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  • Projecting the Holocaust into the Present

    The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema

    by Lawrence Baron ...
    Most Holocaust scholars and survivors contend that the event was so catastrophic and unprecedented that it defies authentic representation in feature films. Yet it is precisely the extremity of "the Final Solution" and the issues it raised that have fueled the cinematic imagination since the end of World War II. Recognizing that movies reach a greater audience than eyewitness, historical, or ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Rethinking Poles and Jews

    Troubled Past, Brighter Future

    by Natalia Aleksiun, Lawrence Baron, Havi Ben-Sasson, Guy Billauer, Stanislaw Krajewski, Joanna B. Michlic, Shana Penn, Antony Polonsky, Thaddeus Radzilowski, Helene Sinnreich, Carolyn Slutsky, Eli Zborowski, Mieczyslaw B. Biskupski, Rabbi Michael Schudrich, John T. Pawlikowski ...
    Since Polish Catholics embraced some anti-Jewish notions and actions prior to WWII, many intertwined the Nazi death camps in Poland with Polish anti-Semitism. As a result, more so than local non-Jewish population in other Nazi-occupied countries, Polish Catholics were considered active collaborators in the destruction of European Jewry. Through the presentation of these negative images in ... Read more

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  • Embracing the Other

    Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism

    Edited by Pearl Oliner, Samuel P. Oliner, Lawrence Baron, Lawrence Blum ...
    All but buried for most of the twentieth century, the concept of altruism has re-emerged in this last quarter as a focus of intense scholarly inquiry and general public interest. In the wake of increased consciousness of the human potential for destructiveness, both scholars and the general public are seeking interventions which will not only inhibit the process, but may in fact chart a new ... Read more

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  • Prisoners Of Hate

    The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence

    by Aaron T. Beck ...
    A comprehensive study of the dysfunctional thinking that results in destructive behavior, as well as suggestions for remedying these problems.World-renowned psychiatrist Dr. Aaron T. Beck, widely hailed as the father of cognitive therapy, presents a revolutionary and eye-opening look at destructive behavior in Prisoners of Hate. He applies his established principles on the relationships between ... Read more

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  • Understanding Human Values

    by Milton Rokeach ...
    This volume presents theoretical, methodological, and empirical advances in understanding, and also in the effects of understanding, individual and societal values. ... Read more

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  • The Self Beyond Itself

    An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will

    by Heidi M. Ravven ...
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  • An Analysis of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow

    by Jacqueline Allan ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman’s work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns of the dangers of trusting to intuition – which springs from “fast” but broad and emotional thinking – rather than engaging in the slower, harder ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman's Judgment under Uncertainty

    Heuristics and Biases

    by Camille Morvan, William J. Jenkins ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman’s 1974 paper ‘Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases’ is a landmark in the history of psychology. Though a mere seven pages long, it has helped reshape the study of human rationality, and had a particular impact on economics – where Tversky and Kahneman’s work helped shape the entirely new sub discipline of ‘behavioral economics.’The paper investigates ... Read more

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  • Society in the Self

    A Theory of Identity in Democracy

    by Hubert J. M. Hermans ...
    Instead of considering society as a social environment, Society in the Self begins from the assumption that society works in the deepest regions of self and identity, as expressed in phenomena like self-sabotage, self-radicalization, self-cure, self-government, self-nationalization, and self-internationalization. This leads to the central thesis that a democratic society can only function properly ... Read more

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  • Political Psychology

    Edited by Kristen Renwick Monroe ...
    With a list of contributors that reads like a "Who's Who" of political psychology, this comprehensive volume introduces the major concepts, debates, and themes in the field and provides an overview of its intellectual development, its disparate parts, the major controversies and some suggestions for the future direction of the field. ... Read more

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  • Nostalgia

    A Psychological Resource

    by Clay Routledge ...
    Series series Essays in Social Psychology
    Nostalgia is a topic that most lay people are familiar with, but, until recently, few social scientists understood. Once viewed as a disease, nostalgia is now considered to be an important psychological resource. It involves revisiting personally cherished memories that involve close others. When people engage in nostalgia, they experience a boost in positive psychological states such as positive ... Read more

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