Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
spring/summer 2011
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psychology
Breakdown The Person and
a personal crisis and the Situation
a medical dilemma N
EW Lee Ross and Richard E Nisbett
Stuart Sutherland foreword Malcolm Gladwell Apr 11
PSYCHOLOGY | £9.99 | US$17.95 PSYCHOLOGY | £12.99 | US$19.95
ISBN 978-1-905177-20-2 | 320pp | pbk ISBN 978-1-905177-44-8 | tbc pp | pbk
135x216mm | published Sep 2010 156x234mm | published April 2011
Reissue of Irrationality author Stuart Sutherland’s How does the situation we’re in influence the way
classic account of his own manic depression and we behave and think? Professors Ross and Nisbett
analysis of the nature origins and treatments of eloquently argue that the context we find ourselves
mental illness. in substantially affects our behavior in this timely
reissue of one of social psychology’s classic
‘Incisive, unsentimental, wholly unsparing, but full textbooks. With a new foreword by Malcolm
of humour and humanity (and often very funny), Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point.
Breakdown remains one of the best accounts I
know of a personal journey through manic ‘All of my books have been, in some sense,
depression. I think it will take its place among intellectual godchildren of The Person and the
the modern classics of this literature.’ Oliver Sacks Situation. It has been a constant companion over
the past 10 years.’ Malcolm Gladwell
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Those at the opposite end of the obstetric spectrum believe that no pregnancy is normal, except in retrospect. 3
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psychology
Obedience The Individual
to Authority in a Social World
an experimental view essays and experiments
NEW
Stanley Milgram Stanley Milgram
foreword Philip Zimbardo edited by Thomas Blass
Birth without Violence revolutionized the way we For many thousands of years women have given
perceive the process of birth, urging us to consider birth among people they know in a place they
birth from the infant's point of view. Why must a know well, usually their own home. Knowledge is
child emerge from the quiet darkness of the womb shared between the participants and birth is a
into a blaze of blinding light and loud voices? social event.
Why must the infant be separated from its mother In this new and revised edition of her classic book,
after spending nine months inside her nourishing Sheila Kitzinger explores the universal experience
body? of pregnancy and birth. She looks closely at the
Frédérick Leboyer’s Birth Without Violence is one place of birth, how women move in childbirth and
of the milestones in the history of humanizing what is done to help them and examines the bond
childbirth. This Pinter & Martin edition is the traditionally formed between mothers and
definitive edition, published exactly how the author midwives.
intended it.
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. The early days of my breakdown were marked by a further curious feature. 7
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A Wise Birth
pregnancy, birth & parenting
12 I joked to my friends that the title would be, She wants to do WHAT?!
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a baby.
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The trouble is that a newborn baby can’t speak. 13
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Striking a perfect balance of practical information, As hospital-based maternity services become in-
compelling personal stories and research evidence, creasingly medicalised, more and more parents are
leading childbirth educator Nicky Wesson shows deciding that birth belongs in the home. For many
how giving birth to your baby in your own home women, this choice may be an easy one, but for
can be the most exciting and fulfilling thing you their partners, home birth raises some serious
ever do. questions.
Home Birth is essential reading for all couples The Father’s Home Birth Handbook provides a re-
considering having their baby at home. source aimed specifically at exploring men’s hopes
and fears around home birth. Thorough research,
4th completely revised and updated edition. balanced discussion, and dozens of home birth sto-
ries from real men all over the world make this
‘An up-to-date, inspiring must-read.’ Viv Groskop book essential reading for all fathers-to-be and
NCT the professionals who support them.
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I stumbled onto something that proved to be the beginning of a revolution of sorts. 17
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Sandra Sabatini (author of Breath) and Silvia Mori you learn how to listen to the breath and how to
open up a dialogue between the body and its approach some simple positions. Whether you are
surroundings. They invite a calm and easy flow of a complete beginner or already practice yoga,
breath that takes us into a state of quietness and these subtle, gentle suggestions can guide you
lightness. naturally to a deeper appreciation of the essence
Reading this book, season after season, and of yoga.
practicing as the days go by, will enchant. The Breath Sessions
an invitation to breathe
‘A beautiful book... taking you through each season Sandra Sabatini
with asanas, poetry, pranayama, quotes and
YOGA | £9.99 | Audio CD
suggestions for massage and meditation. This is a ISBN 978-1-905177-14-1 | PMCD002
lovely, fluid, holistic book that truly captures the 48mins | published 2009
essences of the seasons and encourages yoga to
Distilled from Sandra Sabatini’s classic book
be reflective of each of them.’ Spectrum
Breath and her yoga classes, this CD helps you
learn how to listen to the breath and how to
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20 People really can get better, in some cases, simply from taking a dummy pill.
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‘This cheesy little home-made book was prepared ‘Passionate about literature, O’Joyce frequently goes
for the amusement of people who already enjoy out of his way to antagonize a literary
fiction etc
Zappa music. It is not for intellectuals or other establishment that places profit and political
dead people. It is designed to answer one of the correctness before artistic vision. The health of
more troubling questions related to conceptual literary criticism in America today depends on
continuity: “How do all of these things that don’t voices like his.’ Library Journal
have anything to do with each other fit together,
forming a larger absurdity?”’ Frank Zappa
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Rachel is a high school student who falls in love When factory worker Pinquean Smallcreep, who
with a blue VW Beetle she spots in a used car has slotted a certain type of slot into a certain
yard. To raise the money to pay for the first down type of pulley for many years, packs his sandwiches
payment, she starts to work in an old factory, and sets out on a journey to investigate what it
where she seems to be the only worker, operating is he is producing, his discoveries become
a huge, noisy machine towering over her. increasingly more bizarre and disturbing.
She befriends a strange young man and begins to Peter Currell Brown’s brilliantly surreal satire of
share his fascination for electricity. Both he and automation and alienation is as exhilarating and
fiction etc
Rachel have been brought up under pylons and unforgettable today as when it was first published.
think nothing of having high electric currents flowing
through their bodies. When Rachel begins to suspect ‘A most lucidly written nightmare, and a pleasure
his real intentions it may already be too late. to read for its prose alone. . . . Apocalyptic. But
‘Industrial magic realism for the urban West.’ funny with it.’ John Bowden, The Sunday Times.
The Good Book Guide
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22 Fed and happy with itself, the fish contemplated Rachel, a human in a tank of air.
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our autumn 2011 catalogue will be out in April – email us for a copy
funny look at the battle between the sexes has too rare in British cinema. Seek it out.’
earned her severe criticism and even death Robert Monk, CLASH
threats. But Vilar’s intention is not misogynous: she
maintains that only if women and men look at DVD extras include the documentary Klaus Maria
their place in society with honesty, will there be Brandauer: Speer in London and the short film
any hope for change. Summer.
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24 Henry Miller is not a writer, he’s a friend you turn to when your apartment walls turn in on you.
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A tantalising drama which strikes at the heart This delightful collection of tales set in
of Hitler’s architect and armaments minister, Argentina, here for the first time published in
Albert Speer, one of the most ambiguous English, takes young readers on a journey of
figures in history. discovery through a magical country.
They will end by destroying our planet and making us believe their wasteland is what we want. 25
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26 Seen from today’s perspective, my courage in those days may only be attributable to a lack of imagination.
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WRITER/PRODUCER MARTIN WAGNER DIRECTOR LESLEY MANNING