sex to reproduce; simple cloning is practiced by many animals with much greater efficiency. To understand how life evolves, and what benefit sex provides for humans, we must think like the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, who had to keep running just to stay in place. According to a controversial yet persuasive new theory, evolution is not about progress, but about changing in order to survive. Because humans are in a perpetual battle with the parasites lurking within our bodies, we need to be able to change molecular locks as fast as parasites invent new keys. Sex enables us to alter genetic combinations every generation. Sex, then, is a vital weapon in disease resistance. It enables us to change, not so we progress ahead, but so we avoid falling behind. But what does all this mean for human nature? From a lucid overview of the Red Queen theory, Matt Ridley follows the logic of its argument into the heart of human behavior. For just as the human eye is a product of evolution, so is human nature. Evolutionary theory provides the clues to help us understand fundamental facts about human beings, from our fashion consciousness to our "system of monogamy plagued by adultery." Ridley's probing mind asks a series of provocative questions. Is mankind naturally polygamous like most of our ape relatives? Are men and women mentally different as well as physically, and if so why? Why do people share so many sexual habits withswallows? Are our notions of human beauty arbitrary, or is there method in them? Jumping into the middle of the debate over the definition of "human nature, " The Red Queen offers an extraordinary new way of interpreting the human condition and how it has evolved. It throws fresh light [via]
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The Selfish Geneby Richard DawkinsISBN 0199291152 (0-19-929115-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Selfish Gene'Book summary:Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that "our" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven't thought of evolution in the same way since.
Why are there miles and miles of "unused" DNA within each of our bodies? Why should a bee give up its own chance to reproduce to help raise her sisters and brothers? With a prophet's clarity, Dawkins told us the answers from the perspective of molecules competing for limited space and resources to produce more of their own kind. Drawing fascinating examples from every field of biology, he paved the way for a serious re-evaluation of evolution. He also introduced the concept of self-reproducing ideas, or memes, which (seemingly) use humans exclusively for their propagation. If we are puppets, he says, at least we can try to understand our strings. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Seven Theories of Human Natureby Leslie Forster StevensonISBN 0195052145 (0-19-505214-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Theories of Human Nature'Book summary:Drawing on philosophy, psychology, sociology, politics, biology, and theology, Stevenson introduces readers to the endlessly fascinating subject of human nature. He outlines background theories of the universe, basic approaches to human nature, diagnoses of what is wrong with humankind and prescriptions for putting it right while offering clear, critical analyses of the ideas of Plato, Christianity, Karl Marx, Freud, Sartre, Skinner, and Lorenz. Including completely revised and updated bibliographies, the second edition also provides a new interdisciplinary final chapter suggesting areas of further inquiry. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. [via]
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Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousnessby Roger PenroseISBN 0195106466 (0-19-510646-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness'Book summary:A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern physics as well as a brilliant reflection on the human mind, offering a new perspective on the scientific landscape and a visionary glimpse of the possible future of science. Now, in Shadows of the Mind, Penrose offers another exhilarating look at modern science as he mounts an even more powerful attack on artificial intelligence. But perhaps more important, in this volume he points the way to a new science, one that may eventually explain the physical basis of the human mind.
Penrose contends that some aspects of the human mind lie beyond computation. This is not a religious argument (that the mind is something other than physical) nor is it based on the brain's vast complexity (the weather is immensely complex, says Penrose, but it is still a computable thing, at least in theory). Instead, he provides powerful arguments to support his conclusion that there is something in the conscious activity of the brain that transcends computation--and will find no explanation in terms of present-day science. To illuminate what he believes this "something" might be, and to suggest where a new physics must proceed so that we may understand it, Penrose cuts a wide swathe through modern science, providing penetrating looks at everything from Turing machines (computers programmed from artificial intelligence) to the implications of Godel's theorem maintaining that conscious thinking must indeed involve ingredients that cannot adequately be stimulated by mere computation. Of particular interest is Penrose's extensive examination of quantum mechanics, which introduces some new ideas that differ markedly from those advanced in The Emperor's New Mind, especially concerning the mysterious interface where classical and quantum physics meet. But perhaps the most interesting wrinkle in Shadows of the Mind is Penrose's excursion into microbiology, where he examines cytoskeletons and microtubules, minute substructures lying deep within the brain's neurons. (He argues that microtubules--not neurons--may indeed be the basic units of the brain, which, if nothing else, would dramatically increase the brain's computational power.) Furthermore, he contends that in consciousness some kind of global quantum state must take place across large areas of the brain, and that it within microtubules that these collective quantum effects are most likely to reside.
