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Brain Lock
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99An estimated 5 million Americans suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and live diminished lives in which they are compelled to obsess about something or to repeat a similar task over and over. Traditionally, OCD has been treated with Prozac or similar drugs. The problem with medication, aside from its cost, is that 30 percent of people treated... more...
Encyclopedia of Coastal Science
Springer 2005; US$ 499.00Maurice Schwartz, Editor of the much acclaimed Encyclopedia of Beaches and Coastal Environments (Hutchinson Ross, 1982) has now brought forth a new volume with a fresh interdisciplinary approach that includes geomorphology, ecology, engineering, technology, oceanography, and human activities as they relate to coasts. Within its covers the Encyclopedia... more...
The Future of Democratic Equality
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 42.952011 David Easton Award, presented for the best book by the Foundations of Political Theory section of APSA: "The Future of Democratic Equality , by Joseph Schwartz, takes on three tasks, and accomplishes all brilliantly. Any one of these tasks well fulfilled would have been a laudable achievement. First, Schwartz argues for the centrality... more...
The Permanence of the Political
Princeton University Press 1995; US$ 45.95Why have radical political theorists, whose thinking inspired mass movements for democracy, been so suspicious of political plurality? According to Joseph Schwartz, their doubts were involved with an effort to transcend politics. Mistakenly equating all social difference with the harmful way in which particular interests dominated marketplace societies,... more...
Brain Lock
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailableAn estimated 5 million Americans suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and live diminished lives in which they are compelled to obsess about something or to repeat a similar task over and over. Traditionally, OCD has been treated with Prozac or similar drugs. The problem with medication, aside from its cost, is that 30 percent of people treated... more...
Saints and role models in Judaism and Christianity
BRILL 2004; US$ 170.00This work deals with the role of saints and exemplary individuals in Judaism and Christianity. It examines Jewish and Christian perspectives upon saints and role models from the Biblical period to the 21st century. more...
The Mind and the Brain
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99A groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of the mind?and demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain. Conventional science has long held the position that 'the mind' is merely an illusion, a side effect of electrochemical activity in the physical brain.... more...
The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 36.00This book demonstrates how housing systems are built from political struggles over the distribution of welfare and wealth. The contributors analyze varieties of residential capitalism through a range of international case studies, as well as investigating the links between housing finance and the current international financial crisis. more...
Dear Patrick
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99Dear Patrick, For five years I have been witness to your struggles to grow up without a father. As a family friend, I can't make that up to you. What I can do is stand by you, and teach you how to be the kind of man you wish your father had been ... So begins the correspondence of two unlikely friends, Patrick Buckley, a sixteen-year-old... more...
The Mind and the Brain
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailableA groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of the mind?and demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain. Conventional science has long held the position that 'the mind' is merely an illusion, a side effect of electrochemical activity in the physical brain.... more...









