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by George Simmel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010

Two major essays on the dynamics of social organization by the great German philosopher and social theorist Georg Simmel.

The Muse in the Machine

Computerizing the Poetry of Human Thought

by David Gelernter
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010

A leading mind in the world of artificial intelligence answers the provocative question: “Can we introduce emotion into the computer?” Can we introduce emotion into the computer? David Gelernter, one of the leading lights in artificial intelligence today, begins The Muse in the Machine...

Healing the Hardware of the Soul

How Making the Brain-Soul Connection Can Optimize Your Life, Love, and Spiritual Growth

by Daniel Amen
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008

Dr. Daniel Amen's breakthrough brain-healing program has helped hundreds of thousands to overcome depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and attention deficit disorder. The maverick author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and Healing ADD now presents his proven program for repairing...

Child and Adolescent Treatment for Social Work Pra

A Relational Perspective for Beginning Clinicians

by Teresa Aiello, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010

An excellent introductory text for the beginning social work student. Dr. Aiello's unique style organizes and categorizes well what can be an overwhelming bombardment in disorganized clinical studies. Highly readable, useful and comprehensive.
by Robyn Dawes
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009

Robin Dawes spares no one in this powerful critique of modern psychotherapeutic practice. As Dawes points out, we have all been swayed by the "pop psych" view of the world--believing, for example, that self-esteem is an essential precursor to being a productive human being, that events in one's childhood...
by Irving Lewis Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1985

A biography of legendary sociologist C. Wright Mills, author of The Power Elite and White Collar, among other works,by eminent sociologist Irving L. Horowitz. Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962) was a famed sociologist, social commentator and critic. Noted for his anti-authoritarian, flamboyant...

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A Good Look at Bad Language

by Ruth Wajnryb
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005

Have we always "sworn like sailors"? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese, for instance) supposedly do not contain any nasty words? Throughout the twentieth century...
by Robert K. Merton
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008

A reissue of the classic report of Columbia's Bureau of Applied Social Research, outlining techniques for eliciting specific responses of individuals and groups to particular events and situations. The 1956 edition of this book may be regarded as seminal within sociology, spawning a whole field...
by Angela Browne
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008

A compassionate look at 42 battered women who felt "locked in with danger and so desperate that they killed a man they loved"; scholarly and compelling.
by Bruce D. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002

States make war, but war also makes states. As Publishers Weekly notes, “Porter, a political scientist at Brigham Young University, demonstrates that wars have been catalysts for increasing the size and power of Western governments since the Renaissance. The state’s monopoly of effective...
by John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010

A classic book about the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists. Emile Durkheim’s Suicide addresses the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes. Written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists, this classic...
by Suzanne Sgroi
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1988

In this much-awaited companion book to Vulnerable Populations, Volume 1, Dr. Suzanne Sgroi along with sixteen other veteran practioners describes the latest clinical methods and advances in treating victims of sexual abuse and sexual offenders. Copious in case examples and professional insight, this...

The Great Poems of the Bible

A Reader's Companion with New Translations

by James L. Kugel
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012

From the Psalms to the Prophets, from job to Ecclesiastes, much of the Bible is written in poetry. The poems of the Bible include some of its best known and most beloved passages: "The Lord is my shepherd," "Let justice roll down like waters," "By the rivers of Babylon," "Remember your Creator," "Arise,...
by Judith Marks Mishne
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010

In this welcome follow-up and companion to her highly acclaimed Clinical Work with Children, Judith Mishne provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of adolescent psychotherapy. Drawing on her own extensive experience and the work of other professionals, she offers a cogent analysis of...
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