Product Description: This two-volume exploration of what might be termed "interpersonal war and peace" reveals why individuals and groups coalesce or collide, and how more positive relationships can be achieved.• Covers friendship and enmity between individuals and groups as it applies to adults, as well as to children• Takes the unique approach of studying friendship in relation to enmity, showing them as fluid relationships that can be altered• Addresses potentially contentious issues such as ethnicity/racism, sexism, and heterosexism, as well as current and historical conflicts involving Afghanis and Americans, Pakistanis and Indians, and the Irish and English• Uses case studies of how groups become enemies to instruct readers on ways to better manage conflict and achieve peac...read more

Product Description: How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us? This question could not be more timely or pertinent to the issues facing humankind today. At the heart of many of our world’s most troubling political and social problems lies a divergence, and sometimes a sharp contradiction, in perspectives between nations and cultural groups...read more

Product Description: Rom Harré and Fathali M. Moghaddam have designed a textbook and brought together additional voices that speak to the similarities and differences of two seemingly separate domains in psychology. This bridge-building seeks to encourage a new generation of undergraduate students studying psychology to more fully appreciate the real potential for the study of human behavior, and as such it will represent a more provocative alternative to standard general psychology textbooks...read more

Product Description: A noted conflict expert shows how accelerating globalization is causing dangerous global insecurity that must be met by new security models and policies.