History of the Human Sciences Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Physics and Psychics
Richard Noakes
'Who were the British physical scientists interested in psychical investigation?' Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira reviews Richard Noakes' Physics and Psychics: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain #HistMed #occult https://t.co/6uF9B3Jxbm https://t.co/vOyAjOACwo
Paperback, 2020
$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Psychosis: Theory and Practice
David Fowler
Online first: 'From the margins to the NICE guidelines: British clinical psychology and the development of cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis, 1982–2002' by David J Harper and Sebastian Townsend https://t.co/8TkaHeAhTT
Paperback, 1995
$114.25$89.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene
Jürgen Renn
Alfred Freeborn reviews Jürgen Renn's The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene "perhaps what our present needs more than revolutions is intellectual common ground" https://t.co/9vxKxRarnF
Paperback, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria's 'Romantic Science' and Soviet Social History
Hannah Proctor
Alexander Luria was 'not concerned with describing symptoms in isolation from a person’s whole personality' Lizaveta Zeldzina reviews H Proctor's Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria's 'Romantic Science' and Soviet Social History https://t.co/loNDdBxDpI
Paperback, 2021
$89.99$64.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory
Heather Love
Michael Pettit reviews Heather Love's Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory Underdogs explores "why queer theorists and social psychologists have been so drawn to affect as a meta-theory... despite their very different political commitments." https://t.co/j9J062K5p1 https://t.co/hsK2embmzw
Hardcover, 2021
$103.00$78.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard
Cynthia L. Haven
Michael C Behrent reviews Cynthia L. Haven's Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard "a rich and evocative account... [Haven] suggests that Girard represents, if not an exemplary life, at least an exemplary mind" https://t.co/ys25wLvODj https://t.co/By4Jo493Tn
Paperback, 2018
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Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction
Quentin Skinner
Online first: Nikola Regent, 'Quentin Skinner, contextual method and Machiavelli's understanding of liberty' "showing the difficulty of applying contextualism in practice, by the very founder of this approach in the history of ideas" https://t.co/x6j4bWBiqX https://t.co/J80pbZHuaX
Paperback, 2019
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State
Shaul Bar-Haim
"a state with maternal capacities frees flesh-and-blood mothers to be imperfect, or even inadequate..." Katie Joice reviews The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood and the British Welfare State by Shaul Bar-Haim https://t.co/56u8Up9wFh
Hardcover, 2021
$65.00$40.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Adapted: Book one: Heat
Elizabeth Caroline
Caroline Warman, '"The Revolution is to the human mind what the African sun is to vegetation": Revolution, heat, and the normal school project' (part of the forthcoming ‘Normality: A Collection of Essays’ Special Issue. Guest Editors: Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens) https://t.co/9FOOYFCTBr
Paperback, 2020
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On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing
Owen Whooley
Ahlam Rahal reviews On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing by Owen Whooley #histmed #medhum https://t.co/K0BkjaEaZY https://t.co/98wgd4Owht
Paperback, 2019
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book