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Introducing Melanie Klein: A Graphic Guide by Robert Hinshelwood; Susan Robinson; Oscar Zarate (Illustrator)
$23.99 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Melanie Klein was the most innovative and influential child psychoanalyst in the first half of the twentieth century. Introducing Melanie Klein explores her progressive ideas. Her concepts of the depressive position and the paranoid-schizoid position are now in common usage, and her work is studied by ...Show more
Introducing Modernism: A Graphic Guide by Chris Rodrigues; Chris Garratt (Illustrator)
$23.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and the avant-garde theatre of Bertolt Brecht or ...Show more
Introducing Philosophy: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson, Judy Groves
$23.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as: What is the nature of reality? What are human beings really like? What is special about the human mind and consciousness? Are we free to choose who we are and what we do? Can we prove that God exists? Can we be certain a ...Show more
Introducing Political Philosophy : A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
$15.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Introducing Political Philosophy explains the subject s central concepts and presents the major political theorists from Plato to Michel Foucault. How did governments get started? Why should they be obeyed? Could we live without them? How much power should they have? Is freedom a right? Which is the bes ...Show more
Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide by Richard Appignanesi, Chris Garratt
$15.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Introducing... Ser.
What connects Marilyn Monroe, Disneyworld, "The Satanic Verses" and cyber space? Answer: Postmodernism. But what exactly is postmodernism? This graphic guide explains clearly the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to define the world's cultural condition over the last three decades. "Intro ...Show more
Introducing Psychoanalysis: A Graphic Guide by Ivan Ward
$23.99 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Introducing... Ser.
INTRODUCING guide to the history and theory of still controversial 'speaking cure'. The ideas of psychoanalysis have permeated Western culture. It is the dominant paradigm through which we understand our emotional lives, and Freud still finds himself an iconic figure. Yet despite the constant stream of ...Show more
Introducing Psychology :A Graphic Guide to Your Mind and Behaviour by Nigel Benson
$19.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Introducing... Ser.
What is psychology? When did it begin? Where did it come from? How does psychology compare with related subjects such as psychiatry and psychotherapy? To what extent is it scientific? "Introducing Psychology" answers all these questions and more, explaining what the subject has been in the past and what ...Show more
Introducing Psychotherapy by Nigel Benson
$25.99 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Introducing series
Psychotherapy is now hardly contentious, a safety net for the perils of modern life. But what - really - is it all about? Here is a unique and valuable summary of this complex profession, focussing on the main types of therapies: the 'talking cures' of psychoanalysis; behavioural and cognitive technique ...Show more
Introducing Psychotherapy: A Graphic Guide by Nigel Benson; Borin Van Loon (Illustrator)
$15.99 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Introducing... Ser.
What is psychotherapy? How can we choose wisely from so much on offer? This book provides a valuable summary of the main therapies: the "talking cures" of psychoanalysis, behavioral and cognitive techniques, somatic solutions, humanist gestalt and existential approaches, and individual and group therap ...Show more
Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide by J.P. McEvoy, Oscar Zarate
$17.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which contradict the logic of classical physics. At the subatomic level, one particle seems to know what the others are doing, and according to Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle", there is a limit on how accurately nature can be observed. And yet the ...Show more
Introducing Semiotics: A Graphic Guide by Paul Cobley, Litza Jansz
$23.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Introducing Semiotics outlines the development of semioticsthe study of signs and signifiers in the world around usfrom its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. It identifies the key semioticians and their work and explains the simple concepts behind difficult terms. "
Introducing Time: A Graphic Guide by Craig Callender
$23.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Introducing Time traces the history of time from Augustine's suggestion that there is no time, to the flowing time of Newton, the conventional time of Poincare, the static time of Einstein, and then back, full circle, to the idea that there is no time in quantum gravity. "