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History of the Human Sciences Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Physics and Psychics, Richard Noakes

Physics and Psychics

Richard Noakes
History of the Human SciencesHistory of the Human Sciences

'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
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Book Cover for: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Psychosis: Theory and Practice, David Fowler

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Psychosis: Theory and Practice

David Fowler
History of the Human SciencesHistory of the Human Sciences

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)
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Book Cover for: The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene, Jürgen Renn

The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene

Jürgen Renn
History of the Human SciencesHistory of the Human Sciences

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
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Book Cover for: Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria's 'Romantic Science' and Soviet Social History, Hannah Proctor

Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria's 'Romantic Science' and Soviet Social History

Hannah Proctor
History of the Human SciencesHistory of the Human Sciences

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)
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Book Cover for: Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory, Heather Love

Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory

Heather Love
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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)
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Book Cover for: Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard, Cynthia L. Haven

Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard

Cynthia L. Haven
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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

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction, Quentin Skinner

Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction

Quentin Skinner
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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
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Book Cover for: The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State, Shaul Bar-Haim

The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State

Shaul Bar-Haim
History of the Human SciencesHistory of the Human Sciences

"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)
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Book Cover for: Adapted: Book one: Heat, Elizabeth Caroline

Adapted: Book one: Heat

Elizabeth Caroline
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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

$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing, Owen Whooley

On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing

Owen Whooley
History of the Human SciencesHistory of the Human Sciences

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
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