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When Boys Become Boys: Development, Relationships, and Masculinity

Judy Y. Chu · NYU Press
Format: Hardcover

Based on a two-year study that followed boys from pre-kindergarten through first grade, When Boys Become Boys offers a new way of thinking about boys’ development. Through focusing on a critical moment of transition in boys’ lives, Judy Y. Chu reveals boys’ early ability...
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Critical Thinking: The Basics

Stuart Hanscomb · Routledge
Pages: 252
Format: Print book

Critical Thinking: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the field of critical thinking, drawing on philosophy, communication and psychology. Emphasising its relevance to decision making (in personal, professional and civic life) , academic literacy and personal development,...
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Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency

John M. Doris · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The unconscious, according to contemporary psychology, determines much of our lives: very often, we don't know why we do what we do, or even exactly what we are doing. This realization undermines the philosophical-and common sense-picture of human beings as rational, responsible, agents...
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How to Analyze People: Analyze & Read People with Human Psychology, Body Language, and the 6 Human Needs

Michael Draper · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback

How to Analyze & Read People with Human Psychology, Body Language, and the 6 Human Needs In How to Analyze & Read People with Human Psychology, Body Language, and the 6 Human Needs, you will learn how to decipher body language, break down others fears, values, beliefs, and attitudes,...
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Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

Sarah Schulman · Arsenal Pulp Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep,...
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Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions

Phil Rosenzweig · PublicAffairs
Pages: 315
Format: Hardcover

Left Brain, Right Stuff takes up where other books about decision making leave off. For many routine choices, from shopping to investing, we can make good decisions simply by avoiding common errors, such as searching only for confirming information or avoiding the hindsight bias. But as Phil...
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Redefining Manhood: A Guide for Men and Those Who Love Them

Jim PathFinder Ewing · Findhorn Press
Format: Print book

While women have forged ahead in the workplace and society, men are finding themselves increasingly marginalized, socially, professionally, economically — enough so that one book on bestseller lists recently has been titled The End of Men. This has led to calls for a men’s movement...
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Digital Art Therapy: Material, Methods, and Applications

Rick L Garner · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

Considering the latest advances and developments in the arena of digital media, this book explores current materials, methods and applications of digital technology in art therapy.It looks thoroughly at the many potential uses and benefits of digital technology in art therapy practice,...
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Communities of Health Care Justice

Charlene Galarneau · Rutgers University Press
Pages: 142
Format: Print book

<div>The factions debating health care reform in the United States have gravitated toward one of two positions: that just health care is an individual responsibility or that it must be regarded as a national concern. Both arguments overlook a third possibility: that justice in health...
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Rousseau and Dignity: Art Serving Humanity

Julia V Douthwaite · University of Notre Dame Press
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover

Rousseau and Dignity: Art Serving Humanity is a richly illustrated volume relating a series of events - a photography exhibit, lectures, commentary, and audience reactions by people ages seven to ninety-two - held in the name of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's tercentennial in 2012. Growing...
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My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir

Mark Lukach · Harper Wave
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love.Mark and Giulia's life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco....
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Happiness for All?: Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream

Carol Graham · Princeton University Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating an increasingly divided societyThe Declaration of Independence states that all people are endowed with certain unalienable rights, and that among these is the pursuit of happiness. But is happiness available equally to everyone in America...
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Data Love: The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies

Roberto Simanowski · Columbia University Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Intelligence services, government administrations, businesses, and a growing majority of the population are hooked on the idea that big data can reveal patterns and correlations in everyday life. Initiated by software engineers and carried out through algorithms, the mining of big data...
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Intersectionality

Patricia Hill Collins · Wiley
Pages: 208

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