ilość książek w kategorii: 707
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Timothy Leary: A Biography
ISBN: 9780156032063 / Angielski / Miękka / 689 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the effects of psychedelic drugs in the 1960s while teaching at Harvard, where he not only encouraged but instituted their experimental use among students and faculty. What began as research into human consciousness turned into a mission to alter consciousness itself. Leary transformed himself from serious social scientist into counterculture...
To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a ...
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156,46 zł |
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An Invitation to Laughter : A Lebanese Anthropologist in the Arab World
ISBN: 9780226434766 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. For the late Fuad I. Khuri, a distinguished career as an anthropologist began not because of typical concerns like accessibility, money, or status, but because the very idea of an occupation that baffled his countrymen made them and him laugh. When I tell them that anthropology is my profession . . . they think I am either speaking a strange language or referring to a new medicine. This profound appreciation for humor, especially in the contradictions inherent in the study of cultures, is a distinctive theme of "An Invitation to Laughter, "Khuri s astute memoir of life as an anthropologist... For the late Fuad I. Khuri, a distinguished career as an anthropologist began not because of typical concerns like accessibility, money, or status,... |
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241,46 zł |
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An Invitation to Laughter : A Lebanese Anthropologist in the Arab World
ISBN: 9780226434780 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. For the late Fuad I. Khuri, a distinguished career as an anthropologist began not because of typical concerns like accessibility, money, or status, but because the very idea of an occupation that baffled his countrymen made them-and him-laugh. "When I tell them that 'anthropology' is my profession . . . they think I am either speaking a strange language or referring to a new medicine." This profound appreciation for humor, especially in the contradictions inherent in the study of cultures, is a distinctive theme of "An Invitation to Laughter, " Khuri's astute memoir of life as an... For the late Fuad I. Khuri, a distinguished career as an anthropologist began not because of typical concerns like accessibility, money, or status,... |
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113,75 zł |
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Freud and Oedipus
ISBN: 9780231063531 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Freud and Oedipus reassesses Freud's central concept of the Oedipus complex from the interlocking perceptives of biography, intellectual history, and Greek tragedy. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary materials, Peter Rudnytsky establishes how Freud reached his epochal formulation through his own self-analysis and clinical work. He then places Freud's discoveries in the context of nineteenth-century German intellectual and literary history. Finally, he demonstrates how many of Freud's insights are foreshadowed in Sophocles' Oedipus the King and discusses the psychoanalytic and...
Freud and Oedipus reassesses Freud's central concept of the Oedipus complex from the interlocking perceptives of biography, intellectual history, and ...
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161,32 zł |
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Melanie Klein
ISBN: 9780231122849 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. To the renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist Julia Kristeva, Melanie Klein (1882-1960) was the most original innovator, male or female, in the psychoanalytic arena. Klein pioneered psychoanalytic practice with children and made major contributions to our understanding of both psychosis and autism. Along the way, she successfully introduced a new approach to the theory of the unconscious without abandoning the principles set forth by Freud. In her first biography of a fellow psychoanalyst, the prolific Kristeva considers Klein's life and intellectual development, weaving a...
To the renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist Julia Kristeva, Melanie Klein (1882-1960) was the most original innovator, male or female, in...
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501,90 zł |
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Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale
ISBN: 9780252074844 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. A tribute to Jane C. Goodale, Pulling the Right Threads discusses the vibrant ethnographer and teacher s principles for mentoring, collaborating, and performing fieldwork. Known for her ethnographic research in the Pacific, development of the Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania, and influence in the anthropology department at Bryn Mawr College, Goodale and other contributors renew the debate in anthropology over the authenticity of field data and representations of other cultures. Together, they take aim at those who claim ethnography is outmoded or false."
A tribute to Jane C. Goodale, Pulling the Right Threads discusses the vibrant ethnographer and teacher s principles for mentoring, collaborating, a... |
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151,25 zł |
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Karen Horney : A Psychoanalyst`s Search for Self-Understanding
ISBN: 9780300068603 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Karen Horney (1885-1952) is regarded by many as one of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of the twentieth century. Her early work, in which she quarreled with Freud's views on female psychology, established her as the first great psychoanalytic feminist. In her later years, she developed a sophisticated theory of her own which provided powerful explanations of human behavior that have proved to be widely applicable. Yet through these years of intellectual achievement, Horney struggled with emotional problems. This engrossing study of Horney's life and work draws on newly discovered...
