Laughing and Crying: A Study of the Limits of Human Behavior, Paperback - Helmuth Plessner

Reducere. First published in German in 1940 and widely recognized as a classic of philosophical anthropology, Laughing and Crying is a detailed investigation...

DescriptionThe most important work by a key figure in German thought, Helmuth Plessner's Levels of Organic Life and the Human, originally published...

Reducere. In Political Anthropology (originally published in 1931 as Macht und menschliche Natur), Helmuth Plessner considers whether politics--conceived as ...

How do humans behave when under threat of attack or disaster? How does the social context affect individual behavior? Anthony Mawson provides an il...

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Contributor(s): Author: Joanne SouzaAuthor: Paul M. BinghamA new biological theory of human uniqueness and theory of everything based in human evol...

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Max Scheler's Cognition and Work first appeared in German in 1926, just two years before his death. The first part of the book offers one of the ea...

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This volume represents the first attempt to comprehensively showcase the resources comparative philosophy, and in particular Chinese philosophy, ca...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Nicholas (Professor, Victoria University of Wellington) AgarIllustration(s): 4 figures; 4 Illustrations, unspeci...

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In this Element, we examine the psychological impacts of climate change, especially focused on how it will lead to increases in aggressive behavior...

This handbook integrates a wide range of perspectives on the relationship between evolution and the human condition. In addition to evolutionary ps...

This publication brings together personal analyses of sixty CT scans of ancient Egyptian human mummies collected from many museums throughout the U...

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Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government - Adam Przeworski

This book tells the dramatic story of how ordinary Kurds and their lawyers tried to mobilize the European Court of Human Rights against state viole...

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Reducere. In this seminal study, Hans Kruuk redefines the image of the spotted hyena, not as a common scavenger, but as a complex matriarchal predator with l...

Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, China's leading critic shatters the myth of progress and re...

Under one cover, Frank Incropera provides a comprehensive, objective and critical assessment of all issues germane to the climate change debate: sc...

Since his pioneering application of economic analysis to racial discrimination, Gary S. Becker has shown that an economic approach can provide a un...

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature - William James

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Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Kenneth I. (Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania) Wol...

Publisher: Dedalus LtdNumber of pages: 120Collection: Dedalus Original Fiction In PaperbackPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 22Cover ty...

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Reducere. In the past fifty years scientists have begun to discover how the human brain functions. In this book Wilder Penfield, whose work has been at the f...

DescriptionWe need a coherent picture of our world. Life's realities won't let us ignore its fundamental questions, but with so many opposing views...

Reducere. What drives our social mood? Our actions? Our motivations? Can we look into the make-up of the universe and apply it to who we are and what we do? ...

"Forget the edge of your seat. Last Breath takes you to the edge of your life, for a pulse-pounding glimpse into the Great Beyond. There are many w...

Reducere. This classic book on mystical experience was originally published in 1901. Bucke's personal experience with divine illumination led to his theory t...

David Boyd shows that recognition of the right to a healthy environment is not only growing, it is having a profound influence on public policy and...

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Animal Emotions: How They Drive Human Behavior gives a concise overview of ancient mammalian emotions deeply rooted in the human brain. Jaak Pankse...

A Wired senior editor and virtual reality expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the future "realities" of this emerging technology: ho...

When cognitive behavior therapy emerged in the 1950s, driven by the work of Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck, basic behavior principles were largely sid...

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Reducere. In The End of Science, John Horgan makes the case that the era of truly profound scientific revelations about the universe and our place in it is o...

Utilizing the healing power of breath to change consciousness - Explains how to enter altered states of consciousness, increase paranormal abilitie...