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Shopping Our Way to Safety

How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves

By: Andrew Szasz

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Shopping Our Way to Safety

How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves

By: Andrew Szasz

Szasz argues that when consumers believe that they are buying a defense--organic, natural, or green products--from environmental hazards, they feel less urgency to actually do something to fix the problem. To achieve real security, he believes consumers must give up the illusion of individual solutions and together seek substantive reform.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816635080

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EcoPopulism

Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice

By: Andrew Szasz

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EcoPopulism

Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice

By: Andrew Szasz

In the popular politics of hazardous waste, Andrew Szasz finds an answer, a scenario for taking the most pressing environmental issues out of the academy and the boardroom and turning them into everyone's business. This work reconstructs the growth of a powerful movement around the question of toxic waste. Szasz follows the issue as it moves from the world of "official" policy-making, onto television and into popular consciousness, and then into neighbourhoods, spurring on the formation of thousands of local, community-based groups. He shows how, in less than a decade, a rich infrastructure of more permanent social organizations emerged from this movement, expanding its focus to include issues like municipal waste, military toxics, and pesticides. Szasz identifies the force that pushed environmental policy away from the traditional approach - pollution removal - toward the superior logic of pollution prevention. He discusses the conflicting official responses to the movement's evolution, revealing that, despite initial resistance, law-makers eventually sought to appease popular discontent by strengthening toxic waste laws. In its success, Szasz suggests, this movement may even prove to be the vehicle for reinvigorating progressive politics.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452902720

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9781452902722

The Noonday Demon

An Atlas Of Depression

By: Andrew Solomon

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The Noonday Demon

An Atlas Of Depression

By: Andrew Solomon

The author offers a look at depression in which he draws on his own battle with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, researchers, doctors, and others to assess the complexities of the disease, its causes and symptoms, and available therapies. This book examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications, the efficacy of alternative treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations, around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by emerging biological explanations for mental illness. He takes readers on a journey into the most pervasive of family secrets and contributes to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition.

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Simon and Schuster

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145161103X

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9781451611038

EcoPopulism

Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice

By: Andrew Szasz

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EcoPopulism

Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice

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1452902720

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Hollywood, Interrupted

Insanity Chic in Babylon -- The Case Against Celebrity

By: Andrew Breitbart,Mark Ebner

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Hollywood, Interrupted

Insanity Chic in Babylon -- The Case Against Celebrity

By: Andrew Breitbart,Mark Ebner

Hollywood, Interrupted is a sometimes frightening, occasionally sad, and frequently hysterical odyssey into the darkest realms of showbiz pathology, the endless stream of meltdowns and flameouts, and the inexplicable behavior on the part of show business personalities. Charting celebrities from rehab to retox, to jails, cults, institutions, near-death experiences and the Democratic Party, Hollywood, Interrupted takes readers on a surreal field trip into the amoral belly of the entertainment industry. Each chapter — covering topics including warped Hollywood child-rearing, bad medicine, hypocritical political maneuvering and the complicit media — delivers a meticulously researched, interview-infused, attitude heavy dispatch which analyzes and deconstructs the myths created by the celebrities themselves. Celebrities somehow believe that it's their god-given right to inflict their pathology on the rest of us. Hollywood, Interrupted illustrates how these dysfunctional dilettantes are mad as hell... And we're not going to take it any more.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471706248

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9780471706243

The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity

Essays on the History of Psychiatry

By: Andrew Scull

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The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity

Essays on the History of Psychiatry

By: Andrew Scull

This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the history of psychiatry over the past decade and a half. Examining some of the major substantive debates in the field from the eighteenth century to the present, the historiographic essays provide a critical perspective on such major figures as Michel Foucault, Roy Porter and Edward Shorter. Chapters on psychiatric therapeutics and on the shifting social responses to madness over a period of almost three centuries add to a comprehensive assessment of Anglo-American confrontations with madness in this period, and make the book invaluable for those concerned to understand the psychiatric enterprise. The Insanity of Place/The Place of Insanity will be of interest to students and professionals of the history of medicine and of psychiatry, as well as sociologists concerned with deviance and social control, the sociology of mental illness and the sociology of the professions.

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Routledge

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1135988560

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The Most Solitary of Afflictions

Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900

By: Andrew Scull

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The Most Solitary of Afflictions

Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900

By: Andrew Scull

Andrew Scull studies the evolution of the treatment of lunacy in England, tracing transformations in social practices & beliefs, the development of institutional management of the mad, & exposing the contrasts between the expectations of asylum founders & the harsh realities of institutional life. Originally published: 1993.

