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“darin weinberg”

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  • On Addiction

    Insights from History, Ethnography, and Critical Theory

    by Darin Weinberg ...
    Mainstream addiction science sees addiction either as a biomedical disease that renders one incapable of self-control or as a voluntary practice engaged in freely. In On Addiction, Darin Weinberg shows how this dynamic is deeply influenced by a series of binaries (free will/determinism, mind/body, objectivity/subjectivity) that hinder our understanding of addiction. Here, he offers a new ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Talk and Interaction in Social Research Methods

    by Geoffrey Raymond, Darin Weinberg, Paul Drew ...
    ′This book admirably fulfils its stated objective of describing social research methods in action and exploring, from a range of perspectives, the linguistic shaping of social context. Overall, this is a balanced, well-edited and coherent collection of papers, bringing together high quality work from recognized authorities in the analysis of talk-in-interaction. It is also highly accessible; it ... Read more

    $94.49 USD

  • Intoxication and Society

    Problematic Pleasures of Drugs and Alcohol

    Edited by Professor Jonathan Herring, Ciaran Regan, Darin Weinberg, Philip Withington ...
    Intoxicants, substances that alter a person's mental and physiological state, are a continuing obsession. In their effect on the mind and body, intoxicants go to the heart of what it means to be human. In the tensions between 'free' and uninhibited consumption on the one hand, and the pressures of social regulation and personal responsibility on the other, they also illuminate the daily paradoxes, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Sociologies of Interaction

    by Alex Dennis, Rob Philburn, Greg Smith ...
    Social interaction lies at the heart of our everyday experience. We make our way down the street and avoid crashing into others, take our place in the supermarket queue, take care in the way we talk about others in conversation, acknowledge the social status of people we meet, and enjoy leisurely pursuits in the company of friends and like-minded others. All these things are fundamental parts of ... Read more

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  • The Myth of Mental Illness

    Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct

    by Thomas S. Szasz ...
    “The landmark book that argued that psychiatry consistently expands its definition of mental illness to impose its authority over moral and cultural conflict.” — New York TimesThe 50th anniversary edition of the most influential critique of psychiatry every written, with a new preface on the age of Prozac and Ritalin and the rise of designer drugs, plus two bonus essays.Thomas Szasz's classic book ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Outsiders

    by Howard S. Becker ...
    One of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the mid-20th century, Howard S. Becker’s Outsiders is a thorough exploration of social deviance and how it can be addressed in an understanding and helpful manner.A compulsively readable and thoroughly researched exploration of social deviance and the application of what is known as "labeling theory" to the studies of deviance. With particular ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How We Know What Isn't So

    by Thomas Gilovich ...
    Series series A Psychological Study on Logic
    Thomas Gilovich offers a wise and readable guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life.When can we trust what we believe—that "teams and players have winning streaks," that "flattery works," or that "the more people who agree, the more likely they are to be right"—and when are such beliefs suspect? Thomas Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. Illustrating ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Grief

    A Philosophical Guide

    by Michael Cholbi ...
    An engaging and illuminating exploration of grief—and why, despite its intense pain, it can also help us growExperiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us—as universal as it is painful—is central to the human condition. Surprisingly, however, philosophers have rarely examined grief in any depth. In Grief, Michael Cholbi presents a groundbreaking philosophical exploration ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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  • Learning from My Daughter

    The Value and Care of Disabled Minds

    by Eva Feder Kittay ...
    Does life have meaning? What is flourishing? How do we attain the good life? Philosophers, and many others of us, have explored these questions for centuries. As Eva Feder Kittay points out, however, there is a flaw in the essential premise of these questions: they seem oblivious to the very nature of the ways in which humans live, omitting a world of co-dependency, and of the fact that we live in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Abductive Analysis

    Theorizing Qualitative Research

    by Iddo Tavory, Stefan Timmermans ...
    "A major contribution to both the pragmatist renaissance and the transnational turn toward theorizing in qualitative research." —Adele E. Clarke, author of Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory after the Postmodern TurnIn Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for theorizing qualitative research. They outline a way to think about observations, methods, ... Read more

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  • Claiming Disability

    Knowledge and Identity

    by Simi Linton ...
    Series series Cultural Front
    From public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. And a remarkable groundswell of activism and critical literature has followed in this wake.Claiming Disability is the first comprehensive examination of Disability Studies as a field of inquiry. ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • American Therapy

    The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States

    by Jonathan Engel ...
    From Freud to Zoloft, the first comprehensive history of American PsychotherapyFifty percent of Americans will undergo some form of psychotherapy in their lifetimes, but the origins of the field are rarely known to patients. Yet the story of psychotherapy in America brims with colorful characters, intriguing experimental treatments, and intense debates within this community of healers.American ... Read more

    $14.99 USD