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Jenainati Cathia: Feminism: A Graphic Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: The term 'feminism' came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes much further back. This completely new and updated edition of Introducing Feminism surveys the major developments that have affected women's lives from the 17th century to the present day. Introducing Feminism is an invaluable reference book for anyone…

Roberts Geoffrey: Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Drawing on rich new sources from the recently-opened Soviet archives, Geoffrey Roberts has fashioned the definitive, first full-scale biography of this seminal 20th century figure.

Walton David: Introducing Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: An INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to effectively understanding oneself and others. Emotional intelligence is the innate potential to feel, use, communicate, recognize, remember, describe, identify, learn from, manage, understand and explain emotions. Increasingly it is seen that people who have a higher level of emotional intelligence do better at work in all sorts of fields and in relationships…

Leader Darian: Introducing Lacan: A Graphic Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 860 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 170) Аннотация: Jacques Lacan is now regarded as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud and Jung, although recognition has been delayed by fierce arguments over his ideas. Written by a leading Lacanian analyst, Introducing Lacan guides the reader through his innovations, including his work on paranoia, his addition of structural linguistics to Freudianism and his ideas on the infant mirror phase. It…

Robinson: Introducing Ethics for Everyday Life — A Practical Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 1 090 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 215) Аннотация: Ethical philosophy has a long and distinguished history, but how can you apply it to your life? This Practical Guide explores the alternative ethical philosophies and how we can all use these to aid us with everyday dilemmas. Introducing Ethics for Everyday Life provides advice on whether human beings really are selfish and greedy, why you might want to be a good person, and how to pick an…

Curnow Trevor: Introducing Philosophy for Everyday Life: a Practical Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This book will show how philosophy can help to improve your thinking about everyday life. And by improving the quality of your thinking, you can improve the quality of your life. It will make you more aware of what you think and why — and how you can change what you think.

Watt Tessa: Introducing Mindfulness: A Practical Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Mindfulness is about teaching yourself to be more aware of your body and your environment, more present in the here and now, more focused and able to make choices about where you direct your attention, and more accepting of yourself and other people.

Hinshelwood R.D.: Introducing Melanie Klein: A Graphic Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: INTRODUCING guide to the pioneering child psychoanalyst. Born in Vienna in 1882, Melanie Klein became a pioneer in child psychoanalysis and developed several ground-breaking concepts about the nature and crucial importance of the early stages of infantile development. Although she was a devoted Freudian, many of her ideas were seen within the psychoanalytic movement as highly controversial, and…

Forsyth Mark: The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organized crime, California to the Caliphate, or brackets to codpieces? The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between words. It's an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the…

Price Alison: Management: A Practical Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: An INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to improving your performance as a manager. INTRODUCING — THE PRACTICAL GUIDES bring you the world's greatest theories and research, to improve your life, your skills and your well-being. Packed full of straightforward, realistic advice that has immediate results, INTRODUCING — THE PRACTICAL GUIDES are engineered by experts in their fields to help you achieve your…

Marx: A Graphic Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Compact INTRODUCING guide to the influential philosopher, sociologist and economist. INTRODUCING MARX — A GRAPHIC GUIDE explores the life of the most famous Socialist figure, from his early years to meeting Engels in 1842. It provides a readable, understandable biography of Karl Marx as well as a fundamental account of his original philosophy, its roots in 19th century European ideology, his…

Orrell David: Economyths: How the Science of Complex Systems is Transforming Economic Thought

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A groundbreaking look at how the science of complex systems is changing economics. Economics has for decades claimed that the economy is a rational, stable, efficient machine, governed by well-understood laws. Mathematician David Orrell traces the history of this idea from ancient Greece to the financial centres of London and New York, showing exactly how it is mistaken — and then brilliantly…

Appignanesi Richard: Freud: A Graphic Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Freud revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as Id, Ego, libido, neurosis and Oedipus Complex have become a part of our everyday vocabulary. But do we know what they really mean? Introducing Freud successfully demystifies the facts of Freud's discovery of psychoanalysis. Irreverent and witty but never trivial, the book tells the story of Freud's life and…

Norris David: Joyce: A Graphic Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: James Joyce is one of the most famous — and controversial — writers of the twentieth century. The myth of his difficulty has discouraged many readers from works such as Ulysses, but David Norris explores his life and work in this engaging and intellectually rigorous introduction.

Grenville-Cleave Bridget: Positive Psychology: A Practical Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This Practical Guide uses positive psychology to show you how to identify — and play on — your character strengths, how to change your mindset, how to boost your positive emotions, and how to become more resilient.

Buckingham: Introducing Happiness: a Practical Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: By looking at the history of thought, this guide will help you do things which support your well-being, free yourself from the various disturbances of life, overcome irrational expectations that cause us distress, and understand the causes of suffering.

Kul-Want: Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Dubbed «The Elvis of Philosophy» Slavoj Zizeck is both a serious revolutionary and an absurdist prankster, published in academic journals and Abercrombie & Fitch catalogs. Besides his work on popular culture, Zizek is concerned with politics and ideology. Introducing Slavoj Zizek reveals a provocateur whose work on Lacanian psychoanalysis collides with Marxist philosophy—creating the world's…

Orrell David: Economics: A Graphic Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Brand-new INTRODUCING guide to the subject that really makes the world go round. Economics was described by the English economist Lionel Robbins in 1935 as 'the science of scarcity' but these days economics is everywhere, and it's never been more popular — as bestselling books such as Freakanomics attest. But what is economics really all about? What do the great economists think, and what can…

Price Alison: Psychology of Success: A Practical Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 1 100 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 217) Аннотация: What is it about entrepreneurs or medal-winning athletes that makes them successful? What secrets about their brains could the rest of us benefit from knowing to improve our own careers? This accessible guide explores how successful people think, and how the organizations they work in foster a culture of success.

Jones Steve: Genetics: A Graphic Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Introducing Genetics takes readers on a journey through this new science to the discovery of DNA and the heart of the human gene map. In everyday life, many of us increasingly have to make moral decisions where genetics plays a part. This book gives us the information to do so.