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Gender and Colonialism

March 22, 2013 By

The fist edition of this book was a pioneering work in the newly emerging field of liberation psychology. This revised and updated edition provides an up-to-date review of the latest international developments in liberation psychology, feminist psychology and critical psychology, with a framework that links the personal and the political.

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Trends in Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Research

March 21, 2013 By

Alcoholism is a disorder characterised by the excessive consumption of and dependence on alcoholic beverages, leading to physical and psychological harm and impaired social and vocational functioning. This book gathers research on this socially and medically destructive disorder.

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The Psychology of Dyslexia

March 20, 2013 By

This book introduces the psychology of dyslexia to teachers. Although primarily for teachers, the book will be of interest to other professionals, such as Speech Therapists, who are undertaking a course on dyslexia, as well as parents of dyslexic children.

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Victim Vulnerability

March 19, 2013 By

An examination of psychological literature on victimisation. This book deals with psychology of a victim of repeated criminal acts from existential-humanistic perspective. It incorporates interviews and archival data, including written and audio forms of documentation.

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Events Design and Experience

March 18, 2013 By

Draws together the relationship between event design and the experience of consumers and participants. This book explores and analyses the event experience of the individual and how this can be controlled by design. It includes a review of the psychological processes of perception and interpretation and how meaning and experience can be analysed.

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The Prince

March 17, 2013 By

Written in the 16th century as advice from a senior civil servant to the ruling Prince, Lorenzo de Medici, this book is useful for those seeking and attaining power, and gives the listener a psychological insight into character formation.

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French Presidential Elections

March 14, 2013 By

An original and comprehensive study of the sociological and psychological forces driving individual choices in French Presidential elections. Based on a unique comparative analysis of four French presidential contests over the last two decades, this book presents a rigorous examination of long-term and short-term voter motivations.

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Catastrophe

March 5, 2013 By

How should we respond to events that, for a variety of psychological and cultural reasons, we find it hard to wrap our minds around? This book argues that realism about science and scientists, innovative applications of cost-benefit analysis, and a pragmatic attitude toward civil liberties are among the keys to coping with catastrophic risks.

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The Art of Executing Well

March 4, 2013 By

In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This book includes some of the songs, stories, poems, and images that they used, and also first-person accounts and ballads describing particular executions.

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Appetite

February 22, 2013 By

This book deals with both the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms in appetites for drugs, food, sex, and gambling, and considers whether there are common factors between them. The authors approach this by looking at the bases of both normal and abnormal appetites in humans.

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