basic books dez 2002 (14 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Miller returns to the intensely personal tone and themes of her best-loved work. She uses vivid true stories to reveal the perils of early-childhood mistreatment and the dangers of mindless obedience to parental will.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Always innovative, often provocative, and frequently polarizing, Dworkin has carved out a unique position as one of the women's movement's most influential figures, from the early days of consciousness-raising to the 'post-feminist' present. 'Heartbreak' reveals for the first time the personal side of Dworkin's lifelong journey as an activist and a writer.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Einstein Syndrome is a follow-up to Late-Talking Children, which established Thomas Sowell as a leading spokesman on the subject of late-talking children. While many children who talk late suffer from developmental disorders or autism, there is a certain well-defined group who are developmentally normal or even quite bright, yet who may go past their fourth birthday before beginning to talk. These children are often misdiagnosed as autistic or retarded, a mistake that is doubly hard on parents who must first worry about their apparently handicapped children and then see them lumped into special classes and therapy groups where all the other children are clearly very different. Since he first became involved in this issue in the mid-90s, Sowell has joined with Stephen Camarata of Vanderbilt University, who has conducted a much broader, more rigorous study of this phenomenon than the anecdotes reported in Late-Talking Children. Sowell can now identify a particular syndrome, a cluster of common symptoms and family characteristics, that differentiates these late-talking children from others; relate this syndrome to other syndromes; speculate about its causes; and describe how children with this syndrome are likely to develop.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Basic Freud, noted psychologist Michael Kahn shows that, even in the age of psychopharmaceuticals and cognitive therapy, Freud's insights into the unconscious remain unsurpassed tools for understanding our behaviors, motivations, and emotions. In a style accessible to any lay reader or beginning student in psychology, Kahn presents key ideas such as the Oedipus complex, the repetition compulsion, guilt, anxiety, and defense mechanisms, along with recent research that has supported or expanded Freud's findings. He also presents case studies from his own work as a psychotherapist to show how Freudian thought has been instrumental in helping patients discover who they are and escape from destructive patterns. Readers aware of Freud's ideas and those discovering them for the first time will benefit from Kahn's fresh, informed, and unpretentious approach.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - By combining the powerful prose of Richard Wright with the startling photographs of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Arthur Rothstein, this book poignantly depicts the lives of black people in America during the Great Depression. 80 photos.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the author of Simplicity-a powerful new approach to management.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The groundbreaking history of the Atlantic slave trade, winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and the J. Russell Major Prize. In The Diligent, acclaimed historian Robert Harms reveals the complex workings of the slave trade by drawing on the private journal of First Lieutenant Robert Durand to recreate the macabre journey of a French slave ship. The Diligent began her journey in Brittany in 1731, and Harms follows her along the African coast where her goods were traded for slaves, then to Martinique where her captives were sold to work on sugar plantations. He brings to life a world in which slavery was carried out without qualms: the gruesome details of daily life aboard a slave ship, French merchants wrangling for the right to traffic in slaves, African kings waging epic wars for control of slave trading posts, and representatives of European governments negotiating the complicated politics of the Guinea coast to ensure a steady supply of labor for their countries' colonies. By combining the detailed story of an expedition with an exploration of the significant personalities and events that were shaping Europe, West Africa, and the Caribbean in the early eighteenth century, The Diligent provides an intimate understanding of a horrifying world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An agenda-setting team of experts looks at how terrorism can be understood, contained, and ultimately defeated.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A one-of-a-kind glimpse into the essence of creativity, with inspiring insights from some of the world's most creative minds.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This major new interpretive biography--by one of America's foremost public intellectuals--eloquently examines Jane Addams's cultural and political influence on her time and ours.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Combining the work of prominent U.S. and international commentators on globalization, Globalization and Resistance defines the state, and the future, of globalization's role in world affairs.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Empires on the Pacific is to be celebrated as one of the best accounts available of the war against Japan.--Toronto Globe and Mail.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this, the first full-length study of the Directorate of Science and Technology, Richelson walks readers down the corridors of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and through the four decades of science, scientists, and managers that produced the CIA that exists today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Focusing on racial identity, popular cultures, and freedom struggles, these essays and interviews are collected from one of the most insightful and thought-provoking black intellectuals to emerge since the heyday of the Civil Rights Movement.