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A Secure Base: Clinical Applications of Attachment Theory by John Bowlby
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Category: Reference | Series: Routledge Classics
For many people today, giving time and attention to children means sacrificing other interests and activities. Yet a healthy parent-child bond is not only vital for well-being, but an essential part of what it means to be human. Secure children are confident, using a parent as a "secure base" while they ...Show more
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Being and Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant books of the twentieth century. The central work by one of the world's most influential thinkers, it altered the course of western philosophy. Its revolutionary approach challenged all previous assumptions about the individual's relation ...Show more
Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Written at the height of the Cold War in 1959, Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare was published in an effort 'to prevent the catastrophe which would result from a large scale H-bomb war'. Bertrand Russell's staunch anti-war stance is made very clear in this highly controversial text, which outlines his sh ...Show more
Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
The Conquest of Happinessis Bertrand Russell’s recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to the fi ...Show more
History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that ...Show more
Lines - A Brief History by Tim Ingold
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Category: History | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this extraordinary book Tim Ingold imagines a world in which everyone and everything consists of interwoven or interconnected lines and lays the foundations ...Show more
Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Although written fairly early in his career, in 1939, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions is considered to be one of Jean-Paul Sartre's most important pieces of writing. It not only anticipates but argues many of the ideas to be found in his famous Being and Nothingness. By subjecting the emotion theori ...Show more
The Order of Things: Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
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Category: History | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sci ...Show more
The Philosopher's Dog by Raimond Gaita (King's College London, UK and Australian Catholic University, Australia)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
In this beautifully written book Raimond Gaita tells inspirational, poignant, sometimes funny but never sentimental stories of the dogs, cats and cockatoos that lived and died within his own family. He asks fascinating questions about animals: Is it wrong to attribute the concepts of love, devotion, loy ...Show more
Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Routledge Classics
David Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers of our time. Although deeply influenced by Einstein, he was also, more unusually for a scientist, inspired by mysticism. Indeed, in the 1970s and 1980s he made contact with both J. Krishnamurti and the Dalai Lama whose teachings hel ...Show more
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