wyszukanych pozycji: 16
Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln: The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed
ISBN: 9780231171335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. On April 15, 1837, a "long, gawky" Abraham Lincoln walked into Joshua Speed's dry-goods store in Springfield, Illinois, and asked what it would cost to buy the materials for a bed. Speed said seventeen dollars, which Lincoln didn't have. He asked for a loan to cover that amount until Christmas. Speed was taken with his visitor, but, as he said later, "I never saw so gloomy and melancholy a face." Speed suggested Lincoln stay with him in a room over his store for free and share his large double bed. What began would become one of the most important friendships in American history. Speed...
On April 15, 1837, a "long, gawky" Abraham Lincoln walked into Joshua Speed's dry-goods store in Springfield, Illinois, and asked what it would cost t...
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121,51 zł |
Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses
ISBN: 9780231158992 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Charles B. Strozier's college lost sixty-eight alumni in the tragedy of 9/11, and the many courses he has taught on terrorism and related topics since have attracted dozens of survivors and family members. A practicing psychoanalyst in Manhattan, Strozier has also accepted many seared by the disaster into his care. In some ways, the grief he has encountered has felt familiar; in other ways, unprecedented. Compelled to investigate its unique character further, he launched a fascinating study into the conscious and unconscious meaning of the event, both for those who were physically close to...
Charles B. Strozier's college lost sixty-eight alumni in the tragedy of 9/11, and the many courses he has taught on terrorism and related topics since...
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121,51 zł |
The Fundamentalist Mindset: Psychological Perspectives on Religion, Violence, and History
ISBN: 9780195379655 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This penetrating book sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. What accounts for the violence that emerges among some fundamentalist groups? The contributors to this book identify several factors: a radical dualism, in which all aspects of life are bluntly categorized as either good or evil; a destructive inclination to interpret authoritative texts, laws, and teachings in the most literal of terms; an extreme and totalized conversion experience; paranoid thinking; and an apocalyptic world view. After examining each...
This penetrating book sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. What accou...
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364,19 zł |
Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses
ISBN: 9780231158985 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Charles B. Strozier's college lost sixty-eight alumni in the tragedy of 9/11, and the many courses he has taught on terrorism and related topics since have attracted dozens of survivors and family members. A practicing psychoanalyst in Manhattan, Strozier has also accepted many seared by the disaster into his care. In some ways, the grief he has encountered has felt familiar; in other ways, unprecedented. Compelled to investigate its unique character further, he launched a fascinating study into the conscious and unconscious meaning of the event, both for those who were physically close to...
Charles B. Strozier's college lost sixty-eight alumni in the tragedy of 9/11, and the many courses he has taught on terrorism and related topics since...
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138,08 zł |
Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst
ISBN: 9781590511022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 495 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Heinz Kohut (1913-1981) stood at the center of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic movement. After fleeing his native Vienna when the Nazis took power, he arrived in Chicago, where he spent the rest of his life. He became the most creative figure in the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and is now remembered as the founder of self psychology, whose emphasis on empathy sought to make Freudian psychoanalysis less neutral. Kohut's life invited complexity. He obfuscated his identity as a Jew, negotiated a protean sexuality, and could be surprisingly secretive about his health and other...
Heinz Kohut (1913-1981) stood at the center of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic movement. After fleeing his native Vienna when the Nazis took powe...
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166,70 zł |
The Fundamentalist Mindset: Psychological Perspectives on Religion, Violence, and History
ISBN: 9780195379662 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This penetrating book sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. What accounts for the violence that emerges among some fundamentalist groups? The contributors to this book identify several factors: a radical dualism, in which all aspects of life are bluntly categorized as either good or evil; a destructive inclination to interpret authoritative texts, laws, and teachings in the most literal of terms; an extreme and totalized conversion experience; paranoid thinking; and an apocalyptic world view. After examining each...
This penetrating book sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. What accou...
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142,95 zł |
The PKK
ISBN: 9783639372830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Since the late 1960s, Turkey has been confronted with numerous terrorist activities from various groups, including radical leftists, ethnic separatists, and religious organizations. The most challenging terrorist organization that Turkey has struggled against, however, is the ethnic separatist group known as the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party or "Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan"). Turkey has spent more than $125 billion (USD) to fight the PKK, a group that the United States and European Union recognize as a terrorist organization. There are, however, few good studies of the PKK and its related...
Since the late 1960s, Turkey has been confronted with numerous terrorist activities from various groups, including radical leftists, ethnic separatist...
