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  • - The Craziness of Apparently Normal People
    af David L. Weiner
    214,95 kr.

    Localises the source of our irrationality in the limbic id - the part of our brain that endlessly thirsts for status, sex, territory, nurturance, and survival. This book offers advice on how to handle our own Inner Dummies with built-in rewards and punishments. It illustrates how we can apply 'ID prevention' in our daily lives.

  • - It Works for Me - It Can Work for You
    af Albert Ellis
    192,95 kr.

    Written by the renowned creator of one of the successful forms of psychotherapy - Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), this book offers a self-assessment, which reveals how the author overcame his own mental and physical problems using the techniques of REBT. Part memoir and part self-help guide, it also traces his private struggles.

  • af John Dewey
    158,95 kr.

    The twentieth century witnessed the blossoming of Western culture including communications and transportation systems, and educational, agricultural and medical advances. This book argues that humankind could keep a firm hold on its destiny only if the critical intelligence of scientific method and its democratic counterpart were promoted.

  • af Leonard Diamond
    179,84 kr.

    Offers psychological techniques to help you achieve your goals. This book explores the positive and creative elements in compelling real-life situations, deep-seated feelings, emotions, and the problems that lurk behind the walls every human being builds for protection.

  • af Mary Wollstonecraft
    138,95 kr.

    The social revolution for women's rights has made great progress in recent years. But how many casual observers - or advocates, for that matter - are aware that the roots of this movement extend deep into Western history?Even before launching the great campaign to attain universal suffrage, strong female voices spoke in favor of the social, political, educational, and economic rights of women. A Vindication of the Rights of Women, published in the late eighteenth century, is truly a classic in this venerable tradition. Railing against the stubborn social forces that confined women to an inferior station in the community, Mary Wollstonecraft declares war on the prevailing attitudes and customs that prevent women from realizing their individual potential.

  • af James A. Haugt
    323,95 kr.

    Presents lovemaking as healthy, natural, tender, romantic, wholesome, fulfilling and joyful tribute to the goodness of sex, incorporating art, poetry, and commentary.

  • - Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments
    af Epicurus
    128,95 kr.

    Epicurus (ca 341-271 B.C.) founded one of the most famous and influential philosophical schools of antiquity. This title helps readers trace Epicurus' views on atomism, physical sensation, duty, morality, the soul, and the nature of the gods.

  • af Robert H. Rimmer
    208,95 kr.

    Tells the story of Jerry Butler's erotic voyage from average child to sex star. This edition aims to answer the question: where will Jerry go from here?

  • af Edmund D. Cohen
    268,95 kr.

    Aims to show the harm arising from the huge explosion of the Christian Right. The author demonstrates how the indoctrination received in these churches undermines the mental health of individuals, causing widespread suffering. He also shows how this indoctrination makes bible-believers into unwitting supporters of far-right political causes.

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    264,95 kr.

  • - Diary of a Phone Sex Mistress
    af Gary Anthony
    373,95 kr.

    Offers an insider's look at the steamy and mysterious world of phone sex fantasy and the clients who keep coming back for more. Part autobiography, part industry expose, this work digs deep beneath the surface of our desires and reveals the truth about the phone sex actresses who leave male callers physically spent and sexually satisfied.

  • af Alfred Marshall
    183,95 kr.

    Offers a general introduction to the study of economics, dealing mainly with normal conditions of industry, employment, and wages. This book argues that while fragmentary statistical hypotheses are used as temporary aids to dynamic economic concepts, the central idea of economics must be that of a living force and movement.

  • af Aristotle
    179,95 kr.

    Metaphysics is the study of existence at the highest level of generality. This book presents key topics that have always figured on the agenda of metaphysics: the nature and rationale of existence, the differentiation of what is actual from the unreal and mere possibility, and the prospects and limits of our knowledge of the real.

  • af Otto Poggeler
    522,95 kr.

    Offers an introduction to Heidegger.

  • af Sappho
    183,95 kr.

    Sappho's poems survive only in fragments following religious conspiracies to silence her. Sappho penned verse on the intense power of the female libido; on the themes of romance, love, yearning, heartbreak, and personal relationships with women. This work retains the standard numerical order of the fragments and has been arranged in six sections.

  • af Douglas E. Krueger
    188,95 kr.

    Ponders most-asked questions about atheism including: What is atheism? How can atheists have morals? How can atheists have purpose in their lives? Doesn't the Bible show that god exists? Do reports of miracles prove the existence of a god? Aren't there philosophical proofs demonstrating that god exists?

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    407,95 kr.

    Analyzes and documents ways in which anthropological thinking and practice have been affected by British colonialism.

  • af Plato
    118,95 kr.

    Includes four short works, "Euthyphro", "Apology", "Crito", and "Phaedo", which help readers experience the range of Socrates' penetrating mind.

  • - Understanding What Other People Think and Feel
    af William Ickes
    251,95 kr.

    Answers questions such as: Are women really better than men at reading other people's minds? Are longer-married couples better than newlyweds at anticipating their partners' thoughts and feelings? Do we all possess a dormant "sixth sense" that, if fully utilized, could allow us to intuit with great accuracy what other people are thinking?

  • af Michael P. Nichols
    246,95 kr.

    Each of us is controlled in some way by shame, one of the ugliest emotions in human experience. It saps our self-respect, builds walls between people, and forces us to create elaborate defences to protect ourselves. This book analyses the role of shame in our lives and helps us to understand the root of our insecurity.

  • - A Guide for Young Skeptics
    af Dan Barker
    163,95 kr.

    This title encourages having an open mind and checking things out to find the truth, rather than blindly accepting everything we hear.

  • - Money, Murder, and the Mafia
    af Paul L. Williams
    253,95 kr.

    Based on his years of experience as a consultant for the FBI, the author produces published evidence of the Church's morally questionable financial dealings with sinister organizations over seven decades.

  • - A Pragmatist Reconstruction of Epistemology
    af Susan Haack
    205,95 kr.

    Offers answers for core epistemological questions about the nature of belief, the character and structure of evidence, the determinants of evidential quality, the relation of justification, probability, and truth, among others.

  • af Henry James
    193,95 kr.

    Concerns the governess of two small children who thinks that her charges are being haunted by ghosts. This book illustrates the author's theory of the horror story: to suggest rather than state horror.

  • af Richard B. Brandt
    215,95 kr.

    What would any rational person believe to be worth wanting or working for? This book argues that rational people would choose a utilitarian moral code that the purpose of living should be to strive for the greatest good for the largest number of people.

  • af Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    158,95 kr.

    If ever there was a thinker who swam against the social and ethical tide of his day, it was Nietzsche. Nineteenth-century Europe was for him a moral wasteland filled with false altruism, duplicity, double standards, and, worst of all, moral complacency. Nietzsche is at once unsettling, compelling, and provocative.

  • af John Stuart Mill
    113,95 kr.

    Since Old Testament days discrimination against minorities and other groups has been the rule in history rather than the exception. Chief among these repressive attitudes has been the inferior social and political status of women. This title argues against the disenfranchisement of women and the 2nd-class status they experienced within marriage.

  • af Martin Gardner
    208,95 kr.

    Introduces us to this extraordinary man, Dr Irving Joshua Matrix. Believed by many to be the greatest numerologist who ever lived, Dr Matrix claims to be a reincarnation of Pythagoras. This title follows Dr Matrix as he roams the world and assumes new identities and discovers new manifestations of the power of numbers to explain and predict.

  • af Albert Schweitzer
    256,95 kr.

    Featuring the precise nature of Jesus' understanding of his own mission, this book lays down the thesis of Albert Schweitzer, the great Protestant teacher.

  • - Creating a Modern Phenomenon
    af Terry Matheson
    281,95 kr.

    Reveals that the alien abduction literary genre has been a part of our history. This book explains that traditional aliens were friendly or merely curious quite different from the ugly, fierce, sinister creatures being portrayed. It draws a parallel to the way societal myths are made, and that in these narratives we see a new myth in the making.