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“robert j yanal”

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  • Hitchcock as Philosopher

    by Robert J. Yanal ...
    The films of Alfred Hitchcock deal heavily with psychological and philosophical themes, and one needn't look very far into the canon to find them. In Psycho, for example, the personality metamorphosis in Marion Crane that leads her into grand larceny is a pale double of the murderous oedipal divide in Norman Bates. In The Birds, overbearing natural mutations turn what might have been a "creature ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Paradoxes of Emotion and Fiction

    by Robert J. Yanal ...
    How can we experience real emotions when viewing a movie or reading a novel or watching a play when we know the characters whose actions have this effect on us do not exist? This is a conundrum that has puzzled philosophers for a long time, and in this book Robert Yanal both canvasses previously proposed solutions to it and offers one of his own.First formulated by Samuel Johnson, the paradox ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World

    by Stephen Trombley ...
    The development of modern thought is traced through a sequence of accessible profiles of the most influential thinkers in every domain of intellectual endeavor since 1789No major representative of post-Enlightenment thought escapes Trombley's attention in this history: the German idealists Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel; the utilitarians Bentham and Mill; the transcendentalists Emerson and ... Read more

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  • Life After Life

    A Guildford Four Memoir

    by Paddy Armstrong, Mary-Elaine Tynan ...
    Paddy Armstrong was one of four people falsely convicted of The Guildford Bombing in 1975. He spent fifteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Today, as a husband and father, life is wonderfully ordinary, but the memory of his ordeal lives on. Here, for the first time and with unflinching candour, he lays bare the experiences of those years and their aftermath. Life after Life is a ... Read more

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  • Music in Our Lives

    Rethinking Musical Ability, Development and Identity

    by Gary E. McPherson, Jane W. Davidson, Robert Faulkner ...
    Why do some children take up music, while others dont? Why do some excel, whilst others give up? Why do some children favour classical music, whilst others prefer rock? These are questions that have puzzled music educators, psychologists, and musicologists for many years. Yet, they are incredibly difficult and complex questions to answer. 'Music in our lives' takes an innovative approach to trying ... Read more

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  • The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions

    Take Control of Borderline Personality Disorder with DBT

    by Cedar R. Koons, MSW, LCSW ...
    The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions offers breakthrough, new mindfulness skills and exercises drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you move past harmful emotions.If you suffer from intense emotions, you are not alone. Millions of Americans are diagnosed with emotion regulation disorders, such as borderline personality disorder (BPD) and other comorbid conditions like ... Read more

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  • Anxiety Cure Workbook : 3 Quick Steps To Stop Anxiety Attacks Now

    by The Blokehead ...
    Series series The Blokehead Success Series
    In order for you to deal with anxiety you need to learn how to deal with things better. Everybody has emotional stress in their lives at some point but what separates people that suffer with anxiety disorders and those that don’t are how they cope and deal with those emotional stresses.Grab the book to learn more! ... Read more

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  • Anxiety 101

    by Moshe Zeidner, PhD, Gerald Matthews, PhD ...
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    "This is the book I've been waiting for. The field has needed a clear and thorough review of anxiety, and now it exists.Joseph LeDoux, PhD, author, The Emotional Brain and Synaptic SelfCenter for Neural Science, New York UniversityAnxiety 101, written by two prominent figures in the field of anxiety research, provides a thorough introduction to the concept of anxiety, placing it in the broad ... Read more

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  • Introducing Empiricism

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    by Dave Robinson ...
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    Our knowledge comes primarily from experience – what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems?The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which accepts a 'common-sense' view of the world – and yet concludes that all we can ever know are 'ideas'.In Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide, ... Read more

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  • The Immortal Comedy

    The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life

    by Agnes Heller ...
    Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In both its subject and style, Immortal Comedy is a seminal book. In it, Heller takes us on a journey ... Read more

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