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Book Discovering the History of Psychiatry

Download or read book Discovering the History of Psychiatry written by Mark S. Micale and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together leading international authorities - physicians, historians, social scientists, and others - who explore the many complex interpretive and ideological dimensions of historical writing about psychiatry. The book includes chapters on the history of the asylum, Freud, anti-psychiatry in the United States and abroad, feminist interpretations of psychiatry's past, and historical accounts of Nazism and psychotherapy, as well as discussions of many individual historical figures and movements. It represents the first attempt to study comprehensively the multiple mythologies that have grown up around the history of madness and the origin, functions, and validity of these myths in our psychological century.

Book Shakespeare and Interpretation  or What You Will

Download or read book Shakespeare and Interpretation or What You Will written by Brayton Polka and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brayton Polka takes both a textual and theoretical approach to seven plays of Shakespeare: Macbeth, Othello, Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet. He calls upon the Bible and the ideas of major European thinkers, above all, Kierkegaard and Spinoza, to argue that the concept of interpretation that underlies both Shakespeare’s plays and our own lives as moderns is the golden rule of the Bible: the command to love your neighbor as yourself. What you will (the alternative title of Twelfth Night ) thus captures the idea that interpretation is the very act by which we constitute our lives. For it is only in willing what others will—in loving relationships—that we enact a concept of interpretation that is adequate to our lives. Polka argues that it is the aim of Shakespeare, when representing the ancient world in plays like Julius Caesar and Troilus and Cressida, and also in his long narrative poem “The Rape of Lucrece,” to dramatize the fundamental differences between ancient (pagan) values and modern (biblical) values or between what he articulates as contradiction and paradox. The ancients are fatally destroyed by the contradictions of their lives of which they remain ignorant. In contrast, we moderns in the biblical tradition, like those who figure in Shakespeare’s other works, are responsible for addressing and overcoming the contradictions of our lives through living the interpretive paradox of “what you will,” of treating all human beings as our neighbor. Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies, notwithstanding their dramatically different form, share this interpretive framework of paradox. As the author shows in his book, texts without interpretation are blind and interpretation without texts is empty. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Book Stiff  The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Download or read book Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers written by Mary Roach and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-04-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.

Book To Sell Is Human

Download or read book To Sell Is Human written by Daniel H. Pink and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look out for Daniel Pink’s new book, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing #1 New York Times Business Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller #1 Washington Post bestseller From the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind, and teacher of the popular MasterClass on Sales and Persuasion, comes a surprising--and surprisingly useful--new book that explores the power of selling in our lives. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than fifteen million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase. But dig deeper and a startling truth emerges: Yes, one in nine Americans works in sales. But so do the other eight. Whether we’re employees pitching colleagues on a new idea, entrepreneurs enticing funders to invest, or parents and teachers cajoling children to study, we spend our days trying to move others. Like it or not, we’re all in sales now. To Sell Is Human offers a fresh look at the art and science of selling. As he did in Drive and A Whole New Mind, Daniel H. Pink draws on a rich trove of social science for his counterintuitive insights. He reveals the new ABCs of moving others (it's no longer "Always Be Closing"), explains why extraverts don't make the best salespeople, and shows how giving people an "off-ramp" for their actions can matter more than actually changing their minds. Along the way, Pink describes the six successors to the elevator pitch, the three rules for understanding another's perspective, the five frames that can make your message clearer and more persuasive, and much more. The result is a perceptive and practical book--one that will change how you see the world and transform what you do at work, at school, and at home.

Book The Book of Humans  A Brief History of Culture  Sex  War  and the Evolution of Us

Download or read book The Book of Humans A Brief History of Culture Sex War and the Evolution of Us written by Adam Rutherford and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rutherford describes [The Book of Humans] as being about the paradox of how our evolutionary journey turned ‘an otherwise average ape’ into one capable of creating complex tools, art, music, science, and engineering. It’s an intriguing question, one his book sets against descriptions of the infinitely amusing strategies and antics of a dizzying array of animals.”—The New York Times Book Review Publisher’s Note: The Book of Humans was previously published in hardcover as Humanimal. In this new evolutionary history, geneticist Adam Rutherford explores the profound paradox of the human animal. Looking for answers across the animal kingdom, he finds that many things once considered exclusively human are not: We aren’t the only species that “speaks,” makes tools, or has sex outside of procreation. Seeing as our genome is 98 percent identical to a chimpanzee’s, our DNA doesn’t set us far apart, either. How, then, did we develop the most complex culture ever observed? The Book of Humans proves that we are animals indeed—and reveals how we truly are extraordinary.