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364,15 zł |
Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America
ISBN: 9781592440436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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153,09 zł |
A Dickens Dinner: A Christmas Play and Music Script for Theaters, Schools or Restaurants to Offer Fundraising Productions
ISBN: 9781736505403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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44,52 zł |
The New World of Self: Heinz Kohut's Transformation of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
ISBN: 9780197535226 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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215,02 zł |
Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln: The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed
ISBN: 9780231171328 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On April 15, 1837, a "long, gawky" Abraham Lincoln walked into Joshua Speed's dry-goods store in Springfield, Illinois, and asked what it would cost to buy the materials for a bed. Speed said seventeen dollars, which Lincoln didn't have. He asked for a loan to cover that amount until Christmas. Speed was taken with his visitor, but, as he said later, "I never saw so gloomy and melancholy a face." Speed suggested Lincoln stay with him in a room over his store for free and share his large double bed. What began would become one of the most important friendships in American history. Speed...
On April 15, 1837, a "long, gawky" Abraham Lincoln walked into Joshua Speed's dry-goods store in Springfield, Illinois, and asked what it would cost t...
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226,58 zł |
The Leader: Psychological Essays
ISBN: 9781441983855 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Behind every leader is an instructive life story. It often promotes a public image that inspires others to live by it. And, sometimes, even to live or to die for it. As leadership qualities and image issues gain significance in the public discourse, the psychological study of leadership is a critical factor in any discussion. With its trenchant insights into leaders past and present, TheLeader: Psychological Essays, Second Edition, updates a pioneering text in this field and provides a solid basis for ongoing dialogue on this important subject. Within the context of the... Behind every leader is an instructive life story. It often promotes a public image that inspires others to live by it. And, sometimes, even to live... |
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391,77 zł |
The Year 2000: Essays on the End
ISBN: 9780814780312 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Year 2000 is at hand. The end of the millennium means many things to many people, but it has significance for almost everyone. A thousand years ago, monks stopped copying manuscripts and religious building projects came to a halt as panic swept Europe. Today, anxiety about global warming, government power, superviruses, even recycling, is on some level rooted in the fear of irreversible cataclysm. In a landscape shadowed by racial conflict, technological upheaval, AIDS, and nuclear weapons, we reasonably fear the end of history. 2000 looms large in our religious, political, and... The Year 2000 is at hand. The end of the millennium means many things to many people, but it has significance for almost everyone. A thousand years... |
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236,11 zł |
Self Psychology and the Humanities: Reflections on a New Psychoanalytic Approach
ISBN: 9780393335552 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Heinz Kohut, one of the most influential psychoanalysts of the twentieth century, developed the concepts and theories of self psychology. This posthumous book presents his writings and teachings, about the role of the individual, as well as of the "group self," in history, art, religion, and politics. Through the application of self psychology to literature and history, Kohut illuminates the role of the "nuclear self" in the hero and the tragic man, exemplified by Shakespeare's Hamlet, and probes the meaning of historical events, such as the rise of Hitler in Germany.
Heinz Kohut, one of the most influential psychoanalysts of the twentieth century, developed the concepts and theories of self psychology. This posthum...
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101,85 zł |
The Year 2000: Essays on the End
ISBN: 9780814780305 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Year 2000 is at hand. The end of the millennium means many things to many people, but it has significance for almost everyone. A thousand years ago, monks stopped copying manuscripts and religious building projects came to a halt as panic swept Europe. Today, anxiety about global warming, government power, superviruses, even recycling, is on some level rooted in the fear of irreversible cataclysm. In a landscape shadowed by racial conflict, technological upheaval, AIDS, and nuclear weapons, we reasonably fear the end of history. 2000 looms large in our religious, political, and... The Year 2000 is at hand. The end of the millennium means many things to many people, but it has significance for almost everyone. A thousand years... |
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536,16 zł |
Genocide, War, and Human Survival
ISBN: 9780847682270 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the tragic workings of the Holocaust and Hiroshima to contemporary examples of genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, this provocative collection of original essays examines the enduring impact of cataclysmic events on the modern human psyche. Inspired by the career of Robert Jay Lifton, the distinguished contributors use a wide range of disciplinary and methodological approaches to probe society, culture, and politics in the nuclear age and they explore the therapeutic value of artistic expression to witnesses and survivors of mass violence. The essays convey a message of hope by displaying the...
From the tragic workings of the Holocaust and Hiroshima to contemporary examples of genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, this provocative collection of orig...
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254,06 zł |