Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “amy chandler”
Skip side bar filters

  • Self-Injury, Medicine and Society

    Authentic Bodies

    by Amy Chandler ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an appreciative, sociological engagement with accounts of the embodied practice of self-injury. It shows that in order to understand self-injury, it is necessary to engage with widely circulating narratives about the nature of bodies, including that they are separate from, yet containers of 'emotion'. Using a sociological approach, the book examines what self-injury is, how it ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Explaining Mental Illness

    Sociological Perspectives

    by Baptiste Brossard, Amy Chandler ...
    How can sociology explain the emergence of mental disorders in societies or individuals?This authoritative book makes a case for the renewal of the sociology of mental illness, proposing a reorganisation of this field around four areas: social stratification, stress, labelling and culture. Drawing on case studies from a range of global contexts, the book argues that current research focuses on ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Monster Book of Feelings

    Creative Activities and Stories to Explore Emotions and Mental Health

    by Amie Taylor ...
    Illustrated by Richy K. Chandler ...
    This book is designed to help children to understand and articulate the emotions they might experience - feelings of anxiety and worry, pride, joy and excitement, sadness, anger and jealousy - and provides simple strategies for managing their mental health.Full of monster-themed stories, activities and downloadable worksheets, it is ideal to use individually or in group settings with ages 5-9. ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Recalibrating Stigma

    Sociologies of Health and Illness

    by Andrew Guise, Simone Helleren, River Ujhadbor, Fay Dennis, Gillian Love, Jaime Garcia-Iglesias, Kass Gibson, Harriet Cooper, Jen Remnant, Esmée Hanna, Caroline Law, Nicky Hudson, Dharmi Kapadia, Maria Haarmans, Hannah Farrimond, Mike Michael ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Stigma has long been a central concern for social scientists studying health and illness. Yet, in existing work, stigma often escapes definition and clarification, is treated as universal and constant, and becomes a vague catch-all term for a range of conditions and situations.This book initiates a process of recalibrating the ... Read more

    Free

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Yeast Connection

    A Medical Breakthrough

    by William G. Crook ...
    An in-depth guide on how to suspect, identify, and over-come those health problems in people of all ages and sexes that can be traced to sensitivity to the yeast germ candida albicans.The Yeast Connection also includes:Easy-to-follow diet instructions;Information about labratory studies and tests, prescription and nonprescription medications, and treatment with candida vaccines;A discussion of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Name Unbroken

    by Michael Mason ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    When Germany occupied Hungary in 1944, fifteen-year-old Miklos Friedman drew on his wits to survive. Recruited into forced labour, sent to a ghetto and, ultimately, to the Nazi camps of Auschwitz and Mühldorf, Miklos never stopped fighting to change his fate. After the war, he risked everything in order to leave his past behind. Decades later, a chance meeting in Toronto led Miklos, now Michael ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Emotional and Sexual Intimacy in Marriage

    How to Connect or Reconnect With Your Spouse, Grow Together, and Strengthen Your Marriage

    by Marcus Kusi, Ashley Kusi ...
    Series Book 2 - Better Marriage Series
    How to connect with your spouse, grow together and strengthen intimacy in your marriage—EVEN if you don't know where to start.Do you feel like roommates, something is missing in your marriage, or miss the connection you once had?Are you worried about drifting apart?Do you want to fall "in love" again so you can rekindle intimacy in your marriage?Needless to ... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Social Worlds of the Unborn

    by D. Lupton ...
    Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images appear across a wide range of forums. They have become commercial commodities as part of the IVF industry and are the focus of intense debates regarding concepts of personhood. This book discusses these issues, drawing on social and cultural theory and research. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Seven Deadly Sins

    Society and Evil

    by Stanford M. Lyman ...
    When Stanford M. Lyman authored The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil in 1978 it was hailed by Alasdair MacIntyre as 'a book of absorbing interest and importance_[that] places us all in his debt.' By Nelson Hart as 'a masterful and thought-provoking book_[that] is the only scholarly treatment of sin that is so well-informed by the best of ancient through modern perspectives.' By James A. Aho as ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The New NHS

    A Guide

    by Alison Talbot-Smith, Allyson M. Pollock ...
    Dr Alison Talbot-Smith, an experienced doctor and researcher, and Professor Allyson M. Pollock, one of the UKs leading authorities on the NHS, give a lucid and incisive account of the new NHS – which has emerged from a far-reaching programme of market-oriented changes.Providing an authoritative and accessible overview of the new NHS, the book describes:the structures and functions of the new ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings

    by César E. Giraldo Herrera ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Shamanism is commonly understood through reference to spirits and souls. However, these terms were introduced by Christian missionaries as part of the colonial effort of conversion. So, rather than trying to comprehend shamanism through medieval European concepts, this book examines it through ideas that started developing in the West after encountering Amerindian shamans. Microbes and Other ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Emotions and Reflexivity in Health & Social Care Field Research

    Edited by Helen T. Allan, Anne Arber ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is about emotions and reflexivity when doing field research in health and social care settings. Health and social care students often undertake field research in their own area of practice using observation and interviews. All contributing authors have a dual identity as researchers and health or social care professionals. Their chapters draw on research carried out in a number of fields ... Read more

    $89.09 USD