"How is the memory of traumatic events, such as genocide and torture, inscribed within human bodies? In this book, Paul Connerton discusses social and cultural memory by looking at the role of mourning in the production of histories and the reticence of silence across many diffe…
"The world is a more dangerously divided place today than it was at the end of the Cold War. This despite the spread of free trade and the advent of digital technologies that afford a degree of global connectivity undreamed of by science fiction writers fifty years ago. What is …
"The world is a more dangerously divided place today than it was at the end of the Cold War. This despite the spread of free trade and the advent of digital technologies that afford a degree of global connectivity undreamed of by science fiction writers fifty years ago. What is …
Takes the reader through a complexity of issues to explore why, throughout the twentieth century, physicians and sick people on both sides of the Atlantic prescribed or chose a particular medicine--perhaps validated it--often when others felt it was of little or no value or rema…
" Se révolter, c'est courir à sa perte, car la révolte, si elle se réalise en groupe, retrouve aussitôt une échelle hiérarchique de soumission à l'intérieur du groupe, et la révolte, seule, aboutit rapidement à la soumission du révolté...¦Il ne reste plus que la fuite. " Henri L…
This study argues that "emotional intelligence" is more important than a high IQ in terms of how one performs in life. It claims that qualities such as impulse control, persistence, zeal, self- motivation, empathy and social deftness are the characteristics of people who excel.
This study argues that "emotional intelligence" is more important than a high IQ in terms of how one performs in life. It claims that qualities such as impulse control, persistence, zeal, self- motivation, empathy and social deftness are the characteristics of people who excel
"Counter Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until the discoveries of modern brain researchers, theorists could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's fascinating report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers us startling…
