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The Character of Adoption	The Psychology of Consciousness This is an exploration of the creative and rational aspects of human behaviour. In this revised...	Driving Passion	Bodywatching: A Field Guide to the Human Species	Babywatching (Crown) Paperback edition to this guide to the first 12 months of human life. In a revealing portrait of...



SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST: ANATOMY OF PEAK PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE A great book and one I'll re-read many times! Mike uses his own ultra-endurance experiences...	An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir. Elizabeth McCracken 'This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending'. A prize-winning,...	Global Sex Best Price: $8.80 This unparalleled discussion of the globalization of human sexuality provides the first major...	Threatened Children: Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims Best Price: $19.95 Child abuse, incest, child molestation, Halloween sadism, child pornography: although clearly...	Meanings for Manhood Best Price: $23.55 The stereotype of the Victorian man as a flinty, sexually repressed patriarch belies the...



In Your Face: The New Science of Human Attraction Best Price: $14.00 In our daily lives, in our memories and fantasies, our mental worlds overflow with faces. But...	Setting up in Independent Practice: A Handbook for Therapy and Psychology Practitioners (Professional Handbooks in Counselling and Psychotherapy) Best Price: $24.69 This compact guide offers the trainee and beginning practitioner all the hands-on advice and...	Well-Being and Work: Towards a Balanced Agenda (Psychology for Organizational Success) Best Price: $36.27 Work and well-being is one of the fastest growing areas of concern to business, public sector...	Forensic Psychology (Palgrave Insights in Psychology) Best Price: $7.99 This introduction shows the reader how much forensic psychology informs us about every step of...	Rethinking ADHD: From Brain to Culture Best Price: $34.00 The medicalization of behavior goes forward with very little criticism. "Diagnosing"...

Cognitive Development: Growing Minds	Thought Leadership: Moving Hearts and Minds Best Price: $39.93 All Leadership starts with thinking - about problems, about possibilities and about...	Autism: A Social and Medical History Best Price: $64.41	Emotions in Midwifery and Reproduction Best Price: $36.43 With contributions from a range of leading international authors, this 'stop and make you...	Understanding Psychology as a Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Statistical Inference Best Price: $25.99 This is an outstanding and delightful short book that should probably be read by everyone...

Talk of Love: How Culture Matters Best Price: $17.63 Talk of love surrounds us, and romance is a constant concern of popular culture. Ann...	After Pomp and Circumstance: High School Reunion as an Autobiographical Occasion Best Price: $57.47 Menacing, nerve-racking, uncomfortably intrusive, the high school reunion has become a dreaded...	Ashes of Immortality: Widow-Burning in India Best Price: $21.25 After reading Mala Sen's "Death By Fire" book which contained information of...	West African Psychology: A Comparative Study of Psychology and Religious Thought Best Price: $63.60 short descriptions: The comparative study of African religion has begun. But the idea of the...	The Family ADHD Solution: A Scientific Approach to Maximizing Your Child's Attention and Minimizing Parental Stress Best Price: $10.81 In this accessible guide, developmental pediatrician Mark Bertin demystifies ADHD and offers...

Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home Best Price: $8.94 Very few authors possess a talent for seamlessly integrating big-picture analysis with...	The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-first Century Best Price: $71.22 In The Fear of Insignificance Carlo Strenger diagnoses the wide-spread fear of the...	Why Music Moves Us Best Price: $20.60 A professional philosopher tackles a thorny question that has probably occurred to almost every...	Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context (Health, Technology and Society) Best Price: $48.92 This volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by...	Existential Perspectives on Supervision: Widening the Horizon of Psychotherapy and Counselling Best Price: $32.78 Written for trainees and supervisors of all theoretical orientations, this book provides a model...

Violence and Mental Disorder: Developments in Risk Assessment (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and De) Best Price: $21.04 In courts across the country, judges depend on mental health experts to determine whether...	Metaphors Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking: A Dynamic View Best Price: $30.70 Traditional thinking on metaphors has divided them into two camps: dead and alive. Conventional...	Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) Best Price: $17.98 Most studies of sex tourism focus on female sex workers with foreign male clients. Even some...	The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language Best Price: $35.17 In the early 1890s the theory of evolution gained an unexpected ally: the Edison phonograph. An...	Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment Best Price: $22.77 This is a pretty amusing book, but unfortunately it suffers from some typical flaws of...

