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Western Disease Contesting Autism in the Somali Diaspora
ISBN: PB: 9780226772257, ISBN: HB: 9780226545752, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Because autism is an increasingly common diagnosis, North Americans are familiar with its symptoms and treatments. But what we know and think about autism is shaped by our social relationship to health, disease, and the medical system. In The Western...
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£26,00
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£78,00
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Homelessness among Older Adults in Prague Causes, Contexts and Prospects
ISBN: PB: 9788024645254, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
444 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Following their engaging study Homelessness among Young People in Prague, the authors of this book turn their attention to an older population facing the same issue, a very different situa...
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£16,00
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With the Wind and the Waves A Guide to Mental Health Practices in Alaska Native Communities
ISBN: PB: 9781602234161, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2020
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In With the Wind and the Waves, psychologist Ray M. Droby tells a story of treatment and learning, drawing on experiences ranging from an ocean journey he took on the Bering Sea while serving in a Alaska Native community to his clinical work as a psy...
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£16,00
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Mental Traveler A Father, a Son, and a Journey through Schizophrenia
ISBN: HB: 9780226695938, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 18 halftones
How does a parent make sense of a child's severe mental illness? How does a father meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking to overcome the stigma of madness and the limits of psychiatry?  W. J. T. Mitchell...
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£18,00
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Sciences of the Soul The Early Modern Origins of Psychology
ISBN: PB: 9780226710365, ISBN: HB: 9780226855868, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
432 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 tables, 3 halftones, 14 line illus.
"The Sciences of the Soul" is the first attempt to explain the development of the disciplinary conception of psychology from its appearance in the late sixteenth century to its redefinition at the end of the seventeenth and its emergence as an instit...
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£32,00
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£56,00
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Chemically Imbalanced Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery
ISBN: PB: 9780226686684, ISBN: HB: 9780226686547, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Everyday suffering – those conditions or feelings brought on by trying circumstances that arise in everyone's lives – is something that humans have grappled with for millennia. But the last decades have seen a drastic change in the way we approach it...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Emotionally Disturbed A History of Caring for America's Troubled Children
ISBN: HB: 9780226621432, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 3 line drawings
Before the 1940s, children in the United States with severe emotional difficulties would have had few options for care. The first option was usually a child guidance clinic within the community, but they might also have been placed in a state mental...
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£34,00
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Redefining Success in America A New Theory of Happiness and Human Development
ISBN: PB: 9780226550152, ISBN: HB: 9780226550015, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 32 tables
Work hard in school, graduate from a top college, establish a high-paying professional career, enjoy the long-lasting reward of happiness. This is the American Dream – and yet basic questions at the heart of this competitive journey remain unanswered...
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£27,00
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£79,00
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Wandering Mind What the Brain Does When You're Not Looking
ISBN: PB: 9780226418919, ISBN: HB: 9780226238616, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
If we've done our job well – and, let's be honest, if we're lucky – you'll read to the end of this description. Most likely, however, you won't. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. That's just how i...
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£12,00
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£16,00
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Rhetorical Memory A Study of Technical Communication and Information Management
ISBN: HB: 9780226263380, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 8 line drawings, 1 table
Institutions have regimes – policies that typically come from the top down and are meant to align the efforts of workers with the goals and mission of an institution. Institutions also have practices – day-to-day behaviors performed by individual wor...
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£40,00
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