Skip to main content

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...
  • The Play of Political Culture, Emotion and Identity

    by Candida Yates ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Offering a uniquely 'psycho-cultural' take on the emotional dynamics of UK political culture this book uses theories and research in psychoanalysis, cultural and media studies and political sociology. It explores the cultural and emotional processes that shape our relationship to politics in a media age, referencing Joanna Lumley to Nigel Farage. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Television and Psychoanalysis

    Psycho-Cultural Perspectives

    Series series The Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture Series
    Despite the prominence of television in our everyday lives, psychoanalytic approaches to its significance and function are notoriously few and far between. This volume takes up perspectives from object relations theory and other psychoanalytic approaches to ask questions about the role of television as an object of the internal worlds of its viewers, and also addresses itself to a range of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • 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

  • Reflective Practice

    Writing and Professional Development

    Reflecting thoughtfully on your work is vital for improving your own self-awareness, effectiveness and professional development. This newly updated fifth edition of Gillie Bolton’s bestselling book explores reflective writing as a creative and dynamic process for this critical enquiry.New to this edition:An expanded range of exercises and activitiesA new emphasis on using e-portfoliosFurther ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Parfit

    A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

    by David Edmonds ...
    From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a public intellectual. Yet his ideas ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Just A Phrase I'm Going Through

    My Life in Language

    by David Crystal ...
    Kidnapping, attempted assassination, espionage … not the answers you’d expect to the question ‘what happens when you become a linguist?’But now, reflecting on a long and hugely successful career at the forefront of the field of English Language and Linguistics, David Crystal answers this question and offers us a special look behind the scenes at the adventures, rewards, challenges and pitfalls of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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

    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

  • 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

  • Designing Authenticity into Language Learning Materials

    Edited by Frieda Mishan ...
    This book puts forward an authenticity-centred approach to the design of materials for language learning. The premise of the approach is that language learning should be based on authentic materials drawn from a variety of genres found in the target language culture, and that the learning tasks involving these materials should be correspondingly authentic, by entailing interactions that are ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Childhood Studies

    A Reader in Perspectives of Childhood

    Edited by Jean Mills, Richard Mills ...
    The nature of childhood, the consideration of whether a certain age denotes innocence or not, and the desire to teach good citizenship to our children are all issues commonly discussed by today's media. This book brings together a variety of perspectives on the study of childhood: how this has been treated historically and how such a concept is developing as we move into the next century.The book ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Creative Explorations

    New Approaches to Identities and Audiences

    How do you picture identity? What happens when you ask individuals to make visual representations of their own identities, influences, and relationships?Drawing upon an array of disciplines from neuroscience to philosophy, and art to social theory, David Gauntlett explores the ways in which researchers can embrace people's everyday creativity in order to understand social experience.Seeking an ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Communication Studies

    The Essential Resource

    Series series Essentials
    This book brings together a huge range of material including academic articles, film scripts and interplanetary messages adrift on space probes with supporting commentary to clarify their imporatance to the field. Communication Studies: The Essential Resource is a collection of essays and texts for all those studying communication at university and pre-university level.Individual sections address: ... Read more

    $54.99 USD