#213 - R.R. Hassin - The New Unconscious

Author or Editor: R.R. Hassin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Published: 2005
ISBN: 0-19-514995-5
Pages: 592
Size: 3,25MB

Over the past decade or two, a new picture of unconscious processes has emerged from a variety of disciplines that are broadly part of cognitive science. Unconscious processes seem to be capable of doing many things that were, not so long ago, thought of as requiring mental resources and conscious processes. These range from complex information processing through behavior to goal pursuit and self-regulation. Much has changed since Kihlstrom’s (1987) description of the “cognitive unconscious.” This collection of chapters provides a sampling of some of the most important developments at the heart of this new picture.

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#210 - Wendy Wheeler - The Whole Creature

Author or Editor: Wendy Wheeler
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
Published: 2006
ISBN: 1 905007 30 2
Pages: 173
Size: 1,69MB

In this book, and following in an honourable tradition which I have found best expressed in the work of Raymond Williams, I have wanted to present a good materialist argument about the nature of human sociality. My argument, briefly stated, is simple: while each and every one of us is manifestly an individual, whose life and wellbeing matters, humans and their wellbeing are not most fully understood unless the fundamentally social nature of human existence is properly taken into account. This – our fundamental sociality – is lived in our inner, as well as outer, world; and it is emotional as well as physical; and all this – our essential social being – is written on our bodies in terms of flourishing or (its opposite) illness.

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#155 - Andrew Leigh & Michael Maynard - Dramatic success!

Author or Editor: Andrew Leigh & Michael Maynard
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Published: 2004
Pages: 213
Size: 1.72MB

What sort of ticket do you want for your performance at work? One for improving your own potential, one for creating a great team, or perhaps one for developing leadership? Maybe you want one of the expensive seats, one that will help produce an outstanding company?

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#91 - Jane F.Gardner - Being a Roman Citizen

Author or Editor: Jane F.Gardner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1993
Pages: 244

What was a Roman citizen? Answers to the question can follow a number of different lines of approach. One which is currently very influential is via the examination of the characteristics of Roman society and life in ‘Roman’ communities; the emphasis is not so much on citizenship as on ‘Romanness’. The definition of ‘Roman’ can be constructed, for example, by reference to the foreign, Hellenic model, cultural and also institutional, which the Romans both infiltrated and dominated, and at the same time absorbed and assimilated. It is possible therefore to study the subject from two angles, i.e. the ‘Hellenisation’ of the Romans, or the ‘Romanisation’ of their Eastern empire and its neighbours.

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#33 - Geoffrey Miller - The Mating Mind

Author or Editor: Geoffrey Miller
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2001
Pages: 446

Central Park divides two of Manhattan's greatest treasure collections. On the West Side stands the American Museum of Natural History, with its dinosaur fossils, stuffed African elephants, dioramas of apes, and displays of ancient human remains. On the East Side stands the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with its Rembrandt self-portraits, peacock-shaped sitar, gold rapiers, Roman temple, Etruscan mirrors, and Jacques Louis David's Death of Socrates.

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#31 - Bobbi S.Low - Why Sex Matters

Author or Editor: Bobbi S.Low
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Pages: 412

IT SEEMS so easy to start out—but writing a book, like childbirth, turns out to be something most of us will repeat only if we forget many of the details of the process. Writing is a complex process, and many people must get credit for the accomplishment.

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