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Yale University Press

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0300107544

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Science under Fire

Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America

By: Andrew Jewett

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Science under Fire

Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America

By: Andrew Jewett

Americans have long been suspicious of experts and elites. This new history explains why so many have believed that science has the power to corrupt American culture. Americans today are often skeptical of scientific authority. Many conservatives dismiss climate change and Darwinism as liberal fictions, arguing that “tenured radicals” have coopted the sciences and other disciplines. Some progressives, especially in the universities, worry that science’s celebration of objectivity and neutrality masks its attachment to Eurocentric and patriarchal values. As we grapple with the implications of climate change and revolutions in fields from biotechnology to robotics to computing, it is crucial to understand how scientific authority functions—and where it has run up against political and cultural barriers. Science under Fire reconstructs a century of battles over the cultural implications of science in the United States. Andrew Jewett reveals a persistent current of criticism which maintains that scientists have injected faulty social philosophies into the nation’s bloodstream under the cover of neutrality. This charge of corruption has taken many forms and appeared among critics with a wide range of social, political, and theological views, but common to all is the argument that an ideologically compromised science has produced an array of social ills. Jewett shows that this suspicion of science has been a major force in American politics and culture by tracking its development, varied expressions, and potent consequences since the 1920s. Looking at today’s battles over science, Jewett argues that citizens and leaders must steer a course between, on the one hand, the naïve image of science as a pristine, value-neutral form of knowledge, and, on the other, the assumption that scientists’ claims are merely ideologies masquerading as truths.

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Harvard University Press

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0674247086

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9780674247086

Green Political Thought

By: Andrew Dobson

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Green Political Thought

By: Andrew Dobson

This highly acclaimed introduction to green political thought is now available in a new edition, having been fully revised and updated to take into account the areas which have grown in importance since the third edition was published. Andrew Dobson describes and assesses the political ideology of ‘ecologism’, and compares this radical view of remedies for the environmental crisis with the ‘environmentalism’ of mainstream politics. He examines the relationship between ecologism and other political ideologies, the philosophical basis of ecological thinking, the potential shape of a sustainable society, and the means at hand for achieving it. New to this edition: analysis of an intellectual and political 'anti-environment' backlash an account of sustainability in ecological thought the effect of globalization on ecologism ecological citizenship expanded bibliography. Green Political Thought remains the starting point for all students, academics and activists who want an introduction to green political theory.

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1134141092

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This Benevolent Experiment

Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States

By: Andrew Woolford

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This Benevolent Experiment

Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States

By: Andrew Woolford

A nuanced comparative history of Indigenous boarding schools in the U.S. and Canada"--

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803276729

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Credo

R. D. Laing and Radical Psychotherapy

By: Andrew Feldmar

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Credo

R. D. Laing and Radical Psychotherapy

By: Andrew Feldmar

Tamas Vekerdy, one of the most well-known Hungarian psychologists, called Credo an 'essential insight not just into Feldmar's life but into the world and the era that we currently live in.' Feldmar was three and a half years old when the Arrow Cross came and took his mother to Auschwitz, his father to labour service, and his grandmother to the ghetto. A young Catholic woman hid him for a year and a half - perhaps she inspired Feldmar to become the kind stranger in many other people's lives years later. Feldmar was sixteen in 1956 when the revolution was crushed, and he escaped from Hungary to Canada all by himself. He fled from bleak prospects and a controlling, critical mother into the unknown. He ended up in Toronto, Canada, and became an academic. In the early 1970s, he met the person who radically changed his thinking: R. D. Laing. The book's longest chapter, 'Journal Entries', comes from notes Feldmar took in 1974-1975 when he studied with Laing in London. He adds notes and remarks in the present to the past, increasing the tension in the already fascinating passages. Following this is the text of an important conversation with Laing, covering topics such as love, therapy, and change. Next is a paper by his lifelong friend Francis Huxley, 'Shamanism, Healing, and R. D. Laing'. The book concludes with perhaps its most influential chapter, 'Fantasy and Reality'. Here, Feldmar speculates on the fundamental elements of his approach to psychotherapy: the nature of responsibility and ethics, politics, freedom, individuality, community, solidarity, will, and relationships. The bond between Feldmar and Laing permeates every page of Credo. The reader can closely follow Feldmar's remarkable journey of how their relationship shaped his therapeutic approach and helped him develop into the radical and inspirational psychotherapist he is today. This book is essential reading for all psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and fans of R. D. Laing.