Karen Horney (1885-1952) is regarded by many as one of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of the twentieth century. Her early work, in which s...
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186,10 zł |
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Friedrich Hayek: A Biography
ISBN: 9780312233440 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book tells the story of one of the most important public figures of the twentieth century. It is the first full biography of Friedrich Hayek, the Austrian economist who became, over the course of a remarkable career, the great philosopher of liberty in our time. In this richly detailed portrait, Alan Ebenstein chronicles the life, works, and legacy of a visionary thinker, from Hayek's early years as the scholarly son of a physician in fin-de-siecle Vienna on an increasingly wider world as an economist and political philosopher in London, New York, and Chicago. Ebenstein gives a balanced,...
This book tells the story of one of the most important public figures of the twentieth century. It is the first full biography of Friedrich Hayek, the...
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164,60 zł |
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Margaret Mead : A Biography
ISBN: 9780313322679 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The anthropologist Margaret Mead garnered fame and generated controversy in a full life that spanned most of the 20th century. She was a maverick with a strong and sometimes difficult personality, and this biography follows her from childhood years in Pennsylvania, to college days with her pals nicknamed the Ash Can Cats, to tutelage under the preeminent anthropologist, Franz Boas, at Columbia, and her fieldwork in the South Pacific, starting in Samoa when she was 22 years of age. Private and public are interwoven, with coverage of her marriages, close friendships, writings, and career... The anthropologist Margaret Mead garnered fame and generated controversy in a full life that spanned most of the 20th century. She was a maverick w... |
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247,55 zł |
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Record of a Friendship: The Correspondence of Wilhelm Reich and A. S. Neill, 1936-1957
ISBN: 9780374517700 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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132,72 zł |
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The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled
ISBN: 9780393320428 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Winner of the Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award. Robert Murphy was in the prime of his career as an anthropologist when he felt the first symptom of a malady that would ultimately take him on an odyssey stranger than any field trip to the Amazon: a tumor of the spinal cord that progressed slowly and irreversibly into quadriplegia. In this gripping account, Murphy explores society's fears, myths, and misunderstandings about disability, and the damage they inflict. He reports how paralysis--like all disabilities--assaults people's identity, social standing, and ties with others, while...
Winner of the Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award. Robert Murphy was in the prime of his career as an anthropologist when he felt the first symp...
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61,10 zł |
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Fragments : Interviews with Jean Baudrillard
ISBN: 9780415305488 / Angielski / Miękka / 119 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Jean Baudrillard is one of the most revered philosophers of the 20th century and his work has helped define how we think about the postmodern. In these interviews conducted with Francois L'Yvonnet, Baudrillard is on sparkling form and explores his life in terms of his educational, political and literary experiences, as well as reflecting on his intellectual genesis and his position as outsider in the field of great French thinkers. Perhaps most interestingly, Baudrillard discusses his life's work in relationship to his contemporaries: thinkers such as Bataille and the Situationists, Barthes,...
Jean Baudrillard is one of the most revered philosophers of the 20th century and his work has helped define how we think about the postmodern. In thes...
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175,46 zł |
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To Cherish the Life of the World : The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead
ISBN: 9780465008155 / Angielski / Twarda / 429 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Often far from home and loved ones, famed anthropologist Margaret Mead was a prolific letterwriter, always honing her writing skills and her ideas. To Cherish the Life of the World presents, for the first time, her personal and professional correspondence, which spanned sixty years. These letters lend insights into Mead's relationships with interconnected circles of family, friends, and colleagues, and reveal her thoughts on the nature of these relationships. In these letters--drawn primarily from her papers at the Library of Congress--Mead ruminates on family, friendships, sexuality,...
