The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life, Paperback - Richard Sennett

Reissue of the classic text on how cities should be plannedPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Richard SennettNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 20...

Reducere. The distinguished social critic Richard Sennett here shows how the excessively ordered community freezes adults--both the young idealists and their...

Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Richard SennettNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 12Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Presents concepts in interdisciplinary social studies, discusses the uses of genre for rhetorical and social purposes, and exposes paradoxes of the...

This work describes, explains and warns Europe against following the road alreadly taken by the US and, perhaps not quite irreversibly, Britain by ...

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard E. Neustadt"A convincing case that careful analysis of the history, issues, individuals, and institutions can lead ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard SennettFlesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life--how women and men moved in public and private spa...

Reducere. In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are ch...

DescriptionIn Personal Identity and Literature, Hogan examines what makes an individual a particular, unique self. He draws on cognitive and affect...

In this provocative and passionately argued book, Roger Scruton proposes that the greatest harm and havoc has been wrought on the world by those wh...

Respect can be attained by gaining success, by developing talents, through financial independence and by helping others. In this title, the author ...

A philosophically-minded enquiry into the nature of practical activity, asking why people try to do a good job and have pride in what they do.

DescriptionEyewitnessing evaluates the place and potency of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of ima...

The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines lit...

This book studies the way in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental 'other' were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in th...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): John PerryNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2002Dimensions: 141 x 218 x 15Cover type: Paperback...

What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of histo...

The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines lit...

Reducere. The NFL legend and Heisman Trophy winner shares the inspiring story of his life and diagnosis with dissociative identity disorder. Herschel Walker ...

DescriptionIn What's the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word--...

Gossip - long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals - is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana Rodriguez Navas reveals go...

This edition comprises Austin's best known works; "The Province of Jurisprudence Determined", a classic work of moral, legal and political philosop...

DescriptionTracing the development of American cities and city life from early colonial settlements to the familiar downtowns of today, a sweeping ...

With a new introduction by the author, it highlights the historical parallels between e exiles of the past and present in mid-19th century Paris an...

How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds-forges a new path for creativity and joy in our imp...

Reducere. Richard Sennett thinks differently. In this dazzling blend of personal memoir and reflective scholarship, he addresses need and social responsibili...

Reducere. Wendy Lawson has an autism spectrum disorder. Considered to be intellectually disabled and 'almost incapable of doing as she is told' at school, sh...

Reducere. What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? Alain de Botton s bold and provocative book argues that we can benefit from the wisdom and...

With a stunning new look in 2015, and with more new Rules than ever, get ready to experience the Rules effect. Begin to get more out of life, shrug...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Lindsay (Cornerstone Integrated Therapy, UK) SchofieldIllustration(s): 51 Line drawings, color; 44 Line d...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Lindsay (Cornerstone Integrated Therapy, UK) SchofieldIllustration(s): 44 Line drawings, black and white;...

Reducere. This book is a study of both how we experience authority and how we might experience it differently. Sennett explores the bonds that rebellion agai...

Cutting-edge research on personal ornaments from archaeological contexts around the world.Publisher: Oxbow BooksIllustration(s): B/w and colourNumb...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Lindsay (Cornerstone Integrated Therapy, UK) SchofieldIllustration(s): 51 Line drawings, color; 51 Illust...

Paris in the nineteenth century was a magnet for Europe's exiles, among them the Russian genius, Alexander Herzen, who described the experience of ...

DescriptionBuilding on the comprehensive theoretical model of dissociation elegantly developed in The Dissociative Mind, Elizabeth Howell makes ano...

Reducere. Perhaps no disorder is more confusing and perplexing to mental health professionals than Dissociative Identity Disorder. Does it exist? How often d...

Reducere. Winner of the 2016 eLit Awards: Silver in Psychology/Mental Health 2017 Book Excellence Award Finalist in Psychology Fractured Mind: The Healing of...

Reducere. Finally a book for survivors written by a survivor Got Parts? was written by a survivor of DID in association with her therapist and therapy group....

Reducere. Finally, a book that addresses your concerns about DID From Eve to Sybil to Truddi Chase, the media have long chronicled the lives of people with d...

Reducere. Finally a book for survivors written by a survivor! Got Parts? was written by a survivor of DID in association with her therapist and therapy group...

Reducere. The Beekeeper's Bible is as much an ultimate guide to the practical essentials of beekeeping as it is a beautiful almanac to be read from cover to ...