This simple and concise introduction to the psychology of health is the perfect text for students new to the area. Topics covered include health policy and epidemiology, genetic factors in disease, the experience of illness as a patient, beliefs and attitudes, stress, pain and healthy lifestyles.

We have lived in a male-dominated Society since Time immemorial. As Christians we are indoctrinated to fear both death and life and always plead to God the Father when in trouble even swear using His Son's name. The Father never hears our pleas it would seem. Some of us wonder where God the Mother is and is She also subservient to God the Father? Based upon our only experience here on Earth this would appear to be correct. However, equally omnipotent deities may operate in another fashion?...

You were Jonathan Thomas, but now playman 256.You died in this century but your mind was inexplicably transferred to a hairless, effeminate playman 256, living in a far future, created by Magda. You fell deeply in love with your creator, Magda, a beautiful young looking woman of 85 years old. She made you from recycled organs with the help of Tintel. Her way of ending a lover's tiff was by recycling playmen to the organ bank, she could always make another one.Alone in an ins...

Recycle, a Science Fantasy Love Story.You are Jonathan Thomas living in the present.You are a typical, ageing, philandering male vainly trying to recapture that lost feeling of your very first sexual conquest.Take now; you sit up on-elbow admiring Samantha, nubile, young, your latest conquest asleep beside you in her bed. You feel good; another arrow has been shot from your bow, another notch on your staff of life but when you leave for work today, you will cease to e...

With the release of Parasite (2019), winner of the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Picture, the South Korean director Bong Joon Ho secured his place as one of his generation's leading filmmakers. While scholars and critics have long appreciated his penetrating critique of Korean society and global capitalism, this book presents the first cohesive philosophical analysis of his first seven feature-length films. It argues that Bong's cinema not only engages with philosophy, ...

The Alpha and Omega Code: The Personal Life Story of Immanuel Jesus Christ offers an extraordinary and deeply personal journey through the eyes of the one known throughout history as the Son of God. This revelatory work bridges the sacred and the human, the eternal and the earthly, in a way that challenges conventional understanding and invites readers into a profound spiritual awakening.Told in the first person, this book presents the life story of Jesus Christ-Im...

We all face personal challenges - whether it's depression, anxiety, addiction, or fear - yet many of us struggle to understand why they arise. In The Undiscovered U!, Karl Anthony offers a powerful and insightful guide to unlocking the true potential of the human mind.Drawing on years of professional experience in hypnotherapy, Karl Anthony explores how our early childhood experiences shape who we become and influence our emotional well-being. Through practical examples and clear e...

Critical scholarly edition of J. G. Fichte's Closed Commercial StateAppearing for the first time in a complete English translation, The Closed Commercial State represents the most sustained attempt of J. G. Fichte, the famed author of The Doctrine of Science, to apply idealistic philosophy to political economy. In the accompanying interpretive essay, Anthony Curtis Adler challenges the conventional scholarly view of The Closed Commercial State as a curious footnote...

What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological call to go “back to the things themselves” when these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a televised life that is not ours to live, celebrities who are utterly like us yet infinitely untouchable, and uncannily pluripotent electronic gadgets? Combining sustained philosophical inquiry with fragmentary and experimental theoretical intervention...

While few would question the importance of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) for the development of German idealism and twentieth-century literature, philosophy, and critical theory, Hölderlin scholarship remains largely inaccessible to those working in English. This is especially true for his novel Hyperion - otherwise his most accessible work - which has not had a book-length study in English devoted to it in more than three decades. Anthony Curtis Adler opens Hölderlin's novel up...

Disruptive Urbanism examines how different forms and modes of the so called "sharing economy" are manifesting in cities and regions throughout the world, and how policy makers are responding to these disruptions.The emergence of the so called "sharing economy" and the "disruptive technologies" have profound implications for urban policy and governance. Initial expectations that "sharing" of homes, offices or vehicles could solve urban problems such as congestion or housing...

The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil in the house she soon becomes obsessed with the idea that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care. Meanwhile The Aspern Papers explores obsession of a more worldly kind, with its tale of a literary historian determined to get his hands on some letters written by a great poet. Such is his drive, he is quite prepared to use t...