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180013245X

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Freedom and Criminal Responsibility in American Legal Thought

By: Thomas Andrew Green

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Freedom and Criminal Responsibility in American Legal Thought

By: Thomas Andrew Green

This book deals with the most fundamental problem in criminal law, the way in which free will and determinism relate to criminal responsibility.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521854601

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Injustice and Prophecy in the Age of Mass Incarceration

The Politics of Sanity

By: Andrew Skotnicki

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Injustice and Prophecy in the Age of Mass Incarceration

The Politics of Sanity

By: Andrew Skotnicki

Why do the UK and US disproportionately incarcerate the mentally ill? Via multiple re-framings of the question—theological, socioeconomic, and psychological— Andrew Skotnicki diagnoses a persecution of the prophetic at the heart of the contemporary penal system and society more broadly.

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Policy Press

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1529222214

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Man in the Middle

The Reform & Influence of Henry Benjamin Whipple, the First Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota

By: Andrew Scott Brake

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Man in the Middle

The Reform & Influence of Henry Benjamin Whipple, the First Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota

By: Andrew Scott Brake

Man in the Middle reopens the history of Henry Benjamin Whipple, the First Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota, using his sermons, his letters, and Dakota and Chippewa letters. The book explores his role as a crusader for the survival and salvation of the Dakota and Chippewa peoples of Minnesota and brings to light an obscure figure in American history that deserves a reintroduction to the story of American religious and Indian history.

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University Press of America

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0761832769

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9780761832768

Schizophrenia

A Biopsychological Perspective

By: Andrew Crider

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Schizophrenia

A Biopsychological Perspective

By: Andrew Crider

Originally published in 1979, this introductory text approaches schizophrenia as a complex biopsychological condition. Drawing from the fields of descriptive psychiatry, psychopathology, neurochemistry, genetics, life history research, and institutional practice, the author details our increasing understanding of the nature and etiology of schizophrenia at the time. He organizes and evaluates current concepts and findings from these areas, with a view towards integration. This volume was intended to serve as an introduction for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in psychology, as well as for students in psychiatry, psychiatric nursing, and clinical social work. The author assumes that a comprehensive understanding of schizophrenia requires a synthesis of findings from diverse fields and emphasizes the compatibility of, and points of contact between, clinical psychological, and biological approaches. Here is a text that introduces the reader to this challenging subject and to contributions from a variety of allied disciplines. Today it can be read in its historical context.

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Routledge

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100008972X

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In-patient Mental Health Care from the Asylum System to the Present Day

A Lived Experience of Policy and Practice

By: Andrew Colley

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In-patient Mental Health Care from the Asylum System to the Present Day

A Lived Experience of Policy and Practice

By: Andrew Colley

With a focus on the progression and dismantlement of the Asylum system, this book examines key issues around the policy and practice of in-patient mental health provision in the UK, making comparisons with similar services in other parts of the world. Part narrative history and critical analysis, part autoethnography, this unique volume critiques the ethics of early policy decisions which led to the closure of the old Victorian asylums and the advent of care in the community, identifying continuing issues of institutionalisation, containment, and segregation. Drawing parallels with the continuing dilemmas of ‘inclusion’ in other areas of public policy and provision, chapters discuss controversial issues such as the response to the Covid pandemic, the influence of ‘anti-psychiatry’, and the continuing use of electro convulsive therapy. Ultimately, the book makes a vital theoretical and practical contribution to the continuing debate around in-patient mental health care in the 21st century. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers and policy makers in the fields of healthcare policy and history of mental health provision more broadly. Psychiatrists interested in the history of the asylum system in the UK, as well as present day mental health professionals will also find the book of use.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040013163

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Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen

The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era

By: Andrew Scull

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Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen

The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era

By: Andrew Scull

The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contributors' essays offer a historical analysis of the issues that continue to plague the psychiatric profession today. Topics covered include the debate over the effectiveness of institutional or community treatment, the boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility, the implementation of commitment laws, and the differences in defining and treating mental illness based on the gender of the patient.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812211197

