Mudpacks and Prozac: Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical and Religious Healing
ISBN: 9781598743999 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People seeking psychiatric healing choose from an almost dizzying array of therapies--from the medicated mud packs of Ayurveda, to the pharmacopeia of Western biomedicine, to the spiritual pathways of the world's religions. How do we choose, what do the treatments offer, and how do they cure? In Mudpacks and Prozac, Murphy Halliburton investigates the very different ways in which Ayurvedic, Western, and religious (Christian, Muslim, and Hindu) healing systems define psychiatric problems and cures. He describes people's embodied experiences of therapies that range from soothing to frightening,...
People seeking psychiatric healing choose from an almost dizzying array of therapies--from the medicated mud packs of Ayurveda, to the pharmacopeia of...
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197,05 zł |
Perspectives on Human Development, Family, and Culture
ISBN: 9780521876728 / Angielski / Twarda / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ci dem Ka itciba i has long been at the forefront of research in developmental and cultural psychology, and is one of the world's most highly respected cross-cultural psychologists. This collection of essays has been produced in honor of Professor Ka itciba i's retirement and to commemorate her contribution to the field. The volume examines social, developmental, and cultural psychology and intervention policies. A select group of international expert scholars explore those aspects of human behavior that are observed in all cultures, as well as those that are unique to each. They also examine...
Ci dem Ka itciba i has long been at the forefront of research in developmental and cultural psychology, and is one of the world's most highly respecte...
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546,84 zł |
What Americans Build and Why: Psychological Perspectives
ISBN: 9780521734356 / Angielski / Miękka / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What Americans Build and Why examines five areas of Americans built environment: houses, healthcare facilities, schools, workplaces, and shopping environments. Synthesizing information from both academic journals and the popular press, the book looks at the relationships of size and scale to the way Americans live their lives and how their way of life is fundamentally shaped by the highway system, cheap land, and incentives. This book is timely because although Americans say they crave community, they continue to construct buildings, such as McMansions and big box stores, that make creating...
What Americans Build and Why examines five areas of Americans built environment: houses, healthcare facilities, schools, workplaces, and shopping envi...
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191,81 zł |
Universals of Human Thought: Some African Evidence
ISBN: 9780521298186 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book was originally published in 1981 and the theme of universals attracted a great deal of attention in the decade preceding publication. Psychologists and linguists in particular attempted to identify substantive universals that underlie the social diversity across cultures, which anthropologists and others documented. The contributors to this volume all focus on the relevant data in Africa to explain and test the major questions at issue. The book is divided into three main sections, dealing respectively with perception, cognitive development and language. There is also a general...
This book was originally published in 1981 and the theme of universals attracted a great deal of attention in the decade preceding publication. Psycho...
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217,74 zł |
Development of Geocentric Spatial Language and Cognition: An Eco-Cultural Perspective
ISBN: 9780521191050 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Egocentric spatial language uses coordinates in relation to our body to talk about small-scale space ( put the knife on the right of the plate and the fork on the left'), while geocentric spatial language uses geographic coordinates ( put the knife to the east, and the fork to the west'). How do children learn to use geocentric language? And why do geocentric spatial references sound strange in English when they are standard practice in other languages? This book studies child development in Bali, India, Nepal, and Switzerland and explores how children learn to use a geocentric frame both...
Egocentric spatial language uses coordinates in relation to our body to talk about small-scale space ( put the knife on the right of the plate and the...
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546,84 zł |
The Human Pursuit of Well-Being: A Cultural Approach
ISBN: 9789400713741 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together the latest research on positive psychology from an international cast of researchers, mostly from Europe. Carefully chosen articles describe research and practice from diverse fields of positive psychology. Chapters cover different topics: happiness and well-being, measurement, motivation and goals, personality, academic performance and coping, and intervention. The book comprises selected papers presented at the 4th European Conference of Positive Psychology held in 2008 in Croatia. There are only few books which brought together European researchers in positive...
This book brings together the latest research on positive psychology from an international cast of researchers, mostly from Europe. Carefully chosen a...
