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An innovative reassessment of the last writings and final years of Karl Marx.
In the last years of his life, Karl Marx expanded his research in new directions-studying recent anthropological discoveries, analyzing communal forms of ownership in precapitalist societies, supporting the populist movement in Russia, and expressing critiques of colonial oppression in India, Ireland, Algeria, and Egypt. Between 1881 and 1883, he also traveled beyond Europe...
422) Fighting for Hanne
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Hanne Schafer, 63, had just retired as a psychologist from her position in a mental health clinic. Youthful and energetic, she looked forward to engaging in more travel, socializing, hiking and ballroom dancing with her partner, Daniel Laurin. When Hanne received a devastating diagnosis, she asked Daniel and Mary, her long-time friends, for help in dealing with a grim reality. She asked them for the 'unthinkable'.
How would you respond? What would...
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«¿A quiénes se dirige Deconstruyendo al Joyce de Lacan? ¿A joyceanos, lacanianos o deconstructores? Creo que a los tres, y con un mismo propósito, el de incitarlos a leer a Lacan de otra manera, desde supuestos, presunciones e inclinaciones que, lamentablemente, hoy son todavía inhabituales. Es un tour de forcé, un proyecto que reclama madurez, y Cerruti pone su experiencia de lector, escritor, editor y psicoanalista en el intento de vencer...
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This is the personal story of a psychologist living with an emotionally abusive partner and her struggles, both personal and institutional, in leaving. No Room to Breathe: A Memoir of Emotional Abuse, Motherhood, and Resilience is a cautionary tale that reveals the often publicly unseen and underestimated dynamics and patterns of emotionally-abusive relationships. It also highlights their potentially far-reaching consequences, particularly when attempts...
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Have you ever wondered what ant colonies, comets in space, ancient volcanos and a spirited five-year-old could teach you about your wellbeing?
This and many other interconnected ingredients of existence are examined with creative curiosity in Peter Bell's exceptional work “Subtle Steps on the Other Side - Dichotomous Deliberations”.
After a life-changing event and a promise to his family to live a simpler and more balanced existence, Peter was...
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an anthropologist? There is a certain mystery about the profession, since anthropologists often travel to out-of-the-way parts of the world that might be considered exotic, dangerous, or otherwise mysterious to most people. Of course, there are many misconceptions, such as the view of the anthropologist in khaki-coloured shorts, wearing a pith hat and accompanied by a string of baggage carriers trailing...
427) Crucial Choices
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A STORY OF DEVASTING EMOTIONAL POWER THAT WILL GRIP YOU FROM BEGINNING TO END.
From a humble yet happy childhood in Italy, to moving across the water to Australia in the 1960's, then thrown into unexpected culture shock and racism, this young girl grows through constant upheavals as a woman determined.
She falls in love and marries her true sweetheart but as she faces challenge after challenge, her life becomes a roller coaster of periods of personal...
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Estudiar las consecuencias de erradicar de la doctrina freudiana el principio de placer implica correr ciertos riesgos. La conveniencia de correrlos se presenta en tres niveles: el de la consistencia interna de la doctrina y su relación con la experiencia, el de las implicancias clínicas deducibles, y el del modo de concebir la naturaleza del ser hablante y su cultura. Prescindir de ese principio da lugar a una doctrina más consistente y simple...
429) A Man Rising
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Jaime McCormick is a man of action. His whole life, as most of our lives, has been a struggle. However, Jaime, learned how to turn his scars into stars and to turn his tragedy into triumph. With God's help and his own determination, he has found ways to use the pain of his past to help others overcome and be successful in life. The truths shared in this book of Jaime's life will bring courage out of sorrow, victory out of defeat, and open new doors...
430) Agorafabulous!
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"Sara Benincasa is one of the funniest writers I know-and I know a disturbing number of them. She is also one of the most honest."
-Sam Apple, author of American Parent and editor-in-chief of The Faster Times
"Sara is extremely funny and should have many books out so we can all read them and laugh."
