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Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography
Susan Best · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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By offering a new way of thinking about the role of politically engaged art, Susan Best opens up a new aesthetic field: reparative aesthetics. The book identifies an innovative aesthetic on the part of women photographers from the southern hemisphere, who against the dominant modes of criticality... |
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The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age
Marina Cantacuzino · Jessica Kingsley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Examining themes of forgiveness, reconciliation and conflict transformation, this book brings together the personal testimonies of both survivors and perpetrators of crime and violence and asks the question whether forgiveness may have more currency than revenge in an age which seems locked... |
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Antipsychotics: History, Science, and Issues
Jeffrey Kerner · Greenwood
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover
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The problem of serious mental illness is a widely discussed topic in the media and popular culture. This text provides a comprehensive analysis of antipsychotic medications, covering historical, social, and scientific viewpoints on this important and controversial class of medications.*... |
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Zen Your Work: Create Your Ideal Work Experience Through Mindful Self-Mastery
Karlyn Borysenko · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Use mindfulness techniques to handle toxic stress in the workplace and to create your ideal professional experience from the inside out.While working in a particularly toxic environment, Karlyn Borysenko came to this liberating realization: she couldn't control other people, but she could... |
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Moral Imagination: Essays
David Bromwich · Princeton University Press
Pages: 350
Format: Print book
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Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these faculties may illuminate the motives of human... |
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Drone
Adam Rothstein · Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Book
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon, we're told, they'll be delivering our shopping. But what are drones? The word encompasses... |
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Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice
Edward T Chambers · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
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The successor to the legendary activist Saul Alinsky, Edward T. Chambers pioneered a set of principles and practices that have guided community organizations throughout the US and the world. Roots for Radicals remains his definitive reflection on these fundamental principles of community... |
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Sin, sex & subversion : how what was taboo in 1950s New York became America's new normal
David Rosen · Carrel Books
Format: Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"During the tumultuous 1950s in America, sex was as threatening to the nation's moral order as communism. New York was the capital of the post-World War II world and the epicenter of a fierce culture war over music, theatre, movies, fashion, and literature, as well as birth... |
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Synesthesia
Richard E Cytowic · The MIT Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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An accessible, concise primer on the neurological trait of synesthesia -- vividly felt sensory couplings -- by a founder of the field.One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a disorder but a neurological trait -- like perfect pitch -- synesthesia creates vividly... |
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Epicureanism: A Very Short Introduction
Catherine Wilson · Oxford University Press
Pages: 136
Format: Print book
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Epicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it was a complex and distinctive system of philosophy that emphasized simplicity and moderation, and considered nature to consist of atoms and the void.... |
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Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond: Grappling with Ghosts
George M. Johnson · Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover
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How did people respond to the overwhelming loss of loved ones during the First World War? Many took their lead from iconic early twentieth-century writers, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Oliver Lodge, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Aldous Huxley,... |
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On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety
ANDREA PETERSEN · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A celebrated science and health reporter offers a wry, bracingly honest account of living with anxiety. A racing heart. Difficulty breathing. Overwhelming dread. Andrea Petersen was first diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at the age of twenty, but she later realized that she had been... |
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Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong
Andrew Shtulman · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Why do we catch colds? What causes seasons to change? And if you fire a bullet from a gun and drop one from your hand, which bullet hits the ground first? In a pinch we almost always get these questions wrong. Worse, we regularly misconstrue fundamental qualities of the world around us. In Scienceblind,... |
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