wyszukanych pozycji: 10
Welcome to My Country: A Therapist's Memoir of Madness
ISBN: 9780385487399 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Lauren Slater, a brilliant writer who is a young therapist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal and professional journey in this remarkable memoir about her work with mental and emotional illness. The territory of the mind and of madness can seem a foreign, even frightening place-until you read Welcome to My Country.
Writing in a powerful and original voice, Lauren Slater closes the distance between "us" and "them," transporting us into the country of Lenny, Moxi, Oscar, and Marie. She lets us watch as she interacts with and strives to understand patients suffering from mental and... Lauren Slater, a brilliant writer who is a young therapist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal and professional journey in this remarkable memoir abou...
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77,68 zł |
Playing House: Notes of a Reluctant Mother
ISBN: 9780807061121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Acclaimed author Lauren Slater ruminates on what it means to be family. Lauren Slater's rocky childhood left her cold to the idea of ever creating a family of her own, but a husband, two dogs, two children, and three houses later, she came around to the challenges, trials, and unexpected rewards of playing house. In these autobiographical pieces, Slater presents snapshots of domestic life, populating them with the gritty details and jarring realities of sharing home, life, and body in the curious institution called "family." She asks difficult questions and probes unsettling...
Acclaimed author Lauren Slater ruminates on what it means to be family. Lauren Slater's rocky childhood left her cold to the idea of ever ...
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109,01 zł |
Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
ISBN: 9780142000069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this unusual memoir, Slater--diagnosed with a strange illness afflicting her memory--brilliantly explores a mind under siege, telling her personal story of seizures, diagnoses, misdiagnosis and cures.
In this unusual memoir, Slater--diagnosed with a strange illness afflicting her memory--brilliantly explores a mind under siege, telling her personal ...
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64,73 zł |
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780747568605 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A century can be understood in many ways - in terms of its inventions, its crimes or its art. In Opening Skinner's Box, Lauren Slater sets out to investigate the twentieth century through a series of ten fascinating, witty and sometimes shocking accounts of its key psychological experiments. Starting with the founder of modern scientific experimentation, B.F. Skinner, Slater traces the evolution of the last hundred years' most pressing concerns - free will, authoritarianism, violence, conformity and morality. Previously buried in academic textbooks, these often daring experiments are now seen...
A century can be understood in many ways - in terms of its inventions, its crimes or its art. In Opening Skinner's Box, Lauren Slater sets out to inve...
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67,06 zł |
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780393326550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, Slater takes us from a deep empathy with Stanley Milgram's obedience subjects to a funny and disturbing re-creation of an experiment questioning the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. Previously described only in academic journals and textbooks, these often daring experiments have never before been narrated as stories, chock-full of plot, wit, personality, and theme. Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, Slater takes us from a deep empathy with Stanley Milgram's obedience subjec... |
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73,14 zł |
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs That Changed Our Minds
ISBN: 9780316370622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,64 zł |
The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals
ISBN: 9780807001912 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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72,23 zł |
The Best American Essays 2006
ISBN: 9780618705290 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Edited by the bestselling writer Lauren Slater, this year's "Best American Essays" highlights provocative, lively writing from many of our brightest literary lights. Contributors include Adam Gopnik, Scott Turow, Marjorie Williams, Poe Ballantine, and others.
Edited by the bestselling writer Lauren Slater, this year's "Best American Essays" highlights provocative, lively writing from many of our brightest l...
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77,64 zł |
The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women
ISBN: 9780807029251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This complete guide provides a comprehensive overview of the psychological issues that concern women most. Arguing that women need to understand their mental health as more than a question of disorder or normality, it begins with the life cycle, helping women understand the major issues and biological changes associated with young adulthood, middle age, and old age. It also addresses the psychological importance of women's sexuality, relationships, motherhood and childlessness, trauma, and illness, and discusses how social contexts, such as poverty and racism, affect mental health.
This complete guide provides a comprehensive overview of the psychological issues that concern women most. Arguing that women need to understand their...
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187,55 zł |
Cosmology and the Evolution of the Universe
ISBN: 9780313340796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Cosmology and the Evolution of the Universe provides readers with an up-to-date survey of the current scientific understanding of how the universe has evolved in the almost 14 billion years since the Big Bang. Scientifically sound and written with the student in mind, it is an excellent first step for students researching the science of cosmology and a resource for all who wish to know more about the evolution of the universe. Cosmology and the Evolution of the Universe discusses all areas of what is known about the subject. Topics include: the large-scale... Cosmology and the Evolution of the Universe provides readers with an up-to-date survey of the current scientific understanding of how the un... |
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483,60 zł |