"The author examines a range of autobiographical and first-person fictional texts from holocaust literature, women's writing and popular fiction. Each text foregrounds issues of memory, history and trauma in the construction of identity. Reading these texts of memory shows that …
We naturally create stories to help us making meaning of our world, but in conflict situations the kinds of stories we typically tell ourselves can actually make it harder for us to manage and resolve the conflict constructively. This book provides an accessible framework for un…
Umwege sind die direktesten Wege zum Zentrum. Das neue Werk von Peter Sloterdijk ist ein Beleg für diese These: Außerhalb der Aktualität angesiedelt, handelt Theopoesie, auf den ersten Blick betrachtet, von den in der Bibliothek der Menschheit gespeicherten Versuchen, Gott oder …
"For decades, social scientists have assumed that "fictive kinship" is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this innovative book, Nelson reveals the frequency, texture and dynamics of relationships which are felt to be "…
"This book explores contemporary propaganda and mainstream Western news media, with reference to the Ukraine crisis. It examines western media narratives of the immediate causes of the crisis, the respective roles of those who participated in or otherwise supported the demonstra…
"This book explores contemporary propaganda and mainstream Western news media, with reference to the Ukraine crisis. It examines western media narratives of the immediate causes of the crisis, the respective roles of those who participated in or otherwise supported the demonstra…
"This book explores contemporary propaganda and mainstream Western news media, with reference to the Ukraine crisis. It examines western media narratives of the immediate causes of the crisis, the respective roles of those who participated in or otherwise supported the demonstra…
Collaborative Therapy and Neurobiology is the book many clinicians have been waiting for an integration of twenty years of scientific and therapeutic cutting-edge ideas into concrete clinical practices. Interpersonal neurobiology and the development of exciting new technologies …
This book presents a unique and intuitively compelling way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that the "urge" to think narratively reflects known neurological processes, and that, although narrative thinking is a produc…
Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative analyzes how early Muslim historians merged the pre-Islamic histories of the Arab and Iranian peoples into a didactic narrative culminating with the Arab conquest of Iran. This book provides an in-depth examination of Islamic …
"This volume includes interdisciplinary essays on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing on lesser known examples of the genre"--Provided by publisher.
