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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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Master and His Emissary The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
ISBN: PB: 9780300245929, Yale University Press, February 2019
616 pp., 21x14 cm, 15 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain – the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the 'rational' side, the superior partner to the right. But is this...
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£14,99
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