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9780812211191

Justice and the Environment

Conceptions of Environmental Sustainability and Theories of Distributive Justice

By: Andrew Dobson

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Justice and the Environment

Conceptions of Environmental Sustainability and Theories of Distributive Justice

By: Andrew Dobson

Environmental sustainability and social, or distributive, justice are both widely regarded as desirable social objectives. But can we assume that they are compatible with each other? In this path-breaking study, Professor Dobson, a leading expert on environmental politics, analyses the complex relationship between these two pressing objectives. Environmental sustainability is taken to be a contested idea, and three distinct conceptions of it are described and explored. These conceptions are then examined in the context of fundamental distributive questions such as: Among whom or what should distribution take place? What should be distributed? What should the principle of distribution be? The author critically examines the claims of the `environmental justice' and `sustainable development' movements that social justice and environmental sustainability are points on the same virtuous circle, and concludes that radical environmental demands are only incompletely served by couching them in terms of justice.

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Clarendon Press

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019152235X

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9780191522352

Counselling Suicidal Clients

By: Andrew Reeves

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Counselling Suicidal Clients

By: Andrew Reeves

I have worked in psychiatry as well as in private practice with suicidal people. I found it poignant and true when Reeves points out that people do not have to be mad to be suicidal and ′...that assessing suicide potential fundamentally lies in engaging with the suicidal client at a deeper relational level′. So true. This thoroughly researched book is written with passion and compassion. It will be a valuable addition to the libraries of therapists and anyone else who works with suicidal people." - Therapy Today, July 2010 "A uniquely accessible, comprehensive and practical guide. Essential reading for counsellors and psychotherapists and all helping professionals who work with clients at risk of suicide." - Mick Cooper, Professor of Counselling, University of Strathclyde "A ′must read′ for counsellors of all experience levels, offering sound practical strategies alongside thought-provoking case studies and discussion points. Reeves addresses this difficult topic with depth, breadth and integrity. Excellent." - Denise Meyer, developer and lead author of www.studentdepression.org "Andrew Reeves brings together his experience as a social worker, counsellor and academic to explore the essential elements in working with suicidal clients. His openness and integrity in writing about this complex topic creates a valuable resource for reflective practice." - Barbara Mitchels, Solicitor and Director of Watershed Counselling Service, Devon. Counselling Suicidal Clients addresses the important professional considerations when working with clients who are suicidal. The ′bigger picture′, including legal and ethical considerations and organisational policy and procedures is explored, as is to how practitioners can work with the dynamics of suicide potential in the therapeutic process. The book is divided into six main parts: - The changing context of suicide - The prediction-prevention model, policy and ethics - The influence of the organisation - The client process - The practitioner process - The practice of counselling with suicidal clients. The book also includes chapters on the discourse of suicide, suicide and self-injury, and self-care for the counsellor. It is written for counsellors and psychotherapists, and for any professional who uses counselling skills when supporting suicidal people.

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SAGE

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1446241947

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Psychology and Life

By: Richard J Gerrig,Philip G Zimbardo,Andrew J Campbell,Steven R Cumming,Fiona J Wilkes

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Psychology and Life

By: Richard J Gerrig,Philip G Zimbardo,Andrew J Campbell,Steven R Cumming,Fiona J Wilkes

Bringing the science of psychology to life! The 2nd Australasian edition of Psychology and Life emphasises the science of psychology, with a special focus on applying that science to students’ everyday lives. As a result, the features of Psychology and Life support a central theme: psychology as a science, with a focus on applying that science to real life experiences. Australasian research, examples and statistics help make the theory even more relevant for today’s students. Psychology and Life 2e provides a rigorous, research-centred survey of the discipline while offering students special features and learning aids that will make the science of psychology relevant, spark their interest and excite their imaginations.

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Pearson Higher Education AU

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1442551909

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9781442551909

Standards Ethics for Counselling in Action

By: Andrew Reeves,Tim Bond

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Standards Ethics for Counselling in Action

By: Andrew Reeves,Tim Bond

This is your essential guide to standards and ethics in the psychological therapies. The book introduces you to key ethical values and principles and discusses how to practice in accordance with these. An accompanying online resource website provides you with over 30 videos showing commonly arising ethical dilemmas, further reading including book chapters and journal articles, and links to ethical codes and frameworks in the UK and internationally.

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SAGE

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1526472082

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9781526472083

Issues in Pharmacy Practice Management

By: Andrew L. Wilson

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Issues in Pharmacy Practice Management

By: Andrew L. Wilson

Issues in Pharmacy Practice Management is a compilation of the best of Aspen's popular journal, Pharmacy Practice Management Quarterly. This collection of more than 30 articles by leading experts is separated into 10 distinct sections to facilitate learning and correspond with course in pharmacy practice management. The topics addressed are ideal for focusing discussions on the most pressing issues in the field

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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083420908X

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Selling Serenity

Life Among the Recovery Stars

By: Andrew Meacham

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Selling Serenity

Life Among the Recovery Stars

By: Andrew Meacham

With the phenomenal growth of Alcoholics Anonymous & the vast number of other 12-Step programs that have evolved from it, the "recovery movement" has attained epic status. People are "recovering" from everything from overeating to sexual addictions - most of them engaging in the 12-steps in order to heal. Those experts that have attained a degree of fame, the "Recovery Stars," get thousands of dollars for speaking about their own "recovery" experiences. The recovery movement has become a billion dollar industry & a major facet of our current culture. Recovery is a subculture of shared values, the highest & noblest of which is "serenity." Recovery is not only proposed as a means of conquering an addition, but also a way of saving your life & achieving a higher level of being. In this detailed, well-researched book, however, author Andrew Meacham questions the processes that the 12-Step programs & in fact, the entire recovery movement employ. Why does the medical profession qualify all these addictions as "diseases," & why is the insurance industry so quick to pay for treatment? Meacham attempts to answer these questions & many more that the recovery movement raises. He attempts to define addiction & disease, & cites various studies used to support recovery idealogy, pointing out the misapplication of their results that often leads to over generalization & false claims. He discusses the paradox between the "written word" of individuality within the recovery movement & the unwritten universal stories that recovery gurus use to take away the individual's power.

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Sirs

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0897777085

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9780897777087

From Chocolate to Morphine

Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs

By: Andrew Weil,Winifred Rosen

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From Chocolate to Morphine

Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs

By: Andrew Weil,Winifred Rosen

More than four million copies sold: the definitive guide to drugs and drug use from “America’s best known doctor” (The New York Times). Cowritten by one of America’s most respected doctors, From Chocolate to Morphine is the authoritative resource covering a wide range of available substances, from coffee to marijuana, antihistamines to psychedelics, steroids to smart drugs, and beyond. Dr. Andrew T. Weil provides the best and most unbiased information available, frankly discussing each drug’s likely effects, precautions for use, and suggested alternatives. Expanded and updated to include such drugs as Oxycontin, Ecstasy, Prozac, and Ephedra, this edition also addresses numerous issues from the growing methamphetamine and opioid epidemics to the push to legalize medical marijuana, and the overuse of drugs for children diagnosed with ADHD. Offering facts rather than advocacy, Weil’s trusted bestseller has become “a classic guide to psychotropic drugs” (U.S. News and World Report).

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HMH

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0547525664

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9780547525662

Clinical Psychology

Science, Practice, and Culture

By: Andrew M. Pomerantz

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Clinical Psychology

Science, Practice, and Culture

By: Andrew M. Pomerantz

â€œA very readable account; a clearly accessible introduction to the field and to critical issues within it. The particular advantage is that this text is addressed to undergraduates making career choices and provides an informed discussion of key issues.â€ -Kate Briggs, University of West Georgia â€œThe book is well written, easy to understand, and covers all of the necessary topics to gain an appreciation for the field of clinical psychology.â€ -David Topor, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Â â€œThe most impressive aspect of this material is the comprehensive nature of the text. The breadth, clarity, and usefulness of the coverage is first rate.â€ -Alan Whitlock, University of Idaho â€œThis is very balanced in presentation-perhaps the least biased text for clinical psych Iâ€™ve seenâ€ Â Â -Elizabeth E. Seebach, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota "Very user-friendly- more interactive (in terms of thinking questions, ect.) than other similar texts." -Jessica Yokley, University of Pittsburgh This undergraduate core text presents a balanced overview of clinical perspectives with an emphasis on multicultural issues. Academically rigorous but accessible, it covers psychotherapy clinical assessment, ethical and professional issues, and specialized topics such as forensic and health psychology. KEY FEATURES • Includes a full chapter on cultural issues in the introductory section of the book. â€¢ Offers a full chapter on ethical issues in the introductory section of the book. â€¢ Presents a full chapter in which current and controversial topics are discussed from both sides of the debate. â€¢ Integrates discussion of ethical and professional issues throughout the book. â€¢ Incorporates useful pedagogical tools that serve to connect unfamiliar clinical psychology concepts to the everyday life of students. These include a â€œConsidering Cultureâ€ box in each chapter following the chapter on culture, â€œDenise inPsychotherapyâ€ boxes that illustrate how a client would be treated according to various approaches, at least one â€œMetaphorically Speakingâ€ box in most chapters that use metaphors to teach students about new concepts, and end-of-chapter critical thinking questions. AUTHOR-CREATED ANCILLARIES â€¢ An Instructorâ€™s Resource CD-ROM provides PowerPoint slides, a computerized test bank, suggested class activities, sample syllabi, Web and video resources for each chapter of the text. â€¢ A Student Study Site at www.sagepub.com/pomerantzcpstudyÂ offers self-quizzes, e-flashcards, sample case studies, Internet exercises and suggested Web resources, and SAGE journal articles with discussion questions. INTENDED AUDIENCE This balanced text gives upper-level undergraduate or first-year graduate students of Clinical Psychology an extensive review of different clinical approaches as well as a greater level of cultural understanding.

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1412937523

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9781412937528

Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society

By: Paul A. B. Clarke,Andrew Linzey

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Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society

By: Paul A. B. Clarke,Andrew Linzey

This Dictionary provides a unique and groundbreaking survey of both the historical and contemporary interrelations between ethics, theology and society. In over 250 separately-authored entries, a selection of the world's leading scholars from many disciplines and many denominations present their own views on a wide range of topics. Arranged alphabetically, entries cover all aspects of philosophy, theology, ethics, economics, politics and government. Each entry includes: * a concise definition of the term * a description of the principal ideas behind it * analysis of its history, development and contemporary relevance * a detailed bibliography giving the major sources in the field The entire field is prefaced by an editorial introduction outlining its scope and diversity. Selected entries include: Animal Rights * Capital Punishment * Communism * Domestic Violence * Ethics * Evil * Government * Homophobia * Humanism * Liberation Theology * Politics * Pornography * Racism * Sexism * Society * Vivisection * Women's Ordination

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1136120920

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Deconstructing Special Education

By: Thomas, Gary,Loxley, Andrew

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Deconstructing Special Education

By: Thomas, Gary,Loxley, Andrew

In the second edition of this text, the authors critically examine the intellectual foundations of special education and consider the consequences on their influence for professional and popular thinking about learning difficulties.

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0335223710

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And I Quote, Revised Edition

The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker

By: Ashton Applewhite,Tripp Evans,Andrew Frothingham

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And I Quote, Revised Edition

The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker

By: Ashton Applewhite,Tripp Evans,Andrew Frothingham

The popular guide to quotable quotes returns in a totally revised and updatededition including all-new material.

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Macmillan

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0312307446

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Far From the Tree

Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

By: Andrew Solomon

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Far From the Tree

Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

By: Andrew Solomon

The National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon explores the consequences of extreme personal differences between parents and children, describing his own experiences as a gay child of straight parents while evaluating the circumstances of people affected by physical, developmental or cultural factors that divide families. 150,000 first printing.

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Simon and Schuster

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Facts, Fallacies and Frauds in Psychology

By: Andrew M. Colman

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Facts, Fallacies and Frauds in Psychology

By: Andrew M. Colman

Are the effects of hypnosis real or imagined? Is intelligence determined by nature or nurture? Will ordinary people perform acts of cruelty if ordered to do so by authority figures? Are anorexia and bulimia nervosa forms of depression? Why do some groups outscore others on IQ tests? Is there any real evidence of ESP? These are some of the questions that continued to generate fierce arguments among psychologists and excite considerable general interest in the 1980s and beyond. But where does the truth lie? Originally published in 1987, Facts, Fallacies and Frauds in Psychology looks closely at these six popular and controversial issues. In each case the central ideas are explained and research findings presented in such a way that readers can begin their own voyage of scientific discovery, develop a clearer, deeper understanding – and find out how psychologists really think. Reputations are assessed: fraud is unflinchingly exposed. This entertaining and provocative book will still fascinate the general reader and provide an excellent introduction for students of psychology. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1987. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040025587