Often far from home and loved ones, famed anthropologist Margaret Mead was a prolific letterwriter, always honing her writing skills and her ideas. |
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156,82 zł |
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Freud : Darkness in the Midst of Vision
ISBN: 9780471078586 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Advance Praise for Louis Breger's FREUD
"Louis Breger's rich and readable study of Freud offers a thoughtfully complex account of a great but flawed man. Everyone with an interest in psychoanalysis and the psychoanalytic movement will enjoy exploring, grappling with, arguing about, and learning from this absolutely fascinating book."-JUDITH VIORST, AUTHOR, Necessary Losses and Imperfect Control "Written with brilliance and insight, Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision takes us on a daring, at times chilling, journey to the early years of psychoanalysis, revealing both the human... Advance Praise for Louis Breger's FREUD
"Louis Breger's rich and readable study of Freud offers a thoughtfully complex account of a great but fl... |
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116,19 zł |
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Freud A to Z
ISBN: 9780471468684 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A lively guide to the life and work of the father of psychoanalysis
From Anna O. to Zionism, this uniquely accessible A-to-Z reference presents a comprehensive overview of Freud's ideas, family, colleagues, patients, writings, and legacy. Mixing humor, passion, and knowledge, each of the more than 100 fascinating entries offers a revealing look at some aspect of Freud's world, be it a description of his famed pillowed office at Berggasse 19 or an account of his intense feud with former student Carl Jung. Sharon Heller, PhD (Boynton Beach, FL), is the author of three popular psychology... A lively guide to the life and work of the father of psychoanalysis
From Anna O. to Zionism, this uniquely accessible A-to-Z reference presents a c... |
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72,67 zł |
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The Making of Dr. Phil : The Straight-Talking True Story of Everyone's Favorite Therapist
ISBN: 9780471696599 / Angielski / Miękka / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The first biography of Dr. Phil McGraw and his rise to fame
Millions look to Dr. Phil for advice on everything from relationships to life. But Dr. Phil is more than just a pop psychologist. He's also an amazing businessman who has started and run a number of flourishing ventures. In The Making of Dr. Phil, award-winning journalists Sophia Dembling and Lisa Gutierrez take readers inside the world of Dr. Phil and his media and self-help empire. From his early days as a young athlete and student pilot, to his failed first marriage and decision to study psychology, The Making of Dr. Phil... The first biography of Dr. Phil McGraw and his rise to fame
Millions look to Dr. Phil for advice on everything from relationships to life. But D... |
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104,59 zł |
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Breaking Ground : Pioneering Women Archaeologists
ISBN: 9780472031740 / Angielski / Miękka / 571 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. "At the close of the Victorian era, two generations of intrepid women abandoned Grand Tour travel for the rigors of archaeological expeditions, shining the light of scientific exploration on Old World antiquity. Breaking Ground highlights the remarkable careers of twelve pioneers-a compelling narrative of personal, social, intellectual, and historical achievement."
-Claire Lyons, The Getty Museum "Behind these pioneering women lie a wide range of fascinating and inspiring life stories. Though each of their tales is unique, they were all formidable scholars whose important contributions... "At the close of the Victorian era, two generations of intrepid women abandoned Grand Tour travel for the rigors of archaeological expeditions, shinin...
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173,29 zł |
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Try to Remember : Stories from a Life
ISBN: 9780595135028 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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76,79 zł |
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Let It Be a Dance : My Life Story
ISBN: 9780595153398 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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72,03 zł |
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Open the Coffin : A true story of the supernatural
ISBN: 9780595356546 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "First in a dream then into my office came a centuries old ghost, tapping on my desk with a fan."
The mother of emperors, kings and queens, herself sole sovereign over half the world for fifty-one years, Juana was Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Castile, Queen of Aragon, Sicily, Sardinia, Naples, Mexico, Peru and "all the lands to the west of Africa." Yet Simon & Schuster's great reference book "The Timetables of History" does not even mention her death in 1555. Two and a half centuries before the United States was born, Juana the First of Spain attempted to establish a democratic... "First in a dream then into my office came a centuries old ghost, tapping on my desk with a fan."
The mother of emperors, kings and queens, herself... |
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72,03 zł |