2002-01-01,Elisa Frauenfelder and Flavia Santoianni,"Mind, Learning, and Knowledge in Educational Contexts: Research Perspectives in Bioeducational Science",Hardback,9781904303213,9.99,"Bioeducational sciences are a broad field of study, uniting concepts from many disciplines (education, psychology, and neuroscience). At the heart of bioeducational sciences lie the fundamental questions of mind-brain and nature-nurture relationships linked to educational practical aspects. Bioeducational sciences may have three main lines of research:
1. epigenetic perspectives: studies on filogenetic evolution (evolutionary perspectives) and mind/brain ontogenesis (ontogenetic perspectives);
2. biodynamic perspectives: analysis of biological bases of learning process (biological perspectives) and individual rethinking as a whole (whole organismic perspectives);
3.synergic perspectives: mind is distributed and situated and knowledge structures are embedded in domain specific contexts (cultural and domain specific perspectives).
The aim of this volume is to identify key foundational questions and classical areas of study characterizing bioeducational sciences as a field of research that considers both the extent to which biologically prepared structures constrain individual cognitive functioning and the relations between individual cognitive development and cultural domains. Believing education part of the cultural elaboration process and recognizing the importance of neuroscience research findings for educational practice, this volume focuses on topics such as the epigenesis of mind, cognitive development, learning processes, knowledge structures, theories of mind and folk theories, interaction between emotion and cognition, cognition and metacognition, and between symbolic and biological systems, across various disciplines and through a cross-cultural perspective.",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2006-05-01,Vanessa Joosen and Katrien Vloeberghs,Changing Concepts of Childhood and Children's Literature,Hardback,9781904303794,34.99,"The varied collection of essays presented in this volume bridges the gap between continental and Anglo-American approaches to children’s literature, and discuss the state of the art of what is topical in children’s literature studies in Europe and the United States. Varied as the different subject areas under discussion are, considering different subgenres, historical periods, and geographical contexts, two main themes surface in nearly all the essays: ideology and children’s literature on the one hand, and images of childhood on the other.
The contributions illustrate the wide range of subject areas and the increasing level of sophistication with which criticism of ideology and Cultural Studies have enriched children’s literature criticism. The essays address, among others, the influence of globalisation and mass market culture on the production of children’s books, as well as the choices governing the production of translations and adaptations of texts for young readers. Representing a broad array of methodological approaches and of representations of childhood, this publication intends to render visible actual manifestations of the tension between pedagogy and aesthetics, inherent to and constitutive of children’s literature.",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2006-06-01,Eric Chelstrom,Being Amongst Others: Phenomenological Reflections on the Life-world,Hardback,9781904303992,39.99,"Our world can be a bewildering place. The sense of awe and wonder at the states of affairs in which we find ourselves immersed give rise to philosophical questions. Philosophical reflection is a critical attempt to come to grips with our place in the world and the various problems we encounter in respect to the complexities encountered in everyday life. In the most basic terms, phenomenology is the study of the structures and relations of phenomena.
Phenomenology begins from a descriptive analysis of our experiences of the world. It grants precedent to the first person perspective–how phenomena appear to consciousness. There are any number of problems related to the plenitude of kinds of experiences which confront us through the course of our lives, in addition to the structure of consciousness itself. This volume presents a variety of views on a number of the phenomena of our everyday lives, offering positions on such things from the nature of consciousness to the structures of religious or political experiences. Its appeal, however, should not be limited to philosophers alone–given that all persons can relate to the subject matter of the essays. For instance, one author asks, “what is friendship?” The present work may also be understood as a gesture toward bridging the division between the valuable insights of continental and analytic philosophical traditions. The authors include a combination of established academics, such as Jeffrey Wattles–the best-selling author of The Golden Rule–and young scholars from varied philosophical backgrounds.
This collection is divided into four sections: (I) Foundational Elements of Experience; (II) The Experiencing Subject: What is it to be a Subject?; (III) Amongst Others: The Social World; and (IV) Social Objects and Institutions. Each section represents a level of experience, from the most basic structures of experience, to the subject’s experience of the world and objects in it, to experiences and interactions with others, ending at the results of the codifications of certain social practices and beliefs. The sections treat their respective topics principally, even if they share material with other essays. Our experiences of the life-world, the world of human praxis, contain a multiplicity of elements; the divisions of this work are meant to demarcate various types of phenomena, not to offer any definitive thesis regarding a hierarchy or structure of relations.",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2006-07-01,Ezio Di Nucci and Conor McHugh,"Content, Consciousness, and Perception: Essays in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind",Hardback,9781847180179,34.99,"What sort of thing is the mind? And how can such a thing at the same time
- belong to the natural world,
- represent the world,
- give rise to our subjective experience,
- and ground human knowledge?
Content, Consciousness and Perception is an edited collection, comprising eleven new contributions to the philosophy of mind, written by some of the most promising young philosophers in the UK and Ireland. The book is arranged into three parts. Part I, “Concepts and Mental Content”, which begins with an attack by Hans-Johann Glock on the representational theory of mind, addresses the nature of mental representation. Part II, “Consciousness and the Metaphysics of Mind”, concerns the prospects for a naturalistic metaphysics of the conscious mind. Finally, Part III, entitled “Perception”, pursues the project of giving a satisfactory philosophical account of perceptual experience.
The book begins with an introductory essay by the editors, which provides an overview of the state of contemporary philosophy of mind, locating the articles to follow within that context.
The individual chapters of Content, Consciousness and Perception are professional contributions to their respective areas, of interest to any philosopher of mind. The volume as a whole is ideal for non-specialists and students interested in getting to grips with the state of the art in contemporary philosophy of mind.
","'If you want to know what the next but one generation of philosophers of mind are thinking about now, *Content, Consciousness and Perception* is a terrific place to look. This wide-ranging international collection is relevant to psychologists and cognitive scientists as well as philosophers.'
Tim Williamson
Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford University
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-01-01,Flavia Santoianni and Claudia Sabatano,Brain Development in Learning Environments: Embodied and Perceptual Advancements,Hardback,9781847180988,34.99,"This volume is the most recent outcome in the field of bioeducational research, an emergent entanglement of study – opened by the main Author – encouraging the dialogue between education, psychology, neuroscience and biological sciences.
The volume focuses on biodynamic perspectives, analysing the following themes: learning environments and brain development, embodiment and adaptive cognition, perceptual systems and sensorial knowledge.
The links are highlighted between neural, social, evolutive and contextual basis of cognition, body schemata representations, embodied cognition, cognitive modifiability and educability, perceptual intelligence and neural modelling for educational design and brain development in learning environments.",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-01-01,Benoit Hardy-Vallée,Cognitive Decision-Making: Empirical and Foundational Issues,Hardback,9781847181077,24.99,"Cognitive Decision-Making is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in psychology, philosophy, neuroscience and biology about decision-making. While it has been a topic for economists, logicians and psychologists for many years, decision-making is gaining more attention now from a diverse array of approaches. In 2005, a conference was held at the Université du Québec at Montreal (UQAM) and allowed researchers from various fields to interact and discuss such issues. Cognitio 2005 was an occasion for philosophers, cognitive scientists and biologists to present the latest development in their discipline, and this book aims at providing a general overview of current research in the field of cognitive decision-making. This book is intended for scholars interested in the nature, modeling, evolution and substrate of decision-making.",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-02-01,Marion Kostanski,The Power of Compassion: An Exploration of the Psychology of Compassion in the 21st Century,Hardback,9781847181152,34.99,"We entered the 21st Century full of anxiety, with the promised threat of a millennium bug that could potentially cripple our lives. Since then we have witnessed an increasing level of angst and despair across the world as warnings of climate change, and economic hardships have been forecast. Wars have raged, a new evil has entered our consciousness, and the word “terrorism” has come to the forefront of our lexicon. Millions of innocent people have lost their lives. Today we are witnessing the ever-increasing state of displaced persons being shuffled from makeshift home to make shift home, being locked up in camps and cut off from the rest of society. Everywhere around us we hear about increases in depression and mental health disorders among the general population. Young people are checking out of the mainstream, there are phenomenal increases in the rate of suicide and older people are living out wretched lives, isolated and alone. Multinational corporations have been accused of extorting vulnerable peoples for economic gain and consumption seems to be our new idol.
What is becoming of our society? How do we make sense of or world? The essays in this book provide a compelling insight and reflection into the work of health professionals as they struggle to make sense of their work and the world around them in this new century. From exploring the concept of Living Compassion, working with the good, bad and ugly aspects of our lives, and reflecting on practice, the authors discuss their ideas on compassion. They offer you, the reader, an opportunity to reflect on your own daily practice and to go forward with a sense of shared humanity.",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-05-01,"Leonid Dorfman, Colin Martindale, and Vladimir Petrov",Aesthetics and Innovation,Hardback,9781847181879,44.99,"In this book we attempted to gather together a set of chapters that describe new ways of approaching questions about aesthetics and innovation. Rather than going over old ground, the chapters describe attempts to break out in new directions. The book begins with a description of von Ehrenfel’s development of a Gestalt theory of aesthetics so evocative of the Vienna of 1900 that readers will wish that they had been there to experience the intellectual excitement and ends with a survey the very latest research on brain scan research on perception of art. In between, we encounter chapters as diverse as a description of cognitive effects on art perception and on the analogies between oscillations in art history and waves in the physical world. About half of the book contains chapters by well known western psychological aestheticians and half chapters by Russian scholars many of whom will be new to western readers. As well as describing new methods and results, the chapters by Russian scholars will be novel to most western readers, because the Russian perspective on aesthetics and innovation is rather different than the traditional western perspectives. Looking at phenomena from new viewpoints never hurts and very often helps in science.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-06-01,Chris N van der Merwe and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela,Narrating our Healing: Perspectives on Working through Trauma,Hardback,9781847182081,29.99,"In the 1990’s, South Africa surprised the world with a peaceful, negotiated transition from armed conflict to an inclusive democracy. This was followed by the ground-breaking Truth and Reconciliation Commission, established to confront and work through a troubled past. The search for truth and reconciliation in South Africa, however, is far from completed; the country is in many ways still burdened by unresolved individual and collective traumas. In this book, two academics from the University of Cape Town, one a psychologist and the other a literary scholar, explore the importance of narrative as a way of working through trauma. Although written from within a South African context, the work has a much wider relevance. It offers illuminating perspectives on the process of “narrating our healing”: the sharing of personal narratives, the appropriation of literary narratives, and above all, the re-creating of life narratives shattered by trauma. It is a book about the search for meaning when all meaning seems to have been lost; it deals with the overwhelming nature of traumatic suffering, yet offers some hope of healing.
The book is remarkably overarching, tailored to the needs of scientists and practitioners in the fields of psychology, social work, education and literature. It offers a strong message to all individuals and nations who live in an atmosphere of blame, shame and hopelessness.
- Yuval Wolf, Professor of Psychology and Dean of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University.
Narrating Our Healing is a good book in the widest sense of that adjective: it is well constructed, meticulously researched, and likely to deepen understanding of the difficult but profoundly important subject of trauma and how to address it. It is something like a handbook for living with suffering – both one’s own and that of others. To have constructed a text that can serve such a purpose is a profoundly admirable achievement. Annie Gagiano, LitNet.
It is a timeous and exciting study that should be essential reading for anyone grappling with our present, our past and our future.
- André P Brink – South African and international author
This is one of the best books I have ever read on healing deep wounds.
- Vamÿk D. Volkan, M. D. Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia.
We need to know the truth about what happened in South Africa during the Apartheid years. Van der Merwe and Gobodo-Madikizela have given us the tools to face that challenge.
- Rolf Wolfswinkel, Professor of Modern History, New York University.
","""Books like this one provide an opportunity for narrative researchers to address the often rather uneasy relation between their work, and work which takes narrative as a medium of personal and social change from individual narrative therapy, through narrative community theatre projects, to large-scale social interventions through popular media narratives. Much more than this, though, this particular book offers a highly sophisticated, though controversial, take on relations between narrative and social change, which many narrative researchers can usefully consider in relation to their own work.
Mos obviously, Narrating Our Healing gives an insightful account of how people deal, individually and collectively, with the aftermath of genocides and violent political oppression, particularly that lived through by the authors.""
-Professor Corinne Squire in Narrative Inquiry 18:1 (2008) 181-185
""The book is remarkably overarching, tailored to the needs of scientists and practitioners in the fields of psychology, social work, education and literature. It offers a strong message to all individuals and nations who live in an atmosphere of blame, shame and hopelessness.""
-Yuval Wolf, Professor of Psychology and Dean of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University
""Narrating Our Healing is a good book in the widest sense of that adjective: it is well constructed, meticulously researched, and likely to deepen understanding of the difficult but profoundly important subject of trauma and how to address it. It is something like a handbook for living with suffering – both one’s own and that of others. To have constructed a text that can serve such a purpose is a profoundly admirable achievement.""
-Annie Gagiano, LitNet
""It is a timeous and exciting study that should be essential reading for anyone grappling with our present, our past and our future.""
-André P Brink, South African and international author
""This is one of the best books I have ever read on healing deep wounds.""
- Vamÿk D. Volkan, M. D. Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia.
""We need to know the truth about what happened in South Africa during the Apartheid years. Van der Merwe and Gobodo-Madikizela have given us the tools to face that challenge.""
- Rolf Wolfswinkel, Professor of Modern History, New York University
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-07-01,"Eddie Edgerton, Ombretta Romice and Christopher Spencer",Environmental Psychology: Putting Research into Practice,Hardback,9781847182180,39.99,"This book contains a selection of nine detailed and varied research papers in the area of environment-behaviour studies. The papers are based on presentations at the 4th UK Environmental Psychology (EPUK4) conference that was held in Glasgow, Scotland in September 2005.
The conference theme centred on a recurring debate in Environmental Psychology and one which had recently been ‘reopened’ by Prof. Christopher Spencer (University of Sheffield), namely: “how can we ensure that the findings from high quality environment-behaviour research are put into practice in ‘real-world’ applications”? This book outlines current views on the debate along with suggestions on how we might more effectively address this ‘research-practice’ relationship.
EPUK is an informal organisation that brings together environmental psychologists and other professionals working in the area of environment-behaviour research. EPUK4 was jointly organised by Dr. Edward Edgerton (University of Paisley) and Dr. Ombretta Romice (University of Strathclyde), and was attended by around sixty international experts in the field.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-08-01,Lorelei Atalie Vargas and Sandra L. Bloom,"Loss, Hurt and Hope: The Complex Issues of Bereavement and Trauma in Children",Hardback,9781847182548,34.99,"What happens when a child experiences bereavement or trauma or both? When left untreated, childhood trauma crosses generational boundaries, developing risk factors that far outpace the threat of any other childhood disease, and yet, most children who have lived through a significant traumatic experience, usually do not get the care they need to begin their healing process. Children who have experienced trauma are often left grappling with devastating loss – loss of self esteem, security, innocence and trust – that is more challenging to diagnose and treat, than the more concrete loss of family, a pet or a home.
