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  • Sport and Christianity

    Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Hugh McLeod, Nils Martinius Justvik, Robert Hess ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Sport and Christianity examines sport and Christianity from a variety of historical perspectives, with the main focus on the period from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.The book is not limited to a narrow definition of Christianity, but rather encompasses a wide range of denominations, related philosophies and viewpoints. The contributors are international, and the geographical ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand

    Edited by Martin Crotty, Robert Hess ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Sport and war have been closely linked in Australian and New Zealand society since the nineteenth century. Sport has, variously, been advocated as appropriate training for war, lambasted as a distraction from the war effort, and resorted to as an escape from wartime trials and tribulations. War has limited the fortunes of some sporting codes – and some individuals – while others have blossomed in ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Early Formal Education

    Current Theory, Research, and Practice

    by Robert Hess ...
    The future of any society lies in its ability to train and socialize its young. The stability of its institutions, political systems, the productivity of its industrial resources, and the creativity of its intellectual talent reflect the success of those who have been given responsibility for shaping and developing its youth. If these teaching functions are not adequately performed, through ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Invading Australia: Japan and the battle for Australia, 1942

    by Peter Stanley ...
    1942 was a key year in Australia's history. As its people had so long feared, White Australia, an outpost of empire, seemed about to be invaded by the Japanese. In that one year, Darwin was bombed, submarines torpedoed ships in Sydney Harbour and Australian Militiamen died on the Kokoda Trail.Each year, more and more Australians celebrate Anzac Day and honour the lives of those who fought for ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Empathy

    From Bench to Bedside

    Edited by Jean Decety ...
    Series series Social Neuroscience
    Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychoanalysis.There are many reasons for scholars to investigate empathy. Empathy plays a crucial role in human social interaction at all stages of life; it is thought to help motivate positive social behavior, inhibit aggression, and provide the affective and motivational bases ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Mind and the Market

    Capitalism in Western Thought

    by Jerry Z. Muller ...
    Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, and their claims have been many and diverse. The Mind and the Market is a remarkable history of how the idea of capitalism has developed in Western thought.Ranging across an ideological spectrum that ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • For God and Ulster (History of the Ulster Volunteer Force)

    by John McCoist ...
    History of the Ulster Volunteer Force from its birth to defend Ulster against home rule, its major part in the battles of France in world war one, it's reincarnation into the fierce and ruthless paramilitary machine during the troubles that took on the Irish Republican terrorists on all fronts and what it's role is today. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The History of Political Thought

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Richard Whatmore ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present. Different periods in politics have used the past differently. At times political thought can be said to have been drawn directly from the study of history; at others, perhaps including our own time, the relationship is more indirect. This Very Short ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Stress, Appraisal, and Coping

    by Richard S. Lazarus, PhD, Susan Folkman, PhD ...
    The reissue of a classic work, now with a foreword by Daniel Goleman!Here is a monumental work that continues in the tradition pioneered by co-author Richard Lazarus in his classic book Psychological Stress and the Coping Process. Dr. Lazarus and his collaborator, Dr. Susan Folkman, present here a detailed theory of psychological stress, building on the concepts of cognitive appraisal and coping ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies

    Unifying Psychological Science and Psychoanalysis

    by R. Coleman Curtis ...
    Series series New Imago
    Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies unifies psychological science with contemporary relational psychoanalysis, arguing that the disciplines can be integrated if the concept of repression is understood as motivated forgetting, creative aspects of unconscious processes are taken into account in cognitive science, and a "new experiences" model of change is acknowledged by psychoanalysts. Such ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Beyond Capitalism & Socialism

    A New Statement of an Old Ideal

    by John Sharpe ...
    Explaining the socio-economic theory of distributism, this anthology argues that political, economic, and social liberties and freedom are penalized under both socialism and capitalism. With distributism-and other "third way" alternatives to capitalism-the human person, the family, and the community take precedence over bureaucrats and barons. Society exists for man, not the other way around. ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Farewell, Dear People

    biographies of Australia’s lost generation

    by Ross McMullin ...
    WINNER OF THE 2013 PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR AUSTRALIAN HISTORYWINNER OF THE 2012 MANNING CLARK HOUSE NATIONAL CULTURAL AWARDCOMMENDED FOR THE FAW EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION AWARDFor Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers during World War I was catastrophic. It is hardly surprising, then, that Australians evaluating the consequences of the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD