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  • Psychoanalysis and the Nuclear Threat

    Clinial and Theoretical Studies

    Edited by Howard B Levine, Daniel Jacobs ...
    The analytic literature has heretofore been silent about the issues inherent in the nuclear threat. As a groundbreaking exploration of new psychological terrain, Psychoanalysis and the Nuclear Threat will function as a source book for what, it is hoped, will be the continuing effort of analysts and other mental health professionals to explore and engage in-depth nuclear issues.This volume provides ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Baltimore Revisited

    Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City

    by Lawrence Brown, Daniel L. Buccino, Michael Casiano, Sam Collins, Shannon Darrow, Matthew Durington, Nicole Fabricant, Aiden Faust, Jennifer A. Ferretti, Leif Fredrickson, Robert Gamble, Marisela Gomez, April K. Householder, Jodi Kelber- Kaye, Louise Parker Kelley, Emily Lieb, Jacob R. Levin, Teresa Méndez, Ashley Minner, Elizabeth M. Nix, Richard E. Otten, Eli Pousson, Mary Rizzo, Fred Scharmen, Aletheia Hyun-Jin Shin, Linda Shopes, Michelle L. Stefano, Joe Tropea, Amy Zanoni, Denise Meringolo, Robert Headley, Shawntay Stocks ...
    Nicknamed both “Mobtown” and “Charm City” and located on the border of the North and South, Baltimore is a city of contradictions. From media depictions in The Wire to the real-life trial of police officers for the murder of Freddie Gray, Baltimore has become a quintessential example of a struggling American city. Yet the truth about Baltimore is far more complicated—and more fascinating.To help ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    Life Must Go On

    The Remarkable Story of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghetto, and the Tragic Fate of Lithuania's Jews

    by Bea Lurie, Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs ...
    Narrated by Adam Barr ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 46 min

    After a bucolic childhood in Kovno, Lithuania, Sol was just eleven when the Nazis invaded and he and his family were forced to move into the Kovno Ghetto. The Kovno Ghetto was one of the only ghettos to later become a concentration camp, and Sol was among just a few Jewish survivors from Kovno.In this inspiring story of tenacity, character, faith, love, and forgiveness, we follow young Sol through ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Community Matters

    Challenges to Civic Engagement in the 21st Century

    by William A. Galston, Meira Levinson, Jacob T. Levy, Peter Levine, Robert K. Fullinwider, Mick Womersley ...
    Series series Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy Studies
    Civic matters affect all members of a community and are thus of potential concern to all. In Community Matters: Challenges to Civic Engagement in the 21st Century, six distinguished scholars address three perennial challenges of civic life: the making of a citizen, how citizens are to agree (and disagree), and how to define the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The thought-provoking ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Do Jews, Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?

    by Vincent J. Cornell, Jacob Neusner, Bruce Chilton, Baruch A. Levine ...
    Most Jews, Muslims, and Christians are devoted and faithful. Still, on any given day, it’s difficult to avoid the vigorous and heated disputes between them, whether over the “Ground Zero” mosque, lobbying state legislatures against Sharia law, sharing worship space, dissecting the fallout of the Arab Spring, protecting civil rights, or challenging the authority of sacred texts. With so much rancor ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Motivation in Humor

    by Jacob Levine ...
    This is not a funny book--but it is the first to bring together contemporary experimental studies on humor. The fourteen scholarly papers included here mark an important breakthrough in this vital, complex, and largely unexplored subject. Motivation in Humor shows that humor is researchable by scientific methods and indicates the difficulties involved in such work. Here are samples of the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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  • Against Democracy

    by Jason Brennan, Jason Brennan ...
    A bracingly provocative challenge to one of our most cherished ideas and institutionsMost people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us—it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and tends to make us smarter, more virtuous, and more caring for one ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Story of Psychology

    by Morton Hunt ...
    Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Mesmer, William James, Pavlov, Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Skinner. Each of these thinkers recognized that human beings could examine, comprehend, and eventually guide or influence their own thought processes, emotions, and resulting behavior. The lives and accomplishments of these pillars of psychology, expertly assembled by Morton Hunt, are set against the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Rule of Nobody

    Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government

    by Philip K. Howard ...
    The secret to good government is a question no one in Washington is asking: “What’s the right thing to do?”What’s wrong in Washington is deeper than you think.Yes, there’s gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger and more destructive. It’s a broken governing system. From that comes wasteful government, rising debt, failing schools, expensive health care, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Pathology of Normalcy

    by Erich Fromm ...
    The legendary social psychologist and New York Times–bestselling author meditates on ideas of mental health and normalcy in contemporary society.At the beginning of the 1950s, Erich Fromm increasingly questioned whether people in contemporary industrial society were mentally healthy. Eventually the topic of various lectures, Fromm's new social psychoanalytic approach enabled him to further develop ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Can It Happen Here?

    Authoritarianism in America

    Edited by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    . . . Or has it already? Experts in law, politics, and other fields discuss the state of American freedom—and its precarious future.With the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump, many on both the left and right feared that America's 240-year-old grand experiment in democracy was coming to an end, and that Sinclair Lewis' satirical novel It Can't Happen Here, written during the dark days of the 1930s, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Philosophy of Pseudoscience

    Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

    Edited by Massimo Pigliucci, Maarten Boudry ...
    "A remarkable contribution to one of the most vexing problems in science: the 'demarcation' problem, or how to distinguish science from nonscience." —Francisco J. Ayala, author of Darwin's Gift to Science and ReligionWhat sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus