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  • Autonomy-Supportive Teaching in Higher Education

    A Practical Guide for College Professors

    by Patrick M. Whitehead ...
    This book is for college faculty who are tired of student apathy, disinterest, and confrontation, and who are interested in helping their students cultivate inner motivational resources. Autonomous learners are interested in more than getting a good grade or doing as they’re told—they benefit from the motivations that increase need satisfaction, lead to lifelong learning, and support a wide ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Psychologizing

    A Personal, Practice-Based Approach to Psychology

    by Patrick M. Whitehead ...
    Psychologizing introduces students to the study of psychology by encouraging them to approach the subject on a personal level. Classroom-tested, the psychologizing model emphasizes learning through practice. A conversational and highly engaging narrative prompts students to begin thinking like psychologists as they examine key concepts, including learning, development, personality, and emotion. ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Expanding the Category "Human"

    Nonhumanism, Posthumanism, and Humanistic Psychology

    by Patrick M. Whitehead ...
    The climate within the discipline of psychology has changed considerably since the middle of the twentieth century. More specifically, what it means to be a human has changed. In Expanding the Category “Human”: Nonhumanism, Posthumanism, and Humanistic Psychology, Patrick M. Whitehead argues that the metaphysical problems that psychologists faced sixty years ago are not the same ones they face ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Existential Health Psychology

    The Blind-spot in Healthcare

    by Patrick M. Whitehead ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This volume critiques the increasingly reductive, objectifying, and technologized orientation in mainstream biomedicine. Drawing on the methods of hermeneutic phenomenology and existential analysis in the work of Martin Heidegger, Kurt Goldstein, Medard Boss, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, the author seeks to expose this lacuna and explore the ways in which it misrepresents (or misunderstands) the human ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Resituating Humanistic Psychology

    Finding Meaning in an Age of Medicalization, Digitization, and Identity Politics

    by Miles Groth, Patrick M. Whitehead ...
    In Resituating Humanistic Psychology, Patrick Whitehead and Miles Groth urge psychologists to return to the aims and goals of psychology as it first emerged. Illustrating how the field has veered from its initial conception, Whitehead and Groth trace its growth from the late 1800s to the humanistic revolution of the 1960s to the current period of social unrest. Whitehead and Groth touch on Wilhelm ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • African Americans in the U.S. Economy

    Edited by Cecilia A. Conrad, John Whitehead, Patrick L. Mason, James Stewart ...
    Over the last several decades, academic discourse on racial inequality has focused primarily on political and social issues with significantly less attention on the complex interplay between race and economics. African Americans in the U.S. Economy represents a contribution to recent scholarship that seeks to lessen this imbalance.This book builds upon, and significantly extends, the principles, ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • Education in a Postfactual World

    From Knowing to Understanding

    by Patrick M. Whitehead, Ph.D. ...
    In this book, Whitehead argues against the fact-minded orientation of education and the practice of science. It is not that facts are unhelpful, but they have become a substitute for learning (learning is now tantamount to fact memorization). This change handicaps students by eliminating the possibility of creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking; it handicaps science by limiting the kinds of ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Beaver Moose Canoe

    by Lintusen Press, Janet Whitehead, Lee F. Patrick, Shawn L. Bird, Ace Baker, Lisa Baker, Antoinette Bekker, Sandra Bunting, Lenore Butcher, Deborah Dimshaw, J. L. G. Dufort, Jenna Greene, Emily Groot, Anita Joldersma, Jennifer Korpela, Shirlee Smith Matheson, Murgatroyd Monaghan, Mary Tortosa, Sheila Webster ...
    What's more Canadian than this?A beaver that's lost its tail, dancing moose and canoe trips are just the beginning. There are also haunted islands, mystical ferry crossings, giant mosquitos, shifters, lake monsters, aliens, super heroes, and icons of the past.Come drive vast distances, drink coffee at Tims, laugh at the Leafs, and celebrate the joys of new Canadians.This collection of new Canadian ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Thomas Sowell ...
    From renowned economist Thomas Sowell, an indispensable examination of widespread economic fallacies**"From one of America's most noted conservative economists, a short, original book that offers some unconventional ideas about how to think about common economic topics." ―**Baltimore SunIn Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues ... Read more

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  • The Harder I Fight the More I Love You

    A Memoir

    by Neko Case ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN APPLE BEST BOOK OF THE MONTHSinger-songwriter Neko Case paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary life—one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood, obsessive desire, bursts of comedy, and indispensable friendships—reflecting on the way art, music, and a deep connection to nature helped her become a beloved, Grammy-nominated artist.... ... Read more

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  • LIFE AFTER GOD

    by Douglas Coupland ...
    In this compellingly innovative collection of stories, bestselling author Douglas Coupland cuts through the hype of modern living to find a rare grace amid our lives—uncovering a new kind of truth for a culture stuck on fast-forward: a culture seemingly beyond God.We are the first generation raised without God. We are creatures with strong religious impulses, yet they have nowhere to flow in this ... Read more

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  • The Great Divergence

    America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It

    by Timothy Noah ...
    For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has till now been treated as little more than a talking point, a ... Read more

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