Being a psychopath doesn' t necessarily mean being a serial killer like in the movies.One in 25 Americans has a disorder linked to a lack of conscience. They're not monsters, they're your partner, your friend, your confidant. Charming, attentive, impossible to suspect.Until it's too late.They isolate you slowly. Make you doubt yourself. Turn you against everyone who loves you. What starts as a fairytale becomes months — sometimes years — of psycholo...

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a devoted following among users in a variety of upper-level and even introductory courses.

In "Peter Cooper," Rossiter W. Raymond presents a comprehensive biographical portrait of one of America's foremost industrialists and philanthropists. Through a meticulous blend of narrative and analysis, Raymond employs a straightforward yet engaging literary style, effectively capturing the essence of the 19th century's burgeoning industrial landscape. The book contextualizes Cooper's innovative spirit during the Gilded Age, exploring his contributions to education, technology, and socia...

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1989). The volume argues that the welfare state informed and altered basic questions of democracy and its relationship to capitalism. These questions were especially important for West Germany, given its recent experience with the collapse of capitalism, the disintegration of democracy, and National Sociali...

This text provides an unparalleled social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of the Second World War to the contemporary moment. As well as carefully balancing the histories of East and West Germany, Peter C. Caldwell and Karrin Hanshew convincingly make the case for analysing the Berlin Republic as a serious and distinct historical period in its own right.Offering international context throughout, Caldwell and Hanshew navigate students through...

Integration von Körper, Geist und Seele- Hohe Nachfrage: Das Interesse am Körper ist aus der Psychotherapie nicht mehr wegzudenken- Umfassend: Geschichte, Metatheorie, kennzeichnende Einzeltheorien, Methodik sowie Anwendung und PraxeologieDieses Handbuch bietet die umfassendste Darstellung der Körperpsychotherapie und des körperpsychotherapeutischen Feldes. Es repräsentiert die wichtigsten Strömungen und bildet jeweils deren Spektrum der Theorie, Meta...

Peter C. Caldwell and Karrin Hanshew's Germany Since 1945 traces the social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of the Second World War right up to the present day. The book provides a narrative that not only explores the histories of East and West Germany in their international contexts, but one that also takes the significantly different world of the Berlin Republic seriously, analyzing it as a distinct and significant period of German history in its own righ...

The recent economic crisis in the United States has highlighted a crisis of understanding. In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy-an increasingly overlooked field wherein political ideas and economic theories mutually inform each other. Only through a restoration of political economy can we reconnect economics to the human good. Economics as a discipline deals with the production and distribution o...

Educating from the Heart: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Transforming Education is based on the questions: "What does it mean to educate from the heart? What does it mean to educate with spirit?" It offers both theoretical overviews and practical approaches for educators, academics, education students and parents who are interested in transforming schools. Well-respected voices in the field of education provide a framework that includes recent findings from the world of n...

The purpose of this volume is to discuss the concept of citizenship—in terms of its origins, its meanings, and its contemporary place and relevance in American democracy, and within a global context. The authors in this collection wrestle with the connection of citizenship to major tensions between liberty and equality, dynamism and stability, and civic disagreement and social cohesion. The essays also raise fundamental questions about the relationship between citizenship and leadership, a...

Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law is a historical analysis of competing doctrines of constitutional law during the Weimar Republic. It chronicles the creation of a new constitutional jurisprudence both adequate to the needs of a modern welfare state and based on the principle of popular sovereignty. Peter C. Caldwell explores the legal nature of democracy as debated by Weimar’s political theorists and constitutional lawyers. Laying the groundwork for ...

The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community”—or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race”—cannot but appeal to us today. This appeal—its historical grounding and content, its complexities and tensions, its variegated expressions across the networks of power and thought—is the essential context of the present volume, whose basic premis...