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The Divine Daughter

A Naming Ceremony

By: Andrew Gilchrist

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The Divine Daughter

A Naming Ceremony

By: Andrew Gilchrist

Ever feel swept up in a sea of novelty? When did the new become more important than the true? Andrew Gilchrist found a remedy to today's nausea of novelty in the most familiar elements of narrative and music. He has composed a new arrangement from the ideas of Marshall McLuhan, Northrop Frye, Bernard Lonergan, and Jordan Peterson, weaving together a promising relationship between what we believe and how we live. This book starts a conversation at the crossroads of art, literature, religion, and psychology. And it begins with the oldest of stories. A boy fell in love with a girl and sung her a song. Each chapter in this book charts a series of helpful symbols and sounds, drawing attention to the melodies, rhythms and tempos that make up our most common experiences. The scientific revolution gave birth to a new understanding of the relationship between observer and observed, lover and beloved. That birth has changed the song. However, we have not welcomed this new daughter into the family with a proper name or fully recognized her part in our spiritual development. With her wisdom, we too might find hope and delight in the back and forth journey between tradition and innovation. Could her compelling voice and playful character help us prepare for the greatest roles of our lives?

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FriesenPress

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1525539078

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Ritual

By: Andrew Strathern

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Ritual

By: Andrew Strathern

This volume consists of a number of carefully-selected readings that represent a wide range of discussions and theorizing about ritual. The selection encompasses definitional questions, issues of interpretation, meaning, and function, and a roster of ethnographic and analytical topics, covering classic themes such as ancestor worship and sacrifice, initiation, gender, healing, social change, and shamanic practices, as well as recent critical and reconstructive theorizing on embodiment, performance, and performativity. In their Introduction to the volume, the Editors provide an overall survey and critical consideration of topics, incorporating insights from their own long-term field research and reflections on the readings included. The Introduction and readings together provide a unique research tool for those interested in pursuing the study of ritual processes in depth, with the benefit of both historical and contemporary approaches.

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Routledge

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1351903012

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Social Order/Mental Disorder

Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective

By: Andrew Scull

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Social Order/Mental Disorder

Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective

By: Andrew Scull

Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for his previous work in this area, examines a range of issues, including the changing social meanings of madness, the emergence and consolidation of the psychiatric profession, the often troubled relationship between psychiatry and the law, the linkages between sex and madness, and the constitution, character, and collapse of the asylum as our standard response to the problems posed by mental disorder. This book is emphatically not part of the venerable tradition of hagiography that has celebrated psychiatric history as a long struggle in which the steady application of rational-scientific principles has produced irregular but unmistakable evidence of progress toward humane treatments for the mentally ill. In fact, Scull contends that traditional mental hospitals, for much of their existence, resembled cemeteries for the still breathing, medical hubris having at times served to license dangerous, mutilating, even life-threatening experiments on the dead souls confined therein. He argues that only the sociologically blind would deny that psychiatrists are deeply involved in the definition and identification of what constitutes madness in our world – hence, claims that mental illness is a purely naturalistic category, somehow devoid of contamination by the social, are taken to be patently absurd. Scull points out, however, that the commitment to examine psychiatry and its ministrations with a critical eye by no means entails the romantic idea that the problems it deals with are purely the invention of the professional mind, or the Manichean notion that all psychiatric interventions are malevolent and ill-conceived. It is the task of unromantic criticism that is attempted in this book.

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0429850360

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A History of Science in Society

From Philosophy to Utility, Second Edition

By: Lesley Cormack,Andrew Ede

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A History of Science in Society

From Philosophy to Utility, Second Edition

By: Lesley Cormack,Andrew Ede

A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Andrew Ede and Lesley B. Cormack trace the history of science through its continually changing place in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful. In this edition, the authors examine the robust intellectual exchange between East and West and provide new discussions of two women in science: Maria Merian and Maria Winkelmann. A chapter on the relationship between science and war has been added as well as a section on climate change. The further readings section has been updated to reflect recent contributions to the field. Other new features include timelines at the end of each chapter, 70 upgraded illustrations, and new maps of Renaissance Europe, Captain James Cook's voyages, the 2nd voyage of the Beagle, and the main war front during World War I.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442604484

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Regarding Nature

Industrialism and Deep Ecology

By: Andrew McLaughlin

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Regarding Nature

Industrialism and Deep Ecology

By: Andrew McLaughlin

McLaughlin (philosophy, City U. of New York) argues that industrialism is the cause of our current environmental crisis, and that the solution requires a fundamental change in how we understand nature and humanity. He reviews the capitalist, socialist, industrial, and scientific views of nature, the ideology of control, anthropocentrism, and other topics. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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0791413837

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