On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig Best Price: $57.47 In On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life, Eric Santner puts Sigmund Freud in dialogue with...	Otto Weininger: Sex, Science, and Self in Imperial Vienna (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) Best Price: $31.99 This book is a PhD written about another man's PhD thesis. Otto Weininger's thesis is...	Racialized Politics: The Debate about Racism in America (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion) Best Price: $74.97 Are Americans less prejudiced now than they were thirty years ago, or has racism simply gone...	The Nature of Love: Courtly and Romantic Best Price: $95.49	The Adolescent in Group and Family Therapy Best Price: $27.50 "The new printing of a 1975 work in which Sugar (clinical psychiatry, Lousiana State U. and...

Never Saw It Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst Best Price: $75.87 I draw the title for this review from a series of articles on Slate.com that discuss the power...	The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics Best Price: $79.97 Rarely, if ever, does a reader encounter an analysis of black politics, of the AIDS crisis, or...	Cognitive Ecology II Best Price: $34.33 Merging evolutionary ecology and cognitive science, cognitive ecology investigates how animal...	Adolescent Psychiatry, Volume 9: Developmental and Clinical Studies Best Price: $37.50	Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy (Phoenix Books) Best Price: $10.50 In her book, Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy, the late Frieda Fromm-Reichmann uses her...

Moral Stealth: How "Correct Behavior" Insinuates Itself into Psychotherapeutic Practice Best Price: $23.99 Arnold Goldberg has always been remarkable for his ability to communicate clearly, addressing...	Under the Kapok Tree: Identity and Difference in Beng Thought Best Price: $8.00 In this companion volume to Parallel Worlds, Alma Gottlieb explores ideology and social...	What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) Best Price: $12.21 This is a breath of fresh air, a thorough and detailed acccount of the scientific and...	Children's Cooperation and Helping Behaviors (Vol 5)	The Ability to Mourn: Disillusionment and the Social Origins of Psychoanalysis Best Price: $65.00 Peter Homans offers a new understanding of the origins of psychoanalysis and relates the...

The Environment: Its Role in Psychosocial Functioning and Psychotherapy Best Price: $29.89 Challenging Freud's assumption that an individual first develops intrapsychically and is...	Empowerment Practice with Families in Distress (Empowering the Powerless: A Social Work Series) Best Price: $105.54 For more than 150 years, empowering practices have been used by social workers in their work...	The Portable Kristeva, Second Edition Best Price: $21.87 As a linguist, Julia Kristeva has pioneered a revolutionary theory of the sign in its relation...	Mental Disorders in the Social Environment: Critical Perspectives (Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series) Best Price: $29.95 Social workers provide more mental health services than any other profession, yet recent...	Addressing Rape Reform in Law and Practice Best Price: $20.61 The first comprehensive book on rape since Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will and Susan...

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery Best Price: $13.25 I was incredibly disappointed by this book. In fact, I'm not sure how this book has received...	Developmental Theories Through the Life Cycle Best Price: $27.66 In this bestselling textbook, contributors describe theories of normal human development...	Helping Substance-Abusing Women of Vulnerable Populations: Effective Treatment Principles and Strategies Best Price: $35.00 Current research suggests that biology, psychology, culture, and social standing all contribute...	Hatred and Forgiveness (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) Best Price: $21.44 Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and...	How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories: Evolutionary Enigmas Best Price: $4.23 This book is trash. The title is wrong, there are several simple mistakes such as the cube of 3...

A Lure of Knowledge: Lesbian Sexuality and Theory Best Price: $16.40 Lesbianism in literature has been dealt with rather indirectly in the past. Editors have led...	The Artist and the Emotional World Best Price: $12.75 The Artist and the Emotional World is an insightful and informative text. Written by...	All the Mothers Are One Best Price: $2.11 After some 35 years close connection to India, in personal and academic terms, I feel I have a...	The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (Gender & Culture) Best Price: $7.48 In literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes,...	Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City Best Price: $4.80 -- Owen M. Lynch, New York University

Female and Male Voices in Early Modern England Best Price: $2.49 Most anthologies of Renaissance writing include only (or predominantly) male writers, whereas...	Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia: Strategies That Work (Between Men--Between Women) Best Price: $85.91 I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised with "Overcoming Heterosexism and...	Pain: The Science of Suffering (Maps of the Mind) Best Price: $5.00 A word of advice: as the author states in the preface, this book is NOT a textbook, nor a...	Sexing the Brain Best Price: $5.00 I was disappointed by this book because I was misled by the title and the opening statement to...	How to Build a Mind: Toward Machines with Imagination (Maps of the Mind) Best Price: $5.00 "How to Build a Mind" by Igor Aleksander, does everything but tell you how to build a...

