Benjamin: 3278 books

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The Encultured Brain

An Introduction to Neuroanthropology

by Katherine C. MacKinnon, Agustín Fuentes, M. Cameron Hay
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012

Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of brain and culture. The brain and the nervous system are our most cultural organs. Our nervous system is especially immature at birth, our brain disproportionately...
Book cover of Le Droit de mentir
by Emmanuel Kant, Benjamin Constant
Language: French
Release Date: September 3, 2003

« Le principe moral que dire la vérité est un devoir, s'il était pris d'une manière absolue et isolée, rendrait toute société impossible. Nous en avons la preuve dans les conséquences directes qu'a tirées de ce premier principe un philosophe allemand, qui va jusqu'à prétendre qu'envers...
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Shadow of the Other

Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis

by Jessica Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013

Shadow of the Other is a discussion of how the individual has two sorts of relationships with an "other"--other beings, other individuals. The first regards the other as an entirely different being from oneself, but one which is still recognizable. The second understands and recognizes this other...
Book cover of La ballade de Johnny et Laeticia
by Benjamin Locoge
Language: French
Release Date: November 21, 2018

Il était une vedette un peu perdue. Elle était une jeune provinciale. Ils deviendront le couple le plus célèbre de France, dans l’amour et l’adversité, avant la mort et l’héritage controversé de l’artiste. De la rencontre entre le chanteur mythique en perte de vitesse et la gamine de...
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Amplifying Our Witness

Giving Voice to Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities

by Benjamin T. Conner
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012

Nearly twenty percent of adolescents have developmental disabilities, yet far too often they are marginalized within churches. Amplifying Our Witness challenges congregations to adopt a new, practice-centered approach to congregational ministry -- one that includes and amplifies the witness of adolescents...
Book cover of A Collection of Christmas Carols
by Benjamin Bloomfield
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012

A Collection of over 150 Public Domain Christmas Carols arranged for voice or piano. The entire list of carols is as follows: Ad cantum leticie Adeste Fideles All my heart this night rejoices Although at Yule it Bloweth Cool The Angel Gabriel Angels from the Realms...
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Cunegonde's Kidnapping

A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment

by Benjamin J. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014

In a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant church. When she is arrested, fellow Catholics stage an armed raid to free her from detention. These dramatic events of 1762 triggered a cycle...
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Disposable Heroes

The Betrayal of African American Veterans

by Benjamin Fleury-Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012

For many soldiers, the end of military service signals a cruel and new beginning. Disposable Heroes illuminates the challenges facing many veterans, particularly African Americans. Rather than finding military service to be a path to equality and upward mobility, these veterans fight just to survive....
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The Bonds of Love

Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domincation

by Jessica Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013

Why do people submit to authority and derive pleasure even others have over them? What is the appeal of domination and submission, and why are they so prevalent in erotic life? Why is it so difficult for men and women to meet as equals? Why, indeed, do hey continue to recapitulate the positions of...
Book cover of Roots of the State

Roots of the State

Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei

by Benjamin Read
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012

Most social science studies of local organizations tend to focus on "civil society" associations, voluntary associations independent from state control, whereas government-sponsored organizations tend to be theorized in totalitarian terms as "mass organizations" or manifestations...
Book cover of 10 Minutes of Silence Daily : One Week Trial Series (Book #1)
by Benjamin Ehinger
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

Silence is truly golden. If you're living a life filled with noise, distraction and drowning out of one noise with another, you need silence. Without silence, you'll struggle to connect with just about anything worth connecting with. This is the first book in my One Week Trial Series and it's...
Book cover of Human Rights as Social Construction
by Benjamin Gregg
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011

Most conceptions of human rights rely on metaphysical or theological assumptions that construe them as possible only as something imposed from outside existing communities. Most people, in other words, presume that human rights come from nature, God, or the United Nations. This book argues that reliance...
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Jesus according to Scripture

Restoring the Portrait from the Gospels

by Darrell L. Bock, Benjamin I. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017

Updated Edition of a Bestselling Study of Jesus and the Gospels In this work Darrell Bock, a leading evangelical New Testament scholar who speaks and teaches around the world, and Benjamin Simpson show that a coherent portrait of Jesus emerges from the four Gospels when they are taken seriously...
Book cover of The Pirate Collection
by Jeffery Farnol, Stephen W. Meader, Benjamin Barker
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010

A collection of some of the world's most beloved pirate stories with an active table of contents.Works include:"Black Bartlemy's Treasure" by Jeffery Farnol"The Black Buccaneer" by Stephen W. Meader "Blackbeard" by Benjamin Barker"Blackbeard: Buccaneer" Ralph D. Paine"Captain Blood" by Rafael...
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