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The Importance of Fathers: A Psychoanalytic Re-evaluation
It is widely acknowledged that children need structure, security, stability and attachment to develop and flourish, and that the father is an important part of this. Issues such as high...
Children of Parents with Mental Illness
Children of Parents with Mental Illness is a groundbreaking study into the frequently overlooked impact on children whose parents have a mental illness. By balancing theory with first-hand experiences from...
Mothers
Motherhood is given tribute here in word and fine-art illustration. Observations about the joys and challenges of motherhood come from men and women, past and present, including Carrie Fisher, Toni...
The Grief of Our Children
This unique, practical book explores the grief of children of all ages and highlights specific aspects of grief at each stage of psychological development. It provides useful suggestions which empower...
Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide
Although there is a vast literature on aggression, comparatively little has been written on the issue of violence and even fewer clinical discussions have been published on the violent patient....
Detroit's Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism
Detroit's Cold War locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America. Drawing on meticulous archival research focusing on...
Fatherhood Reclaimed: The Making of the Modern Father
What is the role of the modern father? How do fathers see themselves? Who do modern fathers use as their role models? As traditional gender roles have changed, do fathers...
Ladyboys: The Secret World of Thailand's Third Gender
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This extraordinary book offers intimate details of the lives that they've never publicly revealed. They talk about the choices they've made, their relationships, families, frustrations and hopes. The stories include...
The Mummy, The
The Mummy follows the history of mummification in Egypt from the dynastic age to the present day, including a consideration of the mummy in modern popular culture, films and literature,...
The Simple Truth About Love
It makes the world go round it conquers all it means never having to say you're sorry it's stronger than death it's what the world needs now it's all you...
The Enduring Effects of Prenatal Experience: Echoes from the Womb
Researcher Ludwig Janus takes us on a journey through the many ways in which our prenatal and birth experiences may continue to affect our lives. He shows how our two...
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials - the cultural shifts that got us here, the pressures that sustain it and the need for drastic change An incendiary examination of...
You Are Not Alone: The Sunday Times bestseller, from the host of
THE TIMES NO. 7 BESTSELLER 'A blackly funny, honest, thought-provoking and compassionate book' THE TIMES 'Full of sense, heart and hope' PHILIPPA PERRY 'Cariad Lloyd has changed the way we...
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral? Why don't animals dig up all the graves? Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried? Every day, funeral director...
Constructing Fatherhood: Discourses and Experiences
`It is a very impressive book. Its coverage of contemporary discourses of fatherhood is comprehensive. The theoretical stance is one that allows for complexity and fluidity. The authors write well,...
A Student's Guide to Methodology: Justifying Enquiry
A Student's Guide to Methodology, a comprehensive and practical guide for students, presents clear and straightforward information and advice. Clough and Nutbrown present a perspective on methodology as a process,...
Death Liturgy and Ritual: Volume I: A Pastoral and Liturgical Theology
At the beginning of the 21st century, the Christian Church continues to minister to the dying and the bereaved. However, it does so in a rapidly changing world. The traditional...
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and...
Spending the Holidays with People I Want to Punch in the Throat:
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For fans of Laurie Notaro and Jenny Lawson comes an uproarious and oddly endearing essay collection for anyone trying to survive the holidays in one piece. When it comes to...
Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge
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What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning , Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply...
The Empowered Empath: Owning, Embracing and Managing Your Special
The Basics for Empaths Start Right Here. Simple, straightforward and proven techniques for consciously directing your empath gifts on command. Thats what Empath Coach Rose Rosetree can teach you with...
Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration Between India and
Descendants of indentured labourers brought from India to the Caribbean between 1845 and 1917 comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad's population today. While many Indo-Trinidadians identify themselves as Indian,...
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the...
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Outline of a theory of practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of...
Pathways: Approaches to the Study of Society in India
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Intellectual traditions grow through a process of critical assessment, and Pathways: Approaches to the Study of Society in India is an important contribution in this area. The autobiographical element makes...
From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and
Providing a unique and intimate view of Hindu marriage, the essays in this collection explore points at which the margins of marriage are traversed or transgressed. Rather than focus on...
The Lonely Hunter: how our search for love is broken
A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2022 The Lonely Hunter explores the rise of singledom, the realities of loneliness, and whether it is possible to live contentedly alone. "So what's...
When Our Children Come out: How to Support Gay Lesbian Bisexual and
How do we support our young people as they struggle with issues around the sexuality? For many of them, the process of 'coming out' to their families, schools and communities...
Program Evaluation: Forms and Approaches
'Owen and Roger's understanding of the various forms of evaluation is as insightful as it is useful. Program Evaluation is an engaging read; an evaluator's delight. I couldn't it put...
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our
How to understand our human biases to separate fact from fiction, identify misinformation when we see it and make smarter decisions. A ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases...
We the Billion: A Social Psychological Perspective on India's
We the Billion addresses the problem of overpopulation in India from a new perspective. It is the first time that the social-psychological approach has been used in population research. The...
The Dish: The Story of One Restaurant Meal, from Farm to Kitchen to
"A thorough, lively work of on-the-ground reportage. ... Friedman shares a remarkable story." - Wall Street Journal Acclaimed "chef writer" Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes...
The Dish: The Story of One Restaurant Meal, from Farm to Kitchen to
"A thorough, lively work of on-the-ground reportage. ... Friedman shares a remarkable story." - Wall Street Journal Acclaimed "chef writer" Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes...
Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage
The institution of marriage stands at a critical juncture. As gay marriage equality gains acceptance in law and public opinion, questions abound regarding marriage's future. Will same-sex marriage lead to...
The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and
The Web has been with us for less than a decade. The popular and commercial diffusion of the Internet has been extraordinary - instigating and enabling changes in virtually every...
The New Language of Qualitative Method
In recent years scholars and researchers in all disciplines have moved away from traditional quantitative methods of research to more qualitative methods which emphasize questions of meaning and interpretation. Considering...
Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than
The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same questions: why is parenting so much harder even though the kids are less happy than...
The In-Between: Stories of Care and Connection in Life's Final Moments
In this #3 New York Times bestselling memoir, TikTok star and hospice nurse Hadley Vlahos demystifies death with inspiring patient stories. What can people at the end of their lives...
The Power of Fun: Why fun is the key to a happy and healthy life
How to make fun an essential part of a balanced, purposeful and healthy life, from the bestselling author of How to Break Up with Your Phone. When did you last...
Every Family Has A Story: How to Grow and Move Forward Together
The bestselling psychotherapist explores what we inherit and how we can create the families we wish for In her bestselling follow-up to Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass, much-loved...
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data
The surprise bestselling tour de force from a former president of the Royal Statistical Society- the essential guide to statistical science in the age of big data Statistics has played...
Caste: The International Bestseller
From one of America's most celebrated writers, the moving, eye-opening bestseller about power, history and what lies hidden under the surface of ordinary lives 'The hierarchy of caste is not...
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
A major book from the author of the bestselling Emotional Intelligence. Social Intelligence does for relationships what Emotional Intelligence did for emotions- brings readers a radically different way of thinking...