Book Man s Measure

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laszlo Versenyi
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 1974-06-30
  • ISBN : 143842289X
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Man s Measure written by Laszlo Versenyi and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1974-06-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Putting Humans First

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  • Author : Tibor R. Machan
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780742533455
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Putting Humans First written by Tibor R. Machan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the notion that humans aren't any more important than, say, ants, and ethics and politics must be adjusted accordingly as not to rank human concerns as primary.

Book Handbook of Human Rights

Download or read book Handbook of Human Rights written by Thomas Cushman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook maps out the field of human rights for the humanities and social sciences. It provides a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also to promote new thinking and frameworks for the future study of human rights in the twenty-first century.

Book Arms and the Man

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 510 pages

Download or read book Arms and the Man written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Essays of Montaigne

Download or read book The Complete Essays of Montaigne written by Michel de Montaigne and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of the French essayist reflect his views of morality, society, and customs in the late sixteenth century

Book Christ and Humanity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry M. Goodwin
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-10-18
  • ISBN : 3385213592
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book Christ and Humanity written by Henry M. Goodwin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Book Metropolitan Pulpit and Homiletic Monthly

Download or read book Metropolitan Pulpit and Homiletic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Postclassicisms

    Book Details:
  • Author : The Postclassicisms Collective
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2019-12-27
  • ISBN : 022667245X
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Postclassicisms written by The Postclassicisms Collective and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made up of nine prominent scholars, The Postclassicisms Collective aims to map a space for theorizing and reflecting on the values attributed to antiquity. The product of these reflections, Postclassicisms takes up a set of questions about what it means to know and care about Greco-Roman antiquity in our turbulent world and offers suggestions for a discipline in transformation, as new communities are being built around the study of the ancient Greco-Roman world. Structured around three primary concepts—value, time, and responsibility—and nine additional concepts, Postclassicisms asks scholars to reflect upon why they choose to work in classics, to examine how proximity to and distance from antiquity has been—and continues to be—figured, and to consider what they seek to accomplish within their own scholarly practices. Together, the authors argue that a stronger critical self-awareness, an enhanced sense of the intellectual history of the methods of classics, and a greater understanding of the ethical and political implications of the decisions that the discipline makes will lead to a more engaged intellectual life, both for classicists and, ultimately, for society. A timely intervention into the present and future of the discipline, Postclassicisms will be required reading for professional classicists and students alike and a model for collaborative disciplinary intervention by scholars in other fields.

Book Morning light  afterw   The New Church weekly

Download or read book Morning light afterw The New Church weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book One Earth One Humanity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Osho
  • Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9788171827046
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book One Earth One Humanity written by Osho and published by Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.. This book was released on with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Book of Human Emotions

Download or read book The Book of Human Emotions written by Tiffany Watt Smith and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful, gleeful encyclopedia of emotions, both broad and outrageously specific, from throughout history and around the world. How do you feel today? Is your heart fluttering in anticipation? Your stomach tight with nerves? Are you falling in love? Feeling a bit miffed? Do you have the heebie-jeebies? Are you antsy with iktsuarpok or filled with nakhes? Recent research suggests there are only six basic emotions. But if that makes you feel uneasy, suspicious, and maybe even a little bereft, The Book of Human Emotions is for you. In this unique book, you'll get to travel across the world and through time, learning how different cultures have articulated the human experience and picking up some fascinating new knowledge about yourself along the way. From the familiar (anger) to the foreign (zal), each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Whether you're in search of the perfect word to sum up that cozy feeling you get from being inside on a cold winter's night, surrounded by friends and good food (what the Dutch call gezelligheid), or wondering how nostalgia evolved from a fatal illness to enjoyable self-indulgence, Tiffany Watt Smith draws on history, anthropology, science, art, literature, music, and popular culture to find the answers. In reading The Book of Human Emotions, you'll discover feelings you never knew you had (like basorexia, the sudden urge to kiss someone) and gain unexpected insights into why you feel the way you do. Besides, aren't you curious what nginyiwarrarringu means?

Book The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick

Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick written by I.Q. Hunter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Kubrick is one of the most revered directors in cinema history. His 13 films, including classics such as Paths of Glory, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining, attracted controversy, acclaim, a devoted cult following, and enormous critical interest. With this comprehensive guide to the key contexts - industrial and cultural, as well as aesthetic and critical - the themes of Kubrick's films sum up the current vibrant state of Kubrick studies. Bringing together an international team of leading scholars and emergent voices, this Companion provides comprehensive coverage of Stanley Kubrick's contribution to cinema. After a substantial introduction outlining Kubrick's life and career and the film's production and reception contexts, the volume consists of 39 contributions on key themes that both summarise previous work and offer new, often archive-based, state-of-the-art research. In addition, it is specifically tailored to the needs of students wanting an authoritative, accessible overview of academic work on Kubrick.