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  • Addiction Literature's Past and Present

    by Mark Ronan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Addiction Literature's Past and Present aims to realign consideration of addiction as a transhistorical and transcultural aspect of the human condition. This book illuminates the premodern roots of the linguistic and narrative materials of addiction discourse and argues for Addiction Literature to be considered as a distinct literary phenomenon, with a history stretching back to Antiquity. ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Symmetry and the Monster

    One of the greatest quests of mathematics

    by Mark Ronan ...
    Imagine a giant snowflake in 196,884 dimensions... This is the story of a mathematical quest that began two hundred years ago in revolutionary France, led to the biggest collaboration ever between mathematicians across the world, and revealed the 'Monster' - not monstrous at all, but a structure of exquisite beauty and complexity. Told here for the first time in accessible prose, it is a story ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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  • Madness:A Brief History

    A Brief History

    by Roy Porter ...
    This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day.Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac.The origins of current debates about how we define ... Read more

    $16.99 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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  • 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

  • Facing Down the Furies

    Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me

    by Edith Hall ...
    An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselvesIn Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta, queen of Thebes, has killed herself. To prepare listeners for this terrible news, he announces, “The tragedies that hurt the most are those that ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare

    by Steven Mullaney ...
    The crises of faith that fractured Reformation Europe also caused crises of individual and collective identity. Structures of feeling as well as structures of belief were transformed; there was a reformation of social emotions as well as a Reformation of faith.As Steven Mullaney shows in The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare, Elizabethan popular drama played a significant role in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Psychology in Western Civilization

    by Bruce K. Alexander, Curtis P. Shelton ...
    This book is a re-introduction to psychology. It focuses on great scholarly thinkers, beginning with Plato, Marcus Aurelius and St Augustine, who gave the field its foundational ideas long before better known 'founders', such as Galton, Fechner, Wundt and Watson, appeared on the scene. Psychology can only achieve its full breadth and potential when we fully appreciate its scholarly legacy. Bruce ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare's Theatre

    The Early Modern Body-Mind

    Edited by Laurie Johnson, John Sutton, Evelyn Tribble ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    This collection considers issues that have emerged in Early Modern Studies in the past fifteen years relating to understandings of mind and body in Shakespeare’s world. Informed by The Body in Parts, the essays in this book respond also to the notion of an early modern ‘body-mind’ in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries are understood in terms of bodily parts and cognitive processes. What ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity

    Studies of Verbal Hallucinations

    by Ivan Leudar, Philip Thomas ...
    Records of people experiencing verbal hallucinations or 'hearing voices' can be found throughout history. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity examines almost 2,800 years of these reports including Socrates, Schreber and Pierre Janet's "Marcelle", to provide a clear understanding of the experience and how it may have changed over the millenia. Through six cases of historical and contemporary voice ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Narcissism and Suicide in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

    by Eric Langley ...
    The subjects of this book are the subjects whose subjects are themselves.Narcissus so himself himself forsook,And died to kiss his shadow in the brook.In accusing the introspective Adonis of narcissistic self-absorption, Shakespeare's Venus employs a geminative construction - 'himself himself' - that provides a keynote for this study of Renaissance reflexive subjectivity. Through close analysis of ... Read more

    $119.69 USD

  • Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body

    Edited by Sujata Iyengar ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    This book considers early modern and postmodern ideals of health, vigor, ability, beauty, well-being, and happiness, uncovering and historicizing the complex negotiations among physical embodiment, emotional response, and communally-sanctioned behavior in Shakespeare's literary and material world. The volume visits a series of questions about the history of the body and how early modern cultures ... Read more

    $61.99 USD