Jung in Context: Modernity and the Making of a Psychology Best Price: $21.00 This provocative account of the origins, influences, and legacy of Jungian psychology is perhaps...	Creating Mental Illness Best Price: $42.47 Dr. Horwitz provides in this book a well researched assessment of the current state of affairs...	The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition (Phoenix Book) Best Price: $17.86 This is an absolute value! Most of James's published writings including the hard to find...	General Psychopathology In 1910, Karl Jaspers wrote a seminal essay on morbid jealousy in which he laid the foundation...	Crossing over the Line: Legislating Morality and the Mann Act (Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) Best Price: $26.33 Once a leading pop culture touchstone, the Mann Act has gone the way of the hi-fi and bakelite. ...

The Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society) Best Price: $10.00 'The Savage Mind' is probably the best known work of structural anthropology despite its...	Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment Best Price: $20.00 This is an informative, thoughtful, academic presentation of a model of political judgement that...	George Herbert Mead: On Social Psychology- Selected Papers (Heritage of Sociology Series) Best Price: $20.94 Although among theorists, George Herbert mead must be considered the "theorists'...	The Chicago Guide to Writing about Multivariate Analysis (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) Best Price: $23.76 This is one of the best compact resources for understanding how to think about data, and how to...	Love, Sex, Intimacy and Friendship Between Men, 1550-1800 Best Price: $26.93 This book gathers the most recent scholarship on the historicization of masculinity by the most...

Children, Gender, Video Games: Towards a Relational Approach to Multimedia Best Price: $28.85 Placing gender at the center of the debate about young children and multimedia, particularly...	How Disruption Brought Order: The Story of a Winning Strategy in the World of Advertising Best Price: $14.25 The content is great and the book flows nicely. Better yet, the Disruption technique, the...	Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn Best Price: $10.55 Recommended reading for the new generation and the old! Very insightful and a good read for...	Smart Medicine: How the Changing Role of Doctors Will Revolutionize Health Care (Macsci) Best Price: $6.99 We?re a nation in love with the drama of the medical world?from fast-paced hospital life to the...	Behind the Veil of Vice: The Business and Culture of Sex in the Middle East Best Price: $11.78 I was looking forward to this book because I read and admired Bradley's two previous books...

Music as Cognition : The Development of Thought in Sound Best Price: $90.00 I am the author. I write this note as a way of giving potential readers additional information...	The Transference Countertransference Matrix: The Emotional Cognitive Dialogue in Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, and Supervision (Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy (Columbia Univ Pr)) Best Price: $44.95 Psychoanalysts need to develop and maintain a clear idea of the fundamental concepts of...	The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Theory	Ape Language: From Conditioned Response to Symbol (Animal Intelligence)	The Environment: Its Role in Psychosocial Functioning and Psychotherapy Best Price: $29.89 Challenging Freud's assumption that an individual first develops intrapsychically and is...

Empowerment Practice with Families in Distress (Empowering the Powerless: A Social Work Series) Best Price: $105.54 For more than 150 years, empowering practices have been used by social workers in their work...	The Portable Kristeva, Second Edition Best Price: $21.87 As a linguist, Julia Kristeva has pioneered a revolutionary theory of the sign in its relation...	Mental Disorders in the Social Environment: Critical Perspectives (Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series) Best Price: $29.95 Social workers provide more mental health services than any other profession, yet recent...	Addressing Rape Reform in Law and Practice Best Price: $20.61 The first comprehensive book on rape since Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will and Susan...	Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery Best Price: $13.25 I was incredibly disappointed by this book. In fact, I'm not sure how this book has received...

Developmental Theories Through the Life Cycle Best Price: $27.66 In this bestselling textbook, contributors describe theories of normal human development...	Helping Substance-Abusing Women of Vulnerable Populations: Effective Treatment Principles and Strategies Best Price: $35.00 Current research suggests that biology, psychology, culture, and social standing all contribute...	Hatred and Forgiveness (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) Best Price: $21.44 Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and...	How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories: Evolutionary Enigmas Best Price: $4.23 This book is trash. The title is wrong, there are several simple mistakes such as the cube of 3...

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