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Algeria, 1830-2000

A Short History

By: Benjamin Stora

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A particularly vicious and bloody civil war has racked Algeria for a decade. Amnesty International notes that since 1992, in a population of 28 million, 80,000 people have been reported killed, and the actual total is almost certainly higher. This terrible war overshadows Algeria's long and complex history and its prominence on the world economic stage--second in size among African nations, Algeria has the longest Mediterranean coastline and contains the world's fifth-largest natural gas reserves. Algeria, 1830-2000 is a comprehensive narrative history of the country. Benjamin Stora, widely recognized as the leading expert on Algeria, presents the story of this turbulent area from the start of formal French colonialism in the early nineteenth century, through the prolonged war for independence in the latter 1950s, to the internal strife of the present day. This book adapts and updates three short volumes published originally in French by La Découverte. For this English edition, Stora has written a new introductory chapter on Algeria's colonial period (1830-1954) and has revised the final section to bring the volume up to date.

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Cornell University Press

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0801437156

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9780801437151

The Psychosomatic Therapy Casebook

Stories from the Intersection of Mind and Body

By: Jean Benjamin Stora

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The Psychosomatic Therapy Casebook

Stories from the Intersection of Mind and Body

By: Jean Benjamin Stora

Jean Benjamin Stora has worked as a psychoanalyst and psychosomatist for almost five decades. The aim of integrative psychosomatics is to heal the body and mind in relationship to one another rather than treating the body as a machine with parts to be fixed. Thus, Stora explores a patient's current and past life history in relation to physical illness and offers therapeutic support alongside medical treatments. To better understand this revolutionary approach, Stora presents fifteen case studies from the past twenty years. We read of George suffering from hyperlipidemia; Giles, a diabetic facing amputation; Elvira, an alcoholic; Dorothy, who complains the doctors treat body parts but not her; Beatrice facing a reappearance of breast cancer; and ten further patients. This complex process takes into account the fundamental role of the central nervous system in the relationship of mind and body. Thus, neuroscience is a key component of this holistic approach, as well as the new discipline of neuropsychoanalysis. This is most clearly shown in the case of Emma, suffering after brain surgery. The Psychosomatic Therapy Casebook is an excellent introduction to integrative psychosomatics. The stories presented in the first four chapters can be read by anyone with an interest in the subject. The fifth and final chapter is aimed at psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and doctors looking to gain a greater understanding of the practice. It contains a comprehensive review of the technical points involved and clearly shows the difference between psychoanalytic technique and the technique of psychosomatic therapy. This is an important book in learning to treat the person as a whole rather than split into mind and body.

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Phoenix Publishing House

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1800131801

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Algeria, 1830-2000

A Short History

By: Benjamin Stora

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Algeria, 1830-2000

A Short History

By: Benjamin Stora

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0801489164

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When the Body Displaces the Mind

Stress, Trauma and Somatic Disease

By: Jean Benjamin Stora

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When the Body Displaces the Mind

Stress, Trauma and Somatic Disease

By: Jean Benjamin Stora

Can the mind really generate a physical disease? Conversely, can the body cause mental illness? What do we know today about their interaction? The relations between body and mind are the source of many problems that are currently treated separately by psychoanalysts and doctors because of the compartmentalisation between their disciplines. Despite differences in clinical practice, we all stand to benefit from a common understanding of the reciprocal influences of the mind and the body and the ways in which these are interrelated. It is time to stop treating the body in isolation from treatment of the mind and to understand that where the psychic apparatus fails in its key task of managing the excitations generated by the tensions and frustrations of everyday life, it is the body that takes over. With a wealth of clinical examples, the author proposes an innovative theoretical and clinical approach that seeks to break down the barriers between biology and psychoanalysis; he also demonstrates its benefits for the health and recovery of patients and its implications for disease prevention.

