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  • The Human Voice

    The Story of a Remarkable Talent

    by Anne Karpf ...
    Why has the female voice deepened over the last fifty years? Who talks more, men or women? How can a baby in the womb distinguish between different voices?The human voice is the personal and social glue that binds us, and the most important sound in our lives. The moment we open our mouth we leak information about our biological, psychological and social status. Babies use it to establish ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • How to Age

    by Anne Karpf ...
    Series series The School of Life
    Embrace Ageing as a Time of Immense Growth, Not Inevitable DeclineSociety has a deep fear of ageing, and showing your age is increasingly one of our most pervasive taboos. Old age in modern life is widely viewed as either a time of inevitable decline or something to be resisted, denied or overcome. In How to Age, sociologist and award-winning journalist Anne Karpf urges us to radically change our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Psychoanalysis

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Daniel Pick ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the mind works, whilst some of its ideas such as the Oedipus complex have become part of everyday conversation. In Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction, Daniel Pick offers a lucid, lively, and wide-ranging survey of psychoanalysis. This book offers the reader a flavour of what it might be like to enter ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • This Is the Voice

    by John Colapinto ...
    A New York Times bestselling writer explores what our unique sonic signature reveals about our species, our culture, and each one of us. Finally, a vital topic that has never had its own book gets its due.There’s no shortage of books about public speaking or language or song. But until now, there has been no book about the miracle that underlies them all—the human voice itself. And there are few ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • A Piece of My Mind

    by Gordon Parker ...
    Gordon Parker AO, one of Australia's foremost clinical psychiatrists, is known for having strong and provocative views. He's been described as 'charming, witty and erudite', sometimes 'intimidating and intolerant', and 'variously regarded with fear, loathing, admiration and respect'.In this autobiography, the founder of the Black Dog Institute and Scientia Professor of Psychiatry at the University ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Am I Normal?

    The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist)

    by Sarah Chaney ...
    *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour**A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022*'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole world differently' The Daily Telegraph *****'Riveting' Mail on Sunday *****'Captivating' Guardian, Book of the Day'Compelling'... ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

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  • Words Fail Us

    In Defence of Disfluency

    by Jonty Claypole ...
    'TIMELY' David Mitchell'MOVING ... REMARKABLE' SUNDAY TIMES'ONE OF THOSE RARE BOOKS I HADN'T REASLISED I'D BEEN WAITING FOR UNTIL I READ IT.' Owen Sheers'OPEN-MINDED, THOUGHTFUL AND WISE... A LIBERATING BOOK' Colm ToibinIn an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking. But what if hyper-fluency is not only unachieva... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

    by Rita Charon, Sayantani DasGupta, Nellie Hermann, Craig Irvine, Eric R. Marcus, Edgar Rivera Colsn, Danielle Spencer, Maura Spiegel ...
    Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine expresses the collective experience and discoveries of the originators of the field. Arising at Columbia University in 2000 from roots in the humanities and patient-centered care, ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research

    by David Silverman ...
    Series series Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books
    The Second Edition of Qualitative Research provides a refreshing introduction to doing and debating qualitative research. The author uses updated content, ranging from photographs to novels and newspaper stories, to demonstrate how getting to grips with qualitative methods means asking ourselves fundamental questions about how we are influenced by contemporary culture.Conceived by Chris Grey as an ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • From Melancholia to Prozac

    A history of depression

    by Clark Lawlor ...
    Depression is an experience known to millions. But arguments rage on aspects of its definition and its impact on societies present and past: do drugs work, or are they merely placebos? Is the depression we have today merely a construct of the pharmaceutical industry? Is depression under- or over-diagnosed? Should we be paying for expensive 'talking cure' treatments like psychoanalysis or Cognitive ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Creating Autoethnographies

    by Tessa Muncey ...
    Creating Autoethnographies is an introduction to autoethnography, a form of autobiographical personal narrative that explores the writer′s experience of life. The first ever practical text on this increasingly popular research method, it provides a background and considers some of the criticisms of the approach. It is suitable for all social science students, both at postgraduate and also upper ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Synaesthesia

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Julia Simner ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Can you taste words, feel flavours as a shape, or hear colors? If so you may well have synaesthesia, a neurological condition that gives rise to a 'merging of the senses'. This Very Short Introduction describes synaesthesia's many forms, and delves into the underlying neuroscience. Explaining the scientific basis for synaesthesia, Julia Simner considers how we can measure the effects synaesthesia ... Read more

    $7.99 USD