-Margaret Cho
Comedian, writer, blogger, radio and podcast host, and YouTube sensation, Sara Benincasa bravely and outrageously brings us "Dispatches...
431) Sigmund Freud
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Sigmund Freud is rightly called the godfather of psychoanalysis. He forever changed the way we view ourselves and developed our understanding of human nature. His concepts have become part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. He dared to try new methods and treatments. Everyone knows the term Freudian slip and has a basic understanding of his theories, however,...
432) Max Weber in America
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"Winner of the 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, History of Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association" Lawrence A. Scaff is professor of political science and sociology at Wayne State University. He is the author of Fleeing the Iron Cage: Culture, Politics, and Modernity in the Thought of Max Weber.
Max Weber, widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences, visited the United States in 1904...
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El libro rojo es una leyenda en el movimiento junguiano reveladora de los grandes secretos de la vida del maestro. Pocas personas lo conocían, y la discreción de la mayoría de ellas, junto con la resistencia de la familia de Jung por publicarlo, lo transformó en un verdadero misterio. El hecho de saber que el original estaba en una caja fuerte en un banco en Zúrich lo convertía en un tesoro codiciado.
Después de El libro rojo, surge un nuevo...
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"Winner of the History of Sociology and Social Thought Book Award, American Sociological Association" Matteo Bortolini is associate professor of sociology at the University of Padua in Italy. He is the coauthor of Italian Sociology, 1945–2010: An Intellectual and Institutional Profile and the editor of The Anthem Companion to Robert N. Bellah. He lives in Bologna, Italy.
The brilliant but turbulent life of a public intellectual who transformed...
435) Some Really Personal, Yet Entertaining Stories From My Life That You Will Enjoy and May Even Find
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What is a "normal childhood?" Does it include almost being murdered by your sister with an ax? Speeding around town in the back of a station wagon because your mom is chasing an "alien spaceship"? Being busted by the police for intent to light a pond on fire? Tackling your mom to the ground and wrestling a knife out of her hand because she was trying to kill your dad? While my stories may be unique, readers will be able to relate to the broader themes...
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We all grieve. From the moment we are born into this cold, loud, bright world, we experience change and loss that can often threaten to overwhelm us, but — when managed well — can help mould us into our strongest, most powerful selves.
Grief is not only about death: it is part of our everyday lives. We are all grieving something. We grieve when our life changes — when meaningful relationships end, when we move house, change schools or jobs,...
437) See Jane Fly
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When five-year-old Nicole, already caught in the middle of her parents' contested divorce, returns home from a visit to her mother with accountings of sexual abuse, her father is awarded full custody following the bitter court battle.
Twelve years later, Nicole asks the trial's forensic evaluator for a copy of the video recordings he made as part of his assessment so long ago. She had since forgotten about the abuse, only for the recordings to start...
438) This is How We Leave
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We all run from something, but do we have to leave?
Against a background of family runaways, award-winning memoirist Joanne Nelson explores what it takes to stay when the going begins to dazzle and the staying seems way too ordinary. With a great grandfather who disappears, a grandfather who strays, and a father who walks away, she's lived a life liable to give way at any time. In unflinching prose that is by turns intimate and humorous, she dives...
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One of Canada's best-known and most-honoured biographers turns to the raw material of his own life in Writing History. A university professor, prolific scholar, public intellectual, and frank critic of the world he has known, Michael Bliss draws on extensive personal diaries to describe a life that has taken him from small-town Ontario in the 1950s to international recognition for his books in Canadian and medical history. His memoir ranges remarkably...
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"From Ada Lovelace (computing) to Marie Curie (Physics and Chemistry), these exceptional women enabled the world to advance in all fields of science including space exploration (Mae Jemison), telecommunications (the actress also genius discoverer Hedy Lamarr), and Biology (Rosalind Franklin). An inspiration going counter to preconceived notions about women and science, presenting a diverse group from around the world."--Provided by publisher.
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