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384,63 zł |
Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology
ISBN: 9780199366200 / Angielski / Miękka / 1152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The goal of cultural psychology is to explain the ways in which human cultural constructions -- for example, rituals, stereotypes, and meanings -- organize and direct human acting, feeling, and thinking in different social contexts. A rapidly growing, international field of scholarship, cultural psychology is ready for an interdisciplinary, primary resource. Linking psychology, anthropology, sociology, archaeology, and history, The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology is the quintessential volume that unites the variable perspectives from these disciplines. Comprised of over...
The goal of cultural psychology is to explain the ways in which human cultural constructions -- for example, rituals, stereotypes, and meanings -- org...
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497,70 zł |
Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person
ISBN: 9780520269453 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice to observe and narrate the drama of Chinese individualization. The essays explore the remaking of the moral person during China's profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and...
Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical an...
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189,01 zł |
Dreaming Culture: Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams
ISBN: 9780230337350 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dreams seem the most private territory of experience. Yet Dreaming Culture argues they are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt cultural models of the self, gender, sexuality, relationships, and agency. Through an innovative "dream ethnography" from college students in the northwestern U.S., this book contributes to recent research on dreaming and the brain in psychology and continuing research on dreaming and the self in clinical psychology and psychological anthropology. Dreaming Culture uses critical theory to understand power relations embedded in cultural models, a...
Dreams seem the most private territory of experience. Yet Dreaming Culture argues they are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt...
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192,30 zł |
Carl Rogers Counsels a Black Client: Race and Culture in Person-Centred Counselling
ISBN: 9781898059448 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For students and practitioners of the person-centred approach to counselling. Investigates and explores issues of race and culture in the person-centred approach.
For students and practitioners of the person-centred approach to counselling. Investigates and explores issues of race and culture in the person-centr...
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130,67 zł |
The African American Child: Development and Challenges
ISBN: 9780826110190 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praise for the First Edition: This book argues convincingly that children's cultural differences need to be recognized for any accurate understanding of their development. Pointing out the need for additional and more effectively designed research, Harris and Graham provide a valuable foundation for further investigations. This nonpolemic book should be in all libraries, filling an unfortunate gap. Highly recommended. --Choice This is an evenhanded examination of the challenges affecting the lives of African American children that emphasizes their... Praise for the First Edition: This book argues convincingly that children's cultural differences need to be recognized for any accur... |
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256,57 zł |
Formative Experiences
ISBN: 9780521895033 / Angielski / Twarda / 587 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary book offers a unique exploration of the formative effects of children's early life experiences, with an emphasis on interactions among neurodevelopmental, behavioral, and cultural dynamics. The authors draw on insights from psychobiological, clinical, and cross-cultural comparative research that maps the robustness of these developmental dynamics across species and societies. Multidisciplinary case studies focus on specific periods of development, or windows of susceptibility, during which caregiving and other cultural practices potentially have a long-lasting impact on...
This interdisciplinary book offers a unique exploration of the formative effects of children's early life experiences, with an emphasis on interaction...
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669,69 zł |
Perspectives on Human Development, Family, and Culture
ISBN: 9781107406452 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ci dem Ka itciba i has long been at the forefront of research in developmental and cultural psychology, and is one of the world's most highly respected cross-cultural psychologists. This collection of essays has been produced in honor of Professor Ka itciba i's retirement and to commemorate her contribution to the field. The volume examines social, developmental, and cultural psychology and intervention policies. A select group of international expert scholars explore those aspects of human behavior that are observed in all cultures, as well as those that are unique to each. They also examine...
Ci dem Ka itciba i has long been at the forefront of research in developmental and cultural psychology, and is one of the world's most highly respecte...
