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Paperback. Analyzes trust as a fundamental issue of social relationships. This book asks whether trust - which critics identify as essential in creating a cohesive society - can continue to serve this role. It shows that trust is losing its unifying power because the individual, is being reduced to a sum of group identities and an abstract matrix of rules. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 line illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JH; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691050201
ISBN
9780691050201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.40
€ 42.28

Paperback. Contrary to those observers who attribute group violence to irrationality, primordial instinct, or complex psychology, this work uncovers a systematic exploitation of self-interest in the underpinnings of group identification and collective violence. It also uses examples from Mafia vendettas to ethnic violence in places such as Bosnia and Rwanda. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HPL; JFFE; JMH; JPA; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 231 x 11. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
n Second printing
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691048253
ISBN
9780691048253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.40
€ 42.00

Paperback. Did Freud present a scientific hypothesis about the unconscious, as he always maintained and as many of his disciples keep repeating? Offering a view of the texts in which Wittgenstein mentions Freud, this work describes the intellectual climate of Vienna in the early part of the twentieth century. Translator(s): Cosman, Carol. Series: New French Thought Series. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691029047
ISBN
9780691029047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

Hardback. The idea that Christianity started as a clandestine movement among the poor is a widely accepted notion. This book addresses beliefs and historical facts, and brings a sociologist's perspective to bear on the puzzle behind the success of early Christianity. It provides insights into why people convert and how new religious groups recruit members. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 halftones, 10 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HRC; JH; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691027494
ISBN
9780691027494
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.00
€ 68.36

Paperback. Offers an analysis of Daniel Paul Schreber's "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness". This book denies that Schreber's delusional system prefigured the totalitarian solution to a defining structural crisis of modernity. It shows how this figure succeeded in avoiding the totalitarian temptation by way of his own series of perverse identifications. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JFC; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691026275
ISBN
9780691026275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.48

Paperback. A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the 'serious' medical literature of the fin de siecle, which described Jews as inherently pathological and sexually degenerate. This book argues that Freud's internalizing of these images of racial difference shaped the questions of psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 293 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSR1; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691025865
ISBN
9780691025865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.40
€ 42.35

Paperback. Includes papers on child psychology, education, and individuation, underlining the overwhelming importance of parents and teachers in the genesis of the intellectual, feeling, and emotional disorders of childhood. This title includes final paper that deals with marriage as an aid or obstacle to self-realization. Editor(s): Adler, Gerhard; Hull, R. F. C. Series: Collected Works of C.G. Jung. Num Pages: 241 pages, genealogical tables. BIC Classification: JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
The University Press Group Ltd United States
Edition
reprint
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691018386
ISBN
9780691018386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Paperback. Provides a solution to the ecological inference problem, which has plagued users of statistical methods for over seventy-five years: How can researchers reliably infer individual-level behavior from aggregate (ecological) data? This work begins with a qualitative overview, readable even by those without a statistical background. Num Pages: 346 pages, 53 line illus. 18 tables. BIC Classification: JHBC; JMAL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691012407
ISBN
9780691012407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.13
€ 59.66

Paperback. An inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans that speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical politics, but about extremes of despair, desire, and envy. This title makes us uncomfortably familiar with a society struggling at or beyond the limits of human endurance. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691010915
ISBN
9780691010915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.40
€ 42.35

Hardcover. Num Pages: 257 pages, 16ill.19tabs. BIC Classification: JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674625402
ISBN
9780674625402
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.26
€ 70.43

Hardback. This volume of correspondence between Freud and Ferenczi opens in 1908 and closes on the eve of World War I. In their wealth of personal and scientific detail, the letters give us an intimate picture of psychoanalytic theory being made in the midst of an extraordinary friendship. Editor(s): Falzeder, Ernst; Giampieri-Deutsch, Patrizia. Translator(s): Hoffer, Peter T. Num Pages: 624 pages, 2 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJC; BGA; JFCX; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 37. Weight in Grams: 944.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674174184
ISBN
9780674174184
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.67
€ 100.72

Paperback. Looking at every kind of fatherhood - being a father in and out of marriage, fathering from a distance, stepfathering, and parenting by gay males, this book presents a picture of how being a parent fits with men's broader social and work lives, how fatherhood evolved, and how it differs across cultures and through time. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JHBK; JHM; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674064188
ISBN
9780674064188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.74

Hardback. Prominent neuroscientists, psychologists, ethologists, and primatologists from around the world take a bottom-up approach to primate social behavior by investigating how the primate mind connects with other minds and exploring the shared neurological basis for imitation, joint action, and empathy as well as their evolutionary foundations. Editor(s): De Waal, Frans B. M.; Ferrari, Pier Francesco. Num Pages: 416 pages, 39 halftones, 19 line illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JMM; PSVP; PSVW79. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 168 x 37. Weight in Grams: 742.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674058040
ISBN
9780674058040
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.65
€ 56.15

Hardback. Why and how did ADHD become the most commonly diagnosed mental disorder among children and adolescents, as well as one of the most controversial? This work argues that an alignment of social and economic trends and incentives converged in the early 1990s with greater scientific knowledge to make ADHD the most prevalent pediatric mental disorder. Num Pages: 360 pages, 4 line illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JMC; MJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 706.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674031630
ISBN
9780674031630
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.65
€ 56.15

Paperback. Seventy deeply troubled teenagers spend weeks, months, even years in a locked psychiatric ward. They are out of control - violent or suicidal, in trouble with the law, unpredictable, and dangerous. Twenty years later, most of them still struggle. This title portrays edgy teenagers developing into thoughtful, responsible adults. Series: Adolescent Lives S. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674027343
ISBN
9780674027343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.97
€ 46.97

Hardcover. A concise and valuable overview of what modern developmental psychologists have learned about children's developing powers of perception and capacity for reasoning, but also suggests new ways of studying children that better capture the truth about their young minds. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 169 x 23. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674018839
ISBN
9780674018839
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 39.84

Hardcover. Rather than focusing on the psychology of personal emotions at work, this study concentrates on emotions as role requirements, on workplace emotions that combine the private with the public, the personal with the social, and the authentic with the masked. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages, 6 figures, 6 tables. BIC Classification: JMJ; JMS; KJU; KJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674008588
ISBN
9780674008588
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.83

Paperback. In the midst of the largest wave of immigration in history, America is once again contemplating a future in which new arrivals will play a crucial role in reworking the fabric of the nation. This study offers an interdisciplinary view of who these children are and what their future might hold. Series: The Developing Child. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 line illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JFSP1; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674008380
ISBN
9780674008380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.68

Paperback. Looking at the ecological niche infants occupy, Rochat describes how infants develop capabilities and conceptual understanding in relation to three interconnected domains: the self, objects and other people. Series: The Developing Child. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 halftones, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674008366
ISBN
9780674008366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.93

Paperback. Based on a long-term study begun in 1939 exploring the human life cycle, this work provides an analysis of individual differences in coping with stress in life. The author presents a clearly defined scheme of "adaptive mechanisms" that are rated mature, immature, neurotic or psychotic. Num Pages: 416 pages, 7 tables and 4 figures. BIC Classification: JMC; JMS; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674004146
ISBN
9780674004146
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.99

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