For physics to accommodate something that is as foreign to our current physical picture as is the phenomenon of consciousness, we must expect a profound change--one that alters the very underpinnings of our philosophical viewpoint as to the nature of reality. Shadows of the Mind provides an illuminating look at where these profound changes may take place and what our future understanding of the world may be. [via]More editions of Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness:
Solaris: Romanby Stanisaw LemISBN 0156837501 (0-15-683750-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Solaris: Romanby Steve Cox, Stanisaw Lem, Joanna KilmartinISBN 0156027607 (0-15-602760-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Solaris: Roman'Book summary:The first of Lems novels to be published in americanca and still the best known. A scientist examining the ocean that covers the surface of the planet Solaris is forced to confront the incarnation of a painful, hitherto unconscious memory, inexplicably created by the ocean. An undisputed SF classic. Translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox.[via]More editions of Solaris: Roman:
Speaking with the Devil : Exploring Senseless Acts of Evilby Carl GoldbergISBN 0140237399 (0-14-023739-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermistonby Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma LetleyISBN 019281740X (0-19-281740-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermiston'Book summary:This volume includes Stevenson's famous spine-chilling thriller Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as well as Weir of Hermiston, a brilliant autobiographical portrayal of a father-son relationship. [via]
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert MighallISBN 0141439734 (0-14-143973-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:Robert Louis Stevenson originally wrote "Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde" as a "chilling shocker." He then burned the draft and, upon his wife's advice, rewrote it as the darkly complex tale it is today. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores the curious turnings of human character through the strange case of Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist who by night takes on his stunted evil self, Mr. Hyde. Anticipating modern psychology, "Jekyll And Hyde" is a brilliantly original study of man's dual nature -- as well as an immortal tale of suspense and terror. Published in 1866, "Jekyll And Hyde" was an instant success and brought Stevenson his first taste of fame. Though sometimes dismissed as a mere mystery story, the book has evoked much literary admirations. Vladimir Nabokov likened it to "Madame Bovary" and "Dead Souls" as "a fable that lies nearer to poetry than to ordinary prose fiction." [via]
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Studies in Hysteriaby Josef Breuer, Nicola Luckhurst, Rachel BowlbyISBN 0142437492 (0-14-243749-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Studies in Hysteria'Book summary:[via]Hysteriathe tormenting of the body by the troubled mindis among the most pervasive of human disorders; yet, at the same time, it is the most elusive. Freuds recognition that hysteria stemmed from traumas in the patients past transformed the way we think about sexuality. Studies in Hysteria is one of the founding texts of psychoanalysis, revolutionizing our understanding of love, desire, and the human psyche. As full of compassionate human interest as of scientific insight, these case histories are also remarkable, revelatory works of literature.
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The Tao of Poohby Benjamin HoffISBN 0140067477 (0-14-006747-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Tao of Pooh/the Te of Pigletby Benjamin HoffISBN 014095144X (0-14-095144-X)
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A Terrible Love Of Warby James HillmanISBN 0143034928 (0-14-303492-8)
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Understanding Psychologyby Charles G. MorrisISBN 0139514848 (0-13-951484-8)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Ways of Seeingby John BergerISBN 0140135154 (0-14-013515-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ways of Seeing'Book summary:[via]John Bergers Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.
"Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics . . . He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation" Peter Fuller, Arts Review
"The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace" Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling
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The White Hotelby D. M. ThomasISBN 0140231730 (0-14-023173-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Hotel'Book summary:It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of the twentieth century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling, The White Hotel is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate.[via]More editions of The White Hotel:
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