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269,59 zł |
The Divided Self : Israel and the Jewish Psyche Today
ISBN: 9781848856745 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How should Jews respond to an age of militant Zionism and resurgent anti-Semitism? Is insisting on a separate sense of identity anachronistic and dangerous, or is it the only way of preserving the Jewish cultural heritage? Rabbi David Goldberg, one of today's most respected and outspoken Jewish leaders in the English-speaking world, here grapples with the dilemmas of contemporary Jewishness with characteristic candour, and sketches the emerging faultlines in the Jewish sense of identity. He offers up a completely fresh reading of Jewish history, arguing that the narrative of... How should Jews respond to an age of militant Zionism and resurgent anti-Semitism? Is insisting on a separate sense of identity anachronistic and d... |
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Re-Examining Psychology: Critical Perspectives and African Insights
ISBN: 9780415867412 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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285,23 zł |
Development of Geocentric Spatial Language and Cognition: An Eco-Cultural Perspective
ISBN: 9781107412484 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Egocentric spatial language uses coordinates in relation to our body to talk about small-scale space ( put the knife on the right of the plate and the fork on the left'), while geocentric spatial language uses geographic coordinates ( put the knife to the east, and the fork to the west'). How do children learn to use geocentric language? And why do geocentric spatial references sound strange in English when they are standard practice in other languages? This book studies child development in Bali, India, Nepal, and Switzerland and explores how children learn to use a geocentric frame both...
Egocentric spatial language uses coordinates in relation to our body to talk about small-scale space ( put the knife on the right of the plate and the...
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243,66 zł |
Formative Experiences: The Interaction of Caregiving, Culture, and Developmental Psychobiology
ISBN: 9781107635180 / Angielski / Miękka / 622 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary book offers a unique exploration of the formative effects of children's early life experiences, with an emphasis on interactions among neurodevelopmental, behavioral, and cultural dynamics. The authors draw on insights from psychobiological, clinical, and cross-cultural comparative research that maps the robustness of these developmental dynamics across species and societies. Multidisciplinary case studies focus on specific periods of development, or windows of susceptibility, during which caregiving and other cultural practices potentially have a long-lasting impact on...
This interdisciplinary book offers a unique exploration of the formative effects of children's early life experiences, with an emphasis on interaction...
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311,07 zł |
Mythology of the Prenatal Life
ISBN: 9780955823183 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MYTHOLOGY OF THE PRENATAL LIFE by Francis J. Mott with annotations by R.D. Laing This book is a sequel and companion volume to "The Nature of the Self," which explores the intricacies of prenatal experience, demonstrating how these processes are a reflection of an essential life-pattern revealed in many other dimensions of life, macrocosmic and microscopic. In "Mythology of the Prenatal Life," these insights are explored in further detail and with true genius, as Francis J. Mott shows how the prenatal realm is symbolized in mythology, Biblical stories, and folk tales from many cultures....
MYTHOLOGY OF THE PRENATAL LIFE by Francis J. Mott with annotations by R.D. Laing This book is a sequel and companion volume to "The Nature of the Self...
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149,10 zł |
The Price Russians Pay
ISBN: 9780615909486 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the first census of the Russian Empire in 1897, the famous chemist Dmitri Mendeleev made a long-term forecast of Russia's demographic development, according to which the population of Russia at the end of the twentieth century would be about 0.6 billion people, and by the mid-twenty-first century, it would be more than a billion people. By 1913, the population of the Russian Empire was already 7.8 % of the world's one-and-a-half billion population. However, during the First World War, Communists seized power in Russia and Mendeleev's predictions were not justified because communists...
For the first census of the Russian Empire in 1897, the famous chemist Dmitri Mendeleev made a long-term forecast of Russia's demographic development,...
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114,33 zł |
Transgenerational Trauma and the Aboriginal Preschool Child: Healing Through Intervention
ISBN: 9781442235496 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transgenerational Trauma and the Aboriginal Preschool Child: Healing through Intervention approaches trauma from transgenerational perspectives that go back to the early colonization of Australia, and describes what that event has historically meant for the country's Aboriginal population and its culture. This history has continued to propagate traumatically across subsequent generations. This book reveals the work underway at Gunawirra, a group in Sydney founded to work against transgenerational trauma in families with children aged 0-5. The group then began working with projects in more...
Transgenerational Trauma and the Aboriginal Preschool Child: Healing through Intervention approaches trauma from transgenerational perspectives that g...
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480,48 zł |