In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric, antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book therefore offers a new perspective on emotional discon[...]

In an effort to enlighten a new generation about its growing reliance on psychiatry, Cracked investigates why psychiatry has become the fastest-growing medical field in history; why psychiatric drugs are now more widely prescribed than ever before; and why psychiatry keeps expanding the number of me[...]

Controversial and powerful - a shocking indictment of the pseudo-science at the heart of modern psychiatry[...]

Provides a guide for development of quantification skills crucial for applying mathematical methods to biological problems. This title includes examples from across disciplines in the life sciences including modern biomedical research. It explains how to use data sets or dynamical processes to build[...]

Romantic Anatomies of Performance takes as its subject the great virtuoso performers of the nineteenth century, examining the ways in which they thought of their own extraordinary gifts, the ways their contemporaries envisioned them, and how they have been imagined by history. It looks at the pianis[...]

When their pirate crew cast them adrift on the ocean wave, it looks like certain death for Caleb and Annie, and their baby daughter Polly. Against all odds, they make it to land and find a new home, but Polly can't seem to settle into normal life. Then, on a school trip, Polly's class comes under at[...]