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  • I Didn't Talk

    by Beatriz Bracher ...
    Translated by Adam Morris ...
    The English-language debut of a master stylist: a compassionate but relentless novel about the long, dark harvest of Brazil’s totalitarian ruleA professor prepares to retire—Gustavo is set to move from São Paulo to the countryside, but it isn’t the urban violence he’s fleeing: what he fears most is the violence of his memory. But as he sorts out his papers, the ghosts arrive in full force. He was ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Literature

    by M. Bracher ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Drawing on developments in cognitive science, Bracher formulates pedagogical strategies for teaching literature in ways that develop students' cognitive capabilities for cosmopolitanism, the pursuit of global equality and justice. Several staple classroom texts, such as Things Fall Apart, provide detailed examples for teaching practices. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A History of Masculinity

    From Patriarchy to Gender Justice

    by Ivan Jablonka ...
    Translated by Nathan Bracher ...
    **'Exhilarating . . . a work of scholarship, but also inspiration. . . Go and read Jablonka and change the world' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An unexpected bestseller in France. . . it has sparked conversations' ChallengesA highly acclaimed, bestselling work from one of France's preeminent historians**What does it mean to be a good man? To be a good father, or a good partner? A good brother, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lacan and the Subject of Language (RLE: Lacan)

    Edited by Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, Mark Bracher ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Lacan
    Originally published in 1991, this volume tackles the diverse teachings of the great psychoanalyst and theoretician. Written by some of the leading American and European Lacanian scholars and practitioners, the essays attempt to come to terms with his complex relation to the culture of contemporary psychoanalysis.The volume presents useful insights into Lacan’s innovative theories on the nature of ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach in Earth System Science

    Advances of a Helmholtz Graduate Research School

    Edited by Gerrit Lohmann, Helge Meggers, Vikram Unnithan, Dieter Wolf-Gladrow, Justus Notholt, Astrid Bracher ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book describes the latest advances at the Helmholtz “Earth System Science Research School” where scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, the University of Bremen, and the Jacobs University are involved in research.One of the greatest challenges is understanding ongoing environmental changes. The longer the time scale the more components of the Earth system are involved, e ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    A History of Masculinity

    From Patriarchy to Gender Justice

    by Ivan Jablonka ...
    Narrated by Joe Jameson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 58 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.What does it mean to be a good man? To be a good father, or a good partner? A good brother, or a good friend?In this insightful analysis, social historian Ivan Jablonka offers a re-examination of the patriarchy and its impact on men. Ranging widely across cultures, from Mesopotamia to Confucianism to Christianity to the revolutions of the eighteenth century, Jablonka ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Antonio

    by Beatriz Bracher ...
    Translated by Adam Morris ...
    A brilliant, magisterial novel of family secrets simmering beneath the surfaceBenjamin, on the verge of becoming a father, discovers a tragic family secret involving patrimony and determines to get to the root of. Those most immediately involved are all dead, but their three closest confidantes are still alive—Isabel, his grandmother; Haroldo, his grandfather’s friend; and Raul, his father’s ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • History Is a Contemporary Literature

    Manifesto for the Social Sciences

    by Ivan Jablonka ...
    Translated by Nathan J. Bracher ...
    Ivan Jablonka's History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that both social-scientific inquiry and literary explorations contribute to our understanding of the world. Jablonka argues that the act and art of writing, far from being an afterthought in the social ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Literature, Social Wisdom, and Global Justice

    Developing Systems Thinking through Literary Study

    by Mark Bracher ...
    This book responds to the pressing and increasingly recognized need to cultivate social wisdom for addressing major problems confronting humanity. Connecting literary studies with some of the biggest questions confronted by researchers and students today, the book provides a practical approach to thinking through, and potentially solving, global problems such as poverty, inequality, crime, war, ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Social Symptoms of Identity Needs

    Why We Have Failed to Solve Our Social Problems and What to do About It

    by Mark Bracher ...
    Series series The Exploring Psycho-Social Studies Series
    Explains how our major social problems, including crime, violence, terrorism, war, substance abuse, and prejudice, are the result of efforts by their perpetrators to maintain a secure identity, or sense of self. It locates the root causes of these social problems and counterproductive responses in certain identity-damaging social and cultural phenomena that force identity to defend and maintain ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Narrative Practice

    Continuing the Conversations

    by Michael White ...
    Final thoughts from the now-deceased leader of narrative therapy.Michael White’s untimely death deprived therapists of a leading light. Here, available for the first time in book form, is a collection of the work he left behind—writings on topics dear to the psychotherapeutic world: turning points in therapy, conversations, resistance and therapist responsibility, couples therapy, and narrative ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Schools We Need

    And Why We Don't Have Them

    by E.D. Hirsch Jr. ...
    This paperback edition, with a new introduction, offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America's schooling methods and ideas--by one of America's most important educators, and author of the bestselling Cultural Literacy.For over fifty years, American schools have operated under the assumption that challenging children academically is unnatural for them, that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD