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  • Climate Change, Social Inequality, and Doom

    by William M. Epstein ...
    A critical examination of how inequality and cultural inertia hinder meaningful climate action.The challenges of climate change, like so many issues today, are not evenly distributed across social and economic lines. In this sobering exploration of the interconnected crises of climate change and social inequality, William M. Epstein examines how entrenched cultural values and systemic inequities ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Psychotherapy As Religion

    The Civil Divine In America

    by William M. Epstein ...
    ***A provocative look at America on the couch.***In Psychotherapy as Religion, William Epstein sets out to debunk claims that psychotherapy provides successful clinical treatment for a wide range of personal and social problems. He argues that the practice is not a science at all but rather the civil religion of America, reflecting the principles of radical self-invention and self-reliance deeply ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Psychotherapy and the Social Clinic in the United States

    Soothing Fictions

    by William M. Epstein ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book offers a compelling critical analysis of American society by examining the role of psychotherapy within social policy and the culture that has fashioned it. It takes a deeply critical look at ‘the social clinic,’ defined here as a ubiquitous organizational arrangement that includes clinical and community psychology, counseling, clinical social work, psychiatry, much of the self-help ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Democracy Without Decency

    Good Citizenship and the War on Poverty

    by William M. Epstein ...
    The conservative attacks on the welfare system in the United States over the past several decades have put liberal defenders of poverty relief and social insurance programs on the defensive. In this no-holds-barred look at the reality of American social policy since World War II, William Epstein argues that this defense is not worth mounting—that the claimed successes of American social programs ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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    What's Become of the Common Good?

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  • Character Strengths and Virtues : A Handbook and Classification

    A Handbook and Classification

    by Christopher Peterson;Martin E. P. Seligman ...
    Character" has become a front-and-center topic in contemporary discourse but this term does not have a fixed meaning. Character may be simply defined by what someone does not do but a more active and thorough definition is necessary one that addresses certain vital questions. Is character a singular characteristic of an individual or is it composed of different aspects? Does character--however we ... Read more

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  • American Marxism

    by Mark R. Levin ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe seven-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, Fox News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin explains how the dangers he warned against in the “timely yet timeless” (David Limbaugh, author of Jesus Is Risen) bestseller Liberty and Tyranny have come to pass.In 2009, Mark R. Levin galvanized conservatives with his unforgettable manifesto Liberty and Tyranny, by provi. ... Read more

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  • The Abusive Personality

    Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships

    by Donald G. Dutton ...
    This influential book provides an innovative framework for understanding and treating intimate partner violence. Integrating a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, Donald G. Dutton demonstrates that male abusiveness is more than just a learned pattern of behavior--it is the outgrowth of a particular personality configuration. He illuminates the development of the abusive personality ... Read more

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  • The Road to Freedom

    Economics and the Good Society

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedom.We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for ... Read more

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  • Systems of Psychotherapy

    A Transtheoretical Analysis

    by James O. Prochaska, John C. Norcross ...
    Comprehensive, systematic, and balanced, Systems of Psychotherapy uses a wealth of clinical cases to help readers understand a wide variety of psychotherapies - including psychodynamic, existential, experiential, interpersonal, exposure, behavioral, cognitive, third wave, systemic, multicultural, and integrative. The ninth edition of this landmark text thoroughly analyzes 15 leading systems of ... Read more

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  • Slow Down

    The Degrowth Manifesto

    by KOHEI SAITO ...
    Translated by Brian Bergstrom ...
    **"Accessible and convincing."—Sally Rooney"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary proposal."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Saito’s clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and conversational, gentle, yet urgent tone . . . are sure to win over open-minded readers who understand the dire nature of our global situation . . . A cogently ... Read more

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  • House of Cards

    by Robyn Dawes ...
    Robin Dawes spares no one in this powerful critique of modern psychotherapeutic practice. As Dawes points out, we have all been swayed by the "pop psych" view of the world--believing, for example, that self-esteem is an essential precursor to being a productive human being, that events in one's childhood affect one's fate as an adult, and that "you have to love yourself before you can love another ... Read more

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