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  • 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

  • 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

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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

  • What You Don't Know You Know

    Our Hidden Motives in Life, Business, and Everything Else

    by Ken Eisold ...
    The unconscious sprang to the attention of the West a hundred years ago, and we are still struggling to absorb its full impact. It was one thing to understand the concept, to see it and believe it, but another to live with it, to take in fully its challenge to our deepest cultural assumptions. Today, as we expand our understanding of its reach, we are still coming to grips with what it means. This ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Maternal Factor

    Two Paths to Morality

    by Nel Noddings ...
    In this provocative new book, renowned educator and philosopher Nel Noddings extends her influential work on the ethics of care toward a compelling objective—global peace and justice. She asks: If we celebrate the success of women becoming more like men in professional life, should we not simultaneously hope that men become more like women—in caring for others, rejecting violence, and valuing the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Moral Child

    Nurturing Children's Natural Moral Growth

    by William Damon ...
    William Damon offers the first, much-needed overview of the evolution and nurturance of children's moral understanding and behavior from infancy through adolescence, at home and in school.Drawing on the best professional research and thinking, Professor William Damon charts pragmatic, workable approaches to foster basic virtues such as honesty, responsibility, kindness, and fairness—methods that ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Exemplars of Curriculum Theory

    by Arthur K. Ellis ...
    This book crosses the divide between theoreticians and practitioners by demonstrating how curriculum theories and models are applied in classrooms today. It ties together broad educational theories such as progressivism, essentialism, perennialism, etc.; curriculum models, characterized as learner-centered, society-centered or knowledge-centered; and exemplars of curriculum theories and models, ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Society in the Self

    A Theory of Identity in Democracy

    by Hubert J. M. Hermans ...
    Instead of considering society as a social environment, Society in the Self begins from the assumption that society works in the deepest regions of self and identity, as expressed in phenomena like self-sabotage, self-radicalization, self-cure, self-government, self-nationalization, and self-internationalization. This leads to the central thesis that a democratic society can only function properly ... Read more

    $99.89 USD

  • Locked in A Violent Embrace

    Understanding and Intervening in Domestic Violence

    by Eli Buchbinder, Zvi C. Eisikovits ...
    Series series SAGE Series on Violence against Women
    Representing an entirely new approach to domestic violence interventions, this book is based on data accumulated by the authors over the past 12 years from a series of qualitative studies, clinical practice with battered women and their batterers, and as champions of the cause of battered women. After 25 years, practitioners in the field are starting to question the original models of intervention ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • What's Wrong With Morality?

    A Social-Psychological Perspective

    by C. Daniel Batson ...
    Most works on moral psychology direct our attention to the positive role morality plays for us as individuals, as a society, even as a species. In What's Wrong with Morality?, C. Daniel Batson takes a different approach: he looks at morality as a problem. The problem is not that it is wrong to be moral, but that our morality often fails to produce these intended results. Why? Some experts believe ... Read more

    $48.59 USD