Loss, Hurt and Hope: The Complex Issues of Bereavement and Trauma in Children gathers the collective wisdom of professionals who have spent years on the front lines working with children victimized by trauma. Each chapter illuminates how loss can shape a child’s development and provides professionals with the tools necessary to help these children move from despair to hope and renewal. Experts in the field of child trauma explore the vulnerability of these children, effective methods of caring for them in a variety of treatment settings, and examine the impact of loss on organizations charged with caring for those who have experienced trauma. Loss, Hurt and Hope offers a multifaceted lens through which loss can be examined and appreciated, laying the groundwork for significant progress toward improving the understanding of the power of loss in our society.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-09-01,"Sherri McCarthy, Ph.D.; Stephen Newstead, Ph.D.; Victor Karandashev, Ph.D.; Carlo Prandini, Ph.D.; Claudio Hutz, Ph.D., and William Gomes, Ph.D",Teaching Psychology around the World,Hardback,9781847182593,44.99,"This important book is an overview of teaching psychology internationally. As psychology curricula become increasingly internationalised, it is necessary to understand and compare the various models for training psychologists and teaching psychology students. Incorporating research and perspectives from psychologists in more than 30 countries, it includes relevant information for secondary, undergraduate (baccalaureate) and post-graduate (M.A., Doctoral and Post-Doctoral) psychology programs and is a must-read for all instructors of psychology, as well as psychologists and psychology students interested in the international aspects of the discipline.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-10-01,"Carlo Penco, Michael Beaney and Massimiliano Vignolo ",Explaining the Mental: Naturalist and Non-Naturalist Approaches to Mental Acts and Processes,Hardback,9781847182975,39.99,"The aim of this collection of papers is to present different philosophical perspectives on the mental, exploring questions about how to define, explain and understand the various kinds of mental acts and processes, and exhibiting, in particular, the contrast between naturalistic and non-naturalistic approaches.
There is a long tradition in philosophy of clarifying concepts such as those of thinking, knowing and believing. The task of clarifying these concepts has become ever more important with the major developments that have taken place over the last century in the human and cognitive sciences - most notably, psychology, sociology, linguistics, neurophysiology, AI, and cognitive science itself. In all these sciences, there is a need to delineate the domain of the mental and to elucidate the key concepts and underlying assumptions. This need is widely recognized, but approaches and answers vary significantly. Some stress the representational features involved in most of our mental processes, others the inferential dimension; some stress the necessity of using empirical data, others the need to refine ideas before pursuing and drawing on empirical research.
The papers collected in this volume are grouped into four parts, on language and thought, on knowledge, belief and action, on intentionality, and on naturalism. The volume will be welcomed by all those engaged and interested in debates about the mental in philosophy and the human and cognitive sciences.
Table of Contents
PART I: LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT
Andrew Woodfield, Public Words Considered as Vehicles of Thinking
Andrea Bianchi, Speaking and Thinking (Or: A More Kaplanian Way
to a Unified Account of Language and Thought)
Stefano Predelli, The Strange Case of the Missing Constituent
PART II: KNOWLEDGE, BELIEF AND ACTION
Pascal Engel, Taking Seriously Knowledge as a Mental State
Carlo Gabbani, Epistemology and the Eliminative Stance
Jennifer Hornsby, Knowledge, Belief and Reasons for Acting
Wolfgang Künne, Some Varieties of Deception
PART III: INTENTIONALITY
Sandro Nannini, Intentionality Naturalised
Elisabetta Sacchi, Thought and Thinking: the Ontological Ground of
Intentionality
Elisabeth Pacherie, Is Collective Intentionality Really Primitive?
PART IV: NATURALISM
Marcello Frixione, Do Concepts exist? A Naturalistic Point of View
Tim Crane, Cosmic Hermeneutics vs. Emergence: the Challenge
of the Explanatory Gap
Achim Stephan and Robert C. Richardson, What Physicalism Should
Provide Us With
Mario De Caro, The Claims of Naturalism
","
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-01-01,Rosalyn M. King,"Enriching the Lives of Children: Creating Meaningful and Novel Stimulus Experiences to Promote Cognitive, Moral and Emotional Development",Hardback,9781847184429,29.99,"Enriching the Lives of Children is an exploration of innovations in teaching and learning. The book reflects scholarship, synthesis and creativity as the author reviews decades of research and practice on educational and instructional reforms designed to enrich learning and life for children, through novel and stimulating experiences.
The author reminds readers of the early notions of learning coming from such great thinkers as Aristotle, Husserl, Vygotsky, Piaget and Bruner; and, the parallels to the thinking of modern constructivist philosophers and teachers today. Teaching for meaning and constructing knowledge and understanding is important. Providing enriching, novel and stimulating instructional and supportive experiences is essential for successful learning and holistic development.
The author presents theoretical propositions about the need for authentic pedagogy and whole child development. Moreover, findings reveal that learning does not take place as a separate and isolated event. Brain, body and the developmental domains work together. Attention also is given to the nature and relationship of creativity to learning and development; and, particularly the contributions of play. Interesting suggestions and models from around the world are provided about children’s learning and enrichment, within and outside of the classroom.
As a leading scholar and interdisciplinary expert in education, psychology and learning environments across the lifespan, King provides a service to educators, parents and those interested in child development by synthesizing volumes of research into a coherent whole, with excellent suggestive strategies that can be used in educating and raising children.
Theoretical insights and strategies found in this book will improve the academy of teaching and learning and serve as a useful resource for educational and childcare professionals, policymakers and parents. For those that care about the future of our children and education, Enriching the Lives of Children is essential reading.
","“International comparisons, national test scores and parental anecdotes all indicate the same thing: America’s educational system is stagnating. And that stagnation threatens our ability to compete globally. In Enriching the Lives of Children, Dr. Rosalyn King gives us a much needed starting point for talking about what’s needed to elevate our approach to teaching.”
—Glenn DuBois, Ph.D., Chancellor, Virginia’s Community Colleges
“Pendulum swings in education are sometimes hard to see until after they have swung. Rosalyn King detects that there may, finally, be the beginning of a swing back from the grim pursuit of higher test scores to a more balanced, humane, and vital approach to education emphasizing creative learning and exploration. Professor King samples theory and research widely, including new brain research, and summarizes numerous exciting, stimulating programs from around the world for students of all ages. Truth be told, Professor King is pushing that pendulum for all she's worth, and one can only hope she succeeds in reversing momentum; the children of the world are counting on it.”
—David Henry Feldman, Ph.D., Professor, Tufts University, Author: Beyond Universals in Cognitive Development
""Dr. Rosalyn King has provided the educational community with a pedagogical and insightful approach to enriching the lives of students. Both professors and their students will find her book extremely useful and practical when teaching or learning how to teach. I am very excited to have such a powerful resource to recommend to other professionals.""
—Catherine Stower, Ph.D., NCC, LMHC, Headmaster, Academy Schools, WA
“This is an excellent guide for teachers and educators of teachers who seek to nurture children's full possibilities. During a period of extensive testing which narrows our vision of human potential and of the teacher's role, Dr. Rosalyn King opens the vistas for whole child development, validating varied approaches, enriching strategies, and multiple
experiences. Her book expands our thinking about dynamic modes of fostering learning.”
—Susan Riemer Sacks, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Barnard College, Columbia University
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-03-01,Chris N van der Merwe and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela,Narrating our Healing: Perspectives on Working through Trauma,Paperback,9781847184818,14.99,"In the 1990’s, South Africa surprised the world with a peaceful, negotiated transition from armed conflict to an inclusive democracy. This was followed by the ground-breaking Truth and Reconciliation Commission, established to confront and work through a troubled past. The search for truth and reconciliation in South Africa, however, is far from completed; the country is in many ways still burdened by unresolved individual and collective traumas. In this book, two academics from the University of Cape Town, one a psychologist and the other a literary scholar, explore the importance of narrative as a way of working through trauma. Although written from within a South African context, the work has a much wider relevance. It offers illuminating perspectives on the process of “narrating our healing”: the sharing of personal narratives, the appropriation of literary narratives, and above all, the re-creating of life narratives shattered by trauma. It is a book about the search for meaning when all meaning seems to have been lost; it deals with the overwhelming nature of traumatic suffering, yet offers some hope of healing.
The book is remarkably overarching, tailored to the needs of scientists and practitioners in the fields of psychology, social work, education and literature. It offers a strong message to all individuals and nations who live in an atmosphere of blame, shame and hopelessness.
- Yuval Wolf, Professor of Psychology and Dean of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University.
Narrating Our Healing is a good book in the widest sense of that adjective: it is well constructed, meticulously researched, and likely to deepen understanding of the difficult but profoundly important subject of trauma and how to address it. It is something like a handbook for living with suffering – both one’s own and that of others. To have constructed a text that can serve such a purpose is a profoundly admirable achievement. Annie Gagiano, LitNet.
It is a timeous and exciting study that should be essential reading for anyone grappling with our present, our past and our future.
- André P Brink – South African and international author
This is one of the best books I have ever read on healing deep wounds.
- Vamÿk D. Volkan, M. D. Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia.
We need to know the truth about what happened in South Africa during the Apartheid years. Van der Merwe and Gobodo-Madikizela have given us the tools to face that challenge.
- Rolf Wolfswinkel, Professor of Modern History, New York University.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-06-01,Benoit Hardy-Vallée and Nicolas Payette,"Beyond the Brain: Embodied, Situated and Distributed Cognition",Hardback,9781847185983,34.99,"Cognitive science faces a major methodological and conceptual change since the 90's. Whereas the brain was traditionally conceived as being the only seat of intelligence, many researches emphasize the entrenchment of the brain in body, context and culture. In 2006, a conference was held at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and allowed researchers from various fields to interact and discuss such issues. Cognitio 2006 was an occasion for philosophers, cognitive scientists and biologists to present the latest developments in their discipline, and this book aims at providing a general overview of current research on embodied, situated and distributed cognition.
","
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-06-01,Lisa Gjedde and Bruno Ingemann,Researching Experiences: Exploring Processual and Experimental Methods in Cultural Analysis,Hardback,9781847186003,34.99,"In the beginning was – not the word – but the experience. This phenomenological approach provides the basis for this book, which focuses on how a person-in-situation experiences and constructs meaning from a variety of cultural visual events.
This book presents video-based processual methods for researching experiences in a variety of settings ranging from the museum, to news photography, and interactive media. The research led to the development of a set of methodological tools and approaches we term the reflexivity lab. The interaction in the experimental situation between the media and body, dialogue, moods, values and narratives have been investigated qualitatively with more than sixty informants in a range of projects. The processual methodological insights are put into a theoretical perspective and also presented as pragmatic dilemmas.
Researching Experiences is relevant not only for students and researchers in media and communication studies but also for practitioners within the fields of media, communication and experience design.
","""The book supports the reader in moving beyond a verbal account of experience to a more complex, situated and nuanced account of experience as visual, embodied and spatial. In doing so the book offers ways to respond to the complex multimodal environment of the twenty-first century.""
-- Dr Carey Jewitt, Reader in Education and Technology, Institute of Education, University of London.
""As new media technologies develop, new research methodologies are required to investigate them. Gjedde and Ingemann approach this important topic imaginatively, and with a wealth of experience.""
-- Dr Judy Robertson, Heriot-Watt University
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-07-01,Philip Brownell,"Handbook for Theory, Research, and Practice in Gestalt Therapy",Hardback,9781847186072,39.99,"
Many books have been written about gestalt therapy. Not many have been written on the relationship between gestalt therapy and psychotherapy research. The Handbook for Theory, Research, and Practice in Gestalt Therapy is a needed bridge between these two concerns, and a timely addition to scholarly literature on gestalt therapy itself. In 2007 an international team of experienced gestalt therapists devoted themselves to create this book, and they have collaborated with one another to produce a challenging and enriching addition to the literature relevant to gestalt therapy.
The book discusses the philosophy of science, the need for research specifically focused on gestalt therapy, and the critical realism and natural attitude found in both research and gestalt praxis. It provides discussions of qualitative and quantitative research, describes the methods of gestalt therapy as based in a unified theory, and illustrates the application of research in the contexts of emerging gestalt research communities. The discussion contained in this book is needed at a time when warrant for the practice of psychotherapy is increasingly sought in the empirical support available through psychotherapy research–the so called evidence-based movement–and at a time when public policy is increasingly driven by the call for ""what works.""
","""Handbook for Theory, Research, and Practice in Gestalt Therapy is a long overdue book. It is a Herculean attempt to provide a blueprint for demonstrating that the value of this powerful psychotherapeutic model can be shown through qualitative and quantitative research, and
that it can take its place in the world of normal science. Brownell and his erudite contributors have combined to produce a volume that will be of great value to practitioners and theorists. They point the way for collaboration of these groups to help Gestalt Therapy take
its rightful place among academically respected psychology by studying the world of the clinic as scholar-practitioners would do. In so doing they invite us to complete the unfinished business of Gestalt therapy.
As one trained as a classical research psychologist, and then becoming one of the early people trained by the founders of Gestalt Therapy, reading this book felt like coming home. The ""revolution"" that I joined in 1956 is not completed, but in this volume we are given a guide to how to do so. I recommend this book to anyone who is serious about practicing his or her craft better by supporting it with a broader base, one that demonstrates that merging existential
phenomenology with phenomenological behaviorism can produce verifiable, replicable results for what is essentially an ideographic pursuit.""
Edwin C. Nevis, Ph.D., President, Gestalt Institute of Cleveland (1959-1973), Founder, GestaltPress and Gestalt Review, Co-Founder Gestalt international Study Center
""The Handbook for Theory, Research, and Practice in Gestalt Therapy will immediately become the classic reference to research and application in the Gestalt community. Edited by one of the premier scholars in the field and filled with rich contributions from a vertiable ""Who's Who"" of Gestalt researchers and therapists, this is certain to be the defining work on the integraton of practice, theory, and research in Gestalt work. The handbook is jam packed with concise theoretical summaries, gestalt therapy procedures, and a wide range of promising research approaches for scholar-practitioners in this growing discipline within mental health. Always loyal to the here and now of Gestalt tradition, this handbook also delivers the what and how with striking clarity and pragmatism. This seminal volume should occupy a prominent place on the desk of any serious Gestalt Therapy practitioner, teacher, reseacher, and student.""
W. Brad Johnson, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law, U.S. Naval Academy, Faculty Associate in the Graduate School of Business and Education, John Hopkins University
""I applaud Dr. Brownell's thoughtful perspectives on expanding gestalt therapy's dimensions. By his focus on the role of research he is creating the third leg of a tripod composed of theory, practice and research, promising increased balance and support for gestalt therapy's theoretical and procedural positions.""
Erving Polster, Ph.D., Director, The Gestalt Institute of San Diego, Author: Gestalt Therapy Integrated, Every Person's Life is Worth a Novel, From the Radical Center: The Heart of Gestalt Therapy, Uncommon Ground
""I found myself entranced by this elegant little hardback book...At this point inthe development of therapy, when we can so readily (and with good reason) feel our work is unappreciated and undervalued in the politically driven demand for evidence based research, it is heartening to see how an international group of gestalt theorists and clinicians have found it possible to band together to make a strong case for their approach - and make it on their own terms and from a deepening of their own philosophy.
It is worth saying (since aesthetics have a role to play in the way we relate to books as anything else) that the production quality of this text to make it a delight to hold. It is beautifully constructed and formatted on thick paper. Still more importantly, it is intellectually weighty and provides that rare thing - both a sound and engaging commentary on gestalt psychology (contributors are well-respected figures within the gestalt community) and an exploration of the contribution of this approach to psychotherapy research.""
Simon Du Plock in Existential Analysis; 20.2 (2009)
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-07-01,"Patric Andersson, Peter Ayton and Carsten Schmidt",Myths and Facts about Football: The Economics and Psychology of the World’s Greatest Sport,Hardback,9781847186225,39.99,"This book presents accounts of economic and psychological analyses of association football (or “soccer” as it is popularly known in the USA). As football is widely accepted to be the world’s most popular sport, the case for scientific investigation of its characteristics is self-evident. As the contributions to this book demonstrate, the game of football offers an ideal opportunity to empirically investigate a wide range of broad issues, for example: behavioural decision-making; judgmental forecasting; motivation; game-theoretic models of strategic choice; competition and labour markets.
Are teams more likely to concede a goal after having just scored? Does the team going first in a penalty shoot-out have an advantage? Should goal-keepers dive or stay put for penalty kicks? Do referees make decisions consistently? Why do fans like their teams? What factors influence the career of footballers? How well can experts predict football matches? How accurate are prediction markets? How does the stock-market react to match outcomes? These questions and others are addressed in this book. A particular focus is the investigation of popular conceptions—and misconceptions—about football.
Of interest to psychologists, behavioural economists and football enthusiasts with an analytic approach to understanding the game, this book brings together contributions from a range of academic disciplines and will stimulate further research into football and the intriguing insights into behaviour it offers.
See feature article in The Independent, October 8th, 2008:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/fact-or-fiction-form-in-football-954440.html
Listen to interview with Patric Andersson on Swedish National Radio
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/P1/program/index.asp?ProgramID=1302
Read Chris Charles’s blog on BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chrischarles/2008/10/lies_damned_lies_and_statictic.html
","“The book . . . draws together academic research from around the world, taking to task widely held notions about the beautiful game. By subjecting what happens in football to scientific and mathematical tests, economists and psychologists argue that ‘football phenomena’ are indeed provable.”
—Nick Harris, The Independent, October 8th 2008
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-07-01,Peter Baofu,The Future of Post-Human Unconsciousness: A Preface to a New Theory of Anomalous Experience,Hardback,9781847186140,34.99,"Why should anomalous experience, in a general sense, be proven to exist, before they can be taken seriously?
Contrary to the conventional wisdom held by many scholars in human history hitherto existing, the imaginative exploration of anomalous phenomena, even if all of them were merely the fabricated products of psychological con artists, will have tremendous implications for the future of intelligent life, both on earth and in deep space unto multiverses.
For the critics, this is a bold (or outrageous) claim, for sure. So, a good question to ask is, Why should the conventional wisdom on anomalous experience be challenged in this way?
This question is all the more fascinating, when related to the nature of unconsciousness. Although unconscious experience does not necessarily imply anomalous experience, the two are closely intertwined, since an individual may not exactly know how and why an anomalous phenomenon he claims to encounter happens in the way that it does, and this constitutes the unconscious dimension of anomalous experience, which has remained the most controversial in the scientific community.
This book thus focuses on this relationship between the nature of unconsciousness and the controversial aspects of anomalous experience so understood.
To understand this, the book is organized into four main parts, that is, in relation to nature, the mind, culture, and society—together with the introductory and concluding chapters.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-08-01,"Chemba Raghavan, Arlene E. Edwards and Kim Marie Vaz",Benefiting by Design: Women of Color in Feminist Psychological Research,Hardback,9781847186508,29.99,"The presence of women of color within the practical applications of social science research findings is severely limited, since spaces where and when women of color enter the arenas of research methodology, research question and intervention design and knowledge generation is often that of the other. Benefitting by Design addresses this limitation. It does so by locating the experience and knowledge of women of color as its central theme, with sections of the text referring to emerging trends that attend to the need for greater representation of women of color in research and academic settings. A key theme is the dislodging of currently accepted positions for the experience of women of color as marginalized, and subsumed under normative modes of examination to central positions in areas of social science research and clinical practice. This is in response to the typical assumption of the need to ‘fix’ women of color be it based on their immigration status, sexual orientation, race, culture, class or spiritual practice. Benefitting By Design attends to the salient contexts of the lives of women of color from an emic perspective, by providing models for addressing the limitations that result from exclusion, and strategies for centering the experiential knowledge of women of color in social science research and practice that is designed for their benefit.
","""Benefiting by Design: Women of Color in Feminist Psychological Research is a significant contribution to the literature. The term ""Women of Color"" has too often been defined as African American, women of Asian or Hispanic descent, and occasionally Native American women. It is time to broaden the definition to include women who occupy the ethnic/racial category of ""Other."" Benefiting by Design accomplishes this goal by including the experiences of Arab/Muslim women, Caribbean American women, and Asian-Indian immigrant women. ""Intersectionality,"" as a term and theory, has made its way into numerous academic fields including, psychology, sociology, and advocacy. More specifically, feminist researchers assert that women have multiple identities influenced by gender, race, class, caste, and sexual orientation. It is imperative to understand how living at the intersection of multiple identities influence the daily lives of Women of Color. Benefiting by Design is a unique book because it utilizes the powerful feminist voices, of both emerging and senior scholars, to capture the complexity of ethnicity and
the contexts in which Women of Color operate. Equally as important, Benefiting by Design considers ""diversity within diversity."" For example, this book grapples with the ""triple jeopardy"" of being a young, Black, lesbian. These too often muted voices are given the opportunity to reach professional audiences. Benefiting by Design: Women of Color in Feminist Psychological Research is an impressive, comprehensive book. The reader will find an update on the latest developments in theory, research, practice, and pedagogy. This book is a fresh approach and much needed ""paradigm shift""
- Dr. Carolyn M. West, Associate Professor, Psychology, Bartley Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence
“Benefiting by Design:Women of Color in Feminist Psychological Research represents a departure from anthologies currently available to address racism and/or sexism in psychological research. The difference lies in the emphasis on intersectionality, the multiple, complex and intersecting categories of race, class, gender, caste, sexualities, and sexual orientation. Intersectionality argues that such categories of difference are not separate or even additive, and in fact may be somewhat arbitrary, influenced as they are by the social consensus of the majority. The exciting part about this perspective as indicated by the title of the volume, Benefiting by Design, is that it embraces empirical research as foundational to social equality while at the same time redefining the parameters of traditional methods. The volume puts front and center the salience of social context, social activism, application and connection to the community, couched in an analysis of the role of power and status in the maintenance of social inequality. This book has something for everyone, interesting theoretical questions of intersectionality and how to identify and study it, along with practical answers to questions of training, practice and research in women of color psychologies. This is one for every feminist bookshelf.”
- Patricia D. Rozee, professor of psychology and women's studies at California State University, Long Beach.
""This book is essential reading for mental health professionals and, of course, for educators, lawyers, and community activists. ""Benefiting by Design: Women of Color in Feminist Psychological Research,"" shares precious psychological information and knowledge about women of color who have been marginalized and who deserve to be mainstreamed--not only because it is the right thing to do but because it teaches everyone crucial things about the majority culture as well. This volume contains important pieces about African-American, Latina-American, Asian-American and about immigrant women from the Carribbean and from India.
Gender identity is more complex as a function of ethnicity, immigrant status, color, sexual preference, class, etc. White Americans place a value upon independence and individuality that other cultures do not always share. When one studies minority girls and women who live in a predominantly white environment, their ""stressors,"" both real and internalized, are not the same as those who live in a predominantly all-minority environment. I loved the inclusion of faith and ritual as healing tools by Kimberly Kirby et al who focused on ""Cocaine-Dependent African-American Women;"" I was especially moved by Kim Vaz's article ""Ritual and Recovery,"" which unites a West African tradition with a western psycho-analytic tradition; and by Ami Robinson's article about African American Lesbian Youth titled ""Misunderstood, Misled, and Misfit: The Marginalization Experiences of African-American Lesbian Youth.""""
Phyllis Chesler, Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, Author of ""Women and Madness"" and ""Woman's Inhumanity to Woman.""
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-08-01,Míchéal Ó hAodha ,Travellers and Showpeople: Recovering Migrant History,Hardback,9781847186362,29.99,"The late-twentieth century has witnessed a particular prominence assigned to the discourses of “difference” and “Otherness”. An examination of this “othering” discourse as related to Travellers, Gypsies and Showpeople ennumerates the projective function of the “Othering” process, a form of rejection and marginalisation that is the institutionalization of ideas which are seldom challenged. The history of Traveller and Gypsy “Othering” in Europe points to the constant re-articulation of reductionist stereotypes as applied to a wide range of nomadic peoples and the creation of a mythic Traveller/Gypsy prototype that is based on a series of endlessly repeated generalizations which gradually assume the status of an objective “truth”. This discourse of representation has culminated in powerful institutional attitudes, many of which have influenced official and policy responses to these minorities. This volume brings to surface the “hidden histories” and discourses of the “peoples of the road”, those migratory peoples whose unique expressions of identity have often hitherto remained occluded.
We live in the era of the Other, the era of “difference”, the era of migration - that “stranger” who waits silently at the border crossing, battered suitcase in hand. Travellers and Roma are the archetypal migrants. Perennial “outsiders”, they are the people who have lived on society’s margins for centuries. This volume explores the history of these traditionally migrant peoples within the frame of articulation that is Western literary and visual culture.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-09-01,Vanessa Joosen and Katrien Vloeberghs,Changing Concepts of Childhood and Children's Literature,Paperback,9781847187901,16.99,"The varied collection of essays presented in this volume bridges the gap between continental and Anglo-American approaches to children’s literature, and discuss the state of the art of what is topical in children’s literature studies in Europe and the United States. Varied as the different subject areas under discussion are, considering different subgenres, historical periods, and geographical contexts, two main themes surface in nearly all the essays: ideology and children’s literature on the one hand, and images of childhood on the other.
The contributions illustrate the wide range of subject areas and the increasing level of sophistication with which criticism of ideology and Cultural Studies have enriched children’s literature criticism. The essays address, among others, the influence of globalisation and mass market culture on the production of children’s books, as well as the choices governing the production of translations and adaptations of texts for young readers. Representing a broad array of methodological approaches and of representations of childhood, this publication intends to render visible actual manifestations of the tension between pedagogy and aesthetics, inherent to and constitutive of children’s literature.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-09-01,Ezio Di Nucci and Conor McHugh,"Content, Consciousness, and Perception: Essays in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind",Paperback,9781847187758,16.99,"What sort of thing is the mind? And how can such a thing at the same time
- belong to the natural world,
- represent the world,
- give rise to our subjective experience,
- and ground human knowledge?
Content, Consciousness and Perception is an edited collection, comprising eleven new contributions to the philosophy of mind, written by some of the most promising young philosophers in the UK and Ireland. The book is arranged into three parts. Part I, “Concepts and Mental Content”, which begins with an attack by Hans-Johann Glock on the representational theory of mind, addresses the nature of mental representation. Part II, “Consciousness and the Metaphysics of Mind”, concerns the prospects for a naturalistic metaphysics of the conscious mind. Finally, Part III, entitled “Perception”, pursues the project of giving a satisfactory philosophical account of perceptual experience.
The book begins with an introductory essay by the editors, which provides an overview of the state of contemporary philosophy of mind, locating the articles to follow within that context.
The individual chapters of Content, Consciousness and Perception are professional contributions to their respective areas, of interest to any philosopher of mind. The volume as a whole is ideal for non-specialists and students interested in getting to grips with the state of the art in contemporary philosophy of mind.
","'If you want to know what the next but one generation of philosophers of mind are thinking about now, *Content, Consciousness and Perception* is a terrific place to look. This wide-ranging international collection is relevant to psychologists and cognitive scientists as well as philosophers.'
Tim Williamson
Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford University
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-09-01,Eun Sim Joung,Religious Attachment: Women's Faith Development in Psychodynamic Perspective,Hardback,9781847187802,34.99,"Exploration of religious attachment from a psychodynamic perspective, this book provides a coherent and convincing account of the roots and characteristics of Christian women’s faith experience which will complement and, in some respects correct, existing accounts. Drawing on attachment theory as a conceptual framework, this book employs a qualitative methodological approach, focusing analysis on linguistic meanings, and using autobiographical narrative in-depth interviews with a group of ten Korean Christian women. Examining the patterns of religious attachment in relation to human attachments, the key characteristics in women’s faithing are explored: the language, means and context, and the relational and affective accounts of faith with or in which women practice their faith. Three major patterns of religious attachment are identified in which the women’s faithing strategies and their representations of self and God are presented: these are Distance/Avoidance, Anxiety/Ambivalence and Security/Interdependence. Integrating theoretical and practical implications of religious attachment for Christian education and pastoral practice, this book will be a good use to all concerned with women’s religious attachment, faith development, spirituality and education, and those working in the field of practical theology, pastoral care, Christian education, counselling and psychotherapy.
","“This book is what we have been waiting for. Refreshing interpretation and carving out new ground on religious attachments through the honest discourse and with far-reaching implications for Christian education, pastoral care, spiritual direction, counselling and psychotherapy, this book will be well and widely read by those who study and work in the fields.”
Yong Won Kang, Dr. theol., Professor, Christian Education, Dean of Chaplaincy, Kosin University, Busan, Korea.
“This is an excellent study of Korean Christian women at different stages of their spiritual journeys that allow the women to relate their faith ventures in sufficient detail to enable the reader to enter their worlds and come out again both refreshed and challenged.”
Mark Beaumont, PhD, Deputy Principal, Birmingham Christian College
“Eun Sim Joung has made an important and original contribution to the empirical study of women’s faith development in many new and striking ways. The work is scholarly, thoroughly embedded in the literature of attachment theory, faith development and women’s identity formation. At the same time, drawing as it does on the faith narratives of ordinary women, it is accessible to non-specialists, clergy and other church leaders and particularly those who are working in culturally diverse contexts.”
Nicola Slee, PhD, MA co-ordinator in Applied Theology, Queen’s College
“Focused upon the psychological dynamics and examined biographical material gained in conversation with Christian women, Dr Joung’s work offers a distinctive insight which will inform practitioners engaged in pastoral and educational work with women.”
Peter Hammersley, PhD, Honorary Research Fellow, Birmingham University
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-10-01,"Rob Ranzijn, Keith McConnochie and Wendy Nolan",Psychology and Indigenous Australians: Effective Teaching and Practice,Hardback,9781847189202,34.99,"'Relations between psychology and the Indigenous peoples of Australia have historically been uneasy and fraught, since psychology has been seen in the past as an agent of colonisation. However, in recent years there have been a number of major initiatives, largely driven by Indigenous psychologists, to improve the relationship and to work towards effective partnership between psychologists and Indigenous Australians to help overcome Indigenous disadvantage and work towards social justice. This book contains edited proceedings of the inaugural Psychology and Indigenous Australians conference held in 2007. There are many exciting papers which illustrate the emergence of a new form of Australian psychology, one that can respond effectively to the needs of Indigenous Australians and people from other cultural groups who live in an increasingly multi-cultural Australia'.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-11-01,"Patric Andersson, Peter Ayton and Carsten Schmidt",Myths and Facts about Football: The Economics and Psychology of the World’s Greatest Sport,Paperback,978-1-4438-0114-0,12.99,"This book presents accounts of economic and psychological analyses of association football (or “soccer” as it is popularly known in the USA). As football is widely accepted to be the world’s most popular sport, the case for scientific investigation of its characteristics is self-evident. As the contributions to this book demonstrate, the game of football offers an ideal opportunity to empirically investigate a wide range of broad issues, for example: behavioural decision-making; judgmental forecasting; motivation; game-theoretic models of strategic choice; competition and labour markets.
Are teams more likely to concede a goal after having just scored? Does the team going first in a penalty shoot-out have an advantage? Should goal-keepers dive or stay put for penalty kicks? Do referees make decisions consistently? Why do fans like their teams? What factors influence the career of footballers? How well can experts predict football matches? How accurate are prediction markets? How does the stock-market react to match outcomes? These questions and others are addressed in this book. A particular focus is the investigation of popular conceptions—and misconceptions—about football.
Of interest to psychologists, behavioural economists and football enthusiasts with an analytic approach to understanding the game, this book brings together contributions from a range of academic disciplines and will stimulate further research into football and the intriguing insights into behaviour it offers.
See feature article in The Independent, October 8th, 2008:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/fact-or-fiction-form-in-football-954440.html
Listen to interview with Patric Andersson on Swedish National Radio
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/P1/program/index.asp?ProgramID=1302
Read Chris Charles’s blog on BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chrischarles/2008/10/lies_damned_lies_and_statictic.html
","“The book . . . draws together academic research from around the world, taking to task widely held notions about the beautiful game. By subjecting what happens in football to scientific and mathematical tests, economists and psychologists argue that ‘football phenomena’ are indeed provable.”
—Nick Harris, The Independent, October 8th 2008
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-12-01,Marion Kostanski,The Power of Compassion: An Exploration of the Psychology of Compassion in the 21st Century,Paperback,978-1-4438-0048-8,17.99,"We entered the 21st Century full of anxiety, with the promised threat of a millennium bug that could potentially cripple our lives. Since then we have witnessed an increasing level of angst and despair across the world as warnings of climate change, and economic hardships have been forecast. Wars have raged, a new evil has entered our consciousness, and the word “terrorism” has come to the forefront of our lexicon. Millions of innocent people have lost their lives. Today we are witnessing the ever-increasing state of displaced persons being shuffled from makeshift home to make shift home, being locked up in camps and cut off from the rest of society. Everywhere around us we hear about increases in depression and mental health disorders among the general population. Young people are checking out of the mainstream, there are phenomenal increases in the rate of suicide and older people are living out wretched lives, isolated and alone. Multinational corporations have been accused of extorting vulnerable peoples for economic gain and consumption seems to be our new idol.
What is becoming of our society? How do we make sense of or world? The essays in this book provide a compelling insight and reflection into the work of health professionals as they struggle to make sense of their work and the world around them in this new century. From exploring the concept of Living Compassion, working with the good, bad and ugly aspects of our lives, and reflecting on practice, the authors discuss their ideas on compassion. They offer you, the reader, an opportunity to reflect on your own daily practice and to go forward with a sense of shared humanity.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-01-01,Marta Dynel,Humorous Garden-Paths: A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study,Hardback,978-1-4438-0140-9,44.99,"Surprising as it may seem, sometimes humans like being led up the garden path, which is thanks to the pleasurable feeling of surprise entwined with a humorous effect deception tends to afford.
The central issue under investigation is the nature of short humorous texts in the form of one-liners and witticisms based on the “garden-path mechanism”. The monograph provides a survey of relevant linguistic research, recapitulating and assessing other authors’ theses in the context of their applicability in the analysis of garden-path humour. Discussions are conducted in the light of not only humour studies but also cognitive and pragmatic literature on human communication in general, with a view to presenting a meticulous description of short garden-path texts.
The book should be of interest to anybody who finds humour research appealing, whether or not already familiar with this field. No background knowledge is necessary on the reader’s part, given that all relevant postulates and theories are revisited. Also, the author steers a clear course through many terminological and conceptual obstacles that can be encountered in the study of humour (e.g. verbal/non-verbal humour, ambiguity types, punning, etc.).
","“Humor is a challenging issue, and Marta Dynel faces it admirably. Her investigation into garden path humor is a well documented and highly stimulating piece of research. The approach is soundly and competently linguistic, but the perspective is broad, and it is of interest and appeal also for other disciplines, psychology in the first place.” Prof. Giovannantonio Forabosco
“This thoroughly researched volume represents a convincing amalgamation of linguistics and humor theory. Garden-path humor provides a perfect testing ground for Marta Dynel’s semantic, cognitive and pragmatic perspectives.” Prof. Neal Norrick
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-01-01,Shlomo Shoham,The Word of Light: Piercing the Veil of Chaos,Hardback,978-1-4438-0102-7,39.99,"One of the fundamental enigmas of our existence, and for that matter, God’s existence, is the act of creation. Has the cosmos been created ex nihilo or was it an intelligent design by God? Does God, having created the world, let it evolve and develop on its own, subject to the rules of evolution and chance; or does God intervene in every step of evolution in a deus ex machina manner? What is the role of man in creation? Is it as central as existentialism and quantum mechanics assure us: that without human consciousness interacting with energy-matter, there would not be any objects and life forms? Is man the crown of creation permanently, or once evolution forms a more effective connecting agent between spirit and energy-matter, will man be relegated to the world of fossils? The book concludes with a thorough examination of human norms, values and morals. As such, this book constitutes a comprehensive treatise on the genesis of the world, the birth of God, and the role of man.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-03-01,"Henrik Høgh-Olesen, Jan Tønnesvang and Preben Bertelsen",Human Characteristics: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Mind and Kind,Hardback,978-1-4438-0213-0,49.99,"Every once in a while, we have to reconsider the perennial questions concerning human nature: What are the special human behaviours, social practices, and psychological structures that make us particularly human?
The field of evolution, psychology and cognitive science is the most expanding, inter-disciplinary area of this field for the time being, uniting different sciences under the same evolutionary paradigm and keeping them occupied by the same eternal questions stated above.
Relevant data and theoretical considerations are piling up, but an overview is needed. To facilitate this a large inter-disciplinary conference entitled “Human Mind—Human Kind” was held at Aarhus University, Denmark. The studies fall into three well defined sections: 1) Evolution and Cognition—Comparative and Developmental Perspectives, 2) Human Sociality, Morality and Religiosity, 3) Human Sexuality and Mating Strategies.
Specifying the differences between our own species and the rest of the animal world always provokes debate. But these demarcations simply have to be drawn once and again. They focus attention and stimulate research, exactly because they provoke and challenge other researchers to take up the glove and prove us wrong.
","
“What are human universals, and what psychological characteristics set human beings apart from other animals? These are key questions that are being addressed by evolutionary researchers in diverse fields in the social and biological sciences. This volume is an engaging and up-to-date exploration of the rapidly expanding literature on what makes us human”.
—Dr. Ara Norenzayan, University of British Columbia, Canada
“With a delightful potpourri of thought-provoking chapters, this book has something for everyone interested in expanding their understanding of human nature. Complied by three top Scandinavian academics, it includes an integrated set of chapters from a wide array of disciplines that demonstrate how evolutionary theory is equipped to elucidate the nature of human and primate cognition, human sociality, morality, religion, sexuality, and mating strategies.”
—Dennis Krebs, Professor of Psychology, Simon Frazer University, Canada
""Scholars of philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and other disciplines ponder what characteristics distinguish humans from other creatures, exploring comparative and developmental perspectives of evolution and cognition; sociology, morality, and religiosity; and sexuality and mating strategies.
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-03-01,Noel Packard,Sociology of Memory: Papers from the Spectrum,Paperback,978-1-4438-0199-7,39.99,"These papers advance sociological discourse beyond the classical “collective memory” model, into critical terrain of overlapping and contested relationships between personal, private, public, or commodity memory Since memory ranges from a personal memory, to a history book, to a monument, to the memory inside a personal computer, or inside a person’s body, to the photos stored in cell phones (at home, on the streets, in war and elsewhere), to massive data-mining operations by corporations, to government-funded DNA banks, or to continuous satellite surveillance photos, sociological questions arise regarding who “owns” what kind of memory, and for what social or private purposes? These papers present simultaneously forward–thinking, backward–reflecting, and historically contextualized, theoretical, conceptual and applied models with which to study the sociological ramifications of a society increasingly dependent on automated and banked electronic and biological memory for economic, legal, governmental, law–enforcement, agribusiness and medical purposes, as well as for the social “re”construction of society, the preservation of historical and tourist sites, knowledge production and ultimately, human re–production.The models and theoretical work presented in these papers revisit and expand upon work of “cannon” sociologists: Durkheim, Halbwachs, Marx, Addams, Mead and Weber. Revisiting classical sociologists’ work regarding collective memory, personal memory and narrative, provides a way to compare and contrast how sociologists have approached the study of memory. Provocative insights into theoretical, methodological and political differences between early American and European sociological approaches to the study of memory are considered. Contemporary theoretical work by Foucault, Bourdieu, Berger, Lowenthal, Anderson, Misztal, Nora, Olick, Zerbavel, Alexander, Lifton, Prager, Ricoeur, Schudson, Schwartz, Zerubavel, Elias, Luhmann, Deegan, Habermas and others, are incorporated into and evoked, in these research papers.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-04-01,Michael Brody and Lawrence Rubin,Messages: Self Help Through Popular Culture,Paperback,978-1-4438-0484-4,14.99,"Using the authors’ clinical practices and their teaching experiences, along with a series of quotes from movies, TV, advertising and music, this book will help the reader navigate real-world issues. For instance, “Show me the money,” from Jerry Maguire, offers sound financial advice, and “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,” from Gone with the Wind, provides insight about love and loss. These references from popular culture help clarify and instruct; they also explain that the prevalence of images, sounds, and words that surround us have something to offer. Indeed, the book allows the authors to come from behind their couches and give direct practical advice, as well as information about ourselves, from the everyday echoes of popular culture.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/popular-culture-meets-psychology/200907/self-help-through-popular-culture-i-money
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-05-01,William S. Haney II,Globalization and the Posthuman,Hardback,978-1-4438-0541-4,34.99,"Globalization and the Posthuman argues that by globalizing posthumanism through biotechnology, particularly through the invasive interface of humans and machines, we may well interfere with and even undermine the innate quality of human psycho-physiology and the experience of the internal observer, the non-socially constructed self or pure consciousness. Furthermore, many features of globalization in-and-of itself—such as the fall of public man, the exterritorialization of capital, the loss of an impersonal public world to localized communities based on emotively shared interests—combined with the posthuman expansion of biotechnology will diminish our natural capacity to experience the self as knower and lead to an increase in global crime, sickness, accident rates and overall lack of harmony.
The experience of the self comprises the unsayable secret of modern and postmodern literature and art, a secret that may soon become inaccessible if the world continues down the road of globalized infomania. The analysis of the consequences of globalization and the posthuman in this book is unique in that it will be the first to examine the interrelation between globalization, posthumanism and pure consciousness. Posthumanists define consciousness in a way that promotes the globalization of biotechnology without regard for its potential risks.
This book explores the implications of the globalization of the posthuman model of consciousness. On the one hand, cognitive scientists tend to equate consciousness with subjectivity, which they associate with the thinking mind as an extension of the body, nature and culture; Eastern philosophy, on the other hand, distinguishes mind from consciousness, with mind defined as the content of consciousness. Bionic technology will have the effect of raising human metabolism and preventing the mind from settling down to the state of least excitation of consciousness. This book suggests that while conscious content is an indispensable aspect of both the human and posthuman condition, the thoughts, memories, feelings and perceptions of this content do not encompass a vital aspect of human nature attested to not only by the first-person experience of many millions of people around the world, but also by the records of both classical and modern contemplative traditions.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-07-01,"Sherri McCarthy, Victor Karandashev, Michael Stevens, Andrew Thatcher, Jas Jaafar, Kate Moore, Annie Trapp, and Charles Brewer",Teaching Psychology around the World: Volume 2 ,Hardback,978-1-4438-0985-6,64.99,"This book brings together current information on the teaching and practice of psychology collected by experts in the field from throughout the world. It is highly recommended by prominent U.S. psychologists Dr. Ann O’Roark, President of the International Council of Psychologists (ICP), Dr. Wilbert McKeachie and Dr. Phillip Zimbardo, former President of the American Psychological Association (APA) and well-known international textbook author. Here are what other leaders in the discipline say about the book:
","‘This book, as well as being a tremendous resource informing about good practice in teaching, and providing a state-of-the-art overview of key areas of psychological research, delivers first hand information about variation and commonalities in teaching psychology across the globe. As such it represents an important curriculum support, especially in view of the effect of globalisation on the context in which academic teaching staff and students operate and the necessity for an awareness of how psychology education functions in other regions of the world. As president of IUPsyS, I also have to be concerned about future standards for teaching psychology and therefore particularly appreciate the rich material the book provides. Teaching Psychology around the World (Volume 2) is essential reading for anyone involved in or simply interested in trans-national psychology education and can serve well as a guidebook for those planning to teach abroad.’
—Rainer Silbereisen, President, International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsych); Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Jena, Germany
‘If one is wanting to have at one’s fingertips a book that summarises how psychology is taught in different countries of the world and the huge achievements in raising the standards of education and training of psychologists in various regions of the world, then Teaching Psychology around the World (Volume 2) is your answer. To boot, it describes the impressive progress that has been made in standardising education and training programs across countries, not only to improve their quality but also to provide for the automatic recognition of professional qualifications and facilitate the mobility of psychologists across nations. Its other impressive achievement is that all its chapters are written by distinguished international experts.’
—Michael Knowles, President, International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP); Professor of Psychology, Monash University, Australia
'Psychology will play a key part in providing answers to the global problems we are currently facing, including economic melt down, climate change and terrorism. Hence it is essential that we have a genuinely international approach to theory, method and teaching. The present volume is therefore very much to be welcomed as an important contribution to achieving these aims.'
—Professor Steve Newstead, former President of the British Psychological Society (BPS); Chancellor, University of Plymouth, UK
‘Every year hundreds of thousands of students all over the world enrol for courses in psychology. This book provides an invaluable glimpse into what it means to teach those students in a global perspective: not only in those countries that dominate the discipline, but also in those that are often overlooked in psychology's self-presentation.’
—Professor Johan Louw, Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
‘This book presents a clear, concise and informative historical perspective on the development of psychology teaching in Australia, where the Psychology teaching of programs are highly regulated, the professional programs follow the Scientist Practitioner model and Distance Education is available and should be particularly helpful to communities who are looking at developing and refining psychology teaching.’
—Erica Frydenberg, Board Member of Australian Psychological Society (APS); Co-ordinator of Master and Doctor of Educational Psychology Programs, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia
“Teaching Psychology Around the World launches psychologists, students and veterans, into a global thinking orbit. For the first time, psychologists articulate a leadership position and credible role for preparing psychology to address issues arising in an era of globalization. These authors share an inclusive vision for developing curricular and pedagogical foundations for establishing a common international discipline, science, and practice. As the chapters inform readers about psychological teaching and learning in diverse cultures and in varying geopolitical arenas, they manage to avoid both the Babalonian cacophony and the arrogance of national tunnel vision and eugenic thinking. This volume inspires a successful launch and lift-off into a new era of internationalized psychology.”
—Ann M. O’Roark, PhD, ABAP, President Elect, INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF PSYCHOLOGISTS
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-08-01,Catarina Frois,"The Anonymous Society: Identity, Transformation and Anonymity in 12 Step Associations",Hardback,978-1-4438-1115-6,34.99,"The Anonymous Society is an in-depth anthropological study conducted in Portugal among the 12-Step associations Alcoholics Anonymous, Families Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Here, the author explores thoroughly issues like therapy, addiction, ritual, religion, identity and anonymity, providing an insightful knowledge of these associations’ importance in contemporary society.
","""Seldom has any study of 12-step groups explored the issue of anonymity in such an innovative and in-depth manner. Catarina Frois examines subjects such as spirituality, stigma, guilt, etc., all traversed by anonymity, revealing the multiplicity of its meanings and uses and showing how each member manages his/her own identity. A must.""
- Sylvie Fainzang, Anthropologist, Director of research at Inserm
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-09-01,Rosalyn M. King,"Enriching the Lives of Children: Creating Meaningful and Novel Stimulus Experiences to Promote Cognitive, Moral and Emotional Development",Paperback,978-1-4438-1253-5,14.99,"Enriching the Lives of Children is an exploration of innovations in teaching and learning. The book reflects scholarship, synthesis and creativity as the author reviews decades of research and practice on educational and instructional reforms designed to enrich learning and life for children, through novel and stimulating experiences.
The author reminds readers of the early notions of learning coming from such great thinkers as Aristotle, Husserl, Vygotsky, Piaget and Bruner; and, the parallels to the thinking of modern constructivist philosophers and teachers today. Teaching for meaning and constructing knowledge and understanding is important. Providing enriching, novel and stimulating instructional and supportive experiences is essential for successful learning and holistic development.
The author presents theoretical propositions about the need for authentic pedagogy and whole child development. Moreover, findings reveal that learning does not take place as a separate and isolated event. Brain, body and the developmental domains work together. Attention also is given to the nature and relationship of creativity to learning and development; and, particularly the contributions of play. Interesting suggestions and models from around the world are provided about children’s learning and enrichment, within and outside of the classroom.
As a leading scholar and interdisciplinary expert in education, psychology and learning environments across the lifespan, King provides a service to educators, parents and those interested in child development by synthesizing volumes of research into a coherent whole, with excellent suggestive strategies that can be used in educating and raising children.
Theoretical insights and strategies found in this book will improve the academy of teaching and learning and serve as a useful resource for educational and childcare professionals, policymakers and parents. For those that care about the future of our children and education, Enriching the Lives of Children is essential reading.
","“International comparisons, national test scores and parental anecdotes all indicate the same thing: America’s educational system is stagnating. And that stagnation threatens our ability to compete globally. In Enriching the Lives of Children, Dr. Rosalyn King gives us a much needed starting point for talking about what’s needed to elevate our approach to teaching.”
—Glenn DuBois, Ph.D., Chancellor, Virginia’s Community Colleges
“Pendulum swings in education are sometimes hard to see until after they have swung. Rosalyn King detects that there may, finally, be the beginning of a swing back from the grim pursuit of higher test scores to a more balanced, humane, and vital approach to education emphasizing creative learning and exploration. Professor King samples theory and research widely, including new brain research, and summarizes numerous exciting, stimulating programs from around the world for students of all ages. Truth be told, Professor King is pushing that pendulum for all she's worth, and one can only hope she succeeds in reversing momentum; the children of the world are counting on it.”
—David Henry Feldman, Ph.D., Professor, Tufts University, Author: Beyond Universals in Cognitive Development
""Dr. Rosalyn King has provided the educational community with a pedagogical and insightful approach to enriching the lives of students. Both professors and their students will find her book extremely useful and practical when teaching or learning how to teach. I am very excited to have such a powerful resource to recommend to other professionals.""
—Catherine Stower, Ph.D., NCC, LMHC, Headmaster, Academy Schools, WA
“This is an excellent guide for teachers and educators of teachers who seek to nurture children's full possibilities. During a period of extensive testing which narrows our vision of human potential and of the teacher's role, Dr. Rosalyn King opens the vistas for whole child development, validating varied approaches, enriching strategies, and multiple
experiences. Her book expands our thinking about dynamic modes of fostering learning.”
—Susan Riemer Sacks, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Barnard College, Columbia University
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-11-01,James Pietsch,Teaching and Learning Mathematics Together: Bringing Collaboration to the Centre of the Mathematics Classroom,Hardback,978-1-4438-1354-9,34.99,"Teachers of secondary mathematics are constantly being presented with new ideas about the teaching of mathematics in schools, ideas which often seem a long way from the reality of most mathematics classrooms. How can teachers bring these ideas into traditional classrooms where students are not necessarily that interested in mathematics--where students (and perhaps also teachers) are focused primarily on preparing for future assessment tasks?
Teaching and Learning Mathematics together provides classroom teachers and trainee teachers with an introduction to the thinking behind some of these ideas. Drawing on the latest research in mathematics education and theories of learning and the experiences of teachers working in schools, James Pietsch puts forward a model for classroom activity based on collaboration rather than demonstration and practice. The model is put into practice and assessed drawing on the perspectives of teachers and students and comparisons between the collaborative classrooms and traditional classrooms.
Teaching and Learning Mathematics together offers teachers an example of what reform principles might look like in practice--and what the benefits of such approaches might be for students and teachers alike.
","""Are you passionate about teaching and learning mathematics? Describing students collaborating to learn mathematics in Australian classrooms, this is a must read for teachers, teachers in training and an important reference for researchers in the field. James Pietsch will stir your thinking. I cannot recommend it too highly.""
- Lloyd Dawe BSc Dip Ed (Syd) MEd (hons,UNSW) PhD (Cambridge), formerly Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Sydney
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-12-01,Sarah Toomey,Embodying an Image: Gender and Genre in a Selection of Children’s Responses to Picturebooks and Illustrated Texts,Hardback,978-1-4438-1413-3,44.99,"Drawing upon a diverse range of theoretical perspectives, and the rich resources of feminist cultural analysis hitherto little applied to the study of picturebooks and illustrated texts, Embodying an Image offers fresh and original insights into the gendered politics of identity and the sexual politics of looking in contemporary visual culture. In a fascinating collection of case studies, Toomey successfully combines an analysis of the way in which artists and writers convey gendered representations through character, theme, setting and story, with a detailed investigation into the child’s perspective of meaning. This book is a first in its field and is a must for all those interested in new ways of thinking about the power of visual imagery to embody and make real the fantasies and desires of young children.
","“I can recommend this book very highly: it is original, exceptionally well-researched, and has an impeccable theoretical base. It brings together four important factors, highly relevant to both the theory and practice of visual texts
- the theory of word-image relationship in picture-books and illustrated texts
- the interactions of and with Key Stage One children
- gender issues
- feminist art criticism.
This fusion is developed through a lively, highly readable, and meticulously researched thesis, that provides essential - and much-needed - underpinning to the burgeoning theorising of picture-books. The focus on ‘the child’s perspective of meaning’, backed up by detailed, empathetic research, puts this book into the forefront of the developing movement of crossing disciplinary boundaries. … The framework of introductions to each part, and the concluding chapter could stand alone as a manifesto for what can be achieved in the classroom, and what can be fed out to a wider world of education and theory.”
Peter Hunt, Professor Emeritus in Children’s Literature, Cardiff University
“A fascinating, well informed, highly readable study of children’s responses to picturebooks with an emphasis on gender. It's going straight on our reading list!”
Morag Styles, Reader in Children’s Literature, Homerton College, Cambridge
“I wholeheartedly recommend this book and consider it indispensable to anyone seeking to learn more about children’s responses to fiction and how they ‘read’ and interpret the images they encounter in the picture books and illustrated texts which adults create for them.”
Dr Susan Hancock, Senior Lecturer in Children’s Literature, Roehampton University, London
“While gender has been the subject of analysis in visual culture for adults, this book opens up a subject that has been little studied and is much needed as a prerequisite to understanding how we begin to learn how to see gender in images in later life.”
Rosemary Betterton, Reader Emeritus, Centre for Gender & Women's Studies, Lancaster University
“Whether listening to a four year old determine the gender of a character in Heather Eyles’s Well I Never! or to a somewhat older child negotiate the gendered meanings of being a pirate, Toomey shows an unusual sensitivity to children and to art. … If her work had been available when I was editing Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children’s Literature and Culture, I would have wanted to include a portion.”
Beverly Lyon Clark, Professor of English, Wheaton College, Massachusetts
“raises important issues about gender and reading which deserve to be read by educators and parents alike.”
Valerie Walkerdine, Research Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
“This is an interesting and informative contribution to the important area of critical and educational writing concerned with children's responses to literature. ...The pedagogical implications of this research will certainly be of considerable interest to educationalists.”
- Dr Pat Pinsent, Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature, Roehampton University, London
""Sarah Toomey's Embodying an Image is an illuminating investigation of how children perceive masculine and feminine identities through the array of picture books...Toomey shares some great insights into the minds of children throughout this book, which she skillfully presents in an accessible way....this work is a very interesting and highly informative example of literary cricitism that should be of interest to readers interested in children's responses picture books as well as those interested in gender studies.""
Sophie Klein in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Summer 2011; Vol. 36, No. 2
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-02-01,Ioannis Tsoukalas,Conceiving God: Perversions and Brainstorms; A Thesis on the Origins of Human Religiosity,Hardback,978-1-4438-1738-7,34.99,"This book presents a novel explanation for the emergence of the God-concept and human religiosity. In doing so, it makes creative use of the most recent findings in anthropology, neurology and psychology. At the center of this explanation is the fact that early childhood experiences predispose people to ‘magical thinking’, a tendency that is reinforced by the human ability to dream and the over-excitability of the cerebral cortex. The interaction of these three elements, both on the phylogenetic and ontogenetic level, has given rise to the uniquely human ability to apprehend transcendental agency.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-02-01,Peter Baofu,The Future of Post-Human Sexuality: A Preface to a New Theory of the Body and Spirit of Love Makers,Hardback,978-1-4438-1719-6,49.99,"What precisely resides in “sexuality” which warrants the popular discourse on sexuality as “part of our world freedom,” or something as an inspiring source for “our own creation” of “new forms of relationships” or “new forms of love” never before possible in human history?
This popular treatment of sexual freedom has become so politically correct, in this day and age of ours, that it fast degenerates into a seductive ideology which has impoverished our understanding of sexuality by blinding us from its dark sides.
Contrary to this intoxicating conventional wisdom, the dark sides of this seductive ideology have yet to be systematically understood and that its very creative freedom is neither possible nor desirable to the extent that its advocates would like us to believe.
Of course, this is not to suggest that sexuality should not be about freedom nor creativity, or that the literature in sexual studies (and other related fields like gender studies, queer studies, and cultural studies, for example) should be ignored because of their scholarly nonsense. Needless to say, neither of these two extreme views is reasonable either.
Instead, the purpose of this book is to provide an alternative (better) way to understand the nature of sexuality, in special relation to the sexual body and spirit, in conjunction with the mind—while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other).
This seminal project, if successful, will fundamentally change the way that we think about the nature of sexuality, from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what I originally called its “post-human” fate.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-04-01,Harry Eiss,Christ of the Coal Yards: A Critical Biography of Vincent van Gogh,Hardback,978-1-4438-1950-3,44.99,"No one heard the shot. No one ever found the gun.
It was Sunday, July 27, 1890. Vincent had recently finished Wheatfield with Crows, thought to be his final painting, one that he described as representing “vast fields of wheat beneath troubled skies,” one where he said in a letter he meant to send to Theo “I did not need to go out of my way to try to express cheerlessness and extreme loneliness.” The letter never got sent, but was found stuffed in his smock.
That morning, as usual, he walked out into the wheat fields with his easel, brushes, tubes of color and folding stool, perhaps hoping to reach his destination before the gang of local boys and girls were up and able to tease him and throw tomatoes. Le Crau, a wide plain of ripe grain, fields of citron, yellow, tan, and ochre, spread out beneath the bright Provencal sun. It’s safe to assume he heard the cicadas singing loudly, the swiping swishes of the farmers’ scythes already cutting through the rich wheat stalks, the gusts of wind whispering through the olive branches.
Driven and filled with energy for months, he had been quickly, with an assurance that overcame and perhaps even came from his doubts and struggles, putting his own dramatic visions on canvas after canvas. But today he did not go into the fields to paint, or, perhaps, in the beginning he did, perhaps in the morning that was his intention. No one will ever know.
He said he brought the revolver to frighten off the crows. Possibly that was his original intention when he included it with his lunch of bread and milk. In the end it‘s probably not relevant, except for the endless attempts to analyze him, to dig into his complex psyche, at once brilliant and yet impelled to self-destruction.
The Ravoux family were sitting on the terrace of their café when he returned, a bit concerned because he was late, but not overly so. When he finally appeared, his walk was more uneven than usual, and he held his hand over his stomach. “Monsieur Vincent,” Mrs. Ravoux said, “we were worried, we are glad to see you come. Has anything bad happened?”
“No, but I . . .” he left his reply unfinished as he passed inside.
Mr. Ravoux followed him upstairs, where he found him sitting on his bed, facing the wall.
“I wanted to kill myself.”
This book is a critical examination of Vincent van Gogh that offers insights into his life, his religious beliefs, his relationships with women, and, of course, his paintings. It includes discussions of his letters, and responds to many of the previous works about him, dispelling some of the myths that have no foundation and pointing out how many of the claims made about him and many of the popular beliefs that have grown up around him are at best guesswork. It explores psychological, neurological, theological, philosophical, aesthetic, and historical paradigms for comprehending his enigmatic and enticing personality.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-04-01,Petr Glombíček and James Hill,Essays on the Concept of Mind in Early-Modern Philosophy,Hardback,978-1-4438-1918-3,34.99,"An important task for every major philosopher is to offer us an understanding of the nature of mind. The essays in this volume discuss different aspects of the philosophical theories of mind put forward in the century and a half that followed Descartes’ Meditations of 1641. These years, often referred to as the ‘early-modern’ period, are probably unparalleled for originality and diversity in conceiving the mind. The volume not only includes two essays on Descartes’ own thinking, but there are also examinations of what Spinoza, Malebranche, Locke, Berkeley, Reid, the Cambridge Platonists, and others, have to say about the nature of mind.
The aim of the volume is to represent some of the best contemporary research and reflection on mind in early-modern philosophy. The contributors, who teach at a range of universities in mainland Europe, Great Britain and North America, are Margaret Atherton, Miran Božovič, Petr Glombíček, Boris Hennig, James Hill, Nicholas Jolley, Jan Palkoska, G. A. J. Rogers, and Anthony Savile. All the essays appear here for the first time.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-05-01,Lena Martinsson and Eva Reimers,Norm-struggles: Sexualities in Contentions,Hardback,978-1-4438-1975-6,39.99,"Norm-Struggles explores and challenges normativity in general and heteronormativity in particular. A common trait in all chapters is the focus on contradictions, changes, disruptions and uncertainties that follow with different norms and structuring forces. The authors discuss and explore how norms are produced, and reproduced but also disrupted, subverted and changed. The chapters are based on observations from different settings such as preschools, schools, universities, factories, social welfare, popular culture, passanger ships, and the fire service. They are also based on observations from different countries; Lithuania, Canada, USA, Sweden, Finland, and Great Britain. The book presents studies of media, policies, machines, organisations, academic sexual theory, and the ongoing constructions of nations and nationalities.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-06-01,Susan Dale,Where Angels Fear to Tread: An Exploration of having Conversations about Suicide in a Counselling Context,Hardback,978-1-4438-2070-7,34.99,"Where Angels Fear to Tread highlights some of the ethical and emotional challenges which arise for counsellors when their clients’ thoughts and behaviours become suicidal. It gives insight into how people can, and do, use suicide as a way of coping with overwhelming emotional pain, and the tension this creates in the balance between the ethical guidelines the counselling profession has adopted to protect clients against malpractice (and protect counsellors against litigation) and the needs and viewpoint of the client.
The book also shows a dynamic narrative research methodology in action. There has been a deliberate move away from the traditional “expert” and “subject” positions predominating research, and priority given to the telling of previously marginalised stories in ways that are evocative, congruent with the therapeutic endeavour. The research process is shown as a social construction of lived experience that navigates the borders between narrative research and narrative therapy conveying a distinctive perspective on both the subject matter and the dynamics of both therapeutic and research relationships.
","“This is an exemplar of practitioner-research in which Susan Dale engages the reader’s intellect, emotions, and curiosity—even whilst addressing the potentially distressing topic of suicide. This is a rare combination.
Susan and her client co-construct an honest in-depth narrative that shows how counselling was experienced by both the client and counsellor, and how such work can be researched to meet academic standards.
The book succeeds in introducing new ways of thinking and working, and I would highly recommend it to people working with suicidal clients and social scientists who want to research their practice in ways that capture the richness of experience.”
—Kim Etherington, PhD, Professor of Narrative and Life Story Research, University of Bristol, UK
“This is a brave, engaging and honest account of the journey of both a client and a counsellor working with, and through, a desire to die. Using narrative inquiry research methodology, this work challenges the reader to examine the traditional, sometimes rigidly upheld, ethics and thinking about suicide and our approach to working with this issue. The client’s experience illuminates the functionality of suicidal thinking from his perspective—an aspect often neglected in other literature and professional resources. I highly recommend this book to professionals in the therapeutic and medical fields whose work involves responding to and supporting those living with suicidal thoughts and intentions.”
—Dr. Samantha Chromy, Chartered Counselling Psychologist
“This book has many layers: a researcher’s story, a counsellor’s story, a story of supervision, but essentially a story of love in a therapeutic setting. Sue describes the healing power embedded in the relationship with Alex, which is powerful and inspiring. It is valuable for counsellors, researchers and anyone recognising the human struggle contained within.”
—Lorraine Price, MA, UKCP Registered Integrative Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Trainer;
Programme Leader of Masters Programme in Integrative Psychotherapy,
Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute, Nottingham
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-07-01,Michele Byers and David Lavery,"On the Verge of Tears: Why the Movies, Television, Music, Art, Popular Culture, Literature, and the Real World Make Us Cry",Hardback,978-1-4438-2160-5,39.99,"The idea for this book began with David Lavery’s 2007 column for flowtv.org. “The Crying Game: Why Television Brings Us to Tears” asked us to consider that “age-old mystery”: tears. The respondents to David’s initial survey—Michele Byers among them—didn’t agree on anything ... Some cried more over film, some television, some books; some felt their tears to be a release, others to be a manipulation. They did agree, however, as did the readers who responded to the column, that crying over stories, and even “things,” is something that is a shared and familiar cultural practice. This book was born from that moment of recognition.
On the Verge of Tears is not the first book to think about crying. Tom Lutz’s Crying: The Natural & Cultural History of Tears, Judith Kay Nelson’s Seeing Through Tears: Crying and Attachment, Peter Schwenger’s The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects, and Henry Jenkins’ The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture also offer forays into this familiar, if not always entirely comfortable, emotional space. This book differs markedly from each of these others, however. As a collection of essay by diverse hands, its point of view is multi-vocal. It is not a history of tears (as is Lutz’s superb book); nor is its approach psychological/sociological (as is Nelson’s). It does not limit itself to very contemporary popular culture (as does Jenkins’ book) or material culture (as does Schwenger’s study).
What On the Verge of Tears offers are personal, cultural, and political ruminations on the tears we shed in our daily engagements with the world and its artifacts. The essays found within are often deeply personal, but also have broad implications for everyday life. The authors included here contemplate how and why art, music, film, literature, theatre, theory, and material artifacts make us weep. They consider the risks of tears in public and private spaces; the way tears implicate us in tragedy, comedy, and horror. On the Verge of Tears does not offer a unified theory of crying, but, instead, invites us to imagine tears as a multi-vocal language we can all, in some manner, understand.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-07-01,Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Mueller,Transnational Psychiatries: Social and Cultural Histories of Psychiatry in Comparative Perspective c. 1800-2000,Hardback,978-1-4438-2217-6,44.99,"This book offers something new in the history of psychiatry. Within a transnational research framework, it presents original historical case studies and conceptual reflections on comparative and related methodologies. Systematic comparison and transfer studies as well as aspects of entangled history are employed in relation to themes such as different cultural meanings pertaining to the same term; transfer of treatment practices and institutional regimes; localised practices and (re)-emerging forms of patient care; circulation of early anti-psychiatrists’ views; impact of war and politics on patients’ welfare and on psychiatric discourse; and diversification of psychotherapeutic and physical practices. The book includes chapters on the history and historiography of psychiatry and psychotherapy in different geo-cultural regions in South America, Asia, the Pacific and Europe. The contributors present multilayered interpretations, emphasising commonalities and interconnections as well as contrasts and discontinuities. With its wide-ranging geographical focus and attention to conceptual issues, this collection will assist to integrate and reconfigure the historiography of psychiatry.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-10-01,Agnieszka Widera-Wysoczańska and Alicja Kuczyńska,Interpersonal Trauma and its Consequences in Adulthood,Hardback,978-1-4438-2400-2,39.99,"The source of interpersonal psychological trauma is a traumatic event that is repetitive, chronic and complex in nature, and is caused by the action of a closely related person, most frequently in a dysfunctional and pathological family. This book presents studies on the influence of various forms of abuse experienced in childhood on the personal functioning of that individual in adulthood, including various types of symptoms, problems, and personality and neurobiological disorders. It also contains psychotherapeutic issues connected with interpersonal trauma.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-10-01,Georgeta Raţă and Maria Palicica,Social Sciences Today: Between Theory and Practice,Hardback,978-1-4438-2405-7,44.99,"Social Sciences Today: Between Theory and Practice is a collection of essays that will appeal to teachers and researchers of social sciences no matter the level of instruction. The essays deal with three main issues of social sciences in Europe and Asia nowadays: educational theory (education as a social phenomenon—active learning, continuous training, cultivation of creativity in schoolchildren, design and implementation of educational subsystems, environmental education, environmental awareness, management strategies for homework, reform of the social protection system, and youth education); theory and methodology of the curriculum and of education—educational class, e-learning implementation; philosophy, psychology and sociology of education—counselling, education, educational principles, emotionality, focus, freedom, human needs, ideal, plagiarism, psycho-moral profile, research design, self-confidence, sociability, and values); society in the context of globalisation (foreign language knowledge, the information age, the interaction between culture and translation, and peace education); and identity, alterity and multiculturalism (cultural encounter, education, ethnic animosity, habitus, language, racism, and the village).
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-12-01,Alun Hardman and Carwyn Jones,Philosophy of Sport: International Perspectives,Hardback,978-1-4438-2516-0,39.99,"The book Philosophy of Sport: International Perspectives represents the work of some of the leading moral and philosophical academics in the popular practice of sport. All contributors are scholars and researchers in the area of the Philosophy of Sport, a growing area of serious study within universities and colleges across the world. The contributors are also active members of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport—a worldwide organisation dedicated to the development of the philosophy of sport as a serious and influential area of academic study. The book adds to the growing literature, which focuses on rigorously examining the global significance that sport plays in the fabric of twenty-first century life. Articles within the book provide a diverse set of ideas related to sport—from more familiar issue related to the ethics of performance enhancing substances and fair play, to issue of nationalism, and the way sport can contribute to human well-being.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-03-01,Young Woon Ko,Jung on Synchronicity and Yijing: A Critical Approach,Hardback,978-1-4438-2706-5,34.99,"Jung’s understanding of Yijing for supporting the synchronistic principle reveals the key issues of his archetypal theory. Jung’s archetypal theory, which is the basic motif of his understanding of Yijing, illuminates the religious significance of Yijing. Jung defines the human experience of the divine as an archetypal process by way of which the unconscious conveys the human religious experience. In this way, the divine and the unconscious mind are inseparable from each other. For the human experience of the divine, Jung’s archetypal theory developed in a theistic tradition is encountered with the religious character of the non-theistic tradition of Yijing.
From Jung’s partial adaptation of Yijing, however, we notice the differences between Jung’s archetypal psychology and the Yijing cosmological view. This difference represents the difference between the Western and the East Asian tradition. This aspect is well shown in the fact that Jung’s theoretical assumption for the definition of archetype is deeply associated with Plato’s Idea and the Kantian a priori category. Accordingly, Jung brings their timeless-spaceless realm of archetype into the synchronistic phenomenon of the psyche and identifies the Yijing text with the readable archetype. Yet, the synchronistic moment that Jung presents is the phenomenon always involved in subjective experience and intuition, which are developed in the duration of time. The synchronistic phenomenon is not transcendent or the objective flowing of time-in-itself regardless of our subjective experience.
","“In the 1950s, Carl Jung described synchronicity as an ‘acausal’ form of causality that he linked to both quantum physics and to the famous Chinese text, Yijing, or The Book of Changes. Jung’s concept fascinates many because it suggests a unified perspective on science and religion, Eastern and Western thinking. In contrast to many who write on this topic, Young Ko knows both the Asian and the Western materials. Jung on Synchronicity and Yijing: A Critical Approach shows unusual sophistication. Dr Ko interrogates Jung’s arguments and compares them to a subtle reading of the original Yijing materials.”
—Volney P. Gay, Vanderbilt University, USA
“We are in [debt to] Dr Young Woon Ko for his sophisticated and critical study of Jung’s notion of synchronicity and the Yijing. It is a relationship that has fascinated scholars of comparative philosophy and psychology for decades. We now have a study that finally throws a great deal of light on the topic. While we might still not fathom fully synchronicity and the Yijing, we now have a greatly improved understanding of their juxtaposition in Jung’s thought.”
—John Berthrong, Boston University, USA
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-04-01,Lisa Pavlik-Malone,Dolls & Clowns & Things: Essays for a Symbolic Self,Hardback,978-1-4438-2724-9,34.99,"In this volume, the author explores the symbolic relationship between the self and the object through a potentially illuminating lense—cognition. From this perspective, objects in general, and dolls in particular, are studied as vehicles through which cognitive processes adapt and re-adapt themselves, in various and specific ways, to transform one’s understanding of Self as an ongoing, overarching imaginative endeavor. Although at least some aspects of thought and emotion can and do function consciously, both the “cognitive conscious” as well as the “cognitive unconscious” are interpreted as fundamental to the creation of Self. Here, the author explores three ways in which “Self” may be “nurtured” or developed by the mind: one, as my physical object, in which the “thing” becomes one’s “own” meaningful possession while retaining all the aspects of its physical nature; two, as my objectified being, in which the original physical nature of the “thing” includes its being alive, but it has since lost this phenomenological quality in a sense, as one’s “own” personal meaning has come to imbue it; and three, as my personified idea, in which the individual mind conjures up the object itself, while ascribing to it human qualities in various aspects that, in the mind of the creator at least, emanate from the object as fundamental to what it is. In each sense, the conception of Self through the object is considered as a mechanistically intricate, personally invaluable mental attribute.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-04-01,Sue Barker,Midwives’ Emotional Care of Women becoming Mothers,Hardback,978-1-4438-2730-0,34.99,"This book offers an overview of the emotional care given by midwives to women based on the literature reviews and research undertaken by Sue Barker. Its chapters are mostly based around the questions she asked herself when exploring the area: What is motherhood? Who supports women at this time? What is emotional care? What are the experiences of midwives offering emotional care? What is emotion work? How does emotional care help women? She considers a wide range of literature sources to understand what is happening for the midwives and the women. Given the extensive use of referenced work the book should be useful for those thinking of undertaking a midwifery programme or those already engaged on any health care programmes. This book, though, is written with an easily accessible language so should be a useful source for voluntary groups and women on their journey to motherhood.
Midwifery care and motherhood are influenced by the culture within which they are experienced. This book has therefore considered the cultural hegemony and the differing ideologies within midwifery. The research was undertaken in the UK where most women receive midwifery care through the NHS therefore the midwives interviewed were all employed by the state. This may well have influenced their expectations and the women’s expectations of them. It may be that independent midwives would not have experienced some of the dilemmas faced by these midwives. Despite this the view of midwifery professional bodies, government guidance and research all support a ‘with woman’ approach to giving emotional support.
This book offers a detailed description of how emotional support as part of emotional care is given by midwives in their attempts to reduce or ameliorate emotional distress and provide comfort.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-05-01,Rıza Öztürk,Evolutionary Aesthetics of Human Ethics in Hardy’s Tragic Narratives,Hardback,978-1-4438-2897-0,34.99,"Treatment of Hardy’s tragic narratives under the objective lens of evolutionary literary theory has led to three basic findings: First, within the scope of the analysis of the five major tragic narratives, representation of Hardy’s evolutionary aesthetics of human ethics, in terms of altruistic sympathy and compassion, shows that adapted parental investment in children indicates the reason why women submit to pain and suffering more than the men do. The costly investment of women in maternal behaviour leads to submission in many cases, but in return they gain better fitness for survival and reproduction than men. This is implicitly highlighted as a force of superiority in the tragedies studied, as the male characters often invest in heroic deeds over their children. Second, that which has for many years been identified as pessimism in Hardy’s tragic narratives is in fact a surface cognitive layer, under which is an implicit teaching of evolutionary aesthetics of human ethics, which guides to a true fitness of human life. Third, sympathy and particularly compassion are not only human emotions but also adapted cognitive virtues that centre on ethical teaching.
Thus, an integrated model of science and humanities for art and literary analysis is required to address not only those of English language and literature departments, but also those aligned to the idea of integrating the two methods. A scientific and objective view of human life is in opposition to postmodern and structuralist approaches, which have generally been considered as the centre of interest during the latter half of the 20th century.
","“Professor Rıza Öztürk’s new book, Evolutionary Aesthetics of Human Ethics in Hardy’s Tragic Narratives, represents the cutting-edge thinking about narratives in terms of evolutionary science. The book reflects the best knowledge in this area (e.g., Paul Ekman, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby) as well as the best thinking on literary Darwinism (e.g., Joseph Carroll). In a well-written and well-organized book, Öztürk carefully delineates how aesthetics interacts with chance and selection in the work of Thomas Hardy, who embodies tragic figures with altruistic behavior to render reader response. Öztürk skillfully outlines how (evolved) emotions influence intention, attention, and consciousness; emotions are adapted functions designed to deliver aesthetic response (which means that art is not necessarily a human byproduct but is a necessary, evolved need). Stories (in both the telling and listening) are cognitive adaptations driven by aesthetics (and with significance for ordinary life). From aesthetics come ethics. Aesthetics is part of the process of selection so that triggered behaviors are put into play; such behaviors indicate fitness. Furthermore, Öztürk demonstrates, Hardy epitomizes how total ecological forces tap into basic (adapted) human emotions: Hardy’s natural world embodies evolutionary fitness to evince adapted behaviors in society and culture. For Hardy, nature is a complex web of real and cognitive inter-weavings: that is, selection (competition to attract a sexual partner) operates on (and within) individuals. Öztürk concludes that we find two categories of characters in Hardy: outsiders whose selfishness limits control; those who strive for fitness (even if failure is inevitable). While there is suffering in Hardy’s novels, such pain and grief exist to illustrate altruistic fitness – sympathy and compassion. Thomas Hardy does not create this suffering (it is in nature – or in society), which serves to reveal (or not) an individual’s adaptability (or not). Thus, Öztürk explains, Hardy helps make readers sympathetic to characters; he is hopeful regarding his characters and demonstrates how to be humane in extraordinarily difficult circumstances. Because we feel sympathy and compassion we are not, then, vulnerable but active, and such an emotional state prepares readers for survival (and reproduction). For Hardy, the facts of life help us develop (seen through Öztürk’s evolutionary approach) ethical sensibilities. As Joseph Carroll has remarked, the linguistic and textual poststructuralist readings of the 1970s and 1980s have yielded, ultimately, unsatisfactory results. Now, along with names such as Carroll’s, Rıza Öztürk will rank among the top scholars of this important, robust meeting of the sciences and humanities.”
—Gregory F. Tague, PhD, Professor of English, St. Francis College, New York, USA; Author of Character and Consciousness (2005) and Ethos and Behavior (2008)
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-06-01,John N. Gaston and W. Creighton Peden,Edward Scribner Ames’ Unpublished Manuscripts,Hardback,978-1-4438-2932-8,39.99,"Edward Scribner Ames (1870–1958) was a minister in the Christian Church, a.k.a. Disciples of Christ. He served as minister of the Hyde Park Christian Church from 1900 to l940. Having received his undergraduate degree from Drake College, BD and two years towards a doctorate at Yale University, he completed a PhD in philosophy in 1895 with John Dewey as chair of the department of philosophy at the University of Chicago. After teaching at Butler College for three years, he returned to Hyde Park Church and became a part time teacher in philosophy at the University of Chicago. Eventually Ames taught more and more and became chair of the department. At the University of Chicago he also became the founder of Disciples Divinity House, for which he served as Dean until 1945.
Ames is significant as a philosopher who adapted Christianity to the philosophy of pragmatism and the world of modern science. Ames’ hundreds of publications are held at the Disciples Divinity House at the University of Chicago, with the works in this volume being his unpublished manuscripts. In these lectures Ames devotes five lectures to explaining Christianity in terms of pragmatism to Disciples ministers. In other lectures he focuses on the philosophy of John Locke and its impact of the development of the Christian Church. Ames also developed a report for the Commission for the Restudy of the Disciples, The Philosophical Background on Disciples. In other ministerial lectures he presented a series of four lectures on The Reasonableness of Christianity. Also included are his alumni lecture at Yale Divinity in 1932 titled Imagery and Meaning in Religious Ideas; the Gates Memorial Lectures at Grinnell College titled This Human Life; a lecture at Northwestern University on The Will to Believe; and four lectures at the Pastors’ Institute in 1938 on When Science Comes to Religion. Ames addressed the Pastors’ Institute again in 1939 in four lectures on the Religious Implications of John Dewey’s Philosophy.
","“E. S. Ames was one of the most influential scholars in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the first half of the 20th century. Revisiting his adaptation of Christianity in light of modern science and pragmatic philosophy provides a valuable opportunity for Disciple theologians to examine an important trajectory of our intellectual heritage as we struggle to construct our postmodern identity. The publication of Ames' unpublished manuscripts, including his addresses to ministers, will enable scholars especially to better understand his humanism a la John Dewey’s thought.”
—Jeniffer G. Jesse, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Truman State University, USA
“Scholars affiliated with the University of Chicago in the early 20th century played major roles in developing empirical, pragmatic theologies that could hold their own in academic circles. Edward Scribner Ames was a star among those stars. Creighton Peden once again enriches our knowledge of this current of religious modernity. Accompanying his intellectual biography of Ames comes this publication of all of Ames’ unpublished manuscripts. These tools will not only serve future historians but they just might convince more theologians to keep alive this daring form of Christian survival.”
—Robert B. Tapp, Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Religious Studies, and South Asian Studies, University of Minnesota and Dean & Faculty Chair Emeritus, The Humanist Institute, New York City
“One of the central classical pragmatists is finally receiving his rightful attention. Ames was not only a creative philosopher alongside Dewey and Mead at Chicago, but he also was a psychologist and sociologist of religion who understood the religious life intimately. An amazing life indeed! He tireless did it all—as a university professor, minister of the University Church of Disciples of Christ, founder of the Disciples of Christ's Campbell Institute, and long-time dean of the Disciples Divinity House. Ames was a powerful humanistic voice in the liberal religious world of his day. This volume's superb collection of Ames's most significant and vibrant writings eloquently and persuasively speak to the needs of our own times today.”
—John R. Shook, author of The Companion to Pragmatism, professor at University at Buffalo
“E. S. Ames was one of the most influential scholars in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the first half of the 20th century. Revisiting his adaptation of Christianity in light of modern science and pragmatic philosophy provides a valuable opportunity for Disciple theologians to examine an important trajectory of our intellectual heritage as we struggle to construct our postmodern identity. The publication of Ames' unpublished manuscripts, including his addresses to ministers, will enable scholars especially to better understand his humanism a la John Dewey's thought.”
—Jennifer Jesse, Associate Professor, Truman University
“Edward Scribner Ames (1870-1958)—philosopher, minister, educator—was among the most creative early advocates for extending the pragmatic philosophy of William James and John Dewey into theology and philosophy of religion. During a long and varied career, Ames taught philosophy at the University of Chicago, served as minister of Hyde Park (later University) Church of the Disciples of Christ, and was dean of the Disciples Divinity House, affiliated with the University of Chicago. In this volume, Creighton Peden retrieves and interprets unpublished manuscripts that cast new light on Ames’s life and pragmatic philosophy of religion.”
—W. Clark Gilpin, The University of Chicago Divinity School
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-06-01,Susan Dale,Songs at Twilight: A Narrative Exploration of Living with a Visual Impairment and the Effect this has on Claims to Identity,Paperback,978-1-4438-2917-5,39.99,"The majority of research and writing about visual impairment is influenced by medical models of understanding, and is usually undertaken by sighted experts about those who are visually impaired. Songs at Twilight takes a different stance and uses a collaborative narrative methodology to enable the author, who is visually impaired, and thirty contributors, who are also visually impaired, to explore their experiences of living with a visual impairment and the effect this has had on their claims to identity.
The dynamic research process is shown as a social construction of lived experience where questions of identity are addressed through conversation and narrative. Sighted assumptions about blindness are challenged as the author and contributors discuss aspects of diagnosis and treatment, education, employment, societal attitudes towards blindness, relationships, treatment possibilities, emotional support (including counselling) and emancipatory research practices.
","“This book is a joy to read. It delivers relevant and congruent messages about living with sight loss. Dialogue portrays the honest experiences working through common themes that need to be considered when working with this client group.
Sue’s personal exploration adds a relational depth to her exploration that helps draw out and expose the ‘real’ issues rather than the ones that we assume need to be worked with.
This book is a must for any counsellor or psychotherapist who is contemplating working [with] a client with a visual impairment, and Sue’s work highlights the very pressing need to have therapy and emotional support at the heart of the sight loss journey.”
—Amanda Hawkins, Senior Manager, Emotional Support Services, RNIB; Deputy Chair, British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy
“This thought provoking book is an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to work with people who have vision impairment.
The book is a testament to the complexities of life with vision impairment—utter despair intertwines with exceptional courage and inspirational resilience.
Dale sensitively conducts each solo voice in the book, with the skill of a virtuoso, weaving together conversations, meetings, emails and experiences to create a unique symphony, which cannot fail to move the reader.”
—Mhairi Thurston, Lecturer in Counselling, University of Abertay, Dundee; Chairperson of VINCE (Vision Impairment Network for Counselling and Emotional support)
“What a great pleasure to have been given the opportunity to comment on Songs at Twilight.
The author’s sensitivity towards, and understanding of, the emotional issues attached to living with sight loss and the writing style which has been adopted affords the reader rare insight into the day to day practical and emotional challenges faced by individuals with vision impairment. This narrative leaves the reader in no doubt that timely and appropriate emotional support is a vital aspect of an individual’s journey though sight loss.
Songs at Twilight is an important addition to the literature on sight loss and should be required reading for all professionals in the field of vision impairment.”
—Alison S. Hood, Head of Research, Guide Dogs
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-08-01,Rajbala Singh,Psychological Model of Illness,Hardback,978-1-4438-2981-6,34.99,"It is important to address various psychological factors associated with chronic illness. Chronic illness requires proper health management because it cannot be cured fully but can be managed by both patients and medical professionals. The bio-medical perspective emphasizes the cure of illness based on objective clinical tests and ignores the importance of the patient’s own psychological perspective regarding illness. Psychological Model of Illness highlights the role of psychological factors in adaptation to chronic illness such as, myocardial infarction (heart attack).
Psychological Model of Illness attempts to understand the illness behavior of myocardial infarction patients. It provides an empirical investigation of illness cognition, personality, coping and health related effects on quality of life. The findings reported in this book are empirically confirmed and also make sense intuitively and experimentally.
Psychological Model of Illness provides a good blend of both quantitative and qualitative methods. The qualitative analysis indicates a number of ways in which the investigation of illness cognition, coping and health related quality of life might be viewed in a cultural context.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-08-01,Maria Garraffa,The Grammatical Nature of Minimal Structures: Impoverishment of Grammatical Features in a Non-fluent Aphasic Speaker,Hardback,978-1-4438-2982-3,34.99,"An important development in linguistic models is the shift from construction-oriented rules to elementary computations that generate complex grammatical expressions.
In this monograph, the author presents a systematic linguistic examination of an Italian aphasic speaker focusing on locality conditions as configurational restrictions on syntactic computations and on functional elements as fundamental triggers for computational processes.
The explanatory framework which has been adopted considers the grammar to be an integral part of language processing; it is a derivational model compatible with well-known parsing strategies such as the minimal link condition and the minimal chain principle. This approach to aphasia supports the hypothesis that linguistic deficit is an impoverishment of procedural capacities that manifests itself in reduced syntactic structures.
The book is recommended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics and theoretical linguistics, as well as medical researchers and speech therapists interested in the same fields. It can be adopted as principal text for the specific domain (syntax and aphasia).
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-09-01,"Bart L. Weathington, Christopher J. L. Cunningham, Brian J. O’Leary and Michael D. Biderman",Applied Psychology in Everyday Life,Hardback,978-1-4438-3188-8,34.99,"The practice of psychology involves more than the clinical treatment of mental illness. Although the media may perpetuate the view that all psychologists are healthcare professionals, or specialists who deal with deviant or non-normal behaviors, the majority of psychologists study and practice in diverse areas of human functioning other than clinical psychology. Psychology is the scientific study of human thought and behavior, all human behavior. It is a science with the same rigorous research standards as physics, chemistry, or biology. This book showcases a variety of applications of psychological science in the areas of health, law, sports, business, religion, and money. It is an outgrowth of the River Cities Industrial-Organizational Psychology Conference held at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA, in October 2008. The theme of the 2008 conference was “Applying Psychology to Everyday Life.” We hope the content of this volume enhances your awareness of the importance of applied psychology and that it motivates you to further explore its potential to impact our daily lives.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-10-01,Dan Bloom and Philip Brownell,Continuity and Change: Gestalt Therapy Now,Hardback,978-1-4438-3287-8,49.99,"Continuity and Change: Gestalt Therapy Now describes what is quite possibly the most unique and significant gestalt therapy organization in the world. There are, of course, many other associations of gestalt therapists, but many of them are either much smaller or qualitatively different because they attend to certifying and regulating their members. The Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (AAGT) does not certify nor regulate; its sole purpose is to advance the theory and practice of gestalt therapy through the associating of its members. This book both highlights the nature of contemporary gestalt therapy and makes known the existence and nature of the AAGT through the lens of its tenth biennial conference, which was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
In 2010 the AAGT returned to the Unites States for a venue in its biennial conference after having been in Amsterdam in the Netherlands; Vancouver, Canada; and Manchester, England. It’s regional growth had been sustained, and its international scope had become expansive. The 2010 conference, with its theme of continuity and change, was a look at contemporary gestalt therapy, and it also featured a significant and growing dialogue with recognized leaders in other clinical perspectives. The 2010 conference featured many long-time, recognized colleagues from the field of gestalt therapy, including many aging colleagues who trained personally with the founders of gestalt therapy. The conference proceedings were rich and varied.
This book includes papers based on pre-conference workshops, and conference presentations and panels. Chapter contributors emerge from the structure of the conference itself, and they include many of the most compelling thinkers and practitioners in the world of contemporary gestalt therapy.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-10-01,Harry Eiss,Divine Madness,Hardback,978-1-4438-3298-4,54.99,"Lila is Sanskrit for play, the play of the gods. It is the self-generating genesis of Bliss, created by Bliss for the purpose of Bliss. It is the uninhibited, impulsive sport of Brahman, the free spirit of creation that results in the spontaneous unfolding of the cosmos to be found in the eternity of each moment. It is beyond the confining locks and chains of reason, beyond the steel barred windows looking out from the cages of explanation, beyond the droning tick-tick-tick of the huge mechanical clocks of time.
Come, let us enter the realm of the madman and the finely wrought threads of Clotho as they are measured out by Lachesis and cut by Atropos to create the great tapestry of life, including the intricate, intertwining designs of dementia with the trickster, the shaman, the scapegoat, the shadow, the artist and the savior.
Come, let us join in the divine madness of the gods.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-11-01,Andrea Rehberg,Nietzsche and Phenomenology,Hardback,978-1-4438-3303-5,39.99,"This collection brings together original essays on a wide variety of topics in the broad area of ‘Nietzsche and Phenomenology’. Some of these papers take a thematic approach, thinking through key issues that connect or divide Nietzsche and phenomenology, while others approach the conjunction of the title via an encounter between Nietzsche and one of the central figures of the phenomenological tradition or other relevant philosophers. In either case, new and often surpising connections are uncovered in many of these essays, while others bring out the profound differences and discontinuities between aspects of Nietzsche’s project and the projects of phenomenologists. Through both of these general tendencies, significant new insights are won that broaden our understanding both of the work of Nietzsche and of twentieth-century phenomenology.
The international group of scholars gathered here, all of whom are steeped in the history of philosophy and particularly in the works of Nietzsche, includes some of the most important figures in contemporary continental philosophy, as well as some as yet relatively less well-known scholars. All are equally driven by the desire to get back to ‘the things themselves’, or ‘the matter of thought’, or however else that which incites us to think may be called.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-11-01,Suhaila AlHashemi and Richard Tzudiker,Workplace Emotions: Emotional Intelligence in Bahraini Management,Hardback,978-1-4438-3336-3,34.99,"When John Wilkinson accepts an invitation to help one of the Kingdom of Bahrain’s most successful companies, he does not expect a lesson from the Gulf Region’s leading expert in “emotional intelligence.” As his team works to upgrade the aluminum plant’s inspection process, John learns the value of emotional intelligence as he witnesses the first signs of cultural change in a corporation steeped in traditional management practices.
This entertaining story introduces the reader to Dr Suhaila AlHashemi’s groundbreaking research correlating emotional intelligence and leadership styles in Bahrain. Question-and-answer dialog in the Socratic Method clearly explains concepts and conclusions applicable to business management around the globe. Together, our hero and readers learn the personal and social competencies that define emotional intelligence, the tools used to collect and analyze an individual’s EI quotient and management styles, and how EI can be channeled to improve personal and organizational performance.
Workplace Emotions is the second in a series of business novels providing valuable insight into the Gulf business culture. A Cup of Coffee, by Dr Salem Al Ismaily with Richard Tzudiker, describes John Wilkinson’s entrepreneurial inroad into the Sultanate of Oman, and teaches how Arab culture and tradition influence management styles and business practices.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-12-01,Gyula Klima and Alexander W. Hall,"Categories, and What Is Beyond (Volume 2: Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)",Hardback,978-1-4438-3363-9,34.99,"For medieval thinkers, the distinction between intentional and extra-mental reality does not precipitate a Kantian turn to the subject. Rather, they allow that metaphysics and natural philosophy study things as they are and leave to logic the investigation of things as conceived. Within this broad scheme, there is much room for debate regarding whether and to what extent Aristotle’s categories comprise an accurate picture of what types of things exist. Closely tied to consideration of what types of things exist are questions concerning how language reflects the relations that hold among these things. For instance, both substances and the accidents parasitic on their existence are said to be, but not in the same way.
The essays in Categories, and What is Beyond draw on the philosophical traditions of late antiquity and the middle ages to study what types of things there are, the extent to which our knowledge of these entities is accurate, how (and whether) the semantics of analogy are competent to adjust for the difference and diversity found amongst analogates, and some ways in which these considerations bear on our ability to learn and speak of God.
","“The Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics has established itself as a major venue for the publication of high-quality original articles on medieval philosophy. Particularly welcome is its frequent practice of publishing papers in dialogue with each other. It exemplifies magnificently the ways in which medieval and contemporary philosophy can be brought into fruitful conversation.”
– Richard Cross, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
“In the past ten years, the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics has established a unique presence in both philosophy and medieval studies. By providing a venue for the discussion and publication of original philosophical and historiographical studies on the metaphysical insights of medieval authors from a logical perspective, it has opened a heretofore unexploited and much welcome niche of research.”
– Jorge J. E. Gracia, State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, USA
“It is my pleasure to recommend to you the nine volumes, thus far, of the Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics. . . . By focusing on both logic and metaphysical themes, the articles often shed new light on themes and figures that often escaped the notice of previous scholarship. . . . The volumes are a treasure trove in a field that is once again enjoying a renewed interest with academe.”
– Lloyd A. Newton, Benedictine College, Kansas, USA
“The study of medieval philosophy is now flourishing as never before, and these volumes showcase the very best of that work. Among the contributors to these volumes are many of the leading figures in the field, and the topics under investigation are fundamental to philosophy.”
– Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
“The Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics is an extremely important network for the study of medieval philosophy. . . . Every paper represents a significant contribution based on absolutely original research that meets a very high standard. All the papers actually promote insightful analysis of medieval texts and thought-provoking discussion of philosophical topics.”
– Fabrizio Amerini, University of Parma, Italy
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-12-01,Gyula Klima and Alexander W. Hall,"Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will (Volume 3: Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)",Hardback,978-1-4438-3367-7,34.99,"Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will traverses the medieval philosophical landscape of metaphysics, logic and natural philosophy. Alexander W. Hall discusses Thomas Aquinas’s interpretation of Aristotle’s doctrine of per se predication as it occurs in the conclusion of scientific demonstrations, i.e., of arguments producing scientific knowledge in the strict sense. Henrik Lagerlund and Catarina Dutilh Novaes take up medieval studies of mental language in the writings of Peter of Ailly and William Ockham. Works in this genre seek to discern what concepts are concepts of, the ontological status of concepts as entities, and how concepts stand for and represent things in the world. Lastly, Walter Redmond comments on and translates the prologue to and first chapter of the Mexican Jesuit Father Matías Blanco’s (d. 1734) The Three-Stranded Cord [Funiculus triplex], where Blanco treats the antinomy between freedom and determination, modal semantics, tense logic and the logical status of counterfactuals in an attempt to reconcile human freedom with God’s causality and omniscience.
","“The Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics has established itself as a major venue for the publication of high-quality original articles on medieval philosophy. Particularly welcome is its frequent practice of publishing papers in dialogue with each other. It exemplifies magnificently the ways in which medieval and contemporary philosophy can be brought into fruitful conversation.”
– Richard Cross, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
“In the past ten years, the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics has established a unique presence in both philosophy and medieval studies. By providing a venue for the discussion and publication of original philosophical and historiographical studies on the metaphysical insights of medieval authors from a logical perspective, it has opened a heretofore unexploited and much welcome niche of research.”
– Jorge J. E. Gracia, State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, USA
“It is my pleasure to recommend to you the nine volumes, thus far, of the Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics. . . . By focusing on both logic and metaphysical themes, the articles often shed new light on themes and figures that often escaped the notice of previous scholarship. . . . The volumes are a treasure trove in a field that is once again enjoying a renewed interest with academe.”
– Lloyd A. Newton, Benedictine College, Kansas, USA
“The study of medieval philosophy is now flourishing as never before, and these volumes showcase the very best of that work. Among the contributors to these volumes are many of the leading figures in the field, and the topics under investigation are fundamental to philosophy.”
– Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
“The Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics is an extremely important network for the study of medieval philosophy. . . . Every paper represents a significant contribution based on absolutely original research that meets a very high standard. All the papers actually promote insightful analysis of medieval texts and thought-provoking discussion of philosophical topics.”
– Fabrizio Amerini, University of Parma, Italy
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-12-01,Gyula Klima and Alexander W. Hall,Mental Representation (Volume 4: Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics),Hardback,978-1-4438-3364-6,29.99,"It is supposed to be common knowledge in the history of ideas that one of the few medieval philosophical contributions preserved in modern philosophical thought is the idea that mental phenomena are distinguished from physical phenomena by their intentionality, their directedness toward some object. As is usually the case with such commonplaces about the history of ideas, especially those concerning medieval ideas, this claim is not quite true. Medieval philosophers routinely described ordinary physical phenomena, such as reflections in mirrors or sounds in the air, as exhibiting intentionality, while they described what modern philosophers would take to be typically mental phenomena, such as sensation and imagination, as ordinary physical processes. Still, it is true that medieval philosophers would regard all acts of cognition as characterized by intentionality, on account of which all these acts are some sort of representations of their intended objects.
Mental Representation explores the intricacies and varieties of the conceptual relationships between intentionality, cognition and mental representation as conceived by some of the greatest medieval philosophers. The clarification of these conceptual connections sheds new light not only on the intriguing historical relationships between medieval and modern thought on these issues, but also on some fundamental questions in the philosophy of mind as it is conceived today.
","“The Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics has established itself as a major venue for the publication of high-quality original articles on medieval philosophy. Particularly welcome is its frequent practice of publishing papers in dialogue with each other. It exemplifies magnificently the ways in which medieval and contemporary philosophy can be brought into fruitful conversation.”
– Richard Cross, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
“In the past ten years, the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics has established a unique presence in both philosophy and medieval studies. By providing a venue for the discussion and publication of original philosophical and historiographical studies on the metaphysical insights of medieval authors from a logical perspective, it has opened a heretofore unexploited and much welcome niche of research.”
– Jorge J. E. Gracia, State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, USA
“It is my pleasure to recommend to you the nine volumes, thus far, of the Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics. . . . By focusing on both logic and metaphysical themes, the articles often shed new light on themes and figures that often escaped the notice of previous scholarship. . . . The volumes are a treasure trove in a field that is once again enjoying a renewed interest with academe.”
– Lloyd A. Newton, Benedictine College, Kansas, USA
“The study of medieval philosophy is now flourishing as never before, and these volumes showcase the very best of that work. Among the contributors to these volumes are many of the leading figures in the field, and the topics under investigation are fundamental to philosophy.”
– Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
“The Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics is an extremely important network for the study of medieval philosophy. . . . Every paper represents a significant contribution based on absolutely original research that meets a very high standard. All the papers actually promote insightful analysis of medieval texts and thought-provoking discussion of philosophical topics.”
– Fabrizio Amerini, University of Parma, Italy
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-01-01,"Sherri McCarthy, K. Laurie Dickson, Jacquelyn Cranney, Annie Trapp and Victor Karandashev",Teaching Psychology around the World: Volume 3,Hardback,978-1-4438-3448-3,54.99,"This book updates the information in the first two volumes of Teaching Psychology around the World, providing a current overview of teaching psychology internationally. Psychology curricula continue to become increasingly internationalised; the book includes relevant information about and research on teaching from secondary, undergraduate (baccalaureate) and post-graduate (MA, Doctoral and Post-Doctoral) psychology programs in Australia, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and the US. It is a must-read for all instructors of psychology and university personnel engaged in building international programs, as well as psychologists and psychology students interested in the international aspects of the discipline. This book, like the earlier ones in the series, brings together current information on the teaching and practice of psychology collected by experts in the field from throughout the world.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-02-01,Lynn Zubernis and Katherine Larsen,"Fandom At The Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships",Hardback,978-1-4438-3530-5,39.99,"Fandom At The Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships is an in-depth exploration of the reciprocal relationship between a groundbreaking cult television show and its equally groundbreaking fandom. For the past six years the authors have inhabited the close-knit fan communities of the television show Supernatural, engaging in criticism and celebration, reading and writing fanfiction, and attending fan conventions. Their close relationships within the community allow an intimate behind-the-scenes examination of fan psychology, passion, motivation, and shame.
The authors also speak directly to the creative side in order to understand what fuels the passionate reciprocal relationship Supernatural has with its fans, and to interrogate the reality of fans’ fears and shame. As they go behind the scenes and onto the sets to talk with Supernatural’s showrunners, writers, and actors, the authors struggle to negotiate a hybrid identity as “aca-fans”. Fangirls one moment, “legitimate” researchers the next, the boundaries often blur. Their repeated breaking of the fan/creative side boundary is mirrored in Supernatural’s reputation for fourth wall breaking, which has attracted journalistic coverage everywhere from Entertainment Weekly to the New York Times. Written with humor and irreverence, Stalking Fandom combines an innovative theorizing of fandom and popular culture, which will be useful in a variety of courses, with a behind-the-scenes story that anyone who’s ever been a fan or wondered why others are fans will find fascinating.
","“Fandom At The Crossroads raises vital questions for contemporary fan studies. Pondering whether fan practices can be therapeutic, asking how boundaries between fans and producers are policed (from both sides), and considering fan conflicts, this is a rich and timely study of Supernatural fandom which also opens up wider issues surrounding convergence culture right now. Drawing on detailed, wide-ranging interviews with showrunners and the show’s cast, Fandom At The Crossroads also boasts a degree of access that’s incredibly rare in work of this kind. By combining their fan and scholarly identities, Larsen and Zubernis challenge all of us to see the subject anew.”
– Matt Hills, Cardiff University; Author of Fan Cultures and Triumph of a Time Lord
“Larsen and Zubernis have produced what will no doubt be a valuable addition to the growing scholarship on fan studies. Their passion as Supernatural fans shines through and they should be congratulated for researching and writing an influential book that asks the reader to not only consider their own relationship to a particular fandom but demands that they take notice and take seriously the diverse interests and emotional attachments millions have with their objects of affection.”
– Lincoln Geraghty, University of Portsmouth; Editor of the Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood
“‘The fans’ are an incredibly important force in the entertainment industry: Powerful executives, directors and writers fear them, countless web sites cater to them and their support (or wrath) can make or break a project. But who are the fans? What do they want? How do they view their complex relationships with the stories and storytellers they obsess over? Fortunately, Lynn Zubernis and Katherine Larsen are here to take us on a fascinating journey into the belly of the beast – an appropriate metaphor, given their profound and passionate knowledge of the complex and challenging spooky serial Supernatural. But you don’t have to be a fan of the Winchester Brothers to enjoy this witty, thoughtful and intelligent guide to the nature of fandom and the endless varieties of the fan experience. As Dean Winchester would say, ‘They get it.’”
– Maureen Ryan, Television Critic, AOL/Huffington Post
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2012-02-01,Alvin Henry,Psychoanalysis in Context,Hardback,978-1-4438-3529-9,39.99,,,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-04-01,David Henderson,"Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society",Hardback,978-1-4438-3731-6,44.99,,,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-05-01,"Edited by Wojciech Kalaga, Assistant editor Agnieszka Kliś",Civilisation and Fear: Anxiety and the Writing of the Subject,Hardback,978-1-4438-3750-7,44.99,"Paradoxically, if nature has always been a source of fear, civilisation – its other and at the same time the epitome of progress and order – has not only doubled fear itself, but also added its new sister, anxiety. In effect, the notions of civilisation, fear and anxiety can hardly be separated. Fear – either linked with anxiety or distinct from it – lies at the foundation of civilisation, which as much promises to shelter us from these afflictions as it does proliferate them. Confronted no longer with the adversary powers of nature, humans have to face now the adversary powers produced by their own endeavours and ideologies. Each effort aimed at attaining an equilibrium results in new, unexpected rifts and breaches into which fear and anxiety grow. Out of the games played between fear and civilisation there emerge new versions of the human subject: homo anxious, homo civilis, homo rationalis.
This volume represents a collection of papers devoted to the many various relations between fear and society, culture and civilisation – both Western and Eastern, contemporary and past. The articles collected here approach the relationship of civilisation, fear, anxiety and the subject from multiple perspectives. Relating to modern critical thought, including that of Kant, Freud, Derrida, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, they investigate the objects, causes and effects of fear: reality, nature, reason, libidinal excess, atheism, critical discourse, technological advances, conspiracy, terrorism, capital punishment, the diversity of cultures, and the breakdown of civilisation as a whole: most of all, however, they explore the various shades of fear itself.
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2012-05-01,Simon Toms,The Impact of the UK Temporary Employment Industry in Assisting Agency Workers since the Year 2000,Hardback,978-1-4438-3747-7,44.99,"Temporary agency work has been a central topic of employment discourse in recent years, and the flexible working arrangements it can provide individuals and organisations has served to increase this attention in the current economic climate. Temporary employment agencies can provide organisations with fast access to potential staff and individuals with a variety of flexible working opportunities. However, negative worker experiences and the lack of contractual protection have been a source of criticism that resulted in the EU’s adoption of the Agency Workers Directive towards the end of 2011.
This study is concerned with assessing the impact of the UK temporary employment industry in assisting agency workers since the year 2000, and incorporates four research questions: (1) To what extent have temporary employment agencies provided employment opportunities to vulnerable groups since the year 2000? (2) How are individuals psychologically affected by working as temporary agency workers, and what are the implications? (3) Individual agency workers often interact with several different groups including temporary employment agencies, third party employers, permanent workers and trade unions. Are there tensions that exist between these groups, and how do they manifest themselves? (4) Recent legislative development has occurred with the adoption of the Agency Workers Directive. What are the implications for individual agency workers and temporary employment agencies?
The study incorporates semi-structured interviews with agency workers and their permanent colleagues, as well as recruitment consultants and their clients. Additional data from participants’ follow-up interviews and analysis of researcher diary extracts serves to build a picture of the temporary employment industry at an individual and organisational level. The findings of the study include the influence that motive can have upon how agency workers view their ensuing employment, the negative psychological impact that reduced contractual obligation can have upon the individual, and the detrimental outcomes that can result from the short-term and cyclical nature of agency employment. Further findings are also discussed, and the text concludes by outlining the study’s contribution to knowledge.
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2012-06-01,Roger Hunt,Freud: A Mosaic,Hardback,978-1-4438-3887-0,34.99,"This monograph was written in the heat of a kind of intellectual defense against the feelings of psychosis experienced during my fieldwork training to become an analyst. Its coming into being required such an induction as it synthesizes sporadic thoughts which have been plaguing me for sometime now. The discourse is - to put it one way - organic; though embedded within the chaos is a model of behavior based on psychoanalytic theory which can be used to conceptualize the explosion of data emanating from the neurosciences. This is also a reflection on how psychoanalytic theory can take over your mind, if you only let it. You, if you are an empathic reader, should be able to sense the various feeling states I was in while writing these sections, and hopefully use that recognition to organize the plethora of theoretical meanderings into a understanding of psychoanalysis all your own.
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2012-07-01,Nicolas Payette,Connected Minds: Cognition and Interaction in the Social World,Hardback,978-1-4438-3902-0,44.99,,,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-07-01,Sophie Aymes-Stokes and Laurent Mellet,In and Out: Eccentricity in Britain,Hardback,978-1-4438-3907-5,44.99,"The aim of the book is twofold: first, to provide an overview of the critical history of eccentricity; and secondly to conceptualise a notion that is often presented as a defining feature of the English “character”. It addresses the key issues raised by eccentricity and brings out interdisciplinary links between science, politics, literature and the arts: the sources and dissemination of the concept of eccentricity; its relationship with the English national character as historical and ideological construct; the structural need for variation and divergence within accepted social norms; the paradoxical status of the eccentric as outsider—when eccentricity is transgressive and alienating—and as insider¬—eccentricity as socially acceptable deviation. Fundamentally eccentricity is a normative notion: being ex-centred enables eccentrics to delineate and negotiate boundaries between the margins and the centre, the canon and the norm. The contributors question the links between eccentricity and diversity and originality, the value of individual experience and character, and as a corollary, the struggle to retain individuality against increasing standardization, commoditisation and channelling within the normative discourse of normality. Eccentricity as display and performance is also tackled in several chapters, which focus on reception, image and (self)-representation, exhibition and voyeurism.
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