Product Description: The Freud Wars are the debates surrounding the iconic and infamous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.This graphic guide investigates whether Freud was a psychological genius or simply a man deluded by drugs. This and other definitive questions are answered in this witty introduction to the psychological theories and the man behind them...read more

Product Description: A box set containing three enlightening, comic-book style Introducing Graphic Guides (Consciousness, Psychoanalysis and Psychology) to help unlock the greatest mystery of all time - ourselves.Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant way to get your head around some of humankind's most thrilling ideas...read more

Product Description: Nicolò Machiavelli's The Prince remains controversial in its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power. Is it a how-to manual for dictators, or a subtle analysis of successful government? Introducing Machiavelli traces the colorful life of this paradoxical realist whose clear-sighted patriotism made him the first truly modern political scientist...read more

Looks at the life and ideas of the French philosopher.

Product Description: Melanie Klein was the most innovative and influential child psychoanalyst in the first half of the twentieth century. Introducing Melanie Klein explores her progressive ideas. Her concepts of the depressive position and the paranoid-schizoid position are now in common usage, and her work is studied by psychoanalysts the world over...read more

Product Description: Using cartoon imagery, key themes are explained in the concept of psychoanalysis. Despite anti-Freud literature, little is known about contemporary psychoanalysis and this book redresses that balance in both its theory and clinical practice.

Explains what the sciences have to say about planning and action, language, memory, attention, emotions and vision. This book traces the historical development of ideas about the brain and its function from antiquity to the age of neuro-imaging.

Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which contradict the logic of classical physics. This book takes us on a step-by-step tour with the key figures, including Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrodinger.

Product Description: The philosopher Kierkegaard was an extremely radical thinker - an anti-philosopher - who insisted that philosophy was a waste of time unless it permanently changed people's lives.

Pope Pius XII condemned Existentialism for its 'terrifying nihilism'. Anguish, despair, absurdity, nothingness...these still have a power to scandalise. Do we find in them the quintessence of Existentialism? Or has Existentialism's truth been eclipsed by its popular appeal? Richard Appignanesi begins with Camus and suicide: 'Must life have a meaning to be lived?' Is absurdity at the heart of Existentialism? Or is there a question as yet unexplored in Sartre - Existentialism, 'the least scandalous, most technically austere' of all teachings? The answer is found in Husserl's phenomenology, from which Heidegger, Sartre and others depart. We encounter Kierkegaard, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, and always in the background a history of dark times - our legacy of Nazism and the Cold War - overcasting the search. This is a book of undergoing Existentialism. Can it have meaning in our age of postmodern crisis?

Discusses the genetic forces that shape our personalities and introduces the principles of evolutionary psychology.

Offers an introduction to the brain and its function, the nature of the mind, consciousness, and personal identity