Jeffrey: 3395 books
Final Analysis
The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
He was the rising star of psychoanalysis, an intimate associate of Anna Freud and Kurt Eissler, a member of the Freudian “inner circle” with unrestricted access to the Freud Archives. And then Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson threw it all away because he dared to break the psychoanalytic communitys deepest...
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Professor Jeffrey C. Isaac
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto has become one of the world's most influential political tracts since its original 1848 publication. Part of the Rethinking the Western Tradition series, this edition of the Manifesto features an extensive introduction by Jeffrey C. Isaac, and essays by Vladimir...
by Craig Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes unfolding in India today. To what extent are people...
by Jeffrey Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Think of a lifetime as 70 years. Lay out 143 of those lifetimes one after another and you’ll see a chain of people reaching back 10,000 years. Just 143 lifetimes back and we’re all the way to the dawn of human civilization. And the choices made in every one of those lifetimes have brought us to...
Impressionist Quartet
The Intimate genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In this book, Jeffrey Meyers follows the lives of four Impressionist painters whose rebellious work was scorned by the critics and derided by their contemporaries. The French art establishment dismissed them altogether and at the time their sold for very little. Impressionist Quartet describes the...
The Narcissist Next Door
Understanding the Monster in Your Family, in Your Office, in Your Bed-in Your World
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
A timely and provocative exploration of narcissism, from Donald Trump to Kanye West to Lance Armstrong, that shows us how to recognize and handle the narcissists we encounter every day.
Narcissists are everywhere. There are millions of them in the United States alone: politicians, entertainers,...
Wendell Berry and Higher Education
Cultivating Virtues of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Berry has been eloquently unmasking America's cultural obsession with restless mobility for decades,...
Locust
The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country between Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains.” Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms of locusts regularly swept across the American continent, turning noon into dusk, devastating farm...
William Howard Taft
The American Presidents Series: The 27th President, 1909-1913
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The only man to serve as president and chief justice, who approached every decision in constitutional terms, defending the Founders’ vision against new populist threats to American democracy
William Howard Taft never wanted to be president and yearned instead to serve as chief justice of...
Trauma
A Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
In this book Jeffrey C. Alexander develops an original social theory of trauma and uses it to carry out a series of empirical investigations into social suffering around the globe.
Alexander argues that traumas are not merely psychological but collective experiences, and that trauma work plays...
by Jeffrey V. Perry
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
The Positive Prime, a book of Poetry (First published 2007) was my first book of poetry that has been idealistically inpired by the lives of my two grandfathers, who represent my "Gemini Twin" spirits. They were, during their lives, very spiritual themselves, so the poems many are idealistic in nature and also have common sense, as was life at their times, as Afro-America men.
Spiel der Zeit
Die Clifton Saga 1 - Roman
Language: German
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Die Schicksale zweier Familien. Eine verborgene Wahrheit. Das Ringen um Freundschaft und Liebe.
England um 1930: Der junge Harry Clifton wächst an den Hafendocks von Bristol heran, seine Mutter Maisie muss sich mit harter Arbeit durchschlagen. Um den Tod von Harrys Vater, der angeblich im...
Mind Body Zen
Waking Up to Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
In Mind Body Zen, long-time Zen student, world-renowned Rolfer, and former philosophy professor Jeffrey Maitland combines his expertise across the mind-body-zen spectrum to help bridge the East-West gap in spiritual practice.
Tackling the prevailing misconception that Zen is a philosophy, Maitland...
The Shadow of Unfairness
A Plebeian Theory of Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Jeffrey Edward Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democracy can mean in a world where it is understood that socioeconomic status to some degree will always determine opportunities for civic...