Product Description: Just Listening: Ethics and Therapy is an edited record of conversations with Drs. Steven Gans and Leon Redler, American psychotherapists who studied and worked closely with Dr. R. D. Laing in London. One a philosopher, the other a physician and psychiatrist, they are also inspired and provoked by the ethical teachings of Emmanuel Levinas as well as by phenomenological and spiritual teachings of the east and west...read more

Product Description: Why do people go to zoos? Is the role of zoos to entertain or to educate? In this provocative book, the authors demonstrate that zoos tell us as much about humans as they do about animals and suggest that while animals may not need zoos, urban societies seem to...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The persistence of self-help books over many decades, particularly from the 1970s onwards, suggests that no single title ever quite achieves its aim -- otherwise, why would the escalating demand for new titles give rise to such a remarkable phenomenon...read more

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Product Description: Consuming Television is a textbook designed to introduce students to the role of television in contemporary society and to encourage an understanding of what contemporary audiences are all about. Written clearly and simply, and devoid of jargon Covers both the empirical and theoretical ground in a lively manner Unlike most books on the television audience, this volume looks at the programmes themselves, as well as the production process (including policies which affect television production) ...read more

Product Description: Consuming Television is a textbook designed to introduce students to the role of television in contemporary society and to encourage an understanding of what contemporary audiences are all about. Written clearly and simply, and devoid of jargon Covers both the empirical and theoretical ground in a lively manner Unlike most books on the television audience, this volume looks at the programmes themselves, as well as the production process (including policies which affect television production) ...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Based on the ITC's 1994 survey of public opinion which was concerned with a wide range of broadcasting-related issues, this study seeks to ascertain whether members of the ethnic minorities believe television is fair to them (and others), and whether it meets their needs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a collection of interviews with some of the world's most significant sociologists. They include John Rex, Ralf Dahrendorf, Peter Worsley, Anthony Giddens, Howard S. Becker, Laurie Taylor, Michael Mann, Ann Oakley, Peter Townsend, Stuart Hall, and Robert K. Merton.

Product Description: In this text, 20 therapists talk in detail about their work and its potential role in society and present an account of the world of psychotherapy.

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Examines the role played by mothers in raising happy, secure children, with particular attention given to the effects of women working outside the home, and presents opinions on the subject by leading psychiatrists and feminists