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  • A Rumor of Empathy

    Rewriting Empathy in the Context of Philosophy

    by L. Agosta ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    A rumor of empathy in vicarious receptivity, understanding, interpretation, narrative, and empathic intersubjectivity becomes the scandal of empathy in Lipps and Strachey. Yet when all the philosophical arguments and categories are complete and all the hermeneutic circles spun out, we are quite simply in the presence of another human being. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • A Darwinian Survival Guide

    Hope for the Twenty-First Century

    by Daniel R. Brooks, Salvatore J. Agosta ...
    How humanity brought about the climate crisis by departing from its evolutionary trajectory 15,000 years ago—and how we can use evolutionary principles to save ourselves from the worst outcomes.Despite efforts to sustain civilization, humanity faces existential threats from overpopulation, globalized trade and travel, urbanization, and global climate change. In A Darwinian Survival Guide, Daniel ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Radical Empathy in the Context of Literature

    by Lou Agosta ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In this book, Lou Agosta explains, using literary examples, that readers require radical empathy to relate to, process, and overcome bad things happening to good people (for example: moral and physical trauma, double binds, soul murder, and behavior in extreme situations.) A definition of radical empathy in the context of literature emerges: Empathic distress occurs, but one’s commitment to the ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Horrotica

    by Vanessa Finaughty, Joanne Agosta ...
    Step into the dark and seductive world of Horrotica, where the lines between pleasure and terror blur to ignite your senses and might even drive you to take leave of them. This anthology of short erotic horror stories will take you from the depths of desire to the pits of unimaginable dread, and leave you questioning everything you thought you knew.These sixteen stories by three authors offer a ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • INVENTING THE TRUTH

    Memory and Its Tricks - A Gay Life

    by Lucien L Agosta PhD ...
    INVENTING THE TRUTH: MEMORY AND ITS TRICKS offers a collection of essays dealing with the author's life experiences as a gay man. Because exact accuracy is alien to the way memory works, the verifiable fictions in this book are, necessarily, inventions of the truth. Included essays examine the author's early cross-dressing and other childhood challenges to his birth gender, the important formative ... Read more

    $5.63 CAD

  • LOSING TIME

    AIDS Lessons in Love and Loss

    by Lucien L. Agosta ...
    LOSING TIME, a memoir, offers a frank account of gay life as I lived it in Sacramento, CA during the AIDS crisis--the Losing Time of the title. It focuses on the later life and too early death from AIDS of one man among the many remembered here--Dore Tanner (1949-98)--who taught me in that dark era that love was more than the heterosexual illusion I had always believed it to be. LOSING TIME offers ... Read more

    $5.63 CAD

  • A Rumor of Empathy

    Resistance, narrative and recovery in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy

    by Lou Agosta ...
    Series series Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
    Empathy is an essential component of the psychoanalyst’s ability to listen and treat their patients. It is key to the achievement of therapeutic understanding and change. A Rumor of Empathy explores the psychodynamic resistances to empathy, from the analyst themselves, the patient, from wider culture, and seeks to explore those factors which represent resistance to empathic engagement, and to show ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Did the Millennium Development Goals Work?

    Meeting Future Challenges with Past Lessons

    by Alireza Saniei-Pour, Jason McFarlane, Andrew Sheng, Kelly Levin, Brian Lipinski, Betsy Otto, Richard Waite, Tim Searchinger, Craig Hanson, Sofia Samper0, Mohamed Evren Tok1, Badye Essid2, Manmohan Agarwal3, Olabanji Akinola5, Saleh Ahmed6, Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran7, Laura Agosta8, Sarah Hoesch9, Bineta Diop0, Joshua Castellino1, Sarah Bradshaw2, Deborah Levison3, Ragui Assaad4, Jeff Grischow5, Cristina D'Alessandro6, Samuel Vincent7, Clare Lockhart8, Armando Barrientos9 ...
    With the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) behind us, this book asks did they work? And what happens next? Arguing that to effectively look forward, we must first look back, the editors of this insightful book gather leading scholars and practitioners from a range of backgrounds and regions to provide an in-depth exploration of the MDG project and its impact.Contributors use ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Imaging Dementia

    Essentials for Clinical Practice

    by Massimo Filippi, Federica Agosta ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book helps physicians select from among the currently available imaging tools, promoting the correct and cost-saving diagnosis and management of common dementias. Magnetic resonance (MR) and nuclear medicine techniques are routinely used to facilitate diagnosis, select therapies, provide information regarding the prognosis, and monitor therapy response in patients with cognitive impairment ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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    A Darwinian Survival Guide

    Hope for the Twenty-First Century

    by Daniel R. Brooks, Salvatore J. Agosta ...
    Narrated by Tim Fannon ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 17 min

    Despite efforts to sustain civilization, humanity faces existential threats from overpopulation, globalized trade and travel, urbanization, and global climate change. In A Darwinian Survival Guide, Daniel Brooks and Salvatore Agosta offer a novel—and hopeful—perspective on how to meet these tremendous challenges by changing the discourse from sustainability to survival. Darwinian evolution, the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Major Metaphors of Evolution

    Darwinism Then and Now

    by Salvatore J. Agosta, Daniel R. Brooks ...
    Series Book 2 - Evolutionary Biology – New Perspectives on Its Development
    This book presents a unified evolutionary framework based on three sets of metaphors that will help to consolidate discussions on evolutionary transitions.Evolution is the unifying principle of life, making identifying ways to apply evolutionary principles to tackle existence-threatening crises such as climate change crucial. A more cohesive evolutionary framework will further the discussions in ... Read more

    $244.99 CAD

  • Sinners, Saints, and Scratch Tickets

    by Gina D'Agosta ...
    When David Robins leaves his family one day without explanation in a small town where everyone knows everyone's business, no one seems to have any answers for his wife, Jean or his two daughters, Alison and Sarah. What do a pastor, police officer, and ex-convict have in common? They hold the key to solving the mystery of David's disappearance. But only Alison seems to care anymore. So what's a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD