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Hands: What We Do with Them - and Why by Darian Leader
$26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
How much do you really know about your own hands? Throughout history , civilisations have been defined by the work of human hands: inventing tools, writing records, operating machinery, typing, texting, swiping. But beneath this known history is another, secret story: our hands are not the obedient ser ...Show more
Hands What we do With them and Why by Darian Leader
$37.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
A fresh, thought-provoking and wide-ranging study of how mankind uses its hands Why do zombies walk with their arms outstretched? How can newborn babies grip an adult finger tightly enough to dangle unsupported from it? And why is everyone constantly texting, tapping and scrolling? For anyone curious ab ...Show more
Introducing Lacan by Darian Leader
$23.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Introducing... S.
For anyone intrigued by Lacan's ideas butdiscouraged by the apparent arcane quality of his writings, the lucid text and graphic illlustrations together provide the ideal introduction.
Is It Ever Just Sex? by Darian Leader
$45.00 NZD
Category: No Category
A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader 'It was just sex.' It's a familiar claim. But is it really possible? The old idea that sexuality is a smouldering, animalistic force within us, desperate for release yet restrained by social forces, ...Show more
Strictly Bipolar by Darian Leader
$12.99 NZD
Category: Medical & Nursing
Strictly Bipolar is Darian Leader's treatise on the psychological disorder of our times. If the post-war period was called the 'Age of Anxiety' and the 1980s and '90s the 'Antidepressant Era', we now live in Bipolar times. Mood-stabilising medication is routinely prescribed to adults and children alike, ...Show more
The New Black: Mourning, melancholia and depression by Darian Leader
$30.00 NZD
Category: Health & Wellbeing
What happens when we lose someone we love? A death, a separation or the break-up of a relationship are some of the hardest times we have to live through. We may fall into a nightmare of depression, lose the will to live and see no hope for the future. What matters at this crucial point is whether or not ...Show more
What Is Madness? by Darian Leader
$26.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
In What is Madness?, Darian Leader, the author of The New Black and Why do Women Write More Letters Than They Post? asks probing questions about madness, sanity and everything in between. What separates the sane from the mad? How hard or easy is it to tell them apart? And what if the difference is reall ...Show more
What is Madness? by Darian Leader
$45.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
Madness, in our culture, is defined by visibility. From the popular press to TV soaps and films, the depiction of madness always borders on the extreme: violent outbursts, fits, hallucinations. But what if madness is not exactly what we think it to be? What if it is the rule rather than the exception? A ...Show more
Why Can't We Sleep? by Darian Leader
$21.00 NZD
Category: Health & Wellbeing
From the brilliant psychoanalyst behind Strictly Bipolar and What is Madness, a short and fascinating guide to the history of human sleep - and why we can't seem to sleep any more One in four adults sleeps badly. Sleeping pill prescriptions have increased dramatically over the last three decades, as hav ...Show more
Why Do People Get Ill? Exploring the Mind-Body Connection by Darian Leader
$30.00 NZD
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Have you ever wondered why we get ill? Can our thoughts and feelings worsen or even cause conditions like heart disease, cancer or asthma? And what - if anything - can we do about it? "Why Do People Get Ill?" explores the relationship between what's going on in our heads and what happens in our bodies, ...Show more
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