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Routledge

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0429923929

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9780429923920

A Desert Named Peace

The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902

By: Benjamin Claude Brower

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A Desert Named Peace

The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902

By: Benjamin Claude Brower

In the mid-nineteenth century, French colonial leaders in Algeria started southward into the Sahara, beginning a fifty-year period of violence. Lying in the shadow of the colonization of northern Algeria, which claimed the lives of over a million people, French empire in the Sahara sought power through physical force as it had elsewhere; yet violence in the Algerian Sahara followed a more complicated logic than the old argument that it was simply a way to get empire on the cheap. A Desert Named Peace examines colonial violence through multiple stories and across several fields of research. It presents four cases: the military conquests of the French army in the oases and officers' predisposition to use extreme violence in colonial conflicts; a spontaneous nighttime attack made by Algerian pastoralists on a French village, as notable for its brutality as for its obscure causes; the violence of indigenous forms of slavery and the colonial accommodations that preserved it during the era of abolition; and the struggles of French Romantics whose debates about art and politics arrived from Paris with disastrous consequences. Benjamin Claude Brower uses these different perspectives to reveal the unexpected causes of colonial violence, such as France's troubled revolutionary past and its influence on the military's institutional culture, the aesthetics of the sublime and its impact on colonial thinking, the ecological crises suffered by Saharan pastoralists under colonial rule, and the conflicting paths to authority inherent in Algerian Sufism. Directly engaging a controversial history, A Desert Named Peace offers an important backdrop to understanding the Algerian war for independence (1954-1962) and Algeria's ongoing internal war, begun in 1992, between the government and armed groups that claim to fight for an Islamist revolution.

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Columbia University Press

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0231154933

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9780231154932

Global Environmental Forest Policies

An International Comparison

By: Constance McDermott,Benjamin Cashore,Peter Kanowski

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Global Environmental Forest Policies

An International Comparison

By: Constance McDermott,Benjamin Cashore,Peter Kanowski

Market globalization and the globalization of environmental concerns have spurred demand for greater international accountability for forest stewardship. In response, a range of multi-lateral governmental and non-governmental initiatives have emerged to redefine the rules of global trade, and demand verification of the legality and/or sustainability of forest products originating from within and outside national boundaries. At the same time there is a lack of transparency and shared understanding about the environmental forest policies that already exist within the world's leading forest producing and consuming countries. The result is that many stakeholders have developed perceptions about a country's regulatory environment that are not consistent with what is actually taking place. This book provides a uniquely detailed and systematic comparison of environmental forest policies and enforcement in twenty countries worldwide, covering developed, transition and developing economies. The goal is to enhance global policy learning and promote well-informed and precisely tuned policy solutions.

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Routledge

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1136542647

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Orientalist Aesthetics

Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930

By: Roger Benjamin

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Orientalist Aesthetics

Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930

By: Roger Benjamin

Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, introduces many unfamiliar paintings, posters, miniatures, and panoramas and discovers an art movement closely bound to French colonial expansion. Orientalist Aesthetics approaches the visual culture of exoticism by ranging across the decorative arts, colonial museums, traveling scholarships, and art criticism in the Salons of Paris and Algiers. Benjamin's rediscovery of the important Society of French Orientalist Painters provides a critical context for understanding a lush body of work, including that of indigenous Algerian artists never before discussed in English. The painter-critic Eugène Fromentin tackled the unfamiliar atmospheric conditions of the desert, Etienne Dinet sought a more truthful mode of ethnographic painting by converting to Islam, and Mohammed Racim melded the Persian miniature with Western perspective. Benjamin considers armchair Orientalists concocting dreams from studio bric-à-brac, naturalists who spent years living in the oases of the Sahara, and Fauve and Cubist travelers who transposed the discoveries of the Parisian Salons to create decors of indigenous figures and tropical plants. The network that linked these artists with writers and museum curators was influenced by a complex web of tourism, rapid travel across the Mediterranean, and the march of modernity into a colonized culture. Orientalist Aesthetics shows how colonial policy affected aesthetics, how Europeans visualized cultural difference, and how indigenous artists in turn manipulated Western visual languages.

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Univ of California Press

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0520924401

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9780520924406

Chicken Little Saves the Moon Base

A Graphic Novel

By: Benjamin Harper

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Chicken Little Saves the Moon Base

A Graphic Novel

By: Benjamin Harper

In this graphic novel adaptation of the classic fable, Chicken Little notices a small dip in oxygen levels at the moon base and fears that may mean big trouble, but will her friends believe her? Includes information about the original story, visual questions, and glossary.

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Far Out Fables

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1515883264

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Governing Through Markets

Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-state Authority

By: Benjamin William Cashore,Graeme Auld,Deanna Newsom

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Governing Through Markets

Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-state Authority

By: Benjamin William Cashore,Graeme Auld,Deanna Newsom

In this important book, Lawrence Sager, a leading constitutional theorist, offers a lucid understanding and compelling defence of American constitutional practice. Sager treats judges as active partners in the enterprise of securing the fundamentals of political justice, and sees the process of constitutional adjudication as a promising and distinctly democratic addition to that enterprise. But his embrace of the constitutional judiciary is not unqualified. Judges in Sager's view should and do stop short of enforcing the whole of the Constitution; and the Supreme Court should welcome rather than condemn the efforts of Congress to pick up the slack. Among the surprising fruit of this justice-seeking account of American constitutional practice are a persuasive case for the constitutional right to secure a materially decent life and sympathy for the obduracy of the Constitution to amendment. No book can end debate in this conceptually tumultuous area; but Justice in Plainclothes is likely to help shape the ongoing debate for years to come.

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Yale University Press

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0300133111

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9780300133110

The Jews of the Soviet Union

The History of a National Minority

By: Benjamin Pinkus

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The Jews of the Soviet Union

The History of a National Minority

By: Benjamin Pinkus

This is a comprehensive and topical history of the Jews in the Soviet Union and is based on firsthand documentary evidence and the application of a pioneering research method into the fate of national minorities. Within a four-part chronological framework, Professor Pinkus examines not only the legal-political status of the Jews, and their reciprocal relationship with the Soviet majority, but also the impact of internal economic, demographic and social processes upon the religious, educational and cultural life of Soviet Jewry. A second layer of analysis describes in depth the complex linkages between the Jews of the Soviet Union, the Jews in other diasporas and the state of Israel itself. The Jews of the Soviet Union marks a major contribution to the historiography and social analysis of its subject and provides a worthy companion to Professor Pinkus's acclaimed documentary study The Soviet Union and the Jews 1948-1967.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521389267

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Travelling Objects: Changing Values

The role of northern Alpine lake-dwelling communities in exchange and communication networks during the Late Bronze Age

By: Benjamin Jennings

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Travelling Objects: Changing Values

The role of northern Alpine lake-dwelling communities in exchange and communication networks during the Late Bronze Age

By: Benjamin Jennings

Since their initial discovery in the nineteenth century, the enigmatic prehistoric lake-dwellings of the Circum-Alpine region have captured the imagination of the public and archaeologists alike.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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190573994X

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Dog Days

By: Cyprien Mathieu,Rémy Benjamin,Olivier Perret

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Dog Days

By: Cyprien Mathieu,Rémy Benjamin,Olivier Perret

Summer vacation is going to be anything but relaxing for François and his sons...

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Humanoids, Inc.

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1643378031

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The Moving Tablet of the Eye

The Origins of Modern Eye Movement Research

By: Nicholas Wade,Benjamin Tatler

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The Moving Tablet of the Eye

The Origins of Modern Eye Movement Research

By: Nicholas Wade,Benjamin Tatler

Tracing the history of eye movement research, this work shows how great strides were made in this area before modern recording devices were available, especially in the measurement of nystagmus.

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Oxford University Press

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0198566174

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A New Body-Mind Approach

Clinical Cases

By: Jean Benjamin Stora

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A New Body-Mind Approach

Clinical Cases

By: Jean Benjamin Stora

Integrative psychosomatics is a new approach to explaining illnesses and how patients relate to their problems. This new discipline draws on psychoanalysis, medicine and the neurosciences, rather than solely on psychoanalysis, which has inspired all the psychosomatic approaches until now. Amongst the fascinating and compelling questions that this book raises are: how can we understand an illness if we only analyse the psyche? How can we understand patients if we only take account of their biological data? Are hypochondriac problems generated by the mind, as some doctors believe, or are the problems in fact more complex? The author also considers whether traditional psychoanalysis and medicine might actually distance practitioners from an understanding of patients and illnesses. For integrative psychosomatics, the psyche or the mind can play either a greater or lesser role in illness: advances in research in the neurosciences and biology over the last twenty years have uncovered many biological and genetic processes involved in the relations between the central nervous system and the other systems that constitute the human psychosomatic entity.

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Algeria, 1830-2000

Algeria, 1830-2000

The Psychosomatic Therapy Casebook

The Psychosomatic Therapy Casebook

Algeria, 1830-2000

Algeria, 1830-2000

When the Body Displaces the Mind

When the Body Displaces the Mind

A Desert Named Peace

A Desert Named Peace

Global Environmental Forest Policies

Global Environmental Forest Policies

Orientalist Aesthetics

Orientalist Aesthetics

Chicken Little Saves the Moon Base

Chicken Little Saves the Moon Base

Governing Through Markets

Governing Through Markets

The Jews of the Soviet Union

The Jews of the Soviet Union

Travelling Objects: Changing Values

Travelling Objects: Changing Values

Dog Days

Dog Days

The Moving Tablet of the Eye

The Moving Tablet of the Eye

A New Body-Mind Approach

A New Body-Mind Approach

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