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A Conflict of Visions
Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Häftad, 2007
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
303 kr
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In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the unconstrained" vision, in which human nature is malleable and …
Grand Chessboard
American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives
Häftad, 2016
245 kr
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In The Grand Chessboard , renowned geostrategist Zbigniew Brzezinski delivers a brutally honest and provocative vision for American preeminence in the twenty-first century. The task facing the United States, he argues, is to become the sole political arbiter in Eurasian lands and to prevent the …
Evolution of Desire
Strategies of Human Mating
Av David Buss
Häftad, 2016
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
250 kr
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A stunning study that uses evolutionary psychology to explain human mating and the mysteries of love"A drop-dead shocker." -Washington Post Book WorldIf we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question, we must look into our evolutionary …
Pleasure of Finding Things Out
The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
Av Freeman Dyson, Richard Feynman
Häftad, 2005
205 kr
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman,from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other. From …
Meditations
The Annotated Edition
Av Marcus Aurelius, Robin Waterfield m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
310 kr
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful and wealthy man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and deep reservoirs of personal insight. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems which have come to …
The Drama of the Gifted Child (Third Edition)
The Search for the True Self
Av Alice Miller
Häftad, 2008
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
207 kr
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Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer,and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, …
Collapse of Parenting
How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups
Av Leonard Sax
Häftad, 2024
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220 kr
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In The Collapse of Parenting, internationally acclaimed author Leonard Sax argues that rising levels of obesity, depression, and anxiety among young people can be traced to parents abdicating their authority. The result is children who have no standard of right and wrong, who lack discipline, and …
Vision of the Anointed
Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
Häftad, 1996
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229 kr
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Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a tainted vision whose defects have led to crises in education, …
False Alarm
How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Häftad, 2024
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
189 kr
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Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, …
Trauma and Recovery
The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Häftad, 2022
250 kr
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The groundbreaking work on trauma"One of the most important psychiatric works to be published since Freud."―New York TimesTrauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that …
Economic Facts and Fallacies
Second Edition
Häftad, 2011
217 kr
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From renowned economist Thomas Sowell, an indispensable examination of widespread economic fallacies"From one of America's most noted conservative economists, a short, original book that offers some unconventional ideas about how to think about common economic topics." ―Baltimore SunIn this revised …
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Häftad, 2005
2,9 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (8)
194 kr
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From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreementIn Letters to a Young Contrarian, bestselling author and world-class provocateur Christopher Hitchens inspires the radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, and angry young …
The Rise of the Creative Class
Häftad, 2019
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
213 kr
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In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class that is reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace. This Creative Class is made up of people-engineers and managers, academics and musicians, …
Conquests and Cultures
An International History
Häftad, 1999
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
253 kr
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This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around the Pacific rim. Its purpose has been to try to understand the role of cultural differences within …
The End of Trauma
How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think About PTSD
Häftad, 2024
217 kr
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With "groundbreaking research on the psychology of resilience" (Adam Grant), a top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient people really areIn the days following 9/11, mental health professionals from all over the country …
Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, 3rd Edition
And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
Av Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
Häftad, 2017
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250 kr
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In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children-and outlines the path to recoveryHow does trauma affect a child's mind-and how can that mind recover?Child …
A Thousand Brains
A New Theory of Intelligence
Av Jeff Hawkins
Häftad, 2022
177 kr
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For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence?Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike structures to build a model of the world-not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of …
Free to Learn
Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
Av Peter Gray
Häftad, 2015
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
220 kr
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A leading expert in childhood development makes the case for why self-directed learning -- "unschooling" -- is the best way to get kids to learn.In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today's constantly changing world, we …
Intercourse
Häftad, 2006
2,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
220 kr
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Andrea Dworkin, once called Feminism's Malcolm X," has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and activism of two generations of feminists. Now the book …
The First Three Minutes
A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe
Häftad, 1993
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
213 kr
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A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and how we know, in this popular science classic.Our universe has been growing for nearly 14 billion years. But almost everything about it, from the elements that forged stars, planets, and lifeforms, to …
Louder Than Words
The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
Av Benjamin K Bergen, Benjamin Bergen
Inbunden, 2012, 12-15 år
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
368 kr
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Whether it's brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning- a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your vocal cords to make your innermost thoughts pop up in someone else's mind. You can use it to talk about …
Why Orwell Matters
Häftad, 2003
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
194 kr
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"Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century." --Boston GlobeIn this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer and participant George Orwell. True to his …
How to Be a Stoic
Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
Häftad, 2018
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
258 kr
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Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy (Revised)
Inbunden, 2021
953 kr
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The classic work on group psychotherapyThe Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has been the standard text in the field for decades. In this completely updated sixth edition, Dr. Yalom and Dr. Leszcz draw on a decade of new research as well as their broad clinical wisdom and expertise. Each …
Dying of Whiteness
How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Häftad, 2024
250 kr
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A physician's "provocative" (Boston Globe) and "timely" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times Book Review) account of how right-wing backlash policies have deadly consequences - even for the white voters they promise to help.In election after election, conservative white Americans have embraced …
Intellectuals and Society
Revised and Expanded Edition
Häftad, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
311 kr
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This much revised and reorganized edition of Intellectuals and Society is more than half again larger than the first edition. Four new chapters have been added on intellectuals and race, including a chapter on race and intelligence. These new chapters show the radically different views of race …
The Second World Wars
How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
Häftad, 2020
218 kr
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World War II sent the youth of the world across the globe in odd alliances against each other. Never before had a conflict been fought simultaneously in so many diverse landscapes on premises that often seemed unrelated. Never before had a conflict been fought in so many different ways - from …
