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  • The Meaning of Things

    Domestic Symbols and the Self

    by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Eugene Halton ...
    The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelings about common household objects, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton provide a unique perspective on ... Read more

    $71.39 USD

  • Forgotten Founders and Other Neglected Social Theorists

    by Christopher T. Conner, Nicholas M. Baxter, David R. Dickens, Eugene Halton, Mary Jo Deegan, Stacy L. Smith, Christine Bucior, Diane M. Rodgers0, Harvey A. Farberman1, Lukas Szrot2, Shing-Ling S. Chen3, Alan Sica4, Lawrence T. Nichols5, Michael A. Katovich6, Thaddeus Müller7 ...
    This edited volume highlights the work of ten forgotten and neglected social theorists in the hope of reinvigorating interest in their work and their potential contributions to the analysis of contemporary social issues. Each chapter includes a brief biographical sketch, an overview of the selected theorist’s work and significance, and the relevance of their work to one or more contemporary social ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom

    First-Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing

    Edited by Darcia Narvaez, Four Arrows (Don Trent Jacobs), Eugene Halton, Brian Collier, Georges Enderle ...
    Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing's contributors describe ways of being in the world that reflect a worldview that guided humanity for 99% of human history: They describe the practical traditional wisdom that stems from Nature-based relational cultures that were or are guided by this worldview. Such cultures did not cause the kinds of anti-Nature and de ... Read more

    $45.79 USD

  • New Forms of Consumption

    Consumers, Culture, and Commodification

    by Mark Gottdiener, Jorge Arditi, Matthew D. Bramlett, Karen A. Cerulo, Daniel Thomas Cook, E Melanie DuPuis, Eugene Halton, Beverly Mullings, Minjoo Oh, Seth Ovadia0, Cotten Seiler1, Noam Shoval2, Mark Sloan3, George Ritzer4, Chris Rojek5 ...
    Series series Postmodern Social Futures
    Consumption as a field of cultural studies overlaps with theories of postmodernism, the social construction of self, commodification in late capitalism, and the role of mass media in daily life. New forms of consumption such as those facilitated by cyberspace, themed environments, the commodification of sex, and the increasing role of leisure in society all play new and interesting roles in daily ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

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  • Flow

    The Psychology of Optimal Experience

    by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ...
    Series Book 6 - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
    “Csikszentmihalyi arrives at an insight that many of us can intuitively grasp, despite our insistent (and culturally supported) denial of this truth. That is, it is not what happens to us that determines our happiness, but the manner in which we make sense of that reality. . . . The manner in which Csikszentmihalyi integrates research on consciousness, personal psychology and spirituality is ... Read more

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  • The Web of Meaning

    Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe

    by Jeremy Lent ...
    "A profound personal meditation on human existence . . . weaving together . . . historic and contemporary thought on the deepest question of all: why are we here?" —Gabor Maté M.D., author, In the Realm of Hungry GhostsAs our civilization careens toward climate breakdown, ecological destruction, and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. The dominant worldview of ... Read more

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  • The Great Work

    Our Way into the Future

    by Thomas Berry ...
    Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work -- the most necessary and most ennobling work we will ever undertake. Berry's message is not one of doom but of hope. He reminds society of its function, ... Read more

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  • Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

    How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

    by Benjamin R. Barber ...
    "Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book."—Jackson LearsA powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers and where the primary goal is no longer to ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Life Cycle Completed

    by Erik H. Erikson, Joan M. Erikson ...
    "This book will last and last, because it contains the wisdom of two wonderfully knowing observers of our human destiny."—Robert ColesFor decades Erik H. Erikson's concept of the stages of human development has deeply influenced the field of contemporary psychology. Here, with new material by Joan M. Erikson, is an expanded edition of his final work. The Life Cycle Completed eloquently closes the ... Read more

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  • Ecotherapy

    Healing with Nature in Mind

    by Linda Buzzell ...
    In the 14 years since Sierra Club Books published Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner's groundbreaking anthology, Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, the editors of this new volume have often been asked: Where can I find out more about the psyche–world connection? How can I do hands–on work in this area? Ecotherapy was compiled to answer these and other urgent ... Read more

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  • Birth and Death of Meaning

    by Ernest Becker ...
    Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do. ... Read more

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  • Restoring the Kinship Worldview

    Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth

    by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), Darcia Narvaez PhD ...
    **28 speeches and reflections from Indigenous leaders around the worldWisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a pathway forward toward sustainable, interconnected futures**Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present and discuss 28 powerful ... Read more

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