7665 books (384 pages) in this category
Wartime Poems Serving with the FAU
by Roland J. Harris
<p>The poems in this book were written between 1944 and 1946 whilst the author was serving with the Friends Ambulance Unit, first in London hospitals and then in northwest Europe following the Allied advance. He remained in Germany during the ...
ISBN: 9781912567010
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eBookBelonging Is a Blessing
by Sandra C. Johnston
<p>On a seasonably warm day in April, author Sandra C. Johnston walked into Daisys Treasure Trove in White Rock, British Columbia. At the time, Johnston faced a crossroads in her life, and that visit to Daisys thrift store changed her lifes ...
ISBN: 9781450271806
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eBookby Norman Weistuch, Ph.D.
<p>I grew up in the Bronx during turbulent times. I was in elementary school during the first desegregation of the public schools in the early 1960s. This and my idealism formation during the late 1960s had a big impact on my values and my ...
ISBN: 9781635687828
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eBookMetaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility and Psychiatry
by Thomas Szasz
<p>Thomas Szasz is renowned for his critical exploration of the literal language of psychiatry and his rejection of officially sanctioned definitions of mental illness. His work has initiated a continuing debate in the psychiatric community ...
ISBN: 9781351535021
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eBookA Lexicon of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
by Jessica Kuper
<p>Originally published in 1988, this volume provides a broad and eclectic view of psychological theory, methods and practice, covering not only the main branches of academic psychology but also psychiatry, psychoanalysis and other ...
ISBN: 9781317387169
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eBookA Life Course Approach to Healthy Ageing
by Diana Kuh, Rachel Cooper, Rebecca Hardy & others
<p>Healthy ageing has long been a neglected area of epidemiological research as the traditional focus has been on specific chronic diseases of older life. There is a growing consensus from scientists, research funders and policy makers that ...
ISBN: 9780191008184
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eBookContributions to Positive Psychology
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi & Isabella Selega Csikszentmihalyi
<p><em>A Life Worth Living</em> brings together the latest thought on Positive Psychology from an international cast of scholars. It includes historical, philosophical, and empirical reviews of what psychologists have found to matter for ...
ISBN: 9780190292027
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eBookessays on ageing
by Melanie Joosten
<p><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 NIB: WAVERLEY LIBRARY AWARD FOR LITERATURE</strong></p> <p><strong>A powerful collection of essays exploring what it means to grow old in our youth-obsessed world</strong></p> <p>To live a long life should ...
ISBN: 9781925307504
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eBookA Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia
Bergen’s Multivariate Study of Children’s Learning Disabilities
by Hans-Jörgen Gjessing & Bjorn Karlsen
<p>Psychological and educational researchers in the Scandinavian countries have cooperated in a research effort relating to children's learning disabilities for more than a decade. Support has come from the federal governments and other funding ...
ISBN: 9781441987044
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eBookA Loving Approach to Dementia Care
Making Meaningful Connections with the Person Who Has Alzheimer's Disease or Other Dementia or Memory Loss
by Laura Wayman
<p>Caring for someone with dementia means devotedly and patiently doing a hundred little things each day. Few care providers are trained to meet the challenges of dementia, however—and that is where <em>A Loving Approach to Dementia Care</em> ...
ISBN: 9781421422299
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eBookStudies in Self-Culture and Character
by Newell Dwight Hillis
<p>Our scientific experts are investigating the wastes of society. Their reports indicate that man is a great spendthrift. He seems not so much a husbandman, making the most of the treasures of his life-garden, as a robber looting a storehouse ...
ISBN: 1230002457284
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eBookA Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool
Applying the Scientific Evidence
by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Laura E. Berk & others
<p>We are robbing young children of play time at home and school in an effort to give them a head start on academic skills like reading and mathematics. Yet the scientific evidence suggests that eliminating play from the lives of children is ...
ISBN: 9780199888764
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eBookA Manual of Organizational Development
The Psychology of Change
by Halina Brunning
<p>A practical guide to the essentials of organisational change which makes complex concepts accessible to managers, consultants, human resources professionals and others. Includes a directory of further sources of information and ...
ISBN: 9780429910340
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eBookA Guide to Surviving the Criminal Justice System
by Ned Rollo & Louis W. Adams
<p>This revealing book offers an in-depth mental and emotional roadmap for surviving the correctional experience. It shows what mental shifts need to take place in order to effectively go beyond the prison walls where a life of purpose, meaning,
ISBN: 9781570233715
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eBookSelections from the Writings of Donald Meltzer
by Donald Meltzer
<p>'Donald Meltzer was a distinguished psychoanalyst and one of Klein's most productive and prominent analysands. He was a very influential teacher internationally and an extraordinary practitioner and theorist as well. He codified Kleinian ...
ISBN: 9781912567256
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eBookby Wilfred R. Bion
<p><em>A Memoir of the Future</em>, Bion's unorthodox attempt to cast psychoanalytic speculation in fictional form, is composed of three semi-autobiographical novels: The Dream (1975), The Past Presented (1977), and The Dawn of Oblivion (1979). ...
ISBN: 9780429910357
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eBookA Metaphysics of Psychopathology
by Peter Zachar
<p><strong>An exploration of what it means to think about psychiatric disorders as “real,” “true,” and “objective” and the implications for classification and diagnosis.</strong></p> <p>In psychiatry, few question the legitimacy of asking ...
ISBN: 9780262322287
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eBookThe Hidden Astrologial Keys
by Priscilla Costello
<p>The “Shakespeare and the Stars” series celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and offer fresh and exciting insights into the ever-popular works of the world’s greatest playwright. Each analysis specifically highlights ...
ISBN: 9780892546480
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eBookThe evolutionary psychology of women
by Anne Campbell
<p>When Darwin proposed that females shape evolution by being choosy in their choice of male suitors, his Victorian contemporaries were shocked that he accorded so much importance to women. But this early view of the female role was far from ...
ISBN: 9780191647024
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eBookby Clifford Whittingham Beers
<p>Clifford Beers tells what it was like to be institutionalized at a time when mental illness received little attention or respect.</p> <p>A Mind that Found Itself is Beers’ own story, as one of five children who all suffered psychological ...
ISBN: 9788828304777
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