The Blue Day Book meets Stuff on My Cat-a collection of animals looking extraordinarily cute, in casts![...]
A study, with recommendations, on the housing, care and psychological well-being of captive and laboratory primates.[...]
Segal, Gerdes, and Steiner's AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROFESSION OF SOCIAL WORK introduces readers to the social work profession and describes the role of social worker in the social welfare system. Through case studies, personal stories, and exercises, this social work text helps readers apply the co[...]
*** Winner of the 2012 Costa First Novel Award *** "It is impossible to resist this novel's wit, grace, and charm."
--Lauren Groff, author of "The Monsters of Templeton" and "Arcadia"
A smart and slyly funny tale of love, temptation, confusion, and commitment; a triumphant and beautifully exe[...]
This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cyberspace communities and paradises.[...]
This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cyberspace communities and paradises.[...]
The path to success is rarely easy or direct and good mentors are hard to find. Getting There--beautifully photographed and edited by Gillian Zoe Segal--is a collection of 30 personal essays from people who have reached the top of their chosen fields.[...]
Tunisia offers complete coverage of this fascinating country, including sections on history, geography, wildlife, infrastructure and government, and culture. It also includes a detailed fact file, maps and charts, and a traceable flag.[...]
He is Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law. She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe. Opposites in nearly every way. But they fell in love. This is their story.[...]
Barney Livingstone and Laura Castellano are childhood neighbours who share an unforgettable friendship. From the crucible of med school's merciless training, through the demanding hours of internship and residency to the triumphs - and sometimes tragedies - of their daily professional lives, we foll[...]
This bestselling work, now in a new edition, has introduced tens of thousands of clinicians to mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression (MBCT), an eight-week program with proven effectiveness. Step by step, the authors explain the "whys" and "how-tos" of conducting mindfulness practices an[...]
A collection of essays analyzing the leading theories of myth. It surveys the contours of this ongoing discussion, comparing and evaluating the theories of Edward Tylor, William Robertson Smith, James Frazer, Jane Harrison, Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung, and others.[...]
The author describes her childhood interned at the Nazi death camps during the Holocaust, her flight to freedom, and her struggle to begin a new life in occupied Germany and later in New York.[...]
Cognitive therapy, with its clear-cut measurable techniques, has been a welcome innovation in recent years. However, the very specificity that lends itself so well to research and training has minimized the role of the therapeutic relationship, making it difficult for therapists to respond flexibly [...]
Mindfulness is the conscious, uninvolved awareness of the present moment.Western psychologists have recently learned that this state of mind is particularly conducive to the accomplishment of cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT. Built around a series of specific, step-by-step interventions, this b[...]
If you have received a cancer diagnosis, you know that the hundreds of questions and concerns you have about what's to come can be as stressful as the cancer treatment itself. But research shows that if you mentally prepare yourself to handle cancer treatment by getting stress and anxiety under cont[...]
This book presents an innovative eight-session program designed to prevent relapse in clients who have recovered from depression.[...]